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Scientist Steve Schneider Flips Fears
On the TV show In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age, Steven Schneider wonders whether mankind should intervene in staving off a coming ice age.  Watch the old footage on YouTube here. (24)

Australian Liberals Oppose Carbon Trading
Australian Opposition Leader (Malcolm Turnbull) will be forced to stare down more than two-thirds of the Liberal back bench if he proceeds with his plan to negotiate with the government over amendments to the emissions trading scheme before December’s Copenhagen climate change conference.   Read more here. (2)

Not Evil Just Wrong
Buy the DVD by clicking on the flashing icon above. (1)

Climate Change Summit in New York
In New York… Chinese leader Hu Jintao … U.S. President Barack Obama more or less shuffled climate control policy off into the great dreamscape of unattainable plans and long range objectives. Like equality for all and peace in our time …  Terence Corcoran, Financial Post (1)

Minerals Industry Now Complaining
THE [Australian] minerals industry has demanded [the Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd overhaul his proposed emissions trading system or risk smashing Australian jobs and the nation’s industrial competitiveness.  Read more here. (1)

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Archive for January 21st, 2006

Methane from Trees Not Responsible for Global Warming: Frank Keppler

A week or so ago I explained how researchers had discovered that plants are a source of methane: that a new study led by Frank Keppler of the Max Planck Institute in Germany calculates that all the world’s living vegetation (forests included) emit between 62 and 236 million tonnes of methane per year. This is [...]

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Ecoterrorism: 11 Charged

According to an online NBC news report the FBI considers ecoterrorism the most widespread and damaging form of domestic terrorism in the US. It has been carried out against forestry activities and against biotechnology (genetically modified plants) and for animal rights. Yesterday 11 ecoterrorists were charged:
“The indictment tells a story of four-and-a-half years [...]