<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/67607e4e-fc1c-4a04-b5b9-12de2be57953/13D33581-70E6-45BC-86CD-BF6E06EA8ACC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-bolivia-climate-change-is-not-in.html" href="http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-bolivia-climate-change-is-not-in.html" style="font-size: 11px;">casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-bolivia-climate-change-is-not-in.html"><H2 class="date-header"></H2> <DIV class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template"> <A name="4801388009242888101"></A> <H3 class="post-title entry-title"> <A href="http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-bolivia-climate-change-is-not-in.html">In Bolivia climate change is not a future problem, it is now</A></H3></DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-bolivia-climate-change-is-not-in.html" href="http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-bolivia-climate-change-is-not-in.html" style="font-size: 11px;">casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-bolivia-climate-change-is-not-in.html"><DIV><A href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GEDUTlyzpkI/SvWEqBY9YaI/AAAAAAAABV4/0ce4GGeVfMo/s1600-h/chacaltaya-glacier.gif"><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401369185563271586" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GEDUTlyzpkI/SvWEqBY9YaI/AAAAAAAABV4/0ce4GGeVfMo/s400/chacaltaya-glacier.gif" /></A><SPAN><SPAN>Chacaltaya glacier, there you see it, now you don't</SPAN></SPAN><BR /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-bolivia-climate-change-is-not-in.html"><DIV>Oxfam America recently put out <A href="http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2009-11-04/bolivia-battered-five-fronts-climate-change">an alarming press release</A> explaining how climate change will put dire stress on impoverished communities in Bolivia along five dimensions: glacier retreat, natural disasters, disease spread, forest fires, and erratic weather.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-bolivia-climate-change-is-not-in.html">All very true, and reason for the world's largest polluter (USA! #1!) to face up to its responsibilities in <A href="http://en.cop15.dk/">Copenhagen Climate Summi</A><A href="http://en.cop15.dk/">t</A>, </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-bolivia-climate-change-is-not-in.html"><DIV>In Bolivia climate change is happening now, and affecting communities with little recourse to "adapt" (nice euphemism for getting forced off your land and livelihood). The glaciers that provide much of Bolivia's fresh water are <A href="http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2009/03/meltdown-bolivia.html">disappearing, now</A>. The Chacaltaya glacier which <A href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/02/bolivia-water-shortages-due-to-melting-glaciers/">supplies water</A> to the city of El Alto and altiplano is <A href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/05/08/bolivia-chacaltaya-glacier-gone/">basicly nonexistant</A>. Bolivia has <A href="http://www.laprensa.com.bo/noticias/07-11-09/noticias.php?nota=07_11_09_socd1.php">requested </A>emergency assistence from the UN due to drought.<BR /></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/13D33581-70E6-45BC-86CD-BF6E06EA8ACC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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