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By Phil Butler on Dec 30, 2007 in Environment, Featured | 2 Comments
The 2008 Olympics are scheduled to kick off in August, and many are concerned over air quality issues in Beijing. Officials there have set up air quality monitors in a quasi-effort to determine if the skies can “officially” be termed – blue. The smog in Beijing is notoriously unhealthy according to the World [...]
By Phil Butler on Nov 24, 2007 in Environment, Featured | 3 Comments
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached record levels in 2006 according to a report released by the WMO . According to the news the levels of the main “heat trapping” gas that contributes to global warming reached concentrations higher than ever recorded. The WMO said the levels reached 387.2 parts per million, which [...]
By Phil Butler on Nov 13, 2007 in Environment, News | 11 Comments
Today the U.N.’s climate panel is meeting in Valencia, Spain to devise an emergency action plan to combat global warming. The Nobel Prize winning team of scientists and experts had previously warned governments that time is short if we are to save the world from an ecological disaster. So, this is the unplugged news [...]
