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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...
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...
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 Chutzpah
IF President Bush had unveiled his goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions at the beginning of his administration instead of in its waning months, he might have actually played a role in linking the United States to global efforts to...
Americans See Global Warming as Serious Problem
Many adults in the United States are concerned about climate change, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 47 per cent of respondents think global warming is a very serious problem, while 26 per cent deem it as somewhat serious.
(Angus Reid...
Global Warming: Implications For Africa
The poorest people in the world’s poorest countries will suffer the earliest and the most from climate change, according to this year’s edition of the Environmental Review. The report says that, due to their geographical location, low incomes,...
Opinions: Fighting Global Warming
The founder of CNN, back on April 1, 2008 (which I seriously hope is not a coincidence), said that global warming and overpopulation will lead to an 8-degree increase in average global temperatures, which will mean that crops won’t grow,...
School Textbook Spouts Global Warming Myths
New Jersey high school senior Matthew LaClair has exposed the American Government textbook, written by conservative ideologues James Q. Wilson and John DiIulio Jr., for promoting climate-denier myths. The Associated Press reports:
The edition...
Global Warming Is Highly Beneficial
It didn’t get any attention in the media, but there was a highly significant presentation made last month. According to the ICCC, David Archibald, the presenter, is a scientist (and entrepreneur) operating in the field of cancer research,...
Aussie Wine Bottles Bad News for the Environment
Packaging, not product, is the latest target in a British push to decrease the carbon footprint of imported wine.
The UK ‘s Waste and Resources Action Plan recently studied how much CO2 is produced through manufacturing glass bottles,...
