Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Bruce
Climate Change – It’s on everyone’s lips now Democratic Nominee Obama Vows to Defeat Climate Change Environment News Service - 14 hours ago Gore hailed, warns against McCain, climate change Reuters - 19 hours ago ‘Rich nations should give money to fight climate change‘ Times of India, India - 2 hours ago Lawmakers agree on action plan to [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Bruce
AFP _ Global Warming Time Bomb in Arctic Soil In a news release by Agence France-Presse, a study has found that Arctic soil contains 60% more trapped Greenhouse Gas than previously thought. American scientists discovered the increase, via extensive testing of 117 sample sites from North America, taken at depths of one metre. This GHG [...]
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Posted on August 21st, 2008 by Bruce
London Ontario Bans Plastic Water Bottle Sales The city of London, Ontario has banned the sale of water in plastic bottles, at all municipal facilities. This will include city hall, golf courses, hockey arena and swimming pools. Additional drinking fountains, with refill taps, will be installed where required. For the past year, the London Aquatic [...]
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Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Bruce
First step to reduce Greenhouse Gas – Energy Efficiency The USA could cut it’s projected GHG emissions in HALF by 2030, WITHOUT major lifestyle changes or new technologies, if it would legislate efficiency programs. California is one state that has been setting an excellent example through programs such as it’s “demand response system” for reducing electricity [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2008 by Bruce
Clean Coal Does NOT Exist Some lobbyist would tell you that “clean coal” is just as good as burning Natural Gas in electrical generating stations. They may talk of test sites and government support. In virtually all cases, the companies involved in “clean coal” have given up on these unproven technologies. To quote Eric Redman on [...]
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Posted on August 15th, 2008 by Bruce
Emissions Per Person – Not Per Nation Who spews more CO2 into the air, USA or China? The dubious honour of being #1 is now in debate. At 23% of the world’s CO2 production EACH, it doesn’t really matter who’s #1, as the earth can not handle this continued level of CO2 production. Add India into the [...]
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Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Bruce
Blackout Day August 14th – 5th Anniversary Five years ago today, 50 million people where given the chance to live without electricity when the northeastern region of the USA and Ontario lost power. Since that day, very little has been done to improve the electrical grid’s stability. Plans are in place to add new transmission lines [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Bruce
Population growth slows – Consumption increases Fred Pearce, in a blog for Yale Environment 360, points out that population growth has dramatically decreased over the past few years. ”A generation ago, the world fertility rate was around six kids per woman. Today it is 2.6, which is getting close to the level needed just to [...]
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