one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
June 25 2007
Wise words“Companies that are polluting in China are owned by American, European, Japanese and others. They are benefiting from the cheap labour, from the resources and at the same time accusing China of pollution.”
June 12 2007
California is pioneering what could be the next battleground against global warming: filing suit to hold cities and counties accountable for greenhouse gas emissions caused by poorly planned suburban sprawl.
May 23 2007
Nuclear power plants requires massive amounts of cool water and, in the face of global warming, they could be vulnerable.
May 14 2007
major damage from rainforest clearing“In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York.”
May 01 2007
Why was The Great Global Warming Swindle so persuasive? Indeed, I regularly see people using that show as an excuse to keep the energy squandering utopia alive.
March 01 2007
The global warming mug. See the continents disappear as you drink your morning coffee.
February 14 2007
Michael Crichton, the world’s most popular technophobe.
February 11 2007
Flying, your patriotic duty.
February 10 2007
A sobering if not downright alarming view from Dmitry Orlov of the possible future that awaits us in a world of resource depletion and global warming
February 02 2007
Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by an Exxon-funded lobby group to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
January 20 2007
And now, the weather forecast
The BBC’s distributed climate change experiment is over.
250.000 computers crunched away at the numbers and came up with a scenario for the near future: Summer temperatures will easily reach 40°C and heatwaves will be frequent. Winters will be warmer but also much wetter. Storms will be frequent and intense.
Recent weather patterns seem to confirm that direction.
December 25 2006
Goodbye Lohachara island [update]“Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth”
December 19 2006
Al Gore caught red-handed.
December 15 2006
The truth about carbon offsets“The idea that you can go out and plant a tree and help reverse global warming is an appealing, feel-good thing”
December 07 2006
How low can Exxon go“Texas-based Exxon is trying to influence opinion-makers in Brussels because Europe - rather than the US - is the driving force for action on climate change.”
November 20 2006
Things to watch
Internet documentary madness: Al Gore’s An inconvenient truth, the very interesting The Corporation, and Outfoxed, a critical look at Ruport Murdoch’s Fox News. All viewable online, enjoy them before they get pulled down.
November 03 2006
Dr Octagon’s take on global warming.
August 03 2006
Could global warming kill the Internet? Yup.
July 31 2006
A complete list of things caused by global warming
July 21 2006
Play the global warming game and see how your economic, political and science policy decisions affect the outcome.
July 10 2006
Al Gore in Rolling Stone“We have more than enough oil, not to mention coal, to completely destroy the habitability of the planet. The real constraint on oil and coal is not supply, but global warming.”
July 04 2006
An inconvenient truth
The climate is changing radically, affecting our future, and we are the cause. This is no longer debatable: the film shows how 100% of peer-reviewed academic papers support this fact while 53% of mainstream media stories express doubt, lobbies are powerful things. Al Gore puts the scientific facts into an eloquent, entertaining and clearly understandable narrative without ever getting overtly alarmist or bleak. According to Gore, we have 10 years to turn things around. In that case, this film should be mandatory viewing, especially if you have children. Hopefully, it won't just be preaching to the converted; if you're a doubter or have a friend who is, I dare you to see this and come out unaffected. [link]
June 27 2006
There are projects to fight global warming by putting giant sunshades into orbit or making clouds refect more sunlight back into space.