When it comes to birthday’s many of us do not like celebrating the passing of time. Whether your 75 or 25, I don’t think there is a lot of joy once you get past 18 or 21. But this particular 75th birthday is anything but a celebration. In reality, I say, rot in hell plastic […]
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In a day and age where the word recession is being thrown around like a football, when asked to make financial sacrifices you’re more likely to get a kick in the crotch then a handshake. But unlike what the critics would have us believe, cutting carbon emissions could actually economically help the US, and similarly
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The Arctic ice has been at the center of environmental concern for a long time now. Ever since its ever-increasing decline in size came to a peak last year with the exposure of the fabled Northwest Passage, it has been the focus of scientific study and environmental bickering. Traditionally March marks the time of year
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George W. Bush has definitely been a polarizing personality in his two terms as leader of the United States of America. From the beginning and his War on Iraq he has seemingly attempted to paint himself as nothing more than a moronic menace. Of late, Bush has turned his sights on becoming the world’s greatest
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It’s the fortune cookie wisdom of the world’s political leaders that always makes me laugh the most. But, not surprisingly, just as a hundred monkeys mashing away at keyboards, every now and again, you’ll get something worthwhile. That’s why California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most recent analogy is more than just publicity drivel. Speaking at a
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The life of someone looking to support the environment is a tough one, especially with news like this. The Kyoto Protocol was supposed to be Earth’s savior; or at least a benefit concert. But new information provided by the Chinese government has shown that by 2010 Chinese greenhouse gas emissions will have managed to eclipse
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We’ve written often recently off the challenges soon to be faced by the continuing melt of the Arctic. Without a doubt, there are resources up there that someone will attempt to get their grubby little hands on. And, with the price of oil continuing to skyrocket with each passing month, if oil is found in
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In a recent interview with UK website The Daily Mash, the Earth has revealed it isn’t worrying too much about global warming. In fact, it says that it will “…be absolutely fine.” OK, first of all, stop writing me that email. I know that the Daily Mash is a satirical website. Secondly, stop writing me
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Over our history eclipses have been the portent of the gods wrath, new things to come, or simply a pretty light show. But would you have expected our last lunar eclipse to have been of any help to researchers looking at climate change? Researchers at the University of Colorado in Boulder, US, found that Earth’s
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Much of the time we focus primarily on the climate and how it is affecting our ecosystems. However, in doing so, we manage to overlook issues that we have brought with us as we’ve conquered other lands for centuries; invasive plants. A new study to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
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I played around for a few minutes with a heading that said something along the lines of “Scientists alert us to the Obvious… etc” for this story. It seems to me that I am dealing more and more with people who simply intend to live their lives with their heads buried in the sand. That
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We’ve spoken often about those areas in industry that are contributing most to the current climate change. However an industry that has been swept under the radar is the agriculture industry. Not only does it too expel its own worth of emissions, but it could very well be the answer to a lot of our
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In what continues to be a disappointing view of how the world views the environment, Kansas lawmakers have overturned a 2007 decision rejecting a coal-fired power plant expansion in the state. Kansas Secretary of Health and Environment Rod Bremby rejected the expansion of Sunflower Electric Power Corp’s western power plant last year, citing health concerns
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Live 8 was one of those massive world events that for just a few hours puts everyone in the same chair. It makes us think globally, rather than just of ourselves. In just over a month’s time, on March 29, millions of people around the world will be turning off their lights, their power, for
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It was just over a month ago that I last wrote about the fate of the polar bears. The US Fish and Wildlife Service had just announced that they needed more time to determine whether the beautiful creatures should be put on the endangered species list. Conservationists were up in arms, and many were pointing
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Just as in the days when I was Hooked on Classics, it looks like humanity is going to be ‘hooked on fossil fuels’ for awhile longer. According to British Petroleum’s chief scientists, Physicist Steven Koonin, we’ll be stuck with the nasty for decades to come. Speaking to a crowd gathered at the Frances C. Arrillaga
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As the months go past we are getting a clearer picture of just how fragile our environment really is. Many people like to blame every abnormal environmental occurrence on climate change and global warming. However a pattern that seems to be emerging is that global warming was simply the last straw. I’ve personally reported several
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It has been awhile since I’ve touched on the Arctic sea-ice dilemma plaguing us at the moment, and this recent story seemed worthy of bringing it back to the surface. Though we are only coming up on the Northern Hemisphere’s Fall/Autumn, experts do not like what they have seen so far. Speaking at the Alaska
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Just every now and then you get a story that really makes you smile. This is one of them, and though it is short, it is full of hope. I know that sounds sappy and a little corny, but you’ll understand what I mean in a moment. Alaska seems to be a bit under the
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If you’ve recently been looking for a reason to increase your hatred of bureaucratic red tape, then look no further than the regulatory insanity available at the Midwest Independent Transmission System (Midwest ISO). Renewable energy is obviously a new business, and thus sadly the regulations that once worked now do not. When looking to construct
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Let’s not try and talk about this as breaking news, for many people have already seen the horrific pictures. But the fact is that this is huge news, and I’m going to take a quick look at just what it is, what it means, and why. However if you haven’t turned on a TV or
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We have finally reached the end of the track and there are only two things left to cover; the Great Lakes and the Arctic. It has been very US-centric, and even though I’m the Australian on the team, it seemed like the right focus to take. Industry leaders and big-business all focus their attention on
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It is always a good day for me when I get to write about Google. But the day gets even better when I get to combine Google with the environment; something that happens more often than you would imagine. With my ongoing report on the US 09 Budget, I’m well aware of just how little
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There are a limitless amount of technicalities, subtleties and nuances when dealing with a national budget, especially when for the first time that budget exceeds the $3 trillion mark, and leaves your country $407 billion in deficit. So let me make one thing perfectly clear. While there are some good things in this budget for
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These days we are bombarded with countless reports of climate models predicting every side of the coin. Warmer waters will both increase and decrease the chance of hurricanes making landfall in the US, according to whatever model you want to base your opinion on. But these are all smooth projections, and do not allow for
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I think that Jeremy Elton Jacquot put it best, when he opened his article on TreeHugger the other day; “Any (admittedly dim) hopes that President Bush might choose to salvage his tattered – some might say non-existent – environmental credentials were dashed when his administration announced plans to open more than 3 million acres of
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Global warming issues have finally been delivered en masse to students across America, thanks to an initiative named “Focus the Nation” this past Thursday. With more than 1,500 universities, community colleges and even some high schools, it was billed as the nation’s largest-ever “teach-in.” The organizers of the event, including founder Eban Goodstein, an economics
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Every now and then what we know and thought we knew about science gets turned on its head. And while this particular story isn’t necessary as head-turning as some, it is definitely throwing the academic world in to a spin. According to new research to be published on the 23rd in Geophysical Research Letters, the
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The US has blocked what is being labeled a landmark assessment of oil and gas activity in the high north polar regions. Not surprisingly, this comes at the same time that they are trying to sell off drilling-exploration licenses to the highest bidder for the Chukchi Sea off Alaska. Sadly, this is also one of
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I vaguely remember mentioning recently my love affair with New England. The postcard shots of the streets strewn with autumn leaves make me happy. One day hope I to live there, but according to new research, the northern forests may be losing their autumn coloring earlier. Published in a recent issue of the journal Global
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In a day and age where environmental pleas for help often fall on deaf ears, one can only hope that this one does not. The Red Cross, the world’s largest and arguably most recognizable humanitarian aid group, is blaming climate change for worsening disasters the world over. According to the Swiss-based federation, climate change is
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The social news aggregator Digg is my friend, in so many ways. It provides me with a good 25% of the stories that I write here, and almost triple that for the other sites at which I am employed. So when I saw the heading “Nobel Winner Speech Canceled Over Global Warming Controversy” I hoped
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A new year starts, and with it comes two of the year’s biggest tech conventions, essentially right on top of each other. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas finished last week, only to let MacWorld start this week, with Steve Jobs’ keynote speech. And for the green nerds among us, it was a big
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I remember as a young boy my mother took me and my brother on a mystery tour. We weren’t a well off single parent family, as you could imagine, and so we didn’t go more than 2 hours outside of Melbourne city proper. We went to visit, amongst other things, the coal-fired power station in
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It comes as no great surprise to many of us that there will always be a roadblock to a good step forward; especially if it’s a green step. People often do not like new technology. They’re scared of it, or fearful of the jobs it will take away/create. This is very much the case for
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As mentioned elsewhere (I think) I’m an aspiring author; that’s why I write professionally, so that I have money to write my own stuff. 2006 saw me write and complete my first and currently unpublished novel, set in New England. Why did I set it in New England, a place I’d never been? Because the
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New studies will continue to pop up as long as we’re alive, I can guarantee you that. There is always something new for us to find, especially on a planet that changes as much as ours does, and already has. So sometimes it’s a little hard to give all our attention to every new study
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Over the past 6 or 8 months the idea of ocean fertilization has been raised many times as a possible scenario to help end – or at least provide assistance to the end – of global warming. However according to a new study conducted by researchers at Stanford and Oregon State Universities such a scheme
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It’s been a couple of months since the Japanese whaling fleet left their home port of Shimonoseki, all the way back in November, and finally Greenpeace has managed to find them in the large Southern Ocean wilderness. This is the second run for the Greenpeace vessel the Esperanza, and 10 days out from their New
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It won’t come as a surprise that global warming as a result of man-made global emissions is up for debate. The controversy is really just beginning, and we all know someone who believes something different to us, whether that be in favor of or against man-made global warming. Sadly, the debates that springs from such
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I have commented a lot in the past on the dead zones that infiltrate our oceans, advertising yet another misuse of the planet God, Mother Nature, or whomever you believe granted us the use of this planet. It is an even further trajesty (a mix of travesty and tragedy) that though we have what is
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Cargo ships were, not so long ago, propelled only by the wind. Majestic vessels though they were, the times for delivery were naturally extended, as a result of reliance upon the fickle mistress that is Mother Nature. A hundred or so years later from when the sails were stowed away, they are being unfurled once
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2007 is hardly a memory in our minds but already British forecasters are predicting that 2008 will be another member of the Top 10 hottest years since 1850 club. Thus, they say, there is no indication that global warming is on the wane; much is the pity! The Met Office and experts at the University
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The title says it all, but not all of us necessarily realize what it is saying. I sure had to do a quick bit of Googling to decipher what terrestrial ecosystems were. But it wasn’t a hard find, once I realized it was simply a nice broad term for much of what grows in the
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Never let it be said that we at the Green Options network only focus on promoting the idea of 100% man-made global warming. As a recent study has shown, man may not be the only one to blame, although without a doubt we haven’t helped matters all that much. We all saw what happened to
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One might ask, by looking at this title, just what good there can be that comes from methane. Not only is it the smelly export product of the world’s beef population, but it is also a more potent warmer of the planet’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Well, there isn’t much good to say about methane.
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To call it a success would be a mindblowingly inaccurate description of what can only be labeled a half-arsed, inept attempt at global leadership that did nothing more than to solidify so many stereotypes on the inefficiency of politicians everywhere. I am, of course, talking about the United Nations Climate Change Conference that was held
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The warming of an entire planet has dire consequences for everyone. Symptoms begin to appear all across a planet, from an extension of the tropical belt to increasing ocean levels. But the areas most likely to be hit hardest are the frozen poles. This is indeed the case for us here on Earth, and given
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