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Stunning & magical city of Davos On March 10-11, 2015, took place in the Davos Congress Centre the 6th World Communication Forum - #WCFDavos . Bringing and bridging together 33 nations through politicians, global PR experts and representatives from Communication departments of diverse international organisations. Annually, #WCFDavos identifies and defines the trends on global communications for the months to come, until the meeting is held again in the Swiss Alps. Faith Muthambi, Minister of Communication of South Africa, speaking at the #WCFDavos Having lunch with Mr. Kim Kyong-Hae, known as Korea's PR father BRICS for Communication Masha Aladzhova and Lars Hilse - Like & Comment #WCFDavos Flavio Oliveira and Faith Muthambi, Minister of Communication (South Africa) On the 11 th March, I had the pleasure to moderate a DEBATE entitled: “Global Communications vs Cross-cultural Communicaton: Which shall be the communication of the future”. Now, the debate and many other very ...

[Updated September 16, 2015 ]               Man-made global warming worsens the extreme drought in the American West because of its excessive heating.   Farms in California receive inadequate water supplies, leading to crop losses.   Wildfires are burning record areas of forest in the West as well as in Alaska .   In order to minimize future damaging effects such as these, Americans should join forces with other nations of the world to reduce use of fossil fuels so that greenhouse gas emissions are lowered. The drought in California .     Barry Baker, an almond farmer in California’s Central Valley, couldn’t provide enough water for the 5,000 acres (about 2,000 hectares) of almond trees he grows, the Vancouver, WA Columbian reported in February 2014 http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/feb/23/drought-drives-california-almond-farmers-to-cut-or/ .   So he tore up about one-fifth of his trees, an irreversible decision (see ...

The Administration’s Clean Power Plan will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power industry over the next fifteen years.   Global warming affects all humankind .   Changing weather patterns, consisting of greater and more frequent weather extremes have become more and more common in recent years and decades.   Around the world, extreme rains and floods, droughts and unprecedented sea level rise have occurred in ways that we are now accepting as being “new normals” of weather which humanity did not experience in earlier years.   While we cannot point to individual events as being caused by global warming, the frequency of occurrence and patterns around the world are all consistent with the predictions that global warming will worsen extremes of weather and climate going forward.   The warming arises because of humanity’s burning of fossil fuels for energy as well as from other human activities, not from any natural cycling of cli...