UN Environmental Agency Told to Stop Lobbying and Focus on Science
The United Nations body on environmental impact, called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has been told to stop their lobbying efforts and shift their focus to explaining the science behind climate change. The independent investigation finds that the UN's eco-body needs to repair its damaged reputation after some recent mis-haps.
Investigators say that the IPCC should disclose outside financial interests to maintain the agency's integrity. The report also asks for new controls to be placed into effect.
The IPCC has been under fire since it was discovered that the agency had misrepresented the rate that the Himalayan ice caps were melting. The report from the investigation says that the agency's role should be in fact discovery, and that straying into advocacy may hurt the credibility of the UN IPCC.
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Maurice Strong is at Root of Global Warming Investigation
In this episode of TruTV's Conspiracy Theory, Jesse Ventura "investigates the people at the people pushing the climate change agenda and conservation banking (World Conservation Bank)." Video after the break -- image via.
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Artificial Clouds That Could Stop Climate Change Receive Investment From Bill Gates [Environment]
Rather than plunge money in a couple of girlfriends his daughter's age, Bill Gates' retirement money sure is being put to good use, with his most recent investment being in machines that turn seawater into climate-changing artificial clouds. More
Eyjafjallajökull Daily CO2 Output Utterly Dwarfed by European Aviation Industry [Eyjafjallajokull]
Mt. Eyjafjallajökull is wreaking havoc on European travel right now, but what about the continent's environment? That's a lot of CO2 in the air, after all, but you'd be surprised to learn the airplanes it's grounded are much, much worse. More
Earth Hour starts at 8.30PM tonight, asks for sixty minutes of natural living
Time to don your eco-warrior armor, strap on your nature-loving helmet, and flick that big old... light switch. Yes, in honor of the WWF's Earth Hour, countries around the globe are tonight switching off non-essential lights and appliances for sixty minutes, with highlights including Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Burj Khalifa, and the Empire State Building all going dark in the hope of helping the planet stay green. Timed for 8.30pm your local time, this unorthodox event has already commenced with Australia, New Zealand, China and others doing their bit -- videos after the break -- and is just now hitting Eastern European borders. So, fellow earthlings, will you be among the projected one billion souls that go au naturel for an hour tonight?
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Giant LEGO Crawler
LEGO's reputation for giant sci-fi models stands up with this incredibly detailed crawler. This machine "roams the barren wastes of a post steam-punk world after cataclysmic climate change do to excessive coal use." Click here for first picture in gallery.
Several such cities exist but Crawler town is the most popular due to the Aero 500 hydrogen fuel cell Air races that are held.
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Lego Crawler Town Makes Having a Tiny Yellow Head Totally Worth It [Legos]
I've played with my fair share of LEGOs, but I never actually envied the little guys until I saw Dave DeGobbi's Crawler Town, a work as impressively conceived as it is constructed. I'd forfeit bendable elbows to live in it.
It sort of reminds me of those old books on a single building—Castles or Pyramids or what have you—where you could look at the huge, detailed illustrations and imagine dozens of little stories unfolding in every corner.
Attention is even given to the world in which the Crawler Town dwells. As DeGobbi describes it:
Crawler town roams the barren wastes of a post steam-punk world after cataclysmic climate change do to excessive coal use. Several such cities exist but Crawler town is the most popular due to the Aero 500 hydrogen fuel cell Air races that are held. Many people travel the wastes to Crawler town for vacation and to enjoy rare luxuries like Pizza, fresh vegetables and Beer. Travelling the wastes in search of minerals and aquifers ( vital for survival) the mobility of the city keeps it away from the vicious sand storms of the wastes
I'm even willing to excuse the machine-city's "Eco-punk" designation just because it's so damn cool. [Flickr via Brothers Brick]
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I don't think I've ever seen as unique a Lego creation as this "eco punk" mobile town, created by Dave DeGobbi. (Click for a bigger pic!)
Crawler town roams the barren wastes of a post steam-punk world after cataclysmic climate change do to excessive coal use. Several such cities exist but Crawler town is the most popular due to the Aero 500 hydrogen fuel cell Air races that are held. Many people travel the wastes to Crawler town for vacation and to enjoy rare luxuries like Pizza, fresh vegetables and Beer. Travelling the wastes in search of minerals and aquifers ( vital for survival) the mobility of the city keeps it away from the vicious sand storms of the wastes.
Also check out Dave's Goliath airship creation. [via the ever-awesome Brothers Brick]
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Coke Even Makes Their Bottles Out of Sugar [Foodtech]
In what's surely an attempt to spite high fructose corn syrup haters everywhere, Coke has redesigned their plastic bottle to contain what was once sugar cane. They call it a "PlantBottle." (It's not this thing.)
70% petroleum, 30% sugar cane leftovers (converted to a plastic after several chemical processes), the plantbottle is debuting in regions of high profile first, like Denmark for the convenient United Nations Climate Change Summit.
Through a commissioned study, Coke found their PlantBottles to have a 12%-to-19% smaller carbon footprint than their plastic classic. To put that metric into perspective: Coke used to be polluting the Earth with millions of bottles yearly that would expend our limited resources while filling our our oceans with endless filth. But with their new bottle, Coke is doing pretty much the same thing while being super pretentious dicks about it. [WSJ via Grub Street Chicago]
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Doomsday Clock Moved Back One Minute [Doomsday]
The Doomsday Clock, a measurement of the threat posed by nuclear weapons, biotechnology, and climate change, has been moved back one minute, to six minutes before midnight, signaling a more "hopeful state of world affairs."
The Bulletin of Atomic Sciences cited the increased discourse on climate change and further developments towards a nuclear weapons-free future as the cause for dialing back the clock.
It is 6 minutes to midnight. We are poised to bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons. For the first time since atomic bombs were dropped in 1945, leaders of nuclear weapons states are cooperating to vastly reduce their arsenals and secure all nuclear bomb-making material. And for the first time ever, industrialized and developing countries alike are pledging to limit climate-changing gas emissions that could render our planet nearly uninhabitable. These unprecedented steps are signs of a growing political will to tackle the two gravest threats to civilization — the terror of nuclear weapons and runaway climate change.
This is the nineteenth time the clock has been changed since it was originally set at seven minutes to midnight in 1947. It has been as close to two minutes to midnight—in 1953, at the height of the Cold War—and as far away as 17 minutes to midnight, in 1991. [TurnBackTheClock.org]
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