European Parliament seals climate change package
December 17th, 2008
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Now I can understand why the 20 swedish researchers in various fields have had a hard time publishing their article today.
The European Parliament are as of today backing EU’s new climate change package which is meant to enable that the EU will live up to its climate targets by 2020:
“a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a 20% improvement in energy efficiency, and a 20% share for renewables in the EU energy mix.“
Looks good on paper but, isn’t this rather unrealistic?
A majority of the parliament voted for this package, however, some swedish politicians are critical concerning the fact that the percentage of the greenhouse gas emission reductions are going [...]

An Unpublished Article On The Climate
December 17th, 2008
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20 swedish researchers in various fields have had a hard time getting published recently. Why? you may ask.
Well, they have written about the research on the climate crisis and climate change as something that, generally speaking, has been ignoring all other possible explanations on what causes the “global warming”.
There is a general consensus favouring of the carbon emissions thesis. Let me remind you that it is the thesis that has its own fabricated market with carbon “offsets“. Moreover, it seems as if the computer generated models of the calculated effects of carbon emissions is a bigger problem than what the IPCC wants to admit or acknowledge.
Perhaps the research [...]

The Kyoto Protocol And The Fabricated Market In Carbon
December 17th, 2008
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Dominic Lawson: Kyoto is worthless (and you don’t have to be a sceptic to believe that now)

“The truth, however, is that Kyoto, as a means to reduce carbon emissions, has been like Monty Python’s parrot, long dead, despite all the protestations to the contrary by its salesmen.”

“This fabricated market in carbon has at its heart the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism. This is how the EU, which had an obligation under Kyoto to reduce its emissions by two per cent by 2012, has managed to claim success while actually increasing its emissions by 13 per cent. By purchasing so called “offsets” from countries such as China, Britain, for example, proclaims itself [...]

A New Industrial Revolution?
December 16th, 2008
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The American biologist Craig Venter, who’s been trying to create the first artificial living creature, have started researching on small organisms. I read it in a post on The Economist’s “The World in 2009” blog.
He has been working with a bacterium called mycoplasma laboratorium and will apparently be a bacterium stiched together in a lab and contained by a natural bacterium. According to Venter himself, he thinks that he will succeed during 2009. Venter also claims in an interview, that it could be the start of “a new industrial revolution”. Is this evidence of a forthcoming shift from chemistry to biology driven industries?
For instance, biology might be the [...]

Preservatives & Additives
December 15th, 2008
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In a recent article in DN, Marie-Louise Danielsson-Tham declared that we ought to keep certain additives and preservatives in our provisions. Her arguments are that people simply don’t understand why certain additives and preservatives are used and that if we were to remove some of these substances, then there would be an increased risk of dying from eating sausages and other meats.
The debate ought to be more transparent, instead of complaining about the consumer’s ignorance, nutritionists need to educate us on what these foreign substances do to our provisions, how they effect us and what would happen if we were to remove certain substances. Thus acknowledging the chemical “grey [...]