sduford on Jul 31 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
Here`s an excellent essay by James Hansen, one of the worlds pre-eminent climate scientists and the head of NASA`s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
The essay was published by New Scientist.
Here`s his conclusion:
The broader picture strongly indicates that ice sheets will respond in a non-linear fashion to global warming - and are already [...]
sduford on Jul 31 2007 | Filed under: Good News, Sustainable Dev.
Several universities have begun offering new MBA programs that focus on sustainable development. Here is a new one by Colorado State University called Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Program. This is a very interesting and encouraging trend. Perhaps humanity is slowly waking up to reality!
sduford on Jul 24 2007 | Filed under: Politics
Goerge Monbiot goes on a rampage denouncing the so-called “green-living” illusion, and as usual, he doesn’t mince words or spare anyone, including his own newspaper The Guardian.
Read his op-ed piece here.
sduford on Jul 24 2007 | Filed under: Politics, The Denial Machine
Here’s an excellent speech given to the Canadian Public Relations Society’s
National Conference by James Hoggan.
In this speech, Hoggan does a brilliant job of exposing what some of his cohorts have been doing (confusing the public on important issues like global warming) and the damage it is doing to the reputation of PR Firms.
This speech was [...]
sduford on Jul 07 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, Renewable Energy
This is a nice report on global warming and renewable energy, produced by Greenpeace. It is about 12 minutes long.
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sduford on Jul 07 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics
New Jersey enacts anti-global warming law
By ANGELA DELLI SANTI, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jul 6, 8:55 PM ET
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - New Jersey became the third state in the nation to enact a comprehensive greenhouse gas reduction law Friday, requiring the Garden State to significantly cut emissions of global-warming gases.
Al Gore, the former vice president turned [...]
sduford on Jul 04 2007 | Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Global Warming
Here’s a very hard hitting video produced by Greenpeace. That is one angry looking kid, and he has all the reasons in the world to be angry.
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sduford on Jul 03 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics
In this article, George Monbiot discusses the fact that three recent scientific papers point out that climate change is accelerating and that we may be on the brink of a “flip” in the climate that will bring much faster warming and sea level rise than the IPCC predicted in its latest report. He also talks [...]