Photographer Thierry Legault shot this spectacular image.
It shows the transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis 50 minutes after undocking from the ISS in front of the Sun on 17 September 2006 13:38:50 UTC. (more…)
Google has now indexed more than 10,000 pages of ExploreOurPla.net and offers on-site search results.
Not only to reduce server load I’ve disabled the internal wordpress search and let now Google do the work. Example: Search results for Tuvalu (more…)
Within 36 hours Milenyo - international codename Xangsane - grew from a tropical depression to a typhoon with gusts up to 240 km/h. He crossed the northern Philippines on Thursday, left six provinces - 43 million people - without electricity and killed at least eleven people. About 5500 people fled their homes, Crops and fruit trees worth $1.19 million had been destroyed. (more…)
Jeffrey D. Sachs is not comfortable with the editorial board of Wall Street’s Journal as he writes in the Scientific American October 2006 issue.
Another summer of record-breaking temperatures brought power failures, heat waves, droughts and tropical storms throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Only one place seemed to remain cool: the air-conditioned offices of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.
As New York City wilted beneath them, they sat insouciant and comfortable, hurling editorials of stunning misdirection at their readers, continuing their irresponsible drumbeat that global warming is junk science. (more…)
Excluding pollution from market calculations is quite profitable. The Fortune Global 500 lists five oil companies and four automobile manufacturers under the top ten. With profits of $36,130,000,000 ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) is the most profitable and by revenue the largest company in the world.
ExxonMobil has the highest market value of any publicly traded company in the world and makes a revenue per employee of more than $4mill, where for example Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) averages at $640,000.
Founded 1660 the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge is Britain’s top scientific institution. The History of the society is linked with popular scientists like Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, James Watson and Stephen Hawking.
The world’s oldest scientific academy in continuous existence sees empirical evidence as the basis of knowledge about the natural world.
September 4th, 2006: Senior Manager Bob Ward of the Royal Society writes an open letter to Director Nick Thomas of Esso UK about a misleading passage in the Corporate Citizenship Report: (more…)
The Third International Weather Forum is being organized by the French Meteorological Society in Ajaccio, Corsica, from 9 to 15 October 2006.
The accent will be on climate change and environmental issues. Two debates will be organized for the public: “The impact of climate change in Corsica” and “The challenge for Earth”.
On 13 and 14 October, professionals in the field can participate in four round-table sessions to discuss the climate situation and how best to keep the public informed. (more…)
When global temperature rises 1°C next decades the 400,000 years old record from Holocene is outranged. During the Middle Pliocene about three million years ago Earth was only 23°C warmer than today and sea level was 2535m higher. Are we going to beat all temperature records? (more…)
Just looking at what we’ve seen already, this is a major concern that fire seasons seem to be starting earlier and lasting longer. We’ve got to get a greater understanding on this, on the frequency of fires, the earlier start to the season and if there’s any connection to climate change.
If you’re talking about the driest August on record and the warmest August on record and you set that against a period of drought, then you would have to be concerned that this could be a bad fire season.
The agencies, no doubt, will be taking precautions and would be stressing that people who lived in properties at risk of bushfires make very, very serious preparations for potentially a very bad season.
Kevin O’Loughlin, Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre, Melbourne.
Photograph courtesy Jimmy Deguara
US President Bush, who leaves office in January 2009, is facing elections for the Senate and House in November 2006. Latest opinon polls state that about 70% of US citizens feel that global warming is happening.
So, is it time for an u-turn?
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) Strategic Plan 20th Sep, 2006 and addresses “not just climate change, but energy security, air pollution, and other pressing needs”. (more…)
As the General Assembly continued the general debate of its sixty-first session today, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, Margaret Beckett, warned that failure to act on climate change ran the risk of undermining the very basis of prosperity and security, because dealing with climate change was no longer a choice but an imperative.
Concerned that rising sea levels could potentially threaten London, Shanghai, Singapore, Amsterdam and Manhattan, she said no country could protect itself from climate change, unless it protected others by building a global basis for climate security. We must all be ready to find a way to get the agenda moving — beyond Kyoto, she urged. (more…)
