Oh dear, the -Cheney- Bush government continues to inhabit a different universe to the rest of the world. While over 150 countries seem about to agree to move forward on the Kyoto protocol to limit global pollution, the USA is still conviced that global warming is an evil communist theory that does not apply . . . → Read More: One against 150
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Our Views On Climate Change: We care about the environment we live in and excellence in environmental performance is essential to our business. As such, climate change is an important issue to us — one that we take very seriously. Because we take this issue seriously, ExxonMobil is taking actions now and working with . . . → Read More: ExxonMobil spearheads activities to sabotage Kyoto protocol A ten year project to develop genetically modified peas, by adding a protein from beans that causes them to be resistant to pea weevil pests, has been abandoned after it was shown that although the protein alone does not cause an allergic reaction in mice or people, the treated peas cause a lung allergy . . . → Read More: GM peas cause allergies in mice – project stopped Greenland’s glaciers seem to be melting down fast: the giant Jakobshavn glacier, which is four miles wide and 300 m thick is now moving towards the sea at a rate of 34 meters a year; the normal annual speed of a glacier is just 30 cm per year. And the front of the Helheim . . . → Read More: Glacier caught speeding – 100 times too fast Just over ten years after the GPS system went fully operational in April 1995, the first of a new generation of GPS satellites has been launched. This is good news for civilians, because it opens up an additional civilian channel which should provide better accuracy (the military has had two channels in operation . . . → Read More: First GPS 2R-M satellite takes off Professor Thomas Parnell, the first Professor of Physics at the University of Queensland (Australia), set up an experiment in 1927 to show that some everyday materials exhibit unsual properties. The experiment in question was to show that pitch – then used to waterproof boat hulls, and normally brittle at room temperature – . . . → Read More: V-e-r-y slow experiment Wait for western spin-doctors to start playing with this news item in the Independent: In a vivid demonstration of interconnectedness, Nasa scientists have found that one-third of the soot affecting the Arctic comes from South Asia. And Indian studies show that nearly half of the soot emitted in the region comes from cooking fires… . . . → Read More: India responsible for Global warming? Sunday 13th of March 2005 and Monday 14th March, BBC One 21:00 hrs – if you are in the UK, or can receive BBC One TV, mark your calendar or program your video recorder. This looks like a 2-part dramatisation which will be worth watching. Each program is followed by a documentary on . . . → Read More: Supervolcano: What if Yellowstone erupts? While waiting, this morning, for the T-Com engineers to find out why we can’t connect our broadband (DSL) connection, which we should have had for a week now, we watched the birds feeding in the garden. (Don’t talk to me about DSL or T-Com – it has taken them a week, so far, . . . → Read More: A good place to eat A handy table which gives the optimal treatment of different types of rechargable battery. In fact, there’s a lot of good information about batteries on this site, as you might expect from the name (Battery University), so it’s worth visiting some of the other pages too. |
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