Thursday, August 05, 2010

Loren does an Al Gore, produces climate change film | Latest Philippine Headlines
Legarda, who lost in the last vice presidential elections, is the author of the Climate Change Act, which was signed into law in 2009. She can speak volumes about climate change, sometimes even refusing to answer questions not related to it.
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The senator lamented how the issue of climate change is being given small, if at all, attention in the media and government.

“Why am I so passionate about this?” she said. “I’ve seen how people died. I’ve seen how people are dying.”
Cheap, abundant coal means the world is still not warming to a carbon tax
Without any significant commitment from the US, the Copenhagen Accord has become meaningless. Business will now continue as usual, both in terms of climate change diplomacy, with its wandering circus of big international meetings, and in terms of rapidly increasing emissions.
The 2010 Russian River Valley Grape Harvest Delayed by Cold Weather
HEALDSBURG, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The summer of 2010 has been an exceptional year for growing redwood trees and rhododendrons; however, the unusually cold weather has proved to be a challenge for wine grapes.

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