Archive for the 'Global Warming' Category

Global Warming FAQWe’ve often wanted to write an article on Global Warming for this site, that gives a summary on what Global Warming and Climate Change is all about, but never found the time to do so. That unfinished article just ended up gathering dust in the draft’s portion of the site, along with some other articles unlucky enough to have not garnered our attention.
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Summer is the time when kids are out of school and have a lot of time on their hands. Some families invest in summer schools for their kids, to keep them busy and occupied during the summer. I was one such kid, as my father never wanted us idle during the summer, so he had us attend such classes as drawing, speech, speed reading and even short hand writing.
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According to the Philippine Weather Bureau (PAGASA) today was the hottest day so far in 2009 with temperatures peaking at 35.3′C at 2PM. Well the sad news is that the Philippine summer isn’t even half way through yet so we could still expect more of the higher temperatures days in the coming weeks.

PAGASA had already released some safety tips for the public in anticipation of the summer climate. Along with that came the dire prediction that temperatures could reach 40′C.
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Philippine Weather Bureau (PAGASA) warned today that summer temperatures could hit 40′C. They recommended to the public to always bring an umbrella to use to block off the sun, wear sunscreen if you can and bring bottles of water to hydrate oneself. The heat is expected to be the worst between 10AM to 3PM of the day.
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A dark day for scientists fighting global warming as the almost $300 M satellite that was supposed to have been used to map the amount of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere suffered a malfunction during lift off.

Carbon Monitoring Satellite crashes on lift off

According to the press release by NASA:
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greenpeace opposes reopening of Bataan Nuclear Power PlantReacting to Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s bill proposing to reopen the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power plant, Greenpeace submitted a position paper to the Chamber opposing the measure and batting instead for renewable energy.

Greenpeace’s paper states that:
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