Jean Ziegler, Switzerland, the United Nations’ independent expert on the right to food, was right to call for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production in October 2007. Ziegler called their motives legitimate, but said that ”the effect of transforming hundreds and hundreds of thousands of tons of maize, of wheat, of beans, of palm...
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Swiss-airshow.ch This is the monstrous helicopter used by Swiss Minister Pascal Couchepain when he attended a ceremony in the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. Maybe he forgot that the guest of honor was Al Gore who came instead with a hybrid limousine Or maybe Couchepain forgot what the honoring award is for. Because in his speech during...
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HatCRUT3 ist der globale Temperaturindex gewichtet auf die Ausdehnung von Meeren und Kontinenten, des Hadley Metoffice in Grossbrittannien. Ich werde in einem späteren Beitrag versuchen, die drei Globalindices von GISStemp, HadCRUT3 und NCDC in eine Graphik zusammenzufassen. Dabei werde ich sie auf die Basisperiode des 20. Jahrhunderts 1901-2000 abstimmen. (Die drei Netzwerke haben verschiedene...
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HatCRUT3 is the global temperature Index of the U.K. Hadley Metoffice. In another post, I will attempt to combine the 3 land-ocean indices of GISStemp, HadCRUT3 and NCDC in one graph with 1900-2000 as the 20th century reference period, because there seems to be a bit of a confusion regarding the different developments of...
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