Excerpt: “WASHINGTON — As millions of people along the East Coast hole up in their snowbound homes, the two sides in the climate-change debate are seizing on the mounting drifts to bolster their arguments. Skeptics of global warming are using the record-setting snows to mock those who warn of dangerous human-driven climate change — this [...]
Here you can find an interesting video showing the US perspective of the recent COP15 meeting in Copenhagen. from: Center of American Progress Timeline: 08:10 Stern begins speech 26:40 speech ends, Q&A begins. First question: What is the process for climate negotiations in 2010? 30:15 What is the effect of the lack of U.S. climate [...]
Excerpt: ”Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist’s version of sainthood: A vegetarian economist-engineer who leads the United Nations’ climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the panel, sharing the honor with former Vice President Al Gore.” via NYTimes.com
Excerpt: ”I don’t really use Facebook but plenty of my friends do. They might be interested to know that the social network giant growth appears to be powered by coal, the number 1 cause of climate change. In late January, Facebook announced that its new Oregon data center, the data center farms that create the cloud [...]
Another climate change proof or just an extreme weather event? Excerpt: ”WASHINGTON — One of the largest winter storms the Mid-Atlantic region has seen in decades swept into Washington and Baltimore on Friday, grounding flights, closing schools and government offices, and sending residents racing to stock up on groceries and rock salt before the snow accumulated [...]
Just a couple of weeks ago I took this photo of the Serpentine in Hyde Park. It was very cold and not even the ducks dared try to ice-skate on its surface. It was a beautiful sight, though. Some really heavy snows challenged the British islands. I had never seen London with that much snow. [...]
“China Joins U.S. in Pledge of Hard Targets on Emissions” Click here to read The New York Times article.
“Obama to Go to Copenhagen With Emissions Target” Click here to read The New York Times article.
“Study claims meat creates half of all greenhouse gases” Click here to read The Independent article.
AKA The Rise of Vertical Farming. Click here to read the Scientific American article. PS: Ellis, I wanna see that in Brooklyn!
