Musings of a modern guy

This is a decision that the Bush Administration has been loath to take. With its denial of Global warming having come down slightly (but not significantly enough to take some serious steps), the administration was actually ordered by a US District Judge to take a decision on the status of the polar bear by May […]

The science of global warming has never been 100% certain because the weather pattern of the earth is incredibly complex, but we are finally starting to see some of the bad effects of global warming in terms of melting of glaciers, loss of polar ice, and so on. It would be a bit naive to […]

Australia had always shied away from ratifying the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, due to the non-inclusion of target setting on China and India. This was a position on which it had the prime support of the US Administration under George Bush (who at many points professed not to believe in global warming). It is […]

In a scathing criticism of the Army Corps of Engineers, and generically of the way that the various Government institutions such as Congress and Senators representing the state of Louisiana operate, TIME has published an article talking about investigating why the flooding of New Orleans happened after hurricane Katrina, and the prime reason seems to […]

You knew cities were big, but there was always the thought that a major section of people still live in the countryside. No longer so. The United Nations Population Fund publishes a report that states come 2008, a majority of the world’s population will be living in cities. Given current population, that number would be […]

Imagine the power of the automotive industry. For 32 years, Congress has not imposed a new auto efficiency mandate, and the last one had set the limit in a different era. In that much time, one would have expected the industry to have got more efficient, and produce vehicles that use much less gas. This […]