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Gore Accepts Nobel - Time For Our Part

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or to sign up for email alerts.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 [...]

Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Record High

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 [...]

Cyclone Sidr Devastates Bangladesh

The death toll in Bangladesh is staggering and will probably exceed 2000 before all searches are over. The low lying country was smashed by super cyclone Sidr on Thursday with winds in excess of 155 mph. Rescue efforts are underway with Military ships and helicopters trying to reach the thousands of survivors of the [...]

Chiquita Slips On It’s Own Peeling

It is funny how actual news can almost seem unreal. I just did a post on Yahoo!’s caving in and settling over the Chinese dissidents affair, and now I find news that Chiquita Bananas is being sued for even more ghastly allegations. The suit against Chiquita Brands International was field today alleging that the company [...]

Part I - Beyond Good and Google

Google just announced that it will offer a system enabling the Web to work as smoothly on mobiles as it does on PC’s. Rumors have been around that Google would eventually enter the mobile phone market, and now it appears as if the path is being paved. Next week Google will allow independent designers to [...]