Malaysian wildlife authorities rescued 2,300 endangered lizards headed for restaurants that offer exotic meat, an official said Tuesday. Read more here.
Archives for January 2009
Australia Lacks Capacity to Meet Carbon Reduction Targets
THE Australian government has committed to the introduction of an emissions trading scheme – officially named the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. I have previously suggested that this scheme may reduce the amount of energy available to every man; woman and child currently living in Australia by up to 35 percent, absent the discovery and implementation of new sources of carbon free energy.
Last Friday the Australian Academy of Technical Sciences and Engineering (AATSE) confirmed my pessimism.
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Emissions Spike for Inauguration
The 600 private jets expected to fly visitors to and from the Inauguration of Barack Obama will produce 25,320,000 pounds of CO2. The Institute for Liberty.
Fish Reduce Risk of Ocean Acidification
The total mass of bony fish in the ocean is between 812 million tons and 2,050 million tons, producing around 110 million tons of calcium carbonate per year – reducing the risk of ocean acidification. Read more here.
More Nuclear for the UK
Germany’s two largest power companies joined forces yesterday and announced an ambitious plan to build at least four nuclear reactors in the UK at an estimated cost of £20 billion. Read more here.
Congratulations to Winners of the 2008 Weblog Awards
BASED on 933,022 votes cast in 48 categories over seven days of voting winners of The 2008 Weblog Awards have now been announced.
Veteran political blogger, columnist and author, Andrew Sullivan, won the best blog beating the Huffington Post and others. Mr Sullivan’s blogs is hosted by the Atlantic magazine.
Climate change sceptic, Anthony Watts, won best Science blog. Mr Watts, and his team, focus on climate change issues and have a project auditing US weather stations which makes for great visuals and amazing reading.
I would also like to particularly congratulate Lubos Motl for winning best European blog and Tim Blair for winning best Australian blog.
Strobist won both the best online community and also best photograph blog.
This blog, www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog , was a finalist in the best online community section and we did well coming in second in our section.
Much thanks to everyone who voted.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.