Posted on 11/30/2009 4:13:57 PM PST by ricks_place
From the brains behind Iran's Green Revolution to the economic Cassandra who actually did have a crystal ball, they had the big ideas that shaped our world in 2009. Read on to see the 100 minds that mattered most in the year that was.
5. Rajendra Pachauri for ending the debate over whether climate change matters.
Chairman, intergovernmental panel on climate change | India
As the link between human activity and climate change becomes conventional wisdom and governments work urgently to establish a global climate treaty, Pachauri deserves no small amount of credit for creating such an extraordinary shift in public opinion. Pachauri, an engineering and economics Ph.D., has since 2002 chaired the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007.
Since then, Pachauri has raised the specter of large-scale population displacement and the existential threat that global warming poses to low-lying island nations, while arguing that large, industrializing countries such as China and India will not act on the issue before the Western world curbs its own greenhouse gas emissions. He has also backed the adoption of extremely ambitious emissions cuts, recently recommending that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations be kept below 350 parts per million. Any progress toward thwarting climate change this year owes a great deal to Pachauri.
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Joke is on WaPo/Newsweek!!
You get one guess as to what side of the political spectrum they reside on.
Oops, I guess whoever released that email dump from CRU didn't come across that particular memo that the debate was ended.
We live in truly frightening times - times of abject denial by world leaders in both government and business. And the world tends to remind us that reality still does exist - and usually in very unpleasant ways.
no joke, this is the current message when I clicked on the link:
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maybe FP’s server is overwhelmed but it doesn’t look so great for them to have an article on supposed “Top 100 Global Thinkers” and attempted web visits are getting such an error message..... guess they need one of the Top 100 who is able to oversee their website?
Leaked emails won’t harm UN climate body, says chairman [Rajendra Pachauri]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2396874/posts
Carbon must be sucked from air, says IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397205/posts
This link has some info on the Club of Rome which promotes all tactics that enable the establishment of world government. A search on “Club of Rome” will lead to a document entitled “The First Global Revolution” which was published by the Club of Rome in 1991:
http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/GlobalGovernance.htm
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