Guest Column

Items of notes and interest from the web.

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UN Author Says New Draft Climate Report Alarmist March 28, 2014

How Government Officials Are Re-Writing IPCC Draft

Obama Calls On Europe To Develop Domestic Shale Resources March 27, 2014

European Leaders Ask Obama To Allow Increased Exports Of US Shale Gas

New Paper: Decarbonisation Policy Ignores Engineering Reality Test March 27, 2014

Gap between rhetoric and reality dangerously wide

Antisemitism at the UN, Then and Now March 27, 2014

Vienna Declaration of Human Rights and Programme of Action

Small Oil Companies Eye Huge Prize in Ghana March 26, 2014

While there is some safety in the diversification of the major oil companies, it's also harder for investors to get big returns on a hot new play like Ghana

Happy Birthday Norman Borlaug March 26, 2014

100th Birthday Of The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives

Israeli shoes put high-tech in your step March 26, 2014

ISRAEL21c looks at two new made-in-Israel shoe technologies to help people avoid falls and regain proper gait after stroke and other injury.

David Cameron: Fracking Is Europe’s Top Agenda After Crimea ‘Wake-Up Call’ March 26, 2014

UK Prime Minister: Fracking Must Start By End Of Year

Scientific Consensus Was Wrong IPCC Admits In Biofuels U-Turn March 25, 2014

The Climate Change Debate Is About To Change Radically

Energy Security And Shale Gas To Dominate EU-US Crisis Summit March 24, 2014

EU Leaders: Fracking Can Reduce Russia’s Grip On Europe

EU Leaders Delay Decision On Climate Targets March 22, 2014

Putin’s Useful Idiots: Greens Wage War On American Shale Gas Exports

EU Crisis Summit Poised For Energy Policy Changes March 20, 2014

Britain Sets Out Europe's Energy Alternative To Russia

Got kids? TabTale’s got their apps March 19, 2014

Launched in 2010 with a single storybook app, Tel Aviv-based TabTale has rocketed to the top 10 list of global publishers of mobile games.

Three Billion Dollars to the Ukraine March 18, 2014

Why?

US intervention in Russia March 18, 2014

Crimea, Ukraine, Putin

UN Climate Talks In Bonn Fail March 18, 2014

Americans List Climate Change As One Of Their Lowest Priorities

A New Cold War? March 17, 2014

Ukraine Crisis Signals Shift In Global Energy Politics

A great uncertainty in middle America March 14, 2014

Sbarro's bankruptcy, sagging mall traffic

Under Putin Shadow, Europe Changes Energy Policy March 13, 2014

Russia Grabs Ukraine’s Offshore Oil & Gas Treasure

The instant test that lets you diagnose your illness March 12, 2014

New disruptive technology developed by Israeli startup Azure PCR could make diagnosis of illness – whether it’s viral, bacterial or even fungal – instant.

UK Government Chief Scientist Accused Of ‘Name-Calling For Lack Of Evidence’ March 12, 2014

Matt Ridley Calls On Mark Walport To Withdraw Unsubstantiated Accusation

American Foreign Service Association March 11, 2014

Diplomats

Barack Milquetoast March 10, 2014

Community organizer, 98-pound weakling...

Shale, the Last Oil and Gas Train: Interview with Arthur Berman March 10, 2014

I fear putting climate change policy in the hands of bureaucrats and politicians more than I fear climate change

Open the doors of Congress to a little fresh air and sunshine March 10, 2014

Mitch McConnell vs Tea Party

Vladimir Putin’s Green Allies March 10, 2014

West Tries To Loosen Russia’s Gas Grip