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Benno Hansen

Ethical Analysis of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: Introduction to A Serie... - 1 views

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climate change ethics

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  • skepticism in science is essential to increase understanding of the natural world. Yet, ideologically based disinformation is often ethically abhorrent particularly in regard to behaviors about which there is credible scientific support for the conclusion that these activities threaten life and the ecological systems on which life depend. This report focuses on specific tactics that have been deployed in the climate change disinformation campaign.
  • the controversy over climate change science that has unfolded in the last twenty years is a strong example of the urgent need to create new societal norms about how to deal with scientific uncertainty for human problems
  • scientific uncertainty about the consequences of technologies that have great potential for good and harm create new, profound ethical challenges for the human race
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  • the ethics of dealing with scientific uncertainty may be the most pressing ethical problem facing the human race
Benno Hansen

Arctic warming spurs record melting : Nature News - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 17 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Record melting in northern Greenland and the widespread release of methane gas from formerly frozen deposits off the Siberian coast suggest that major changes are sweeping the Arctic
  • The study found methane bubbling up from the seafloor over hundreds of square kilometres in the Laptev and East Siberian Seas
  • Water measurements indicate that methane concentrations were up to 200 times higher than the background levels
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  • The submerged permafrost is on the threshold of melting, and air temperatures in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf have increased by as much as five degrees Celsius over the last decade
  • In most summers, temperatures rise enough to permit melting in that region on only 10–15 days on average. But in 2008, the melt period totalled 35 days.
  • Estimates based on satellite measurements of the entire ice cap suggest that the island is now losing hundreds of billions of tons of ice each year.
Benno Hansen

Climate Change Could Be Impetus For Wars, Other Conflicts, Expert Says - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 26 Aug 08 - Cached
  • discussion has ensued among international-security experts who believe climate-change-related damage to global ecosystems and the resulting competition for natural resources may increasingly serve as triggers for wars and other conflicts in the future.
  • most possibly destabilizing populations and governments: degradation of freshwater resources, food insecurity, natural disasters and environmental migration.
  • the number of world regions vulnerable to drought was expected to rise
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  • “The associated socio-economic and political stress can undermine the functioning of communities, the effectiveness of institutions, and the stability of societal structures. These degraded conditions could contribute to civil strife, and, worse, armed conflict.”
  • “Most critical for human survival are water and food, which are sensitive to changing climatic conditions,”
  • “Large areas of Africa are suffering from scarcity of food and fresh water resources, making them more vulnerable to conflict.
  • “Although climate change bears a significant conflict potential, it can also transform the international system toward more cooperation if it is seen as a common threat that requires joint action,”
  • the seeming conflict between environment and the economy will be best overcome with the recognition that protecting the climate in the best interest of the economy.”
  • “History has shown how dependent our culture is on a narrow window of climatic conditions for average temperature and precipitation,”
Maluvia Haseltine

Solar powered plane to circle the globe | Gadling.com - 0 views

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GreenTechnology Sustainability

shared by Maluvia Haseltine on 04 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Maluvia Haseltine on 04 Jul 09
     
    The Solar Impulse is the brain child of Bertrand Piccard, a Swiss adventurer and environmentalist, who launched the project back in 2003 with the aim of promoting the use of renewable energy sources. Now, in 2009, he is closing in on that dream. His plane has a 200-foot wingspan which is lined with 12,000 photovoltaic solar cells that will draw energy from the sun to power its four engines.
Irwan S

tobeGoodPeople.com - Commitment to be Good People Site - 0 views

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shared by Irwan S on 08 May 09 - Cached
  • Irwan S on 08 May 09
     
    the first site which established the idea of be good people all over the world. This site is made to ask as many people as possible to make such a commitment to be good people by showing their profile. The main difference compare to the other "social-purposed sites", is that this site is more likely to push the people to be "good people" with the better consequence effects in their real life - not only online.\nWe hope by joining this site, people are expected to postpone their 'evil side' at least 5min, an hour, a day, even more as long as they can. So, if you think you're good enough, prove it here.
Bedford treeworks

Tree Loppers Melbourne - 0 views

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Loppers Melbourne tree Lopping cutting

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  • Bedford treeworks on 23 Dec 14
     
    Hiring professional tree loppers is the best option to prolong the proper growth of the tree and its long life, tree lopping is very crucial after a limited period. This process includes removing dead branches, promoting growth and regulating the shape and size in order to boost the quality of flowers, fruits and wood. Skilled tree loppers at tree lopping Sutherland are pundit in their fields. They remove the dying branch as well as enhance the look of your tree. These professionals are equipped with technically advanced machines.
firozcosmolance

Did Indian Army Just Discover Yeti Footprints? - Gossip Ki Galliyan - 0 views

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shared by firozcosmolance on 04 May 19 - No Cached
  • firozcosmolance on 04 May 19
     
    Recently, the Indian Army took the Twiterrati by surprise as it claimed to have discovered the footprints of a Yeti around the Makalu base camp of Nepal on 0th of April. Indian Army even tweeted pictures of the mythical creature of Nepali folklore as well. Their Twitter post read, " For the first time, an #IndianArmy Mountaineering Expedition Team has sited Mysterious Footprints of mythical beast 'Yeti' measuring 32×15 inches close to Makalu Base Camp on 09 April 2019. This elusive snowman has only been sighted at Makalu-Barun National Park in the past."
firozcosmolance

Hard Kaur says,'If you don't do coke in Bollywood, you ain't cool!' Really??? - Gossip ... - 0 views

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shared by firozcosmolance on 07 Aug 19 - No Cached
  • firozcosmolance on 07 Aug 19
     
    It hasn't been long since the pictures of several stars at Karan Johar's party floated online. The pictures of very famous stars like Deepika Padukone, Malaika Arora, Ranbir Kapoor, Shahid Kapur and several other prominent faces donned a stoned look indicating that they were heavily drunk. In no time after the pictures got viral, a tweet from Akali Dal MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa created a stir in the Bollywood as well as political world. He tweeted that the Bollywood stars are shamelessly flaunting their drugged state and that he highly condemns their double standards. He added that these stars just fake in the movies that they are against the drug abuse, but in real life they flaunt contradictorybehavior.
Plantora App

Fall Gardening Tips: How To Plan and Prepare - Plantora - 0 views

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shared by Plantora App on 03 Sep 24 - No Cached
  • Plantora App on 03 Sep 24
     
    Fall is thought to be one of the best seasons for gardening. In addition to providing a much-needed break from the blistering summer heat, the cool air is ideal for a variety of crops and gardening projects. However, few plant parents are conversant with the fundamentals of fall gardening. Fall gardening is simple, and you can cultivate a wide range of plants in a fall garden. To have a better and more effective fall gardening season, you must plan ahead. This blog will cover several themes to provide you with some fall gardening advice, including how to assess the status of your garden, prepare the soil, plant fall crops, protect plants from frost, tidy up your garden, winterize your area, and create plans for the upcoming season.
Benno Hansen

Off the Shelf - 'Green Gone Wrong' - Can Capitalism Save the Planet? - Review - NYTimes... - 0 views

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climate change capitalism environmentalism

shared by Benno Hansen on 06 Apr 10 - Cached
  • corporate America has led us into thinking that we can save the earth mainly by buying things
  • ‘lazy environmentalism,’ is geared toward the masses that aren’t willing to sacrifice,”
  • armchair activism actualizes itself most fully in the realm of consumer goods; through buying the right products we can usher our economic system into the environmental age.”
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  • many of the small organic producers who are expected to lead the reinvention of the food system can barely make ends meet
  • If there was ever a time to ponder the long-term consequences of our spending habits, it’s in the wake of the worst economic crisis in decades, which was fueled by rampant consumer borrowing.
Mark Kabbbash

The Thermal Barrier Paint, Nansulate. INTK is making a difference. - View Message - 0 views

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  • Mark Kabbbash on 20 Oct 09
     
    "preliminary results from a study by Fairbanks based Borealis Energy Services on the performance of Nansulate(R) on steam pipes at surface temperatures of 303 deg F for both surface temperature reduction and reduction of heat loss. Preliminary results showed a 67 deg F temperature difference after applying the Company's patented Nansulate(R) High Heat insulation and corrosion prevention coating on the pipes at the standard application of 3 coats, which equates to a final dry film thickness for the application of approximately 6/1000th of an inch. Borealis Energy, who has been researching the product since July, will be forwarding a final report on their results within 30 days." Borealis Energy Services Releases Results of Study on Use of Industrial Nanotech, Inc.'s Patented Nansulate(R) Insulation Coatings for Alaskan Steam Pipe Project http://ow.ly/txUg
  • Mark Kabbbash on 20 Oct 09
     
    Check this out. A paint that insulates!
Jack Travis

Future Of Solar Energy - 0 views

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shared by Jack Travis on 06 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Jack Travis on 06 Jun 13
     
    With the increase in the cost of the fuel charges nowadays people adapt to use the solar technology in which the energy is generated through the sunlight.
Benno Hansen

Earth Summit is doomed to fail, say leading ecologists - environment - 10 February 2012... - 0 views

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  • "We are disillusioned. The current political system is broken," said Bob Watson, the UK government's chief environmental science advisor
  • "Last time in Rio we had an unreasonable faith in governments. Since then we've lost our innocence in believing government was wise and benevolent and far-sighted. That's been blown completely out of the water," said Camilla Toulmin, director of the International Institute for Environment and Development, a non-profit organisation based in London.
  • "The UN text [for the summit declaration] is weak," said energy researcher José Goldemberg, who was Brazil's environment secretary at the time of the first summit.
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  • Syukuro Manabe, a climate modeller at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "the political system is not motivated to worry about the future".
  • "Decision-makers should learn from and scale up grass-roots action and knowledge in areas like energy, food, water and natural resources," the panel declared.
Alex Parker

Energy storage in the UK: is the government doing enough? - 1 views

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shared by Alex Parker on 07 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Alex Parker on 07 Apr 14
     
    The UK Government pledged to support the development of the energy storage sector in February, stating that the technology could be 'potentially revolutionary'. But is the government creating the right policy framework to support the sector and help it integrate into the UK energy network?
Alex Parker

Independent Scotland's bounty - the biggest oil fields in the UK North Sea - 1 views

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environment energy

shared by Alex Parker on 15 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Alex Parker on 15 Sep 14
     
    More than 90% of the UK's oil production occurs offshore within the central and northern sections of the North Sea, regions which could soon fall under Scottish control if the country votes yes to Independance. Offshore-technology.com profiles the ten biggest oil producing fields in the UK sector of the North Sea based on production during the year ending in October 2013.
Benno Hansen

FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: Jared Diamond - 0 views

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jared diamond sustainability

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  • “If I was Japan’s worst enemy trying to figure out a strategy to drive it into a crisis in 10 years’ time, my strategy would be to get the Japanese to do exactly what they are doing, which is to over-harvest their main source of protein.”
  • “There is a parallel based on the same fundamental mechanisms of the economic collapse that we’re seeing now and the collapse of past civilisations such as the Maya,”
  • only those societies able to stamp out unsustainable habits – over-logging, overspending, over-extension – have the ability to survive
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  • “When people talk about the greater efficiency of dictatorships, they are forgetting that a dictatorship is no more likely than a democracy to make a wise decision,”
  • “If we continue to operate non-sustainably, then in 50 or 60 years, the US and Japan and Europe will be in bad shape. But my friends in the highlands of New Guinea will be fine. Some of my friends made stone tools when they were children and they could just go back to what their ancestors were doing for 46,000 years. New Guinea highlanders are not doomed,”
  • “The first world lifestyle will be doomed if we don’t learn to operate sustainably.”
Benno Hansen

Plant life saved Earth from an icy fate - environment - 02 July 2009 - New Scientist - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 13 Jul 09 - Cached
  • About 50 million years ago, Earth was a hothouse – the poles were ice free, and crocodiles lived in the Arctic. Then, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere started dropping from around 1000-1500 parts per million (ppm), and the Earth began to cool.
  • By about 24 million years ago, the uplift of the Himalayan and Andes mountain ranges led to large-scale weathering of rocks, a process that removes massive amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. This reduced the greenhouse effect and cooled the planet.
  • Trees play an important role in the sequestration of atmospheric CO2 in magnesium and calcium carbonate rocks.
firozcosmolance

Jakarta Will No Longer be the Capital of Indonesia - Gossip Ki Galliyan - 0 views

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Jakarta

shared by firozcosmolance on 04 May 19 - No Cached
  • firozcosmolance on 04 May 19
     
    As per Bambang Brodjonegoro, the Minister of National Development Planning of Indonesia, Jakarta is no longer going to be the capital of the country. President Joko Widodo has decided on relocating the capital of Indonesia on an "important decision". It is yet not known which location is going to be the new capital but if media reports are to be believed, it is probably going to be Palangkaraya, situated on Borneo's island.
firozcosmolance

These Indian Restaurants are Rocking the Culinary World of Italy - Gossip Ki Galliyan - 0 views

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Indian Restaurants

shared by firozcosmolance on 10 May 19 - No Cached
  • firozcosmolance on 10 May 19
     
    Indian food consists of a large variety of traditional and regional cuisines native to the Indian sub-regions. Given the range of broad diversity in climate, soil type, culture, occupations, and ethnic groups, these cuisines vary substantially from each other and what adds to their uniqueness are the locally available spices and herbs. It comes as a no brainer that Indian cuisine is one of the most popular cuisines across the world. , but people in North America, Europe, Australia, and Africa can not have enough of it.
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