Saturday, October 31, 2009

Denver foothills get up to 4 feet of snow
The largest accumulation was reported near Pinecliffe in Jefferson County, where 3.8 feet of snow fell.
News - Impact of religions will have 'deeper roots' than Copenhagen - The Ecologist
Leaders will also announce a new Islamic eco label for goods and services, eco-tourism packages for pilgrimages (still the world's biggest tourism events) and the turning of Shabbat into an environmental celebration of avoiding consumption.
Climate news flooding in and it's [allegedly] not good
In reality, we are going to go to at least 450 ppm, and more likely 500 ppm, before we get our emissions under control, and then we will have to commence the long and arduous task of getting the CO2 in the atmosphere down to a level that will preserve our present climate over the long term.

That may have to be as low as 300 ppm.
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* Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist [he's not even a climatologist!].
[But at least some hurricanes were prevented?]: French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality
...this latest French utopia has met a prosaic reality: Many of the specially designed bikes, which cost $3,500 each, are showing up on black markets in Eastern Europe and northern Africa. Many others are being spirited away for urban joy rides, then ditched by roadsides, their wheels bent and tires stripped.

With 80 percent of the initial 20,600 bicycles stolen or damaged, the program’s organizers have had to hire several hundred people just to fix them. And along with the dent in the city-subsidized budget has been a blow to the Parisian psyche.

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