Once the new Tata Ultra Mega power plant in western India is fired up in 2012 and fully operational, it will become one of the world's 50 largest greenhouse-gas emitters. And the World Bank is helping make it possible. A year after World Bank President Robert Zoellick pledged to significantly step up our assistance in fighting climate change, the development institution is increasing its financing of fossil-fuel projects around the globe.The $4.14 billion, coal-powered Ultra Mega plant will emit more carbon dioxide annually than the nation of Tunisia. Robert Zoellick ... Go to original article ...
The Denier Press is alive with versions of a story from the UK, showing that old ships' logs reported a spell of rapid warming during the 1730s - the implication being that if the earth warmed once by itself, it couldn't possibly be doing so today ...
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Next to the much-(and usually falsely)-maligned hockey stick graph, one of the denier community's favorite targets has been a series of climate modeling graphs that NASA's James Hansen produced in 1988. Notwithstanding that Hansen has done two more d...
With major corporate donations in the past from big players like Monsanto and ExxonMobil, I apologize for being more than a little cynical about the Congress of Racial Equality's latest Stop the War on the Poor campaign.To say that CORE has enjoy...