Multinational petroleum company Royal Dutch Shell, has just signed a new agreement with Brazilian company Cosan – promising $2bn of the petroleum giant’s cash to merge with $5bn worth of assets already in place.
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Tag Archive: climate change
Copenhagen summit hit by new ‘Danish Text’ leak controversy
We’re only two days into the two week long Copenhagen summit and another controversial document has been leaked that is causing negotiations to falter at this early stage. Earlier we had the ‘ClimateGate’ scandal in relation to the series of emails that were released by some unknown hackers, and today comes words of a new leaked document that is highlighting a prejudice towards richer countries against developing ones.
Climate Research Unit hacked, leaked data brings out questions
One of Britain’s leading climate change research organisations, Climate Research Unit, has recently been hacked and had much of its private data and email conversations leaked onto the internet. What is perhaps most interesting about the data that has been leaked, is that in some cases it shows a very real and conscious effort to distort scientific findings in order to fit predetermined opinions.
Future crops could be saved by drought-proof gene
Researchers at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, have recently discovered a particular plant gene that could be used to grant drought-proof traits to future crops such as wheat or rice.
Ethical Blogging: Climate change, blogging for the common good
Those of you paying attention might have questioned why we didn’t have an ethical blogging post yesterday – being Wednesday and all. Well, the reason is that I wanted to save the post for Blog Action Day ‘09, an annual event where bloggers unite to bring attention to an issue of global importance.
Climate change: alarmists vs skeptics
The Examiner today has a look at both sides of the man-made climate change debate, highlighting a number of alarmists alongside a number of skeptics.
Sydney dust storms – a sign of things to come?
By now you have probably seen images of the dust storms that covered Sydney. Although the storm itself is worthy of attention, I think what becomes more important is how this gives us a glimpse into the possible chaos and turmoil that could become far more regular in the near future.
Ozone Layer depletion levelling off: new study
A recent study coming out of Sweden has shown that the speed at which the ozone layer is depleting has leveled off, even possibly reversing slightly.
Head of Greenpeace admits climate change exaggeration
Gerd Leipold, the current Executive Director of Greenpeace, has just come out on the BBC programme Hardtalk and admitted that they had ‘emotionalised’ issues surrounding the melting of the polar ice-caps in a report released on July 15th.
BP to develop biofuels in joint effort
BP has joined forces with Martek Biosciences Corporation to jointly work on the “production of microbial oils for biofuels applications”.
