Friday, October 24, 2008

New, Allegedly Dangerous Greenhouse Gas Tied to Global Warming : Red, Green, and Blue
Nitrogen trifluoride is one of several gases used during the manufacture of certain computer and television screens, and also in thin-film photovoltaic cells.

Oh my. Once again we run into the old dilemma: the manufacturing of the very thing meant to solve a crisis, is actually adding to the crisis.
But aren't countries with high CO2 emissions supposed to be paying?
JAKARTA, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — The Indonesian government will proceed the Bali road map by setting up a climate change trust fund for global warming mitigation, an official said.

“We plan to pool all grants and loans for climate change provided by donors into the trust fund,” Basah Hernowo, the Indonesian Development Planning Board (Bappenas)’s director of forestry and water resource conservation, was quoted on Friday by the Jakarta Post daily as saying.
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Several nations have pledged to provide grants and loans to Indonesia, a country with the third highest level of carbon emissions in the world.

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