Thursday, 8 February 2007

What's new

Well Tet (Lunar new year) is fast approaching and today I finished teaching which allows me greater time to undertake my research project here. I feel fired up about undertaking this project and have been enthusiastically collecting plenty of reading material (and including some in my classes) and have noticed that climate change is all the rage at the moment.

Well I have come across a few things of late, UN panel on climate change have acknowledged that there is a 90% chance that it is due to human interference. OK, great! So the governments of the world rush into action Australia is mucking around with the idea of emissions trading while according to the economist magazine there is a push in the US to cap emissions.

In my readings however I have come across a model of sustainable development that suggest because of the stocks of existing gases will continue to heat the world even if the emissions stop today. So I guess we should all get used to living how they do in Jakarta lately. Let's hope that things improve for them rapidly.

Well if that doesn't take your fancy maybe this house will make you feel more comfortable.



Probably tough after a serious bout of drinking, though. Well I am not a greeny and going to say that we should cut all greenhouse gas emissions. I just don't want to spend my retirement like the North Poles' most famous resident below.

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