Tuesday, May 01, 2012

EU to cut aid to Indonesia in 2014

Jakarta, May 1 (Xinhua-ANI): A senior European Union (EU) official said here on Tuesday that EU will cut aid to Indonesia in the fields of education, good governance, climate change, and trade investment in 2014, a local media reported.

Chemical Industry Threaten To Exit Britain Over Carbon Floor Price | JunkScience.com

High energy costs have emerged as the top concern of British chemical and pharmaceutical companies, according to the sector’s main trade association.

Easy Come, Easy Go: 5000 Green Jobs Up In Smoke As Solar Margins Collapse | JunkScience.com

Solar products maker LDK Solar Co Ltd said it cut more than 5,000 jobs this year as the industry grapples with a steep decline in prices that has decimated profit margins and pushed several companies into bankruptcy.

The Reference Frame: Eugene: Reds shifting and redshifting

Nozick's essay describes the resentment felt by many “wordsmiths”, people who mourn the loss of their status as verbally proficient pupils favored by teachers in elementary and secondary school. The essay then goes on to make a plausible case for why this should lead to rejection of capitalism (or, as I would say, the free market). As they get left behind by their more quantitatively oriented peers, who begin earning greater material and immaterial rewards, a feeling of injustice sets in among the newly un-advantaged, who cast about for remedies. A political ideology that apportions to the “deserving” what is their “rightful share” then becomes an attractive proposition as a way to right a perceived wrong.

C3: Connect The Dots: Climate Model Failure By NASA's Hansen - Huge Global Warming Prediction Errors Confirmed

It's another connect the dots moment - climate model failure is standard operating procedure for NASA's James Hansen as empirical evidence confirms his abysmal failure at global warming predictions

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