[Cincinatus' Wife]

"Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Summit"

"First Global Effort to Fight Environmental Crime Takes Shape"

"LYON, France -- For the first time, heads of environmental, biodiversity and natural resources agencies from across the world have met with heads of law enforcement agencies to craft a global compliance and enforcement strategy for environmental security."

"Convened this week by Interpol and the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Chiefs of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Summit drew some 230 delegates from 70 countries to Interpol headquarters in Lyon.

The three-day summit concluded Thursday with an agreement to focus on key environmental crime issues - fisheries, forestry, pollution and wildlife crime, as well as violence, money laundering and tax evasion.

Bernd Rossbach, Interpol's acting executive director of Police Services, said evidence that environmental crime is connected to other forms of serious and organized crime is increasing."............

Environment News Service had the story March 30, 2012.

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....."During a side meeting on prosecution in environmental cases, prosecutors said investigations should be prosecutor-led as well as intelligence-led.

They said that judges must be made aware of the seriousness of environmental crime and prosecutors need to play a role in achieving this greater level of awareness.

The Information Management panel led by Sheldon Jordan, national director of wildlife enforcement with Environment Canada, explored the key roles that member countries and Interpol can play in sharing information and developing intelligence-led enforcement to combat environmental crime worldwide."..........

More at..... Environment News Service

Delegates at the International Chiefs of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Summit (Photo courtesy Interpol)

......"Masa Nagai, acting deputy director with [United Nations Environment Programme] UNEP's Division of Environmental Law and Conventions, told summit delegates that currently compliance and enforcement are not adequate to eradicate environmental crime.

"While countries around the world and the international community have made important progress in establishing national and international environmental policies, institutions and laws in the past decades, the implementation of environmental compliance with agreed institutional goals and enforcement of environmental laws remain inadequate," said Nagai.

To advance compliance and enforcement regimes, Nagai is looking towards the World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability to be held in Rio de Janeiro this June ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20.

Nagai said the World Congress "will provide a platform to identify a way forward to strengthen the entire chain of environmental enforcement."........

[A Navy Vet]

"Only one hurricane has made landfall on the U.S. mainland since 2005,..."

Yup. I've been watching since Katrina and seen less powerful hurricanes every year, where the climate experts were predicting even worse than Katrina for coming years. They couldn't have been more wrong.

"Global warming" is dead. Man-made carbon pollution affect on global climate is a failed psuedo-science theory much like the "ice age" predictions back in the '70's from Time and Newsweek and other publications, although that may come about nowadays.

Then there was the "population bomb" (also back in the 70's) where we would all die from starvation as the same media predicted. We're still here and growing by the day. The only reason why some populations don't have enough to eat (mostly Africa) is because of their tribal warfare. Think Somalia and "Black Hawk Down" and the original intent to feed them.

There was also the DDT, Alcar (apples), and themaldihide scare (which has proven to be a medicine of late).

Really loved the stupid headlines about NO difference between young boys and girls - nurture vs nature debate. The liberal media was promoting nurture and that if you give a Barbie to a young boy, he will turn out to be a girl, or vice versus. GI Joe would turn a 4 year old girl into a boy.

Later, the media said, oops, there ARE inherent differences between boys and girls. Here's why: Someone (don't remember) did a number of experiments with 3 year old boys and girls. They put Mom on one side of a short barrier and kids on the other side. They watched as the girls sat and cried looking at Mom and the boys tried to get over the barrier to get to Mom. So the "experts" realized that boys were more aggressive than the girls. Big surprise!

As if us parents did already know that. My wife and I were amazed when we saw the initial Newsweek/Time pronunciations about nature vs nurture debate in that it was all about nurture (how you raise). We laughed our ass off once they recognized that there is a difference between boys and girls. Think hormones. More testosterone in boys - more aggressive. What a surprise. Sheesh. Get my point about scientists and sociologists?

Now let's think about Copernicus who proposed the Earth revolved around the Sun, although he thought the Sun was the center of the Universe (wrong again). Before him, all thought the Sun revolved around the Earth (including Aristotle)! Scientists they were. Fast forward to Columbus, and all thought the Earth was flat. Get my point?

I have a question: When did our scientists become so biased? Is it really all about grants now? Do they actually massage their stats for money? What a shame, that's not how science should work. Science was our last connection to reality.

[A Navy Vet]

"Bernd Rossbach, Interpol's acting executive director of Police Services, said evidence that environmental crime is connected to other forms of serious and organized crime is increasing."

Show us, dipshit. Make your case. I dare you. You can't and you won't. Like many politicians with an agenda you speak in generalities. Again, show me the unequivical statistics for the world to review.

Screw anything connected to the UN. I call them "agenda maximus".

[A Navy Vet]

"The three-day summit concluded Thursday with an agreement to focus on key environmental crime issues - fisheries, forestry, pollution and wildlife crime, as well as violence, money laundering and tax evasion."

What is "environmental crime"? Fisheries and such aside, what does "violence, money laundering and tax evasion" have to do with any environmental concerns?

I swear, these people need to be led out by a leash and forced to have a real job, if nothing more than a burger flipper in McD's. They are insane.

[Publius6961]

Focusing on Hurricane Katrina in that year and an outbreak of deadly tornadoes in 2011, alarmists contend that the weather is becoming more extreme and that climate change is the cause.

Most educated adults would call that a classic case of circular reasoning.

But if that allows you to widen your carbon footprint by partying in faraway places, at taxpayer expense, what the hell...

[neverdem]

BTTT!