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1. Under you can’t win for loosing:
   Biofuels give out more greenhouse gas…
   http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297681,00.html
   Corn-derived renewable energy sources create more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels, according to a study from an international team of scientists reported in the London Times.
   Research findings published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics calculate that corn and rapeseed biodiesels produce up to 70 percent and 50 percent more greenhouse gases respectively than fossil fuels.

2. ..dang! maryt and alan beat me to it!

3. Chinese MSMouthpiece:
   “While Car-Free Day in Beijing got a lukewarm response two years ago, the keen participation of 108 cities this year shows growing public concern about the traffic and environmental problems caused by cars.
   Today, all cars will be barred from selected areas in these 108 cities. People will be encouraged to walk, cycle and use public transport.”
   …-
   Why Kyoto is doomed
   Put aside that the Kyoto Protocol is fatally flawed, based on bogus number that even supporters admit would have little impact on their own much-vaunted (but equally useless) computer model predictions. The fact is, where it matters, no one cares.
   China is exempt from the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol, given a pass because it argued that the “world’s factory” needed more growth to finish emerging from the status of a developing country. Sure. Whatever. But even if China, as one of the planet’s largest producers of greenhouse gases, was included in Kyoto, it wouldn’t have mattered.
   As illustrated on Car Free Day, one of the world’s most carefully controlled populations under the rule of one the world’s most enduring dictatorships simply ignored the government-supported environmental initiative….-
   http://stevejanke.com/archives/241356.php
   Chinese Drivers Ignore No-Car Day
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7007893.stm