Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize goes to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”. There is a debate if winning the [...]
Posted by Moderator on October 12th, 2007 filed in Activism, Al Gore, Global Warming, IPCC, News, Nobel Prize, politics
Global Warming: It’s All About Carbo
As part of the Climate Connection initiative by NPR and National Geographic, Robert Krulwich’s created a five-part cartoon series that’s a really cool way to teach your kids the science of global warming. The videos are not embeddable, so you will have to view them on NPR. I watched all five and I think it’ll [...]
Posted by Moderator on August 1st, 2007 filed in Activism, Air Pollution, Carbon, Comic, Ethanol, Global Warming, Internet, NPR, News, Oil, Sustainability, TV, Technology, Tips/Tools, greenhouse, politics, weather
Scientists Agree that Global Warming “Very Likely” Man-made
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), consisting of hundreds of scientist form around the world concluded that Global Warming is “Very Likely” due to human activities. Very Likely in IPCC terminology means greater than 90 percent probability. IPCC said the other 10 percent may or may not be due to god, which is closely [...]
Posted by Moderator on February 1st, 2007 filed in Activism, Bush, Carbon, Global Warming, IPCC, News, politics, weather
Here’s An Alternative Viewpoint on Alternative Energy
As heard on Marketplace today: SCOTT JAGOW: In the State of the Union, President Bush said he wanted to mandate the use of certain gasoline alternatives like ethanol and force higher fuel economy standards for cars. I called up our economics correspondent Chris Farrell to get his thoughts on the Bush energy plan. In a [...]
Posted by Moderator on January 25th, 2007 filed in Activism, Alternative Fuel, Conserve, Economics, Energy, Global Warming, News, Sustainability, politics
Environmental Defense vs.Duke Energy
Environmental Defense took Duke energies to the Supreme Court today on charges that the North Carolina power giant failed to comply with the Clean Air Act requirements to add pollution reduction mechanism when they upgraded their plants. For a change, the Bush administered EPA was on the side of Environment Defense. In an earlier appeals [...]
Posted by Moderator on November 2nd, 2006 filed in Activism, Air Pollution, Bush, Carbon, EPA, Energy, Environment, Environmental Defense, Global Warming, News, Supreme Court, Technology, greenhouse, politics