Archive for the 'Environment' Category
US Energy Usage Trends
In 22 years, the US GDP has gone from about 20,000 to 35,000 per capita while energy use per capita has remained almost the same. Apparently it is possible for a country to increase the GDP without increasing energy use. It’s also interesting that the US and the UK are the only two countries who [...]
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Solving the top problems
The Copenhagen Consensus has made a list of the worlds top problems in order of priority. Their question is if we had 50 billion dollars to solve a problem, where would we be able to affect the biggest change.
This is one of those ideas that strike you as obvious once you’ve seen it but took [...]
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A video on global warming
I hope this doesn’t make anyone feel less guilty than they’d like to.
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This time a highly accomplished French socialist scientist who was one of the original proponents of the theory.
Allegre’s second thoughts
Dr. Allegre now sees global warming as over-hyped and an environmental concern of second rank.
His break with what he now sees as environmental cant on climate change came in September, in an article entitled [...]
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A Consensus?
More global warming skepticism:
‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ – backed by eminent scientists – is set to rock the accepted consensus that climate change is being driven by humans.
The programme … will see a series of respected scientists attack the “propaganda” that they claim is killing the world’s poor.
Even the co-founder of Greenpeace, [...]
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While I disagree with Patrick Michaels on the point of the movie, which in my opinion is for Al Gore to set himself up as the savior of the world in the event that global warming doesn’t kills us all, I do find the article interesting and his call for a sane solution to global [...]
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Here’s an unexpected interruption of the interruption of Global Warming coverage. New Scientist says the oceans might be able to keep things cool here on planet Earth for a bit longer. This of course comes at the risk of hurting the deep sea creatures.
CO2 being pushed deep into the oceans – earth – 12 February [...]
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