Pachauri. Semi-autographical Sex Tinged Novel. Oh Boy.
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The UN’s top climate official and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, Rajendra Pachauri, has penned a novel that reportedly mixes global warming lectures with steamy sex scenes involving a male protagonist that resembles Pachauri himself. An engineer by training, Pachauri has endured the recent failings in Copenhagen and the recent attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over charges that the group wasn’t careful enough when editing their 2007 global warming assessment….Read the full story on TreeHugger
What Does Al Gore Have to Do With Football?
This week former Vice-President Al Gore made a stop by Atlanta last week to talk about…well, climate change. But while he was there, he took the time out to talk to one of the NFLs most green athletes, Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli. Still confused about what this Nobel Peace Prize winner is doing rubbing shoulders with fullbacks? Keeping reading to find out. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Obama Elects to Come to Copenhagen’s Conclusion, Not Beginning
The White House has announced that President Obama will delay his trip to the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen until the conference’s final hours, signaling that he is ready to push an agreement over the finish line. Obama had previously committed to attending earlier in the conference after he picked up his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Desmond Tutu Endorses 350 Target
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The people at 350.org continue to amaze with their organizing and advocacy for climate action. Their latest triumph is getting Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop of South Africa, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, to endorse a target of 350 parts per million of CO2–the number many scientists say is a safe level. In a widely circulated opinion editorial, Tutu said, “In South Africa, we showed that if we act on the side of…Read the full story on TreeHugger
President Obama, You’ve Just Won the Nobel Peace Prize, What’re You Gonna Do Next?
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Like, I imagine, everyone in the world not privy to the inner workings of the Nobel Prize selection process this year, when I learned that President Obama had been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize I was, well, confused. While it is certainly true that Obama has reengaged the United States with the international community in a way not seen in many years, and has shown strong rhetorical leadership on many issues directly and indirectly …Read the full story on TreeHugger