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• Janet Daley - Therell be nowhere to run from the new world government

  
  The Contemporary Conservative — Authority: 147
  From the Telegraph: There is scope for debate – and innumerable newspaper quizzes – about who was the most influential public figure of the year, or which the most significant event. But there can be little doubt which word won the prize for most important adjective. 2009 was the year in which "global" swept the ...
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• All over the map: Rounding up editorial reax to Copenhagen

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  by Russ Walker It’s too weak! … No, it was a fool’s errand to begin with … China is to blame! Of course not, it was the United States that brokered a bad deal for the world’s poor … There’s no hope … Progress was made, there’s more to do…
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• Could ocean acidification deafen dolphins?

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  As more and more carbon dioxide enters the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans are becoming more acidic . In fact, this acidification has been blamed for everything from killing off coral to aiding algae and even super-sizing fish ear bones . But the changing marine chemistry may also be altering the deep…
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  2 days ago

• In 100 Heartbeats Jeff Corwin tackles causes and costs of species extinctions

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Conservationist Jeff Corwin is known for often bringing a goofy passion to his television projects for Animal Planet and other networks. His latest effort displays no less passion, but switches out most of the jokes for gravitas. [More]
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• What to make of second leaked U.N. doc and its sanctioned 3C rise in global temp?

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  by Grist Earlier this week, yet another “leaked” U.N. document caused a fuss in Copenhagen. Leaked document #2, first reported on by the Guardian, showed that the commitments on the table for a post-Kyoto treaty would still allow for a potentially disastrous 3C temperature rise in global temperature. Bill ...
  3 days ago

• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
  3 days ago

• Time To End The Summit Tsunami

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 734
  Back in September, Heritage fellow James Roberts wrote of the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh: In the past 10 months, the leaders of the G-8 and G-20 nations have met three times at elaborate and expensive summits to address the world’s financial woes. … Originally a Group of Six–France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the ...
  3 days ago

• More On Thom Yorke’s Disdain For The Climate Change Conference

  
  cornershopstudios — Authority: 144
  As previously reported Thom Yorke snagged a press pass to the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark… Needless to say the very vocal Radiohead frontman had much to say on the topic. “I felt compelled to come to find some hope from these talks. for our kids and theirs. judge ...
  3 days ago

• Canada: … and back home in Denierville

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  MayesColin_CPC.jpg Science Denying Tory MP Can’t Get Anything Right The Conservative Member of Parliament from Okanagan Shuswap, Colin Mayes, writing in an error-ridden email to a constituent (reproduced in full below) has questioned the human contribution to climate change. “Climate warming is happening,” ...
  3 days ago

• IHS Global Insights: Top 10 Economic Predictions for 2010

  
  HorizonWatching — Authority: 127
  In its annual economic predictions list for 2010r, IHS Global Insight (www.ihsglobalinsight.com), says the U.S and world economies have emerged from recession, and the recovery process has begun. Unfortunately, for most developed economies, this just does not feel like a...
  3 days ago

• Copenhagen is not on the verge of signing a treaty that would lock in 3C warming!

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  by Andrew Light If we were all in the Bella Center I’d start this post with something like, “The buzz in the hall today at COP 15 in Copenhagen was a leaked UN document confirming the worst fears of …”  But we’re not in the hall.  Most of us were…
  3 days ago

• Canada Dismissed as a Player at COP15 Talks

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Harper in a hat.jpg Say Goodbye, Stephen In a last-ditch attempt to salvage something useful from the COP15 climate talks, U.S. President Barack Obama joined a group of world leaders in Copenhagen today. Here’s who was on the list: Australian Prime Minister Kevin RuddUnited Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown ...
  3 days ago

• 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 ...
  4 days ago

• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
  4 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 ...
  5 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 ...
  5 days ago

• 2008 G8 GT: Giving Our Car "Curb Appeal"

  
  Long-Term Road Tests — Authority: 148
    Weve listed the 2008 Pontiac G8 GT for sale and have only gotten two calls and no buyers. Last time I blogged about this someone left a comment that said something like, "Why dont you supposed car guys ever wipe down the engine compartment? I do that to my car every three weeks." Even though someone ...
  5 days ago

• Looking for Life in the Multiverse

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  The typical Hollywood action hero skirts death for a living. Time and again, scores of bad guys shoot at him from multiple directions but miss by a hair. Cars explode just a fraction of a second too late for the fireball to catch him before he finds cover. And friends…
  5 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 ...
  6 days ago

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