Posts Tagged ‘USA’

• USA to ban incandescent light bulbs

  The USA recently passed its energy bill for 2008. The new energy bill has a section where it’s states that incandescent light bulbs will be banned for traditional use. The ban will begin in 2012 and, as planned, be fully …

• Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency: Part 2

  This is the final part of Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency, a two part article. A few days ago at a social function I was asked by a top US atmosphere scientist – in Australia to work with top Australian …

• Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency: Part 1

  “Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency” – Submission from Dr Gideon Polya to the Garnaut Climate Change Review Garnaut Climate Change Review, Level 2, 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne, VIC 3002 This submission by a senior scientist is in response to a …

• Schwarzenegger’s State of the State Address

  Here is a short summary of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s State of the State Address, which he made in January 8, 2008. You can read the whole speech over at knbc.com. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his speech, pushes for more dams …

• Where is climate change in the USA primaries?

  Libby Rosenthal over at the International Herald Tribune’s Business of Green blog worries, just like me, about the lack of green issues being raised in the US primaries. Having spent the last week in the United States and having watched …

• Oil reaches $100 a barrel

  Today the price for a barrel of oil reached, for the first time ever, $100.

• 2007 data confirms global warming trend

  While the USA, Canada and Japan are doing their best to wreck the climate conference in Bali scientists from the UK’s Hadley Centre and University of East Anglia has concluded that this year (2007) has been one of the warmest …

• Is Global Warming Swollowing Florida Whole?

  Is Florida already feeling the early effects of global warming? Can we safely say that Florida is sinking into the ocean? The rumors I heard as a child, that such a thing could happen, seemed like folklore. If you listen …