Category Archives: Global warming
Insuring REDD Projects: Questions and Answers
Author: Gus Kent and Gabriel Thoumi Just a few weeks of actual negotiating time remain before the year-end summit in Cancun, and climate talks are a mess. Sure, most parties agree it’s a good idea to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by saving trees, but that’s about all they agree on. This all highlights the amount [...]
How to make clean energy palatable to Parliament
by Leigh Ewbank ABC Environment A price on carbon is too politically sensitive, but there is more than one way to move Australia to a clean energy future. Linking the demise of the Labor party’s electoral fortunes to its decision to defer the CPRS, as Sara Phillips has argued, is correct. But that doesn’t mean [...]
Global warming shrank carnivores 55 million years ago
Extinct carnivorous mammals shrank in size during a global warming event that occurred 55 million years ago, according to a new University of Florida study. The study describes a new species that evolved to half the size of its ancestors during this period of global warming.
Less wind, low prices hit windfarm earnings
Less wind and lower electricity prices than expected affected NZ Windfarms’ full year results. For the year to June the company reported a loss before asset impairments, depreciation, amortisation, discount on acquisition and tax of $533,000. That was better than the previous year result of a $626,000 loss, but also compared with a prospectus forecast [...]
Poorer nations hit with ‘exorbitant’ consultancy fees for carbon offset projects
Nepali government has paid a Norwegian consultancy €150,000 (£123,000) to get UN certification for biogas projects by Reese Erlich in Badreni, Nepal guardian.co.uk,
Andrew Bolt has acquired a time machine.
”Hack Watch” Every now and then Andrew Bolt does something so amazingly stupid it makes your head spin. Here is his latest effort. Back in October 2004 I posted this entry about Andrew Bolt shamelessly misrepresenting a scientific opinion regarding global warming from the Max Planck Institute. Bolt’s total lack of credibility on this matter [...]
Yes, climate change is a major crisis
Jill Singer From: Herald Sun PAKISTAN is suffering its worst floods on record. Already, 1500 men, women and children have drowned, the UN fears a further six million lives will be lost without immediate assistance, and an estimated 14 million people so far have been directly affected by the crisis.In China, more than 700 people [...]
Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL LISBON — Five years ago, the leaders of this sun-scorched, wind-swept nation made a bet: To reduce Portugal’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, they embarked on an array of ambitious renewable energy projects — primarily harnessing the country’s wind and hydropower, but also its sunlight and ocean waves. Today, Lisbon’s trendy bars, [...]
Ingenero’s Commerical and Community Solutions
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