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How to fly around the world without costing the earth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Independent: The easiest way to begin offsetting personal carbon emissions is to visit one of the growing number of websites devoted to redressing the environmental balance. These provide a ready reckoning of the amount of CO2 your lifestyle is responsible for producing. The three key polluting areas are air travel, car use and the amount of energy consumed by your home. Starting with air travel, the green traveller or environmentally aware business is invited to scroll through a menu, not ... |
GM hydrogen car has to step on gas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Weekend Australian: GENERAL Motors has said it needs to give a green light to heavy investment to develop a mass-market, hydrogen-powered car within the next 18 months to ensure the US car maker - struggling with a financial crisis - does not get left behind on clean vehicles. Larry Burns, head of research and planning at GM, said the car maker needed to move fuel cell propulsion from the laboratory to full development well before its 2010 deadline for proving that the technology was commercially viable. ... |
Australia: Push for unified wind farm code (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Weekend Australian: NATIONAL guidelines on the placement of wind farms are set to be negotiated between the federal and states governments. The guidelines will have a major effect on the growing wind farm industry which is investing $3 billion during the next few years. The move for tighter controls, which is strongly promoted by federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell, has received new impetus from the NSW Government's announcement it will develop rules to assess wind farm applications. ... |
China crucial to climate debate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| CNN: They could be the names of the family next door: Katrina, Larry, Rita, Jolina and Glenda. But as the call-signs of some of the most devastating hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones the world has seen in the past 12 months, they are just one manifestation of a global weather system that seems in destructive disarray. From floods and drought in China, landslides in the Philippines, blizzards across Europe, wildfires in the Americas, vanishing islands in the Pacific, and melting ... |
Pacific Ocean getting warmer, more acidic (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| United Press International: Testing by U.S. scientists finds that the Pacific Ocean is getting warmer and more acidic, while the amount of oxygen is decreasing. Scientists with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and the University of Washington say the ocean is becoming increasingly acidic because of its absorption of carbon dioxide, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Friday. "You don't have to believe in climate change to believe that ... |
Regional global warming plan urged (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Toledo Blade: Great Lakes governors and premiers need to adopt a regional strategy to combat global warming before its effects on the world's largest source of fresh surface water become more acute, a Great Lakes author-activist told about 100 people at Maumee Bay State Park yesterday. Dave Dempsey, former Michigan Gov. James Blanchard's environmental adviser, said the $20 billion Great Lakes restoration plan that 1,500 people spent a year writing for President Bush will be meaningless if the ... |
21 senators press EPA on emissions standards (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| ERICA WERNER: Twenty-one senators called on the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to let California implement stricter restrictions on vehicle emissions, which other states could then enact. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said this week that new gas mileage rules would pre-empt state emissions standards, leading to fears that EPA would refuse to give California the waiver it wants to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. Because California began ... |
United Kingdom: Carbon emissions third year on the rise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Edie: Britain's carbon emissions have been rising for the last three years, with an overall increase of about 2% since Labour came to power, Government figures released on Thursday reveal. The news closely follows a Government announcement that the UK will most likely miss its own 2010 carbon cut target of 20% (see climate strategy story), prompting criticism over insufficient emission-curbing measures from environmentalists and rival parties. Last year, emissions of carbon dioxide ... |
Dramatic warming of air over Antarctica (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| LA Times: In the winter sky over Antarctica, scientists have detected a vast cap of steadily warming air, in the first sign that record levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may be trapping heat above the ice sheets of the South Pole. The temperature of the winter air over Antarctica has been rising at a rate three times faster than the world as a whole, the researchers reported Thursday in the journal Science. By analyzing 30 years of high-altitude-weather-balloon records, ... |
Drought threatens disaster for wetland birds (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Independent: Drought is hitting wetland birds harder than ever before, with waders in south-east England facing their worst-ever breeding season. Species such as lapwing, redshank and snipe, all in decline in England's lowlands, are scouring near parched wetlands for remnants of pools and marshes where they can nest and bring up young. Phil Burston, a senior officer at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds RSPB, said: " Drought in the South-east is severely affecting some of our ... |
India: Emissions trading earns India dollars (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| United Press International: The developed world's problems are becoming an opportunity for India to earn money. Industry sources say that with more than 250 carbon-emission reduction projects under way, India is not only a leader in emission-saving projects, but is also emerging as one of the largest suppliers of carbon credits in the world. The country expects about $3.8 billion of investments in carbon-emission reduction projects by 2012 and hopes to earn more than $2 billion a year by selling carbon emissions ... |
Geopolitics of Oil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Pioneer Press: Oil prices inched Thursday toward last summer's record high amid concerns of supply disruptions, and energy forecasters think that volatile geopolitics and declining oil production will keep prices up for years. Oil reached $67.15 a barrel Thursday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, up 70 cents to a two-month high, amid concerns over disruptions in Nigerian oil production and a possible political showdown over the nuclear ambitions of Iran, the second-biggest exporter in the ... |
United Kingdom: Giving micropower to the people (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| BBC: Countering climate change should begin at home, says Alan Knight in The Green Room this week. A hands-on approach to energy generation, he argues, gives people a sense of empowerment and the impetus to reduce their environmental footprints. One London woman said: "Electricity, well it comes from that little meter... I have no idea where it comes in from before that... I've never thought about it Over the last year, the problems of climate change have loomed larger than ever on ... |
Scientists Scramble to Find Alternatives to Banned Pesticide (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Associated Press: Since the 1940s, methyl bromide has served farmers well as a stunningly lethal fumigant, killing off pests such as fungi, weeds, insects and rodents. But amid requirements that farmers stop using it, University of Georgia students are joining an international effort to find an earth-friendly alternative. Alex Cisnos, a plant pathologist, and other researchers at the university's Coastal Plain Experiment Station in south Georgia have been testing an alternative fumigant, ... |
Clinton urges entrepreneurs to fight global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Associated Press: Former President Clinton urged a convention crowd of entrepreneurs Friday to help fight America's "stubborn refusal" to face up to the threat of global climate change. "The only existing threat to the entire future of our country and our planet is not terrorism," Clinton said. "But the one thing that could take us out is our stubborn refusal to deal with the problems of global warming." Clinton dwelled on the environmental issue in the closing ... |
How to buy food that doesn't cost the Earth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| Independent: Many people would love to buy food that is totally organic, locally produced, fairly traded or the ultimate result of an animal's cruelty-free life, but the extra expense often means shoppers end up with little more than a guilty conscience and a boot full of Tesco bags. Most supermarkets have woken up to their customers' increasing interest in the way their food is produced, by offering organic and fairly traded options. These are typically more expensive, but this does not seem to ... |
Scotland vows to cut its greenhouse gas footprint (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| 24dash: Scotland is aiming at leading the way in Britain's quest to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The Scottish Executive has claimed that the country will exceed its UK climate change contribution by reducing carbon by an additional one million tonnes in 2010. Scotland's new Climate Change Programme Changing our Ways, published today, quantifies for the first time in carbon terms the contribution Scotland must make towards UK commitments to reduce greenhouse gases. The Scottish ... |
Sempra Drops Coal Power Projects (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 12:00:15
| LA Times: Sempra Energy said it abandoned plans to build coal-fired power plants in Nevada and Idaho in the face of strong opposition. Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of the San Diego-based energy company, said it would instead concentrate on storage facilities for liquefied natural gas and pipelines in Mexico, Louisiana and Texas. Sempra Energy also is the parent of Southern California Gas Co. and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. Sempra had proposed building a 1,200-megawatt coal-fired ... |
United Kingdom: Blair blocked plan to cut emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 09:00:11
| Independent: Tony Blair personally frustrated measures to cut Britain's emissions of the pollution that causes global warming, despite repeatedly calling for action, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. The Prime Minister did not back proposals from his Environment Secretary, Margaret Beckett, that aimed to get the Government's strategy to fight climate change back on track. As a result, ministers had to admit last week that they would not meet a target, which was set in three election ... |
United Kingdom: Pollution threat as flights hit 500m a year (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 09:00:11
| Observer: Britons are set to take more than half a billion flights a year by 2030, with thousands of homes across the country facing greater increases in noise and pollution than the government has forecast. The air transport White Paper just two years ago predicted that passenger numbers would double by 2030. Now at least 10 airports plan to handle a growth even higher than that. Ministers will also reveal tomorrow that politicians and civil servants fly the equivalent of 100,000 trips ... |
United Kingdom: Blair's head stuck in the clouds on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 09:00:11
| Sunday Herald: Thom Yorke recently said that he finds dealing with the New Labour spin-machine on the subject of climate change somewhat nausea-inducing. The rock star – whose Kid A album predicts a coming ice age – recently rejected an invitation to visit Downing Street to discuss climate change in his capacity as ambassador for the green charity Friends of the Earth. He dismissed Tony Blair as a man with "no environmental credentials". Given Labour's double standards on the environment – ... |
United Kingdom: Soon we'll pay the true price of air travel (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 09:00:11
| Observer: Scarcely audible amid the storm of financial scandal last week was the sound of Labour overshooting its target on greenhouse gas emissions. The Climate Change review, a report on progress towards greener government, evaporated over Westminster like a vapour trail behind a jumbo jet. In the review, the government admitted it would fail to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent by 2010 - a pledge in every manifesto since 1997. To be fair, Britain has a greener record than most ... |
United Kingdom: Church denounces global warming but invests in oil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 09:00:11
| Times (UK): THE Archbishop of Canterbury has been accused of hypocrisy for lecturing politicians on global warming while the Church of England reaps millions of pounds from shares in oil firms. Rowan Williams warned last week that climate change was a "huge moral problem" that could cause billions of deaths. He said politicians who reject changes will face "a heavy responsibility before God". He added that the shortage of fuel supplies for high-fuel economies – "heavy-car-using economies ... |
Australia: Stop polluting: World Bank (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 09:00:11
| Sunday Times: AUSTRALIA should be doing more to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, according to the World Bank. In its latest regional update, the agency said the East Asia and Pacific region was vulnerable to natural disasters, the intensity of which could be increased by climate change. The World Bank's chief economist for East Asia and the Pacific, Homi Kharas, said the region should be extremely concerned about climate change and countries should be working towards ... |
What you can do right now to slow down global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 09:00:11
| Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: It's no wonder the scale of climate change can feel overwhelming. An ice sheet the size of Rhode Island melts into the sea off Antarctica. A blizzard of disease-carrying insects reaches high-elevation cities for the first time. Whole islands in the Pacific are ready to disappear beneath the waves. While there is much to be done, an important part of the solution to global warming may be right in your kitchen. Last month, the Ad Council and Environmental Defense are ... |
Beetles Aid in Global Warming Research (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 09:00:11
| Associated Press: Beneath the lids of large coolers, thousands of tiny bugs devour the desiccated flesh of mammal carcasses destined for the vast specimens collection at the University of Alaska's Museum of the North. As they gnaw away, the stench is overwhelming, a rancid sweetness that stings the eyes and lungs, clinging to hair and clothes like a vile perfume. This is the smell of global warming research at work. The dermestid beetles have been used for decades by museums to clean bones ... |
Canada: Ottawa stops funding One Tonne Challenge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 09:00:11
| Globe and Mail: The new Conservative government in Ottawa has abruptly stopped funding groups across the country that have been promoting the One Tonne Challenge, the quirky program to persuade Canadians to do their bit to help the environment by cutting their greenhouse gas emissions. The Conservatives are also reviewing about 100 other climate-change programs set up by the previous Liberal government. The One Tonne Challenge is likely the best known of the dozens of federal government ... |
United Kingdom: The Prince of Emissions: Charles fails to offset environmental damage caused by 9,000-mile tour (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2006 at 09:00:11
| Independent: 'We should be treating the whole issue of climate change with a far greater degree of priority' - Prince Charles, 27 October 2005 Round trip to India via Egypt and Saudi Arabia: 9,272 miles, 42 tons of C02 emissions, no carbon offset - His itinerary this week Prince Charles arrived home from a two-week foreign tour last night to criticism over his failure to take action to offset the environmental damage done by his private jet during his 9,000-mile odyssey to the ... |
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