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 o[...]
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
February 10th, 2010 - 1:36 pm § in News
After Copenhagen
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 th[...]
February 9th, 2010 - 11:37 am § in News
IPCC’s credibility under siege?
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 [...]
February 6th, 2010 - 10:04 pm § in Tech
Should we boycott Facebook?
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 cen[...]
February 6th, 2010 - 9:59 pm § in News
Potentially epic snowstorm?
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 [...]
January 29th, 2010 - 11:08 pm § in Science
Climate change skeptics
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. [...][...]
November 27th, 2009 - 10:37 am § in News
China Joins U.S.?
“China Joins U.S. in Pledge of Hard Targets on Emissions” Click here to read The New York Times article.[...]
November 26th, 2009 - 11:22 am § in News
Obama to Go to Copenhagen!
“Obama to Go to Copenhagen With Emissions Target” Click here to read The New York Times article.[...]
November 26th, 2009 - 10:38 am § in News
Here we go again…
“Study claims meat creates half of all greenhouse gases” Click here to read The Independent article.[...]
November 24th, 2009 - 3:10 pm § in News
Growing Skyscrapers
AKA The Rise of Vertical Farming. Click here to read the Scientific American article. PS: Ellis, I wanna see that in Brooklyn![...]
