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Feb
1
2010

  • In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice   in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two   papers as the source of the information.  

     

     However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature   article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on   anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing   on the mountainsides around them.  

     

     The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the   equivalent of a master's degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland   that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.  

     

     The revelations, uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph, have raised fresh   questions about the quality of the information contained in the report,   which was

Aug
10
2008

  • Hi, My name’s Malcolm Lambert. I’m the founder of a startup called Intresto which aims to use computer science to improve our ability to use the world’s largest resource of low-embodied energy building material, rock rubble.

     

    I’ve just sent in my pre-application application for Climate Ready funding. Over the next few weeks and months I’ll be posting about the grant process hopefully to let other startups in this space know what to expect if they go down the same route. Below is my first post. I hope you enjoy the journey as much as I do…

Jul
16
2008


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    This report applies a full-cost economics approach to climate change adaptation, using the aluminium industry as a case study to illustrate the complexity of the policy challenge. The report examines the positive value of jobs within the upstream aluminium industry, and the negative value of carbon emissions from the sector. It estimates the value which flows from aluminium jobs to individual workers and to the wider community. The report provides a demographic survey of aluminium towns and finds that aluminium towns are less economically vibrant than the Australian economy as a whole, with lower median incomes (despite high aluminium wages), lower employment and lower workforce participation. This highlights the critical importance of aluminium to these towns, employing thousands of local workers at an average wage more than double the national median. 
Jul
3
2008

  • The CEOs of 100 large multinational corporations -- including companies from carbon-intense industries -- have signed a World Economic Forum statement [PDF] that calls on the G8 to create a strategy to cut global greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050.
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