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On August 4th, the US House passed a bill that may increase the importance of renewable energy sources in the production of local electricity. The goal is to make renewables like wind power or solar PV account for 15 percent of the total electricity produced in the United States by 2020. The bill also included …
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Ce mois-ci fut d’un point de vue tant énergétique que climatique riche en évènements. Ce site a en effet rapporté des faits de divers pays. Du modèle californien à la pollution de l’air qui frappe la Chine ; du programme d’enrichissement de l’uranium au Brésil à la mer d’Aral, nous avons ainsi beaucoup voyagé. Des …
The UK Department for Transport recently released a ranking of cars by their carbon dioxide emissions per kilometre. This is done in order to enable consumers to choose the cleanest car in the category. The cleanest of all being a Volkswagen Polo with as few as 99 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometre. According to …
The World Wild Fund for Nature is encouraging the 10,000 athletes that will compete at the 2008 Olympic Games of Beijing to offset their carbon dioxide emissions. Each of all these athletes is due to emit an average of four tonnes of CO2 by flying to the host city. To what can be added the …
Last week, the French weekly Challenges translated a very interesting article from the magazine The Economist. It handled the climate change approach of the most populated US State with its nearly 36 million inhabitants. The Golden State alone would be the eighth world economic power. California is often mentioned as an example in the fight …
I must be the last person interested by ecology and climate change to write about THE event of this week-end. The Live Earth concerts, which will be held tomorrow around the world (in New York, London, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Shanghai, Hamburg, Tokyo and Sidney) are due to “ trigger a global movement to solve …
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Le mois de Juin fut assez riche en évènements au niveau écologique. Vous trouverez ici un résumé des articles que j’ai publié ce mois-ci sur ce site. On notera notamment que le gouvernement fédéral américain commence à changer de position vis à vis du changement climatique et que les émissions de CO2 ont légèrement diminué …
Another study on global warming was released recently. It concludes by saying that we got less than ten years to start decreasing the global greenhouse gases emissions. This one was done by NASA and the Earth Institute of the University of Columbia. According to the web page related to the article : “(…) research finds …
Comme je l’avais promis à certains de mes amis, voici le commentaire du livre qui selon moi doit être lu par toute personne qui s’intéresse au changement climatique et/ou à la future crise pétrolière. Cet ouvrage, intitulé “Le plein s’il vous plaît” fut écrit par Jean-Marc Jancovici et Alain Grandjean et fut publié en février …
As I previously tackled the polls on various English speaking countries, I would like to tackle today my home country and give a more global approach of this very interesting polls.
