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The World in 2050: Nuclear Powered
Posted by jennifer, July 10th, 2009 - under Opinion.
Tags: Carbon Trading, Energy & Nuclear, Humour, Philosophy
Comments: 48
WORLD leaders are meeting in Italy and high on the agenda is climate change, in particular the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Today’s declaration to reduce emissions by 50 percent globally by 2050 is aspiration. I say this because if it were imperative the timeframe would be a bit more meaningful.
Indeed few of today’s leaders [...]
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Noah’s Ark Revisited (Part 2)
Posted by jennifer, July 9th, 2009 - under Humour.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Humour, People
Comments: 2
More on NoAl from Blunt at Knutz here.
Not Real Climate
Posted by jennifer, July 7th, 2009 - under Humour, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Humour
Comments: 25
“REALCLIMATE is a commentary site (blog) on climatology by a group of climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. It aims to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion is intended to be restricted to scientific topics and to avoid political or economic [...]
Sceptics Versus Actorvists
Posted by jennifer, July 5th, 2009 - under Humour.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Humour
Comments: 20
Robyn Malcolm from Outrageous Fortune and Keisha Castle- Hughes from Whale Rider are giving face to save the earth campaigns in New Zealand.
Harsh Words for ‘Deniers’ from Nobel Laureate
Posted by jennifer, July 1st, 2009 - under Humour, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Humour, People
Comments: 166
“YET the deniers are choosing, willfully, to ignore that threat, placing future generations of Americans in grave danger, simply because it’s in their political interest to pretend that there’s nothing to worry about. If that’s not betrayal, I don’t know what is.”
This extract from a column in the New York Times by Paul Krugman refers [...]
Rational Advice on ‘Carbon Act’ Censored
Posted by jennifer, June 29th, 2009 - under Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Humour
Comments: 78
ON Friday President Barrack Obama praised the House of Representatives for passing the ‘Clean Energy and Security Act’. Everyone agrees that it’s far reaching legislation, and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made mention of the event as a reason for Australia to hurry-up with its own emissions trading laws.
The US Environment Protection Agency had [...]
Worrying About Small Changes
Posted by jennifer, June 28th, 2009 - under Humour, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Humour
Comments: 31
IN the documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, Al Gore used the tale of a frog in a warming container not jumping out, but rather boiling to death, as a caution against inaction, against letting small changes, small increases in temperature, go unaddressed.
But what if, since the movie was released in 2006, there has been a small [...]
Keeping Carbon Dioxide in the Soda – or Not
Posted by jennifer, June 24th, 2009 - under Humour, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Humour, Pesticides & Other Chemicals
Comments: 46
YESTERDAY the US President, Barrack Obama, urged action to curb “dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink”.
If you consider carbon dioxide a “dangerous contaminate” and want to get rid of the carbon dioxide in say the soda, before you drink it, then shake the bottle first. Fizzing allows dissolved carbon dioxide gas to [...]
Meat Free Mondays
Posted by jennifer, June 21st, 2009 - under Humour.
Tags: Food & Farming, Humour
Comments: 69
Mutant Climate Debate
Posted by jennifer, June 20th, 2009 - under Humour, News, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Humour
Comments: 76
Synthesis Report from Copenhagen March 2009, Now available
http://climatecongress.ku.dk/ downloads & videos here
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)
http://www.nipccreport.org
Global Politics is being Influenced by Climate Contrarians
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25661632-5013457,00.html
