The only UN body with the power to ban trade in endangered animals and plants starts a triennial meeting in Doha on Saturday with bluefin tuna, African elephants and polar bears on the docket. Besides the proposal to stop cross-border commerce in bluefin, fiercely contested by sushi-loving Japan, the 1975 Convention on International Trade in [...]

In the book Mother Natures Super Salesman put it like this; Excerpt “During the summer of 2005 we got started on breaking some records for melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Offering to destabilize large parts of the ice sheet on timescales measured in years or decades, not millennia. Just to emphasize the point,” said [...]