Climate Inaction Infringing Human Rights?

*In case yer wondering, I'm goin to start highlighting news reports relating to climate change to highlight the issue. It's the least I can do. News have been popping up for ages, but I've decided to start highlighting it now (or a few posts ago)*

*Bolds are manually done by me to highlight, except the title and sub-title.*

[Quote from BBC News Website]

Climate inaction 'costing lives'

Oxfam says rich nations' carbon footprint are putting lives at risk

Failure to take urgent action to curb climate change is effectively violating the human rights of people in the poorest nations, an aid charity warns.

A report by Oxfam International says emissions, primarily from developed countries, are exacerbating flooding, droughts and extreme weather events.

As a result, harvests are failing and people are losing their homes and access to water, the authors observe.

They say human rights need to be at the heart of global climate policies.
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" "Climate change was first seen as a scientific problem, then an economic one," explained report author Kate Raworth. "Now it is becoming a matter of international justice." The global impacts of climate change meant that nations had to be held accountable for the consequences of their actions, Ms Raworth said. "
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Crop yields could increase by 20% in East and Southeast Asia, but decrease by up to 30% in Central and South Asia.
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Agriculture fed by rainfall could drop by 50% in some African countries by 2020
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20-30% of all plant and animal species would be at increased risk of extinction if temperatures rose between 1.5-2.5C
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Glaciers and snow cover are expected to decline, reducing water availability in countries supplied by melt water.
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For full report, click here.

Wow, the problem triangle! It now involves not juz economic and environmental issues, it's also a social issue now! HUMAN RIGHTS INFRINGED BY CLIMATE INACTION. Can you argue that climate change is not a big issue now?

So kids if yer whining about famine in Darfur, come join the climate crisis camp. You'll be damn sure to find your solution here.

If yer worried if your economical benefits are affected, come join the climate crisis camp. You'll be damn sure to find your solution.
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LOL

Went to some steamboat restaurant last week. Last week as in post-National Day last week.

The food was better than average steamboats, but still it's juz steamboat.

But this caught my attention:

Ou... She came b4 huh?

Apparently the steamboat restaurant's seafood was so good, Joey Yeung loved it to the max!

I'm a stingray!

She's def dressed for the occasion.

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"The Bank Job (2007)"

Juz watched this movie. Gotta say it's one of the rare well-written films I've ever watched. Well plotted, although partly based on a true story of the 1975 Baker Street Robbery.

My friend introduced this movie to me in this way: "it's a robbery done by inside ppl". No Sai Hoong yer wrong... It's a robbery done by normal desperate robbers that involves loots of high-profile, and the nature of these loots are the main drive of the movie.

Never knew governments of the world had so much secret...

The movie's a lil gory when it comes to the torture part. DAMN... And there're some nudity coz one of the character is a porn king.

It's an English film. Kinda fond of films with the actors speaking wit a British accent these days. The accent in the movie's not heavy la, but the accent made it fresh.

It's something like Ocean's Thirteen. Juz wit more gore, and less intelligent planning. But it's well-written.

Look out for the plasma cutter.
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This is What I Meant When I say...

The Sea Levels Are Rising, and accelerating...

[Quote from BBC News Website]

Sea level rise by 2100 'below 2m'

By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website

A revamp of the Thames Barrier is likely as sea levels rise

Sea levels globally are very unlikely to rise by more than 2m (7ft) this century, scientists conclude.

Major increases would have to be fuelled by a faster flow of glaciers on the Greenland or Antarctic ice sheets.

But writing in the journal Science, a US team concludes that a rise of 2m would need glaciers to reach speeds that are "physically untenable".

However, even increases substantially less than 2m would cause major issues for many societies, they say.

"Even a sea level rise of 20cm (8in) in a century will have quite dramatic implications," said Shad O'Neel from the US Geological Survey (USGS).
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"The current (sea level increase) rate is about 3mm per year. "
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"Most of the ice comes off in glaciers. Scientists know that many of the glaciers have accelerated in recent years - some quite spectacularly. The Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland, for example, doubled its speed in six years to about 12km per year. "
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[Unquote]
[Complete Article Here. Dun worry, it's published today, so it's quite recent.]

Hrmm... It's highly UNLIKELY for the sea level to rise by 2 meter. It's like saying oil prices won't reach $300. There's a possibility, but unlikely. Any rise within that range should be anticipated. (Juz stating the obvious in case you dunno whether the report is for or against the cause of melting glaciers)

Let's do the math. The rate that will bring "dramatic implications" is 20cm per century = 20cm/100 years = 0.2cm per year = 2mm per year.
Current Rate = 3mm per year.
3mm per year (current) > 2mm per year (benchmark)
Are we heading for doomsday?

Quote from Holland's Wiki: "60% of its population located below sea level."

Quote from ExpressIndia.com: "Bangladesh, Pakistan and India have almost 130 million people living in the Low Elevation Coastal Zone who will be the most vulnerable to sea-level rise and coastal erosion as well as drought. "

Remember Langkawi? It has 99 tiny islands around it, most of it could only be seen during low tides.

Sea levels are accelerated by the act of increasing sea levels. More water = more place to store heat = more heat around glaciers/ice shelfs = more melting = more sea level rising. It's a never ending cycle and once sea levels increase, it accelerates. So it's getting faster and faster, unless we do something about it.

Still think climate change is nothing you should worry about? Think again.
The footprints you leave on Earth is more than what you think.
Do the right thing.
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[Quote]

The North Pole becomes an 'island' for the first time in history as ice melts

The North Pole has become an island for the first time in human history.

Startling satellite pictures taken three days ago show that melting ice has opened up the fabled North-West and North-East Passages - making it possible to sail around the Arctic ice cap.

The opening of the passages has been eagerly awaited by shipping companies which hope they will be able to cut thousands of miles off their routes.

Blocked: The Arctic ice, showing as a pink mass in the 1979 picture, links up with northern Canada (on the left) and Russia (right)

But to climate change scientists it is yet another sign of the damage global warming is inflicting on the planet.

Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist, described the images as an 'historic event' - but warned they added to fears that the Arctic icecap has entered a 'death spiral'.

More...

• The heartbreaking picture of the polar bears with 400 miles to swim to the nearest ice

The pictures, produced by Nasa, mark the first time in at least 125,000 years that the two shortcuts linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans have been ice-free at the same time....

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Read rest of news report here, please

Tell me this is not serious...

C'mon. The North Pole is reduced to an island now. NO MORE FCKIN ICE! There's no more 'mirror' to reflect most of the sun's rays back to outer space! WE"RE DOOMED!!! Water levels are def goin to rise. Cities (read: HOLLAND) is goin to be flooded and possible submerged. People are goin to get displaced. Economic activities are goin to be distrupted. People die. People suffer from irregular weather and die.

Do the right thing.

EDIT: Oh yea, please do click on that link linking to the polar bear news as well. I've been talkin about polar bears drowning (yes, polar bears can swim but they drown too. COZ THEY DUN FREAKIN LIKE TO SWIM AT ALL! THEY GET TIRED AFTER SWIMMING MILES TO REACH THE SHORES!!!). Evidence, evidence, evidence. Do we need more?

We've waited for 30 years (assuming the 20 years b4 the 30 years ago was great) to finally asked for a change. Please don't wait till the polar bears have died off and Ice Shelfs reduced to icicles to take action. Be a responsible citizen of the world. Be responsible to the world.

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A taste of my own skills!

Been thinking making a meal for myself out of scratch for quite some time already. So this time round since parents away at hometown, I'll be taking care of my stomach my own. And I've been planning this for quite some time already...

Wanted to make a burger/sandwich thing. I'll make it with beef patties, made from scratch (of coz of minced meat to save some time). I'll mix some onions and cheese into the mix and the patty will be oh so juicy. I'll use a baguette as the bun and have some leafy veggie in b/w. Maybe extra cheese?

This is the rough idea. Mine's (supposedly) juicier.

I decided not to watch the National Day parade. Sheesh nothing special one la... Watch so many years already... And the National Day mood is kinda down coz, you noe, somebody lost popularity but still hanging on to the seat. So anyway, started the car and off I went.

Tesco is the last place I wanted to go alone (ok maybe not last but def not on top of the list). Everytime my mom asked me to go along I never did. Today is a special day. I had to go to Tesco for the sutff. And so I parked the car and went in.

As soon as I got the trolly and went into the supermarket, I knew I picked the wrong day to come. PEOPLE!! AUNTIES! MAK CIKS!! PAK CIKS!! Damn uncles are the most ridiculous. They push the trolly slowly, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LANE, with their aunty slowly walkin in front. DAMN LAAAA. Then there're the independent aunties. Now I know where the aunties learnt their infamous driving skills. IN THE HYPERMARKET! No joke. They push the trolly into you even when they know there is hardly any space for the trolly to go. Some "slow" ones will push the trolly slowly and the bunch of people behind her will be cursing their heads off. THEY FCKIN DOMINATE!!

So I got the baguette. Then to the meat place. Damn no minced beef? I came here for minced beef and now no minced beef? NVM I'll improvise. Looked around. Hrmm... Chicken fillets would work fine. I'll be making fillet sandwiches then. Then I got to the veggie dept. That's where the congestion wit the aunties happened. Looked around. Damn no mood find for leafy veggies ah. Cabut only la... Then remembered the shops near my house has veggies. LOL fckin weird holding a baguette and a packet of chicken fillets lining up at the cashier. Got to the grocery shops, coundn't find veggies, so only got myself a red onion (yes, "a", one only. It's 20 sen) (do you call them shallots? Or they are the big version of shallots?)

There! My ingredients for my first burger/sandwich. Quite sad la coz no veggies... And no environmental burden! I brought my own plastic bags!

So I cleaned the fillets first la. Helped my mom once so I kind of knew that I have to clean the white nerve/ligament/ thingy. Damn mahfan ler the thing so tough to clear...

Marinated the fillets wit some honey, soy sauce and pepper. I dunno where I got that idea from.

Chopped them onions up.

Sauteed 'em. (yes the spoon thing. Mom uses the same thing. Couldn't find the 'righter' one)

Sauteed the fillets.

And done!

The onions are well browned (I guess). It's sweet! I rested the fillets on top of the onions and the juiced dripped onto the onions. Ooo...

I insisted that I do not over-cook the meat coz that's what people do. Oh damn it's so succulent!

I guess this is the only way to eat it la. If got veggies sure would taste better... Didn't bother to toast the baguette.

The nicer-browned one. This one is nice!

And I still have some uncooked fillets in the fridge. This meal costs less than Rm10, and there's still half a baguette left! I bet it'll cost a bit more wit the veggies. I'll leave it for next time, so I'll have an excuse to make it again :-P

I'm bored of eating takeaways almost all the time. I'm makin my food next time. Hrm should've went to Jusco instead... I'm more familiar wit the supermarket there...
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Watch This!

Barack Obama's acceptance speech as the Democrat nominee for the presidency of United States of America.



It's 45 minutes long.

Damn his speech practically covers everything you need to build a country. Health care, education, taxes, labor policy, foreign policy, current issues (incentives for green energy!!! HE IS GREAT!!!) and etc. His speeches always amaze me.

And his policies are what we need to improve our country. Maybe Anwar can take a hint or two from Obama's plans and implement it in our country? Coz I'm damn sure bodowi is too sleepy to listen to Obama's plans and C4 is too busy covering his crap trail.

Shall our country prosper and be united for the 21st century. Let's put aside our differences and be united on our common grounds. Those that halt us shall be eliminated.

Happy National Day. "Unity is the Core of Success"
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Slope-phobia

Title dedicated to ylup's hardship. I'll save the story for some other day.

Yesterday went for this steamboat opposite IOI. It serves sichuan hot pots but of course comes yin-yang style la.

Jon's Nice Food Selection vs Jason's Selection of Crap

Dudes went off to buy the cake for yong xin. I had to distract him so that dudes can bring the cake into the restaurant to refrigerate. LOL took me some quick BS thinking to pull off the stunt.

The food was OK. I might actually go back there for the clams. Not exactly big huge clams but they were sweet. The cheese-fishball was funky but tasty too.

SO here's the pic i took during the candle blowing thing:


Wut's Jason busy about? He can't seem to hold steady whenever we have these kind of things goin on.

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Rojak post

It's RAINY SEASON AGAIN!!!

God damned... Hurricane Nuri, they call it Parrot Hurricane. Wut language Nuri is anyway? Malay? Latin? Portugese?

I hate it when it rains when I go online. Have to take the risk of power going off suddenly and HDD being corrupted. Then maybe if got lightning surge the phone line's gonna fry the modem up. It always rains when I go online, or when I was to go online. It's risky business.



So like Avril's gonna finally perform in Malaysia? How would you feel if you wanted to eat something, but wasn't allowed to coz 'I dun approve', but was finally allowed to just coz 'I approve'. I wanna makan also no appetite already la.

Damn wut the hell why does the government have to decide wut we can or cannot listen, know, read, watch and stuff? Thank god TMNut's not setting up a filter to filter out the opposition's videos on youtube. Who are they to decide whether a movie is suitable for me or not? God damned let me decide, can ah? If a movie contains explicit content, juz make it available to mature audiences only la (aka 18+). Check my ID, I dun mind. JUZ DUN FREAKIN CONTROL WUT I WANNA WATCH.

Censoring and banning content actually promotes piracy if they have yet to realise. People download musics coz the ones sold in stores are censored. (Try previewing 'Git Up' by D12 in the music stores. You'll hear blanks in the first 10-20 seconds) Wut to do if I wanna insist listening to censored content? Download from the internet la of coz. This applies to movies and books as well.



Been doin some bloghopping. I love posts about how a dude cheated on the girl on the girl's blog. Rant rant rant. LOL I wonder if the dude's enjoying his moment of glory. "Hell yea you should've seen that coming biotch! *Insert unsatisfaction here*". And also, who glorifies their own skool? Gosh stop wit the '*skool name* ROCKS!' or '*skool name*, I LOVE YOU. OMG YOU ROCK!!!' or even treating the skool as if it's a person like "Happy B'day *skool name*" Fck you. The moment you write something bad about it, you can kiss the blog goodbye.

DAMN PA homeworks. Think of benefits of oil palm (4 please). And lots more that the question itself also quite ambiguous.

And that speech I have to give on Monday. Can we juz finish it up peacefully? Everybody would be cursing their heads off when the ceremony gets too lengthy...
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