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Climate science: a peace-studies lesson

Climate science: a peace-studies lesson

By Paul Rogers. The doubters of global warming are emboldened by their new ability - as in the “climategate” affair - to put climate researchers on the defensive. But the experience of comparable assaults on the discipline of peace studies in (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | openDemocracy

Climate Change - Part 1: The Albedo

Climate Change - Part 1: The Albedo

This is the first of articles to describe the main factors driving the warming and climate changes of the Earth. This is the first of articles to describe the main factors driving the warming and climate changes of the Earth. I will start with the most (...)

25 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Giovanni Macchia

Asia Can Help Lead Climate-Change Fight with Green Dollar Spending

Asia Can Help Lead Climate-Change Fight with Green Dollar Spending

Asia’s scientists and technologists are capable of taking the lead in helping the world make the transition to renewable energy resources. (...)

16 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | JF-Online

The last refuge of prejudice

The last refuge of prejudice

Discounting the interests of future people is the one remaining prejudice. By Rupert Read. It is no longer socially-acceptable to exhibit prejudice against ethnic minority people on grounds of their ethnicity, women on grounds of their gender, or (...)

11 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | openDemocracy

The Smart Money is on Smart Grids

The Smart Money is on Smart Grids

The Copenhagen Climate Change meeting will dramatically change the utility landscape. In Asia, the utilities industry is growing at an incredible rate. Investments globally in the sector have lead to more available jobs, predicting the return to (...)

11 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | JF-Online

Gore: Forget Copenhagen Global Warming Summit

Gore: Forget Copenhagen Global Warming Summit

Al Gore, the Godfather of the Global Warming Hoax has canceled out on the upcoming Copenhagen Global Warming Summit: Climate campaigner Al Gore has canceled a lecture he was supposed to deliver in Copenhagen. The former vice president and Nobel Peace (...)

4 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Rob Port

Fuel for Thought - Global Media Giant goes Green

Fuel for Thought - Global Media Giant goes Green

GDS International is officially going green as it looks to neutralize the carbon footprint of its websites Global Media giants GDS International are famed for catering to the needs of the world’s fortune 500 companies, running leading publications (...)

16 Nov. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Nobel Scientists Agree - Stop Soot Now !

Nobel Scientists Agree - Stop Soot Now !

Last week, Ecojustice launched stopsoot.ca, a video campaign that calls on the Canadian government to stop the number two cause of global warming, black carbon emissions otherwise known as soot. That call to action is also being echoed by the man who one (...)

5 nov. 2009 | | Kori

Sharing Of Green Technology ? A Bogus In The Climate Debate

Sharing Of Green Technology ? A Bogus In The Climate Debate

By Eberhard Rhein. 50 days ahead of the Copenhagen Climate Conference a new theme re-enters the debate between developed and developing countries : free transfer of green energy technologies to developing countries. India and China are particularly (...)

29 oct. 2009 | | Blogactiv Team

Climate Change and Pollution are Two Separate Things

Climate Change and Pollution are Two Separate Things

Conflating "pollution" with "climate change" is causing us to waste a lot of time, effort, and money. One of these (pollution) we can control. The other we cannot. How is it that so many people can’t understand the not-so-subtle (...)

12 oct. 2009 | | Frank Staheli

Warming up for climate change reporting

Warming up for climate change reporting

So after two days of intense frustration, having schlepped my laptop all the way to the WakeUp Copenhagen Hotel and finding that the Wi-Fi was f*cked, this evening (by some miraculously inspired configuration) I managed to get online.* I have no idea what (...)

23 sep. 2009 | | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

The Most Intelligent Emissions Target, Period

The Most Intelligent Emissions Target, Period

Courtesy of the @tcktcktck, this is the most socially responsible, fair and intelligent answer to international emissions targets there is. India’s Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Jairam Rames, has laid out India’s expectations (...)

11 aoû. 2009 | | Kori

Chilly Reception to Sideline Cap-and-Trade Bill?

Chilly Reception to Sideline Cap-and-Trade Bill?

Stiff opposition to cap-and-trade legislation could push bill from 2009 calendar, while election-wary midwestern Democrats in 2010 could remove it altogether. I think everybody here has something to be proud of. And maybe even a reason to sit back and (...)

6 Aug. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

A Beautiful Effect of Climate Change?

A Beautiful Effect of Climate Change?

Nobody’s certain yet, but some scientists are speculating that increases in atmospheric CO2 is causing a hauntingly beautiful phenomenon called "night shining" clouds. Mysterious, glowing clouds previously seen almost exclusively in (...)

20 Jul. 2009 | | Kori

What Can Scientists Do About Climate Change ?

What Can Scientists Do About Climate Change ?

By David Bennetts. A critical question I have been asking is ‘Why are politicians not solving the climate change issues quickly enough’. It is true that they are beginning to get to grips with the issues now that the US is there. But the real (...)

13 jui. 2009 | 1 comment | Blogactiv Team

Dear Mr. President: Thanks Again For Cap And Trade

Dear Mr. President: Thanks Again For Cap And Trade

To The Office Of The President Of The United States,  Dear Mr. Obama   We are the heads of a few of your largest constituents, including Dow, GE and DuPont. This letter represents our sentiments in wishing to express our gratitude for (...)

2 Jul. 2009 | | PacificGatePost

Mourn Michael Jackson if you want but get back to reality!

Mourn Michael Jackson if you want but get back to reality!

I am sorry Michael Jackson Died but let’s get on with dealing with the world today! Fans moonwalk, hold worldwide vigils for Jackson Remember the Climate Bill? It barely passed the house but I don’t know about the Senate. House Passes (...)

29 Jun. 2009 | | James Joiner

The 1970s Ice Age myth

The 1970s Ice Age myth

The science of climate change is difficult and everyone agrees there are uncertainties and a contested point or two. But some points are asserted over and over again and aren’t really contested. They are just plain false. Yet no matter how often (...)

25 nov. 2008 | 1 comment | Effect Measure

Interview with George Read, party leader of the Alberta Greens

Werner Patels: Let’s come straight to the point and talk about the oil royalty scheme. Premier Ed Stelmach decided to adopt the recommendations of the report halfway, with the Alberta NDP saying that the recommendations should have been (...)

10 Jan. 2008 | | Werner Patels

How Can We Stop Global Warming?

How Can We Stop Global Warming?

On September 2006, a unique event took place in Berlin, called The Table of Free Voices. It was an enterprise that arose from the need for new thinking on how to make positive change in the world. Questions, answers, technology and visual communications (...)

4 Jan. 2008 | | Bnei Baruch

The US Much Better Than Average On Carbon Emissions

The US Much Better Than Average On Carbon Emissions

All we hear about non-stop is that the US won’t do it’s part to cut CO2 emissions. Heck George Bush wouldn’t even sign Kyoto. Never mind it that the President at the time was Bill Clinton. Sure we know that the hype behind it is designed (...)

18 déc. 2007 | | Rob Port

Uganda: The Land Of Plenty....

Uganda: the land of plenty? Uganda is indeed the land of plenty of food and water. I write this, with Uganda that was in the 60s and 70s - in mind. Growing up in Uganda then, I never knew what hunger was, till the age of about 12, when - as a Muslim - I (...)

14 Nov. 2007 | 2 comments | Moments In Words From Hadhramout

Global Warning

First the Russian moves at the North Pole and now, as reported by EuroNews : Russia weighs relocation of Black Sea Fleet to Syria "The head of the Russian Navy has raised the prospect of the Black Sea Fleet relocating to a Syrian naval base. Chief (...)

14 aoû. 2007 | | Yaakov Kirschen

The Big Boys Did It And Ran Away

The Big Boys Did It And Ran Away

There can’t be many people who would now challenge the overwhelming scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions are responsible for climate change. It is obvious that unless we do something within the next decade the ecosystem is likely to be (...)

6 Aug. 2007 | | Danny Bernardi

With Sudan in Mind

With Sudan in Mind

A comment for a post in one of my blogs, got me in to thinking. And wondering. The Arab world seems to be oblivious of Climate Change and the fight against it. In all the forums, protests and demonstrations taking place around the world on Climate Change (...)

11 Jul. 2007 | 3 comments | Moments In Words From Hadhramout

Climate cheerleaders : Live Earth to Global Compact, Alex MacGillivray

Climate cheerleaders : Live Earth to Global Compact, Alex MacGillivray

Once they decide to do something, the Chinese go for it with gusto. Pop impresario Wang Xiaojing announced his plan to set up an all-female band in 2001. Over 4,000 candidates from the country’s leading musical academies applied to become a member. (...)

10 jui. 2007 | 1 comment | openDemocracy

The Father of Biodiesel wages war on socially incorrect eco-fuel production in Brazil

Dr. Expedito Parente

Acclaimed in Brazil, he invents a green fuel for aviation. Thanks to his fame, professor Expedito Parente is now on the brink of launching a vast agro-industrial project in the Nordeste region based on cooperatives, also serving as a model for reducing (...)

24 May. 2007 | 1 comment | Richard Beer

The Truth About the Conservative Climate Change Plan

The Truth About the Conservative Climate Change Plan

Is it just me or has the reporting on the Conservative climate change plan been just terrible ? I continue to read that the Conservative plan will meet Kyoto targets by 2025. No, it will not. Kyoto targets are based not on reductions from greenhouse gas (...)

30 avr. 2007 | | Gregory D. Morrow

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