gates and built before the midwinter fair and rebuilt in the last 20 years and people who came from kyoto and used the materials and traditional japanese trees and they're phenomenal and just like what you see in the temple gardens in kyoto. the pioneer log cabin and used for pevmen ps for the rec department in golden gate park and was recently restored and renovated. apparently they brought the logs in out of the woods -- out of the forest by helicopter so they wouldn't damage the bark because the bark is an important part of the buildings as you can see. one of my favorite buildings in san francisco. the camera obscura and one of the last remaining buildings that was play land of the beach and right below the cliff house and opening in the roof that you can see there and it rotates and lens and a mirror in the opening and project what is it sees outside into a parbollic shape platform inside the building and you can see the world outside. why do i have to pay three dollars and i can go outside and look at it? it's a truly remarkable experience. first of all the preriffal stimuli is gone

massive is situated close to the town of kyoto one hundred fifty kilometers north of the arctic circle it is one of the instruments of the avalanche safety service it records dozens of readings several times a day snow and ground temperatures wind direction solar activity and precipitation all those factors affect the snow and its structure the station staff uses them as the basis for polygamy forecasts concerning avalanches. what triggers a sudden movement of snow in the mountains resulting in a formidable natural disaster. finding the answer to that question is the job of scientists to some peaches bugs hydra meteorological university one of the factors triggering an avalanche is nothing more unusual than snow with operation little flakes turn into vapor even at very low temperatures. but with fiber in the top layer of the snow but he escapes into the year. it settles on large snowflakes turns into us. as a result snow in the lower turns into large round crystals. this makes the top most slide over the ground pellets. the only way to fight avalanches is to get them to move before the

closed over a percent of the red sox in tokyo electric power fell twenty six point nine percent after kyoto news reports that the company will report a massive loss for the current fiscal year stock markets in hong kong saw and shanghai closed for public holidays. and here in moscow equity markets are trading lower than tears down point two percent let's look at some individual shareholders on the my six energy majors are trading losses last night is down point seven percent in the first hour of trading recall is also down while shares its bare bank are trading slightly higher. and less than along the fed will wrap up the second round of course it's of easing but the recovery of the world's largest economy remains sluggish the u.s. government may need to add extra liquidity while some of us say that's unavoidable other claim that's enough to let the u.s. economy to ensure recovering the basics i'm sure that we make here is that the risk you retreat from all perspective if you don't think it will be a q e three coming through we believe the q e two would end in june and that's about it becau

a mostly lower stock in tokyo electric power corporation fell twenty six point nine percent after kyoto news reports that the company will report a massive loss for the carcass per year. here in moscow equity markets started the day higher reality has advanced point two percent in the first minutes of trading them isaacs is still. quote and here you see friday's closing pickett's russia's equity markets ended last week in the red not rubinstein it i have seen metropole predicts a more positive outcome this week with investors further developments in europe and the united states. this week is going to be interesting to watch because following their worse than expected numbers. and labor market out of the united states on friday on line in hand and a second bailout package for greece on the other hand the markets are going to be tempted to go either way where i think the talks can start in the market this week is that the fed could step in with a q e number three or at least the. fed could give some signals that it would even envision something of that sort i think the bulls the optimists

we have done is quite the contrary we have allowed the heads of the industrialized nations to shred kyoto there is no attempt to curb our complete and total dependence on fossil fuels and that of course is the only route left a complete severance from this dependence on fossil fuels sadly the responses either veer off into utter denial global warming doesn't exist or this equally self deluded idea that we can somehow adapt so now if we think of all this in the bigger picture like you said it's going to be either this economic collapse that comes first or environmental collapse how do we start focusing on what's actually going on today as should we be focusing on members of the house of representatives voting on resolutions to either fund or defund or authorize or not authorize the war in libya or does that become petty. well it's all part of the same package. because the awful truth is that we are funding both a lifestyle and a level of consumption as well as an imperium that we can no longer afford it's funded through debt about forty cents on every dollar now is borrowed two billion dol

off by nearly 28% after the kyoto news agency reported it was heading for a huge financial loss. that is before compensation payments to fukushima evacuees have even been taken into account. tepco's stock is worth 9.5% of its value as of three months ago. look at the nose dive that we saw in midmarch after details emerged about the problem of the fukushima daiichi plant. the government has helped tepco out with a multimillion dollar bailout to cover compensation claims against the company. investors don't see too much light at the end of the tunnel. >>> on wall street, fairly light on the economic data this week. the big news this week, expected to come from the tech sector, later on monday, steve jobs will be unveiling apple's next generation of software. including its new online storage service dubbed i-cloud. more details on that announcement and the first in our week-long series on cloud commuting later in the hour. >>> u.s. markets, kind of early to be taking a read but they look set for a mostly lower opening when trading begins later on. here's where the markets stand at t

. >> i'm just wondering, we missed out on kyoto, signing that. it looks like -- [inaudible] what would you recommend our advocacy be for some sort of global -- >> well, i think in my view, you know, global warming is a huge, huge issue. and it saddens me very much that today in the congress you have, certainly, a majority of people in the house -- almost all republicans, including intelligent people -- who are willing to ignore virtually the entire scientific community who tells us global warming is real, that global warming is today, today causing very, very serious problems and that those problems are only going to get worse in the future. you have the cia telling us that in terms of national security global warming, which can lead to wars as people around the world fight over limited resources because of droughts and floods, food shortages, you know, you've got the cia, you've got the defense department, all these organizations all over the world saying it, and yet the anti-science feeling on capitol hill is such that we certainly, at this par

government of canada has always fully and fastidiously complied with the reporting requirements of the kyoto treaty. there was a 15-day grace period allowed at the end of the deadline, which occurred during the election. we have a file the details. [applause] >> mr. speaker, it turns out that not only were we late in reporting did it this year, but the government also decided to quietly remove the data on emissions, because the data showed a 20% increase in emissions in 2009 alone. that is more than every single car in canada, mr. speaker. will the minister tell us who made the decision to try and hide this information on oil sands production? [applause] >> if i could offer a first direction to my hon. colleague, we refer -- first correction to my hon. colleague, which referred to the abundance in northern alberta's oil sands -- [applause] and with regard to the question, in 2008, in our reporting of the 2008 emissions, the department attempted to offer numbers. it did not work, and -- [inaudible] [applause] >> mr. speaker, climate change was not even mentioned once in the throne speech. now

we are well inside our promises made at kyoto. we would further like to reduce that until 2015 by 80%. in 2010, there was discussion if nuclear energy should not be needed, to bridge the time until renewable would be in a position to replace it. that all changed after fukushima. the german government yesterday decided that we will shut down all nuclear plants by 2022. we have shut down already eight which will never go back to the grid. we currently have 17 and we will have nine that will continue to operate until 2021 and 2022. why the change? there was one new reason and three old reasons. the new reason was after fukushima a different risk assessment. we had thought that chernobyl had to do with the kind of reactors you had there. that this was highly unlikely to happen in a country like germany or japan or the united states. but the risk assessment is different. we had to come to the conclusion that there are complicated technologies which you cannot get under control 100%. nuclear energy is not the only one. there are others