GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- TechnologyReview covers “The Year in Energy” and the effort of the new Volt car to double its battery capacity.
- Icelandic police apparently don’t know how to react to environmental protests and a formally undercover cop is now speaking up on the matter. Kind of a strange situation.
- A new report in the UK calls for a cease of operations on extracting shale gas until they know the environmental effect of it.
- Good health is Environmental – Bhutan is trying to ban the smoking of cigarettes.
- Consumer reports offers a service for analyzing green products.
- Yet another story on how, yes, Earth is actually warming.
- Hundreds of birds fell out of the sky dead in Arkansas recently. Another event of mysterious die offs, but the article points out that “5 billion birds die annually.”
- The NYTimes covered an art show containing pictures of landscapes devastated by humans. The aesthetic value of the pieces carried more weight than the environmental statement.
- This is a great scare piece about how California could be destroyed by a storm.
- The next generation of homebuyers will not have the same tastes as those before them. Our housing market is flooded with poorly made matchboxes in dispersed tracks, and this new generation won’t want that. Ever heard of de-construction?
