June 24, 2006 – 8:09 am
I caught a post over at phin's spot last night about the Earth being the hottest in 2000 years. This morning, I caught one about the last 25 years being the warmest on Earth since 1600: The last few decades were the warmest on Earth in the past 400 years, and may well have been […]
June 22, 2006 – 9:13 am
And, boy, do the press bend over backwards to be fair make Ted Kennedy not look like an anti-environmentalist (from the AP) Key lawmakers have agreed to drop the idea of giving Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney veto power over a proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm, adopting a compromise that could boost the project's prospects. The […]
June 19, 2006 – 8:00 pm
Oh, my, I just cannot stop laughing at this one: Experts at a world conference here on desertification have called for political leaders to use the technical tools available to stem the merciless advance of parched land and its devastating social, economic and human consequences. "In most cases, the technical solutions exist and the know-how […]
June 18, 2006 – 10:21 am
Just imagine what 2010 will bring! ;) Found via Blue Star Chronicles from Gawfer.
June 16, 2006 – 12:56 pm
This is pretty wild A small earthquake shook buildings and rattled dishes in at least four Western North Carolina counties Thursday night, the seventh noticeable temblor to shake the region in the past year. There were no reports of damage in the 3.1-magnitude quake, centered 28 miles north of Franklin and felt from Maggie Valley […]
June 15, 2006 – 12:24 pm
Or so we are told (via WRAL) The world’s largest protected marine area is being created around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Â The archipelago is 1,400 miles long and 100 miles wide. Â It’s home to rare marine mammals, fishes and birds. Â On Thursday, President George W. Bush is to announce his decision to […]
June 12, 2006 – 12:14 pm
Scheme is a perfect word when it comes to the United Nations. (via Al Reuters) Â A U.N. scheme to promote renewable energy use in poor nations is growing sharply and will axe emissions of greenhouse gases by more than a billion metric tonnes by 2012, the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Friday. Â It said […]
June 9, 2006 – 9:35 am
From Cape Cod Today: The results of a new survey released today leave little doubt as to public support for Cape Wind – it is overwhelming. Â More than four out of five people across the state – 81 percent – and 61 percent of Cape and islands’ residents are in favor of Cape Wind’s proposal […]
June 7, 2006 – 6:35 pm
From the AP: PLAINE MAGNIEN, Mauritius (Reuters) – How did the dodo die out? Scientists in Mauritius launched a project on Wednesday to discover why the giant bird became extinct. Most theories blame settlers who found the plump flightless bird on the Indian Ocean island in the 16th century and began to hunt it relentlessly. […]
June 5, 2006 – 8:42 am
So a bunch of College Republicans at Oklahoma University had a snow cone party to educate people on the the other side of the global warming debate, and to have a little fun. As usual, the Democrats are freaking out. And not just any Dems, but the Democratic National Committee: Contact: Amaya Smith of the […]
