1999: Solar Cooking Technology - How Far are Technology Promoters and Users From Each Other?

It was discussed that there is a considerable gap between the assumptions of technology actors on the one hand, and the real conditions of the daily days of users on the other. Solar cooker technology promoters expect that at least a considerably large part of those who procure a solar cooker should shift to solar cooking for daily cooking. On the contrary only a small fraction turn to become often-users and the others return back to the traditional cooking methods after an initial short period of use. As argued above, this is mainly because the families often do not find use of their solar cookers practical in context of their daily days.

Global Warming: A Myth?

A growing scientific minority challenges the global consensus. As skeptics find vindication, the question arises: what is there to celebrate?

Breaking: Alleged global warming allegedly making it more difficult for humans to kill whales

April 13, 2009 -- For the Inupiat people of northern Alaska, whales are a way of life. These people eat the animals. They worship them. They organize their calendars around them. And on and on. It's been that way for thousands of years.

Now, however, climate change is pushing the whales further north, making it harder for the Inupiat to catch them. That environmental shift is threatening the culture's fundamental roots.