By Andrew Buncombe in Montreal
A detailed and disturbing strategy document has revealed an extraordinary American plan to destroy Europe’s support for the Kyoto treaty on climate change.
The ambitious, behind-the-scenes plan was passed to The Independent this week, just as 189 countries are painfully trying to agree the second stage of Kyoto at the UN climate conference in Montreal. It was pitched to companies such as Ford Europe, Lufthansa and the German utility giant RWE.
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How America plotted to stop Kyoto deal
9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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The Ping-Pong Ball Theory
5 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
The Ping-Pong Ball Theory:
I believe that there are tremendous stresses being built up in the Earth’s crust due to Global Warming. I further believe that this will trigger numerous earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions, even in volcanoes long thought dormant.
How could Global Warming, heating of the atmosphere, trigger events deep in the Earth, you ask?
Consider the Earth like a giant ping-pong ball. If you squeeze it on two sides with your fingers, the sides at ninety degree (…) -
U.S. Farmers Use Pesticide Despite Treaty
29 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsA sign, required by law, warns of a pesticide application of methyl bromide on a field near Watsonville, Calif., Aug. 12, 2005. The pesticide is used to fumigate the soil as preparation for strawberry planting. The U.S. continues to permit the methyl bromide to be used despite signing an international treaty that banned its use by 2005. Its survival demonstrates the difficulty of banishing a chemical that is a powerful toxin but that also helps deliver abundant, pest-free and affordable (…)
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Core Evidence That Humans Affect Climate Change
26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentIce drilled in Antarctica offers the fullest record of glacial cycles and greenhouse gas levels.
By Usha Lee McFarling, Times Staff Writer
An ice core about two miles long - the oldest frozen sample ever drilled from the underbelly of Antarctica - shows that at no time in the last 650,000 years have levels of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane been as high as they are today.
The research, published in today’s issue of the journal Science, describes the content of the (…) -
The Darwin exhibition frightening off corporate sponsors
24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Nicholas Wapshott in New York
An exhibition celebrating the life of Charles Darwin has failed to find a corporate sponsor because American companies are anxious not to take sides in the heated debate between scientists and fundamentalist Christians over the theory of evolution.
The entire $3 million (£1.7 million) cost of Darwin, which opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York yesterday, is instead being borne by wealthy individuals and private charitable donations. (…) -
World Interest Banking System is the FRAUD that drives TERRORISM, WAR, and POVERTY
23 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
9 commentsIt is interesting to note, that especially in the 20th and now the 21st century that the business of banking is the LARGEST and MOST powerful business in the world, claiming secretly ownership of most of the worlds resources, lands, labor forces, and markets. It is interesting because the financial news is full of information about such mind control topics about price of stocks, housing, labor, and a number of other so-called economic factors. But in a system that affects us all it has not (…)
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Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler on Race, Global Warming and Religion
18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
We speak with Octavia Butler, one of the few well-known African-American women science fiction writers. For the past thirty years, her work has tackled subjects not normally seen in that genre such as race, the environment and religion. [includes rush transcript] The Washington Post has called Octavia Butler “one of the finest voices in fiction period. A master storyteller who casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of (…)
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Where is Ansel Adams When We Need Him?
7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby Derrick Z. Jackson
Ansel Adams came to the White House in 1975 to deliver a print of a photograph from Yosemite National Park desired by President Ford and Betty Ford. Adams, still smarting from President Nixon’s neglect of public lands, asked Ford to redefine the meaning of our parks, maintain their funding, and put a ’’new emphasis on preservation and environmental responsibilities."
In 1983, Adams met with President Reagan, and not to deliver a photograph. He was a vocal critic of (…) -
Climate Change and Human Health
8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby Paul R. Epstein
In 1998, Hurricane Mitch dropped six feet of rain on Central America in three days. In its wake, the incidence of malaria, dengue fever, cholera, and leptospirosis soared. In 2000, rain and three cyclones inundated Mozambique for six weeks, and the incidence of malaria rose fivefold. In 2003, a summer heat wave in Europe killed tens of thousands of people, wilted crops, set forests ablaze, and melted 10 percent of the Alpine glacial mass.
This summer’s blistering heat (…) -
Melting Planet
4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsSpecies are dying out faster than we have dared recognise, scientists will warn this week. The erosion of polar ice is the first break in a fragile chain of life extending across the planet, from bears in the north to penguins in the far south
By Andrew Buncombe in Anchorage and Severin Carrell in London
The polar bear is one of the natural world’s most famous predators - the king of the Arctic wastelands. But, like its vast Arctic home, the polar bear is under unprecedented threat. Both (…)