Fight Censorship

Leia Mais…

Wetter

Nice article on weather changes affecting actual people.

In the third part of our series on the eve of the Poznan conference, we look at how climate change is already changing ordinary people's lives from Australia to Brazil

http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/38839 from http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/10/poznan-brazil-climate-change-environment

Leia Mais…

Science break...Early Earth

New studies contradict the held belief that Earth's early days were hot and very inhospitable, it rather seems Earth was quieter and considerably less warmer.

Geologists now almost universally agree that by 4.2 billion years ago, the Earth was a pretty placid place, with both land and oceans. Instead of hellishly hot, it may have frozen over. Because the young Sun put out 30 percent less energy than it does today, temperatures on Earth might have been cold enough for parts of the surface to have been covered by expanses of ice.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/science/02eart.html?_r=1&hp

Leia Mais…

Green in less expected places

Some news items surprise you a bit. Profit and news coverage are always motives but to see a large solar panel manufacturing plant in Dubai surrounded by oil is interesting and perhaps even telling. Much in the same way Oklahoma born billionaire T. Boone Pickens is promoting wind power this is another good example of people with cash at least doing something, motivated by cash or not it is still a positive step.

Mid-East’s Largest Solar Panel Manufacturing Plant to be Built In Dubai
1-Million Square Foot Facility to Open 2010

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/worlds-largest-solar-panel-plant-to-be-built-in-dubai.php

Leia Mais…

Maldives seek to buy a new homeland

Sign of the times one might say. Relocating, migrating because of the environment.

The Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country's billion-dollar annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland - as an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/10/maldives-climate-change

Leia Mais…

Paying for rainforests...imagine that

There is a proposal that rich nations actually come up with money to preserve important environmental sites. Whether anything remotely like that has a chance on a wide scale is highly unlikely but strange things have happened this week so one never knows.

Prince Charles: Rich countries should pay annual 'bills' to stop rainforest destruction
He proposed the rich world could pay annual "bills" to stop destruction of the rainforest and eventually create a market for "rainforest bonds" to generate money for the cause.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/11/03/eacharles103.xml

Leia Mais…

Antarctica too

Global climate change is being seen in Antarctica too. A lot of news has been concentrated on the Arctic but recent evidence shows that the South Pole is being affected too.
Time for inaction or small, local initiatives is running out.

Antarctica hit by climate change.

Study shows human fingerprints on the polar thermostats.

In its landmark Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared in 2007 that human influence on climate "has been detected in every continent except Antarctica". Now a paper in Nature Geoscience says that our impact can be found even in the last wilderness.

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081030/full/news.2008.1195.html

Leia Mais…