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Violent Backlash Against Climate Scientists (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 03:00:39
| Inter Press Service: Climate change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to delay or prevent action by the U.S. government against global warming, experts warn. U.S. Senator James Inhofe, Republican from Oklahoma and climate change denier, in late February released a list of leading climate scientists he wants prosecuted as criminals for misleading the government. Those scientists are receiving hate mail and death threats. quot;I have hundredsquot; of threatening emails, Stephen ... |
Ecuador: Avatar Downfall a Blow for Indigenous Communities (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 03:00:39
| Inter Press Service: Science fiction blockbuster Avatar was the big loser in the Oscar awards ceremony - not only a blow for director James Cameron but also seen as a symbolic reverse in the struggle to recover Amazon rainforest areas in Ecuador from the effects of oil pollution. Several environmental organisations, like the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and the Amazon Defence Coalition, had asked Cameron to quot;let his legions of fans know that while Pandora is fictional, what is happening to (indigenous) ... |
Uganda: Landslides - Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 03:00:39
| Inter Press Service: Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in eastern Uganda. When he heard the sound of rocks and soil tumbling down Mountain Elgon on a path to destroy part of his school, Wadyegere, along with other pupils, fled home. But instead of finding the refuge he hoped for, disaster awaited Wadyegere. His house and family were ... |
Are new biofuels the ethical answer? (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 03:00:39
| SciDev.Net: New biofuels offer a sustainable source of energy but we must consider the ethical and social implications, say Joyce Tait and Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka. Biofuels were first pioneered in the early days of car manufacturing. Cheap fossil fuels soon overtook them as our fuel of choice, but concerns about climate change have revived interest in them -- global biofuel production doubled between 2000 and 2007, and is expected to double again by 2011. 'First generation' biofuels, ... |
Scientists to review climate body (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 03:00:38
| BBC: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world's science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Work will be co-ordinated by the Inter-Academy Council, which brings together bodies such as the UK's Royal Society. The IPCC has been under pressure over small errors in its last major assessment of climate science in 2007. Mr Ban said the overall concept of man-made climate change was robust, and action to curb emissions badly ... |
World's top scientists to review climate panel (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 03:00:38
| Associated Press: At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel. quot;We enter this process with no preconceived conclusions,quot; said Robbert Dijkgraaf, a Dutch mathematical physicist who co-chairs the group, the InterAcademy Council of 15 nations' national academies of science. U.N. Secretary-General Ban ... |
Solar power could provide 10% of US energy: report (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 03:00:38
| Agence France-Presse: The United States could source 10 percent of its electricity from solar power by 2030, a report said Tuesday, winning support from a US lawmaker who wants to boost the number of US solar panels. The report, produced by the independent environmental group Environment America, was presented to Congress with backing from Senator Bernie Sanders who in February introduced legislation to install 10 million solar panels across the United States within a decade. Sanders praised the ... |
China to stick to climate change stand, expects India to follow suit (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 03:00:38
| Times of India: China said it will not deviate from its stand on climate change even after it gave qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord on Tuesday. It expects India to stick to its stand as well, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday. quot;In future negotiations and cooperation on climate change, we will continue to be good partners. The government of India and China have signed an MOU enhancing our climate partnership,quot; Xie Zhenhua, vice minister of the National Development and ... |
Deforestation conference to turn plans to action (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 03:00:38
| Associated Press: French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blamed for climate change. Ministers from countries of the Amazon and Congo river basins and Indonesia -- whose massive forests, most at risk, are at the heart of efforts to end deforestation -- were among those attending the one-day conference. A follow-up meeting is scheduled for May in Oslo, ... |
'Famine marriages' just one byproduct of climate change (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 11:00:38
| Inter Press Service: The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens. In the 1991 cyclone disasters that killed 140,000 in Bangladesh, 90 percent of victims were reportedly women; in the 2004 Asian Tsunami, an estimated 70 to 80 percent of overall deaths were women. And following the 2005 Hurricane Katrina in the United States, African-American women, ... |
China unsure on warming cause, to stick with CO2 cuts (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 11:00:38
| Reuters: China's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Xie Zhenhua, vice-chairman of the powerful National Development and Reform Commission, also warned the United States it should not use domestic divisions over climate change as an excuse to pass its responsibilities off onto other countries. quot;There are still two ... |
Feed-in tariff 'killing off' burgeoning UK small turbine industry (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 11:00:38
| Guardian: UK small wind turbine manufacturers say they will lose out to foreign solar panel manufacturers in the race to cash in on the UK government's new feed-in tariff scheme. They claim their products will be penalised because solar panel owners will receive higher government subsidies than wind turbine buyers. As the arrangement stands, a wind turbine would qualify for 26.7-34.5p per KWh in government subsidies, while solar panels would typically bring in 41p per KWh. Turbine ... |
UK academy aids study to regain climate data trust (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-10-2010 at 11:00:38
| Reuters: Britain's science academy said on Wednesday it would take part in a review of U.N. climate science intended to restore trust after a 2007 report was found to have exaggerated evidence for global warming. quot;I can confirm that we are one of the parties (on the review panel),quot; Bill Hartnett, a spokesman for The Royal Society, said. The independent review will be launched at the United Nations headquarters late on Wednesday in New York. The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on ... |
EPA chief slams attempted delays by lawmakers (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-09-2010 at 11:00:42
| Reuters: The Environmental Protection Agency chief fought back on Monday against Senate attempts to challenge the agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, saying delaying action would be bad for the economy. President Barack Obama has long said the EPA would take steps to regulate greenhouse gases if Congress failed to pass climate legislation. The bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate amid opposition from fossil fuel-rich states. Senator Lisa Murkowski, a ... |
South Africa: World Bank split over controversial "clean coal" investment (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-09-2010 at 11:00:41
| Business Green: In what could prove a precursor to future rows over climate funding for developing countries the UK and US have reportedly threatened to withhold support for a World Bank loan intended to help South Africa build a new coal-fired power station. Around $3bn of the proposed $3.75bn loan to South African utility company Eskom would be used to fund the construction of the 4,800MW Medupi quot;clean coalquot; plant and accompanying carbon storage facilities. The rest of the funding is expected to be ... |
EU's 'carbon fat cats' get rich off trading scheme: study (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-09-2010 at 11:00:41
| Agence France-Presse: Europe's system for industrial carbon quotas has enriched the continent's biggest polluters, with ten firms together reaping permits for 2008 alone worth 500 million euros, a new report revealed. Dominated by steel and cement makers, the same quot;carbon fat catsquot; stand to collect surplus CO2 permits that -- at current market rates -- could be worth 3.2 billion euros (4.3 billion dollars) by 2012, it said. This is roughly equivalent to the entire EU investment in renewable energy ... |
EU warns climate loopholes could lead to CO2 rise (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-09-2010 at 11:00:41
| Reuters: Loopholes in the United Nations climate treaties could actually amount to an increase in global climate-warming emissions and the chance to rein in temperatures may be slipping away, a draft European Union report showed. quot;Optimistic assessments...indicate that a pathway toward limiting the global temperature increase to no more than 2 degrees Celsius is still feasible, but more pessimistic assessments indicate this chance is disappearing fast,quot; it added. European Climate ... |
Climate change science: the evidence is clear (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-09-2010 at 11:00:41
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: This afternoon ABC Science broadcaster Robyn Williams delivered the 2010 Commonwealth Day address at a lunch organised by the Commonwealth Day Council of NSW at the NSW Parliament. The theme was Science, Technology and Society. This is an edited version of his speech. A central plank of the Kevin O7 election was climate and a way to restrict carbon dioxide emissions. Three years after the election, we have nothing. And another election on the way. The issue has been bombarded ... |
At White House: 14 senators discuss climate-energy legislation (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-09-2010 at 11:00:37
| Christian Science Monitor: The fate of President Obama's plan to shift America toward renewable energy and away from fossil fuels may depend on the outcome of a crucial White House meeting Tuesday with 14 key senators, many from coal- and oil-producing states, who have long opposed curbs on carbon emissions. Mr. Obama ndash; often criticized for being too hands off on complex and controversial climate-energy legislation after it became stalled in the Senate last year ndash; now appears to be making a full-court press to ... |
Climate change is not a matter of faith (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-09-2010 at 08:00:42
| Independent (UK): If opinion polls are right, fewer people quot;believequot; in climate change now than a few months ago, prior to the leak of emails from the University of East Anglia and the emergence of embarrassing errors in one of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The science of global warming, it seems, has taken a severe hit in terms of the public's credulity. Yet as the latest scientific research makes clear, the evidence is, if anything, stronger than it ever was about the ... |
US still responsible for most CO2 emissions (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-09-2010 at 08:00:41
| New Scientist: Europeans import nearly twice as much carbon dioxide per head as US citizens -- but the US still holds the dubious distinction of being the world's largest emitter. The Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, reports that in 2004 23 per cent of global CO2 emissions -- some 6.2 gigatonnes -- went in making products that were traded internationally. Most of these products were exported from China and other relatively poor countries to consumers in richer countries. ... |
U.S. and Europe 'Outsource' Greenhouse Gas Emissions (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-09-2010 at 08:00:41
| LiveScience: The United States and other developed countries are effectively quot;outsourcingquot; their greenhouse gas pollution to developing countries. One-third of carbon dioxide emissions associated with the goods and services consumed in First World countries is actually being emitted outside the borders of those nations, mostly in the developing world, a new study finds. The study, detailed in the March 8 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, marks the first look at ... |
China and India Join Climate Agreement (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-09-2010 at 08:00:39
| New York Times: China and India formally agreed Tuesday to join the international climate change agreemen reached last December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up. The two countries, among the largest and fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, submitted letters to the United Nations agreeing to be included on a list of countries covered by the so-called Copenhagen Accord, a three-page nonbinding statement reached at the end of the contentious and chaotic ... |
China and India endorse Copenhagen climate deal (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-09-2010 at 08:00:39
| Reuters: China and India joined almost all other major greenhouse gas emitters Tuesday in signing up to the climate accord struck in Copenhagen, boosting a deal strongly favored by the United States. More than 100 nations have now endorsed the Copenhagen Accord, a non-binding agreement reached after two weeks of tortuous wrangling at a 194-nation summit in December. The accord plans $100 billion a year in climate aid for developing nations from 2020 and seeks to limit global warming to ... |
China, India give qualified nod to climate deal (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-09-2010 at 08:00:39
| Associated Press: China and India have given their qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions. More than 100 countries had earlier responded to a request to be quot;associatedquot; with the nonbinding agreement brokered by President Barack Obama at the December climate change summit in the Danish capital. But the delay in replying by the world's two fastest-growing polluters had raised concern the accord could be rendered meaningless, ... |
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