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The heavily taxed French like to grouse about all the levies they pay, but there’s a new tax that’s turned that constant grumble into a roar. Called la taxe carbone, or the carbon tax, the new levy would charge businesses and individuals €17 for...
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The Eurocrats have themselves a new summit where world leaders will meet once again and engage in alarmist rhetoric about “global warming” and Big...
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The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the...
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Talking in Rome during a food security conference, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva complained that the leaders of the First World give little attention...
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Himalayan Glaciers are not melting as been said by the Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and VK Raina who is the India’s senior most glaciologist, states that the...
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Why there is constant hue and cry in the media about climate change. When life and earth survived millions of years. Behind the scene, I think the present talk about...
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No one who saw it will ever forget Severn Suzuki’s six-minute address to the United Nations Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992. The 12-year-old Canadian schoolgirl...
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French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, comes with a new measure to tax citizen for every ton of carbon dioxide they produce. The measure is to penalize not just...
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Environmentalists in Kenya and Africa, want to push for compensation from developed countries that are the major polluters. Through carbon trading, Kenya could claim a...
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Saudi Arabia may join the list of countries seeking financial aid over the UN climate deal. According to a Forbes.com report, during the UN’s recent greenhouse gas...
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AT LEAST six people, five of them children, have been confirmed dead after a landslide hit Kyokyezo village in Rubanda county, Kabale district. According to Rubanda MP...
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The President of the Maldives, the Indian Ocean islands threatened with extinction by rising sea levels, told the United Nations climate-change summit yesterday that...
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Federal wildlife researchers report that up to 200 dead walruses were spotted from the air along the northwest coast of Alaska.
Researchers spotted 100 to 200...
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It has been one of the elusive goals of seafaring nations almost since the beginnings of waterborne trade, but for nearly 500 years the idea has been dismissed as an...
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The president of the Maldives has said that, even though his country is under threat from climate change, he cannot afford to go to a summit on the issue.
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I’ve had it with going green. I’m sick of the obsessive drive I’ve had for years to reduce my impact on the earth to zero. Does that mean I’m...
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A new model for carbon cuts has been proposed by the researchers at the Princeton Environmental Institute. The model targets the rich and the developed nations of the...
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The U.S House of Representative just passed a bill that will address global warming by reducing the emission of gasses that cause climate change. It was a watered-down...
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For all the right-wing hysteria about President Obama being a socialist, the president is actually quite a centrist and even a corporatist. Depending on one’s...
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French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, comes with a new measure to tax citizen for every ton of carbon dioxide they produce. The measure is to penalize not just...
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Oslo - Can the North Sea basin hold all of the carbon dioxide in Europe? Norway certainly hopes so.
At a high-level conference in Bergen last month, the oil-rich...
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China has leapfrogged the United States as the world’s biggest carbon emitter and India is heading for third place. Until 2005, rich countries emitted most of the...
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