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Pine trees to frogs, global warming is killing 'em off: In the northern lattitudes the boreal forests of North America are losing their evergreens. Scientists say the mountain pine beetle is thriving due to the warmer winters. In turn beetles are killing large numbers of trees in Canadian forests. Previous beetle attacks have occurred in the Canadian...; Tags: Climate, Global Warming, Species, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-05-09
One constant in the Earth's climate: change: A scientific conference in Europe has brought out some recent research findings on the polar regions. Much is being learned for the first time about Antarctic's prehistoric climate. One thing's certain: there's been a lot of change. Over the eons. The ice sheets on...; Tags: Climate, Antarctic, Productivity, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-25
McKinsey and PwC On How Companies Think About Sustainability Management: All Hat, No Cattle: Two separate reports show a massive disconnect on sustainability between C-level strategic intent and real world performance. In the report Confronting Corruption, PWC surveyed executives and whilst 80% reported their companies had an anti corruption management programme, only 22% were confident such programmes were effective. On climate change, the McKinsey...; Tags: Sustainability, McKinsey & Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Corruption, Others, Climate, James Farrar; Blog posts 2008-02-21
Greencollar: such a clever phrase...but there will be jobs: I shouldn't quibble, I guess. Some of the wannabe White House CEO-candidates are now talking about investing in greencollar jobs. That would presumably be money spent on things besides more oil wells in Alaska or coal plants in Missouri. It might mean investment in clean technologies, insulating old...; Tags: Job, Green Technology, Climate, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-01-27
Gore's a wh#re, Bali's hangover for '08: There'll be more argument and name-calling over climate change in the year ahead. There are now more avowed factions on climate change than there used to be about seat belts in cars. You youngsters may not realize that at one time Detroit and entire auto industry faced imminent...; Tags: Belt, Conference, Climate, Global Warming, Gore, Bali, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-01-01

Windows, Linux, and the Kyoto Climate Protocols: I read a blog, yesterday, by one Randall Hoven, titled "Kyoto Schmyoto" which started with this: One would think that countries that committed to the Kyoto treaty are doing a better job of curtailing carbon emissions. One would also think that...; Tags: Emission, Treaty, Climate, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2007-12-19
Bali: what China says the U.S. says about climate change: As befitting its power and greenouse gas emissions, the U.S. has been the center of much of the coverage of the U.N. conference on combatting climate change. That conference is now in its final stages with the most powerful participants showing up for closing talks. Here's...; Tags: U.S., Associated Press, Conference, Climate, U.N., Free Trade, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-12-12
Dems: White House fudged climate change data: Democrats charged the White House with tampering with scientists, saying climate change research was "manipulated" to mislead the public about the seriousness of the issue, Reuters reports. "The Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public...; Tags: White House, Climate, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-12-10
Judge: Gore's documentary inaccurate, but good enough for schools: A British judge found nine areas of significant inaccuracy in Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." But he also ruled it could be shown in British schools as part of a curriculum on climate change. "The Telegraph headlined, "Al Gore's Nine inconvenient untruths." Wired cleverly snarked, "An...; Tags: Al Gore, Climate, Global Warming, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-10-11
Asset Portfolio Management - Solving the Compliance Puzzle: Governance, Process Enablement and IT Asset Management: As organizations move deeper into this new age of regulatory compliance, governance is emerging as an effective, long-term approach - addressing compliance issues by balancing process improvement with risk mitigation. Because IT assets are the common denominator in virtually every business process, implementing an effective IT asset management solution is...; Tags: Asset, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT Asset Management, Information Technology, Compliance, Climate, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-06-01
University of Ottawa Geography Researchers Utilize GeoBase: Professors at the University of Ottawa's Laboratory for Applied Geomatics and GIS Science LAGGISS are also involved in the often heated issue of climate change. A fundamental goal of the Climate System History and Dynamics CSHD project, the second largest earth science project in Canada, is to create spatially explicit...; Tags: Government Of Canada, University Of Ottawa, Climate, GIS, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Software, Networking; Case studies

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G8 and climate change: Is much expected from the G8 summit in Japan? Not according to the Aussies. The Canadian government doesn't foresee anhy progress on an agreement either. India's not a member of the G8 but as a major developing nation with a huge population it is at least politely allowed...; Tags: Japan, Nation, Agreement, Indian Government, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-07-07
One prediction about climate change challenges another: One prediction about climate change challenges anotherWhen myths collideThere never was a hole. It was a thinning of the ozone layer.Any first year chem student could tell you it's impossible for ozone to disappear in the presence of sunlight, since ozone is created by the bombardment of short UV with...; Tags: global warming, ozone, oxygen; Discussion threads 2008-07-07
One prediction about climate change challenges another: Remember the ozone hole? Well, the CFCs that were apparnetly causing the ozone hole to grow, have been reduced in human industry and releases are waning. The ozone hole over the South Pole is slowly diminishing. A new projection about climate change says the reduction of...; Tags: Ozone, Ozone Hole, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-07-07
'.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffix: '.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffixDangerous ground[i]However, Twomey told Agence France-Press that the organization will still try to block or reject any domain name that it deems inappropriate for security or [b]moral[/b] reasons.[/i]And just what morality standards will they be using?Personally, It wouldn't bother me if all porn...; Tags: INTERNET, SECURITY, ICANN, domain suffix, IPCC; Discussion threads 2008-06-27
Polar warming, hot time in the Arctic Ocean: This map of Greenland at end of last year, courtesy NASA. This may the first time in history that the North Pole is open water, not ice. We've blogged about the disappearing ice cap on Greenland, and the opening of the northwest passage between...; Tags: Ice, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-26
What do the British really believe about global warming?: What do the British really believe about global warming?lolu got ot be kidding meRE: What do the British really believe about global warming?You have got to be kidding! I can not remember when it really snowed properly in the UK, we are seeing greater instances or extreme weather such...; Tags: Now Let, global warming, climate change, British Public; Discussion threads 2008-06-26
Dell grabs a gold. That is, a gold rating for one of its server power supplies: For those of you keeping count, Dell chalks up a Gold certification from the 80 Plus organization for one of its server power supplies. This means that the component scores a 92 percent minimum efficiency rating when running at 50 percent of its rated output. Dell also has earned a...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Server, Power Supply, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-06-26
All the things Sun Ray won't do: All the things Sun Ray won't doNopeI can't, maybe i'm biased too. But when you hear senior IT-ers go on about helpdesks the size of 2 to 3 headstrong, instead of the at least 10 to 25 to 100 you have nowadays with the Windows environments.The problem with Wintel desktops...; Tags: Linux, Thin clients, Microsoft Windows, environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, thin client, server; Discussion threads 2008-06-26
Global warming is a security issue say American spies: Global warming is a security issue say American spiesDead on[i]If global warming is real and it's consequences are as serious as some say which I doubt it will case major instability across the globe[/i]I think we've seen it repeated many times in history: Everyone's content and willing to lend a...; Tags: security, global warming; Discussion threads 2008-06-25