US on track for more global warming
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
So President Bush says there will be no change in US climate policy, sticking with the status quo, which means more carbon emissions from the world’s number one greenhouse gas emitter.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Friday, Bush indicated that he has no plan to change […]
African oil curse
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
There are many ugly sides to the oil business, but perhaps none as ugly as the exploitation of Africa’s oil wealth by energy corporations who rake in obscene profits while leaving the people and the land in abject misery.
Here is a look at that nasty underside. I can only […]
The business of carbon trading
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Carbon trading is an idea that received a boost from the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty to cut greenhouse gas emissions, backed by the Clinton administration then rejected by the US when George Bush became president. It provides a market approach to the buying and selling of carbon credits with the […]
NOAA blocked report on hurricanes, says Nature
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Today the journal Nature says that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) blocked release of a report showing that human-caused global warming was increasing the severity of hurricanes. According to a report from the Associated Press, the study was initiated by NOAA, which then, apparently, didn’t like its […]
Climate change & greenhouse gas emissions: a moral issue
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
In light of my earlier post today, I want to make note of the moral weight that lies at the heart of our dilemma. When we confront the reality of a new hot age and what this will mean for all life forms, including our own, we arrive necessarily […]
More troubling climate news
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Well, scientists continue to study the global warming phenomenon and its effects on climate change, and the bad news mounts, along with the evidence that we humans are the drivers behind many of these changes. It’s not as if one day the news will get better and then we […]
And still more on biofuels
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Thought I’d continue the conversation on those controversial biofuels, since the theme always draws more readers to this blog. I see from BBC news that Ted Turner is promoting biofuels as a way to break the deadlock in international trade talks and as a boon for poor countries, a […]
Ozone hole nears record - a message here about lingering pollution in the atmosphere
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
My niece alerted me to this article at MSNBC regarding the near-record size of the hole in the protective ozone layer over Antarctica, the annual phenomenon caused by the presence of chloroflourocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere. They are released from leaks of coolants in refrigerators and air conditioners, among other things. These […]
Promoting sugar ethanol production in Brazil encourages an industry that degrades the environment and exploits workers
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
As we learned from the experience of sweatshop assembly — discovering that our cheap consumer goods are made by workers horribly exploited in poor countries — we need to examine the conditions in which our hoped-for alternative fuels, in particular, sugar ethanol, are made.
The suger industry has a pretty bad […]
‘Green revolution’ in Africa ruins communities, harms the environment
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
One of the issues I follow closely these days is that of agricultural production, one of the most important aspects of our ecological crisis and focal point of some very serious choices we need to make. As noted in the earlier post today with the quote from James Lovelock’s new book, […]
