the intersection of emergency preparedness, public health and environmental policy
Unlike Warren Buffett, Jeremy Grantham, chairman of Grantham Mayo van Otterloo, GMO.com, is not a "celebrity investor." And also unlike Buffett, Grantham is an environmentalist. Jeremy and his wife, Hannelore, established the Grantham Foundation for the protection of the environment, and The Grantham Research on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of [...]
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At Deutsch Bank, one of the world's largest banks, there are some very bright people who understand that climate change is problem. An Internet search on "Deutsche Bank Climate Change" brings up links to Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors, which features a carbon counter, showing the tons of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, 3.6659 trillion [...]
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In 100 years our descendants will not be burning coal, oil, natural gas or using nuclear fission. They might be using terrestrial nuclear fusion. They will be using solar, wind, geothermal, marine current hydro, tidal energy systems - clean, renewable, sustainable energy systems. No fuel: No Waste. No mines, mills, wells, spills. No arsenic, lead, [...]
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Abstract. By burning fossil fuels we have put 3.6 trillion tons of Carbon Dioxide, CO2 in the atmosphere1 in the last 200 years – most in the last 60. This has changed the concentration of atmospheric CO2 from 250 parts per Million, ppm, to 390 ppm, an increase of approximately 35.9%. This increase of atmospheric [...]
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NY. Jan. 25. Mark Fulton, "Climate Change Strategist" Deutsche BankAsset Management, spoke at Cary Krosinsky's class in Sustainable Investing at the CERC, the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Earth Institute, Columbia University. Krosinsky, Vice President of Trucost, recently co-edited and wrote the book Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long Term Performance with Nick Robins [...]
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Evidence of Climate Change? Floods in Los Angeles, California, Jan. 2010. Over 300 residents of Los Angeles were ordered to evacuate because of the threat of mudslides from the rains. These rains are related El Niño, a warm ocean current from the South Pacific, according to CNN meteorologist Chad Myers (click here). The effects of [...]
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I'm beginning to think that Copenhagen was what it had to be, what it could only be. It fulfilled its Buddha-nature. Thus, I don't consider it a failure. Nor do I consider it a success. It was what it was, what it could have been, what it had to be: A gathering of emissaries from [...]
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Earlier today one of my friends handed me a copy of some satire published in the New York Post, a tabloid in the tradition of the London rags, on the subject of "Climate-Gate." At about the same time, Roger Saillant, co-author of Vapor Trails, who heads the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value at Case Western [...]
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Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense This article presents and debunks myths about climate change. Evidence for human interference with Earth's climate continues to accumulate By John Rennie, Scientific American, November 30, 2009 "On November 18, U.S. Sen. James R. Inhofe (R–Okla.) took the floor of the Senate and proclaimed 2009 to be "The Year [...]
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There's a lot in these articles, and a lot to read between the lines in these articles from the New York Times- Business Section. (Between the Lines Concept 1 - the Business Section, not the Sciencesection.)From E.U. Plan to Curb Carbon Dioxide Would Favor Solar PowerBy James Kanter."The European Commission is expected to introduce a [...]
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The “Seven Seas” are really one big interconnected ocean. While many people may have been unconscious of this fact, we, meaning humanity, have known this since 1522, when, led by Juan Sebastian Elcano, the 18 remaining members of Ferdinand Magellan's 237 man crew completed the circumnavigation of the earth, begun in 1519. This lesson has [...]
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