With global carbon trading growing at a quick clip,Asian economies are looking to join in on the action,and exchange traded funds (ETFs) are sure to track this market entry. There is a growing recognition of carbon as a soft commodity …[...]
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Month by month,the Al Gore minimum extends its icy grip on the Solar magnetosphere,choking off our protection from high-energy cosmic rays. Sunspots remain quiet,and ominously so. We could increase energy production,to save lives,…[...] . Storm pushes up insurance costs and premiums Friday,01 August 2008 The latest storm to hit New Zealand is predicted to cost $50 million in insurance payouts,and has pushed up premium costs. The Insurance Council said today that while it is early,the current cost of the storm was estimated at $25 million and climbing. Hundreds of insurance staff had been mobilised around the country,but they have been unable to get into the worst-affected areas to attend to claims [...] A coalition of conservation groups and state attorneys general has filed formal letters warning of impending lawsuits over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to address global warming pollution from ocean-going ships and …[...] . Councils told to plan for sea level rises Wednesday,30 July 2008 Councils are being told to plan for coastal flooding,storm surges and erosion as rising sea levels driven by climate change take hold. A new guide for councils issued by the Environment Ministry is aimed at helping councils to plan for the effects of rising sea levels. Rising sea levels are expected to cause storm inundation and coastal erosion,especially on the eastern coasts,Cook Strait and Wellington. [...] Considering the hundreds of articles I’ve written concerning the way anthropogenic global warming is being reported around the world —including numerous exposés about how the NASA unit Schmidt works for might be involved in …[...] The solar cycle 5 was the first half of the Dalton minimum (1800-1825 plus a decade before and five years after these two cycles) that was correlated with (and maybe brought) a period a cooling. [...] Russ Steele David Archibald writes with “Each day’s passing of anaemic Solar Cycle 24 sunspot activity reinforces the imminent cooling.”As Cycle 23 gets longer and longer and is looking more and more like Cycle 4 that resulted in the. …[...] I am not the great supporter of emmissions trading that you think I am. I don’t know if it will work,and must agree that trying to employ capitalism to reduce the effects of capitalism is deeply flawed [...] | |||||