Environment

"Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror." This is what Mumbai witnessed on the 26th of November 2008,an act of Terrorism which will never be forgotten by the people of the whole country.The terrorists came in a very intelligent fashion and targeted the four major places of Mumbai and are still continuing their nonsense,it was innocent people who lost their lives.Soon after the terrorists attacked,Mumbai turned out to be blood flooded city.A few seconds were enough to petrify the whole city.

Approximately 500 women gathered to protest against climate change in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital.

The women demanded industrialized nations reduce greenhouse gas emissions and compensate poorer nations that scientists say will be hit the hardest by climate change's effects.

The female ralliers were mostly poor and from rural areas. They wore masks of leaders from rich nations such as the US, France and the UK. Marching through Dhaka University's campus, they carried banners such as 'Cut emissions, save poor nations' and 'Stop harming, start helping.'

"We are here with a message that we are suffering, and our sufferings will increase manifold if rich countries do not act aggressively. Rich nations like the U.S. and emerging countries such as China and India must act properly," he said. "We need development but not at the cost of our future," said Ahsan Uddin Ahmed, a Bangladeshi expert on climate change.

Environmental fraud is big business. The natural level of discomfort that results from the thought of global warming is reinforced by numerous reports claiming inevitable environmental doom. A recent article in the Nature Magazine went as far as predicting that over the next fifty years well over one million species will cease to exist due to global warming.

Coupled with the fear prompted by environmental experts and know-it-alls is a plethora of scams. Some attempt to persuade our beliefs, while others operate with the intentions of fraud. Far from being verified is one claim that global warming is a man-made predicament. Instead of drawing these conclusions from observable facts, these assumptions are based on methods of computer modeling that generate artificial, easily manipulated graphic-based visions of the earth. A computer can only process the information fed to it, which in this case is usually fraudulent data intended to stir up controversy.

Prime Minister John Key has pledged to reassess the country's emissions trading and possibly review the science behind global warming, sparking outrage from environmental groups and supporters.

"I'm quite confident the select committee review will come up with what we always wanted, which is more balance in this whole debate," Key said.

The carbon market, the first outside of Europe, has been put on hold, weeks before its planned start date.

Climate change Minister Nick Smith confirmed the country will adopt a carbon trading scheme in some form, but clarified that a revised version might not start until 2010.

"What the government has said has created a lot of uncertainty," said Mark Franklin, head of carbon exchange TZ1, the would-be operator of the country's first carbon market. TZ1 is owned by New Zealand stock exchange operator NZX. "From a global perspective, we had a pretty good scheme here and there was a fair bit of interest from overseas."