[Science Media Centre] Science Media Centre » Blog Archive » Climate change and risk ...: Scientists and researchers who are part of the Asia Pacific STS (Science, Technology and Society) Network have been meeting in Wellington today to discuss our current climate change research agenda, assess what is being prioritised and examine how biophysical and social sciences can be better integrated.

[Go Green Toolshed] Go Green Toolshed » Blog Archive » World's top scientists to ...: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asserted “there were a very small number of errors” in the 3000 pages of the beleaguered UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's last major synthesis of climate data in 2007. But those errors, which include projections of retreats in Himalayan glaciers, have put public confidence in the panel's work at risk, and have been seized on by climate sceptics opposed to the UN-led efforts to conclude a legal international agreement on .

[FarmPolicy.com] FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » FAPRI Baseline; Biofuels ...: “Goule said that if the Doha round of world trade talks are ever completed, crop insurance is likely to be an even more important part of the farm safety net because the Doha round agreement would likely require a reduction in U.S. target prices that trigger payments when prices are low.”

[Energy Analysis RSS | BNET Industries] The Climate-Change Debate -- Coming to a Shareholder Meeting Near ...: Gamble (PG), Sara Lee (SLE) and Best Buy (BBY) also filed climate-related resolutions. Exxon’s investors were especially motivated and filed six different resolutions that covered the risk of oil sands, adoption of climate-change principles, goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from operations and the risk of lower fossil fuel demands.

[Alternative Media Group] Poster beach for climate change « Alternative Media Group: Next morning, The Australian printed a front page story with a photograph of a senior Bondi resident who was quoted saying: “Now and again, you get king tides around Christmas time, but it’s just the ebbs and flows, I think.” Another longtime swimmer was quoted saying he had noticed no change to the beach over several decades.

[Go Green Toolshed] Go Green Toolshed » Blog Archive » Climate change - Health Issues ...: Human health is very sensitive to these changes. Since global warming has the potential to damage the food supply,Agrarian societies in underdeveloped countries are at an increased risk of malnutrition.

[Tomyamaguchi's Weblog] A different take on climate change « Tomyamaguchi's Weblog: The question according to Craven is not whether global climate will happen or not, but what is the best course of action, given that we are not certain if it will happen or not. He explains it thoroughly in both the book and videos so I won’t detail that here.

[Dot Earth] Science Academies to Assess Climate Assessors - Dot Earth Blog ...: Christopher Field, Ph.D., Co-chair of IPCC Working Group II, said: “We expect the recommendations from the IAC’s review to inform how the IPCC prepares its fifth major assessment of global climate change, due to be published in 2013-2014. Meanwhile, the conclusions from the IPCC’s 2007 report remain entirely valid: The climate is changing due to human activity, and the effects are already being felt around the globe.

[Ladies Golf Accessories| |] Evelyn Leopold: UN Reviews Climate Report ”” But Will It Appease ...: Led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales at the negotiations in Copenhagen, the newly-named Alba or Bolivarian countries are challenging capitalism and promoting a redistribution of wealth as a solution to climate change. In addition to Venezuela, they include Cuba, Bolivia, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Antigua and Barbuda, and St Vincent and the Grenadines.

[ScienceBlogs Channel : Politics] Transcript of AU Forum "The Climate Change Generation: Youth ...: So, at issue here in terms of if younger Americans are going to be more engaged, more politically active on climate change, participating in collective decisions there has to be some type of translation in terms of personal significance and relevance and then there has to be some type of channel or path way for young Americans to participate politically. Not just in the market place but directly politically in terms of their voices being heard among elected members nationally and locally and in doing so you have to communicate that their voice will make a difference, they have to have a sense of efficacy, you need a sense of efficacy in that if you do participate it will make a difference and I think that one of things that's happening is that there's so much ideological crossfire and ranker politically in terms of the blogosphere from the left and the right and in the overall political debate, a lot of people tune that out, they have a sense of kind of political despair and hopelessness about rather anything will be done politically generally and especially on an issue like climate change and we need to get beyond that ideological crossfire both on the left and the right because its coming from both sources

[Complete Energy - Commercial, Domestic, Public Sustainable Energy Assessments Expert Consultation] Health to be at the centre of the fight against climate change ...: The UK is committed to tackling the effects of climate change. The health impacts of climate change, both in the UK and around the world, are an increasingly important justification for ambitious and urgent global action on climate change.

[United Nations Jobs - Jobs at the UN] United Nations review of how world assesses risk of climate change ...: The head of the United Nations (UN) has announced a review of how the world examines the risk of global warming following a series of scandals around the …

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[Obama Snafu] California Regulators: Climate Change a Bigger Threat than Felons ...: What is certain in the debate over this mandate is that CARB’s action has a lot of people hot under the collar: While the glaze ostensibly prevents excess solar heat from entering cars, critics say it also seriously degrades the signal sent by a whole host of electronic devices, including GPS navigation systems, cellular phones and””perhaps most critically”” ankle monitoring bracelets worn by felons, which utilize GPS technology. On that point, which regulators and legislators have to-date not acknowledged, law enforcement groups and victim rights advocates have been expressing “grave concerns”

[Timberati] Governor Schwarzenegger, AB 32, and Global Warming: Code Redd ...: He told a crowd of dignitaries that due to ongoing climate change, “We have to adapt the way we work and plan make sure the state is prepared when heavy rains cause flooding and the potential for sea level rise increases in future years.” I am skeptical of lowering carbon is the best way .So, in 2007, Carb embraced the California Climate Action Registry protocols for determining the climate benefits of forest carbon sequestration as part of a Cap-and-Trade system.

[Autoblog] Report: California to amend 'Cool Cars' legislation over ...: Well I'd sure love to wish away man-made climate change as if it were a monster under the bed, but it's still there, right on our children's backs. All the "debunkers" have done is drag up less than a handful of minor errors, equate them with "faking", and conflate the lot into a "conspiracy".

[Calitics - Front Page] Calitics:: LAO's Flawed Look At Jobs and AB 32: LAO fails to cite research to support their assertions

[Green Inc.] California to Regulate 'Most Potent' Greenhouse Gas - Green Inc ...: The gas sulfur hexafluoride is commonly used in high-voltage transmission equipment. Starting in 2011, California will regulate emissions from electric .

[Aprilbaby's California Life] Aprilbaby's California Life: Tie Me Up in Climate Chains!: But if the federal stalemate over climate-change legislation continues and California goes it alone, refineries in the state would be at a disadvantage, said Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president of the Western States Petroleum Association, an oil industry lobbying group.

[Climate Crossroads Blog] Crossroads's Blog | Auto Dealers - Nada!: An alternative definition for NADA is National Automobile Dealers Association and nada (the Spanish definition here) is what they want to have happen when it comes to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) action on climate change. California and the nation have a reason to celebrate.

[Union of Concerned Scientists] California Moves to Finalize Cap-and-Trade Program | Union of ...: Draft rules for a cap-and-trade system released this week by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) would keep California at the forefront in addressing climate change, but the proposed rules include some troublesome loopholes that the agency should close before finalizing them, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

[Mises Economics Blog] Say No to the Hideous Light Bulbs ”” Mises Economics Blog: I’ve partnered with the governors of Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona to create the Western Regional Climate Action Initiative, a joint strategy to combat global climate change. Like AB 32, the agreement establishes a regional cap and reduction program for GHG emissions, as well as a framework for developing a similar national program.

[Climate Change and Clean Technology Blog] A Brief Overview of the Recent Amendments to CEQA Guidelines ...: Reductions in emissions not otherwise required may constitute mitigation pursuant to the CEQA Guidelines. Such mitigation measures may include: (1) mitigation measures in an adopted plan, (2) reductions resulting from project implementation including measures identified in Appendix F, (3) off-site measures including carbon offsets, community energy conservation projects, and forestry projects, (4) greenhouse gas sequestration, and (5) development of measures that can be implemented at the project level. 

[KQED's Climate Watch Blog] On the Road to a National GHG Auto Standard | KQED's Climate Watch: The new regulation adopted Thursday contains what CARB spokesman Stanley Young called "largely technical fixes," including a change that will allow cars that meet the federal standard in the years 2012 to 2016 to be counted as compliant with the stricter California standard.  (The federal standard goes into effect in 2012.  It differs from the California standard until the two reach the same levels in 2016.)

[Riffenberg's Blog] Muslims Slaughter Christians With Machetes « Riffenberg's Blog: The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is known for its relentless pursuit of initiatives to combat pollution and emissions it deems harmful, including carbon dioxide. However, one of its efforts designed to counter climate change has the agency attracting incoming fire, with critics charging that CARB is more concerned about the prospect of global [...]

[FarmPolicy.com] FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » Climate Issues; EPA Pesticide ...: Ian Talley and Stephen Power reported in today’s Wall Street Journal that, “The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday the agency would delay subjecting large greenhouse-gas emitters such as power plants and crude-oil refiners to new regulations until 2011, and would raise the threshold for using the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.

[The AirZone Blog] CARB Asks EPA to Reconsider Denial of Waver on GHG Emissions - The ...: The letter points out that the decision by the previous EPA administrator improperly evaluated California’s need for greenhouse gas standards in complete isolation, without also considering the context of California’s complete motor vehicle emission control program. This created a new set of hurdles and test that no other waiver request had triggered.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Low-fat or low-carb? Gene test claims to show which diet works ...: University announces new review of climate scienceLONDON ”” The University of East Anglia says it will conduct a new review of the science published by its scandal-hit Climate Research Unit. The university says the presitigious Royal Society science academy will help find independent scientists to run the new inquiry.

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[Greenpeace - Making Waves] Greenpeace - Making Waves: March 10: Opposition in EU to GE-potato ...: March 10: Opposition in EU to GE-potato; China, India ratify Copenhagen Accord. Posted by Melissa Wilson at 11:05 AM. Swiss-anti-GE.jpg. Greenpeace has called for a renewed moratorium ("GE-Free!") in Switzerland on GE crops. ...

[Climate Progress] Energy and Global Warming News for March 4: The new face of ...: Some scientists and environmental groups fear that the marker gene used in Amflora potatoes, which is important for resistance to several infectious diseases, could be taken up by bacteria, increasing their virulence. A review last year by the European Food Safety Authority said such a risk is remote and confirmed the potato as safe to cultivate, though two EFSA members dissented on the decision.

[Didy's Blog] Didy's Blog: Greenpeace - Making Waves: March 10: Opposition in EU to GE-potato; China, India ratify Copenhagen Accord http://dlvr.it/92X2 26 minutes ago; ✉ TMCPoldaMetro: 17:23 Cilandak arah ke Jagakarsa (ruas arteri TB Simatupang) padat merayap, ...

[Say NO to GE Food] GEAC fails the nation, takes the side of Seed Companies on Bt ...: In a survey of pesticide residues in vegetable crops taken at the farm gate and markets from 1999 to 2003 confirmed that of the 3,043 samples, two-thirds were found to have pesticide residues, but these were within accepted tolerances, whereas 9% contained residues above the minimum recommended levels. The increasing amount of insecticide residues in vegetables and fruits has been a major concern to consumers who currently have no choice except to buy brinjals with high insecticide residues, but despite the application of many insecticides the brinjal fruits sold in the market are still of inferior quality, infested with larvae of FSB.

[Jason's blog] An FDA-Created Health Crisis Circles the Globe: the Commission normally keeps this uncertainty concealed from the public whilst presenting its decisions about the safety of GM crops and foods as being certain and scientifically based.” Further, in private “they frequently criticize the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and its assessments of the safety of GM foods and crops, even though the Commission relies on these evaluations to make recommendations to member states. [and] to justify its decisions to approve new GM foods.”[19] For example, the Commission privately condemned the submission information for one crop as “mixed, scarce, delivered consecutively all over years, and not convincing.” They said there is “No sufficient experimental evidence to assess the safety.”[20]

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[Energy & Climate News] World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): Greenpeace was originally set up by a handful of radical Vancouver-based ecologists in an effort to stop arms testing off the coast of Alaska. Nearly four decades later, the organisation boasts about 2.8 million supporters worldwide and operates offices in 41 countries.

[Braiden Harvey] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28: ... we”¦ http://bit.ly/9iXypi #; Brazilain Footballer Ronaldo to Retire at the End of 2011: The 33-year-old striker extended his contract with Cori”¦ http://bit.ly/bVbzAq #; Does Facebook deserve the hell it's getting from Greenpeace? ...

[The GREEN Blog] The GREEN Blog » Blog Archive » Green the scenesters: non ...: The Danger Global Warming Project is an independent multimedia initiative aimed at raising awareness around climate change issues through the medium of art and digital media.  Artists from all over the world were asked to incorporate Greenpeace’s black and yellow warning tape motif into artworks of any forms. As a result, multimedia pieces of art (video, image, installation…) were submitted from all over the world.

[VF Daily] Bill Bradley: Join Facebook and Save My Job! | VF Daily | Vanity Fair: Common sense suggests that the surest way to accumulate 10,000 fans is to transform oneself into a class-A stalker, so that’s what I intend to do. People who consider themselves morally, philosophically, and/or aesthetically opposed to Facebook will join because of me, probably out of pity.

[This Magazine // Canadian progressive politics, environment, art, culture // Subscribe today] Don't fight the power : This Magazine // Canadian progressive ...: To Greenpeace’s credit, it is true that a small number of studies, mainly from Britain and Germany, have found small increases in the rate of childhood leukemia and thyroid cancer among people who live near nuclear power plants. But it is also true that many more studies have found no effects, and some have actually found lower rates of cancer near nuclear power plants.

[Prairie Farm and Ranch] China Invests in Tarsands: The deal was reached in August last year, and was brokered between PetroChina and the privately-held oil and gas company, Athabasca Oild Sands. It was seen as a test of the Harper government’s tolerance for Chinese investment into Canada’s strategic assets, but now that the deal is completed, it seems that the likelihood of similar, future deals is high.

[Whatanews4u.Sports] BBC - Andrew Neil's blog: Growing disillusionment with politics?: And on last night's Newsnight, Lord Adonis was equally shifty about a report on plans for a high speed rail link. Nothing is to be revealed until he publishes his white paper in March, yet he tried to to give the pious impression of looking for consesus on the subject.

[Kikipotamus the Hobo] Post - Avatar Depression Support «: For one, the simple black hat/white hat story was very well executed, and secondly, with all that moving eye candy coming at me a mile a minute, I didn’t have any brain cells left for double crosses or complex plot twists. I’m glad Cameron let the visuals carry the day while the plot took a backseat.

[Change.org's Animal Rights Blog] Ready to Attack Animal Rights Activists? Consider This First ...: For fear of causing terror to living beings let the bodhisattva, who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh...It is not true that meat is proper food and permissible when the animal was not killed by himself, when he did not order others to kill it, when it was not specifically meant for him...Again, there may be some people in the future who...being under the influence of the taste for meat will string together in various ways many sophisticated arguments to defend meat-eating...But...meat-eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited...Meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit..."

[Andrew Bolt] Column - The 10 worst warming predictions | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt ...: Also makes me wonder what was taught in those early science classes when the scientific method and principles surrounding it were introduced (I missed the Australian version of those as I was living overseas at that point). I have been screamed down more than once by others who credit the IPCC but have read less of the reports than I have (and therefore don’t have a foot to stand on) and do not have a “logical”

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[Eco Periodicals] US offers US$100m for research on renewable power storage: ARPA-E will develop energy efficient cooling technologies and air conditioners for buildings to save energy and reduce GHG emissions and funding will go to research on cooling systems that use refrigerants with low global warming potential and energy-efficient air conditioning systems for warm and humid climates. The development of these technologies will reduce GHG emissions and significantly increase US technological lead in emerging clean energy industries.

[Mochi Blog] Mochi Blog | Steven Chu, “Green” Superhero: Listen to this: in 1997, a certain scientist wrote about his feeling of inadequacy in his first years of college. a global-warming Paul Revere who's also a green-tech Albert Einstein has signaled Obama's desire to put the E back in DOE, to have a first-tier brain reinvent a second-tier agency, to keep his Inaugural Address pledge to “restore science to its rightful place.

[Solar Gadgets Info Everything You Want to know about Solar Products] Green Energy Articles: On March 26,2009 Vice President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced plans to invest $3.2 billion in energy efficient improvements and conservation projects in U.S. cities, counties, states, territories, and Native American tribes. The 2009 Green Inaugural Ball took place in the Donald W.

[Change.org's Stop Global Warming Blog] Obama's Call to Action on Energy, Global Warming | Environment ...: Obama is for energy proposals when over 300 PRIVATE jets flew into Reagan international for the inauguration. an unheard of amount of inefficient carbon foot-prints when they want US to stop using the safer SUVs and ride on our bicycles to work.

[InsWeb's Insurance Blog | Auto, Home, Life, Health, and more] InsWeb's Insurance Blog | Auto, Home, Life, Health, and more: Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change - former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (1993-2001) who will act as a White House-level advisor to coordinate energy-related federal agencies. This is a new role created by the incoming Obama administration.

[Yale Environment 360] As Europe Fiddles, U.S. May Take Lead on Climate Change by Fred ...: If Obama goes for a smart super-grid, you can almost guarantee that Merkel and her fellow Europeans will suddenly get more enthusiastic about a super-grid scheme quietly being promoted there to hook up to solar energy from the Sahara desert. A grander version would also tap geothermal energy from Iceland, hydropower from Scandinavia, and wind power from the North Sea.

[People - Latest] Mark Ginsberg on Zero Energy Communities through Clean Energy ...: Mark described how the head of MIT had told President Obama when he was visiting the institution about its research projects: microdots on windows to harness solar power (a nano capability), advanced battery and storage and non-food biofuel generation. Wind turbines, said Mark, are improving with lightweight materials harnessing greater wind from lower speeds, and he is hopeful: 20% of energy sources would come from wind, he opined, up from few percentages now.

[Greenhoof] Greenhoof » Blog Archive » Energy Secretary Chu Fields Questions ...: U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, fresh from the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, was the final and perhaps most anticipated speaker at last week’s ECO:nomics conference. Throughout the conference, regulatory uncertainty had been the greatest complaint of energy execs and venture capitalists alike.

[Switchboard, from NRDC ”º Frances Beinecke's Blog] Switchboard, from NRDC :: Frances Beinecke's Blog :: Now Let's Get ...: Like JFK, he selected “the best and brightest.” Many of Obama’s Cabinet selections are leading academic scholars and veteran policy-makers from the Clinton Administration. Echoing famed Depression-era economist Keynes, Obama’s economic team has wisely advised him to create at least 3.5 million jobs to “prime the pump.” This is the largest American jobs creation plan since FDR’s New Deal put Americans back to work in the Thirties.

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Obama's Science Team ...: Among those who will be surrounding him are a physicist who has won a Nobel Prize (Steven Chu), a physicist and top expert on global warming who will be his top science adviser in the White House (John Holdren), a chemical engineer who has won acclaim for as an environmental leader in New Jersey (Lisa Jackson), a marine biologist is a leading expert on the impact of global warming on the oceans (Jane Lubchenco),. a polymath who heads up one of the most important genome projects in the country (Eric Lander), and a biologist who won a Nobel prize in medicine (Varmus).

[Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] John Holdren to be Obama's Science Advisor - Hit & Run : Reason ...: Economists, in contrast, tend to receive little or no trainingin the physical and natural sciences (Colander and Klamer 1987).Few explore the natural world on their own, and few appreciate theextreme sensitivity of organisms -- including those upon whichhumanity depends for food, materials, pharmaceuticals, and freeecosystem services -- to seemingly small changes in environmentalconditions. Most treat economic systems as though they werecompletely disconnected from the planet's basic life supportsystems.

[CNET News.com | Tech news blog - Category: Science] Vegas adds Ford hydrogen buses to fleet | News Blog - CNET News: Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our world rotating. A journalist who divides her time between the United States and the United Kingdom, Lombardi has written about technology for the sites of The New York Times, CNET, USA Today, MSN, ZDNet, Silicon.com, and GameSpot.

[ArtsBeat] Venice Biennale: Flashing Lights - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com: Chu also has a piece up, or maybe down, at the New Museum’s inaugural triennial in New York right now: he has hired women to sleep, one at a time and with the aid of medication, on a bed in the center of a gallery for the run of the show.)

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[Signs of the Times] The GMO Tipping Point -- Signs of the Times News: A December 2009 issue of Supermarket News, for example, predicted: "The coming year promises to bring about a greater, more pervasive awareness" of the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food supply. This trade publication, which is used by food executives as a source of industry news and trends, attributed the coming uprising in part to the Campaign's new Non-GMO Shopping Guide [2].

[Free Canuckistan!] Steynian 383: Manhattan District Attorney, the legendary Robert Morgenthau recently spoke of the Iranian-Venezuelan collaboration in very stark terms: ”˜[Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez have created a cozy financial, political and military partnership rooted in a shared anti-American animus.’”

[SamSederShow.com - unbought, unbossed] Pill Popper | SamSederShow.com: House Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) has a number of issues with President Obama. But chief among them seems to be that, though they've stayed silent on a whole host of health care issues, they've thrown their weight behind a controversial tax in the Senate bill--one that Grijalva says violates Obama's solemn campaign pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Live from DNC: Malkin in Jeopardy: Jones supports Minutemen because the reason that there is a Minutemen project is because prominent leaders of Hispanic organizations have publicly stated over and over again that the entire Southwest still belongs to Mexico and that they are in the process of “reconquista,” or re-conquering the Southwest. And the fact that the radical Neo-Nazi liberation theology known as La Raza, which calls for the extermination of all races in America besides Latinos, is being bankrolled by some of the biggest Globalists in the U.S.

[News] Copenhagen: the sweet sound of exploding watermelons - Telegraph Blogs: Even if the data is modified, it cannot hide the trend …..but CO2 inreased yet again even more…and no increases in GAT again as in the previous cooling period…..what excuse now? Shall we try masking by natural influences….that’s a good one but rather self-defeating for AGW as climate is a complex linked system with multiple variables…most natural.

[Crooks and Liars] Monsanto and HR 875, Take Two | Crooks and Liars: As a Monsanto person, I am think I will avoid addressing anything to do with population control for fear os starting an even more serious internet rumor/myth. I am curious about you thoughts on what we do with all the hungry people we have now.

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Announcing: Movie-Plot Threat Contest: blows them to "bits" - this of course occurs in the dead of winter - the entire United States falls into anarchy - lawlessness abounds - people return to their native instincts and employ "survival of the fittest mentality" - many small violent "armies" evolve looking to conquer the other - without the US as "the world's guardian" violence becomes the order of the day for many countries - no one can be trusted - kill or be killed -World War 4 breaks out - what makes this war special is that all sides battle each other - everyone is everyone elses enemy - finally, as battle after battle rages on, the earth becomes a wasteland - and civilization starts with a new world order...

[Watts Up With That?] Video: Dr. Phil Jones Climategate testimony at the British House ...: Prof Phil Jones, head of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, is accused of withholding raw data behind his research on global warming.  In emails stolen from the university he asks one climate change sceptic: “Why should I give information to you when all you want to do is find something wrong with it?” In a grilling by MPs, Prof Jones admitted he had withheld data and sent some “pretty awful”

[the Masalai blog] Carbon Trading Under More Scrutiny « the Masalai blog: ..”it was unanimously resolved that the said letter of 30th October 2008 is invalid and each act of the directors in signing the said letter is unlawful as tehre was no valid resolution passed at a Board Metting of the Company authorising the said letter or granting any appointment of Nupan (PNG) Trading Corporation and Kirk William Roberts to develop and commercialise Kamula Doso for carbon trade, and authorizing the grant of any Power of Attorney to these entities and person and accordingly the said letter is revoked forthwith and if there exist any legal or other documentation emanating from such invalid letter and unlawful acts of the Directors such as a Letter of Appointment or Power of Attorney then such legal and other documents are revoked forthwith”.

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[Global Voices Online] Global Voices Online » Kenya: The iHub launched in Nairobi: Ihub creates a platform for Kenyan software and web developers as well other techies to meet and collaborate to bring out various innovations. The facility is equipped with a host of resources including fast internet provided by KDN and Zuku.

[World Zoo Today] Cheetah Fact Sheet | World Zoo Today: Despite the capturing, rearing, and public display of cheetahs for thousands of years, the next reproductive success, after Akbar the Great son’s recorded birth of one litter in the 16th century, occurred only in 1956 at the Philadelphia Zoo. Unlike the other ‘big cats’, which breed readily in captivity, the captive population of cheetahs is not self-sustaining and, thus, is maintained through the import of wild-caught animals, a practice which goes against the goals of today’s’

[IISD Linkages] CHEMICALS EXCOPS HIGHLIGHTS, Wednesday, 24 February 2010, Bali ...: INDIA and KENYA said governance issues still needed to be addressed, and SENEGAL emphasized that this should be done at the third intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting, rather than at the GCSS/GMEF. BRAZIL pointed at the need for IPBES to include capacity building, and CHINA said it should not increase the burden of developing countries.

[nvs' Blog] It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs « nvs' Blog: The new study, conducted by scientists from Europe, the United States, Mexico, Canada and Japan and published in the journal Science, found that a 15 kilometre (9 miles) wide asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub in what is now Mexico was the culprit. "We now have great confidence that an asteroid was the cause of the KT extinction.

[IISD Linkages] SUMMARY OF THE SIMULTANEOUS EXTRAORDINARY COPS TO THE BASEL ...: The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) sets out a framework for action to implement the commitments originally agreed at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. The JPOI, among other things, emphasized that the international community should fully implement the outcomes of UNEP decision SS.VII/1 on IEG.

[Archie's Fishing Blog] Fishing Round Valley Reservoir | Archie's Fishing Blog: Wind power is growing at the rate of 30 percent annually, with a worldwide installed capacity of over 100 GW, and is widely used in several European countries and the United States. The manufacturing output of the photovoltaics industry reached more than 2,000 MW in 2006, and photovoltaic (PV) power stations are particularly popular in Germany.

[Good-Natured Landscapes Client Blog] 2010: The International Year of Biodiversity: This blog is used to share information that may be helpful to clients & friends of Good-Natured Landscapes LLC. This blog is used to share information that may be helpful to clients & friends of Good-Natured Landscapes LLC .

[WcP Blog - World Culture Pictorial] 2010 International Year of Biodiversity. Ongoing extinction at ...: For example, experts believe that 19% of coral reefs have been lost since 1950 and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment tells us that in South east Asia 80% of corals that are under medium to high threat, and these reefs are also the richest in biodiversity. We must work together to do all that we can to prevent further damage, particularly as many ecosystems are also being irreversibly changed by climate change.

[StoragePoint Team Blog] SharePoint 2010 BLOB Storage Myths: In the end, this is not some web part or report or other component that doesn't bring your entire farm down if it breaks...if this thing breaks your entire SharePoint farm will be impacted in a very big way. Look at it this way, every byte of every document that is uploaded into or retrieved from SharePoint will flow thru your provider. 

[FlexiJourney Blog] 100 Natural Wonders Of The World - FlexiJourney Blog: El Tatio is a geyser field located within the Andes Mountains of northern Chile at 4200 meters above mean sea level. Contrary to some reports, it is not the highest-elevation geyser field in the world.

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[jkOnTheRun] Apple vs. HTC: It's About Chrome - jkOnTheRun: The second one would be that, as of yet, it is unknown whether chrome os will be built from the ground up to support touch (I believe strongly that one of the main reasons why microsoft’s tablets have generally failed to capture a large portion of the market is because you can’t simply slap touch on a desktop os.) and finally i believe apple will be using all of their marketing muscle when the iPad is released.Aside from all of that I would love to see android and chrome merged to run a full desktop os.

[Corado Blog] The incredible story of Scott Kveton: Linux, Firefox, Bacon ...: Then he spent a year on the sale of bacon over the Internet, up mirrors bacn.com to an acquirer, and signing a deal, a book about light is agile Start UPS. Kveton a dynamic, intelligent, qualified and manipulated people, .

[TheAppleBlog] The iPad Could Mean Big Trouble for AT&T's Network, FCC Warns: The congestion problem circa 1996-97 revealed an intense latent demand for Internet access.  Similarly, wireless network congestion today reveals intense demand for wireless broadband.  Widespread use of smartphones, 3G-enabled netbooks, and now, perhaps, the iPad and its competitors demonstrate that wireless broadband will be a hugely important part of the broadband ecosystem as we move ahead.

[Silicon Prairie News - Omaha] Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem: what does success look like ...: However, in that same year (a relatively down one in Utah over the last decade), Utah had 22 deals compared to Omaha’s three. What is amazing about Utah’s situation is its ability to transform from receiving an inconsistent amount of deals and money in the early and mid-1990s (as our regional states still struggle) from 5-15 annually to around 30-35 over the last five years.

[HarmonizerPro Blog] Renewable Energy | HarmonizerPro Blog: The Earth-Atmosphere system is in equilibrium such that heat radiation into space is equal to incoming solar radiation, the resulting level of energy within the Earth-Atmosphere system can roughly be described as the Earth’s “climate.” The hydrosphere (water) absorbs a major fraction of the incoming radiation.

[Insurance Ecosystem] Build a Web Presence Worthy of 2010 | Insurance Ecosystem: Our company, as well as others, offers a real-time online quoting banner agents can place on their site. Some comparative rating vendors offer tools you can put on your site to enable consumers to get online multiple quotes that then feed into your agency rater.

[Software Testing Blog] This is NOT the Facebook Login | Software Testing Blog: It turns out a lot of people don’t use the URL bar in the web browsers.  Instead, they set their homepage to Google and search for whatever they want to find.  For example, they type “facebook login” to visit Facebook and click on the first thing that appears –

[Andrew Bolt] Institute of Physics damns the Climategaters' “science” | Herald ...: The CRU e-mails as published on the internet provide prima facie evidence of determined and co-ordinated refusals to comply with honourable scientific traditions and freedom of information law. The principle that scientists should be willing to expose their ideas and results to independent testing and replication by others, which requires the open exchange of data, procedures and materials, is vital…

[CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com] Interview: A High-Tech Entrepreneur On the Front Lines of Solar ...: Gross: Well, I want eSolar to be a dominant form of solar energy, and my feeling of more immediate success is we want to get this next group of plants built and have hundreds of megawatts in the ground in 2010 and 2011 to show the world that this technology can work really at scale. We’ve shown people that we can make our demonstration facility work and it produces commercial power for Southern California Edison.

[mar1o] mar1o » Blog Archive » What are the best selling items on eBay?: Unless you can guarantee 100% co-op or internship placement for every computing student on Earth (and let’s be honest, we’ll never get even close to that number), there will always be aspirant student developers who have no chance at all to see a commercial codebase, or to engage in Legitimate Peripheral Participation.

[Walter Russell Mead's Blog] How Al Gore Wrecked Planet Earth - Walter Russell Mead's Blog ...: who shouted down anybody with doubts about this disastrous course?  Why haven’t they resigned yet?  When will they?  Whose brainchild was the brilliant idea that the IPCC didn’t need a full time chair?  What hare-brained funders failed to provide Phil Jones and the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia with enough clerical help to comply with the freedom of information act?  And why was there no one available to counsel Jones when, apparently, he realized that some of the requests couldn’t be satisfied because key data was lost?  How did the climate of carelessness at the IPCC develop — and why were warning voices from inside the movement ignored in the rush to get all the alarming but unverified predictions into print?

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[Greenhoof] Greenhoof » Blog Archive » Cannibalizing Environmentalism ...: So Stainsby, whose lifetime success in protecting the environment is a well-kept secret, is welcomed to savage Tzeporah Berman, who when she wasn’t getting arrested for organizing blockades or everything from logging operations to coal-fird power plants, has “worked behind closed doors without permission from other environmental groups.” (Free speech is such a nuisance in other people’s mouths.) Stainsby is further allowed to imagine a national campaign of outrage against Berman’s appointment –

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news] A Push to Save Greenpeace | Mostly Water: "Greenpeace's original approach was confronting corporations and governments at the scenes of their crimes," said savegreenpeace.org co-creator Macdonald Stainsby. "That approach has softened lately, but if they hire Tzeporah Berman, they'll be on the fast track to corporate collaboration, beyond the point of no return," he said.

[Canadians for Climate Change Action] Is There Such a Thing as Safe Sex when Sleeping With the Enemy ...: When Sea Shepherd crew visited the Greenpeace ships Esperanza and Arctic Sunrise in Cape Town in February 2006, they could not help but notice that on the eve of a major campaign on overfishing along the African coast, the Greenpeace crew were sitting down to dinner before platters of baked fish. When one of the Sea Shepherd crew questioned the contradictions and said that Sea Shepherd ships served only vegan meals, the cook on the Esperanza said, “That’s just silly.” Greenpeace has a reputation built on the hard work and ideas of people like Paul Watson, Robert Hunter, Bobbi Hunter, Al Johnson, Dr.

[Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal - International Journal of Socialist Renewal] Mauritian socialists' open letter to Greenpeace -- `Don't help ...: When SeaShepherd crew visited the Greenpeace ships Esperanza and Arctic Sunrise in CapeTown in February 2006, they could not help but notice that on the eve of amajor campaign on overfishing along the African coast, the Greenpeace crew weresitting down to dinner before platters of baked fish. When one of the SeaShepherd crew questioned the contradictions and said that Sea Shepherd shipsserved only vegan meals, the cook on the Esperanza said, "That's just silly.”Greenpeace has a reputation built on the hard work and ideas of people likePaul Watson, Robert Hunter, Bobbi Hunter, Al Johnson, Dr.

[ZeroCarbonCanada.ca] ZeroCarbonCanada.ca » Blog Archive » Backlash Against the Green ...: Ken,  First of all there is no connection btw turbines in Toba or Bute and drinking water.  You are right we face increasing global conflicts over drinking water (see the work of Thomas Homer-Dixon on environmental collapse and increased conflict) however, BC’s energy plan doesn’t give away drinking water rights.  or water rights ”˜forever’.  I think we need to take a page from Monbiot here and ensure more rigour in the analysis. thats part of why I am engaging in this debate because there is so much misinformation out there about the tenures/leases to IPP’s.  IPP’s get a tenure for a specific period to create a project on a river  (not unlike logging tenures on public land that no one calls ”˜privitization of forests’ by the way).  In addition the IPP’s have a requirement that they maintain the water flow.  The technology doesn’t allow for containment dams.

[TheTyee.ca] The Tyee ”” BC's Eco-Activist 'Rock Star': The spin is nauseating,only 380,000 Hectares of new land has been or will be protected and most of it is less threatened,less biologically important and less valuable to the timber industry the other 1.8 million hectares is park land that has been protected for years.Logging will not be reduced ,millions of hectares of rare ancient Inland Rainforest with dozens of endangered species will be lost forever.Bad deal

[OLYecology weblog] 184 - Earth's Trees: --UK: 25) Logging makes a new view of Sussex Lunatic Asylum, 26) Cutting with no permit, 27) Save historic Elms, 28) Scottish forest industry,

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[Greenhoof] Greenhoof » Blog Archive » Cannibalizing Environmentalism ...: But in a stumbling favour to the fossil fuel supporters against whom we should all be aiming our energies, Stainsby has leaped over the interesting policy discussion, straight into vitriolic personal attack and purple flourish (“Save Greenpeace!?”): it makes better radio.

[Avoid-Global-Warming.com] Canabalizing Environmentalism: Tzeporah Berman under attack ...: berman campbell.jpg There’s nothing mainstream media loves more than the spectacle of environmentalists ripping one another limb from limb. Witness, for example, the CBC Vancouver Early Edition interview this morning ( starting at 1:23:21 ) in which a little-known activist ( Macdonald Stainsby ) was invited to slag Tzeporah Berman , co-founder of Forest Ethics, founder of PowerUp Canada and, soon, the chief climate campaigner for Greenpeace International.

[Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America] Greenpeace International hires torchbearer Tzeporah Berman as ...: Greenpeace Greenwash Greenpeace International hires torchbearer Tzeporah Berman as chief climate campaigner. by Macdonald Stainsby →2010 Olympics.

[TheTyee.ca] The Tyee ”” 'Hangover Budget' Pleases Few: Or at least we ought to be - personal responsibility IS important but so is recognizing that we all bring unique gifts, problems and histories to the table. And we all share the same humanity - not just the kids in Africa and Haiti.

[The Dominion: All Stories] A Place at the Table? | The Dominion: In 2000, The Rainforest Solutions Project (RSP)-comprised of Greenpeace, Sierra Club BC, Rainforest Action Network and, for the first time as a separate entity, ForestEthics-declared an end to blockades and began closed-door negotiations with the BC Government and logging companies. With the sudden about-face of Greenpeace and other large groups, and the attendant drop in funding, the blockades ended.

[TheTyee.ca] The Tyee ”” Furious Rebuke to Suzuki, Berman: With his Greenie sponsored reelection Gordo will get to spend the next four years damning up rivers all over the province for his pirate power projects wasting tens of billions in taxpayer revenues and wrecking hundreds of pristine rivers, building fish farms in every inlet that can support them thereby destroying countless salmon runs, drilling for oil off the coast and leaving more kids starving than in any other province in Canada. For the greenie who likes the party's legalize marijauna stance, one thing for sure Gordo will be throwing all his support into Harper's tough new drug laws and do his best to throw ganga users in the slam.

[WOMBLES - News & information for anarchist direct action] Newswires: Olympics | WOMBLES: By Macdonald Stainsby - February 15, 2010 As the world turned their attention to the spectacle of the 2010 Olympics, Greenpeace International played another kind of game, appointing Tzeporah Berman as their new energy and climate .

[FarmPolicy.com] FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » Climate Change: Focus Turns to ...: “So company President Stephen Herbruck took notice when McDonald’s USA announced it would partner with animal welfare scientists, egg suppliers and universities in an expansive study of housing alternatives for egg-laying chickens — including cage-free housing.

[Mises Economics Blog] Penn and Teller Send Recycling to the Dump ”” Mises Economics Blog: Besides recycling they have taken on the environmental movement and what I found particularly interesting in this episode was the co founder of greenpeace stating that the whole environmental movement has been taken over by those who ....

[News Blog] The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: News Blog: It is necessary,I believe, to separate the various individuals from the decision making processes.The on board staff,would be internationally considered fine sea worthy people.The Bureaucracy involved may have decent people in its ranks,who see the problems about whale eating symptomatic of ecological destruction at home and elsewhere,that may not stop them from being decisive about not whaling.Distributors processors preparers and customers,may be considered decent people,accept if you are totally Whale eating,although that may stop people experiencing these people as that.So the problem is both a cultural problem,maybe, and ,an inability to meld with anti-whaling interests to keep the maximum jobs in place.That is, respect for peoples rights to an income,and Japan has become unsettled by employment insecurity for sometime now.I doubt large numbers of people would lose their jobs if whaling was stopped.Thus there needs to be some view about using the existing vessels and visiting Australia with them.So my approach would be to encourage alternative usage of shipping..like motorcycle tourism into Australia....whilst watching whales and deep sea view on the way to holiday destinations.Which may not mean Australia alone..and traffic of motorcyclists both ways.The Japanese have already invented a form of accomodation where people sleep in cubicles that are sound proof air conditioned and individually secure..but as yet not applied to shipping as far as I know.Encourage Japanese innovation in converting these ships to other usage seems rational reachable and ultimately good common sense.Showing the Japanese what they have already done is to show them ways to innovate.I think in the interim we must also respect our own needs,and that is whaling cannot go on,and accept that it maybe necessary to also cop general criticism from Japan on matters of animal welfare.Garrett is showing a lot of contradictions in his behaviour so far,re ocean or sea related matters..and as yet not measuring up .

[peta2 Daily Blog] Free Stuff Friday: peta2 Nugget Messenger Bags!: although the black is more casual, the red one stands out more in a crowd, which will catch a person's attention. So I would definitely go with the red one, because then people would ask me what it's about and I could show them the wonderful world of vegetarianism/veganism.

[Mobilization for Climate Justice] EYES WIDE SHUT - TckTckTck exposé from activist insider ...: I will assume Canada) for carbon emissions  until 2050 will be used up by 2019.  So why does CAN state that we need to peak within eight years and why did TckTckTck INSIST in the full page ad targeting the American audience to include the statement that  emissions must peak in in eight years if their own revised target is 2015?  Yes - it is astonishing.  If we had true climate justice, could such misinformation be considered criminally negligent?

[Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward] Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward: The Hottest Tickets for 2008: I've invited the leaders of Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network and Forest Ethics, and I believe all will be speaking. Are they part of the "corporate elite"?

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[The Enterprise Blog] Are Economics and Environmentalism Secular Religions?: I can’t comment on the details of Nelson’s thesis until I read the whole book, but I think he’s on to something. I would put the point this way: The perennial problem for both economic and environmental arguments is that they’re often framed, officially, in scientific terms, but almost all of their interest is moral.

[Reading Device Reviews] On liberty | Reading Device Reviews: Perhaps the most famous aspect of Mill's extended argument about liberty is his discussion of the "tyranny of the majority." His argument grows from the long history of religious persecution suffered throughout Europe that led to book bans, bigotry, and even torture and burning at the stake for people who did not conform to the majority superstition, namely the dominant form of Christianity wherever one lived. Mill lived in a time when even the staid and relatively moderate views of the English Church forced people to conform their lives or face public humiliation and financial ruin, and sometimes lynching.

[Peace Research Update from One World, Many Peaces] Peace Research Update for the Week of Febrary 22, 2010 (Peace ...: The SOS was associated with authoritarianism (Studies 1-4) and dogmatism (Study 4), as well as measures of religious fundamentalism, immigration attitudes, universalism, and environmentalism (Study 2). In Study 3, the SDS mediated the relation between just peacemaking and measures of (a) voting intentions prior to the 2008 Presidential election, (b) militarism, and (c) resistance to moral disengagement from war.

[uuworld.org: latest stories] uuworld.org : the religious left: The rise of Black Power gave the African American community a new religious and political depth, but few white allies responded with sufficient creativity to maintain earlier practices of interracial cooperation. (Indeed, one of the few groups to maintain its interracial radicalism into the 1970s, People’s Temple of San Francisco, was itself victimized by the sociopathic personality of its leader, Jim Jones.) The rising queer, feminist, and environmentalist movements so rattled some antiwar stalwarts, like the Rev.

[NewsReal Blog] NewsReal Sunday: Secular Spirituality | NewsReal Blog: And make no mistake, that is Hudgins’s implicit demand aired in his condemnation of what is implied by him to be the horror of “religious” violence and the perennial fruit on which the secular feed to justify their secularism.

[RELIGION] RELIGION Blog | The Dallas Morning News: Similarly, the entire discussion in the weeks leading finally to the Senate vote in Massachusetts as well as in the days since the election of a Republican senator has involved fears about the loss of a filibuster proof majority, or fears about the alleged cost of the congressional bills that passed each house, or fears that some undocumented immigrant might be treated at public expense in an emergency room, or fears that somebody who enjoys a fully-funded "cadillac" health insurance program might have to pay a few hundred dollars in taxes for the privilege of retaining it.

[newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire] Is Cultural Nostalgia Utterly Charming? | newmatilda.com: The banning of the burqa is so often mistakenly seen as a gesture of intolerence, it is in fact a reaffirmation of France’s cultural attitude towards liberty and equaliy which strictly believes men and women are equal, should be treated as equal and should be seen as equal by the broader society. The essay above is a somewhat reductionist assessment of the way in which Australians interact with French culture.

[Essay Writing Blog] Sample Essay: scholarly paper with the topic of Buddhism and ...: Early Buddhism did not develop a system of philosophy.  However, the attitude of Buddhism towards the world was pluralistic and realistic, and it did insist that things as constantly changing.  This constancy of change has long been established and accepted by science.  Later, the thought that things are impermanent and changing developed into the Buddhism doctrine that things are momentary, and this led to atomic ideas of space and time.  This was accompanied by speculation about the nature of cause and effect, the nature of the inner process of perception-the whole problem as to how man obtain knowledge of things-and the way in which karma works.  How can things that are merely momentary be linked together by cause and effect? - a question that usually starts many scientific investigations.

[Center for Research and Inter-Religious Dialogue] the promise of dialogue « Center for Research and Inter-Religious ...: An “ashram” is a monastic community in the Hindu tradition that maintains a rigorous religious environment so that guests can come and stay and imbibe of the prayer life of the community for a retreat lasting anywhere from a day to year. The Dominican Ashram in Michigan is home to a basic community of about four Dominicans who maintain a rigorous schedule of daily common prayer, common meditation and silence, praying not only with Christian texts, but with the great texts of other religions as well.

[Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Inc.] Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Inc. » Blog Archive » Front Table ...: Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

[Opinionator] For Democrats: Blood in the Water, or Just Fresh Blood ...: The point is that the debate over the number of retirements and over the Dem chances of holding the super-majority are two separate conversations. That said, when it comes to assessing just how bad the environment has become for Dems and whether Dems are “dropping like flies,” obviously the number of GOP retirements deserves to be part of the media discussion.

[christiannonduality.com Blog] christiannonduality.com Blog » Blog Archive » I've already got ...: A modernist fideism is a failed risk-elimination technique, attempting to immunize faith from critique by reducing it to mere expression. Only a constructive postmodern approach can successfully retrieve, revive and renew our sense of adventure, enchantment and risk-taking, inviting us anew to journey on a quest for a grail worthy of our ineradicable human aspirations for more, a LOT more!

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[RedState] CO2 - The Gift of Life! | treeguy's Diary:  In our bloodstreams, our bodies maintain a precious level of CO2 (measured as pCO2 or the partial pressure of CO2.) Our kidneys maintain the pH levels in our blood with CO2 in the form of bicarbonate (HCO3.) A small amount of CO2 is dissolved to form carbonic acid (H2CO3). The kidney utilizes these different forms of CO2 to carefully neutralize acids that result in the process of metabolism.

[The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.] $7-A-Gallon Gas Needed to Meet Government's CO2 Cuts | The Foundry ...: If this administration were SERIOUS about bringing this country back to prosperity, they would be bringing industry BACK to this country, enact tax cuts so businesses could hire and small business could thrive, produce our own gas and oil (instead of confiscating under the guise of “Monument” the very land we need for gas and oil), allow nationwide competition of health insurance, make tort reform really stick and a miriad of other common sense solutions.

[Religious Action Center :: RACBlog] Religious Action Center :: RACBlog: Preserve God's Creation... by ...: Unfortunately, our view of Catalina is often blurred by haze caused by the continuous release of pollutants, which occurs because of the burning of fossil fuels that also release greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere. I also enjoy fishing, but unfortunately, the increased temperatures in nearby waters have forced the fish I hope to catch to relocate.

[Socio-Economics History Blog] Bill Gates: Establishment Should Use Vaccines To Lower Population ...: After presenting an equation that included the number of people on the planet and CO2 emissions, Gates said, “Probably one of these numbers is going to get pretty near to zero.” Later in the presentation, Gates mentions picking a vaccine, “which is something I love,” that would be used to lower global CO2 emissions. He also advocates pouring more money into the global warming scam by way of the United Nations, as well as a “CO2 tax” and cap and trade, while making it clear that the developed world would have to reduce its living standards by cutting back on essential services that generate CO2.

[Justice and Peace] Carbon Fast for Lent / Justice and Peace: We have been on our “Carbon Fast” for a little more than a week.  It is a good time to reflect on your lifestyle and its impact on the earth and on future generations.  Think of care of the environment as a “pro-life” issue because what we do today affects not only the life and health of those who share earth with us but also  of those who follow us.  Ask God to help you during this Lenten time to focus on what you can do to restore your relationship with creation.

[Energy Bulletin -] The Infinite Energy Machine and the Myth of Green Energy | Energy ...: The proponents of such infinite-energy technology would advance a Google-ishous techno-democratic fantasy world that would go something like this: The saturation of global electronic communication for most of the world’s population would allow true participatory democracy to become a reality.

[Straightline] Ferrari 599 Hybrid Leaked Ahead of Geneva: The extraction process, refining process, manufacturing process and disposal process of these batteries are extremely environmentally unfriendly, in spite of what you've read argued by pro-hybrid advocates. Added on top of the production process of an ICE, the slight mileage benefit in a hybrid engine doesn't do enough to eliminate the reliance on fossil fuels to recover what was wasted producing it.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Gas To Cost $7 A ...: In their study, the researchers devised several combinations of steps that United States policymakers might take in trying to address the heat-trapping emissions by the nation’s transportation sector, which consume 70 percent of the oil used in the United States.

[Jubilee Centre - Blog] Jubilee Centre - Blog - From Biofuel To Biohazard: As we note in our video Environmentalists: Missing the wood for the trees?, we will really only care for the environment well when we look at how a good God deals with his good creation. It is because humanity is grounded in and dependent on the environment that if we exploit the environment, it will go badly for us.

[Free Canuckistan!] Steynian 406nd « Free Canuckistan!: the discrediting of the hockey-stick graph and the bad science and worse politics and media bias behind it hasn’t really begun to penetrate society, let alone our Federal government, which deflected the worst of the Copenhagen master-plans but is still talking about carbon dioxide emissions and global warming. How 2006.

[.:: Mazen Abboud's Blog ::.] .:: Mazen Abboud's Blog ::.: LEBANON AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN YEAR 2009: Benedict XVI pointed out the importance of the bond between human beings and nature which is a gift in need preservation since it is necessary for peaceful human coexistence. His Holiness asked: “How can we remain indifferent in front of problems provoked by trends such as climate change, desertification, deterioration of the production of vast agricultural lands, pollution of rivers and subterranean waters, lack of diversity amongst living creatures, ”¦ and destruction of tropical forests, as well as other issues”¦” He also indicated that “human kind is in need of a radical cultural change and that it should become aware of principles forming the foundation of a better future for everyone”.

[Free For All - The Free Liberal Blog] Free For All - The Free Liberal Blog: Wanted: Global Warming: If emitting carbon dioxide is all that is keeping us from a return to pre-industrialization weather, than I say Drill, Baby, Drill and thank God for dirty coal. Now, if sea levels rise so that rich beach condos are washed away, so much the better.

[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Premier says China to target economic growth of 8 percent this ...: China announce plans to boost energy efficiencyBEIJING ”” China says it is aiming for a big boost in energy efficiency by cutting carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product by up to 45 percent by 2020. The announcement from the State Council, or Cabinet, comes ahead of next month's Copenhagen climate summit, which aims to produce a new global climate change treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

[The Swamp] Obama's final health push: 'Up or down': The Swamp: You know, one of the arguments that sometimes I get with my fellow progressives, and some of these have flashed up in the blog communities on occasion, is this notion that we should function sort of like Karl Rove where we identify our core base, we throw ’em red meat, we get a fifty plus one victory. See, Karl Rove doesn’t need a broad consensus because he doesn’t believe in government.

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[New Energy Focus : Latest News] NewEnergyFocus.com - Northwest reasserts its commitment to renewables: Commenting on the launch of the Plan, Robert Hough, chairman of NWDA, said: "Whilst much has already been achieved in the region, the first Climate Change Action Plan was only the beginning of our response. The emerging Regional Strategy for the Northwest will help to build on the Government's focus for delivering sustainable economic growth.

[Lowcarbon.com: Latest] Lowcarbon.com: Rural Carbon Challenge Fund - Project Manager: Envirolink Northwest is a not for profit organisation funded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency and local authorities in the region. We have been working to improve the competitiveness of the Energy & Environmental .

[NWDA | Jobs] Envirolink Northwest Supports Biomass Applications - Northwest ...: Envirolink Northwest is the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) funded organisation whose aim is to develop the Northwest of England’s environmental technology and services sector by making it a competitive force to provide sustainable solutions to environmental problems. Its aims and objectives are to: raise the profile of the Northwest’s environmental technologies and services sector in local, national and global markets;

[Lowcarbon.com: Latest] Lowcarbon.com: Rural Carbon Challenge Fund - Project Officer: We have been working to improve the competitiveness of the Energy & Environmental .This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an ambitious programme to demonstrate a number of significant low carbon technologies in rural areas and support the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) Rural Development Programme for England .

[NWDA | Jobs] Biomass boost for Northwest businesses - Northwest Regional ...: Envirolink Northwest is the Northwest Regional Development Agency’s (NWDA) sector development organisation which supports the Northwest of England’s environmental technology and services sector by making it a competitive force to provide sustainable solutions to environmental problems. Its aims and objectives are to: raise the profile of the Northwest’s environmental technologies and services sector in local, national and global markets;

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[NewsDaily: Top Headlines] NewsDaily: Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics: "Because the world still relies on leadership from the United States, the failure by the Senate to pass legislation intended to cap American emissions before the Copenhagen meeting guaranteed that the outcome would fall far short of even the minimum needed to build momentum toward a meaningful solution," Gore wrote.

[Earth Matters News] Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics | MNN - Mother Nature ...: "Because the world still relies on leadership from the United States, the failure by the Senate to pass legislation intended to cap American emissions before the Copenhagen meeting guaranteed that the outcome would fall far short of even the minimum needed to build momentum toward a meaningful solution," Gore wrote.

[Net Green News] NGN Daily: Climate Change Skeptics | Net Green News: The former vice president said, “I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”

[Environment | The Independent UK] Environment | The Independent UK - Gore takes aim at climate ...: I agree that politics and science should be left apart, but it is the "skeptics" that have involved themselves in a campaign of misinformation. Just as the "smoking is good for you" campaign delayed regulation of the tobacco industry, "climate change isn't happening" morphing into "climate change is natural" morphing into "climate change is debatable, but lets smear the scientists who dare to resort to 'facts'" are fighting to delay the inevitable.

[Climate Change Fraud] Climate Change Fraud - Al Gore returns to the spotlight; Says ...: Gore says the “science has become clearer and clearer” and yet never before has the debate been more vigorous. Is the science really clear and we just aren’t seeing it or is the public seeing through the veneer of possibly questionable science?

[Technology News Blog] Technology News Blog » Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics: Climate change skeptics have pointed to errors in the panel’s landmark 2007 report — an overestimate of how fast Himalayan glaciers would melt in a warming world and incorrect information on how much of the Netherlands is below sea level —

[Newses Japan - Politics] Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics : newses Japan: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore took aim at skeptics who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change, saying he wished it were an illusion but that the problem is real and urgent.

[enUws] Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics (Reuters) | enUws: Mauritz AB (HMb.ST) is planning a two-for-one stock split in response to investor calls to make…

[The Breakthrough Institute] The Breakthrough Institute: Why Joe Romm Won't Debate Roger Pielke Jr.: In an effort to turn this episode into something constructive and educational, I'd like to formally challenge Joe Romm to a public debate on climate policy to be held in Fall, 2010 in his home town at a date convenient for him, so that he does not have to travel and the timing can be made to fit his schedule.

[Climate Progress] Foreign Policy's “Guide to Climate Skeptics” includes Roger Pielke ...: I’m not really up on Pielke’s oeuvre, but since reading Andy Revkin’s (latest) peon to RPJr., I have been trying to make sense of his 2008 article in Natural Hazards Review (Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900-2005, Roger Pielke, Jr., et.al.) He (et.al) doesn’t seem to know that regression analysis is a technique for differentiating the relative effects of relevant variables.

[Larry T. Doughty's Story] Larry T. Doughty's Thoughts EXCELLENT ARTICLE ON AL GORE'S GLOBAL ...: Undaunted, Gore now claims that the blizzards that have walloped the Northeast in recent weeks are also proof of global warming. “Climate change causes more frequent and severe snowstorms,’’ he posted on his blog last month.

[Go Green Toolshed] Go Green Toolshed » Blog Archive » Sorting through the conflicting ...: After snow blanketed Washington for several days last month, political opponents of efforts to address climate change pointed to the blustery weather as evidence that global warming is a hoax. an Australian physicist who writes the popular blog and iPhone application Skeptical Science, which catalogues peer-reviewed climate change studies.

[Walter Russell Mead's Blog] How Al Gore Wrecked Planet Earth - Walter Russell Mead's Blog ...: The service the movement now needs (but likely won’t get) from its close friends in the mainstream media is a harsh and unsparing review of exactly who screwed up and why.  What dodo-brained foundation executives streamed money to groups committed to a suicidally unrealistic political strategy?  Have they been fired yet?  Why not?  Who were the ignorant, self-righteous ‘leaders’ who shouted down anybody with doubts about this disastrous course?  Why haven’t they resigned yet?  When will they?  Whose brainchild was the brilliant idea that the IPCC didn’t need a full time chair?  What hare-brained funders failed to provide Phil Jones and the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia with enough clerical help to comply with the freedom of information act?  And why was there no one available to counsel Jones when, apparently, he realized that some of the requests couldn’t be satisfied because key data was lost?  How did the climate of carelessness at the IPCC develop —

[Knight Science Journalism Tracker] Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » NYTimes, then a ...: I am guessing, but Fox may have been what Gore had in mind when he wrote that, in today’s tottering old-media world, “Some news media organizations now present showmen masquerading as political thinkers who package hatred and divisiveness as entertainment…Their most consistent theme is to label as “socialist” any proposal to reform exploitive behavior in the marketplace.”

[Climate Shifts] Climate Shifts » Blog Archive » We Can't Wish Away Climate Change ...: What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged. It is also worth noting that the panel’s scientists ”” acting in good faith on the best information then available to them ”” probably underestimated the range of sea-level rise in this century, the speed with which the Arctic ice cap is disappearing and the speed with which some of the large glacial flows in Antarctica and Greenland are melting and racing to the sea.

[The Enterprise Blog] Everything That's Wrong With Al Gore in a Single Sentence « The ...: I think Al Gore failed the climate change movement and that his negligence and blindness has done it irreparable harm. That's exactly why I hope Big Al keeps talking: he's the best weapon climate skeptics have going for them.

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