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Japan: Ministry relaxes wind power rules (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| Yomiuri Shimbun: The Environment Ministry has decided to ease restrictions on wind power generation within national parks and promote clean energy supplies in an effort to combat global warming, government officials said Friday. To date, the ministry has given permission for a limited number of wind power projects inside national parks, but has applied strict regulatory criteria under the National Parks Law to keep natural landscapes intact and ensure wild fowl do not accidentally hit the wind ... |
Al Gore YouTube Spoof Not So Amateurish (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| ABC News: A tiny little movie making fun of Al Gore, supposedly made by an amateur filmmaker, recently appeared on the popular Web site YouTube.com. At first blush, "An Inconvenient Spoof" seemed like a scrappy little homemade film poking fun at Gore and his anti-global warming crusade. In the movie, Gore is seen boring an army of penguins with his lecture and blaming global warming for everything, including Lindsay Lohan's thinness. But when the Wall Street Journal ... |
Going, Going, Green (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| Washington Post: If skyrocketing oil prices, the booming world population and the threat of global warming hadn't already grabbed people's attention, last week's record power demand and air-quality warnings certainly served as a reminder that the world faces pressing questions about its climate and energy use. While "doing something for the environment" once meant tossing a newspaper in a recycling bin or buying organic lettuce, now nearly every aspect of daily life -- from the toilets we ... |
Plankton to Provide Clean New Oil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| Inter Press Service: system for producing energy from marine algae, to replace fossil fuels and reduce pollution, has been developed by Spanish researchers and will be operational in late 2007, according to its backers. Bernard Stroiazzo-Mougin, president of Biofuel Systems SL (BFS), the Spanish company developing the project, told IPS that "the system will produce massive amounts of biopetroleum from phytoplankton, in a limited space and at a very moderate cost." On pointing out ... |
Poll: Bush Weak on the Environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| United Press International: U.S. President George Bush's handling of environmental issues was disapproved of by 56 percent of respondents in a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll. When a similar poll was conducted in 2001, Bush had a 41 percent disapproval rating. More than 70 percent of respondents said global warming is a serious problem, and 58 percent said the Bush administration was doing too little to reduce it, the Times said Friday. Although the Bush administration has advocated increased ... |
The Impact of Global Warming On IT (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| IT Management: Most people who acknowledge the reality of global warming tend to focus on its environmental and meteorological effects. But rising temperatures also can have a serious impact on modern computing technology, creating a number of physical and economic challenges for organizations and networks. Excessive heat can wreak havoc on equipment and personnel. Most server rooms and data centers have air conditioning (AC) units* installed to reduce temperatures to acceptable levels based on the ... |
Calif. researchers to study global warming's impact on health (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| San Francisco Chronicle: California researchers have received a $4.5 million federal grant to track heat-related deaths and emergency-room visits and study how global warming could affect public health, state officials said. The study, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will project how rising temperatures could increase the number of heat-caused fatalities and illnesses such as asthma, heat stroke and heart attacks in the decades to come. The study is believed to be the ... |
Extreme Global Warming Fix Proposed: Fill the Skies With Sulfur (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| National Geographic: A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has proposed a controversial method for protecting Earth from global warming: seeding the atmosphere with sulfur to reflect the sun's rays. In the current issue of the journal Climate Change, Paul Crutzen of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry suggests injecting particles of sulfur into the stratosphere–the upper layer of the atmosphere–to cool the planet and buy time for humans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The sulfur particles ... |
Indian Kyoto project in greenhouse gas credits sale (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| Reuters: Indian chemical plant SRF's has put up for sale to European polluters of permits to emit 8 million tonnes of greenhouse gases, sources close to the deal say. The sale may explain a recent price drop in European forward carbon prices, carbon traders said. SRF, which produces the super greenhouse gas HFC 23, has offered the carbon credits for sale over the last two weeks, traders say, during which time European carbon prices for 2008 have dropped some 10 percent. The Kyoto ... |
Australia: States downgrade climate plans (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| Australian: THE states have downgraded plans for a multi-billion-dollar carbon trading system as they concede it threatens to increase electricity prices for families already hit by rising costs. The concerns have forced the states' emissions trading taskforce to propose subsidies for poor families facing higher power bills, while also looking at complicated exemptions for greenhouse gas emitters such as aluminium producers and petroleum refiners. Former NSW premier Bob Carr began the ... |
'Climate porn' blamed for global warming 'despair' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| Guardian: Government and media organisations were today accused of undermining efforts to tackle global warming by using alarmist language that amounts to "climate porn". The "apocalyptic" way in which climate change is often portrayed in the press and on government websites succeeds only in "thrilling" people while undermining practical efforts to tackle the problem, according to Labour's favourite thinktank, the Institute for Public Policy Research. It ... |
A Dying Planet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| TomPaine.com: Weather-related disasters like Hurricane Katrina–or the intense heat wave now hitting the United States–are on the rise. The toll of these catastrophes is exacerbated by growing ecological stresses, and the future health of the global economy and the stability of nations will be shaped by our ability to address the huge imbalances in natural systems that now exist. While governments and businesses around the world are beginning to take action to stem the damage, our future demands more ... |
Seattle's Green Mayor Brings Kyoto to the Backyard (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| Reuters: On the frontier of the fight against global warming, the mayor of Seattle boldly goes where the U.S. president will not -- like right to America's backyards. As the mayor spearheading a drive to get U.S. cities to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Greg Nickels is proposing a host of "green" initiatives, like urging Seattle dwellers to build rental units in their backyards to stem city sprawl and get people to live closer to downtown. "We have lots of ... |
Big Apple is shrivelling in the heatwave (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| Times (UK): NEW YORKERS took emergency action yesterday to survive a heat wave that has turned the Big Apple into the Baked Apple. Giant video billboards in Times Square were dimmed to conserve electricity as record-breaking temperatures strained power supplies because of the surging use of air-conditioners. The lights illuminating city landmarks such as the Brooklyn Bridge and Empire State Building were also switched off, and financial companies such as Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley ... |
Bill Clinton launches city climate change partnership (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:14
| SciDev.Net: The world's largest cities will work together to tackle climate change under a new partnership spearheaded by former US president Bill Clinton. The Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), launched on 1 August in Los Angeles, United States, will collaborate with the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group chaired by the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. The partnership aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy efficiency through a business-oriented approach – ... |
Global warming may be causing heat waves (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:15
| United Press International: British scientists say global warming might be causing the extremely hot conditions occurring this summer across Europe and the United States. Scientists at Britain's University of Oxford and the Hadley Center for Climate Research and Prediction in Exeter say human-induced global warming has increased the odds by a factor of around six that Europe will see summer heat waves as extreme as that of 2003, when heat killed approximately 20,000 people, National Geographic News ... |
Heat waves cause increased air pollution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:15
| United Press International: July''s U.S. heat waves produced a "blanket of smog" from California to Maine, with public health ozone standards being exceeded more than 1,000 times. "California by far has had the worst air quality. But we are even seeing problems at some unusual places -- a lot in Colorado, some in Washington state and Oregon, even Martha''s Vineyard," Frank O''Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, told the Los Angeles Times. Ozone is a colorless to pale blue gas and ... |
How Hot Is It? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:15
| Huffington Post: How hot is it? It's so hot that ... it almost makes you think of global warming. But not so much for the mainstream media. Interestingly, it turns out that the media are now giving significant coverage to global warming. Whether this is just a spike because of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, or the recent Blair-Schwarzenegger meeting to promote a California-UK compact on climate change, or the just-announced Clinton-Large Cities Climate Leadership Group project to cut ... |
Australia: Time to renew our transport infrastructure (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2006 at 06:00:15
| Sydney Morning Herald: Nowadays I normally speak about water matters and so I suppose some of you are anticipating that my solution for Sydney's transport problems is a network of canals ... filled wherever possible by the finest recycled water of course. However I suspect the reason for my invitation of course is that I was a member until early this year of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment that produced the Sustainable Cities Report which dealt with many urban issues ... |
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