Monthly Archives: November 2009

Iowa Woman Says Hyundai Dealer Forced Car On Her

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Suit one of first under new consumer protection law Original post by miscellaneous
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Leeds scientist calls for world forest observatory

By | Published: November 30, 2009
Bioscience Technology: A new scientific organisation is needed to monitor the commitments that will be made by developing countries at Copenhagen to cut their deforestation rates, according new research at Leeds. Existing government agencies and research groups have failed to make full use of the thousands of satellite images of the Earth’s surface collected [...]
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U.S. Forest Service to Adapt Woodland Management to Climate Change

By | Published: November 30, 2009
Greenwire: Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell has directed the agency’s regions and research stations to jointly produce draft "landscape conservation action plans" by March 1 to guide its day-to-day response to climate change. In a memo earlier this month requesting the plans, Tidwell said climate change is "dramatically reshaping" how the agency will deliver [...]
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French watchdog concerned over nuclear skills

By | Published: November 30, 2009
Business Green: France’s nuclear watchdog has expressed concern over the loss of skills in the atomic energy industry after a near 20-year gap in building reactors. In an interview with the Financial Times, André-Claude Lacoste, head of the French Nuclear Safety Authority, said: "The relaunch of construction, and monitoring that relaunch, are not [...]
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Dalai Lama urges world to act on climate change

By | Published: November 30, 2009
Associated Press: The world’s leaders must prioritize the issue of global warming above all else, the Dalai Lama said Monday, adding that he feels encouraged by next month’s climate change summit in Copenhagen. The revered Buddhist figure and Nobel Peace Prize winner, in Australia for a series of lectures on universal responsibility and the [...]
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Denmark: The activists’ circus comes to Copenhagen

By | Published: November 30, 2009
Guardian: In two weeks’ time, seven-year-old Gabriel Anderson will be in the centre of Copenhagen, climbing on to a step to address the crowds at the end of another Performance Family Picnic. Gabriel, his brothers Sid (the family’s two-year-old "head of research") and Neal, nine, plus his parents, artists and lecturers Gary Anderson and Lena [...]
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UN climate talks: The key players

By | Published: November 30, 2009
Independent (UK): Following is a snapshot of the main players in the global climate talks, ahead of the December 7-18 conference in Copenhagen. GROUP OF 77 AND CHINA The bloc of developing nations insist rich countries – deemed responsible for today’s warming and best placed to tackle it – commit to legally-binding reductions [...]
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Factfile on UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen talks

By | Published: November 30, 2009
Independent (UK): The December 7-18 UN climate conference in Copenhagen is tasked with framing a new deal for tackling global warming and its impacts beyond 2012. Here is a factfile on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the talks. UNFCCC The offshoot of the 1992 Rio Earth [...]
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Commonwealth heads of gov’t meeting closes, with declaration on climate change

By | Published: November 30, 2009
Xinhua: Trinidadian Prime Minister Patrick Manning Sunday formally declared closed the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on Sunday in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. He said that Australia would be the next nation to host the CHOGM, which will take place in 2011, then Sri Lanka in 2013 and [...]
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EU: Nations must do more for climate change pact

By | Published: November 30, 2009
Associated Press: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is urging China and other countries to make more ambitious commitments on curbing heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. Barroso welcomed fresh emission pledges by China and plans by both Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and U.S. President Barack Obama to attend next month’s U.N. conference on climate change [...]
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Australian PM heads for key US talks

By | Published: November 30, 2009
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Agence France-Presse: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was heading to Washington Sunday for key talks with US President Barack Obama to be dominated by climate change and the conflict in Afghanistan. Rudd will arrive fresh from a Commonwealth summit in Trinidad where he helped steer a landmark declaration backing moves to [...]
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Video – Two New Luxury Sedans For 2010

By | Published: November 30, 2009
Both BMW and KIA unveil their offerings in December. Original post by miscellaneous
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How Offshore Oil and Gas Production Benefits the Economy and the Environment

By | Published: November 30, 2009
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Conventional wisdom holds that offshore oil and gas production harms the surrounding environment. This blanket "wisdom" ignores the fact that the largest source of marine hydrocarbon pollution is offshore natural oil seepage. It also ignores the fact that offshore oil production has lowered the amount of oil released into the ocean by [...]
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Three Gallons Per Mile

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Often when I am flying, I think about the amount of fuel that the airplane is burning. Then when I am off the plane, I usually forget about it. I have heard mixed opinions on the overall efficiency of airline travel versus automobile travel, but just never got around to investigating the [...]
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What To Do If You’re In An Auto Accident

By | Published: November 30, 2009
Find out what to do if you’re in an auto accident. Your insurance company will want a police report, so call the police. Car accidents are accidents, be calm and read over this list of tips that tell you what you should do, and what you should not do when you have been in [...]
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