One of the smallest countries in the world has a big goal! The Costa Rican government is developing plans to begin offsetting all of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions, to have zero output of carbon dioxide by 2021. Environment and Energy Minister Roberto Dobles said Costa Rica aims to reach this goal using incentives, budgeting and laws, including measures to promote biofuels, hybrid vehicles, and clean energy. Another key component of the national strategy will be a “C-Neutral” label to certify that tourism and certain industrial practices mitigate all of the carbon dioxide they emit, he adds. The government also plans payments to protect wildlife habitat and scenic beauty.
We all know that global warming is not due to political statements at all, even that each country has a key role into the collective examine. The director of TGGWS and the boss of Wag TV, Martin Durkin, is a “right-wing Marxist” whose main motivation is to allow the third world to get richer. I know that being communist or just spreading such personal positions is not modern nowadays, when community and social life goes to selfish lifestyle. It’s your personal right to choose it and i don’t want to point on this topic right now, as our blog is motivated to one and only aim. Continue reading Is Global Warming Swindle?
It all begin when 2004 tsunami hit the Maldives islands, submerging for several minutes. Those waters retreated, but rising sea levels from global warming won’t be so transient. I saw some comments under this topic that the Dutch have been doing this for 700 years or more, as have it in UK, and peoples ask what’s new? Continue reading Maldives against Global Warming
Stephen Petranek reveals the question that occupies scientists at the end of the day (and the beginning of happy hour): How might the world end? What was the global politic in the past decades that cost to us chance to be named from our adherents with words like lame?
Stephen Petranek lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle accelerator gone wild? This 2002 video is just our quick Sunday informational what we all could not forget. You can download this video in high resolution (480p) here.
The Global Environment and Energy Correspondent for The Economist takes an up-close look at global warming, the auto industry, and government. Written for the intelligent layperson, Vaitheeswaran’s book “Power to the People” is by far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the energy-economy-environment problematique available. Vijay V. is a global correspondent for The Economist. He joined the magazine’s staff as the London-based Latin America Correspondent in 1992 and two years later, he opened its first bureau in that region in Mexico City. He wrote about political, financial and cultural developments in that part of the world until 1997, when he returned to the editorial headquarters in London. As the newspaper’s Global Environment & Energy Correspondent, he covered the politics, economics, business, technology and global warming (see this) involved in those topics from 1998 to 2006. Check the Pulizter Prize winning Author of The Prizelatest interview here.
