Monthly Archives: January 2008

SLAX on USB how to

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iThe very first Linux distribution that I have tried as a full install for a server was Slackware. I still have some preference to Slackware but given the improvements and features from Ubuntu made it difficult for me to tinker with Slackware again. However, this tutorial on how to install Slax on a USB thumbdrive [...]
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Feds Revise Child Safety Seat Ratings

By | Published: January 31, 2008
New guideliness measure ease of use, installation procedures. Original post by miscellaneous
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FutureGen Project Stopped

By | Published: January 31, 2008
The FutureGen Project, a clean coal demonstration plant that would have included carbon capture and sequestration (and was #8 on My Top Energy Stories of 2007) has been cancelled. The culprit? Cost… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Original post by miscellaneous
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Future Reserves

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Just going through some files on my hard drive, and I ran across the following story. Unfortunately, I don’t have the source. But it’s an interesting look at where projected future oil reserves are… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Original post by miscellaneous
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Carbon trading must be globally regulated

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Telegraph: Simon Linnett, Executive Vice-Chairman of Rothschild, has called for a new international body, the World Environment Agency, to regulate carbon trading. In a recently published paper, Trading Emissions, for the Social Market Foundation, Mr Linnett argues that the International problem of climate change demands an international solution. Unless governments cede some of [...]
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Candidates line up behind California in greenhouse-gas fight

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San Francisco Chronicle: Republican presidential candidates lined up behind California’s right to limit tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases in their final debate before Tuesday’s primary, joining their Democratic counterparts and indicating the state would be likely to get a green light once President Bush leaves the White House a year from now. All four [...]
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Britain in bloom (as spring is sprung earlier than ever)

By | Published: January 31, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Independent: Gardening enthusiasts could be forgiven for forgetting what month it is when they step outside in the morning, as carpets of snowdrops, crocuses and daffodils – all traditional spring flowers – are in bloom across the country. It has been a record-breaking spell for flowers, with many spring varieties opening [...]
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Bill Clinton Says Economic Slowdown Could Be Necessary To Fight Global Warming

By | Published: January 31, 2008
All Headline News: Speaking in Denver on Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton did not mince words on how to combat global warming, telling the crowd that the fight against climate change required industrialized nations to "slow down their economies and cut back on greenhouse gas emissions." Bill Clinton, who was traveling from state to [...]
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World urged to help poor adapt to climate change

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: The developed world should help poor countries brace for global warming by assisting them in taking steps like restoring coastal forests and training health care workers, the head of the U.N.’s climate panel said. Recognizing that climate change may be hard to reverse, experts are now examining "adaptation," or how [...]
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Warming May Cause Crop Failures, Food Shortages by 2030

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;National Geographic: Impoverished farmers in South Asia and southern Africa could face growing food shortages due to climate change within just 20 years, a new study says. Increasing levels of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are heating up the planet, with droughts and shifting rainfall patterns predicted for many parts of [...]
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US study concludes major crop losses from climate change by 2030 in world’s poor areas

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Associated Press: Changes in climate brought by global warming could cause major crop losses in many of the world’s poorest regions within the next two decades, environmental specialists reported Thursday. The findings foresee alarming consequences for many of the 1 billion poor people who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, largely [...]
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US Scraps Plan for Biggest Clean-Coal Power Plant

By | Published: January 31, 2008
Reuters: Ballooning construction costs that nearly doubled the price tag for building the world’s cleanest coal-burning power plant to US$1.8 billion prompted the US Energy Department on Wednesday to pull the plug on funding the project. A consortium of utility and coal companies in December picked a site in Mattoon, Illinois, to build [...]
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UN: Climate Change May Cost $20 Trillion

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Associated Press: Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report. Ban’s report provides an overview of U.N. climate efforts to help the [...]
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Study: Global Warming Responsible for Western Droughts

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Washington Post: The persistent and dramatic decline in the snowpack of the mountains of the West is caused primarily by human-induced global warming and not the result of natural variability of weather patterns in the region, researchers reported today. Using data collected over the past 50 years, the scientists confirmed [...]
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Scientists warn of looming water supply crisis

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Agence France-Presse: Climate change has already dramatically altered the water cycle and these changes signal a looming water supply crisis, according to a prominent group of hydrologists and climatologists writing Thursday in Science magazine. They argue that radical water cycle changes will be widespread and that past trends can no longer be relied upon [...]
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