"Cap and Trade" Winners and LosersBrett Lieberman?Who?? Come on. Proofread!Drinking the cool aidThe so called consensus is – ‘the science is settled', and it is anthropogenic CO2 that is the culprit to global warming – sorrrrry, I believed that has now morphed into climate change. My question is;...
Berkshire-Hathaway held its annual shareholders meeting this past weekend, and even if you're not a hedge fund manager, Warren Buffet's opinions are still worth considering. A reporter from SeekingAlpha took some notes during the discussion, documenting the wisdom of Buffet and his right-hand man and Vice-Chairman, Charlie Munger, on issues...
Environmentalists have spent the last 40 years telling Americans what they can't have and can't be without ever telling people what they can have and can be. The new, post-environmental politics must focus more on unleashing human possibility than constraining human activity. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, there's no...
The world is facing potentially the greatest environmental upheaval since the onset of the last ice age. Whilst there is some international discord about the precise causes and effects of global warming, the mere fact that the issue is being debated worldwide and at the highest government levels is itself...
This paper reveals about the Evaporative air-conditioning EAC which is an environmentally friendly and energy efficient cooling method that only uses water as the working fluid. EAC provides superior indoor air quality over vapor-compression systems since 100% outdoor air is used. The use of EAC instead of vapor-compression systems also...
NASA scientist James Hansen's literary output reads like the bumf one might find in the bulletin of an enduring Big Sur commune. His present crusade is a call to put on trial--for "crimes against humanity," no less--the chief executives of the world's oil companies. The crime of which they are...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska AP - Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Bush administration's decision to let oil companies unintentionally harass or harm polar bears and walruses off the northwestern Alaska coast. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage claims that federal officials...
While political and religious tensions betweenthe East and West continue, many faith groups are making sincere efforts toreach out to different religions. A recent article in The Economist, "WhenReligions Talk," described some of these diverse efforts, and how peopleare coming together on everything from business issues to global warming.Closer to...
WASHINGTON -- In his first negative ad of the general election campaign, Democrat Barack Obama said John McCain is "part of the problem" of high gas prices and tried to parry Republican criticism of his own energy policy. The 30-second commercial is a direct response to a...
TOYAKO, Japan -- World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in half by midcentury to stave off global warming. Unimpressed environmentalists called the effort too slow and too uncertain. Leaders of some of the world's richest...
THE HOME ECOLOGIST It has been an up-and-down time for the environment; two bits of good news and one of terrible news. The good news is the IEA report that UK petrol sales this year have fallen by 20 per cent and the car industry similarly reports...
RUSUTSU, Japan -- The world's richest countries agreed Tuesday to support a 50% reduction in worldwide greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 -- but environmentalists and developing countries denounced the move as a mushy compromise that would do little to stop global warming. The South African environmental minister, Marthinus...
WASHINGTON -- Some of the government's top scientists were forced by Vice President Cheney's office to downplay the health dangers of global warming when testifying before Congress, a former senior EPA official said Tuesday. The White House denies any coverup, and the agencies involved say they still got...
TOYAKO, Japan AFP — Leaders of the world's most powerful nations are seeing more than flowery words at a summit in Japan, whose celebrated cherry blossoms are blooming out of season. But it's not the result of global warming, one of the biggest issues at the three-day summit...
As if sky-rocketing petrol prices weren't already hurting them enough, the drivers of America's fleet of Hummers, monster trucks, and gas-guzzling SUVs are about to suffer sustained public humiliation, courtesy of the green lobby. The state of California has announced plans for all new vehicles to carry...
Baltimore-based power generation company Curtis Engine & Equipment Inc. and Worcester County have teamed up to prove the age- old idiom that one man's trash is another man's treasure by opening the Eastern Shore's first methane power plant -- a structure that converts landfill gases into viable electricity. ...
MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. -- Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long- established glaciers in the lower 48 states that are growing. Reaching more than 14,000...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bc763b/european_biofuels) has announced the addition of the "European Biofuels Market" report to their offering. In the European Union EU, transport is responsible for an estimated 21% of all greenhouse gas emissions that are contributing to global warming and this percentage is rising....
25 Gulf Coast Students to Participate in Hill Event World Wildlife Fund WWF: [TABLE OMITTED] Tomorrow, the World Wildlife Fund WWF, Allianz Foundation for North America and the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will host a briefing on the results of a...
