Japan has launched the world’s first satellite dedicated to monitoring global greenhouse gas emissions, as part of efforts to tackle climate change. Read more here.
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Decisive Vote against Seal Products
THE European Union’s Environment Committee voted against the importation of products derived from seals last week and it was decisive: 43 in favour and one abstention.
The harvesting of seals is considered “morally unacceptable” and “in humane” but even with a ban on the commercial use of the seal products, seals would be culled in Canada to control population numbers.
Oil and Gas Exploration to Continue Under Obama
The US Interior Department estimates that the Outer Continental Shelf holds 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas that have yet to be discovered. Read more here.
More Cosmic Ray Correlations
The number of high-energy cosmic-rays reaching a detector deep underground, closely matches temperature measurements in the upper atmosphere. Read more here.
John Stossel on Global Warming
Lots of “good scientists” don’t agree that the debate is over. Watch the video here.
How to Save the Planet, James Lovelock
There is one way we could save ourselves and that is through the massive burial of charcoal. It would mean farmers turning all their agricultural waste – which contains carbon that the plants have spent the summer sequestering – into non-biodegradable charcoal, and burying it in the soil. Read more here.
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.