Chinese premier, UN chief discuss climate change [scam]

BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discussed building on the Copenhagen conference to fight climate change in a telephone conversation on Wednesday.

Premier Wen said the Copenhagen climate meeting had achieved historic progress, which would serve as the foundation for international cooperation and pointed the future direction for negotiations on climate change action.

Julie's Health Club: How cold weather affects your health

If your joints are groaning loudly these days, go ahead and blame the cold weather. Frigid temperatures have long been associated with inflammatory conditions such as arthritis and joint pain that can affect the hips, knees, elbows, shoulders and hands, according to this piece in the Winter issue of Well magazine, Swedish Covenant Hospital's health and wellness publication.

Researchers aren't exactly sure why cold weather makes us so stiff and sore, but joints contain sensory nerves that respond to changes in atmospheric pressure, said Ronnie Mandal, an internal medicine physician at Swedish Covenant.

Science is lacking in letters on global warming | delawareonline.com | The News Journal

The economic argument for “business-as-usual” is also weak. True, wind and solar power may cost a bit more, but energy prices are likely to rise anyway as oil supplies dwindle. A carbon tax could be returned to taxpayers, benefiting those who conserve energy or switch to alternative sources. The highest cost of all might be doing nothing. Just the cost of dealing with rising sea levels alone might make the current national debt look small by comparison, and Delaware has every right to be concerned!

Eric Holcomb, New Castle

U.S. National Debt Clock

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 30 Dec 2009 at 02:28:37 PM GMT is:
$ 12,110,795,052,037.98

The estimated population of the United States is 307,561,819
so each citizen's share of this debt is $39,376.78.

What a match-up! America's new most-admired women -- Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

Are American voters dropping a hint here?

Peter Black AM: Paris Hilton: Global warming warrior of the year

I suppose we could now have a debate as to whether more CO2 is expended shipping the snow in or jetting off to an area where it occurs natuarally.

Light Emitting Wallpaper Could Replace Bulbs by 2020

A new light emitting wallpaper could be the answer to global warming as rooms of the future could replace bulbs entirely in place of specially formulated flexible LED surfaces.

The technology is being developed by LOMOX Ltd, a welsh start-up which won a grant from the Carbon Trust of £454,000 ($720,000) to bring organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) to the commercial market.
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Estimates predict that 2.5 million tonnes of CO2 could be saved if all modern lighting was replaced with OLEDs by 2020.