By William H. McMichael – Staff writer Posted : Monday Apr 16, 2007 18:15:24 EDT Global warming isn’t often thought of as a matter of interest for the U.S. military. But it should be, an advisory board of 11 retired flag officers concluded in a report issued Monday under the auspices of the Center for Naval Analyses, a non-profit national security analysis group. Climate change is happening, the blue-ribbon panel. . . CONTINUE
NASA – March 29, 2007 “Dead zones” in this context are areas where the bottom water (the water at the sea floor) is anoxic – meaning that it has very low (or completely zero) concentrations of dissolved oxygen. These dead zones are occurring in many areas along the coasts of major continents, and they are spreading over larger areas of the sea floor. Because very few organisms can tolerate the. . . CONTINUE
March 24, 2007 http://pppad.blogspot.com/2007/05/nimh-held-hostage-by-chevron-texaco.html Chevron and EVs Plug-in hybrids are forced to use lead-acid or lithium batteries, and it’s no accident. The existing and proven EV-95 NiMH battery from Panasonic, which lasts longer than the life of the car, has adequate power for acceleration without an Internal Combustion (“IC”) engine, and can drive an EV at 80 mph for up to 120 miles, went into production in Jan., 1997. These. . . CONTINUE
By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: March 8, 2007 “This sure sounds like a Soviet-style directive to me” – a former Interior Department official in the Clinton administration. Internal memorandums circulated in the Alaskan division of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service appear to require government biologists or other employees traveling in countries around the Arctic not to discuss climate change, polar bears or sea ice if they are not designated. . . CONTINUE
September 20, 2006, Posted by Teresa The Royal Society — the world’s oldest learned society — has publicly taken on Exxon. Just so you know: this is the first time in the Royal Society’s 364 years that they’ve done something like this. Britain’s leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change. In an unprecedented step,. . . CONTINUE
Pay Heed On July 12, 2006, Sterling D. Allan wrote: Billed as the largest bankruptcy ever, the Enron demise is something to which our generation must pay heed. Surely Enron is not the only company in our day engaged in the kind of greed-driven and unethical practices that brought about Enron’s demise. They were focused on money, not service nor enduring principles. Anything to increase earnings, no matter how many. . . CONTINUE
Natural Resources Defense Council health threats posed by a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives January 10, 2005: The Bush White House, the Defense Department and industry collaborated in a backroom campaign to manipulate a National Academy of Sciences report on health threats posed by a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives, according to documents obtained by NRDC. The NAS report, ordered by the Bush administration,. . . CONTINUE
BBC News Wednesday, 3 November, 2004 130-year-old Chinese fire put out A fire that broke out more than 100 years ago at a Chinese coalfield has finally been extinguished, reports say. In the last four years, firefighters have spent $12m in efforts to put out the flames at Liuhuanggou colliery, near Urumqi in Xinjiang province. While ablaze, the fire burned up an estimated 1.8m tons of coal every year, according. . . CONTINUE
