Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Crisis to see Japan 08/09 CO2 emissions fall sharply-media - Carbon Offsets Daily
TOKYO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The global economic downturn will help reduce Japan’s greenhouse gas emissions by some 50 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in the current fiscal year, Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.
Can we please stop ’saving the planet’? « MAKE WEALTH HISTORY
I’ve been reading a book this week called ‘Seven years to save the planet’. More on that later, but rather than clutter my review with a tangent, can I just say that’s a rather annoying title. We need to stop using the phrase ’save the planet’ in our campaigning and advertising. Here’s why...
The End of Free Parking for Hybrids in LA : MixedPower.com
One perk of driving a hybrid vehicle in the city of Los Angeles — free parking — will come to an end next month, under action taken Tuesday by the Los Angeles City Council.
Blissful ignorance « The Landed Underclass
Of course Mr. Wilson (primus) could argue with Mr. Wilson (secundus) that he is not ignoring global warming at all, but that, having duly considered it, he still thinks that it is bollocks. I don’t suppose this would do for long, but it would be a start.

The trouble with trying to force people to believe stuff is that one never really knows whether they actually do believe it, or are merely pretending to in order to avoid being taken away by the thought-police. This doesn’t seem to be apparent to the watermelons.
Plants can take an uphill hike as temperatures rise
Washington, Feb 11 (ANI): A new research has indicated that as summer temperatures rise due to global warming, plants can take a hike to higher elevations, in order to bloom.

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