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• Petropolis – Documentary on Alberta Tar Sands
  on Sep 29, 2010 in Externalisation North-America
  Shot primarily from a helicopter, filmmaker Peter Mettler’s “Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands” offers an unparalleled view of the world’s largest industrial, capital and energy project. Tar sands oil pr...
• Canada defines Arctic Sovereignty
  on Sep 20, 2010 in Arctic North-America Politics
  Minister Cannon announced the release of a statement on Canada’s Arctic foreign policy. The statement articulates Canada’s priorities with respect to sovereignty, economic and social development, environmental protection, and governance in the Ar...
• Investor Information from Deutsche Bank
  on Sep 20, 2010 in Economy Planet
  There are good reasons to invest in green technology, solar application, wind energy and better efficiency. Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors add some more by debunking major sceptics arguments. From the press release: For most of this year, the...
• The Psychology of Global Warming
  on Sep 19, 2010 in Education Planet Research
  Does our wired by stone-age brain suffers from framing and sampling issues and stops us from getting a grasp of things more complex than daily weather? Paper by Ben R. Newell and Andrew J. Pitman from the School of Psychology ant the Climate Change R...
• The Eye of Hurricane Igor
  on Sep 15, 2010 in Atlantic Storms
  Hurricane Igor has slightly weakened but remains a dangerous category 4 hurricane. Moving at a rate of 10 miles per hour, Hurricane Igor is approximately 570 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands and approximately 1090 miles southeast of Bermuda...
• Toyota’s Clever Greenwashing
  on Sep 12, 2010 in Disinformation Economy Videos
  Do you think this is a charming ad? Well, it is promoting a car, which comsumes the energy needed to drive and to build. And it is released by a company with a fleet mainly composed of fossil fuel burners. However, the video seem to work, the echo is...
• Arctic Sea Ice targeting new Record?
  on Sep 9, 2010 in Arctic Consequences Cryosphere
  Since the beginning of the month the sea ice drift knows only one direction – the Atlantic. There the water is around 4°C above freezing point. On top the rotten ice is diffuse and there much room for further compacting. Given the current diff...
• IAC reviewed IPCC Processes and Procedures
  on Aug 30, 2010 in Planet Research
  Due to some glitches e.g. estimates about melting glaciers in the Himalaya region and the areas below sea level in the Netherlands in the latest IPCC Assessment Report – a document of several thousand pages – the InterAcademy Council loca...
• Documentary about Climate Refugees
  on Aug 29, 2010 in Consequences Planet Videos
  The ultimate threat to a country is loosing its ground to the ocean. Whether or not you are convinced of anthropogenic global warming are you ready to give millions of climate refugees a new home? Would you offer a room within your house? Michael Nas...
• Is the Arctic the new Irak?
  on Aug 29, 2010 in Arctic Resources
  The area north of the Arctic Circle has an estimated 90 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil, 1,670 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable natural gas, and 44 billion barrels of technically recoverable natural gas liqu...

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