Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
As a Sing Tao Daily headline reported on the paper’s front page, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney met with China’s foreign minister in Houston earlier this month, after former President Ronald Reagan’s funeral.
At least 85 people died and more than 320 were wounded in Iraq on Thursday when insurgents launched bloody assaults in five cities to disrupt next week’s formal handover to Iraqi rule.
MORE than 200 protesters including Sir Bernard Ingham and Professor David Bellamy gathered in Saddlewort to oppose plans to build wind farms on beauty spots.
The Supreme Court handed a major political victory to the Bush administration today, ruling 7 to 2 that Vice President Dick Cheney is not obligated, at least for now, to release secret details of his energy task force.
Each summer as 120-degree heat shimmers silver waves across the Mojave Desert, residents of this inferno crank the thermostat down. Air-conditioner compressors and fan motors often run 24-hours a day and for weeks on end.
Britain risks running short of gas over the next two winters if the weather were particularly harsh or there were an emergency such as a terrorist attack on an import terminal, according to a House of Lords inquiry.
“State Highway 20 is a waste of public money at a time when climate change, local air pollution and oil depletion will all be much worse by the time it is opened.”
Oil prices edged up on Thursday as Norwegian employers said they would lock out striking workers next week, threatening to shut off almost all oil and gas output from the world’s number three crude exporter.
The 100-year reign of the world’s oil-based economy is nearing its zenith, according to Paul Roberts.
China’s railway system is near collapse and the Chinese economy seems to have entered a vicious cycle.
A worst-case scenario of climate change from the possible future release of submerged methane hydrates predicts catastrophic warming in the atmosphere and rising sea level similar to conditions that preceded the last ice age
The abiotic origin of oil, is a theory that has yet to see conclusive evidence. It’s known better for it’s lack of evidence against, than evidence for.
