“We, the thirty-nine J8 delegates from Barbados, Canada, Cote d’Ivoire, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America believe that it is imperative for G8 leaders to listen to the voices of young people.“
Strong words. Heard words. Repeated words.
About a week back, 39 […]

Yet another one of those global warming hypocrisies, this time from the patron saint himself.In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to t…

I wrote this post on prioritizing funding for global development issues on the Beyond Borders blog. The post is based on the Bjorn Lomborg’s work at the Copenhagen consensus and this highly recommendable TED Talk. The key insight from Lomborg is basic…

Comes from the Daily Mirror :West responsible for cyclone in Burma.How fitting it was a direct quote by Champika Ranwaka. Do check out the comments section, this is confirming my increasing cynicism of democracy, I mean forget an informed electorate, d…

The people who know me the most would find it quite interesting that I talk so ill about the whole Global Warming drama. So I need to do some explaining on the very first reasons for my change.
Hmm.. yes there was a time when I was very concerned about the amount of Carbon I should […]

James Pethokoukis of Capital Commerce points out a serious flaw in all those new “green collar” jobs Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton hope to create in their plans to battle climate change. He writes,As Clinton said in one presidential debate, “This is…

As you probably know, the world’s food prices are soaring. So far I’ve come across two basic explanations which I find reasonable for the hike in food and commodity prices.Increased demand, constrained supply.This one is straight from your basic Econ …

In typical Sri Lankan fashion - about a month late and for a few more than one hour. Ok so it was an island-wide power failure. Given the frequency of these failures, (multiple times a month where I live) the folks at Greenpeace or WWF should nominate…

Following is a video excerpt of a presentation by Prof. Ajith De Alwis (University of Moratuwa) on the impact of Climate Change in Sri Lanka. The video was part of a larger forum organized by Beyond Borders in collaboration with the Youth Yatra Project on Climate Change in Sri Lanka.
Prof. Ajith takes a youth-focus in […]

From Bloomberg.com:U.S. plans to replace 15 percent of gasoline consumption with crop-based fuels including ethanol are already leading to some unintended consequences as food prices and fertilizer costs increase. About 33 percent of U.S. c…

Since the December of last year, I was an armchair activist on Global Warming. I hated everyone who used more than one car…went by bus, to cut down the emissions (the financial aspect played a major role as well)
As a student of science, I did a little reading into the matter. It is amazing how […]