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  • Climate Change: Hitting A Dry Spell

    Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 23:26 Author: G J Lau
    The latest piece of news concerning climate change comes from the folks at NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A group of their scientists have been trying to understand why the global average temperatures have not risen as high as ...

  • Geopolitics and Climate Change: Three Clouds on the Horizon

    Created: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 11:33 Author: G J Lau
    Climate change is just one way in which the enormous human population is adversely affecting everything else that lives on the planet, be it on the land or in the sea. The same thing can be said when you look at climate change as a geopolitical problem. A...

  • Climate Change: Just Another Brick in the Wall

    Created: Sunday, 24 January 2010 17:05 Author: G J Lau
    A lot of Americans who were on the fence about climate change are now leaning strongly towards the notion that the whole thing is the result of data cooked up by scientists more interested in the next grant than in objective scientific proofs. The releas...

  • Finding Opportunity in a Changing Climate

    Created: Thursday, 21 January 2010 23:47 Author: G J Lau
    I came into this business last spring when hopes were riding high for real progress at Copenhagen. If you go back and look at my earlier posts you will find that I was never much of an enthusiast for that process. The world community is simply not geared ...

  • Climate Change Legislation Hit By Cold Front

    Created: Tuesday, 19 January 2010 23:47 Author: G J Lau
    When President Barack Obama was elected, all things seemed possible. Now . . . not so much. The optimism was certainly overstated; it remains to see if the same will ultimately be said of the pessimism that now grips those who favor action on climate chan...

  • Apocalypse Maybe

    Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 11:56 Author: G J Lau
    There are some things that get lodged in your head and you can't shake them. One of those for me is a strange movie made in the 1970's by Peter Weir called "The Last Wave." My wife and I watched it the other night and after the first 5 minutes she asked m...

  • Climate Change: The Last Wave

    Created: Tuesday, 12 January 2010 10:47 Author: G J Lau
    I was watching 60 Minutes last night and they had this scientist on who was working on inter-species cloning to preserve endangered species and repopulate extinct species. I looked at this and thought "What a noble undertaking." Yet it seems to me to be d...

  • Why We Won’t Change for Climate Change

    Created: Sunday, 10 January 2010 20:54 Author: G J Lau
    I came across a post entitled "Why India cannot deliver on climate change," written by Aakar Patel out of Bombay or Mumbai as they call it now. After establishing his belief in the reality of climate change in a few quick strokes, he got to the heart of h...

  • The Cold Hard Reality About Global Warming

    Created: Saturday, 09 January 2010 12:31 Author: G J Lau
    By golly it sure has been cold. Europe and parts of the United States are freezing their collective asses off. Of course it only took a New York minute before global warming deniers were using the cold snap to argue their case. And why not? All's fair in ...

  • Climate Change Denial: Doing What Comes Naturally

    Created: Tuesday, 05 January 2010 21:59 Author: G J Lau
      Of course it wouldn't be a cold snap without some fool joking about how could it be global warming if it is this cold? The arguments against the reality of climate change are only slightly more sophisticated than this. They usually boil down to two ba...

  • Climate Change: Why Didn’t They Do Something?

    Created: Sunday, 03 January 2010 11:20 Author: G J Lau
    Could be there is a reason why every major civilization has perished. Change came and they either never saw it coming or they failed to react to it in a timely or effective manner. Most times the immediate cause was military conquest. But that conquest w...