![]() Britain's Alok Sharma, who handed the COP presidency to Egypt, said that while world leaders have faced "competing priorities" this year, "inaction is myopic and can only defer climate catastrophe." "How many more wake-up calls does the world - and world leaders - actually need?" he said. ![]() Promises made under the 2015 Paris Agreement would, if kept, only shave off a few tenths of a degree. Current trends would see carbon pollution increase 10 percent by the end of the decade and the Earth's surface heat up 2.8C, according to findings unveiled last week. "The heart of implementation is everybody everywhere in the world every single day doing everything they possibly can to address the climate crisis," he said, noting that only 29 of 194 nations have presented improved plans as called for at COP26 in Glasgow last year. "We will be holding people to account, be they presidents, prime ministers, CEOs," Stiell said as the 13-day summit opened. But Simon Stiell, the UN's climate change executive secretary, said he would not be a "custodian of backsliding" on the goal of slashing greenhouse emissions 45 percent by 2030 to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above late 19th-century levels. The conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh also comes against the backdrop of Russia's war on Ukraine, an energy crunch, soaring inflation and the lingering effects from the Covid-19 pandemic. Just in the past few months, floods devastated Pakistan and Nigeria, droughts worsened in Africa and the United States, cyclones whipped the Caribbean, and unprecedented heatwaves seared three continents. "As COP27 gets underway, our planet is sending a distress signal," UN chief Antonio Guterres said in a statement, calling the report a "chronicle of climate chaos". An alarming UN report said the past eight years are on track to be the eight warmest on record, with an acceleration in sea level rise, glacier melt, heatwaves and other climate indicators. The UN's COP27 climate summit kicked off Sunday in Egypt with warnings against backsliding on efforts to cut emissions and calls for rich nations to compensate poor countries after a year of extreme weather disasters. Speaking of iTunes links, the folks over at Bjango have posted an article dissecting iTunes links and how to craft them. ![]() The other advantage to using RCDefaultApp is that the settings should work for all browsers. I tested several iTunes web preview links and did not find any which still automatically opened iTunes. Then I went to the "Extensions" tab and disabled the "itms" extension, based on The Apple Blog's advice. Itms:// (this seems to be the most prevalent in my limited testing) I went into the URLs section of RCDefaultApp (which is a preference pane), and disabled the following protocols: Then I remembered RCDefaultApp from Rubicode, a freeware application which allows you to easily set which application will open files based on filename extension (such as the ".doc" in "review.doc") or by the protocol in a URL, such as or itms://. My best guess is that Apple uses a variety of methods of opening these links, but The Apple Blog's instructions were only addressing one. You will have to open/search iTunes manually.) The Apple Blog posted some instructions for doing this, but that method didn't seem to always work for me. (Update: A commenter correctly notes that these links do not seem to work after making this change. These pages have a "View in iTunes" link already, so if I want to open iTunes, it's easy enough to do manually. ![]() Ever since Apple rolled out web previews for iTunes links several months ago, I've been meaning to find a way to disable those pages from automatically opening iTunes, which I don't usually have running.
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