Architecture For A Hot Planet: The Maldives' Floating Hotel | Earthtechling

A massive new floating hotel is currently under construction in the Maldives, a nation widely considered to be on the front lines of global warming.  (Its government is famous for having held a cabinet meeting underwater to highlight the threat of global warming to this group of islands in the Indian Ocean, just six feet above sea level.) Called the Greenstar, this hotel will feature 800 rooms and a conference center for up to 2000 participants. It is expected to become — appropriately enough — the premier location for global conferences on climate change, water management and sustainability.

DALLAS: from “who shot JR?” to “methane hydrates will destroy the planet” | Watts Up With That?

The plot is pretty lame. Even lamer are the mentions of the “greenhouse gas potency of methane being hundreds of times that of carbon” (I’m paraphrasing what I saw on closed captioning) but I’m sure there was no mention of carbon dioxide, just carbon. Another line is “yes, methane is dangerous”.

Live Microblogging of GWPF 2012 Annual Lecture with Prof Fritz Varenholt | Omnologos

The following are the ordered notes published live on Twitter at @mmorabito67 during the GWPF 2012 Annual Lecture with Prof Fritz Varenholt, at the Royal Society building in London on June 13, 2012

The New Nostradamus of the North: Scientific academies have become enviro-fundamentalist propaganda centers

 It is all very easy for the Royal Society grandees, enjoyng the comfortable club atmosphere of the Carlton Terrace Marble Hall, to urge other people to "transform" their "unsustainable lifestyles". But tell that to the almost five million people in the UK who live in absolute poverty.