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Make a song and dance about climate change

Global warming’. Lea scientist on the project, Simon Boxall, who was in India to deliver lectures about climate change, says it’s time we found new ambassadors to spread the word: Musicians, artists and creative people, rather that experts and environments. Labonita Ghosh. Some times the best way to get a massage across is to have someone else say it for you. British artist Davi8d Buckland knows that. Which is why about once a year, he takes a bunch of artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, photographers, choreographers and others on expeditions to particular places on the plant where the most devastating effects of climate change can be viewed, first hand. The idea behind the projects, called Cape Farewell, is simple: Let the creative people see what global warming is all about and then let them –quite literally –make a song and dance about it to get the message across to people. As Simon Boxall, chief scientist on the projects, who was recently in India to deliver some lectures about climate change, puts it: “Rather than continue to have scientists bang of the drums [about global warming], the idea was to get a completely different perspective on the subject by having a different presenter.. To get the message across to the public, bit by bit, through musicians they like to hear and writers they like to read.” Among the 60-odd guests ferried to the Arctic by Boxall, Backland and their team are writers Vikram Seth and Ian McEwan, musicians KT Tunstall Jarvis Cocker and Martha Wainwright, and several British artists like Anthony Gormley, Dan Harvey and Heather Ackroyd....
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Saturday,02 May, 2009 | Hits: 74

Global warming (hog wash)

Move over warming brigade, here at the realists –and they throw extensive data at you to say all threats of a climate collapse are hoax and our planet is actually cooling off instead of heating up. Our polar caps are thickening, our polar hears fighting a population explosion and our environment is in fine fettle. SHWETANK DUBEY report. Evidence: Of the total greenhouse effect, 98% is caused by water vapour, 1% by Co2 and 1% by other gases During 1940-75, there was an increased of CO2 in the atmosphere. Despite this, there was cooling of 0.3oC From 1999-2006 there has been no global warming is Northern Hemisphere. But during this period 200 Gton of CO2 has been added During Depression years (1929-33) the CO2 emission from industries dropped but global temperatures increasedDuring previous interglacial period, temperature was 6 degrees warmer than today in Greenland and 1-3 degrees warmer in Antarctica....
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Saturday,02 May, 2009 | Hits: 80

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Friday,15 May, 2009 | Hits: 627

Ministry finalising plan to control pollution in Ganga

It had raced against time to notify the constitution of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) responsible slide for ensuring an “effective abatement of pollution and conservation of river Ganga by adopting a "river basin approach" before the model code of conduct for the general electrons came into effect....
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Thursday,04 June, 2009 | Hits: 128

Who is responsible?

Man himself has caused considerable to the environment, time and again. The need of the hour is to wake up and preserve our environment in whatever the way we can for a better and prosperous tomorrow, writes Farooq Ahemad Lone. Environment does not mean air, water and soil only. Elements and factors constituting man’s environment, on this earth, are many. There are many things bestowed upon this earth by the forces of nature, such as land forms. Climates, vegetation and animals....
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Monday,29 June, 2009 | Hits: 123

Obama Wary of Tariff Provision in climate bill

U.N President Barack Obama said the House bill curbing greenhouse-gas emissions that passed by a close vote Friday represents "an extraordinary first step," but said he had doubts about a provision to impose tariffs on goods from countries that don't match U.S. efforts to combat global warming....
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Monday,29 June, 2009 | Hits: 72

Using algae to turn carbon dioxide to fuel

Dow and a start –up firm to test process expected to harvest hydrocarbons:Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels, a U.S. start-up company, were set to announce Monday that they would build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol for use as a vehicle fuel or an ingredient in plastics....
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Monday,29 June, 2009 | Hits: 107

India to be hit with carbon tax?

Even if India grows by 8% every year with the current set of technologies and policies in place, its per capita emissions will not exceed 2.77 tonnes in 2031 -- almost seven times less than the current per capita emissions of the US and almost four times less than the current per capita emissions of UK. ...
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Monday,29 June, 2009 | Hits: 85

India to be hit with carbon tax?

Should the industrialized world be allowed to put an import tax on goods from India because it has a ‘high carbon content'? In what is bound to stir the hornet's nest in days to come, the US House of Representatives has passed a Bill that demands additional tariffs on goods from countries that do not take on commitments to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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Monday,29 June, 2009 | Hits: 101

Civil societies’ role in climate change talks

As monsoon plays truant in India and fertile lands get parched for want of nourishing water, and with most of the diverse geographical regions reeling under unrelenting heat, the climate issue gets climactic. ...
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Monday,29 June, 2009 | Hits: 106