Archive for May, 2009
A debate has begun over the world’s responsibilities to the millions of people likely to be displaced by climate change.
A report by a forum led by a former United Nations secretary general is criticized for its methods and conclusions.
Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, met China’s two top leaders to discuss energy problems on Wednesday, but some experts noted that the two nations’ official positions remain far apart.
Accelerated melting of Greenland’s ice sheets could cause sea levels to rise even more in the northeastern United States and Maritime Canada than in other areas around the world.
The Death of CalculusOne of the standard moans is that no one takes physics anymore, and when they do, “calculation has been replaced by writing”. Far be it from the bunny to be serious, but
Tags: Eli Rabett
1.) Below is a graph of sea surface temperature in the Northwest Pacific. In 1987, temperatures broke with previous, mild variability, in one of the most sudden warming events during the entire
Tags: Uncategorized
Only 1% of sustainable palm oil has been bought because some supermarkets won’t put their money where their mouth is Palm oil is slippery stuff. It’s in biscuits and shampoo,
Tags: Biofuels, Business, Deforestation, Editorial, Environment, Ethical living, guardian.co.uk, Indonesia, Supermarkets
Tracing the flow of a blood-red fluorescent dye may reveal the ultimate fate of the Greenland’s ice.
Relieved of billions of tons of glacial weight, land is rising much as a cushion regains its shape after a person gets up from a chair.
The climate change legislation now on the table isn’t the bill we’d ideally want, but it’s vastly better than no bill at all.
The population of American shad rebounded in the 1990s but is again on the wane.
A new analysis halves projections of how much sea levels could rise if Antarctica’s ice sheets fully disintegrated.
China cannot continue producing greenhouse emissions at an escalating rate because the planet can’t handle the strain.
Gas-guzzling Formula 1 teams put on a pathetic show compared with the green action seen elsewhere in motorsports Indy racers in the US now burn up the track with biofuels. TT motorcyclists in the
Tags: Carbon emissions, Carbon footprints, Editorial, Environment, Formula One, guardian.co.uk, Travel and transport
INTRODUCTION Good science is plausible. It makes sense. Here is something from the UNIPCC that makes very little sense. It is from section1.4.6 of the most recent report accessible
Tags: Anthropogenic climate change, Atmosphere, Carbon Credits, Carbon Footprint, climate change, El Nino, ENSO, global cooling, global warming, Greenhouse theory, I.P.C.C., La Nina, meteorology, Natural climate change, Science of global warming, Solar cycle, solar wind, Southern Oscillation, Sun, Ultraviolet radiation, Uncategorized
A new MIT invention turns shock absorbers into electric generators.
Greenwash: Time for a ‘plan B’ on ethical pension investment, says Fred Pearce
The greenest British high street chains are failing to invest their pension funds in a responsible way. How are we to take them seriously, asks Fred Pearce Who are the greenest of the big British
Tags: Business, Comment, Corporate social responsibility, Environment, Ethical business, Ethical money, guardian.co.uk, Money, Occupational pensions, Pensions