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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2008
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ENVIRONMENT
Schwarzenegger hosts summit on climate change
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger advocates environmental protection at the Governors' Global Climate Summit in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Tuesday. Governors from Asia, South and North America met in California this week to share ideas on how to combat climate change and discuss ways to prod their national governments to join the effort.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opened his international climate change summit on Tuesday by upstaging himself with an even bigger political star — President-elect Barack Obama.
Schwarzenegger, a Republican whose efforts to combat global warming in California have generated worldwide acclaim, wants to show that governments can balance environmental protection and economic growth. He hopes his summit will influence negotiations over a new climate treaty during a U.N. gathering in Poland next month.
In a taped message to attendees, Obama said his administration was committed to a cause that had all but languished at the federal level during the term of President George W. Bush.
"Once I take office, you can be sure that the United States will once engage vigorously in these negotiations and help lead the world toward a new era of global cooperation on climate change," Obama said.
U. N. negotiators have a December 2009 deadline to complete the next global warming treaty, which would succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. That treaty, which expires in 2012, does not include the U.S. or China — the world's largest emitters.
Negotiators want to cut in half the amount of carbon dioxide discharged into the atmosphere from transportation, industry and power generation by mid-century.
In his roughly four-minute address to Schwarzenegger's conference, Obama said the U.S. economy would continue to weaken if climate change and dependence on foreign oil are left unaddressed.
He reiterated his support for cutting greenhouse gas emissions using a cap-and-trade system, an approach also favored by Schwarzenegger. Obama said he would establish annual targets to reduce emissions to their 1990
levels by 2020, and reduce them another 80 percent by 2050.
Obama also promoted anew his proposal to invest $15 billion each year to support private-sector efforts toward clean energy. He said tackling climate change can create millions of new jobs as the U.S. invests in technologies to promote solar and wind power, biofuels and cleaner coal-fired plants.
"I promise you this: When I am president, any governor who's willing to promote clean energy will have a partner in the White House," Obama told the participants. "Any company that's willing to invest in clean energy will have an ally in Washington. And any nation that's willing to join the cause of combating climate change will have an ally in the United States of America."
Scientists say the kind of ambitious goals set by Schwarzenegger and Obama must be reached to minimize the consequences of rising global temperatures.
The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said temperatures worldwide could increase between 4 degrees and 11 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100 unless nations reduce their emissions.
Just how countries will cut emissions remains a topic of intense debate, especially as the world grapples with the worsening financial crisis. U.S. and foreign businesses, as well as some European countries, have questioned whether cutting emissions will be too costly.
Schwarzenegger said states, provinces and countries can cut emissions by forming partnerships, as he has done as governor.
"I still have friends in the business world that come to me and say that this is going to hurt the economy," Schwarzenegger said in his opening remarks. "But of course, we believe very strongly it is going to help the economy."
Schwarzenegger has signed partnerships with governors of seven Western states and four Canadian provinces to develop regional cap-and-trade systems. He also has an
agreement with the state of New York to explore linking California's future carbon market with a trading system in the Northeast.
The governor also has signed agreements with the United Kingdom and Australia's premier in Victoria to combat climate change.
Schwarzenegger addressed attendees from 19 other countries and 17 states. He announced the conference in September and sent out some 1,400 invitations to regional government representatives, scientists, policy experts and industry representatives.
The two-day summit at the Beverly Hilton Hotel has drawn more than 800 attendees to discuss strategies to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Schwarzenegger's conference included government officials from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland and the United Kingdom.
Republican Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida and Democratic governors Rod Blagoievich of Illinois, Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas and Jim Doyle of Wisconsin are cohosts.
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Dr. Guoqiang Lu, left, Division Chief of the National Cooperation National Development and Reform Commission for the People's Republic of China, listens to Dr Adrian Fernandez, President National Institute of Ecology for the United Mexican States.
CRIME
Arkansas preacher arrested
Tony Alamo faces federal charges of child sex crimes
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — State officials on Tuesday took into protective custody 21 children associated with an evangelical group whose founder faces federal child sex charges.
The children, all younger than 18 and part of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, were taken while custody hearings were being held for six girls seized during a September raid of Alamo's compound in Fouke, in southwest Arkansas. The court must decide whether the girls should be returned to their parents or remain in state care.
On Monday, a 14-year-old girl taken by the state during the September raid testified that Alamo molested her, counted a number of young girls as his wives, and coached her and others to say they weren't touched improperly or beaten.
Authorities took three children into custody Tuesday at the courthouse in Texarkana, 130 miles southwest of Little Rock. Police seized the other 18 children from two vans during a traffic stop, said Julie Munsell, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services.
She said she didn't know why the children were in the vans or where they were headed, and she declined to elaborate on the court order, which cites allegations of neglect and physical abuse as the reason for the seizures.
She said Alamo creep up behind her while she was showering, held his hand over her mouth and sexually molested her. She said Alamo warned her to keep quiet, saying if she didn't, shed beaten by a man who witnesses have described as Alamo's enforcer.
Alamo, 74, is charged with two counts of transporting a juvenile across state lines for sex, once in
2004 and again the following year. The preacher, listed in court documents by his real name, Bernie Lazar Hoffman, has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges, each of which carries a sentence of 10 years to life in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. He is in jail in Texarkana awaiting trial, which is set to begin in February.
Alamo has preached that the Bible allows young girls to marry once they reach puberty but has said he didn't adopt the practice.
His attorney, John Wesley Hall Jr., said Tuesday he doubts Alamo can get a fair trial in Texarkana because of the media scrutiny surrounding the case. He said Alamo is an easy target in the child welfare hearings because Alamo is in jail and can't attend the hearings.
"Tony Alamo is not able to be
there to defend himself, not able to cross-examine these people, which is a fundamental right," Hall said.
"Tony told us what he was going to ask us and what we were supposed to say," the girl testified.
The girl reiterated claims by witnesses at a bond hearing last month, including that Alamo had taken several young girls as wives.
The 14-year-old girl, who spent much of her time in Alamo's organization in Fort Smith, testified that Alamo coached her and others to say they weren't sexually molested or beaten, and said Alamo recorded interviews with the girls to document the statements.
She listed eight names, including Alamo's legal wife, Sharon Alamo, as being the "sisters in the house" at Alamo's residence in Fouke, where she said she lived for a time.
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