Bali highs and lows
The big climate change enviro-bash continues in Bali. Here's the conference's official website.
The big climate change enviro-bash continues in Bali. Here's the conference's official website.
Word from the international climate conference in Bali: the United States is not seen as the worst polluter on the planet. But it was a close call.
So the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a new energy bill, which now moves into an unknown future.
Research in China shows that previous global warming was NOT simply due to an asteroid hitting the earth. If you're an adherent of intelligent design you can suppose that some god decided to wipe out half of creation and to use volcanic dust to do it.
Coal may be winning the political battle that began last fall when the Kansas E.P.
The European Union and the United States have reached agreement at the climate change conference in Bali. They'll include target numbers for emission reduction by industrial nations, but those numbers will go in a footnote.
Check where your fish dinner came from. Lead paint on children's toys you've heard about.
One of the ugliest environmental truths about our modern life, perhaps worse than nuclear waste or even landfills or flotsam of plastic that covers square miles of ocean, perhaps worse than plastic leaching toxics into your bottled water...your next airplane flight.
The folks at Emerging Energy are looking at the year past and the year to come. Here's their optimistic take on what's up with carbon dioxide emissions and carbon footprint reduction:"Recently, the EU acted to commit to 20% CO2 reductions by 2020.
When you have an ice festival, it's pretty well expected you will have a lot of...well, ice.