December 21, 2009 – 10:15 am
The President of Israel, Shimon Peres arrived in Copenhagen and delivered a speech on Thursday at the high-level portion of the UN sponsored climate conference. He declared that Israel is setting forth a goal to lower their green-house gas emissions by 20% by the year 2020. That is not to reduce the country’s levels 20% [...]
December 14, 2009 – 6:11 pm
UPDATE
The EU environment spokesman Andreas Carlgren says informal talks at Copenhagen resolved the impasse. The European Union says poor countries have stopped their boycott of climate change negotiations at Copenhagen and have found a solution to their dispute with rich nations.
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China, India and other developing nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Monday, actually bringing the [...]
November 27, 2009 – 5:49 pm
Next month U.S. President Barack Obama will attend a global climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. His objective is to spell out the U.S. goal for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
The president says that he will take part in the conference on Dec. 9, before heading to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.
Obama will lay [...]
November 9, 2009 – 1:28 pm
“You can have a really fuel-efficient, dirty vehicle and a really clean, not-so-fuel-efficient vehicle,” says Karl Simon, a director of compliance and innovation for the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality. “It really is pretty wide open from a technical perspective.”
So-called fuel economy indeed is linked to emissions; however it is not the only [...]
October 27, 2009 – 12:39 pm
The race is on to find a way to mass produce affordable fuel from pond algae. Sound strange? Here’s the scoop:
Factors such as fluctuating oil prices and the hopes of easing climate change have caused the hunt for creative knew energy sources.
The icky pond scum known as algae grows remarkably fast and is full [...]
With America still in a deep recession and more than 3.6 million jobs lost during the past 8 months, the last thing most people want to know about is a new government energy bill that will result in people paying even more for fuel for their cars and for electricity and other fuels to cool [...]
A recent article centered around a idea proposed by a scientific aid to U.S. President Obama concerning a way to reverse the currents of global warming by sending up enough dust particles into the atmosphere to block out part of the sun’s radiation and cause global cooling. The idea, proposed by John Holdren, the President’s [...]
February 9, 2009 – 10:27 am
You may not be aware, but the beef in that hamburger or taco you just ate, may have come form a cow raised in Brazil, now one of the world’s largest cattle producers. While this may not seem like a big deal, especially since most cattle raised there are range or grass fed cattle, it [...]
