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George Monbiot’s well-informed comments are always worth a read. This article is about the recent government’s absurd backtracking to coal usage:

Burnt Out

“John Hutton, the secretary of state in charge of energy, has started justifying the decision he says he hasn’t made. “For critics,” he argued last week, “there’s a belief that coal fired power stations undermine the UK’s leadership position on climate change. In fact the opposite is true.”(2) Quite so: if we don’t burn this stuff the Chinese might get their hands on it. Or could he be a true believer? Does he really think there’s such a thing as clean coal?…

Like biofuels and micro wind turbines, carbon capture and storage turns out to be another great green scam. It will come too late to prevent runaway climate change, the government has no intention of enforcing it and even if it had the technique is likely to boost our carbon emissions. This is what John Hutton calls “meeting our international obligations”(15). Heaven knows what breaking them might look like. “

Whilst teaching recently, someone asked about columns with equal heights. Whilst familiar with what seems to be the ‘default’ method, i.e. add a background image, I realised that this won’t deal with all necessary situations.

If you absolutely have to add three columns with different background colours, try this ingenious method:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlayouts/

The only ‘problem’ that I can see is that it only deals with background colours, rather than images. The colours for the columns are set by setting the background colours of the container’s border, which rules out images.

If you need to add background images to more than one column, then try this:

http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/equalheight

This is my first post on the cielo.net blog.

I’ll be posting articles on CSS, film, the environment and other topics of interest.