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POPSTechnos: 2% des émissions de CO2 mondiales On croyait que l'industrie de l'aviation était la pire à l'égard des émissions de CO2 dans l'atmosphère. Selon cet article du magazine britannique The Economist, les technologies (informatique, imprimantes, téléphones mobiles et ce qui vient avec) sont tout autant à blâmer.
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POPSAl Gore's no-carbon emission car arrives at US dealerships! A staff of Pakistani surgeons have set up mobile clinics outside select dealerships where young and old have taken the incentive offer and who wanted an immediate upgrade to compliment their new green automobile. At a San Diego dealership, a young aspiring actress recently bought a new Obama Green and had her knockers upgraded to size 38dd. With a smile and a little jiggle, she proudly took possession of her new eco-friendly automobile. Al Gore announced that it will be coming out with a new model next year for men..........It will be called the 'Big Dude', and sales are expected to be brisk.
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POPSUS Needs To Pay for China’s Emissions President Obama and Senate leaders have frowned on hardline trade measures. But Secretary Locke’s statement could open up a new can of worms"right when China’s actions on energy and the environment are proving so crucial to mustering support among wavering senators for the administration’s big cap-and-trade bill. UPDATE: The Commerce Department sent this clarification late Friday: “Secretary Locke has been very clear on emphasizing the importance of fair trade as a part of the United States’ relationship with China. He believes U.S. companies should not be disadvantaged by Chinese imports not bound by responsible policies to reduce carbon emissions. China and the US must work together to ensure a level playing field and reduce our carbon footprints. The Secretary’s trip to China demonstrated his commitment to fair trade and his belief that both the United States and China can benefit
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POPSArizona Looks to Outlaw Global Warming Legislation With many scientists who are not on the US Governments payrole, either directly or through affiliated organisations, supporting this it is just common sense. The evidence is obvious for those who care to look. It is refreshing to see people taking a stand against something they know to be wrong.
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POPSMan-Made Disaster (c) Auctioning of assigned amounts or emission allowances at the international and/or domestic level; ( More taxes ) (d) A uniform global levy on CO2 emissions, with exemption for LDCs; ( More taxes ) (e) Levies on emissions from international aviation and maritime transport; (More taxes) (f) A tax on air travel; ( More taxes ) (g) A share of proceeds from market-based mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol. ( More taxes ) (h) A global levy on international monetary transactions. ( More taxes ) Gee, I detect pattern. Well, that should help pay off the country-killing deficit caused by the Obama Depression Budget. Investors Business Daily calls the EPA's finding -- that carbon dioxide is toxic, and therefore should be regulated -- "Man-Made Disaster" http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=330822830678035
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POPSHere's How My Cap-and-Trade Plan Works You know the Cap-and-Trade bill that Democrats narrowly passed late last week? The bill -- the ill-named "American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009, H.R. 2454") -- consists of well over a thousand pages of government intrusions into every aspect of your life. Among other things, the bill regulates farming; fertilizers; animal husbandry and animal diets; feedstock; soil; light bulbs; home mortgages; banking; power generation and transmission; water and sewer systems; manufacturing; building codes; land use (forested, cleared, wetlands, etc); "manure management"; and creates gigantic new government bureaucracies (unionized, of course) to regulate, control, monitor and audit American citizens. It even reaches into your neighborhood and overrides Home Owners Assocation agreements. Most importantly for companies, it specifies "emission allowances" for carbon dioxide. You know, the stuff that plants breathe and we exhale.
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POPS EDF calls for support for nuclear industry Already blackmailing the taxpayer for what amounts to be a blank cheque! There is no doubt that the new generation will cost far more than projected, just as in Finland. A problem is that Gordon Brown has gone and given all the money to the banks. Britain will have to get serious when it faces the inevitable energy gap in two or three years time.
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POPSMile Per Bama Gallon. Obama loves to give away OUR money to bail out the unions. Now up go gas prices and the price of that smog check California and other states demand goes up up up too. Oh joy.
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POPSLess Fossil Fuels Must Be Burned to Avoid Tipping Point
If other countries cut their per-person emission levels to match U.S. cuts, the U.S. would have to cut 90-95 percent to keep the world from exceeding one trillion ton level, Hare said. Fewer amounts of fossil fuels must be burned to cut emissions. Three quarters of known reserves must be untouched the authors of the German study said. “Only a fast switch away from fossil fuels will give us a reasonable chance to avoid considerable warming,” said Mainshausen. World carbon emissions have to start dropping by 2015 or cuts will be too “draconian,” according to Meinhausen. Since the industrial revolution started, about 500 billion tons of carbon have been emitted, according to a University of Oxford study. The study says that one trillion metric tons of carbon will be a tipping point for climate change. “Emitting carbon dioxide slower will not prevent dangerous climate change unless it involves phasing out carbon dioxide emissions altogether,” the study said.
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POPSRealstone, Carbon Trust Involvement Architectural stone is already one of, if not the best building materials when considering the effect its creation has on the environment. It is also an eminently renewable resource.
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POPSThe Status of "Spaceship Earth" In his speech to the Royal Society, he will argue that when a model includes the whole Earth system it shows that "…when the carbon dioxide in the air exceeds 500 parts per million the global temperature suddenly rises 6ºC and becomes stable again despite further increases or decreases of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This contrasts with the IPCC models that predict that temperature rises and falls smoothly with increasing or decreasing carbon dioxide." The man is not solely alarmist. He believes that we should attempt to lower greenhouse gases, and minimize the destruction of forests; but he believes that that will simply not be enough. The bottom line, according to Lovelock, is that we will simply have to adapt.
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POPSThe Status of "Spaceship Earth" What’s worse is that Lovelock believes that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are underestimating the severity of climate change. He has labeled a report issued by the IPCC earlier this year as "properly cautious", adding that he believes the report leaves a tone of “we can fix this”, when there is none. He continues and adds that a possibly six to eight billion people will suffer food and water shortages, intolerable climates, and the extinction of entire ecosystems. Global Dimming - 47min:44sec
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POPSClimate Change - Survival Not Taxes
Of course, the real goal of these conferences is creating a global climate slush fund to transfer wealth from unpopular but productive entities to the unproductive: A successful global effort to reduce greenhouse gases would establish a common price on emissions in all countries, at a level that induces the required reduction in the emissions intensity of economic activity. It could do this through agreement on applying a common rate of tax on emissions in all countries. Alternatively, and more directly, it could allocate entitlements to emit greenhouse gases across countries through an emissions trading scheme: international trade in emissions entitlements would tend to equalize the carbon price across countries. Once again, it seems unlikely that Americans would consent to a global climate change tax on every item they purchase. Unfortunately, that will be the end result of any global emission reduction agreement. Higher costs for manufactured goods, higher transportation c
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POPSOctober Surprise ~ 14 Inches Of Snow Fell At High Point State Park
To continue passing legislation to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) or other “greenhouse gases” isn’t just stupid, it is lethal. What people are going to need more of is the energy to heat their homes and workplaces. Thwarting the building of more coal-fired or nuclear plants to generate electricity is suicidal. That is, however, exactly what Congress intends to do and we can anticipate blizzard of legislation, instituting “cap-and-trade” requirements, increases in ethanol requirements, and a host of other poisonous legislation that will severely handicap any recovery from the current financial crisis and inflict a host of allegedly “unintended” consequences. One of those consequences were the food riots that occurred earlier this year around the world when the price of corn rose in response to U.S. mandates that ethanol be used along with gasoline. Proposed increases in such ethanol use will require engineering changes in new automobiles . . . .
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POPSThirty years of warmer temperatures go poof For nearly 30 years, Professor Christy has been in charge of NASA's eight weather satellites that take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily around the globe. In a paper co-written with Dr. Douglass, he concludes that while manmade emissions may be having a slight impact, "variations in global temperatures since 1978 ... cannot be attributed to carbon dioxide." Moreover, while the chart below was not produced by Douglass and Christy, it was produced using their data and it clearly shows that in the past four years -- the period corresponding to reduced solar activity -- all of the rise in global temperatures since 1979 has disappeared.
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POPSTH!NK Ox – A Fully Electric Car Think, with more than 17 years of experience in developing and producing electric vehicles is launching one of its models 'The Ox' in North America. The cars will start selling in the US next year but the actual mass roll out is slated for sometime in 2011,
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