[LINK] Climate Change, The other point of View #carbontax

[Marghanita da Cruz]

I have been harping on about Natural Lighting, for a couple of years, as I
argued to preserve a sawtooth warehouse and against its replacement with 
fake air conditioned artificially lit terraces...
<http://ramin.com.au/annandale/story-74b-trafalgar-street.shtml>

>  Throughout America, even in this difficult economic environment, there are examples of innovation and entrepreneurship that inspire us with their creativity and success.  I came across one of these places recently at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in not surprisingly, Brooklyn New York, a former shipyard that is now a thriving urban industrial park.  There, a small manufacturer named IceStone has capitalized on the demand for safe and sustainable products by creating countertops and surfaces from 100 percent recycled glass, diverting hundreds of tons of glass from landfills each year.  In doing so, they've created more than 40 good jobs in a daylit facility and sustainable work environment that their workers feel good about.  
> 
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/06/20/manufacturing-our-nations-clean-energy-future>

> Sea Level Study Leads to Divisions
> 06/21/2011
> Waves hit the Greek city of Corinth. Sea levels have risen significantly 
in recent decades.
>
> After reconstructing sea level patterns over the last 2,000 years for 
the first time ever, researchers have found that the dawn of the industrial
age initiated an unprecedented rise in waters. But critics complain the
study is too narrow.
...
> The rise in sea levels is perhaps the most dangerous consequence of 
climate change. A majority of the world's population lives in coastal
regions, and especially in poorer nations, hundreds of millions of people
are threatened with an ever-increasing number of floods.
>
> And the forecasts for sea levels are only pointing in one direction: 
upwards. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
predicted in its status report from 2007 that, on average, global sea
levels could rise by 59 centimeters by the year 2100. In a UN report
released last week, the estimated rise in sea levels could be between 90
centimeters and 1.60 meters over the course of this century.
...
<http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,769687,00.html>

Marghanita
-- 
Marghanita da Cruz
http://ramin.com.au
Tel: 0414-869202