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The heads of five international organizations joined an international campaign this week to galvanize public support for a successful outcome to UN-sponsored climate change negotiations by signing a global petition addressed to world leaders.
WHO’s Margaret Chan, WIPO’s Francis Gurry, WMO’s Michel Jarraud, WTO’s Pascal Lamy, IFAD’s Kanayo F. Nwanze, as well as Britain’s Minister for Higher Education and Intellectual Property, Mr. David Lammy, dipped the “People’s Seal” in ink and added their stamp to the global petition. The “Seal the Deal” campaign encourages users to sign an online, global petition.
which will be presented to world leaders at the meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in December 2009. The petition will serve as a reminder that world leaders must negotiate a fair, balanced and effective agreement in Copenhagen, and that they must seal a deal to power green growth, protect the planet and build a more sustainable, prosperous global economy that will benefit all nations and all people.
“Climate change is a crisis multiplier,” WFP Deputy Executive Director Staffan de Mistura told reporters at the 3rd World Climate Conference in Geneva on Wednesday.
Mr. de Mistura noted that in countries affected by conflict or the double blow of the financial and food price-hike crises, climate change intensifies the suffering.
3. (Physics) An instrument for multiplying or increasing by
repetition or accumulation the intensity of a force or
action, as heat or electricity. It is particularly used to
render such a force or action appreciable or measurable
when feeble. See Thermomultiplier.
[1913 Webster]
Thermomultiplier \Ther`mo*mul"ti*pli`er\, n. [Thermo- +
multiplier.]
Same as Thermopile.
thermopile
n : a kind of thermometer for measuring heat radiation; consists
of several thermocouple junctions in series
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1. The point of time when it is to be decided whether any
affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or
terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.
[1913 Webster]
Source
3. (Physics) An instrument for multiplying or increasing by
repetition or accumulation the intensity of a force or
action, as heat or electricity. It is particularly used to
render such a force or action appreciable or measurable
when feeble. See Thermomultiplier.
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency? Simply put, it is the "secret government". This agency has powers and authority that go well beyond any other agency in the nation. What can FEMA do? It can suspend laws. It can move entire populations. It can arrest and detain citizens without a warrant and can hold them without a trial. It can seize property, food supplies, and transportation systems. And it can even suspend the Constitution of the United States.
When the first concept had been presented, its original mission was to assure the survivability of the United States Government in the event of a nuclear attack. It's secondary function was to be a Federal coordinating body during times of domestic disasters. These disasters consisted of earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes.
The "secret" black helicopters that are reported throughout the US, mainly in the West California, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado areas are flown by FEMA personnel. It has been given the responsibility for many new national disasters such as forest fires, home heating emergencies, refugee situations, riots, and emergency planning for nuclear and toxic incidents. It works together with the Sixth Army in the West.
A series of Executive Orders (EO) was used to create FEMA. It does not matter whether an EO is Constitutional or not, it becomes a law simply by being published in the Federal Registry. These orders go around Congress.