Archive for July 24th, 2007

Is there more to Shrub than we realised?

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Now, on this blog we are very critical of George W Bush, and for good reason as Bush has been the number one obstacle to real action to reduce greenhouse emissions and protect the planet from out of control human induced climate change. But what about this passage from his speechwriter David Frum’s book The […]

Election finance reform spin

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

The proposals to reform campaign finance law were tabled yesterday afternoon. While there are many good elements to them, they do nothing to crack down on anonymous donations to political parties, nor do they crack down on the trusts that National used last time. Yet Minister of Justice Mark Burton is not comfortable about coming […]

Blackle

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Apparently this website stemmed from this blog post, hypothesizing on the potential energy savings of using a non white screen on your ‘puter.
here’s a fuller exploration of the science and the commerce here.

‘risible’ is such a good word

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

British MPs tell some home truths to the airline industry
“The airline industry has “a diverse and generally unsatisfactory attitude” to carbon offsetting, a report from MPs says today.
British Airways’ offsetting efforts had been “risible”, the report from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee added.”