GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- The Tanzanian government is allowing uranium mining in a nature reserve. Profits from the mining are supposed to go into upkeep of the park and the government estimates that the mining will have no effect on the natural or human environment.
- Modern technology uses a lot of what we call “ rare earth metals“. Large deposits of rare earth metals have been found on the Pacific Ocean floor. I would prefer that we leave the ocean floor alone.
- Natural gas is a hot issue right now, The Week presents three articles representing three viewpoints on the subject. And, France is the first country to ban fracking on their land.
- Not only is fast food bad for human health but it creates a lot of trash as each food piece comes with its own packaging. Packaging is large problem in our economy, we need Quality Assurance for our food but our current method of covering every thing with plastic and paper is unsustainable.
- ExxonMobil is accused of continuing to fund Climate Change denial campaigns.
- The old paradigm was cradle-to-grave, the new concept is cradle-to-cradle.
- Harvesting solar power in space and beaming it to consumers around the globe could be our future. Imagine if power was remotely available.
- There are two types of pollution that are conflicting in effect on global temperature. Sulphur is one such pollutant (from coal fired power plants) that “dims” the sun.
- Plastic solar panels are coming. Is it good or bad to switch from silicon and glass to plastic? Also, spray on solar panels.
- Bio-fuels are in the tanks of planes for KLM and Lufthansa airlines.
- My reservations of Scientific American are summed up in this article about what is in hotdogs. The list is gruesome and contains a lot of non-foods and Scientific American just glosses over it, saying only this about “flavorings:” “…most combinations of flavoring agents are okay to just be listed as “flavor” rather spelled out individually.”
- Popular Science tries to save the future of the nuclear industry with this piece about Generation III + Nuclear plants.
- Chevron got hit hard last month by environmental and human rights activists during the annual shareholder meeting.
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