Wednesday, June 06, 2012

India, China to account for over half of world's transport emissions - The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Noting that little progress has been made in stemming climate change, a UN report has pointed out that India and China will account for more than half of transport-related emissions in the world which are set to increase 57% by 2030.

Largest known sea level rise took less than 350 years | Bits of Science

They found that during a relatively warm period called the Bølling Oscillation roughly 14,650 years ago sea levels rose an average of 14 meters in just 350 years.

Per year this means a rise of 40 millimetres which makes the current approximation of sea level rise of 3 millimetres pale in comparison.

Andrew Malcolm: You wouldn’t mind government tracking your car and mileage real-time, would you? | JunkScience.com

Great news: State governments are finally realizing they’ve about topped out the huge taxes hidden in the price of each gallon of gasoline. Of course, that doesn’t mean they’ll make do with the tax revenues they have.

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