Youth speak out on climate change goals.
| Youth speak out on climate change goals. Along with other prominent young Australians, including swimmer Ian Thorpe, Brooke Satchwell is participating in Power Shift, the biggest climate-change conference for young people yet seen in Australia. |
| Paper industry: Don’t kill fuel credit. They call it “black liquor,” but the dark, chemical brew is not a beverage. It’s the sludge left over from the cooking process used to turn wood pulp into paper. Paper companies burn it to generate steam and make electricity. |
| Let’s Just Give Up That, in a nutshell, is Jim Manzi’s prescription for climate change (see the June 8 National Review). It’s a really, really bad one.I’ll limit myself to three key points here, though there is much more to say about why Mr. Manzi is mistaken.1. The damage from climate change in the United States is likely to [.] |
| Maldives’ disappearing coast prompts appeal to UN space agency. The Maldives, one of the nations most threatened by global warming, is appealing to the United Nations space agency to help the island country plan its defenses against rising sea levels. |