The conference of the parts on climate change has not matched the expectation it caused There is an old joke in which a guy who lives in Europe, e-mails his brother that has been living in New York for the last few months: “Your cat fell off the roof and died” said the e-mail. After [...]
Revised September 2011 Monday December 7, 2009 has begun the long-awaited summit on climate change on our planet Earth, sponsored by the UN, alleged to commit countries to share decreased carbon dioxide and replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The bad news is that the US and China, the two largest [...]
Revised March-September 2011 Japan is in its worst tragedy since the end of World War II. What is happening to the generous and industrious Japanese people exceeds the fertile creative minds of the most unlikely and amazing movies or science fiction novels. The catastrophe that is in full development was impossible to predict [...]
When the 1851 Great London Exhibition opened in the spectacular Crystal Palace, the first building made from crystal and steel and ancestor to modern days’ skyscapers, thousands of visitors made a stop in Cyrus McCormick’s stand to admire it’s top of the line reaping machine, one that at the time had still to be pulled [...]
While most of humanity celebrated the advent of the third millennium, very few co-habitants of this privileged blue planet realized that world population had doubled twice since almost the same date one hundred years back. At the begining of the 1900’s, world population was of 1,6 billion human beings, but that ammount rose, despite two [...]
The bubble of Money is undoubtedly born in 1971, just 40 years ago, when during Richard Nixon´s stay at the white house, the US decides to break the relationship there had to be between Gold and the Dollar, paying no mind to the agreements reached at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in july of 1944, [...]
Money, population, commodities and weather are, without a single doubt, factors that determine our daily future in the troubled world we have built for ourselves. An economic bubble has a life that ends with its bursting, which manifests itself with a sudden drop on prices, that only stops when it naturally (or artificially in some [...]
In our previous article we reveal the results of a study we did on several newspapers the spaces dedicated to environmental or ecological issues such as climate change, global warming, endangered species, etc. Our discovery was very discouraging, by famine we find in these “areas”. The next step we took was to give free rein [...]
We said in our previous article that ignorance in ecological matters, climate change and global warming is highly worrying and has much to do with the shortcomings of our education systems and the minimum centimetraje most media attach to these issues. In this post we promised our readers a study on the spaces newspaper in [...]
Revised September 2011 To begin shortly COP 15 Copenhagen, the Climate Change Summit hosted by the United Nations, to be held in the Danish capital from 7 to 18 December 2009, it is this opportunity to remind the curve “hockey stick”. This is a graph in which one of the variables has a smooth behavior [...]
