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EU Countries Warned to Send Emission Plans on Time (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-10-2006 at 12:00:10
| Reuters: Europe's environment chief threatened on Friday to get tough with EU countries that miss a deadline for submitting emissions allocation plans for 2008-2012 spelling out how much carbon dioxide their factories may emit. Each of the EU's 25 governments must send their plans to the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, by June 30. The plans will detail how the allocations of CO2, the main gas blamed for global warming, will be distributed between high-polluting plants such ... |
Rains End Kenya Drought but Damage Remains (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-10-2006 at 12:00:10
| Reuters: Seasonal rains have started in Kenya, ending a harsh months-long drought that killed scores of people and thousands of animals and hit key export crops, the Kenya Meteorological Department said on Friday. But the forecasters said it would take months before the effects of the drought were alleviated. "Now there's availability of water but there will be the delayed impact on agriculture," Peter Ambenje, assistant director at the Kenya Meteorological Department, told ... |
Palm Oil Biodiesel May Face Barriers In Europe (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-10-2006 at 12:00:10
| Dow Jones: Expectations in the palm oil industry for biodiesel sales to Europe may be premature, as trade barriers look likely to limit market access, a European biofuels industry official said. Instead, the industry should focus on supplying the bioenergy, or electricity generation, market, which holds more potential, said Edgare Kerkwijk, chief financial officer and head of Asia of Netherlands-based biofuels trader Biox Group B.V. However, the use of palm oil in the bioenergy sector ... |
Why we need to worry about global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-10-2006 at 12:00:10
| Mercury News: In 1995, a panel of the world's leading climate scientists declared that unless humanity cuts its use of coal and oil by 70 percent over the next hundred years, the world will suffer significant disruptions from global warming toward the end of this century. Just six years later, that same body, the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), declared that warming had ``already affected physical and biological systems'' in many areas of the world. The news that at ... |
Sea of evidence shows global warming set to wreak havoc (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-10-2006 at 12:00:10
| Statesman Journal: The 21st century could be the century of massive human population displacement. Mankind always has been on the move. And the 20th century had its share of wars, depressions and migration from one continent to another. But none of that is likely to compare with the potential impacts of global warming and the resulting rise in sea levels. Scientific research into global warming and climate change is pointing to an accelerated and irreversible rise in sea levels from the melting of polar ... |
United States: The state of clean air (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-10-2006 at 12:00:10
| LA Times: CALIFORNIANS UNDERSTAND BETTER than most, and have for longer than most, that there is not an infinite supply of fresh air. After L.A. became as famous for its smog as for its celebrities, California jumped ahead of other states and the federal government in taking steps to counter air pollution from cars, with its first regulations of vehicle emissions in 1959 – more than a decade before the founding of the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Now California is poised to lead the ... |
Xinjiang to build China's biggest wind farm (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-10-2006 at 12:00:10
| People's Daily: China's largest wind power farm will be built in Xinjiang's Turpan, according to sources with China Huadian Corporation, one of China's five power companies. Perhaps Turpan will not only be famous for its grapes, but also a ˇ°windmill forestˇ±. According to China Huadian, a contract for developing wind power has been signed by the power company and local administration in Turpan in late March. China Huadian will invest a total of 15 billion yuan to set up a ... |
Russia: Migrant Birds Put The Clock Forward (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-10-2006 at 12:00:10
| Innovation Reports: This year, spring is so late that the global climate warming is hardly believable. Is it applicable to Russia? Probably the fact is that weather cataclysms and anomalies are now occuring more and more frequently, and warm autumn gets balanced by frosts and cold spring? Phenologists from the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology of Rosgidromet (Hydrometeorological Committee), Russian Academy of Sciences, decided to find out what was happening in reality in European part of Russia, and ... |
Australia: Wind energy industry decries Govt stance (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-10-2006 at 12:00:10
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The wind energy lobby says Australia is falling behind the rest of the world in clean electricity because of a lack of Federal Government support. The Wind Energy Association says the Government should have increased the mandatory renewable energy target, which in six years has become fully subscribed. This means guaranteed sales for renewable energy into Australia's electricity grid will not be available to future projects unless the Government increases the target. The ... |
Wind farm issue put to test on Nantucket (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-10-2006 at 12:00:10
| Boston Globe: To Mao Rojas, building 130 windmills in the middle of Nantucket Sound would be like paving over the old-fashioned cobblestone streets on Nantucket with concrete. ''I have to say, I think it's a bad idea," said the 38-year-old contractor, who has lived on Nantucket for 14 years. ''It doesn't feel right. Not here." Popular wisdom, long accepted on both sides of the wind farm debate, says that Rojas's misgivings are widely shared by year-round residents of Nantucket. ... |
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