A court in China’s vast northern region of Inner Mongolia has sentenced to death a coal mine worker for killing a resident who had complained about pollution […] Earlier this month, a court in the same part of Inner Mongolia ordered the execution of a man for murdering an ethnic Mongolian herder who had also…
Month: June 2011
How Much Gas Is Left? See with new visualization at Information is Beautiful
The basics: The world uses 2.6 trillion cubic metres a year, we have 187.9 trillion cubic metres left. 187.9 divided by 2.6 gives 72.3 but the graphic says there’s only 63 years left assuming constant consumption. Assuming a constant growth in consumption by 2% there’s supposed to be 42 years left. The top three biggest…
Guardian News / Network Rail losing millions from copper thefts
The theft of copper cables from Britain’s railways is reaching epidemic proportions, costing the operator Network Rail millions of pounds as it takes on extra staff to catch the criminals and pays out compensation to train companies for delays on the system. Copper theft from railway lines jumped by 67% to 3,116 incidents in the…
Climate news: Change linked to food security, emissions up, denialism alive and well, scientists threatened
I’m a bit behind on taking note of the climate change news. First the bad plus the ridiculous: CO2 emissions are setting records while old time denier release auto-biographic film Carbon dioxide emissions hit record levels following global financial crisis lows (Reuters / IEA sees record CO2 emissions in 2010). Apparently now Westerners buy even…