By Phil Butler on Dec 10, 2007 in Featured, News | 15 Comments
I don’t watch much TV these days, but I was passing the tube when I noticed Al Gore giving his acceptance speech for winning the Nobel Prize for “An Inconvenient Truth”, so I took some moments to give a listen. I expect most of us have seen the film, and of course experienced the discourse [...]
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 [...]