Archive for December, 2005
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
Climate Change and Our Health
Climate change has the potential to have serious effects on your health.
Regional differences in warming patterns, precipitation and extreme weather events mean that the health effects of climate change will vary according to where you live. Young children, the elderly, those in poor health, or those living in poor quality housing will be most vulnerable […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
How Will Climate Change Affect Us?
Climate change is more than a warming trend. Increasing temperatures will lead to changes in many aspects of weather, such as wind patterns, the amount and type of precipitation, and the types and frequency of severe weather events that may be expected to occur in an area.
Not all regions of the world will be affected […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
What is Canada Doing?
Climate change is a global challenge, and the Kyoto Protocol is the only global mechanism with targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Canada is a strong supporter of the Kyoto Protocol.
Canada’s Kyoto target is challenging. However, Canada has many advantages that will help us rise to that challenge.
Our natural resource and other industrial sectors […]
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
Profitable Reforesting
HOW TO RESTORE & MAINTAIN AN ECOSYSTEM
WHILE EARNING A PERMANENT PROFIT
by Ed Ring
In the beginning there was a dairy farm
In recent years demand for tropical hardwoods has increased exponentially.
This is due to rising populations as well as increasing standards of living. But tropical hardwoods have always been in strong demand. As building materials they are […]
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
The 100% Electric Car
BATTERY POWERED CARS & THE CASE FOR THE SERIAL HYBRID
by Ed Ring
Hybrid cars, which combine the power of an electric motor with a gasoline engine, are often presented as a transitional technology that will eventually be supplanted by fuel cell cars. This argument rests on an assumption which may or may not be valid – […]
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
The Allure of Kilimanjaro
VANISHING GLACIERS ON AFRICA’S HIGHEST MOUNTAIN
by Dan Hall
Mt. Kilimanjaro’s glaciers are melting away
Editor’s Note: Did human-built cars and generators and heaters make the gas that warmed the air and melted the ice? Or is it just a coincidence of geologic and climatological fluctuations that we arrive at this tipping point? Or is it a tipping […]
