Monthly Archives: April 2008
Global Warming: What Can We Do?
Writing about global warming has changed a lot in the past few years. This is not because the science itself has changed – but because political reaction to it has. It seems that we have, at long last, moved beyond denial and inertia. The...
A Cool Idea To Warm To
About the beginning of 2007, maintaining a sceptical stance on human-induced global warming became a lonely, uphill battle in Australia. The notion that the science was settled had gathered broad popular support and was making inroads in unexpected...
Shame On This: USA
Global warming and global climate change are now something we must get used to as there looks to be no real efforts to at least slow down this dangerous trend caused mainly by CO2 emissions as the result of dominant fossil fuels use. And major...
How Global Warming Affects Outdoor Sports
On Earth Day, I couldn’t help thinking about two words that are the perfect answer to those few political ideologues who still dispute that human activity plays a role in global warming – Newt Gingrich!
Yep, Mr. Conservative has joined U.S....
My Contribution To Global Warming
On Earth Day, I bought a new car.
The good news is that, since my old car had been running for a good 6 months with the “Check engine” light on, I’m probably fouling the air less than I was the day before.
The bad news is that, since I...
The U.N. on the State of Climate Change
On matters of climate change, April has been a busy month. President Bush last week called on the United States to stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions domestically by 2025. Ministers of several of the world’s major economies met...
Diesel Threads and Global Warming – Together at Last!
Paris is covered in jungle. St. Mark’s Square in Venice is overrun with tropical birds. Manhatten’s skyscrapers are nearly submerged by flooding. South Dakota is covered in palm trees and Mount Rushmore is now part of a lake. But you,...
The Dilemma Of Global Warming
The difficult decisions in life are not between right and wrong but between two, or more, conflicting rights. Nowhere is this better illustrated than by the case of the massive onshore wind farm for which the Scottish Government has just refused...
Global Warming Cancer Warning
Global warming could lead to higher rates of skin cancer by amplifying the harmful effects of the sun’s rays, scientists said.
New evidence suggests that the same amount of sunshine becomes more likely to trigger cancer as temperature...
Global Warming: The Greenland Factor
Greenland isn’t just a huge ice-covered island. It is also a crucial factor in how global warming may reshape the world. If all the ice and snow on Greenland were to melt, the oceans would rise 20 feet. Say goodbye to Miami and big chunks...