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Japan resumes Antarctic whaling despite opposition. -
Because an international court wasn’t buying the whalers’ “it’s research” claims, Japan designed a smaller hunt, which aims to kill 333 minke whales. This new program was also panned, but a Japanese fleet left port yesterday anyway, bound for the Southern Ocean. The Conversation
France and India announce solar alliance. -
To kick off the United Nations climate change conference in Paris today, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande launched the International Agency for Solar Technologies and Applications, a collaboration of some 120 sun-soaked countries in the tropics to develop clean, affordable energy. Economic Times
Never before has a responsibility so great been in the hands of so few.
—Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, addresses about 140 world leaders assembled at the COP21 opening ceremony this morning.
If you want to see a pause and you don’t understand statistics, and you want to mislead the public, then it is very easy to find a pause.
—Stephan Lewandowsky, lead author of a new analysis of 40 peer-reviewed studies on the so-called global warming hiatus. His paper is the sixth this year to debunk the claim that global warming stalled.
What we call a cold year now would have been considered a record warm year before 1997.
—Michel Jarraud, head of the World Meteorological Organization, discusses the agency’s preliminary announcement that 2015 will be the hottest year on record.
Nola, a northern white rhino, has died at the San Diego Zoo. -
Thanks to poaching, a male and two females at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya are now the only remaining members of this subspecies. San Diego Union-Tribune