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  • What links the Copenhagen conference with the steelworks closing in Redcar?

    12/13/2009 8:52:31 AM PST · by opentalk · 9 replies · 632+ views
    Telegraph UK ^ | 12 Dec 2009 | Christopher Booker
    What is the connection between Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the Indian railway engineer who has been much in evidence at the Copenhagen climate conference, as chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and an Indian-owned steel company's decision to mothball its giant Teesside steel works next month, ripping the heart out of the town of Redcar by putting 1,700 people out of work? Nothing of this complex story is likely to be heard in the dreary concrete shed outside Copenhagen where, as temperatures drop towards freezing, 17,000 prime ministers, officials and climate activists are earnestly discussing how the planet...