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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 March 13th, 2007

Ethanol Pushes Up Price of Tortillas?

The price of tortillas in Mexico has tripled in recent months and Ruth Gidley in a piece entitled ‘As biofuels boom, will more go hungry’ is blaming ethanol.
With US government greenhouse policy and the price of oil favoring a shift to ethanol, the price of corn is climbing. The US produced 24percent [...]

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The Defining Moral and Political Cause of Our Age (Global Warming) Dominates British Politics

“A frantic race to play the winning ‘green card’ will take place in Westminster this week, as Britain’s three main political parties focus on the environment and global warming as the main battleground of the next general election,” according to Nigel Morris in an article ‘Politicians step up the battle to secure the green vote’ [...]