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Planet 100 - This Week Recycled - November 20, 2009

Obama in Asia, Palin on Climate Change, Disco Ball in Space, and Plastic Making Boys Feminine

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By Team Planet Green
Fri Nov 20, 2009 16:09

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Welcome to the Planet 100 for November 20, 2009. It's our special "Recycled" edition, where we review the news of the week in 100 seconds or less.:

WATCH VIDEO: Today's Planet 100 looks at Obama in Asia, Palin on Climate Change, Disco Ball in Space, and Plastic Making Boys Feminine

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Planet 100 [recycled]: Obama says 'No, we can't.' (11/20)

While in Singapore at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit this weekend President Obama said 'No, we can't' on a binding Copenhagen agreement.

With only 22 days to go and no Senate bill in hand Obama announced he would back a 2-stage "deferral plan," using COP15 to establish a political framework as the first step towards a legally binding agreement to come sometime in 2010.
Via: BBC News
LINK: Apec leaders drop climate target
Photo: Sarah Sturgill

Sarah Palin Goes 'Rogue' in Climate Facts
The ex Alaskan governors' memoir has been lambasted by the media for containing numerous untruths about energy and the environment. Here are a few cited:

  • The poor will be hardest hit by clean energy legislation (not true)
  • Obama said cap-and-trade will cause electricity bills to sky rocket (no he didn't)
  • She never supported aerial wolf hunting (she signed the bill)

    • Via: TreeHugger
      LINK: Top 4 Energy & Environment Untruths in Sarah Palin's 'Going Rogue'
      Photos: ©Getty Images

      TECH WATCH: Giant disco ball in outer space (Karl Burkart)
      Imagine what alien space visitors would think of a planet so fabulously bedecked in mirrors that it resembled a 70's era disco ball.

      It sounds like sci-fi fantasy (or a whole lot of something slipped in your KoolAid) but enshrouding the earth in millions of mirrors is one of several geo-engineering solutions being considered by top scientists from the British Royal Society as a means to slow the effects of global warming.

      Via: MNN.com
      LINK: Karl Burkart Climate solution: earth disco ball
      Image: Karl Burkart

      Plastic making boys feminine?
      And finally, researchers in the US report that boys exposed to high doses of plastics in the womb are "more feminine," and are less likely to play rough and tumble or choose to play with traditional boys' toys.

      See you next week for more breaking news.

      Via: BBC
      LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8361863.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8361863.stm">Plastic chemicals 'feminise boys'
      Photo (boys): Philip Nialey, Getty Images
      Photo (plastic): Tsuneyo Yamashita, Getty Images

 
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