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08.02.2009, 12:26

Fuel addiction and the ethics of ethanol

The scarcity of fossil fuels and the threat to our climate from carbon emissions have focused attention on alternative energy sources. In recent years, biofuels have led the way.

Conservation International-Colombia (www.conservation.org) / photo by Marco Rada 10.02.2009, 11:59

Colombia’s Noah’s Ark is home to ‘new’ amphibians

A spectacular new species of amphibians—nature’s ecological barometers—have been discovered in Colombia, giving hope for the Darien area’s current environmental health and for its future protection.

21.10.2010, 18:36 6 comments

Water is the new oil

Russia is considering becoming the world’s top supplier of fresh water as growing demand turns it into a strategic resource. That is if it can upgrade its own consumption to modern standards.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 26.10.2009, 08:58 5 comments

Predicting the future with the New Nostradamus

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita’s work as a consultant with the CIA has earned him the name ‘The New Nostradamus’. RT caught up with the modern prophet to find out what to expect in the future.

Pictures from www.zigloo.ca 10.02.2010, 11:54 1 comment

Concept solution to rising seas: floating undersea skyscraper

A Canadian architectural firm has presented its solution to the apocalyptic scenario in which global warming causes a drastic rise in sea level. The Gyre project is a giant floating self-sustained habitat.

16.02.2009, 10:16 1 comment

Sleeping Policemen wake up to global warming

They are the bane of Britain’s motorists, but after an environmentally- friendlier makeover, speed bumps look set to be the latest asset in the rush for renewables.

21.01.2009, 12:28

Crafty ways to fight climate change

Scientists have put forward their ideas on how global warming can be tackled without cutting carbon emissions.

27.03.2009, 17:40

Shrimps ate hope for stopping global climate change

Early results from the latest field experiment on the ‘ocean fertilisation’ to cool the planet suggest the technique will fail.

09.07.2009, 15:21

Cutting gas emissions “symbolic”

The G8 unbinding agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 concerns developed countries only, told RT Nobuo Tanaka, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency.

13.05.2010, 16:59 23 comments

Is it time to give Capitalism a vacation?

Oil spills, global warming, species extinction and foreign wars in oil-producing countries all in the name of short-lived consumerism. How much more can the natural world handle?

Global warming just an inch away

Published: 24 February, 2009, 16:13


A much smaller change of mean temperatures may cause disastrous consequences, a new study into global warming said.

 
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dobermanmacleod February 25, 2009, 06:01 quote
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"We underestimated the risks ... we underestimated the damage associated with temperature increases ... and we underestimated the probabilities of temperature increases." -- Sir Nicholas Stern, author of "The Stern Report," April 17, 2008 "Few seem to realise that the present IPCC models predict almost unanimously that by 2040 the average summer in Europe will be as hot as the summer of 2003 when over 30,000 died from heat. By then we may cool ourselves with air conditioning and learn to live in a climate no worse than that of Baghdad now. But without extensive irrigation the plants will die and both farming and natural ecosystems will be replaced by scrub and desert. What will there be to eat? The same dire changes will affect the rest of the world and I can envisage Americans migrating into Canada and the Chinese into Siberia but there may be little food for any of them." --Dr James Lovelock's lecture to the Royal Society, 29 Oct. '07 There is a simple and cheap way to cool the Earth immediately: just add a little sun dimming aerosol to the upper atmosphere. "The alternative (to geoengineering) is the acceptance of a massive natural cull of humanity..." -Lovelock, Aug08

markos March 01, 2009, 09:17 quote
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the problem is political and scientific and is the real threat to the planet . The scientific community seems incapable to offer any solutions and the politicians prefer to ignor it. The collapse of the eco system is irreverssible. It will result heating of the oceans that will free more co2 into the atmospher .There is urgency for action not to stop further emmissins but to absorb co2 as suggested by James Hansen report (see www.gisss.com )

NITTANYRAY May 12, 2009, 21:05 quote
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When the temperatures don't go up like the model predicts, just increase the predicted calamity to make every one worry over a lesser change. For the last ten years it has been cooling due to the reduced sun spot activity. This is not widely reported because it doesn't support the politically correct view of our climate. The sun spot cycle is expected to reverse in the next year or two causing a slight increase in global temperatures. You can bet that the Chicken Little crowd will cease this opportunity to advance their agenda. Just remember to check the sun spot activity and observe the direct correlation with temperatures before you blame it all on mankind. If Congress passes their Cap & Trade bill the greens won't be able to blame the U.S. for the problem because what few manufacturing jobs we have left in this country will move to China where pollution in accepted by their government as a cost of providing jobs for their billions of people. It is ironic that a country that is largely pollution free (if you grew up in the 50s & 60s you would know what pollution was really like) will have to ship all their jobs to the worst polluters on the planet. The greens will have actually made the world worse with their political nonsense.

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