Monthly Archives: July 2007

Summer Heat Means Less Gas at the Pump

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Activists want states to require a price adjustment on hot days. Original post by miscellaneous
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Oil Price Record Headed to Gas Pump?

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Oil prices hit record high based on high demand and trader speculation. Original post by miscellaneous
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Advanced Acne Treatment

By admin | Published: July 31, 2007
Years ago my younger brother had quite a problem with acne, so much so that he took a series of prescription medications for his condition. One of those prescription medications was later found to cause benign bone tumors, and sure enough years after quiting the medication, after his acne cleared up for good, he discovered [...]
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Will Asia choose clean energy or dirty energy?

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United Press International: There is a paradigm shift underway in the economic order of the world. The two most populous countries in Asia will soon become the second and third economic powers of the world. The two billion people of China and India will constitute an economic powerhouse — although still far behind the West, [...]
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Climbers Bring Climate Change From Mountaintop to Laptops

By | Published: July 31, 2007
Environment News Service: The glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau provide more than 70 percent of the fresh water used by 178 million people who live downstream in Pakistan, India, and China. Recent shrinkage of these glaciers in the lofty Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu-Kush mountain ranges is threatening to dry the rivers that provide this vital [...]
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China: Blanket of haze puts Olympic clean air target in doubt

By | Published: July 31, 2007
Agence France-Presse: As the clock ticks towards one year out from the Beijing Olympic Games, a thick blanket of haze wedged over the capital for several weeks is casting a polluted shadow over countdown celebrations. International Olympic Committee officials have repeatedly warned that bad air quality is one of the biggest threats to the [...]
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Chairman Says APEC Finance Ministers Need Climate Change Consensus

By | Published: July 31, 2007
Associated Press:  International agreement on managing climate change will be a goal of Asia-Pacific finance ministers meeting in Australia this week, the chairman of the gathering said Tuesday. Australian Treasurer Peter Costello said he hoped the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum at the east coast tourist resort at Coolum would reach consensus on [...]
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China Says Energy Efficiency Slowly Improving

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Associated Press: The energy efficiency of China’s fuel-guzzling economy is improving but the country — the world’s No. 2 oil consumer — is still struggling to meet self-imposed conservation targets, the government said Tuesday. China launched a five-year campaign in 2006 to cut energy use per unit of economic output 20 percent by [...]
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U.N. chief’s tepid sense of urgency

By | Published: July 31, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle: IF YOU REALLY believe that the planet is at the tipping point on global warming and the consequences will be fatal for people around the world, especially the poor, then all industrialized nations need to curb their greenhouse-gas emissions. If the United States must sacrifice, so must China, which is fast emerging [...]
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United Kingdom: Government tells us which cars are greenest

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Telegraph (UK): The Department for Transport has published a list of the most environmentally friendly cars on the market. The clear winner is the diesel powered Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion which emits a mere 99g of CO2 per kilometre. The Government has broken up the car market into 14 categories. The Polo is [...]
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Uncontrolled Population Blamed for Climate Change

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Inter Press Service: When it comes to climate change population matters, particularly for countries in South Asia, Africa and some Arab countries, says Prof. Khalid Rashid. A mathematician and physicist in Pakistan, he has long been studying the phenomenon of global warming and views the uncontrolled population explosion with much trepidation. But there are [...]
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Frequency of Atlantic hurricanes doubled over last century, climate change suspected

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Innovations Report: About twice as many Atlantic hurricanes form each year on average than a century ago, according to a new statistical analysis of hurricanes and tropical storms in the north Atlantic. The study concludes that warmer sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and altered wind patterns associated with global climate change are fueling much of the [...]
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United Kingdom: Mayor attacks Heathrow injunction

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BBC: London Mayor Ken Livingstone has urged Heathrow Airport authorities to rethink plans to curb a climate change protest. Operator BAA is seeking an injunction to curtail a week of action starting on 14 August by environmental groups opposed to the airport’s expansion. The mayor said he would oppose the injunction [...]
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Energy Bill Aids the Expansion Plans of Atomic Power Plants

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New York Times: A one-sentence provision buried in the Senate’s recently passed energy bill, inserted without debate at the urging of the nuclear power industry, could make builders of new nuclear plants eligible for tens of billions of dollars in government loan guarantees. Lobbyists have told lawmakers and administration officials in recent weeks that [...]
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Climate-Driven Pest Devours Canada’s Forests

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Inter Press Service: Environmentalists and researchers say that climate change is a significant factor in the pine beetle epidemic that has ravaged forests in the western Canadian provinces of British Columbia (BC) and Alberta. In some areas of the BC interior, almost 80 percent of the lodgepole pines will have been devastated by the [...]
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