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Climate change sceptics and lobbyists put world at risk, says top adviser

Professor Bob Watson, chief scientists at the department for environment and rural affairs. Photograph: University of East Anglia Climate change sceptics and fossil fuel companies that have lobbied against action on greenhouse gas emissions have ...

From DAVID ADAM, Guardian Unlimited,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  Bob Watson,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate

World's Cheapest Laptop

Techvideoblog has a video review of the Menq Easypc E760, an $80 ARM-based laptop that runs Android. From the looks of it, I don't think this is a very good gadget, because it's slow (less powerful than an iPhone 3GS, but of course also a lot cheaper), ...

From DAVID ADAMS, OSNews,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

MPAA Shuts Down Municipal WiFi Due to Single Illegal Download

As regular readers on OSNews will know, I'm quite opposed to the concept of post-sale restrictions, but also the insane countermeasures undertaken by the film and music industry against individuals who illegally download content. The reason I'm so ...

From DAVID ADAMS, OSNews,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: RIAA

Beneath the waves: the future of carbon capture and storage

It's argued that 480bn tonnes of CO2 could be safely dumped in the deep Pacific: 16 years' global fossil fuel output. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters If you could capture the carbon that thousands of power stations would otherwise pump into the ...

From DAVID ADAM, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Phil Noble,  Columbia University

Copenhagen climate talks: Time to change, no time to waste

Heat and drought fuelled wildfires that devastated Calfornia last year and may convince the US that carbon emissions must fall. Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images The world's first global treaty to combat climate change, the Kyoto Protocol, was ...

From DAVID ADAM, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Environment Agency

* Is There Room for a New Mobile OS? *

Just when we were starting to worry that the OS world was becoming ossified around three increasingly-competent options, making it very boring for OS enthusiasts, along comes a re-energized mobile computing market and a furious land grab among ...

From DAVID ADAMS, OSNews,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Texas Instruments,  Skype,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

Why the red deer failed to rut

Red deer lock horns during the rutting season. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Europe For centuries, the autumnal red deer rut has been one of the stunning sights of the British countryside. The annual event sees giant stags chase rivals, ...

From DAVID ADAM, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: BBC,  AFC Bournemouth

Maine voters reject gay-marriage law

PORTLAND, Maine Maine voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the gay rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in New England, the corner of the country most supportive of gay marriage. Gay marriage ...

From GLENN ADAMS AND DAVID CRARY, San Diego Union-Tribune,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

OSNews Collaborative Interview Project

A few weeks ago, we asked you for ideas on interesting interview subjects. You had a lot of great ideas, and we started contacting people. We'll probably be working through that list for many months. We've decided to start with three interviews: ...

From DAVID ADAMS, OSNews,  6 Nov 2009

Analysis: What hope for Copenhagen now?

A US refusal to commit to carbon emission cuts and developing countries' demand for greater cuts by rich nations leaves a legally binding deal at Copenhagen looking unlikely. What's next? President Obama's team takes a giant risk in Copenhagen and ...

From DAVID ADAM, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

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