Cholesterol is one of those key health indicators we are supposed to REALLY care about as we age. But conflicting conclusions by health and research experts -- the latest about the effectiveness of Statins -- leaves me feeling confused and skeptical.
So in the end was there any progress at the Bali Climate Change Conference? Well, it seems to me, only from the perspective of low expectations.
Al Gore: U.S. responsible for blocking progress at the U.N. conference on global warming. This is moving and important speech. We can only speculate how the last eight years would have been different if Al had found his voice earlier.
The Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, pointed his finger squarely at the US as this nation continues to block agreement on emissions goal at the Bali conference on global warming. Rudd's comments was the latest criticism of the US at the conference. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned earlier that addressing climate change would fail without a greater commitment from the world's richest nation.
A new report by leading consulting firm McKinsey concludes the US could reduce up to 28 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions with only small technology innovations and at modest costs. Many of these "small step" reductions pay for themselves in lower energy bills, the report said, suggesting that people should take the reductions out of self interest, even if they are not driven by threats of climate change.
Looks like the FTC finally woke up and smelled the green in green...geez, where have you been?
Over the past few weeks, I've watched with disbelief and disgust at the inept response by authorities to respond to the SF Bay area oil spill. First, the US Coast Guard misreported that the spill was only 4,000 gallons, when it was really 58,000 gallons. That delay resulted in the oil spreading out of the Bay to contaminate pristine Pacific Coast beaches.
Video about Sunday's grassroots movement to try to clean up San Francisco's Ocean Beach after the massive oil spill of November 7th.
SF Bay area residents are waking up to the magnitude of this week's oil spill in the Bay. This one feels personal. I surf and hike regularly at Rodeo Beach/Ft. Chronkite, a pristine beach in southern Marin Beach that got hit particularly hard. (Read SF Chronicle Story Here). My wife and I took a drive to Ft. Chronkite Sunday. There were HAZMAT crews out and the smell of oil was strong.
Southern California wildfires released almost 8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in just a one-week period, according to researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder. This is the equivalent of about 25 percent of the average monthly emissions from all fossil fuel burning throughout California.
