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White House refuses to open EPA emails on global warming

27 June, 2008

The White House has apparently refused to open an email from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a proposed rule that would limit greenhouse-gas emissions from new vehicles. And what is more surprising (!?) is that they managed to get … Continue reading

Airship will help the US coastguard to chase smugglers

27 June, 2008

Image shows Spirit of Dubai – The Palm, on the UK leg of her 2006 tour. Note the scale of the airship from the two technicians standing below her. Photo by: Antony McCallum I have written in the past about … Continue reading

Dr James Hansen says we should prosecute climate change liars

25 June, 2008

Dr James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and one of the worlds most prominent climate scientist, says in an article on the WorldWatch Institute website that climate change liars “should be tried … Continue reading

Al Gore endorses Barack Obama

16 June, 2008

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 30JAN05 – Al Gore at the Annual Meeting 2005 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2005. Photo by Severin Nowacki. Al Gore has just sent out this email: “A few hours from now I will … Continue reading

Pollutants from coal-based electricity generation kill 170,000 people annually

14 June, 2008

The image shows the old Cahokia Power Plant in Sauget, IL which has been decommissioned for 31 years. Photo: Jay Dugger Top British climate scientist Professor James Lovelock FRS has warned that over 6 billion people will die this century … Continue reading

“We would like the rest of the world to follow you”

11 June, 2008

Nidhi Jamwa from the Centre for Science and Environment India asks in the organisations journal Down to Earth “why green projects in India are hot favourite of international NGOs?” Nidhi Jamwa focuses on a recently started green Sierra Club initiative … Continue reading

The Caribbean monk seal is now extinct due to human causes

10 June, 2008

Photo from “The Fisheries and Fisheries Industries of the United States”, by George Brown Goode (1887). The Caribbean monk seal has gone “the way of the dodo” and been officially listed as extinct by the US Government. The Caribbean monk … Continue reading

Positive changes in light of increased gas prices in the USA

30 May, 2008

Imagine for a second that oil prices in the USA today were at the same levels as those in Europe, and have been from the start. And yes. That means gasoline for $8 per gallon. How would the world look … Continue reading

Victory for “threatened” polar bears

15 May, 2008

Today the U.S. Department of Interior formally listed the polar bear as a “threatened” species. Environmental organisations have called for the polar bears to be listed on the “endangered” species list hoping it could lead to actions to combat climate … Continue reading

Running the numbers – An American self-portrait

11 May, 2008

Chris Jordan wants to show the “contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics.” Each of his artwork portrays a specific amount of something. For example the above image shows 426000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell … Continue reading

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