Global Warming
Good News and Bad News about Drop in CO2 Emissions
There's good news and bad news about a 10% drop in CO2 emissions overall in FY08 in Japan. The good news for the CO2 watchers is that emissions are down. Yeah, I said that. The bad news is that five major industries - steel, chemicals, oil, paper and cement -- are suffering from steep production cuts. "The five industries accounted for a ...
Global Warming Causes, Not Manmade Japan Says
The conflict between the environmentalists and the political activists about global warming causes and the impact of human activity on rising global temperatures, seems to have been rekindled once again by a controversial report by the Japan Society of Energy and Resources (JSER). Three of the five researchers who conducted the extensive study concluded that global warming was majorly a cause ...
Tokyo Says, “Companies will go green or else?”
Tokyo will soon require domestic electricity companies to buy surplus solar power generated by households at about twice the current price. The plan will come into effect as early as April the start of Japan's new fiscal year. Tokyo wants to promote solar power as part of Japan's efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. "Japan has already led solar power technology in ...
More Gloom and Doom Predictions about Global Warming
Ho hum. Some 'top scientists' are predicting "global warming is likely to worsen faster and cause more environmental damage than has been predicted." "Unless aggressive measures are taken, the greenhouse gases will accumulate faster than expected in the Earth's atmosphere, increasing the danger of irreversible climate change by the end of the century, a leading climate scientist of the Intergovernmental Panel ...
The Global Warming Watermarks Project
No matter who or what caused it - human or natural causes, global warming is a fact and we should do our best to prevent any of "deadly" effects. With that in mind a group of artists from England came up with an interesting public art project meant bring awareness into our lives. Dubbed the Watermarks project, it uses official ...
Glaciers Can Defy Global Warming, Too – Perito Moreno
[caption id="attachment_3857" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Perito Moreno"][/caption] Global warming - happening, not happening, human caused, not caused and all that aside. Yeah, there is global climate change. And whether we can do anything about it and all that aside...there is a glacier, Perito Moreno in the southern Patagonia region, also known as the "White Giant" that is gaining as much as 3 ...
Japanese Satellite Will Monitor Global Warming – Go-Sat
Japan's space agency will send a global warming monitoring satellite into space this week. The satellite will monitor greenhouse gases and help in the fight against climate change. There's a chance of success for the first half of the mission; the second half is a non starter. The satellite will orbit the Earth every two hours and collect new climate data every ...
The Karola Glacier + Map of Tibet
A couple of foreign tourists can be seen walking along the Karola Glacier - 5,560 meters high, situated on the boundary between Nargarze and Gyangze Counties of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Here's the Karola Glacier. Here are the pics. We don't know what the glacier looks like, or how far it extends during its peak. Is it smaller now because of global ...
Where is Global Warming When You Want it? Midwest Drops to -40
Temperatures have dipped to Arctic levels in Minneapolis. A snowstorm followed. People died from exposure. Even Kansas (you're not in Kansas anymore) and Missouri dropped to single digits (-15Cish). At one place, Hallock, wind chill was -58 below. I have been in the bitter cold before, changed a tire at -25C and saw ice sculptures in Northern China at the same ...
15 Deadly Effects of Global Warming: A Catastrophe in the Making?
There is a point beyond which you cannot trample with the mightily patient Mother earth. She has taken everything that has been thrown at her and has tried to balance the planet and keep it up and running by making tiny adjustments and giving us gentle jolts once in a while. But when the planet that you call home is ...
