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Giving old age a bad name

August 8, 2008 by Allan Moult

It must be time for this sideshow to be halted.

Filed Under: Only in America, Politics

Last pre-Olympic snapshot

August 7, 2008 by Allan Moult

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Opening ceremonies tomorrow, August 8. This is the view as of 10am, August 7 in the Guomao area of Beijing.

Says James Fallows:

I suspect that a lot of this actually is “mist,” very high humidity, etc.

That is, it can’t be that much more polluted than it was 36 hours ago, when things looked much better, as shown below.

Mainly completing the chronicle, for the record.

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[From The Atlantic]

Filed Under: Climate change, Global warming, Pollution Tagged With: China, in, Only

Beijing Olympics: 12 days to go

July 27, 2008 by Allan Moult

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8 am, July 27, 2008, looking south, twelve days until the opening ceremonies, one week into the big shutdown of factories in nearby provinces and traffic in Beijing.

[From
James Fallows

Filed Under: Global warming, Pollution Tagged With: Only in China

Obama in Berlin

July 26, 2008 by Allan Moult

This says it all.

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Filed Under: Cartoons, Politics Tagged With: election, Obama

George Bush proves to be quite an entertainer

July 11, 2008 by Allan Moult

The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.

[via Telegraph]

Filed Under: Bush — say no more, Bushed

Laid back biker

July 11, 2008 by Allan Moult

Filed Under: The Good Life, Video

Sign of the times?

July 8, 2008 by Allan Moult

Worth watching to the end.

Filed Under: Bush — say no more, Only in Australia, Politics Tagged With: freedom

Algae strikes Olympic sailing course

June 27, 2008 by Allan Moult

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Australia’s 470 men’s crew, Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page, negotiate their way through green algae on the Beijing Olympic Games sailing course at Qingdao, during training on June 24.

Rising sea temperatures have been blamed for the growth of the algae, which has begun to blight the Oympic sailing course just 44 days out from the start of the games.
[ABC News ]

Filed Under: Pollution Tagged With: China, in, Only

Olympic countdown

June 19, 2008 by Allan Moult

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Beijing-based Atlantic writer James Fallows took this view from his office window at 10am today [June 19] which is just 50 days before the start of the 2008 Olympic Games.

[From
The Atlantic
]

Filed Under: Climate change, Global warming, Pollution

Obama in Portland, Oregon

May 19, 2008 by Allan Moult

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Barack Obama addressing a crowd of an estimated 75,000 supporters in Portland, Oregon yesterday. Not much you can add to this. Change is coming.

Filed Under: Only in America Tagged With: election, Obama

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