Norway wants US to see warming Arctic

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Norway will invite US politicians to visit a group of fast-thawing Arctic islands in 2007, hoping to win converts for tougher action against global warming, its foreign minister says.

"Climate change may be one of the most serious threats mankind has ever faced," Jonas Gahr Stoere told Reuters in an end-year interview. "The Arctic is a clarion call, perhaps more than anywhere else, that things are changing."

Stoere said the Svalbard archipelago, 1,000km (620 miles) from the North Pole, where melting glaciers and thawing sea ice is disrupting the lives of people and animals such as polar bears, could be a showcase in 2007 for the effects of warming.

"One ambition we have ... is to extend strategic invitations for visits to Svalbard," Stoere said about Norway's plans for International Polar Year in 2007, when many countries are planning to step up scientific research.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/061227/2/11wbz.html

[Mind_your_head]

1. Fantastic idea!

Can't hurt and it might actually do some good.

[havocmom]

2. The power in the US knows, just doesn't care.

Caring might lead to changing and changing might mess up this quarter's profits. That would mess up sales of stocks for next quarter, and that is as far as they care.

[Kindigger]

4. Nobody cares

I went to rent "An Inconvenient Truth". Hundreds of copies of other new releases all gone. The "Truth" section...full.

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. If it makes you feel any better...

shelves were stripped of it where I live. MUCH interest here. We care.

[silverojo]

3. The Freepers will say Norway's making it all up

That's their answer for anything they don't want to hear.


K&R!

[YankeyMCC]

5. Trying to rub the misbehaving dog's nose

in it's mess eh? Well worth a try I guess.

[FogerRox]

7. Bush will be excited to get invited to a show and tell....

[hatrack]

8. Will they invite Inhofe?

That would be interesting . . .

:eyes:

[NNadir]

9. Norway, oil exporter, just built it's first large gas plant.

Up until recently they were almost 100% renewable in their electrical generation, almost all from hydroelectric facilities in their country.

But they've decided to move into fossil fuels.

They do have 10 houses powered by hydrogen on the island of Utsira, but so far as I know, there are no plans to make 10 more.

[Javaman]

10. Why does Norway hate america? nt

[Joanne98]

11. This is a free trip they WON'T get in trouble for taking..