Date: April 07, 2007
No Good Friday at all
Friday 6th of April 2006 will not be recalled as a "Good Friday", though the day in this year is entitled with this name for Christians remember the death of Jesus. Being Christian or not, we all would have wished to have gotten better, good, news from the IPCC. We were prepared by the first part of the report in January though - and learn now that the impacts of global warming might be even bigger than we thought. To the 2500 scientists who signed the report droughts, hurricanes, floods, economical losses will be amongst the impacts of global warming. The 23 pages long summary of their 1400 pages report for politicians was hard discussed before the release: Newspapers reported that the United States tried to reach for the cancelation of the passage that says that the US will see hard ecological damages due to climate change. China that - because of being labeled as a development country - has not to sign the Kyoto protocol announced after international protest to change their environmental politics by the year 2013. In May the IPCC will release the third and last part of the report. It will contain descriptions for solutions to moderate the impacts of climate change. On 17th april the United Nations Security Council will debate for the first time about climate change in history. On the agenda of the G8 summit in June in Heiligendamm climate change is set as well. "Good Friday" in German language is called "Kar-Friday", "Kar" - signifing "mourning". This describes the mood of many who heard about the IPCCreport last Friday. In English or German - or basically in any other language - we all hope to see a little of Easter in May when we will be told that we cn stop climate change to a certain extend if we just get it started now!


