Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'climate change'
The world is round after all
Thomas Friedman, globalisation, global warming, Peak Oil, Hot, Flat and Crowded, climate change, SABIC
Get off your backside!
climate change, Energy Carta, NUS, Project Better Place, Conergy
Do you ever get that sinking feeling?
polar bears, camels, New Scientist, climate change, light bulbs, camels, uptight neighbours, American Pyschological Association, US National Research Council
The danger of bogus science
climate change, IPCC, New Scientist, Peak Oil, oil-supply crisis, oil prices, oceanic oscillations
Even the goldfish will get it
Tigers, flooding, Lehman Brothers, New Scientist, Guangdong, climate change, global warming, goldfish brains
China's growth conundrum
I couldn't let today pass without including a picture of the Olympic Stadium in Beijing where the opening ceremony is about to take place. The purpose of this redefined blog is not to look at the short term, though. For...
The CO2 blame game
In my previous post, I talked about the collapse of the Doha round of trade negotiations and how this didn't auger well for a new global agreement for setting greenhouse gas-emission limits and a worldwide price on carbon. The chemicals...
Why the Doha failure is bad
The failure, and quite possibly the death, of the Doha round of trade negotiations earlier this week could create a very confusing and erratic regulatory landscape for the chemicals industry. This excellent entry in the New Scientist environment blog...
Bali doesn't go anywhere near far enough
At least the US is on board, but the pact to reduce emissions by 25-40 per cent by 2020 might well not be sufficient to prevent the 1.5 centigrade rise in global temperatures that will be disastrous for the planet....
This is not the time to behave like an Ostrich
The United Nations report on climate change, released last Friday, warned of 50 million made homeless as a result of global warming by as early as 2010. Reports such as this will serve to pile even more pressure on the...
Bringing the sceptics and the greenies together
The famous "Skeptical" environmentalist (unfortunately, the American spelling and therefore the wrong spelling), Bjorn Lomborg argues against the Kyoto Protocol in this article from the special green edition of our magazine, ICIS Chemical Business.He says, in short, that all the...
Prepare for a legislative flood
Global leaders from the Group of Eight rich nations plus Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa have agreed that developing countries will have to face targets for cutting emissions as well as developed countries.If these noble words are followed...
Is global warming a load of hogwash?
I am involved in this running email debate with the only person I know who is as stubborn and as pig-headed as myself - my old schoolmate in the UK. He is convinced that global warming is indeed a load...
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