Topic: Energy
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. // Albert Einstein
Spam counted in Miles
Jul 13, 2009
The average GHG emission associated with a single spam message is 0.3 grams of CO2. That’s like driving three feet (one meter) in equivalent emissions, but when multiplied by the annual volume of spam, it’s like driving around the Earth 1.6 million times.
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Sigmar Gabriel
Feb 6, 2007
Speech was held 31.01.2007 at European Parliament in Brussels:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Climate change is a reality. Scientists have been issuing warnings for a long time. And anyone who reads the newspapers attentively will have noticed that these warnings ...>>
Lights Out
Jan 30, 2007
Currently in Paris, France, hundreds of Scientists are approving the IPCC report from Working Group 1 "The Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis" (chapters outline) in closed-door sessions. They finish 1st February 2007 and next day the release is p ...>>
Bushfires
Jan 16, 2007
Today Bushfire swept through transmission lines near Benalla, caused a massive blackouts in Victoria and affected 200,000. Temperature was at 39°C and network came under demand by cooling devices. Seen by Daily Terra, 2007-01-15. ...>>
ExxonMobil
Jan 9, 2007
Latest report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation of how ExxonMobil [ NYSE:XOM ] has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the sci ...>>
Grain Prices
Jan 5, 2007
The World Health Organization states:
Poor nutrition contributes to 1 out of 2 deaths (53%) associated with infectious diseases among children aged under five in developing countries.
1 out of 4 preschool children suffers from under-nutrition, which ca ...>>
Energy Demands
Nov 30, 2006
This McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) and McKinsey's Global Energy and Materials (GEM) perspective aims to increment the understanding of global energy demand.
The main finding is that, even with growing demands, there are sufficient opportunities for energy ...>>
Fuel Consumption
Nov 3, 2005
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
By using a coupled climate and carbon cycle model to look at global climate and carbon cycle changes, the scientists found that the earth would warm by 8 degrees Celsius (14.5 degrees Fahrenheit) if humans use the entir ...>>
