Mittwoch, 14. April 2010

How it All Ends: Get What You Want (Part 2)



• The worst case scenario was a 3% reduction in GDP growth
• Most prediction from credible sources put the risk from 1.5 to 2%
• GDP growth continues to grow very slightly (worst case scenario)
• Economist statement on Climate Change
• Stern Report
○ Professional individual
○ More credibility
• Could cost 1% of the GDP

How it All Ends: Get What You Want (Part 1)

• Finding common ground
• Common objections to action on AGW, seem to come down to 'the need to self determination'
• ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SELF DETERMINATION: people feel they are threatened by taking charge of the climate change
• Economic and political well being is threatened by the climate change
• Motivated by wanting the best for ourselves and the loved ones
• SCREW THE PLANET, SAVE US
• Highest quality answer; hire professional
• Careful to combat your own physiology
• Do we just think its not going to happen because we don’t like the truth?
• It is not in our own interest to let our distaste of the government, influence our judgment of physical reality

Article Review (Plane Crash with Polish President)

Article (review)
• Motifs- OFCN
• Editorials/Leaders
○ Titles
○ Hook
○ Intro
○ Paragraph 1
○ Paragraph 2
○ Conclusion


Poland is marking its second day of national mourning for the 96 victims of Saturday's plane crash in western Russia.
The Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, parliamentarians, security chiefs and the governor of the national bank were all killed in the crash.
The Polish government plane was carrying leaders from across national public life, who had been due to attend a memorial for the Polish victims of a World War II massacre by Soviet secret police at Katyn in the Smolensk region.
On the evening of the crash, the BBC's Julian Marshall spoke to the Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski.

The Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has declared Monday an official day of mourning with flags flying at half-mast and television channels cancelling all entertainment programmes.

'The plane caught fire after the crash. Teams began attempting to pull out passengers from the badly damaged airplane,' said a Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman in Warsaw. 
Poland's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Piotr Paszkowski, said there were 89 people on the passenger list but one person had not shown up.
'We still cannot fully understand the scope of this tragedy and what it means for us in the future. Nothing like this has ever happened in Poland,' Paszkowski said. 'We can assume with great certainty that all persons on board have been killed.'
The Queen led tributes today to the president and his wife in a message of condolence where she described her "sorrow" and sent her "deepest sympathy" to the government and the people of Poland.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1264964/BREAKING-NEWS-Plane-carrying-Polish-president-crashes-Russia.html