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Climate Change and World Resources - Update

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:53:48 -0700

It's been a while since I wrote a blog rounding up the news on Climate Change and I had tons of links saved up in my bookmarks, it was time to clear them out.

Below you will find a selection of news and video links that I think are well worth checking out, I've added many more to the SXM PE Global Warming / Global Resources Thread. i don't time to write much about them now, but I think most of them speak for themselves anyway. Feel free to add your own links and comments below.

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Caribdude's World Wide Web - 31st March 2008

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:12:04 -0700

I can't believe it's been 5 months since I posted a WWW blog entry here, but now that I look through my packed bookmarks in my browser it makes sense. I've got a ton of stuff saved up in there and I'll share a bunch of it with you all below. Hopefully you will all find something of interest, and there's no rush to look through all the links in one sitting, this post will be here tomorrow too :)

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Getting the priorities right on crime

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:34:58 -0700

Did anyone else notice the front page of the Daily Herald today? The top headline reported a 4th armed daylight robbery in Philipsburg and directly below it was a headline reporting how the police had fined 140 and towed 45 cars in road controls. Is it just me that sees something wrong with the priorities here?

I took a walk down Front Street and the Boardwalk today, I was in town about 3 hours and in that time II did not see one police or VKS officer. I visited a few store owners that i have known a few years and asked them about the situation.....

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An Invitation for Expression of Interest - SXM Waste and Dump

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:08:17 -0800

For over a week I've been thinking about how to tackle this story and issue, an issue which has been blogged about many times here on SXM PE by various writers, and which I have been delegated to take on this time. It is an issue that the solution decided upon by our Exco will have a major impact on the future of the island, it's people and their health.

It's a vitally important issue, which since the govt advertisement placed in the papers (the DH at least) on the 28th February, nothing has been reported on since. If you missed the ad then you probably know nothing about it, fortunately for you, us 'Treehugger Types" notice these things :)

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Climate Change Roundup - 25th February 2008

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:06:08 -0800

It's been a while I know, maybe some thought because I hadn't written a blog about it in a while that the issue had gone away, sadly I have to report negative to that thought. Climate Change is still with us, it''s going to be with us for the rest of our lives, and our children's lives too. How our grand children are going to do is anyone's guess right now, I think it's quite sure to be a different World than you reading this have grown up in.

The problem now is that Climate Change news is common, most people like myself who have been paying attention to the issue are resigned to the inevitability of it, it's happening now and it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. It's no longer a question of stopping it, it's too late, the only questions and challenges now are if we can slow it down and reverse it before it sets off a chain reaction that is unstoppable.

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Smoke gets in my eyes.

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:09:27 -0700

I don't expect many people took much notice of the news this past week of GEBE ordering new heavy oil generators from Wartsilla. 'Planning for the future' they called it, which really gives you a clue about how far into the future these people plan for.

Oil peaked over $91 a barrel yesterday, this is over 3 times the price in 2002 ($20-$30) and the chairman of BP Capital LLC tells us global oil production has peaked. Watch him on You Tube trying not to scare the talking heads.

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How much is it going to cost to do nothing?

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:21:19 -0700

"The costs of doing nothing are far far higher than it will cost to make the changes to policy and mentality we need to make now. We are going to pay already, only the cost has not been determined. II'm willing to bet it's more than any of you reading this are prepared to pay." - Me.

The St. Maarten Energy Policy - New Video

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Caribdude's World Wide Web - 7th October 2007

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:36:14 -0700

A round up of world news, blog discussions and anything you care to share with other readers from around the WWW.

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Caribdude's World Wide Web - 22nd September 2007

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:51:05 -0700

It's been a while since my last WWW post, but there are just so many things going on around the world that I thought it was time I posted a new one. This one is mostly going to be about World news, stories you may have noticed in the local papers on on tv.

More and more people are turning to the internet and blogs for news, I believe that knowing what is going on and how it may affect you is the only way to prepare and plan for the future, a future that is rushing towards us and is not looking like the one you see in Star Trek.

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Catastrophic Climate Change - Almost Certain.

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:34:22 -0700

A rise of two degrees centigrade in global temperatures – the point considered to be the threshold for catastrophic climate change which will expose millions to drought, hunger and flooding – is now "very unlikely" to be avoided, the world's leading climate scientists said yesterday.

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St. Maarten International Coastal Cleanup results

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:03:18 -0700

Volunteers: 370
Trash bags total:112
Total weight of trash bags: 1,604.08 kilos (4,297 lbs)

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Beachfront property - Limited time offer.

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 06:34:30 -0700

I was recently informed that 'Pinocchio' Roy and GEBE officials recently took a trip to Finland to pursue their plans to purchase new heavy oil generators. Really, I don't know what to say about them or their plans that is not insulting and outrageous, so I will say nothing except that I am amazed at the tiny minds constantly being displayed by people who claim to be 'experts'.

Oil is not the future, prices are going to continue to rise and the oil companies themselves forcast dramatic rises and shortages in the coming years as remaining known supplies are secured by countries such as the US, China, India and Japan to name a few.

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International Coastal Cleanup Day - September 15th 2007

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:53:44 -0700

More info coming soon below. Links below are for last year's event, organised by the SXM Pride Foundation. Be sure to watch the photo video, I plan to make a new one this year.

International Coastal Cleanup Day - 16th September 2006

SXM Coastal Cleanup Photo Video 2006

Click here to Read the ICC 2006 Report for the Netherlands Antilles

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Will Dean be mean?

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:17:19 -0700

16th August 2007

It's been a while since we got hit and the law of averages tells us that with St. Maarten being as much in the middle of the main path as anyone can be, that we will get hit, if not this year, then next, or the year after. That is why I say if you are going to build, build for a catogory 5, because one will come along eventually.

This season has been very quiet so far, which of course I must eat my hat over because I suspected it was going to be an excessively bad one. Changes in the Pacific recently point to a switch from La Nina back to El Nino, which is a good sign as Nino tends to temper and hinder storm formation.

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Caribdude's World Wide Web - 18th July 2007

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:41:32 -0700

Exclusive to SXM Private Eye readers. Galaxies never seen any anyone else before I discovered them yesterday. Find out how you too can discover Galaxies below. And other stuff. :)

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