Why Fly When You Can Float?
July 5, 2008
New York Times
As the cost of fuel soars and the pressure mounts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, several schemes for a new generation of airship are being considered.
As the cost of fuel soars and the pressure mounts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, several schemes for a new generation of airship are being considered.
Greenland not melting after all! So Much For Flooded Cities: Greenland Ice Loss Not Increasing Michael Asher July 4, 2008 Longest-term study yet of the continent says nothing to fear. For global warming activists, Greenland is the most potent weapon of fear in their arsenal.
Well, what did they think would happen, really? Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.
Alasdair Palmer reviews An Appeal to Reason by Nigel Lawson and Fixing Climate by Robert Kunzig and Wallace Broeke
Britain's true contribution to global warming is much higher than official figures show, ministers admit. And it has been rising rapidly at the very time that they have been boasting that it has been falling.
It’s cold. I guess this one weekend of cold that means global warming isn’t happening after all, it being, like, the middle of winter and all. Talking of climate change, the Independant, via Treehugger, has the results of a cartoon competition focused on climate change.
Ooooh, that manmade global warming is going to melt us in our beds, isn’t it? Er, not quite yet. Heavy snow is blanketing parts of the north island of New Zealand which have not seen falls for years.
President George Bush has reiterated that there will never be an effective agreement on climate change without the participation of emerging economies like China and India. He also said the world must wake up to the "beauty of nuclear power" that produces renewable energy with "zero greenhouse gas emissions".
Amid the whirlwind of debate, most scientists agree on the most urgent hurricane threat, and it's not global warming.
The upcoming Group of Eight (G8) summit is not likely to achieve a breakthrough on climate change due to the differing national interests and approaches of developed and developing countries, as well as lack of consensus among developed nations.
New Delhi: As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sets out for Hokkaido, Japan, on Monday to attend the G-8 Plus Five Summit and the Major Economies Meeting (MEM) on Energy Security and Climate Change, he should expect immense pressure upon India .
Bjorn Lomborg earned the wrath of many scientists by calling into question the direness of global warming. Now, in this wide-ranging interview, find out why he claims that Al Gore is ‘wildly exaggerating’ about climate change and its effects.
The U.N. climate chief says climate change will cause the global food crisis to worsen. He is urging leaders of the world's richest countries meeting in Japan next week to set goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen years.
Brazil and Peru had in 2007 proposed to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that biofuels and organic foods be classified as "environmental goods," thereby qualifying the two countries for deep tariff cuts.
The climate change debate is often portrayed as a stark choice between two extremes. Do we try to save the economy or do we try to save the environment? Many in established industries argue vociferously that you need to protect the former to save the latter, or that if we act to protect our environment then we might end up killing the economy.
This is an odd one, as reported by Janet Raloff in Science News: … The new paper focuses on tuatara, somewhat-bizarre lizardlike creatures that exist as remnant populations and only on several uninhabited New Zealand islands.
Supply and demand - the immutable law of economics. When supplies are larger than demand, consumers benefit. When supplies are less than demand - corporations and governments benefit (through taxes and the opportunity to control sectors of the economy).