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Air trends 'amplifying' warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 12:00:11
| BBC: Reduced air pollution and increased water evaporation appear to be adding to man-made global warming. Research presented at a major European science meeting adds to other evidence that cleaner air is letting more solar energy through to the Earth's surface. Other studies show that increased water vapour in the atmosphere is reinforcing the impact of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists suggest both trends may push temperatures higher than believed. But ... |
Gore says U.S. must take lead on climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 12:00:11
| Alameda Times-Star: Al Gore brought corporate executives and environmentally minded investors roaring to their feet Thursday with multimedia images of an overheating planet and a call for Americans to reclaim their "moral authority" by tackling global warming. "This is really not a political issue, it is disguised as a political issue," Gore said. "It is a moral issue, it is an ethical issue. If we allow this to happen, we will destroy the habitability of the planet. We ... |
The heat on Ecuador (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 12:00:11
| Salon: When Rosita Ramos was a child, she heard elders tell stories about the snow-capped mountain that towered above their Ecuadorean village. "Mama Cotacachi" was a beautiful, pale-skinned woman with glowing white-blond hair. She seduced Imbabura, the older mountain to the south, marrying him and forcing him to give up his philandering ways. Inside her skirt was a storehouse of grain, which she dispensed little by little to the lucky villagers who lived at her feet, never giving too ... |
Tories will neither kill nor live up to Kyoto (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 12:00:11
| Globe and Mail: The Conservative government will not pull out of the international Kyoto agreement on climate change even though it has no intention of meeting the deal's targets. The Tories have criticized the Kyoto Protocol for years, and during the election said they would replace Liberal spending on the environment with a "made-in-Canada" solution that would produce concrete reductions in emissions. The word "Kyoto" does not appear in the party's environmental ... |
Ecuador: When the water runs out (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 12:00:11
| Salon: Lined up behind glass and concrete on a cliffside southeast of Quito, five giant hydroelectric turbines at the Guangopolo plant lay idle. Oversize pastel-colored tangles of steel tubes, built to transform liquid into energy, sit empty -- in recent years there simply hasn't been enough water to pump through them. As a result, production of the vital energy that helps light up Ecuador's nearby capital city has slowed to a trickle. "In the past 30 years, we've lost 40 to 50 percent of ... |
Will feds squash states air-quality standards? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 12:00:11
| Sacramento Bee: EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson is well aware that Californias trend-setting environmental laws have helped clean up cars and motor fuels nationwide, providing benefits for the entire country. Johnson now has a chance to let California lead again. Whether he will – or will be allowed to – is another matter indeed. To combat global warming, California approved rules two years ago requiring auto manufacturers to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their vehicles. Under ... |
An ill wind from Congress (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 12:00:11
| Boston Globe: THE COUNTRY'S most important renewable energy project is in danger of being sandbagged in Congress. An amendment to a spending bill for the US Coast Guard would grant veto power over the plan for a wind farm off Cape Cod to Governor Romney, an outspoken opponent. As important as funding for the Coast Guard is, Congress should reject this bill and stop playing games with the nation's hopes of weaning itself from fossil fuels and the greenhouse gases they emit. The Cape Wind plan for ... |
Laurie David: Curb Your Energy Use (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 12:00:11
| ABC News: Laurie David is a force of nature, and not just because she puts up with her husband, Larry David of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." She is a tireless advocate of the environment, which she discusses in her new documentary, "Too Hot Not To Handle," about the threat of global warming. David said becoming a mother revved up her environmental activism. "Well of course, when you have kids, you become more protective and you think about how to give them the ... |
Canada: Tories feel heat on Kyoto (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 12:00:11
| Canadian Press: Internal federal documents indicate that one of the Tories' main proposals to cut greenhouse-gas emissions will be far more costly than anything in the Liberal plan they're dismantling. The proposal, included in the Conservatives' election platform, would give public transit riders a federal tax credit to cover the cost of their monthly transit passes. Internal documents provided to The Canadian Press suggest that such a measure would increase transit use by only five to seven ... |
Brazil: Brazil seals biggest carbon credit deal with KfW (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 12:00:11
| Reuters: A Brazilian firm on Thursday sealed the world's biggest carbon credit contract registered so far for an existing pro-environment project. Econergy International, the New York-based clean energy investment, management and consulting group which is responsible for the deal, said local company Biogas's project to generate electricity from garbage sold carbon credits worth 1 million tonnes in reduced gas emissions to German state development bank KfW [KFW.UL]. The credits will be ... |
Expert says carbon cap could revive nuke power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 12:00:11
| Oakland Tribune: As electric utilities look at new power plants for the next 30 years, overwhelmingly they are plowing money into burning pulverized coal – cheap, abundant domestically and full of carbon dioxide. Some of the 132 new coal-fired plants proposed for the United States will not be built, but federal energy analysts are predicting the new plants will boost greenhouse-gas emissions for the electric industry 43 percent by 2030. Ceres, a coalition of environmentally minded investors ... |
Kyoto target 'impossible' for Canada (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 08:42:54
| Canadian Press: OTTAWA – Environment Minister Rona Ambrose says Canada must set more realistic targets for cutting greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol, but she didn't explain how that could be done without renegotiating the agreement. Experts say it is impossible to reopen the existing deal, worked out in 1997, but it would be possible for Ambrose to press the new Conservative government's concerns when she presides over the next round of Kyoto talks that open in Bonn on April ... |
Cape Wind project hits roadblock in Congress (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 08:42:54
| Associated Press: A measure that would permit the governor of Massachusetts to veto the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm was approved by a key congressional panel, dealing a serious blow to project supporters. The amendment targeting the Cape Wind Associates project was included in the $8.7 billion Coast Guard reauthorization bill that a House-Senate conference committee approved Thursday. Lawmakers have been hashing over the bill for several weeks under a shroud of secrecy. Cape Wind ... |
Congress near blocking Mass. offshore wind farm (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 08:42:54
| Reuters: Opponents of a plan to build the first offshore U.S. wind farm in Nantucket Sound off Massachusetts were a step closer on Friday to blocking the $900 million project. Negotiators in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate agreed late on Thursday to give Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney the power to block a plan by Cape Wind Associates LLC to put 130 giant wind turbines near the resort islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Romney, a Republican sometimes touted as a ... |
Living low: the climate change view from Tuvalu (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 08:42:54
| SciDev.Net: Tuvalu – a remote island nation in the Pacific – may seem an unlikely scientific battleground. But this tiny developing nation is on the front line of climate change. If sea levels rise as much as many climate change researchers predict, Tuvalu could one day disappear. The country's topography makes it vulnerable: the highest land is just five metres above sea level. This year, Tuvalu has had some of its highest ever tides – nearly 1.5 metres above the average. A sea level ... |
Maryland joins states breaking with Bush on CO2 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 08:42:54
| Washington Post: Maryland has become the eighth state to join a pact seeking mandatory limits on carbon dioxide emissions, the governor's office said on Friday. President George W. Bush opposes forcing emitters to limit production of the gases that most scientists believe cause global warming. He favors voluntary methods of reducing them. Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, a Republican, signed an act on Thursday that requires the state to join the pact, called the Regional Greenhouse Gas ... |
US to Grant US$50 Million For Fuel Cell Research (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 08:42:54
| Reuters: The US government plans to award US$50 million over the next three years in research grants to advance hydrogen fuel cell technology, US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Thursday. Bodman said the department will begin soliciting research proposals from private companies, laboratories and universities later this month on a variety of issues in fuel cell research, including materials that could be used to store hydrogen and that could enable hydrogen-powered vehicles to travel more ... |
Gore tells Oakland crowd US must take lead on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-07-2006 at 08:42:54
| Associated Press: Former Vice President Al Gore says the United States must take the lead on global warming. Gore spoke to a crowd in Oakland last night. He says global warming is an ethical issue and that America can reclaim its moral authority by tackling the problem. Gore says most people don't realize that humans are damaging global ecology. Gore was speaking to members of Ceres. Ceres is an organization of companies, investors and environmentalists pressing for greener ... |
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