Archive for February 23rd, 2010
US Plans to Hide Commercial Real Estate Losses Won’t Avert a Double-Dip Downturn
An economic assessment from APEC INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT GROUP Sooner or later, mounting losses on commercial real estate could crash through the market’s 2009 optimism and send the economy and stocks into a double-dip downturn. The major problem is that lawmakers and regulators are setting up investors into believing that commercial real estate (CRE) losses are [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under General, World News.
Tags: China, United States
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NASA Video helps Piece Together the Temperature Puzzle
As you watch this enthralling NASA video presentation it will provide some answers and leave you with questions of your own to answer. Want a weekly update of all the greatest posts on the web? Subscribe for the weekly VOICE FOR CHANGE Newsletter and never miss a story! CLICK Bob Williamson and in the subject [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Technologies, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 levels, extreme weather events, glacial melt, global warming, methane, natural systems, Tipping Points, West Antarctic
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World commits to 3.5 degrees
A majority of the world’s nations signed up to the Copenhagen Accord and filed plans for emissions reductions, scraping over the UN deadline of 31st January for doing so. But the pledged actions fall far short of action needed to prevent global temperatures rising by 2 degrees C – the target adopted in the text [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, climate negotiations, CO2 Emissions, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, Tipping Points, World News
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What A Difference a Year Makes: ‘Cherish, Tweak, Scrap’ Options for IPCC?
Amid all the hand-wringing, legitimate and not-so, over shortcomings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the wake of hacked e-mails, a blown Himalayan melting glaciers prediction, and sundry other issues, Nature magazine comes through with an intelligent and well thought-out exchange of views on a possible post-IPCC world. Strange that just a [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Negotiations.
Tags: IPCC
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The Bloom Box (VIDEO): An Energy Plant In A Box To Power Your Home
Two of these blocks can power an American home, while one will suffice for a European home. A stack of 64 can power a small business. What is this magical box and where can you get one? It’s the Bloom Box, essentially a power plant in a box, and it claims to be the latest [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under General, Green Living, Technologies.
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All day every day rainforests are cleared for palm oil
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Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: Amazon Rainforest, habitat loss, Palm Oil, Rainforest destruction, species extinction
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