Archive for the 'Environment' Category

Aug 30 2006

Published by tony under Environment, Random

Will Ferrell does a devastatingly accurate impression of the president in this global warming skit.

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Aug 09 2006

Published by tony under Environment

The first seven months of 2006 were the warmest such stretch in the continental United States for any year since climate record-keeping began in 1895.

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Jul 28 2006

Published by tony under Environment

Article on buying funding a Global Warming sceptic.

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Jul 27 2006

Depriving the Deniers

Published by tony under Environment

For the last few years Climate Change deniers (when they are not suggesting that Carbon Dioxide is the stuff of life and we should all be chugging on exhaust pipes) have been misquoting science reports to try and make their case. One of the most common is that Antarctica is getting cooler not warmer, so [...]

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Jul 24 2006

To understand and protect our home planet

Published by tony under Environment, Science/Religion

Nasa has quietly changed its mission statement to eradicate any mention of its original responsibility to understand and protect our home planet.
Old Version
“To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers … as only NASA can.”
New Version
“to pioneer the future in space [...]

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Jul 02 2006

Published by tony under Environment

Bjorn Lomborg is sometimes characterised as a climate change denier. He’s not, he just thinks battling it isn’t the most cost effective way to spend our money. See if you agree.

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Jun 27 2006

Published by tony under Environment

Ok, forget Al Gore, I’ve just watched Majora Carter give one of the most inspiring and heartfelt talks of my life. If you do nothing else of importance today, watch this speech.

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Jun 27 2006

Al Gore, Comedian

Published by tony under Environment, Random

I’d always gone along with the idea that Al Gore was pretty much the way the media portrayed him: stiff, bureaucratic and a little inhuman. However, TED have begun putting some of their talks online and Al Gore has just blown me away. And it’s not just his passion for his subject, who’d have thought [...]

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Apr 29 2006

Published by tony under Design, Environment

The world’s first hydrogen-powered city?

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Mar 15 2006

A building like a tree, a city like a forest

Published by tony under Books, Design, Environment

Imagine a textile factory where the water comes out purer than when it went in, imagine an auto plant roofed with meadow grasses that is the home of nesting wild birds, imagine a home that produces more energy than it uses where the very concept of waste is unknown. Bill McDonough is the design genius [...]

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