Last week,environmental justice groups from California issued a declaration against cap-and-trade ,stating that pollution already disproportionately affects low-income,communities of color,and they will “fight at every turn”…[...]
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In an interim report released on February 21,Professor Ross Garnaut said that by 2050 global carbon dioxide emissions would need to be reduced to 90% of 2000 levels if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided. …[...] Our thinking is that business as usual will not deliver low-cost,clean energy fast enough to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change . We need a clean energy revolution that will deliver breakthrough technologies priced lower than …[...] Now we are back into either a Dalton Minimum or a Maunder Minimum. The difference is in how cold it will get,for how long,and how many will starve as the northern wheat fields will no longer have enough summer to produce a crop. …[...] Of course,it doesn’t mean global warming is a non-entity,nor does it mean we’re headed for a mini ice-age. [...] Dalton Minimum (1795-1823) (B-shift:16 years after beginning,which was 1811) Maunder Minimum (1645-1715) (B-shift:13 years after the beginning,which was 1632) The last B-shift was in 1990. So far,there has been “no effect”(not if …[...] The finance minister of British Columbia,Canada,has just introduced a new “escalating carbon tax ”that will affect most fossil fuels. They are not the first in the country –that would be Quebec with its ridiculously low and non …[...] Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the cause of global warming ,its trends and consequences as indicated by the International Panel on Climate Change. Sea-level rise is one consequence of particular concern to Pacific …[...] One of the things about the Dalton Minimum was that it started with a skipped solar cycle,which also coincided with a very long solar cycle 4 from 1784-1799. The longer our current cycle 23 lasts before we see a true ramp up of cycle .. [...] digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/environment/GM_says_global_warming_is_steaming_pile_of_poo’;According to D Magazine,at a private lunch,GM chairman. [...] | |||||