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With six months into the year an interesting picture is emerging from the surface temperature data collected by space borne sensors. As the Sun slowly marches towards its activity minimum the radiation and geomagnetic flux the Earth receives from the star ease down, and with it seem to be going surface temperatures.
Read more... (13 comments, 859 words in story) by Luis de Sousa [editor's note, by Migeru] Originally published on May 19
This week Andris Piebalgs talks Nuclear in his blog. Without taboos, Andris lays down the advantages of Nuclear energy that have put it at the core of the Commission's New Energy Policy for Europe. Nuclear energy has been discussed many times at TOD, mostly from a technical perspective, on its practicality and long-term sustainability. This time we look at Nuclear Energy policy, from the perspective of an Executive that has made a clear option towards this energy source.
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Updated 13-06-2008 at 19h00.
It all started in Spain, it quickly spread to Portugal and southern France. Lorry drivers are on the streets and on roads protesting against high fuel prices and bringing normal day life to a stand still.
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In a country largely turned into itself, a lone journalist tries to bring reality on oil prices above the daily roll of news bits on football results, jet-set gossip and political fait-divers.
On the 24th of May Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues published on the newspaper Expresso (the largest weekly publication in Portugal with 120 000 printings) what is one of the most direct addresses of Peak Oil ever featured in Portuguese media. Apparently written about the US this article is replete with messages for internal consumption. Read more... (28 comments, 4299 words in story) by Luis de Sousa
Read more... (30 comments, 942 words in story) by Luis de Sousa In advance of the European Union - Latin America and Caribbean summit, the Portuguese prime minister, José Sócrates, visited Venezuela. During two days, more than twenty economic agreements were celebrated between the two countries, where energy had a major role.Among the entourage where representatives of some of the largest companies operating in Portugal, with the objective of firming protocols in the vein of "oil for goods", towards which the Venezuelan executive has been showing great openness. Read more... (14 comments, 1153 words in story) by Luis de Sousa
Now that the dust is settling, it is perhaps time to reflect on this episode and what it meant to the mainstream media and the blogosphere. Read more... (46 comments, 1441 words in story) by Luis de Sousa
This short clip has been sticking to my mind for some days:
Below the fold is the story behind it, the way I was able to reconstruct it. Read more... (4 comments, 776 words in story) by Luis de Sousa
Last week's log entry by Andris Piebalgs starts this way:
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Andris Piebalgs continues this Friday his blogging on bio-fuels, addressing some of the concerns expressed by the readers of the last blog-entry.
Before continuing I can't but express once more my joy in seeing EU's leaders having such a close interaction with their citizens. More bio-fuel talk under the fold. Diary rescue by Migeru Read more... (28 comments, 881 words in story) by Luis de Sousa
Diary rescue by Migeru Read more... (36 comments, 333 words in story) by Luis de Sousa ![]() Just within weeks of Prof. Delgado Domingos impressive words to the press, another top Portuguese scientist was subject of an extensive interview were similar lines of though emerged. This interview was originally written by journalist Virgílio Azevedo for the newspaper Expresso - the biggest weekly publication in Portugal with 120 000 copies. A possible translation follows below the fold, with the header reproduced here:
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Professor Delgado Domingos, one of the leading Portuguese environment scientists, gave a long interview to the Sábado Notícias [Saturday News] magazine, a supplement of the centenary Jornal de Notícias.
The last section of the interview touched on Climate issues and has been causing some impact in the local blogosphere. Following is an English translation of this final section of the interview. Diary rescue by Migeru Read more... (34 comments, 1781 words in story)
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