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Chinese PM rebuts criticism over Copenhagen role (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:49
| Guardian: The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, today launched a robust defence of his country's place on the world stage, including a sharp rebuttal of what he called quot;bafflingquot; criticism of his country's role at the Copenhagen summit. Acknowledging quot;serious disruptionquot; in ties with the US and rising criticism of Chinese assertiveness on the climate, currency, trade and other issues, the premier said he wanted to set the record straight. quot;Some say China has got more arrogant and ... |
China's Wen says not to blame for Copenhagen problems (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:49
| Reuters: China's Premier Wen Jiabao hit back on Sunday at critics who blamed China for the feeble outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference, saying he was not even invited to a key meeting he was accused of skipping. Wen's defensive comments on climate change focused on last year's contentious summit, but his prickly tone suggested China will remain a demanding negotiator in resumed negotiations aiming to reach a global climate change pact in Mexico at the end of this year. Last ... |
Kenya: Marking of Mau Borders Begins (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:48
| Daily Nation: Marking of the Mau Forest Complex boundaries started on Tuesday. It is after completion of the demarcation being undertaken by 12 government surveyors that settlers targeted in the third phase of the evictions will know whether they will be ejected from the country's largest water tower. The surveyors seek to mark forest blocks that form the great Mau complex. Lands PS Dorothy Angote and her Forestry counterpart Mohammed Maoche were joined by officials of the Interim ... |
Kenya: Fresh Round of Mau Evictions Set to Start (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:48
| Daily Nation: Preparations for the third phase of Mau Forest evictions are in top gear. Among those targeted are owners of huge tracts of land, many of whom have title deeds. The Interim Coordinating Secretariat, which is headed by Mr Noor Hassan Noor, did not, however, say when the evictions would begin. The third round follows last year's repossession of about 21,000 hectares during Phases I and II that involved South Western Mau and Eastern Mau Forest reserves. Mr Noor said in a ... |
Brazil Celebrates 72% Drop in Deforestation, Credits It to Green Arch (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:48
| Brazzil Mag: An area of 247 square kilometers (95 square miles) of Brazilian rainforest was cut down in the months of October and November 2009, which may seem like a lot, but it was a significant drop in Amazon deforestation. In fact, it was 72.5% less than in October and November 2008. For the minister of Environment, Carlos Minc, the numbers were good news. And they were based on satellite images from the National Space Research Institute's (Inpe) Real Time Deforestation Detection System ... |
United Kingdom: Greenpeace chief: breaking law justifiable in fight against climate change (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:48
| Telegraph: Kumi Naidoo said the organisation had no intention of scaling back its tactics as he compared protesters' actions to Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King saying they too broke the law. quot;In some ways we will probably intensify it because all the science is telling us that time is running out for this planet,quot; he said. However he emphasised that the group was quot;deeply committed to peacequot; and would not resort to violence. Last week 54 Greenpeace protectors ... |
Canada: Money spent on tar sands projects could decarbonise western economies (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:47
| Guardian: The £250bn cost of developing Canada's controversial tar sands between now and 2025 could be used to decarbonise the western economy by funding ambitious solar power schemes in the Sahara or a European wide shift to electric vehicles, according to a new report released today. The same amount of investment would also help the world to hit half of the Millenium Development Goals in the 50 least-developed countries, says the research from The Co-operative and conservation group, WWF, ... |
Toyota dismisses account of runaway Prius (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:47
| Associated Press: Toyota dismissed the story of a man who claimed his Prius sped out of control on the California freeway, saying Monday that its own tests found the car's gas pedal and backup safety system were working just fine. The automaker stopped short of saying James Sikes had staged a hoax last week but said his account did not square with a series of tests it conducted on the gas-electric hybrid. Toyota said its own testing found Sikes had rapidly pressed the gas and brakes back and ... |
EU backs U.N. climate report despite skepticism (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:46
| Reuters: U.N. climate scientists attacked by skeptics after they published an erroneous global warming forecast won support Monday from European Union environment ministers. Climate skepticism has gathered pace since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) admitted in January that its latest report in 2007 had exaggerated the pace at which Himalayan glaciers were melting. Last month, it also said it had overstated how much of the Netherlands was prone to sea ... |
As Climate Change debate wages on, scientists turn to Hollywood for help (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:45
| Christian Science Monitor: Keeping the public looped in on what scientists are discovering has never been easy. For one thing, the traditional explainers ndash; journalists ndash; can distort, hype, or oversimplify the latest breakthroughs. But the need to communicate science broadly and clearly has never been more urgent. Understanding science helps people know quot;where the truth speakers are on an issuequot; such as climate change, says Robert Semper, the executive associate director of the Exploratorium, a hands-on science ... |
Climate 'fix' could poison sea life (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:45
| BBC: Fertilising the oceans with iron to absorb carbon dioxide could increase concentrations of a chemical that can kill marine mammals, a study has found. Iron stimulates growth of marine algae that absorb CO2 from the air, and has been touted as a quot;climate fixquot;. Now researchers have shown that the algae increase production of a nerve poison that can kill mammals and birds. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they say this raises quot;serious concernquot; ... |
Denmark: Copenhagen activist trial: 'I can't see what evidence there is for the charges' (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:45
| Guardian: Two environmental activists appeared in court today accused of terrorism-related offences during the Copenhagen climate summit in December. Natasha Verco, an Australian honours student, and Noah Weiss, an American citizen who lives in Denmark, will face similar charges in a trial which is due to last all week. Verco, who has organised non-violent direct action in her native country and who has been part of the Climate Justice Action (CJA) network in the lead-up to the summit in ... |
Battle Over Calif. Climate Change Law Takes Shape as Warring Parties Reveal Funding Sources (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:45
| Greenwire: The campaign to put suspension of California's climate change law before voters in November started taking shape this week as warring parties revealed key sources of funding and traded barbs over the nature of their financial support. Opposing the climate law are a Texas-based refining company that operates in California and the anti-tax Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. In documents filed with the California Secretary of State, a group calling itself the California Jobs Initiative ... |
Corn ethanol an 'unattractive compliance option' for carbon mandates (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:45
| Greenwire: The use of corn ethanol in place of gasoline causes enough carbon emissions from land-use changes to cancel immediate tailpipe benefits, according to research published last week that confirms a controversial earlier study. The analysis examines a hypothesis by Timothy Searchinger and his co-authors published in 2008 in Science magazine that says using U.S.-grown corn for fuel triggers commodity price changes that ultimately lead to native ecosystems being destroyed, with a high ... |
Ocean fertilization may backfire (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-16-2010 at 02:00:45
| San Francisco Chronicle: For more than a dozen years, researchers have been fertilizing small patches of the world's oceans with iron to see if they could make the floating plants called phytoplankton flourish into massive blooms that would absorb carbon dioxide, the worst planet-warming greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. The idea was that the absorbed carbon would sink to the ocean bottom and remain there essentially forever. Many experts have hailed the idea as one surefire solution to the problem of global ... |
France: Paris talks keep up REDD momentum (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:47
| Carbon Positive: The first steps to kick start a global REDD scheme to halt deforestation and build on progress in Copenhagen have been taken at a meeting in Paris. A further $1 billion has been promised and a ten-nation steering group established to drive the implementation of a global avoided deforestation and forest carbon enhancement mechanism over the next three years. French President Nicola Sarkozy hosted the closed-door International Conference on the Major Forest Basins last Thursday, the ... |
Canada: Climate-change scientists feel 'muzzled' by Ottawa: Documents (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:47
| Canwest News Service: A dramatic reduction in Canadian media coverage of climate change science issues is the result of the Harper government introducing new rules in 2007 to control interviews by Environment Canada scientists with journalists, says a newly released federal document. quot;Scientists have noticed a major reduction in the number of requests, particularly from high profile media, who often have same-day deadlines,quot; said the Environment Canada document. quot;Media coverage of climate change science, ... |
Australia 0.7 degrees warmer over past 50 years: scientists (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:47
| Agence France-Presse: Australia's top science body said on Monday temperatures had risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius (0.44 Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years, describing the finding as quot;significant evidencequot; of climate change. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) head Megan Clark said warming had occurred across the country and during all seasons, with the last decade the hottest on record. quot;We are seeing significant evidence of a changing climate,quot; she told ABC public ... |
Indonesia: Greenpeace demands immediate end to forest destruction (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:46
| Antara: Greenpeace activists scaled the Ministry of Forestry building in South Jakarta and unfurled a giant banner reading quot;Plantations are not forestsquot;. Greenpeace feared that the inclusion of `plantations in the definition of forests, would lead to massive concealment of the ongoing emissions from peatland and forest destruction that has made Indonesia the world`s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, according to information on the Greeanpeace Southeast Asia`s official website, ... |
Climate report shows Australia getting warmer (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:46
| Reuters: Australia's top scientists on Monday released a quot;State of the Climatequot; report at a time of growing scepticism over climate change as a result of revelations of errors in some global scientific reports. The scientists said their monitoring and research of the world's driest inhabited continent for 100 years quot;clearly demonstrate that climate change is real.quot; quot;We are seeing significant evidence of a changing climate. We are warming in every part of the country during every season ... |
Sarkozy opens Paris deforestation summit (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:46
| RFI: French President Nicolas Sarkozy opens an international conference on deforestation in Paris on Thursday. Ministers from 30 heavily forested countries and 12 potential donor countries are attending the conference. quot;Forests are in danger,' France's Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo told a press Deforestation - the facts and figures About 13 million hectares of forest are destroyed every year; Six of the ten countries which have lost the most forest over the last five ... |
Australian cities must transform for population growth (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:46
| Reuters: Australia circa 2050, population 35 million, climate change induced rising sea levels have flooded the Gold Coast resort region, apartment blocks are now used to grow food and people commute in monorail pods above the sea. In another city, Australians live on floating island pods with apartments both below and above sea level, the population has shifted from land to the sea because of the sky-rocketing value of disappearing arable land. Climate change has also forced many ... |
Demise of Canadian climate research would impact global initiatives: Scientists (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:46
| Canadian Press: When government funding for a foundation dedicated to climate research dries up at the end of the year, scientists say the aftershocks of its departure will be felt not only in Canada but by researchers around the globe. The 2010 federal budget, unveiled this month, offered no new cash to the decade-old Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, a group that has been financing research on everything from melting glaciers to drought on the Prairies to the thawing ... |
Chinese dams blamed for Mekong's dwindling flows and fish stocks (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:46
| Vancouver Sun: Something is wrong with the mighty Mekong River, which frames the lives of 250 million people in six countries of Southeast Asia through which it flows and on which 60 million people depend directly for their livelihoods. But there are widely differing views on why the Mekong has shrunk to its lowest levels in 20 years, with only half its normal volume in some places, so that vital fish migrations have been disturbed and river shipping had to be halted. Some blame global ... |
Will fight for Pachauri: Ramesh (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:46
| India Blooms News Service: Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said the UPA government will back Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman RK Pachauri on the Himalayan glacier issue. quot;We are backing the IPCC chairman and will fight any attempt to unseat him,quot; Ramesh said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. He further said the Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), suggesting disappearance of Himalayan glaciers by 2035, was based on poorly ... |
Climate change beyond doubt, says Australian science chief (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:46
| Radio Australia: The head of Australia's peak science body has spoken out in defence of climate scientists, saying the link between human activity and climate change is beyond doubt. The head of the CSIRO, Dr Megan Clark, says the evidence of global warming is unquestionable, and in Australia it is backed by years of robust research. Dr Clark says climate records are being broken every decade and all parts of the nation are warming. quot;We are seeing significant evidence of a changing ... |
Energy bills to go up with tough EU clampdown on greenhouse gas emissions (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:45
| Times (UK): Energy bills will rise but thousands of jobs could be created in green industries under a European plan to impose the world's most stringent restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions. The Government will today support a proposal tabled in Brussels for a new, much more onerous EU target for cutting carbon dioxide even though other nations with higher emissions have failed to commit to reciprocal action. Ministers have abandoned their previous condition that the world must agree a ... |
Australia: Bureau of Meteorology backs up climate science data (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:45
| Radio Australia: The head of Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has come out in defence of the science which says that climate change is real. Director Greg Ayers says a century's worth of climate records show definitive evidence that the weather patterns are shifting and the planet is warming. There are more extremely hot days, fewer cold wet ones and the scientific observations confirm it's happening now. His comments follow similar remarks from Australia's peak scientific organisation, the CSIRO, in ... |
White House task force finds gaps in federal global warming strategy (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:45
| Olympian: Climate change has already wrought quot;pervasive, wide rangingquot; effects on the United States, and the federal government has quot;significant gapsquot; in its strategy to cope with those effects as they accelerate in the future, a White House task force will warn in a report on Tuesday. The report will call for better risk assessments, more thorough scientific research and improved coordination of federal and local governments in order to handle the impacts of warming temperatures, according to ... |
Senate climate bill to set utility cap-trade: senator (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:45
| Reuters: Compromise climate control legislation being developed in the U.S. Senate will use a cap-and-trade approach to reduce carbon emissions from utilities such as power plants, a key senator said on Monday. The senator, who asked not to be identified, added, quot;That's not to say there are not some details left to be resolved with utilities but the overall approach is that.quot; In an interview with Reuters, the senator said: quot;There's more certainty about cap and trade for utilitiesquot; than ... |
Amazon confusion: new research shows forest is resilient to drought, but is this the whole picture? (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:45
| Mongabay: A drought that happens once in a hundred years had little negative or positive effect on the Amazon rainforest according to a NASA funded study in Geophysical Research Letters. quot;We found no big differences in the greenness level of these forests between drought and non-drought years, which suggests that these forests may be more tolerant of droughts than we previously thought,quot; said Arindam Samanta, the study's lead author from Boston University. Employing NASA MODIS satellite ... |
Environmental groups call on Delmas to cancel shipment of illegally logged wood from Madagascar (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:45
| Mongabay: Pressure is building on the French shipping company Delmas to cancel large shipments of rosewood, which was illegally logged in Madagascar during the nation's recent coup. Today two environmental groups, Global Witness and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) called on Delmas to cancel the shipment, which is currently being loaded onto the Delmas operated ship named 'Kiara' in the Madagascar port of Vohemar. Global Witness and EIA have composed an open letter to Delmas' CEO, ... |
Climate activists threaten direct action campaign against Scotland's 'Kingsnorth' (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:45
| Guardian: Climate activists are predicting a campaign of direct action against a new coal-fired power station that could be the UK's first to fit carbon-capture technology. Campaigners say that if the proposed 1.6GW station in Ayrshire is approved, it will be the quot;new Kingsnorthquot;, a reference to E.ON's controversial coal-fired plant in Kent that sparked battles between protesters and police before E.ON finally shelved it. The warnings from Friends of the Earth (FoE) Scotland, WWF ... |
Canada: Jim Prentice reaches out amid climate backlash (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:45
| Globe and Mail: Environment Minister Jim Prentice wants to know what Canadians think about a proposed new strategy to ensure the environment is taken into consideration when the federal government develops policies and programs. His department has posted a consultation paper, Planning for a Sustainable Future: A Federal Sustainable Development Strategy for Canada, online here. The strategy proposes a new approach to monitoring and reporting using data from the Canadian Environmental Sustainability ... |
Poll charts rising U.S. environmental satisfaction (View Original Story)
Source: climateark.org Posted: 03-15-2010 at 07:00:44
| Reuters: Americans have grown more content about current environmental quality over the past year, though 53 percent still rate conditions as only fair to poor, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday. Forty-six percent of the 1,014 adults surveyed March 4 to 7 described current U.S. environmental conditions as excellent or good. That was up from 39 percent in March 2009 and was the highest positive environmental rating measured by Gallup since 2002. The percentage of Americans ... |
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