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Mr Gordon's preferred banking stocks are Lloyds Banking Group, down 1 to 76.3p, and Barclays, which lost 2 to 314¾p. For Mr Gordon, Lloyds "stands out in terms of an evolving operational story that should secure a further relative re-rating over time, while Barclays represents a somewhat lacklustre value play where near-term resilience should support."
Overall, the FTSE 100 fell 15.42 points to 5540.14 and the FTSE 250 lost 52.15 points to 10442.12. Volumes were once again light, with roughly 700m shares traded over the session.
Inter-dealer broker ICAP took the wooden spoon as Panmure Gordon downgraded the stock to "hold" from "buy". Vivek Raja, an analyst at Panmure Gordon, said: "Following a 17pc share price increase over the past month, the valuation reflects our growth expectations for the post trade and electronic businesses." The shares retreated 17.1 to 437.6p.
BT Group was under pressure as Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock to "equal-weight" and lowered its price target to 155p. Nick Delfas, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, is worried that the pensions regulator could make a further statement on its "substantial concerns" about BT's huge deficit this autumn. He is also concerned about the company's exposure to UK government contracts. The shares fell 4.4 to 140p.
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Cable & Wireless Worldwide also fizzed 3.3 higher to 77½p after Goldman Sachs upgraded the stock to "buy". Andrew Lee, an analyst at the broker, said: "We argue investor sentiment is low, fears on UK Enterprise high and that austerity pressures are priced in, which provides an exciting entry point."
BP moved 4.3 higher to 408p as Moody's confirmed it had not downgraded the oil major's credit rating any further. Other oil producers were in vogue as the price of crude hovered around $78 a barrel. Royal Dutch Shell climbed 21½p to £18.29.
BlueBay Asset Management perked up 24½ to 345p following strong final results, which prompted Credit Suisse to raise its target price to 410 from 370p.
Acquisition news helped lift United Business Media 30½ to 634p. The professional publishing group said it has bought US tradeshows company Canon Communications for $287m to boost its presence in the medical sector and emerging markets.
However, milk producer Robert Wiseman plunged 143½ to 342p after it issued an unexpected profit warning. Dairy Crest also slipped 14½ to 361.3p in sympathy.
Data centre group Telecity Group fell 24½ to 500p as private equity firm Oak Hill sold 12m shares at 500p.
Buy-to-let lender Paragon Group gave up 4.9 to 148.6p as Collins Stewart argued that it does not expect Paragon to restart lending this year.
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As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained that drilling fouled their water has turned up alarming levels of underground pollution.
A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer-causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing,
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...can we say "fast and furious" here.....the same kind of people who populate the Justice dept. also populate the EPA...
..the "finding" may be a damnable ruse just like F&F...or a damnable lie like "global warming".
....just be cautious before making judgements, esp where any government agency is involved.
Ok...I must confess. In the late 80's and early 90's I was employed byHalliburton as a "Blender Tender" Which means I was responsible for mixing and maintaining frac fluids and for mixing the sand into the fluid.
To be honest, 99.9% of the fluids used by the frack process are combletely harmless. Essentialy they are using the same formula as jello. There are a couple of additives that can be ugly...but they are the same things used by water departments to keep bacteria out of water.
The other part of this equation is the fact that frac activity has a remarkable safety record in terms of cross contamination. The whole arguement in my opinion is baseless.
This is little more than our enemies trying to remove the ability of the United States to have a viable long term energy source.
When I see this arguement ( Kills minorities and women and kids). I quickly mark the person spouting it as either a useful idiot or a domestic/International enemy.
Any burning questions you want to know about the process?
Thank you for the perspective. Looks like it is WIDELY used and the source actually can't be pinpointed exclusively to fracking use.
But will we hear that from the lamestream? (Do I really need to ask?)
Name, or leave in shame.
"The EPA's research in Wyoming is separate from the agency's ongoing national study of hydraulic fracturing's effect on water supplies, and is being funded through the Superfund cleanup program.
The EPA says it will release a lengthy draft of the Pavillion findings, including a detailed interpretation of them, later this month."
Who controls the Superfund program?
People would freak out over the possibility of oil getting into the Great Lakes like it did the Gulf, but natural gas seems virtually harmless.
And kill bugs in the urinal
The only way is if you have a bad cement job around your surface casing, which is the protective pipe cemented in to protect the ground water. It is a rarity.
The EPA has not bothered to trace back where the compounds came from. No instead they immediately blame industry. Truth be told, when there is natural gas and petrolieum underground, many of these products show up withput human interference
Name what?
Mission creep on Superfund, which was originally only intended to clean up toxic spills. It sounds laudable to "prevent" allegedly possible toxic spills, but this shouldn't be a Superfund task.
The fact you have to ask the question sounds shady.
Deadly stuff.
We need to ban it entirely.
I'm from the government (the EPA) and I'm here to check your RADON.
(remember that one?)
Only if you clean your home. My kids obviously want me to live forever.
I was at an eatery in Kentucky where the water tasted like kerosene... rather authentic I'd say.
Clearly we want to try to avoid situations where extraction activities cause significant amounts of stuff to get into aquifers that otherwise wouldn't get into them. No sense in making aquifers unusable. But the idea that Mother Nature can't cause pollution quite handily her own self... that's nonsense.
I happen to be a Directional Drilling Engineer working in the Marcellus Shale Region. Any drilling under the Great Lakes will be done from land with no possibility of a disaster like the one in the Gulf. On top of that, there is no way in hell that fracking can fracture the upper strata levels and cause gas or oil to migrate to the surface. It all occurres at 9 to 10 thousand feed deep, is highly contained and the fractures are less than 50 feet around the Well bore, with hundreds of non permeable formation layers above it, to protect the upper levels.
There are also strict safety standard in place that are closely monitored by State and Federal agencies to insure that these safeguards are in place, documented and tested.
The ignorance and stupidity I am reading from some of these morons who make these ridiculously uneducated claims, makes me furious. Even more so, they are the ones the public believes the most!
You should be thinking of deadly chemical OXIDANE, the substance so deadly because it can harm people in a variety of different ways!
Should liquid oxidane enter into the lungs it blocks the entry of oxygen into the blood, which can cause death in minutes. Even if the oxidane is removed before death occurs, severe brain damage can result. Recreational users are at high risk! In the US every year Thousands of people are killed by Oxidane ingestion!
In gaseous form oxidane causes severe, sometimes fatal, burns by contact with the skin! Liquid and Gaseous Oxidane is a major highway safety hazard and many fatalities occur each year due to Oxidane on the roads or in the air over the roads!
Oxidane is highly susceptible to microbial contamination, such contamination has killed millions of people!
Oxidane is also a major component of Acid Rain, and accumulates in rivers, lakes, and the ocean! When Oxidane is released into the atmosphere it may also evaporate into a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide!
"Anecdotes are not evidence"
Which is why you are being asked to name trouble spots and the firms and people concerned. Don't broad brush with unsupported generalities.
I don't know WTF you're talking about. Perhaps you could be more clear.
liberals should not be on this forum.
Are you a consultant for one of these frivolous lawsuit mills?
Well, that isn't exactly the DRYEST humor.
Let's get independent verification as the EPA has an agenda and the current regime a proven track record of falsifying data to fit their agenda.
Wow! It's just as bad as Dihydrogen Monoxide!
There is so much bad stuff out there!
Read # 52 and 76 "genius". You might actually learn something about the subject, while you are so rapidly making a fool of yourself.
And by all means, ask us a few questions, we would love to debat you on our level. Just remember, you had better be able to back it up.
While I'm not familiar with the pictures, it was well known that prior to the Gulf spill, much natural oil leaked into the water. Over possibly millions of years, that's how nature learned how to cope with it. Busting the oil up with detergent and solvent like they did in the Gulf spill hopefully hastened this process, but the natural resources to digest it were already there. By the way what has been going on with the Gulf and the spilled oil, whatever's left of it?
Associate together into specific incidents?
Yeah Dr. Fracenstein, why is Dick Cheney trying to kill all the children and minorities? ;)
You can bet yer Bippy on that one ;-)
Spent most of my youtuh in the Oklahoma Oil fields. My pops even had a acidizing company until of course the Windfall profits tax sucked the money out of the oil patch back in the late 70's early 80's.
Nice to meet someone who wants to smear and only under pressure will begin to even approach stating specific events that can then be debated about. It's hard to debate Judgments from On High, after all, which is Handy for You.
Did you happen to read the article? Your stream-of-consciousness posts are causing me to wonder...
The remains of the BP spill were consumed the same way, and much faster than originally estimated. Much like Prince William Sound. The spill cleaned itself up in less than a year.
The damage the cleanup effort did by steaming the rocks and soaping the beaches, etc, did far more damage to the environment than the spill ever thought of doing. I was there on that one also.
Did you find any independent authority backing up the EPAllegations?
And wonder all you want, we do not care about your wondering. It has no weight here.
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Vehicle is worth 11,291 according to Kelly Blue Book
The remaining balance on my loan is abput 9700
I would have to come up with about 3k to get out of my place, I have the rest in savings
My current loan is not with my CU it is with another lender. This is my first auto loan and I didnt have credit before hand so my CU wouldnt help! LOL
Thanks so much for any more info you can provide!
Get in contact with your CU now to see what they will loan on your vehicle. You have history with an auto loan now so they might refi it. It appears you don't have enough equity to pull out to pay off the lease. But don't refi the loan unless you can get a better rate and a better payment than what you have now.
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I don't know about other people, but I have at least 15 distinctly different ways of walking depending upon where I'm going, how fast I want to get there, and my overall mood. And that's not counting all the different ways I walk when I'm just experimenting. Ever walk in such a way that your body does not rise and fall at each step, but maintains a constant height throughout? It's harder than it seems!
Holy shit! Did you notice the link off to the side of the article you referenced, about the five-year-old girl in Florida left for dead in "alligator alley" after her mother was assaulted?! THAT'S the story, mofo. Let's hope it ends up in "Last Days," or Hell.
I tho don't thway when I walk, and I honethtly don't know how people can alwayth tell I'm gay!
My gaydar usually goes off when a guy is going down on me. That's a sure-fire giveaway.
I don't know about anyone else, but Adrian calling me "faggot" makes me feel sexy in a way I'd rather forget.
Stop the presses, the gays have invented body language.
"body language"! HA! you are SO from the 70s.
My dick is hard.
Yeah...but what about ELLEN'S PUPPY????
adrian! i expect a full report back on this. ricky martin must cease, especially with planting his love seeds all over us. i mean, the US.
Explain the "disapproving matron" tone of voice - that's always been the dead giveaway for me.
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Truly a sad situation. Schism always is.
I think that the term canonical is a red herring. It's really what Serge says ... it's about *communion* more than any canon.
Shouldn't being canonical be based on adherance to the canons and fathers?
... the 'Western Orthodox Catholic Church of the Americas Inc., a Gay-Friendly Community with Women Priests' (to make up a typical example of a silly vagante church), isn't.
Posted by: +æ-ü+¦-â-ä+++¦+++«-é Posted on: Today at 02:02:08 AM Quote from: Serge on Yesterday at 10:09:53 PM ... the 'Western Orthodox Catholic Church of the Americas Inc., a Gay-Friendly Community with Women Priests' (to make up a typical example of a silly vagante church), isn't. Oh my; now that's funny . Until you stated that you made this church up, I easily assumed it really existed...
What I find wierd though is that throughout Orthodox history it is confession of the true faith that makes one Orthodox, not being in communion with the official patriarchs. That is setting up each patriarch as a mini-pope which he is NOT.
If that's entirely true then why not ditch bishops entirely, nail an iconostasis to a wall and join the Priestless Old Believers? That's their paradigm - that they're the only Orthodox left and no-one else is, based on their own reading of canons, etc. (Some of the sectarians online might end up doing that - it would make sense.)
Under normal conditions there should be a single communion of all Orthodox bishops (and by extension people).
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Mar 18, 2013 3:31pm
tell them sister!
Mar 18, 2013 3:36pm
From this line alone, OP is either a troll or just plain stupid. Also lolshaminglanguage.
I'd upload pictures and fill out a profile just to test it.
Mar 18, 2013 4:31pm
Even though you're a bitter misogynist, rape apologist, and MRA gunslinger, some of your posts are pretty amusing -- my fav so far being the one in Profile Suggestions about the guy and his car.
Mar 19, 2013 2:34am
It's sort of too bad that the good advice gets ignored in the effort to shoot the messenger.
Mar 19, 2013 1:35pm
Hmm... this guy must be doin' it ri---
OP is a girl
Edit: Skimmed the thread. Apparently OP is a sock. Carry on.
Mar 19, 2013 4:14pm
OP is a girl. There's a big difference.
ExtremeDating, you'll be glad to know that I worked 'lolearnest' into three conversations today on the boards, and also used it in the "let's write a nice story" thread on Unmitigated Drama.
Just doing my bit to spread your good advice.
Mar 20, 2013 4:54am
Internet terminology always sounds like verbal vomit when I try to read it aloud, but if you're referencing something pretty abhorrent with it then I guess it's an appropriate characteristic.
Mar 20, 2013 5:33am
In both my standards and who I am it is the same online as IRL. Therefore it is not me being pickier online. Think about it this way a woman online may be comparing profiles and emails to the best profiles out of 1,000s and waiting for the profile (could be fake) of the doctor with the male model looks to email.
Out in the real world being the best available in that social setting is the result of being compared to a much smaller number and none of your competition can fake it on a grand scale like online.
Also online it is similar to the economics of supply and demand. A limited number on one side and an excess on the other. Similar to the real estate market in areas of LA. Sellers know there are not as many homes for sale right now and a lot of buyers so they all think they are worth $300 a sq/ft but nobody is buying it because they are selling closer to $200.
Overall I think it is a different ball of wax online because many regardless of gender are operating with fantasy standards and not their real world set.
Mar 20, 2013 6:02am
But you said when you read someone's profile, you often
find yourself thinking they're a PITA, right? Could that be because
they're saying things in their profiles that they wouldn't say (at
least on first meeting) in person?
And that's equally true of men, right? They too are comparing profiles and emails to the best out of thousands, and possibly waiting for a response from the (possibly fake) profile of the supermodel whose father owns a pub, right?
OK; so perhaps that's why you feel like the women you meet in real life are of a higher quality than the women you meet on OKC; because in real life you're comparing a smaller pool?
But in this case, that doesn't seem to be working; if it were, surely you'd value women on OKC more highly than women in real life, since you seem to be better able to meet women in real life than here?
But you feel that applies to other people, and not to you?
Mar 20, 2013 9:39am
Actually it is a perfect example. They place a higher value on the home than what it is actually yielding in the market. Much as many in the online gender minority think they are a much hotter commodity than in IRL.
With the real estate some foolishly buy anyway. Others wait for a better opportunity or a different market.
Online she may be closer to that pedestal in the mind of those without as much free time to spend or social skills to use in IRL settings. Others will push away from the PC and head out as opposed to dealing with the stagflation.
I know it does not apply to me. I know myself and while I can't speak for every other individual I have observed the overall trend.
lolearnest or earnest...LOL
Mar 20, 2013 10:00am
But you do know that every person you've observed that
trend in thinks the same thing, right? That it only applies to
other people and not them?
Mar 20, 2013 5:38pm
You can't really blame women for the dating asymmetry. They have the advantage partly because men hand it to them. Why should women not capitalize on that? It's the same reason why men pee standing up...because they can. Of course, it would be thoughtful of them to feel a woman's burden and squat to pee. But, you really can't blame them for taking advantage.
Mar 20, 2013 6:25pm
She's right. I just did this and had 10 of 12 answered in the last two days. Okay, really need to sign off.
Mar 20, 2013 10:49pm
This whole thread is lolearnest. (Thanks for bringing me here Hand)
I think Han said it best. "Keep your distance, but don't look like you're keeping your distance..." "Fly casual." But then, he was Solo.
Damn, that Sock is pretty. Anyone GIS that and see if there's noodz in the set?
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A recent report on National Public Radio's (NPR) Morning Edition features an interview with game designer, writer and advocate goddess Jane McGonigal. The interviewer, Laura Sydell, especially explores McGonigal's assertions that people don't play enough games. During her speech at the TED Conference last year, she told an audience:
"If we want to solve problems like hunger, poverty, climate change, global conflict, obesity," she said, "I believe that we need to aspire to play games online for at least 21 billion hours a week by the end of the next decade."
Skeptical responses to her points use games that are popularly seen as violent or time-wasters as arguments against her enthusiasm for play. McGonigal, however, sees playtime with games such as World of Warcraft (WoW) as valuable, cognitive reasoning exercises. Of learning to play the game she says, "Even if I've failed a quest a dozen times, I'm still improving my abilities with each try. I'm getting stronger and I'm getting smarter, and this is obviously meant to model what would happen in real life if you kept tackling an obstacle."
Her outlook on games has had her playing the role of consultant for some Serious Games, games designed to explore and make arguments on relevant real world topics, such as World Without Oil, which imagines and has players live through a fictional oil shortage. McGonigal and her supporters highlight the impact the online game has had with its 2000 players, but critics such as animator Bruce Woodside cite those numbers as insignificant against the millions playing games like WoW and Call of Duty.
If McGonigal's theories are to be believed, should developers be making more of an effort to beef up the positive effects of successful franchises? The power of games is certainly there when it comes to being a persuasive medium. Modern game design theory is built upon the work of psychologists such as B.F. Skinner and educators such as Maria Montessori. Authors Byron Reeves and J. Leighton Read even argue for using games to increase workplace teamwork and productivity in their book, Total Engagement: Using Games And Virtual Worlds To Change The Way People Work And Businesses Compete. Can games be utilized to train the next generation of productive members of society?
In her book, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better And How They Can Change The World, McGonigal creates guidelines for productive play beyond her assertion that people should play games for 21 hours a week. Her other points are:
- Playing with real-life friends and family is better than playing with strangers online.
- Playing face-to-face with friends and family is better than playing with them online.
- Cooperative gameplay has more benefits than competitive gameplay.
- Creative games have special positive impacts.
- You can get all the benefits of a good game without the need for realistic violence.
- If a game stops making you feel good (instead making you frustrated, angry, etc.), stop playing it.
While competitive online play is where a lot of modern game developers put their time and energy, cooperative games such as Left 4 Dead and Modern Warfare 2's Special Ops mode are finding their own audiences. Additionally, games like Little Big Planet, electronic toys like Spore, and creator modes like Halo's Forge show that developers are interested in providing players opportunities to create their own worlds.
As for violence and subject matter, developers and publishers of popular titles certainly have it in their power to increase the sophistication of their content. This isn't to say that developers should stop making the games that make them money. Designers like Suda 51 often put social or political issues at the forefront of their game narratives. Former Rockstar director Navid Khonsari is even working on a game based on the events of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Iran.
The risk of making games with such serious content, however, comes in the threat of media and social backlash. In April 2009, Konami pulled out on publishing Atomic Games's Six Days In Fallujah, a third person shooter about the 2004 Second Battle of Fallujah during Operation Iraqi Freedom, after considerable media controversy. While current events games may have a profound effect educating leagues of gamers already notorious for ignoring the outside world, their development can send the wrong message to those with an unhealthy opinion of the medium keeping their pitchforks and torches at the ready.
Time will tell if McGonigal is right, but her statements on the potential of games and the "productive" way to play them is promising for gaming families. Should more thorough psychological studies be done, maybe game developers may beef up their own content and the distinction between a video game and a "Serious Game" will no longer be needed.


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Energy and Global Warming News for December 17: The Green Rush is on in China — clean energy market there "could eventually be worth as much as $500 billion to $1 trillion a year."
"Workers in Shanghai walk on the roof of the Theme Pavilion, built for the World Expo 2010. The roof is covered with solar panels."
A new gold rush in China is actually a green rush "" an urgent drive to develop green technologies. One group of Western companies, the Cleantech Initiative, suggests China's market for renewable energy could eventually be worth as much as $500 billion to $1 trillion a year.
Now, Obama administration officials are warning that the U.S. could risk losing the race in green technologies.
"The future of sustainable energy is here." The words are emblazoned on a wall at the world's largest nongovernmental solar research center. It was built by an American company, Applied Materials, in the central Chinese city of Xian.
The cost of solar panels has dropped dramatically "" 30 percent in the past year alone. One major reason is the "China price," or the competitive advantages offered by Chinese manufacturing, with its cheap labor and economies of scale. China is now the world's biggest producer of photovoltaic solar panels, making about 40 percent of all panels, according to the China Daily, mostly for export.
For more on China eating our lunch on clean energy, see "Invented here, sold there." The NPR story continues:
At Applied Materials' $250 million research center in Xian, Elizabeth Mayo, a process engineer from Santa Clara, Calif., is working with local staff testing solar panels in the Sunfab panel reliability test lab. This simulates extreme weather conditions, and the company boasts that it is the world's only laboratory capable of testing 61-square-feet solar panels.
Mayo is impressed by the facilities in Xian. "We don't have facilities like this in the U.S. We don't have anything of this magnitude," Mayo says.
Catrina Ren, an enthusiastic English-speaking engineer, beams while showing a visitor another facility at the research center: vast empty hangars waiting for new pilot lines for crystalline silicon, and thin film solar technology to be installed. "I'm very proud I have chance to work here," she says. "This is most advantaged tech center in world. I graduated from university only two years ago. I'm very proud."
And Applied Materials is no doubt overjoyed to have Catrina and her former classmates on staff. Costs in China are much cheaper than in the U.S. An engineering graduate in Xian earns one-tenth of her American counterparts.
And the biggest draw is the eternal lure of China's fabled market. Gang Zhou, general manager of Applied Materials Xian facility, says the company has decided to put its money where its customer base is.
"China is No. 1 producer of solar panels. That's where our market is. The China new R&D center, that's where we validate a lot of R&D work that is being carried out in U.S. and in Europe," he says.
At Copenhagen, both rich and developing nations offer concessions
As President Obama prepared to visit the historic climate conference here, there were signs Wednesday of a break in the impasse between rich and developing nations.
The United States and Japan agreed to make major contributions to the developing world to keep prospects of a deal alive. And the leader of a bloc of African nations said they would accept a smaller — though still sizable — package of financial aid, in return for going along with an agreement.
But tear gas hung in the air outside the conference center, as protesters demanding faster and more stringent cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions clashed with police. And, inside, talks were slowed by disagreements within the developing world — which has proved a more powerful, and more fractious, force than expected.
Some environmentalists expressed hope that Obama's appearance Friday, the final day of the 12-day talks, could help end the two chaotic weeks on a successful note.
"If the pieces are here, President Obama is the only person who can pull them together into an agreement," said Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund. "We expect him to do so."
Even before the United Nations-led talks began, it was clear they would not deliver what environmental groups had initially hoped for: a global treaty on climate change, with high-emitting countries formally pledging to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions in the coming decades.
Instead, the goal was to sign a "political agreement," in which nations would pledge to tackle emissions but without making a binding commitment under international law. The understanding was that a formal treaty would come in 2010.
That goal still seemed within reach Wednesday, one day before Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives to take part in the negotiations.
Poll: Other countries believe Obama can lead climate change movement
Carbon emissions legislation may remain at a crossroads in Congress, but large swaths of citizens in other countries seem to think President Barack Obama could break that stalemate.
A new poll, released Wednesday, finds majorities or pluralities in 21 of 25 surveyed countries believe the president will persuade the United States to commit to "significant measures" to address global climate change.
That sentiment is especially pronounced among those in Brazil, Britain, France, Germany and Spain, according to the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project. In those countries, more than two-thirds expressed faith that the president will provide the boost necessary to get climate change legislation rolling.
Interestingly enough, it is unclear whether U.S. citizens and lawmakers feel similarly about the White House's ability to spearhead a campaign to address global warming.
For one thing, Obama's forthcoming trip to Copenhagen for an international climate change summit has already drawn the ire of many members of Congress, some of whom have clearly signaled they will oppose any carbon reductions treaty the president and other world leaders draft there.
At the same time, the future of Democrats' cap-and-trade legislation remains totally uncertain. Healthcare has to some degree relegated that legislation to the back burner in the Senate, which is trying to address its top priority before it departs Washington for the holiday season
Brown Urges Climate Talks to Reach Deal in Six Months
U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged delegates at the Copenhagen meeting on climate change to reach a legally-binding agreement within six months and said rich countries should find extra money to help poor nations cut pollution.
"People rightly say: if we can provide the finance to save our banks from the bankers, we can, with the right financial support, save the planet from those forces that would destroy it," Brown said in a speech. "Nothing matters more to any nation's interest than the fate of the only world we have."
World leaders from China, the U.S., the European Union and India, the top polluters, today take charge of the talks from envoys who have bickered over key provisions since Dec. 7. The talks are scheduled to finish tomorrow, with U.K. Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband saying they're in "grave danger."
Developed nations such as the U.S. and Japan may agree by tomorrow to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by less than what United Nations scientists say are needed to keep the planet from overheating, according to analysts.
Brown called for an agreement with "transparency in accounting" on greenhouse gas levels for both developed and developing nations. Acknowledging that a final pact is unlikely to come this week, Brown called action that could become "a legally-binding instrument within six months to a year."
In a line aimed at reassuring countries including China suspicious of targets, Brown said national sovereignty wouldn't be diminished by the deal.
"I do not ask my country or any country to suspend its national interest but to advance it more intelligently," Brown said.
Blow for clean coal as UN shuts it out of emissions trading
The clean-coal industry has been shut out of the global emissions trading scheme at the Copenhagen climate change talks, dealing a blow to the UK, US and Australia.
The three Western countries and Saudi Arabia had strongly argued that advanced new clean-coal plants, which trap emissions underground, ought to earn credits for being a low-carbon source of energy.
But a United Nations committee decided not to include the industry in its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which rewards companies that invest in green energy.
Ed Miliband, Energy and Climate Change Secretary, is a strong supporter of the fledgling technology, which attempts to siphon off carbon dioxide when coal is burnt and pump it into geological formations such as disused gas fields.
The UK Government has committed to funding four £1bn trial carbon-capture and storage plants, with the first due to be completed either by Scottish Power in 2014 or by E.ON in 2016.
It is understood that Brazil was largely responsible for blocking the inclusion of carbon capture and storage on the list of approved clean energy over concerns about "the long-term liability for the storage site, including liability for any seepage".
More work will be done on the proposal before the next summit to be held in Mexico next year and South Africa in 2011.
The Clean Development Mechanism – where polluting companies can buy carbon allowances from approved renewable energy projects in the developing world – has come under heavy criticism at the summit.
A new report by Point Carbon showed this week that inadequate project preparation means almost one third of all the projects under the United Nations' carbon-trading system fail to deliver any benefits.
The UN last week banned several Chinese wind farms from participating in the scheme, having temporarily suspended the whole country, over fears they had been playing the system.
7 Responses to Energy and Global Warming News for December 17: The Green Rush is on in China — clean energy market there "could eventually be worth as much as $500 billion to $1 trillion a year."
Thanks Joe. There's a very good, comprehensive report by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation on the clean energy race here: http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=315
RE: Blow for clean coal as UN shuts it out of emissions trading
I don't think shutting the door completely on clean coal is a good idea. Sure, we know there's no such thing as clean coal now — but I would hope the negotiators (i.e. Brazil) recognize that granting some incentives for development of future technology can be done without "betting the farm," so to speak, while assuming a given technology will never work might (especially during this volatile conference) result in a backlash against their own clean energy projects.
chris winter
i would venture to say that the object in moving forward with energy is to optimize the best options and waste no time on the worst. However, im not sure if I am personally ready to "shut the door" so to speak, on VHS…not quite yet. ;)
At the recent Solar Convention in Anaheim, I shopped for small systems for remote commercial power generation. The company with the best prices and tech support was Chinese, even for deployment here in the US. We'd better get our act together.
Before anyone says Clean and Coal in the same breath, or even thinks them in the same thought, it's best to realize that the greenhouse gas emissions of mining and shipping coal are greater than the emissions of burning coal.
How can the process be clean when the first steps are more significant than the energy producing step?
Where's the science here?
Video: Oceans in a +2C Warmer World
Wired, December 14 – The Center for Ocean Solutions and the International League of Conservation Photographers interview leading scientists on how climate change could affect the world's oceans.
Two-degree temperature rise could flood wide areas of planet, study says
Canada.com, December 16 – A team of geophysicists is warning that the massive polar ice sheets are even more vulnerable to global warming than previously believed, and could trigger a sea level rise of six to nine metres. The scientists from Princeton and Harvard universities say that just two degrees Celsius of global warming, which is now widely expected to occur in coming decades, could be enough to commit the planet to inundation.
Greenwashing Hydropower
Worldwatch Institute, December 17 – Despite high environmental and social costs, a major resurgence in dam construction worldwide is now under way, driven by infusions of new capital from developing countries and a public campaign by the dambuilding industry to greenwash hydropower as a source of clean energy. (…) a look at the heavy dam-building activity in China, the Amazon basin, and Africa illustrates the risks involved. (…) Big dams have frequently imposed high social and environmental costs and longterm economic tradeoffs, such as lost fisheries and tourism potential and flooded agricultural and forest land. According to the independent World Commission on Dams, most projects have failed to compensate affected people for their losses and to adequately mitigate environmental impacts.
Newly released NASA data shows carbon dioxide "more lumpy" than expected
Scientific American, December 17 – "Contrary to prevailing wisdom, CO2 is not well mixed in the mid-troposphere," said Moustafa Chahine of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), AIRS's principal scientist (…) While showing animations of CO2 fluctuations over time, Chahine also pointed out that global concentrations are higher in the Northern Hemisphere, where much of the gas is produced. "The Southern Hemisphere is a net sink – some people call it the 'garbage dump' of the Northern Hemisphere's CO2" (…)
"If there are natural processes that are absorbing CO2, it would be a good idea to find out and not to destroy those processes," says JPL's David Crisp. Tracking carbon sources and sinks will also be crucial to any future global cap-and-trade scheme, he points out.
Malaysia to allow logging in indigenous 'peace park' to proceed
Mongabay.com, December 17 – Malaysia, the country with the fastest rate of greenhouse gas emissions growth since 1990 among middle and upper income countries, will allow logging to proceed in a contested rainforest area in Sarawak, on the island of Borneo.
French company CMA-CGM facilitating destruction of Madagascar's rainforests, undermining France's position in Copenhagen
Mongabay.com / Wildmadagascar.com, December 17
Latin America biodiversity 'faces climate threat'
AFP, December 17 – Up to 40 percent of the biodiversity of some Latin American nations could be wiped out by 2100 if climate talks in Copenhagen fail to seal a global warming deal, a UN body warned. A grim report by the Chile-based Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), warned the region, one of the lowest emitters of greenhouse gases, could bear one of the heaviest costs of climate change.
Chile is also being very smart when it comes to renewable energy – this is an interesting article on the progress and requirements of investing in wind farms within the country.


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Grilled Asparagus and Squash
Total Time: about 20 minutes
In addition to a very clean gas grill and a supply of fuel, here's what you'll need for two servings:
1 zucchini
1 summer squash
1/2 pound medium-size asparagus spears
1 cup zesty Italian dressing
1 tablespoon crushed red pepper flakes
Coarse kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
- Trim the woody ends off of the asparagus and place the asparagus in a shallow dish. Trim the ends from the zucchini and summer squash; slice lengthwise into 3/8-inch slices.
- Add the Italian dressing and toss to coat. Allow the vegetables to marinate for about 10 minutes.
- Preheat the grill for medium-high direct grilling. Lightly oil the grill grates or spray them with cooking spray.
- Grill the vegetables for three minutes, turn and cook another two to three minutes or until tender.
- Remove the vegetables from the grill and season with crushed red pepper flakes, salt and pepper.
Serves: 2
Heat scale: medium


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