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California Governor, Legislature Take Aim at Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Environment News Service: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to do battle with climate change. Today he directed the California Environmental Protection Agency to host a series of public presentations statewide to discuss recommendations to combat global warming in the state's Climate Action Team's report, released Monday. Presentations will be held in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Fresno and Humboldt County. "The debate is over. The science is in. The time to act is now. Global ... |
Chicago climate mart to try CO2 link with EU (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Reuters: A voluntary Chicago emissions market said on Tuesday it is trying to arrange a deal in which its members can use carbon dioxide emissions allowances from the European Union in "demonstration transfers" to meet commitments in its bourse. If such transfers take place, they could be the first trading link between greenhouse gas emitters in the United States and the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme, the world's first to trade heat-trapping gases that scientists believe ... |
The Cold, Hard Facts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Washington Post: For centuries people saw the North and South poles as frigid and alien lands beyond human reach. While the poles remain at the ends of the Earth, researchers now make regular journeys to the Arctic and Antarctic to meet the people who live there and monitor the extreme temperatures. What they have observed: The poles are melting. In fact, they are experiencing the most rapid environmental change in years, because of a phenomenon called global warming. For the past 150 ... |
'Major melt' for Alpine glaciers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| BBC: Europe's Alps could lose three-quarters of their glaciers to climate change during the coming century. That is the conclusion of new research from the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) in Zurich. Scientists base their conclusion on forecasts of temperature and precipitation changes in a new computer model of Alpine glaciation. Glaciers are crucial in providing fresh drinking water, and are also key for tourism, irrigation and hydro-power. There is ... |
Author stokes climate change debate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Union-Tribune: Tim Flannery believes no one can know the future with certainty, but the evidence is overwhelming that global warming will likely have devastating impacts. The time for debate and discussion has long since passed, he writes in his new book, "The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change." "If . . . we wait to see if an ailment is indeed fatal, we will do nothing until we are dead." A noted zoologist and director of the South Australian Museum, Flannery ... |
Chevy Tries a Write-Your-Own-Ad Approach, and the Potshots Fly (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| New York Times: At first glance, the video looks like a typical 30-second car commercial: a shiny sport utility vehicle careers down a country road lined with sunflower fields, jaunty music playing in the background. Then, white lettering appears on the screen: "$70 to fill up the tank, which will last less than 400 miles. Chevy Tahoe." The commercial is the product of one of the advertising industry's latest trends: user-generated advertising. On March 13, Chevrolet introduced a Web ... |
Scientist alters global warming stance (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Dallas Morning News: Noted scientist, explorer and author Tim Flannery began looking at global warming from a skeptic's perspective. Trained in disciplines that track changes over millions of years, he wasn't sure that a mere two centuries of fossil fuel use could alter the climate. Now he's sure. His latest book, The Weather Makers, lays out in detailed but easily accessible style his take on the scientific evidence for people's impact on the climate and what he sees as the needed responses. Dr. ... |
Utilities urge limits on CO2 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Bloomberg: U.S. utilities, breaking with their own trade association, urged Congress to impose mandatory restrictions on emissions of carbon dioxide, a gas that contributes to global warming. Exelon Corp. and Duke Energy Corp., the two largest U.S. utility owners, joined PNM Resources and Sempra Energy at a Senate hearing Tuesday to express support for creation of a federal program to set limits for U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. "Customers and shareholders need greater ... |
2-year global-warming study OK'd (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Salt Lake Tribune: Utah is teaming up with other governments to learn how much states in the West contribute to global warming now and can expect to in the future. The Western Regional Air Partnership, which includes Utah, voted unanimously Tuesday to move forward with a two-year program to quantify global-warming trends from 1990 to 2020. The partnership, a multiagency group that developed plans to clean up haze in the Grand Canyon, signed on with the nonprofit Center for Climate Strategies ... |
Bush Administration Wants to Bury More Nuclear Waste at Nevada Dump (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Associated Press: The Bush administration wants to bury tens of thousands of tons more nuclear waste at a dump planned for the Nevada desert, part of a package of new proposals meant to spur development of the contentious and long-delayed dump. Legislation disclosed Tuesday by Energy Department officials proposes lifting the 77,000-ton storage cap on the dump 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas and allowing as much waste as the mountain can hold. That figure has been estimated by federal environmental ... |
Mercury is rising, and what to do (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| News Today: The Meteorological department logs a record everyday. To many only after they see the temperature recording on TV or in the papers do they realise 'how hot yesterday was.' Yesterday was 'hotter than the day before, today the temperature is higher than what it was yesterday.' Tomorrow is for us to see, rather feel. The heat is competing with the intensity of how political leaders are gearing up for the elections. Come to think of it, it is just the beginning of summer, or has it begun ... |
UK offshore wind 'at crossroads' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| BBC: Offshore wind energy in the UK is unlikely to reach its full potential unless there is additional support from the government, a report shows. The study says the fledgling industry is at a "critical stage" and economic and environmental opportunities could be lost without further assistance. The research was commissioned by the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA). Ministers are currently reviewing the UK's energy strategy and will publish their findings ... |
United Kingdom: When green dreams meet political facts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Telegraph (UK): The Government is pistachio, not green, say the Tories. Tony Blair's environmental policy is "half-hearted, piecemeal and timid". The Tories, meanwhile, are determined to be greener than green. In two weeks, David Cameron is going to a research station in northern Norway to watch a glacier retreating. The ice is unlikely to move more than a millimetre under the Tory leader's glare, but this is meant to be one of the key indicators of global warming and Mr Cameron is ... |
Congress warming to climate regulation (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Oakland Tribune: In February last year, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy Committee sat down at Los Alamos National Laboratory for a private briefing on climate change. Was global warming real? Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., wanted to know. He turned for answers to a federal lab that he had gazed on admiringly since he was a boy. In a barrage of computer slides, Los Alamos scientists showed the 72-year-old Republican a planet tipping into uncertainty. Greenhouse gases were increasing in the ... |
Senate panel takes baby steps on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Reuters: A Senate panel on Tuesday heard diverging views from electric utilities on whether Congress should slap mandatory caps on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and who should foot the bill. Some utilities told the Senate Energy Committee they are eager for Congress to pass mandatory caps on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses so they can plan how to meet those goals. Others, especially those that rely heavily on coal, oppose mandatory caps on greenhouse gas ... |
The Big Melt Coming Faster Than Expected (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Inter Press Service: Beaches, islands and even continents are shrinking as ocean levels rise ever higher due to the accelerating meltdown of the world's glaciers and polar ice due to climate change. Many of the world's major cities, including Bangkok, London, Miami and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, according to a new analysis of current temperatures in the Arctic region published in the journal Science. By then, global temperatures will be an average of three degrees C. higher ... |
Antarctic birds 'breeding later' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| BBC: Antarctic seabirds may be breeding later in response to climate change, according to a scientific study. French researchers analysed records stretching back to the 1950s and think the breeding delays are linked to changes in East Antarctic sea ice. Bird species are arriving at their colonies an average of nine days later and laying eggs on average two days later than they did in the 1950s. Details appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. ... |
California takes aim at greenhouse gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Oakland Tribune: With a global warming summit coming to the Bay Area, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday embraced a task force report on how to cool the problem, and majority Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation to implement its suggestions. The California Climate Action Team report to the governor and lawmakers, aimed at meeting Schwarzenegger's landmark goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2020, was met with cheers by environmentalists and groans from business ... |
Canada, U.S. frosty over N.W. Passage (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| United Press International: Global warming is leading to chilled relations between Canada and the United States over accessibility to the thawing Northwest Passage. John Falkingham, chief of ice forecasting for the Canadian Ice Service, said satellite photos show the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean had been shrinking by about 3-4 percent each decade, but the melt has accelerated to a rate of about 8 percent per decade since 2000. While the United States calls the passage an international strait that is ... |
Energy Plan Is Weak, Obama Says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Chicago Tribune: Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) delivered a blistering attack on President Bush's environmental policies Monday, saying that the president's recent plan to end the nation's reliance on oil was "not a serious effort" and that the world faces potential devastation if it doesn't address worsening climate changes. Speaking in Chicago at an Associated Press luncheon, Obama said the U.S. must invest more in renewable fuels, encourage the coal industry to reduce carbon emissions and ... |
Fueling Our Addiction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Tom Paine: The final fuel economy standards released last week by the Bush administration fail to break America's oil addiction. Higher fuel economy and good jobs come from using better technology. By failing to require Detroit to make significantly cleaner, more efficient vehicles to compete with Toyota, the Bush administration is giving the Big Three enough rope to hang themselves. The Bush administration ignored the opportunity and obligation to cut America's oil dependence by requiring ... |
Study: Alpine glaciers may nearly vanish (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| United Press International: The World Glacier Monitoring Service is warning Europe's Alps might lose three-quarters of its glaciers to global warming during the coming century. Scientists at the Zurich-based service say they base their conclusion on forecasts of temperature and precipitation changes in a new computer model of Alpine glaciation, the BBC reported Tuesday. The Consultative Body on Climate Changes, a national Swiss scientific organization based in Berne, reportedly says summers are likely ... |
China: Tax on Chopsticks Shows Environmental Concern (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Inter Press Service: A new five percent tax on disposable wooden chopsticks is a sure sign that the Chinese government is now ready to address growing charges that its rapid economic development is impacting the global environment. Newly announced taxes on vehicles with engines of more than two litre capacity are aimed at calming fears that rapid proliferation of private cars would soon make China's contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rival that of the United States -- the world's biggest ... |
Time to hit the panic button (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| CNN: On the premise that spring is too beautiful for a depressing topic like Iraq, I thought I'd take up a fun subject -- global warming. Time magazine warns us to "Be Worried. Be Very Worried." On the other hand, my sister is on the Global Warming Committee of the Unitarian Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They go around replacing old light bulbs with more energy-efficient models. My money's on my sis. It's a good thing the phrase "the tipping point" became a ... |
US team sees busy hurricane season, no record (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Reuters: The 2006 hurricane season will not be as ferocious as last year when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and other storms slammed Florida and Texas, but will still be unusually busy, a noted U.S. forecasting team said on Tuesday. The Colorado State University team led by Dr. William Gray, a pioneer in forecasting storm probabilities, said it expected 17 named storms to form in the Atlantic basin during the six-month season, which officially begins on June 1. Nine of the ... |
Bush Avoiding Action On Climate Catastrophe, Obama Says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Associated Press: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is laughing off questions about whether he'd like a place on the next Democratic presidential ticket. But he did say said Monday his party should stress energy independence, education improvement and science investment in the 2008 presidential campaign. Obama was guest speaker at The Associated Press' annual luncheon, held on the opening day of the Newspaper Association of America's convention. In his speech, he accused President George W. Bush ... |
Clean air shouldn't involve politics (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Albany Times Union: In these days of rising energy prices and the looming shadow of global warming, just about everyone supports energy efficiency and renewable energy. Even President Bush has started to talk about these solutions to our addiction to oil. So why have the leaders of the New York Legislature included language in the state budget bill that could jeopardize the future of successful clean energy programs, as well our clean air and energy security? Why is there a fight brewing in Albany about ... |
Canada: Expert sees Alberta water shortage looming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| CBC: The Canadian Prairies are likely to face a severe drought within the next couple of decades, and Alberta should be limiting the number of people who move there, according to a report by two Canadian experts on water. Dr. David Schindler, an ecology professor at the University of Alberta, says future droughts will likely be far worse than the ones that turned the prairies into a dust bowl in the 1930s. He says Alberta's booming economy and rapid growth have made it the province ... |
Australia: Plantation timber industry plays down greenhouse findings (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The plantation timber industry has played down the implications of a recent report which shows for the first time that plantation trees emit a leading greenhouse gas. A report in the international science journal Nature suggests that plantation trees release a small amount of methane into the environment. Bob Pearce from the Forest Industries Federation says even if the research is correct, plantation trees remain the best solution to greenhouse gas problems. "It's ... |
US lawmakers see ethanol as force in new farm bill (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 12:00:11
| Reuters: The upcoming overhaul of the U.S. farm program will put more emphasis on developing renewable fuels as a way to boost farm income, leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee said on Tuesday. Chairman Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Republican, said he wanted to "greatly expand" the Agriculture Department's grant and loan programs for research into renewable energy and to finance projects like ethanol plants. "I think this (energy) is going to be one of the key things ... |
New case for regulating CO2 emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 09:00:11
| Christian Science Monitor: The nation's big power companies are creating smaller amounts of gases that cause smog and acid rain than they were 15 years ago, but they're producing more greenhouse gases. That's the conclusion of a joint industry- environmentalist report, released Wednesday, which offers a ray of hope in the battle against global warming. If the American electric industry can cut its air pollution in response to toughened standards, the reasoning goes, then strict controls on greenhouse ... |
Do nothing? You cannot be serious (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 09:00:11
| Times (UK): "WHAT WOULD Jesus Drive?" is my favourite American bumper sticker, an unbeatable combination of earnestness and hypocrisy. If Jesus is a New Puritan, He presumably pedals a bicycle, revelling in slowing everybody down. If He is a Crunchy, he must drive a Prius, in an unbleached hemp shirt. If He's an eco-apocalypsist, He's on the hard shoulder with an "End is Nigh" placard, ignored by everybody. It is fashionable to say that the doom-mongers have tapped into the superstitions of a ... |
Canada set to announce biofuel strategy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 09:00:11
| Reuters: The Canadian government will soon announce a biofuel strategy that will mandate that all gasoline sold by 2010 must contain 5 percent biofuel, a renewable energy source, Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl said on Wednesday. "I will be rolling out our biofuel strategy in the days ahead and I'm working with Environment Minister (Rona) Ambrose to ensure that farmers actually benefit from our commitment to 5 percent biofuels," Strahl told a news conference in ... |
India: Climate change leaves adverse impact on wheat produce (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 09:00:11
| Hindustan Times: AN UNEXPECTED change in climate has adversely affected the yield of wheat crop here in the entire eastern Uttar Pradesh this year. Agricultural scientists believe that the total yield would fall around 25 to 30 per cent than expected this year. As per a survey conducted by the scientists of the Institute of Agricultural Scientists of Banaras Hindu University in various parts of eastern UP such as Varanasi, Chandauli, Mirzapur, Azamgarh, Jaunpur and Ghazipur etc., the yield of wheat ... |
Scientists in dispute over carbon curbs - magazine (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 09:00:11
| Reuters: A row has broken out between scientists seeking a way to bring more nations into the carbon curbing fold after the first phase of the Kyoto Treaty expires in 2012, New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday. On one side is a plan that would in effect set a global target for each nation's per capita carbon output, on the other is one that rates a country's carbon output against its biocapacity or geophysical ability to absorb it. The latter, by Geoff Hammond at the University of ... |
Earth's Ice Melting Under Blanket of Greenhouse Gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 09:00:11
| Environment News Service: Large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane will be released into the atmosphere in the near future, according to a Dutch scientist speaking today at the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2006) meeting in Vienna. He said global warming could lead to melting of the arctic tundras, setting free large volumes of methane, which would in its turn increase global warming. Methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide said Dr. J. (Ko) van Huissteden of Vrije Universiteit in ... |
Canada's New Government Cold Shoulders Climate Change Action (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 09:00:12
| Environment News Service: In office just two months, the Conservative government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper has begun disassembling Canada's Climate Change Program, according to the Sierra Club of Canada. All climate change programs announced in Action Plan 2000 have not been renewed and Natural Resources Canada has begun laying off staff, the conservation group points out. "Apparently, the federal government has launched a stealth campaign against action on climate change," said John ... |
Maryland to Join Eastern States in Regulating Carbon Dioxide (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 09:00:12
| Environment News Service: The Maryland General Assembly gave final approval Friday to the Maryland Heathy Air Act, which requires the state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a group of eastern states committed to regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants. CO2 is the most prevalent greenhouse gas linked to global warming. After a two-year campaign led by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and a coalition of other environmental, faith, and health groups, the so-called ... |
Canadian PM playing with fire on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-05-2006 at 09:00:12
| Halifax Chronicle Herald: Around this time last year, I examined the "greenness" of the 2005 federal budget. Despite some quibbles, most environmental groups agreed on one thing – that the feds had finally got it right in terms of climate change. It had taken over a decade of campaigning and consistent polls showing that the majority of Canadians wanted action on global warming until, finally, the tools were set in place to move forward. This '05 spending plan backed up Canada's fundamental role at ... |
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