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86 Evangelical Leaders Join to Fight Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| New York Times: Despite opposition from some of their colleagues, 86 evangelical Christian leaders have decided to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors." Among signers of the statement, which will be released in Washington on Wednesday, are the presidents of 39 evangelical colleges, leaders of aid groups and churches, like the Salvation Army, and pastors of ... |
Exxon: America Will Always Rely on Foreign Oil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Reuters: The United States will always rely on foreign imports of oil to feed its energy needs and should stop trying to become energy independent, a top Exxon Mobil Corp. executive said on Tuesday. "Realistically, it is simply not feasible in any time period relevant to our discussion today," Exxon Mobil Senior Vice President Stuart McGill said, referring to what he called the "misperception" that the United States can achieve energy independence. The comments, in a ... |
United States: Native Alaskans list warming impacts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Associated Press: Fire breaks protecting homes were never part of the traditional culture in Huslia, an Athabascan village on the Koyukuk River. But recent forest fires have burned hotter and more frequently, a change most people blame on global warming, and Huslia has had to adapt, said William Derendoff, 61, the traditional chief. A day after scientists presented research findings on how warming is melting sea ice and changing marine ecosystems in the Arctic, Derendoff and other village ... |
Seven years to save planet, says PM (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Independent: Tony Blair has warned world leaders they have less than seven years to save the planet. But he ruled out a "ticket tax" on British airline passengers to combat global warming. The Prime Minister was accused of double standards over climate change after he urged the US, China and India to join a global offensive to tackle the problem. Mr Blair told the liaison committee of senior MPs: "I think that if we don't get the right agreement internationally for the ... |
UN University warns of '50 million environmental refugees' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| OneWorld South Asia: Amid predictions that by 2010 the world will need to cope with as many as 50 million people escaping the effects of creeping environmental deterioration, United Nations University experts say the international community urgently needs to define, recognize and extend support to this new category of 'refugee'. In a statement to mark the UN Day for Disaster Reduction (October 12), UNU's Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn says such problems as sea level rise, ... |
United Kingdom: Blair rejects flight tax to cut pollution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Telegraph: Restricting cheap flights by putting a tax on air travel to cut pollution was ruled out by Tony Blair yesterday. Although he admitted the world would be in "serious trouble" without a new agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the Prime Minister rejected calls to make flying more expensive. The growth in cheap flights offered by budget airlines such as Ryanair and Easyjet has helped to make emissions from aircraft one of the fastest growing forms of ... |
Bush Wants New Fuels, but Cuts Energy-Saving Program (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Reuters: While President George W Bush kept his promise to put more money in his proposed 2007 budget for research to develop alternative energy sources, the administration also wants to cut a government program proven to save energy. The Energy Department's budget would increase funding by millions of dollars for solar, wind, ethanol, hydrogen fuel and nuclear research to help fulfill Bush's pledge in his State of the Union speech to slash US oil imports from Middle East suppliers. ... |
Buy a Hybrid, and Save a Guzzler (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| New York Times: SOME of my favorite people drive a Prius. They bought the car, obviously, because they were worried about the planet. But the fringe benefits are pretty nice, too. Prius drivers can use a carpool lane in some places even when no one else is in the car. No matter where they're driving, they coast down the road in a whisper-quiet hum unlike anything else. Best of all, even if no one likes admitting it, they get to enjoy the cool-kid cachet that comes with being an early adopter of a fad. ... |
Hydrogen Solar (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Financial Times: Hydrogen Solar is a UK company set up in 1999 to commercialise a pioneering Swiss technology. Its core product, the Tandem Cell, looks like a conventional solar panel but uses sunlight to generate hydrogen fuel. Ultimately, it could help hydrogen supplant oil as a source of vehicle fuel by enabling businesses and homes to afford their own hydrogen generators. But first it must achieve much higher levels of efficiency. The technology was invented by two Swiss academics. When one of ... |
On energy, Bush fails to use the government's leverage (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Pioneer Press: Let's say the energy bills in your house are too high. One response might be to start saving for a new, more efficient house you could afford in 10 or 20 years. Or you could replace the windows and improve the insulation today. President Bush, in the energy plan he announced in his State of the Union speech last week, chose the first strategy. Bush promised more federal energy research, primarily into technologies that might reduce America's fossil fuel dependence years from ... |
Australia: The myth of Sydney being drought proof (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Sydney Morning Herald: THE war on water, if Morris Iemma is to be believed, is over. In order to keep the Premier's balloon afloat some very heavy political baggage was yesterday tossed over the edge of the wicker basket. A desalination plant was discarded, as was the plan to raise the Tallowa Dam wall. Both had outraged environmentalists. Tallowa Dam was outright water theft and justifiably appalled all those who live on the Shoalhaven - most significantly in Nowra. Desalination was effectively a greenhouse ... |
United Kingdom: Blair Rules Out Environment Tax to Curb on Air Travel (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Bloomberg: U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair ruled out raising taxes on airlines to curb emissions of greenhouse gasses, climbing down from his previous ambition to force the industry into pollution cuts. ``It's unrealistic to think you'll get some sort of restriction on air travel at an international level,'' Blair said. `If you really want to impede air travel, to cut it back significantly, through some sort of taxation system, it would have to be a fairly hefty whack.'' The comments, to ... |
Can't Log the Forest for the Trees? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| American Science: JOBS NOT TREES yells a bumper sticker in the timber country of the western United States, crisply stating one side of a long-running dispute between loggers and "tree-hugging" environmentalists. There is, however, a middle ground in this debate: the system of forestry called selective logging. Only trees of desired species are removed from the forest, leaving other trees intact and ensuring the continued health of the ecosystem. But recent reports on selective logging's ... |
Headlong to growth overload (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Age: The greatest economic, geopolitical and environmental event of our times is the rapid economic development of China, closely followed by India's. Its full ramifications are yet to dawn on us. The bit we haven't twigged to is what it might do to the environment. Two hundred years ago, the countries of the West experienced an industrial revolution that eventually made them far, far richer than all the other countries of the world. What's happening now is that China and India are ... |
World has seven years for key climate decisions - Blair (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Reuters: The world has seven years to take vital decisions and implement measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions or it could be too late, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday. Blair said the battle against global warming would only be won if the United States, India and China were part of a framework that included targets and that succeeded the 1992 Kyoto Protocol climate pact. "If we don't get the right agreement internationally for the period after which the ... |
'Parachuting' krill may provide bumper carbon sink (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| New Scientist: Antarctic krill appear to feed at the surface of the ocean and "parachute" down to deep waters more often than previously thought, a new study reveals, suggesting they take a bigger bite out of the carbon that contributes to global warming. These tiny, shrimp-like animals float down to lower depths after each meal at the surface, where they excrete the remains of what they digest. The more often the krill parachute down, the less of their faecal output remains near the surface, ... |
Earth - the final conflict (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Telegraph: Be afraid. Be very afraid. The world is changing, and all your ever so thoughtful efforts to make it better are, alas for you, alas for all of us, going to make it worse. By the end of this century - maybe rather sooner - the Arctic ice cap is going to disappear, deserts are going to stretch around the midriff of the world, the forests are going to vanish at the teeth of chainsaws and the oceans are going to become too warm and acidic to support the algae which, when it comes to maintaining ... |
Scientist rebuts global warming skeptics (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Houston Chronicle: Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey and one of the United Kingdom's leading climate-change scientists, visited Houston and spoke last week to an audience at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. He discussed climate change, and his most recent research in Antarctica. Before giving his talk, Rapley spoke with Chronicle science writer Eric Berger. Q: What do you say to the skeptics who say the planet may be warming, but human activity is not a major cause? A: ... |
Sweden, a Leader in Renewable Energy, Aims to End Oil Dependency by 2020 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Associated Press: U.S. President George W. Bush may have surprised international observers by pledging in his State of the Union address to break his country's addiction to foreign oil -- but Sweden was already one step ahead of him. The environmentally progressive Scandinavian nation has announced one of its most ambitious goals yet: to completely end its dependancy on fossil fuels -- and do it in the next 15 years. "Our dependency on oil should be broken by 2020," said Mona Sahlin, ... |
UNEP report says curbing air pollution pays off economically (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| OneWorld South Asia: Governments that invest in air pollution control measures can save billions of dollars as health care costs are slashed, worker productivity soars and ecosystems flourish, according to a report released today in Dubai by the United Nations Environmental Programme. These savings, along with other economic gains such as sounder bridges, public buildings and other infrastructure that endure less corrosive air pollutants can be six times greater than the initial investments in techniques ... |
World's Largest Solar Photovoltaic Project to be Built in Nevada (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| PR Newswire: Powered by Renewables (PBR) of Nevada http://www.pbrcorp.com/, announced today it will partner with SunEdison of Maryland to develop the world's largest solar photovoltaic (PV) project in Nevada. The 18 megawatt (MW) project almost doubles what is currently the world's largest PV project (10MW) located in Germany. PBR and SunEdison will develop a total of 36 MWs of PV projects in Nevada, enough energy to power 36,000 homes. Construction in Clark County is expected to begin in July and ... |
Addicted to Oil: Ten Questions for President Bush (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Mother Jones: "Here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil." -- President George W. Bush, State of the Union, January 31, 2006 1. INVESTING IN RESEARCH: Does the President commit enough new investment into R&D to shift our nation to biofuels? 2. GETTING BIOFUELS TO THE PUMP: Does the President's plan build the infrastructure needed for the biofuels transition? 3. DEPLOYING A NEW GENERATION OF CARS: Will the President's plan really put new cars that use less gas on ... |
Bad start for Bush on energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Denver Post: A week after saying the nation should wean itself off oil imports, President Bush unveiled a budget that shortchanges the very programs that could get us there. It will be up to Congress to set things on the right path. In his Jan. 31 State of the Union speech, Bush announced an Advanced Energy Initiative and called for a 22 percent hike in clean energy research at the Department of Energy. But Monday, the White House released a fiscal 2007 budget plan that would gut many related ... |
Blair: Targets vital to climate battle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| United Press International: A post-Kyoto agreement to tackle climate change must include targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday. Eyeing a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, due to expire in 2012, Blair said despite U.S. concerns, there would have to be more decisive action to cut emissions. "In my view, this can only be done if you have a framework that in the end has targets within it," he told a committee of senior parliamentarians. ... |
Britain accelerates toward cleaner future - with wheat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Christian Science Monitor: Wheat never used to get Charlie Goldsack excited. He's got fields of the stuff down on his farm, but as a cash crop there was one big problem: it didn't generate much cash. Rock bottom prices saw to that. But now, the farmer hopes his wheat might literally become the driving force of his 1,400-acre Friar Maine farm in southern England. Instead of heading to the bakery, Goldsack's harvest will now go to a nearby plant for conversion into bioethanol - part of accelerating ... |
Critics blast Blair on airline tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| United Press International: British environmentalists on Tuesday criticized Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision not to rule out a tax on air travel. "By ruling out any attempt to make the aviation industry pays its way ... Tony Blair knows he is condemning the U.K. to fail to meet its environmental or legal commitments to cut greenhouse gases and prevent catastrophic climate change," said Euro-member of Parliament Caroline Lucas of the Green Party. Blair is opposed to taxing airlines or ... |
United Kingdom: Cutting air travel 'unrealistic' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| BBC: Tony Blair says it is unrealistic to think the tax system can be used to reduce air travel in the UK. The prime minister said it would take a "fairly hefty whack" for people to cut back on flights in the UK and abroad. He told the Commons liaison committee that it would be hard to sell, and said he would not be keen on such a move. Instead, he said, the best way to tackle climate change was to invest in more environmentally friendly aircraft and to invest in ... |
Global Warming's Early Roots (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| American Science: Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate. William F. Ruddiman. xiv + 202 pp. Princeton University Press, 2005. $24.95. In Franconia in southern Germany (where I grew up), there are plenty of towns with names ending in reuth, the best known of these being Bayreuth, famous for performances of operas inspired by Teutonic mythology. Reuth denotes a clearing–that is, a place ridden of trees. To the south we find town names with the endings ried and reid, whereas ... |
Lobbyist renews call for alternative energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Houston Chronicle: Marchant Wentworth is a Washington-based lobbyist for the Union of Concerned Scientists, where he promotes greater use of clean energy. This includes moving away from fossil fuels like oil and natural gas by encouraging renewables like wind power. Wentworth spoke with Chronicle reporter David Ivanovich. Q: Winter appears to be giving natural gas users a real break. Mild temperatures have helped moderate what could have been extremely painful home heating bills. Are we in the clear ... |
Post-Kyoto deal 'must include CO2 targets' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| ePolitix.com: A post-Kyoto deal on climate change will have to include targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions, the prime minister has said. Speaking to a committee of senior MPs, Tony Blair said he was talking to President Bush about global warming "virtually the whole time". And he said that, despite American worries, there would have to be firmer action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. "In my view this can only be done if you have a framework that in the end has ... |
United Kingdom: Scientists to hold cuts protest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| BBC: Scientists will protest at the House of Commons on Wednesday over plans to shut four global warming research centres. The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology laboratories have been earmarked for closure by parent company the Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc). A third of the centre's 600 staff could lose their jobs at sites at Winfrith in Dorset, Oxford, Banchory in Scotland and Monk's Wood in Cambridgeshire. The council has proposed the closures to boost ... |
Don't expect much help in kicking the oil habit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 12:00:08
| Baltimore Sun: When I was in Zimbabwe during the beginning of the country's fuel crisis a few years ago, a popular joke about President Robert G. Mugabe's inept policies described a driver sitting in a long line of cars waiting for his turn at the gas pump. Unable to bear the wait any longer, he fumed, "I'm going to drive to the presidential mansion and give Mugabe a piece of my mind." But, alas, when he arrived at the mansion, he found that the line of cars there was even longer! ... |
Accused of censoring scientists, NASA vows reform (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Reuters: NASA, accused of censoring its scientists on global warming and the origin of the universe, pledged on Wednesday to reform its policies to ensure "open and full communications." The move followed more than a week of revelations in The New York Times and on the Internet about internal tussles between NASA writers and researchers and the U.S. space agency's public affairs office at its Washington headquarters. A key figure in the controversy, George Deutsch, resigned ... |
Brits panicking at global warming; U.S. yawns (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Rock River Times: This is an age of strange happenings and peculiar attitudes. One of the most peculiar has emerged in the past year. It was submerged by the London subway bombings last July 7. The event was the split between Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush at the G8 Summit on the issue of global warming. The New York Times recently said: "For almost a full year British papers and other media have been screaming about the imminent danger of global warming ... |
Think tank urges US action now on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Reuters: The United States must take steps now to fight global warming, including working with other nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a major U.S. think tank said on Wednesday. The Pew Center for Global Climate Change said in a report that America has waited too long to seriously tackle the climate change problem and spelled out 15 steps the United States could take to reduce emissions it spews as the world's biggest energy consumer and producer of greenhouse ... |
EU Wants Biofuel, Not Sugar (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| Inter Press Service: The European Union says increased use of biofuels in developing countries could bring huge benefits, especially to those affected by the bloc's sugar reform. The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU), unveiled its new biofuels strategy Wednesday (Feb. 8) which outlines a series of measures to promote biofuels within the EU and developing countries. The plans seek to boost the production of alternative fuels such as biodiesel and ethanol through ... |
US evangelicals seek green laws (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-08-2006 at 06:00:07
| BBC: A group of more than 80 powerful evangelical leaders have defied the Bush White House and called for federal legislation to curb global warming. The statement marks the first time that leading evangelicals have taken up the green issue. And it has caused splits within the religious right. They have embraced the environment in recent years, most notably with a "What would Jesus drive?" campaign against sports utility vehicles. But this is a new ... |
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