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Australia: Wind farm ban baffles (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 03:00:09
| Sunday Tasmanian: CLIMATE change from fossil fuels pose a greater threat to orange-bellied parrots than wind farms, says Roaring Forties chief executive Mark Kelleher. Mr Kelleher was responding to news that a Victorian wind farm has been blocked by the Federal Government because of its impact on the rare and threatened bird. Mr Kelleher said the decision put the $280 million Heemskirk wind farm project planned for Tasmania's West Coast in jeopardy. "It's all a bit confusing, the ... |
Canada: Climate change will test resiliency of our ecosystems (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 03:00:09
| Toronto Star: Eight years after Eastern Ontario's greatest disaster, the ice storm of 1998, injured trees are still dying. In the Thousand Islands area where I live, the trees, stripped of much of their canopies and having struggled through three, non-consecutive summers of drought, are stressed out. One by one, they've given up, no longer able to defend themselves against insects, disease or simply fatigue. This doesn't mean the forests are disappearing. Far from it. But as climate warming ... |
Gore urges moral crusade against global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 03:00:09
| Argus: 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 can't do that, and I am confident ... |
Politicians face reality of global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 03:00:09
| Argus: GLOBAL warming is finally making its way onto our nation's political stage. In fact, it is arrived. Lawmakers in both Sacramento and Washington, D.C., gave it headliner-billing last week by contemplating what, if anything, should be done about greenhouse gases and the environmental degradation many say it is spawned. But it's taken such environmental alarms as the melting of glaciers and ice caps, the doubling of Earth's surface undergoing drought and the disappearance of ... |
A Satellite for Solving the Polar Ice Mysteries (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 03:00:09
| Inter Press Service: The European satellite Cryosat 2, slated for launch in March 2009, will determine for the first time the rate of polar ice melt, which is a vital piece for understanding the changes the planet's climate is undergoing, mission director Volker Liebig told Tierramérica. The failed launch of the first Cryosat, in October 2005, proved a considerable setback for the world scientific community specialised in studying the impact of the greenhouse effect on the volume of ice at the poles. ... |
California standards will help everyone (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 03:00:09
| Salt Lake Tribune: Welcome evidence this week that the old bumper-sticker philosophy "Think globally, act locally" might have some legs. At least if by "local" you mean the state of California. And the 13-state region that includes Utah. The Bush administration continues to be deep in denial regarding the crucial issue of global climate change. But the good news is that more states are stepping in to fill the gap. Monday, the Democratic speaker of the California ... |
Canada: Kyoto hopes vanish (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 03:00:09
| Ottawa Sun: Canada can't meet its Kyoto targets, the new environment minister says, noting emissions are heading in the wrong direction. Rona Ambrose said yesterday the country's rising output of global-warming greenhouse gases is approaching 30% more than the 1990 benchmark identified in the agreement ratified under the former Liberal government. "My departmental officials and the department officials from Natural Resources have indicated that it is impossible -- impossible for ... |
Canada: Kyoto plan no good, minister argues (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 03:00:09
| Globe and Mail: As greenhouse gas emission levels in Canada climb, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose says it's time for the federal government to scrap its Kyoto plan and think about something new. "We're looking at all options," she said yesterday, making it clear the Conservatives think it will take a lot longer to clean up the air than the deadlines adopted by the previous Liberal government. High-level discussions among officials in the departments of Environment and Natural Resources ... |
South Africa moots green taxes in policy paper (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 03:00:09
| Reuters: South Africa is considering a range of green taxes to help the environment, according to a new policy paper released for public discussion by the National Treasury. The proposed reforms include possible taxes on coal consumption by the electricity industry or product taxes on goods such as batteries or packaging in a bid to reduce waste. The proposals are at the discussion phase and will be subjected to further investigation so it will take at least several months for any to ... |
Canada: Emissions on the rise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 03:00:09
| Edmonton Sun: Canada's new environment minister, Rona Ambrose, declared the Kyoto accord's pollution targets unattainable yesterday as the country's own emissions continue to head in the wrong direction. Ambrose said the country's rising output of global-warming greenhouse gases is approaching 30% more than the 1990 benchmark identified in the international agreement ratified under the former Liberal government. "My departmental officials and the department officials from Natural ... |
United Kingdom: Leading scientists attack Blair over nuclear power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 09:00:17
| Sunday Herald: TONY Blair's plan to resurrect nuclear power is going to be dealt a damaging blow by 40 of Britain's leading energy and climate scientists, the Sunday Herald can reveal. Engineers, experts and academics from Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Oxford and Cambridge will forcibly tell the Prime Minister this week that building more nuclear reactors is not the solution to global warming. Nuclear power is "a limited, inflexible, expensive and potentially dangerous energy source which ... |
United Kingdom: St Andrews to become first 'carbon neutral' university (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 09:00:17
| Scotsman: THE Auld Grey Toon is about to go green. But controversial plans to erect wind turbines across St Andrews have reignited the animosity between town and gown. Scotland on Sunday can reveal that university bosses want to make the royal burgh Britain's first carbon-neutral higher education campus, using a combination of wind power, solar panels and a biomass boiler to generate electricity and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. However, the proposals triggered outrage last night ... |
United Kingdom: MPs to reject new nuclear generators (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 09:00:17
| Observer: Tony Blair's hopes of approval for a new generation of nuclear power stations face a major setback from the influential Commons environmental committee, which he set up in 1997 to emphasise New Labour's green credentials. Following a series of hearings closely watched by Downing Street, the all-party Environmental Audit Committee will conclude that new nuclear stations will be of little or no short-term use in filling an anticipated electricity 'generation gap' in Britain. In a report ... |
Scientist says climate causes hurricanes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 09:00:18
| United Press International: Kerry Emanuel, a prominent hurricane scientist, theorizes that warming and cooling cycles in the Atlantic Ocean may have little to do with hurricanes. Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation is a widely held belief that decades-long cycles are responsible for storms. An active period ended in 1900, followed by relative calm until 1930, high activity until about 1970, and calm again until the recent period of higher-than-normal storm activity began in 1995, scientists say. Emanuel, ... |
Cold Columns and a Warmer Earth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-08-2006 at 09:00:18
| Washington Post: In the same week that Senate Energy Committee leaders held a day-long workshop on how to cap heat-trapping carbon emissions, the op-ed columns by George F. Will ["Let Cooler Heads Prevail," April 2] and Robert D. Novak ["Spinning Global Warming," April 3] are nothing more than attempts to divert public discourse away from the need to slow, stop and then reverse global warming pollution. There is an overwhelming consensus among scientists that global warming is ... |
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