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POPSRecord emissions in 07 The United Nations' weather agency, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced that concentrations of greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide reached a new high last year.
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POPSMurray-Darling hit by climate change A report from the CSIRO on the Murray-Darling river system, using the most complete modelling ever undertaken there expects the Murray mouth to close every second year by 2030.
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POPSMass protests for climate change Sydney, Melbourne and other cities were the site of tens of thousands of Australians protesting climate change and calling for more action by the government.
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POPSWhite possum in Oz may be first casualty Scientists are scrambling to find the first Australian mammal at risk of becoming extinct because of climate change. The rare white lemuroid possum, a nocturnal animal, native to the Daintree rainforest in Tropical North Queensland, has not been seen for three years. The possum has only ever been found at 1000m or higher in the 1300m Carbine range.
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POPSKansas has bleak outlook A new study by the Climate Energy Project (CEP) has projected almost desert like conditions in Western Kansas over the next century. The climate projection analysis also sees water needs for crops in western Kansas more than doubling to about 8 inches per year.
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POPSTroublemakers, Greenpeace and Palm Oil When environmentalist Kevin Dunion decided to write a book on what he perceives is environmental justice in Scotland, he chose the rather curious title “Troublemakers”, which Dunion alleges, is how most environmentalists are perceived by the world at large.
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POPSPalm Oil and the Multi-Million Dollar Global-Warming Industry of FOE & Greenpeace Global warming is a multi-billion dollar industry! The most expensive secret you’re not supposed to know is that George W. Bush leaves office with the planet cooler than when he entered. This dangerous trend threatens the multi-billion dollar “global warming” industry, adding new urgency to the ritual shriek of “we must act now!” in the scramble to impose a costly regime of mandates and energy taxes.
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POPSGreenpeace & FOE Bites the Dust! A severe winter storm of ice and snow hit many parts of the United States in the past week, causing highway closures, flight delays, massive blackouts and at least one death. The weather was frightful from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Ore., on Monday, with last-minute holiday shoppers shivering and stranded travelers hoping for the best over the Christmas season.
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POPSPalm Oil Critics: Wither Art Thou When the Snow Fell in Spring? It was a cool spring morning as I drove along the I 15 Freeway in early March 2009 heading towards San Bernardino near Los Angeles. Feeling that the morning cool was too good to miss, I pressed the button switch on my Mustang to bring the auto-canvas roof of the car down to enjoy the cool morning breeze. Approaching Barstow, I felt a sudden deluge of snowflakes, wet and cold on my face. “This can’t be happening,” I thought to myself as it was already early spring.
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POPSThe Faces of Evil Attacking Palm Oil This subliminal line in a rich baritone intonation rings out most cryptically through the video games machine in the video arcade in Fort Lauderdale as I watch the heavily tattooed teen deeply engrossed in his titanic battles with the forces of evil in the video game. “How very apt in describing the state of the environmental movement today,” I thought to myself.
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POPSPalm Oil: How independent is The Independent? It was a cold spring morning as my colleague, Marshall and I sat ensconced outside a café in Knightsbridge, London. It was our daily ritual to meet here for our habitual morning coffee and croissant breakfast on our way to work.
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POPSThe Truth About Palm Oil *Landmark Article Palm oil is produced from the fruit of the Elaeis guineensis tree. It is a vegetable oil, not an animal or dairy product, and therefore does not contain cholesterol. Palm oil sometimes is confused with palm kernel oil, but in fact is quite different, being made from the mesocarp of the palm fruit rather than the hard center kernel. Palm oil contains much less saturated fat than palm kernel or coconut oil.
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POPSRes Ipsa Loquitur: Environmentalists Red Faced Over Discovery of 2,000 New Red Apes It would appear that it would be difficult to miss 2,000 red apes swinging in the trees, but that is precisely what happened in Indonesian Borneo. The National Geographic News reports that conservationists have discovered 219 orang utan nests whilst combing through Indonesian Borneo’s East Kalimantan Province. The scientists surmised that the nests indicate that up to 2,000 new red apes could be living in 2 million hectares of rainforests in the rugged mountains of Indonesian Borneo.
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POPSPalm Oil critics strangely muted over annual slaughter of one Million Sharks hese are the words of Anderson Cooper as he presented his CNN special on his AC360 program called “Planet in Peril: Battle Lines” in December 2008: “It is an odd sensation. Lowering yourself into water teeming with great white sharks. There is a cage between you and the sharks, but its open on the top, and when the first shark emerges from the shadows, moving full speed toward you, its giant mouth open, revealing rows of razor sharp teeth, the cage is little comfort.
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POPSHas the BBC lost its capacity for objective and fair reporting? On 5th June 2009, Victoria Gill the Science Reporter for BBC News filed a report entitled “Rainforest is worth more standing”. The report focuses on a proposed scheme called Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (Redd), a UN initiative to protect forests. The report asserts that payments to reduce carbon emissions from the forests could generate more income than palm oil production on deforested land.
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POPSPalm Oil: It profits a man nothing to give his soul The play recounts the story of Henry VIII and his succession of wives in his search for one who could give him a male heir. When the Catholic Church would not dissolve his "present" marriage in order to legitimize the next union, Henry pulled his country out of the Roman Church and made himself the head of the Church of England, a condition that exists today.
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POPSPalm Oil Attacked Whilst One Billion People Go Hungry World hunger is expected to reach a historic high in 2009 with 1.02 billion people going hungry every day, according to a new report published by the UN food agency FAO recently. The most recent increase in hunger is caused by the world economic crisis that has resulted in lower incomes and increased unemployment.
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