The agenda for this year’s climate summit seems to be settling into two areas. The first is to define the architecture of a definitive plan to reduce global warming. Global warming again is being cited as the premier cause of climate related difficulties. It is now thought that all UN member nations planning to be [...]
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April 30th, 2010
Earth Day’s impact on environmental activism
When US Senator Gaylord Nelson created and promoted the concept of Earth Day back in 1970 he had no idea of the controversy the world would attach to his simple platform some 40 years later. While Nelson did hope to increase the public’s awareness of the overall effects of the industrial age upon the Earth, [...]
March 16th, 2010
Al Gore weighs in again… and again… and…
As anyone involved in the world of environmental issues knows, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is a major voice in the venue of Global Warming and Climate Change. And while those against the procedures and maneuvers of Mr. Gore are at least equal to those in his camp, we might all agree that he [...]
February 26th, 2010
Recently shifting opinions on the importance of clean energy
Those crafty Norwegians thought they could give Barack Obama the peace prize and he would quickstep into the Copenhagen Climate conference with promises and plans for greenhouse gas reductions. Instead Obama joined in the non-productive rhetoric shared by every major power on the Earth. The Chinese blamed the Indians for global warming climate change. The [...]
February 17th, 2010
The discrediting of the 2007 IPCC report
The 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was so impressive that it earned a Nobel Prize. Indeed the task of tracking and monitoring global climate conditions and then trying to correlate the data is probably not even possible. Still the IPCC did so and their report was accepted as scientific fact. The [...]
February 7th, 2010
Australians ready to scrap Cap and Trade
One particularly interesting point of order created through the Kyoto Climate Change protocol was establishment of Carbon Trading parameters. Using an economic structure known as cap and trade, countries and individuals attempt to control global greenhouse gas emissions by limiting the allowable amounts of emissions from specific locations. This theoretically creates an incentive for industry [...]
January 29th, 2010
Mexico presses for emissions economics
At the world economic forum being held in Davos, Switzerland an unlikely proponent for climate change in developing nations funding and greenhouse emissions curbing legislation came forth. The unlikely spokesman was Mexico’s president Felipe Calderon. While one might expect Calderon, on behalf of Mexico, to seek funding for technology related to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, [...]
January 21st, 2010
Climate Change Conference leaves many disappointed
Temperatures Sizzle as Conference Fizzles
The primary goal of the recent Copenhagen Climate Change Conference was to develop a treaty that would supersede the current Climate Change protocols that are set to expire in 2012. As reports of the results from the tenuous debate are now filtering in, it appears that no agreement of consequence was [...]
