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It seems every day that I hear that Al Gore’s “global warming” is just natural phenominon and that carbon dioxide from people and animals tooting and breathing, ancient mud and oceans far outweighs carbon dioxide from our energy sources. I just read that if the polar ice melts just bit more shipping companies can start using the Northwest passage and doing so will reduce fuel costs for tankers by 25%. This reduction will have a greater impact than if everyone in the US and China combined lived a “carbon neutral” lifestyle. I also read that carbon offsets are a huge scam. Whats the deal with all this? Is Al Gore’s “global warming” just another scare like Global Cooling was in the 70’s? Yes the Earth is getting warmer, but just like another article said, isn’t it just becase we are in a warming period based on the Earth’s orbit around the sun becoming more circular and causing the Earth to further come out of the last ice age? Read More

I would like to ask peoples opinion on climate change and human influence on it. It’s obviously happening, nobody can deny that, but which of these three main arguments would you most agree with? If none apply to you what is your opinion?
1. It is happening, and it has sped up in the last hundred years due to humans use of fossil fuels speeding up the extraction of carbon from the Earth therefore speeding up a part of the carbon cycle.
2. While developing countries like China continue to belch out masses of Co2 there is no point us even trying to cut back. Our resources would be better put into helping them develop clean power sources.
3. The planet has been changing climates for millions of years and will continue to do so, lets not forget the Vikings used Greenland as farmland. It is more than arrogant of humans to think that we could have any impact on something that has been around for so long and will almost certainly out-live us. Read More

2. Sources of emissions- what specifically within the country is contributing to the emissions within this economy? What is the population and what is it doing to the atmosphere and the world? What industries does China have? What types of fossil fuels are utilized and demographic etc. Read More

i think its causing a global slowdown, and eventually it will lead to no more purchasing of Chinese goods Read More

Bush’s reason for not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol was because it would damage the economy, and because China and India wouldn’t fully take part. Would Obama still ratify the treaty now, even when the economy is crumbling? Even if he doesn’t ratify the Kyoto Protocol, how is he going to go about reducing greenhouse gas emissions without somehow affecting the economy negatively? Read More

(Xinhua, Jul 21, 2006) Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co., Citigroup’s partner in China, is searching globally for more than 10 top executives, including a vice president, aiming to strengthen its corporate governance.
The bank hired a global executive search firm earlier this year to help the Shanghai-based commercial lender fill the posts, which include a vice president for day-to-day management and branch managers, industry sources familiar with the situation said Wednesday.
Pudong Bank expects to pay about 600,000 yuan (US$74,990) to 800,000 yuan as annual salary after tax to a branch manager hired under the program, excluding bonuses, the sources said.
The bank, the fourth-largest Shanghai-listed lender, is eager to hire foreign veterans who are already working with overseas banks in China or who understand Asian culture and business, they said.
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Unless of course CO2 isn’t actually causing global warming.
I was reading this Op-Ed piece by Paul Krugman and he basically lays out the problem of cap and trade. The U.S. can cap CO2 all it wants, but if China doesn’t follow then the results will be meaningless because China’s continued increases in CO2 emissions would dwarf any cuts made by the U.S.
So what happens now??http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/opinio…
China’s emissions, which come largely from its coal-burning electricity plants, doubled between 1996 and 2006. That was a much faster pace of growth than in the previous decade. And the trend seems set to continue: In January, China announced that it plans to continue its reliance on coal as its main energy source and that to feed its economic growth it will increase coal production 30 percent by 2015. That’s a decision that, all by itself, will swamp any emission reductions elsewhere.
So what is to be done about the China problem?
Nothing, say the Chinese. Each time I raised the issue during my visit, I was met with outraged declarations that it was unfair to expect China to limit its use of fossil fuels. After all, they declared, the West faced no similar constraints during its development; while China may be the world’s largest source of carbon-dioxide emissions, its per-capita emissions are still far below American levels; and anyway, the great bulk of the global warming that has already happened is due not to China but to the past carbon emissions of today’s wealthy nations.
And they’re right. It is unfair to expect China to live within constraints that we didn’t have to face when our own economy was on its way up. But that unfairness doesn’t change the fact that letting China match the West’s past profligacy would doom the Earth as we know it. Read More

It specialises in ‘Global business out sourcing services’
Does anyone know anything about this company/worked with them before?
I am considering working with them. Read More

Al Gore provides a lot of great statics in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth” yet I have had difficulty finding and validating them. As a matter of fact the only publication that I am able to locate online that provides sources for the statistics quoted on his movie is this http://www.climatecrisis.net/thescience/
I suppose its possible that the statistics he provides are sourced in his book but I would have thought the environmentalist community and the publishers of the climate crisis website would have done a better job of sourcing these statistics for easy access to potential “converts”.
Let me be clear, I believe that most if not all of the info Mr. Gore presented is valid, I would however like to see the sources myself.
I am most interested in his statistics about the pacific islanders who have had to abandon their home islands due to rising oceans and the one about the loss of usable land in china each year. Read More