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Beiträge zum Stichwort ‘ climate-change ’


Can consumers save our climate?

27. Februar 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Live Green n Clean, extension3

Better-informed consumers have the potential to be important drivers of business and government action on climate change.



Cassandras of Climate

10. November 2009 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension4

The looming climate disaster should be our dominant political and policy concern. But it manifestly isn’t. Why not?



Congo can be part of the solution

9. November 2009 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension4

To purchase carbon credits from the countries of the Congo Basin would help the American industry and protect the rainforests.



The Ice Is Melting

9. November 2009 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension3

The world needs a fair, effective and ambitious deal in Copenhagen.



Germanwatch: Climate Expedition

7. August 2009 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Support Humanity, extension

“Germanwatch Climate Expedition” illustrates climate change from the perspective of space.



Migration and climate change

26. Juni 2009 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World

Victims of a warming world may be caught in a bureaucratic limbo unless things are done to ease—and better still, pre-empt—their travails.
Read more: Migration and climate change (economist.com)



Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate

24. Juni 2009 | Von atsil2 | Kategorie: Read the World

The Global Climate Coalition led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming.



Climate Trap

16. Juni 2009 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World

If China and the United States cannot agree on a common climate change strategy, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are likely to reach potentially disastrous levels.
Read more: Climate trap (New York Times)



Maldives: Help from Outer Space

11. Juni 2009 | Von atsil2 | Kategorie: English, TOWe, extension

“We can do nothing to stop climate change on our own, and so we have to buy land elsewhere” (Mohamed Nasheed)



Skeptics of human-caused global warming point to cold spell

4. März 2008 | Von atsil | Kategorie: English, Read the World

By Andrew C. Revkin (The New York Times)
SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2008
Scientists caution people on both sides of the environmental argument to not focus on short-term weather patterns but to look at the big picture.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/02/healthscience/cold.php



Enemy of the Planet

13. November 2006 | Von Josef Reich | Kategorie: Rhetorics

“To understand why Exxon Mobile is a worse environmental villain than other big oil companies, you need to know about how the science and politics of climate change have shifted….”

Paul Krugman: “Enemy of the Planet” (The New York Times)
Hey Mr. Raymond,
After helping Exxon lie to the public for years about climate change, how [...]