God's Thermostat
18 January 2005 (MitchNews.com) - No sooner did Americans finish ringing in the New Year than global warming is again appearing in news headlines around the nation. The devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean has served to renew concern over the possibility of cataclysmic changes in the earth's crust or weather patterns.

Heating Up
11 January 2005 (inq7.net) - THE RECENT tsunami disaster, the fatal heat wave in Europe in 2003 and the stronger and more violent storms that have hit various parts of the earth in the past four or five years should set the world thinking about the abrupt climate and geological changes and what could be done about them.

Cancer is Growth, Too
05 January 2005 (inq7.net) - IN 2001, a United Nations panel of hundreds of scientists released two reports on global warming. The first is the Working Group 1 Report on the scientific basis of climate change. That is no longer debatable, it says. "Emissions of

Huwag Magsunog ng Basura !
15 December 2004 (Pilipino Star Ngayon) - Ang pagsusunog ng basura, kahit sa likod lang ng bahay ginagawa, ay mapanganib sa ating kalusugan. Nagiging higit na suliranin ito sa buong komunidad kapag ito ay walang habas na ginagawa ng mga

Editorial : Taming Typhoons
07 December 2004 (inq7.net) - "It (Hurricane Isabelle) reminds me of Cleopatra... Really pretty, but kind of sinister." -- American scientist Hugh Willoughby while admiring a swirling blue-gray satellite image of "Isabelle," which killed 17 and caused billions of dollars in damage in September 2003.

Phew! What a Scorcher—and It's Going to Get Worse
02 December 2004 (The Manila Times) - The temperatures that held most of Europe in a molten grip in summer 2003 will be considered typical seasonal weather by the middle of the 21st century—and, a hundred years from now, will be seen as cool.

Coal Powered Electric Plants to Decrease Power Rates
30 November 2004 (The Manila Times) - While Pampanga mayors pledged to give up a month's salary to the Bayanihan Fund as urged by Mayor Dennis Pineda of Lubao, only one mayor has so far actually turned over his salary to the provincial mayors' league.

Government is Ill Prepared for Reducing Gas Emissions
11 November 2004 (The China Post) - The contradictory remarks and moves made in the past week by senior administration officials in their reaction to the imminent implementation of the Kyoto Protocol suggested that Taiwan is totally unprepared for compliance with the international treaty aimed at

Phew! What a Scorcher—and It's Going to Get Worse
02 December 2004 (The Manila Times) - The temperatures that held most of Europe in a molten grip in summer 2003 will be considered typical seasonal weather by the middle of the 21st century—and, a hundred years from now, will be seen as cool.

Coal Powered Electric Plants to Decrease Power Rates
30 November 2004 (The Manila Times) - While Pampanga mayors pledged to give up a month's salary to the Bayanihan Fund as urged by Mayor Dennis Pineda of Lubao, only one mayor has so far actually turned over his salary to the provincial mayors' league.

Government is Ill Prepared for Reducing Gas Emissions
11 November 2004 (The China Post) - The contradictory remarks and moves made in the past week by senior administration officials in their reaction to the imminent implementation of the Kyoto Protocol suggested that Taiwan is totally unprepared for compliance with the international treaty aimed at stemming global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Biggest Problem Facing Humanity in 21st Century
05 November 2004 (The Manila Times) - The Earth is heating up—the early warning signs are everywhere. Human activity has been increasing the concentrations of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere—mostly in the form of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil, etc.).

Looking for a Sane Public Transport System
26 October 2004 (The Manila Times) - THE Department of Transportation and Communications is reviving once more the idea of a ferry service on the Pasig River.

London Foggy No More
14 October 2004 (Philippine Daily Inquirer) - TWO times in a period of two months I have read the words "foggy London" in the Inquirer.

Baguio’s Hierarchy of Things
08 October 2004 (The Manila Times) - The lure of a place hastens its development. It can also trigger its undoing. That’s what happened to Baguio’s Crystal Cave, which no one now wants to venture into. Its stalactites and stalagmites had long been hauled

China’s Dependence on Dangerous Coal Keeps Growing
07 October 2004 (The Manila Times) - SANDAOLING, China - Coal is the lifeblood of China , and when the mine was founded in 1958 coal sparked life in Sandaoling, in the middle of the desert in the western region of Xinjiang.

Commentary : Russia, Kyoto and RP's Power Crisis
06 October 2004 (Philippine Daily Inquirer) - WE are truly living in an era of globalization. The actions of a nation as far away as Russia can have significant consequences on the Philippines.