Coinciding with expected government
approval of a third runway at Heathrow airport [
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dressed as Edwardian era protesters and ate cake and drank champagne [
ark] in the airline terminals to emulate the civilized Suffragette movement protests. And they have just made the surprise announcement that they have
bought land where the new runway would run [
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Ecological Internet has been campaigning for sufficient climate policies and been a critic of global environmental policy since Al Gore actually had the power to do something about climate change. To mark...
Serious consideration is being given to the mad proposition of
engineering the biosphere as a solution to climate change [
ark]. Technological pseudo-scientific proposals for humans to engineer atmospheric processes are dubbed
"geoengineering" [search] and generally seek to either reflect solar radiation or absorb greenhouse gases. They include such shortsighted, ill-conceived and risky ideas as mass release of aerosols into the atmosphere, fertilizing oceans with iron, and others, including my personal favorite, stationing mirrors...
It is reported
President Bush is closing off some of President-Elect Obama's immediate climate policy alternatives [
ark] with last minute "midnight" environmental regulations. These include barring the Environmental Protection Agency from considering the effects of
climate change on protected species [search], and forbidding the EPA to
regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act [search]. These are avenues Obama could have used immediately to begin regulating carbon dioxide (and still can but will...
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