(December 8, 2010) Chinese officials stop up the harassment of dissidents and other critics ahead of Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, writes Brady Yauch.
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A bill for climate data integrity: The Public Access to Historical Records Act
(December 8, 2010) Vitter, Barrasso Introduce Bill to Ensure Open, Accurate NASA Climate Data.
Reflections on China and the Nobel Peace Prize
(December 8, 2010) The case of Liu Xiaobo.
Guizhou Detains Activists
(December 7, 2010) Chinese authorities hold a group of activists who planned to host a conference on human rights.
Carbon Auction Yields $16.9 Million for New York
(December 3, 2010) New York made $16.9 million in the latest auction of carbon dioxide credits, held this week under the cap-and-trade system known as Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. But it remains to be seen whether the money will go to the energy efficiency programs it is intended for.
Hockey stick coverup, a sequel
(December 3, 2010) More fallout over the University of Virginia’s mysterious conduct concerning the infamous hockey stick graph, the UN icon that purported to show that temperatures were steady over the last thousand years before shooting up in the last century.
Warm weather, pricey diesel give ski resorts glum outlook
(November 30, 2010) Twelve ski resorts have been operating in Beijing as of 2006, guzzling 640,000 cubic meters of water annually, according to the Beijing Water Authority, a government agency for water conservancy and flood control.
Building Jinanqiao Dam
(November 29, 2010) Yong-Wen Hong and Cheng-Bin Du present details on the design and construction of the Jinanqiao RCC gravity dam, a 160m high structure located in China’s Yunnan Province, in a region of high seismicity.
Europe’s press (and Canada’s) turns against global warming
(November 28, 2010) A major German media outlet joins others in Europe in jumping on the growing bandwagon for global warming scepticism, and in style, with a cover emblazoned with “Great Climate!” for the benefits that global warming has brought us. “Rethink: Global warming is good for us,” says Focus, one of the country’s largest newsmagazines, in a break with a German taboo.
Nervous neighbours
(November 24, 2010) Construction of a large-scale dam in Tibet is prompting familiar fears downstream on the Brahmaputra. Joydeep Gupta reports on India’s concerns.
More people, more problems – water challenges with Chinese city growth
(November 24, 2010) Recent reports reveal China’s freshwater challenges and their possible solutions as cities prepare for major influx in population over the next 15 years.
Mega dams, mega disquiet
(November 23, 2010) Writing in the Hindustan Times, Sanjib Kr Baruah reports on the growing protests to mega dam projects in India’s Arunachal Pradesh region.
Mekong River: Challenges from deforestation and water transfer
(November 23, 2010) The flow of the river will be weakened seriously or it can dry out completely if its waters is transferred to other rivers, like a man who loses his blood, wrote Prof., Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Tran.
WSJ: World Bank Gives China Measured Praise on Green Energy
(November 23, 2010) The Wall Street Journal puts the World Bank’s “measured praise” of China’s green energy policies in context.
Canada dodges carbon suicide
(November 19, 2010) Opposition MPs and warmist NGOs this week responded with outrage that the Harper government should have dared to use the Senate — an unelected body that the Conservatives claim they want to reform — to kill the Climate Change Accountability Act.
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