Defection

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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
  3 days ago

• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
  3 days ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  4 days ago

• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
  5 days ago

• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
  5 days ago

• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
  5 days ago

• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
  6 days ago

• Climate skeptic: We are winning the science battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  - Dr. Fred Singer is the President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project and Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. The views expressed are his own - The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) charter states that the organization’s purpose is to look for ...
  6 days ago

• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
  6 days ago

• Rewriting history

  
  Borthlas — Authority: 124
  During the days of the Soviet Union, one Russian historian was reported to have said, "In my country, only the future is certain. The past is always changing." It was a neat allusion to the way in which the history books were forever being rewritten, and photographs doctored, to play down or delete the influence ...
  1 week ago

• Trott’s coach sad over him playing for England rather than S. Africa

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Cape Town (S. Africa), Dec.12 (ANI): When Jonathan Trott walks out to bat for England at the SuperSport Park Centurion here against South Africa next week, nobody will have more extreme emotions than his coach, Anton ‘Yogi’ Ferreira, who helped him up the first rungs of the international ladder. Ferreira, a huge ...
  1 week ago

• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
  1 week ago

• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
  1 week ago

• JohnsonDiversey exec sees CO2 reductions good for businesses

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but theyll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com on Thursday. Despite the inevitable short-term pain, Chidichimo said ...
  1 week ago

• Bishnoi wants ‘defector’ HJC legislators unseated

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Chandigarh, Dec 9 (IANS) Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) president Kuldip Bishnoi Wednesday sought that five legislators who ‘defected’ from his party and joined the ruling Congress should be disqualified and thereby unseated from the state assembly.Bishnoi submitted petitions to Speaker Harmohinder Singh Chatha at ...
  1 week ago

• Does anti-defection law ’stifle’ MPs?

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Does the anti-defection law, which was legislated to deter rampant floor-crossing in parliament, curtail freedom of MPs who feel powerless and “stifled” to express their views freely in parliament?Many MPs may think so, and have expressed the need to take a relook at a law that was enacted ...
  1 week ago

• Africans protest COP15, say “process manipulated”

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the most heated protest of these early days at COP15 in Copenhagen, African representatives accused the political leaders of the developed world of hijacking the conference to the detriment of developing nations. The marchers said the process of the talks had been manipulated by the developed worlds political ...
  1 week ago

• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
  1 week ago

• Defection Analysis

  
  Welsh Ramblings — Authority: 420
  A late post on the defection of Mohammed Asghar today from Plaid Cymru to the Tories. Ramblings finds that its much better to look at things after the dust has settled, and Oscars defection today certainly came as a bolt out of the blue. His staff members allegedly did not even know of their employers decision until ...
  1 week ago

• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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