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Another reason to fight CO2 : ocean acidification

gama — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:32:30 +0000

If climate change, rising sea levels and the threats to global peace and food production weren’t enough to you, here is another reason to fight carbon dioxide : ocean acidification. To Mongabay : ” Emissions of carbon over the last two centuries have raised the acidity of the oceans to the highest levels in 21,000 [...]

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Climate change : China faces a grim future

gama — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:39:46 +0000

To Reuters quoting a local scientific report : ” Global warming threatens China’s march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods. “ “China faces extremely grim ecological and environmental conditions under the impact of continued global warming and changes to China’s regional environment,” Given how the situation is dire [...]

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President Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline

gama — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:38:38 +0000

If you aren’t familiar with US environmental politics, you might not have heard about Big Oil’s latest craze : building a 1.700 mile (2,736 km) long pipeline to bring tar sands oil extracted from Canada to the US Gulf coast. After many twists and turns, President Barack Obama – the green Prez that should have [...]

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Germany is still adding a lot of solar PV capacity

gama — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:57:37 +0000

To GreenTech Media : “ Germany installed more than 2 gigawatts of solar in the month of December alone. (…) Installations for the full year will be nearly 7 gigawatts according to the German Solar Industry Association (BSW).” The article goes further : “ According to the BSW, solar power contributes approximately three percent of the German electricity [...]

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Chevron to pay $18 billion to Ecuador

gama — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:43:08 +0000

To Reuters : ” An Ecuadorean appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that Chevron Corp should pay $18 billion in damages to plaintiffs who accused the U.S. oil giant of polluting the Amazon jungle and damaging their health. “ ” A judge ordered Chevron to pay $8.6 billion in environmental damages last February, but [...]

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Engineers discover self healing circuits

gama — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:34:59 +0000

To Ecogeek : “ A team of engineers at the University of Illinois have figured out how to create self-healing circuits in electronics and batteries, a discovery that could lead to longer equipment life ” ” As electronics have become more complex, one small circuit failure can render a device useless, especially since it is hard or often impossible to [...]

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China to increase – again – its efforts

gama — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:39:12 +0000

The situation is critical in the People’s Republic of China as everyday it is becoming more and more evident than business-as-usual scenario would doom the country, and the world. As the air pollution in Beijing is reaching truly horrifing levels the local government has called to ” reduce emissions of “major pollutants” by as much [...]

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Mixed feelings about the Durban climate talks

gama — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:35:50 +0000

As you sure know, the Durban Climate talks ended Sunday. There are some good news, but they are mostly bad. Good news first : The Kyoto Protocol has been extended until 2017. Another good news : the Durban agreement was the first ever to bind all countries to act on climate change. Sure, this is [...]

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Climate disinformation backfires in the USA

gama — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:32:49 +0000

Alanis Morissette once sang it : life can be ironic sometimes. This was especially the case when a few months ago a study paid by the highly polluting conglomerate of the Koch brothers showed that yes, climate change is real. Now a poll in the United States is showing that more and more Americans are [...]

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IEA World Energy Outlook 2011

gama — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:48:07 +0000

According to the IEA’s annual report, the situation is getting bleaker and bleaker. Confirming that we have five years to start decreasing our global emissions – cf. my previous post on that very matter – it is also providing several other findings. As you can sure imagine, several websites published lengthy articles on the very [...]

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