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Les manifestes des deux blocs disputant les élections du 5 mai 2010 ont été publiés. Nous pouvons maintenant les décortiquer et connaitre qui de l’Alliance du Coeur ou de l’Alliance de l’Avenir propose le meilleur programme pour les 5 années à venir. Auparavant, nous devons faire ressortir que les manifestes ne comptent que pour une infime partie des swing votes, puisque les élections se jouent sur l’émotion à Maurice, pas sur la raison. Mais que cela ne nous empêche pas d’essayer de faire un choix éclairé pour cette joute.

The safe upper limit for atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) is 350 parts per million. The current level is 390 ppm, which is way too high. This dangerous level leads to ice melting, climate disruption and ocean acidification. Scientists are urging decision makers to act and bring the level down to 350 ppm.

The media is treating climate change more as a political issue rather than a scientific one. The presentation of the subject is therefore “balanced”, even though there is overwhelming scientific evidence that the planet is dangerously warming up. Worse, science is losing the media war to conservative lobbies.

Climate change is happening, and its impact will be disastrous for the planet. The global mean temperature of the planet is bound to increase by 2°C or more unless global greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by at least 50% of the 1990 level by 2050. However, there are no plausible reason to believe that we [...]

A novel study has attempted to understand and predict the impact of climate change on the price of staple foods. Ahmed et al. (2009) established that extreme climate events places huge pressure on the price of staple food; these staple foods are essential to poor households in developing countries and form a significant portion of [...]