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Censoring Truth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| New York Times: The Bush administration long ago secured a special place in history for the audacity with which it manipulates science to suit its political ends. But it set a new standard of cynicism when it allowed NASA's leading authority on global warming to be mugged by a 24-year-old presidential appointee who, quite apart from having no training on that issue, had inflated his résumé. In early December, James Hansen, the space agency's top climate specialist, called for accelerated efforts to ... |
Global warming a major health risk - scientists (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| Reuters: Global warming is already causing death and disease across the world through flooding, environmental destruction, heatwaves and other extreme weather events, scientists said today. And it is likely to get worse. In a review published in The Lancet medical journal, the scientists said there was now a near-unanimous scientific consensus that rising levels of greenhouse gases would cause global warming and other climate changes. ''The advent of changes in global climate ... |
Solar Energy Is Gaining Powerful Friends (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| New York Times: It was not so many years ago that solar power was a niche concept for electricity generation, an idea embraced mostly by the green-minded who were eager to do their part for energy conservation. It is still a niche concept, providing less than 1 percent of the electricity on the grid. By comparison, coal generates about half the nation's supply, followed by nuclear power and natural gas at 20 percent each. But the list of leading solar supporters now includes President Bush, a ... |
India, China will lead green tech demand - UK report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| GG2: RAPIDLY developing countries like India and China whose economies rely heavily on coal for electricity will lead the demand for the technology of capturing carbon and storage (CCS) from burning fossil fuels, which is a quick fix to the problem of global warming. According to a parliamentary committee, Britain can take a world lead in the CCS technology. Not only can carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology be developed rapidly, but there will be a booming demand for it from ... |
White House to Study Protecting Polar Bears (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| Washington Post: The Bush administration has agreed to study whether polar bears should be added to the nation's endangered species list because global warming is shrinking their habitat. They would be the first mammals to gain protected status as a result of climate change. The announcement, which came as 85 evangelical leaders called on the United States to impose mandatory limits on greenhouse gases linked to climate change, highlights the extent to which policymakers are grappling with how to ... |
Evangelical Climate Initiative A moral case for action (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| Centre Daily: Love of God, love of neighbor and the demands of stewardship compelled 86 evangelical Christian leaders yesterday to call for U.S. laws to slow climate change. They joined the legion of scientists, business leaders, environmentalists and government officials, here and abroad, who support mandatory reductions in the carbon emissions believed to be warming the globe. President Bush, who has hardened his heart on this issue, shouldn't play Pharaoh once again. Like many ... |
Evangelicals call for action on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| Orlando Sentinel: More than 80 national evangelical leaders launched a campaign Wednesday to help curb global warming, an initiative that features the pastor of a Central Florida megachurch in a television ad. "We're going to be facing some real challenges environmentally," said the Rev. Joel Hunter of Northland Church in Longwood, who is in a national TV commercial endorsing the initiative. The group's declaration, unveiled at a Washington news conference, was signed by 86 leaders and ... |
Seeking a cure for US oil addiction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| BBC: The image of the US as a gas-guzzling, energy consuming nation is at odds with a number of green initiatives in the country at large. In the boardrooms of great corporations, among city mayors and state governors, even among evangelical Christians - the most loyal supporters of President George W Bush - climate change and energy conservation are on the agenda. The influential journal Business Week, recently stated: "Reducing carbon dioxide emissions is no longer just 'a ... |
UK 'should pursue' carbon capture (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| BBC: Capturing and storing carbon dioxide from power stations could help Britain meet its energy needs while curbing greenhouse gas emissions, MPs say. The Commons science and technology committee says in a report that all new coal power stations should be suitable for carbon capture. The costs are likely to be similar to using renewable energy, it says. It urges the government to lead reform of international treaties to ensure storing CO2 underground is legal. ... |
WB offers loan to renewable energy in China (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| Xinhua: The World Bank has approved an US$86.33 million loan to scale up China's use of renewable energy as the country's demand for power increases, the bank said Wednesday. The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved the follow-up project to the 2005 China Renewable Energy Scale-Up Program Phase 1, which would develop a large wind farm in the China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and rehabilitate and develop selected small hydropower projects in Zhejiang Province, the bank ... |
'Do We Want to Destroy the Creation?' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| ABC News: "The question is, do we want to destroy the Creation – with a capital C [as in the Bible's Creation story] – because that's what we're doing, and at an accelerating rate." The speaker was not one of the evangelical leaders at today's news conference in Washington announcing a major initiative to fight global warming. The speaker was one of America's preeminent scientists, Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, who believes that "an alliance of science and ... |
Evangelical Leaders Call for Government Action on Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| Inter Press Service: Breaking with some of their colleagues in the Christian Right, a group of more than 85 U.S. evangelical Christian leaders called on Congress Wednesday to enact legislation that would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, which most scientists believe contribute to global warming. "Our commitment to Jesus Christ compels us to solve the global warming crisis," the group, which included the heads of a number of prominent evangelical universities and so-called ... |
Huge solar energy plant planned for Nevada (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| Associated Press: A pair of companies have announced plans to build the largest solar energy project of its kind in southern Nevada to sell electricity to the military. Las Vegas-based Powered by Renewables Corp. and SunEdison of Baltimore said Monday they plan to build an 18-megawatt photovoltaic plant by the end of the year in Clark County, with plans to double capacity and supply enough energy to power 36,000 homes. "We're starting to show the world," said Tim Carlson, Powered by ... |
Tom's of Maine Moves to 100% Renewable Wind Energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| PR Newswire: Tom's of Maine, the nation's leading maker of natural personal care products, announced today that its manufacturing and fulfillment facility has moved to renewable wind energy. The change will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 million pounds per year, the equivalent of planting 214 acres of trees or removing 138 cars from the road. "One of our central beliefs is that Tom's of Maine can be financially successful while behaving in a socially responsible and environmentally ... |
Toyota's Press Says Automakers Must Lead on Clean Air (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| Bloomberg: Toyota Motor Corp.'s U.S. sales chief vowed to push automakers to take the lead this year in combating air pollution and global warming and developing alternatives to petroleum-based fuels. Jim Press, president of Toyota's most profitable sales operation and this year's chairman of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers trade group, said in a speech today in Chicago that he'll ask the organization's members to cooperate on issues ``that threaten our collective future.'' ... |
Less snow in Rockies slows release of CO2 emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| Reuters: Rising temperatures and a decline in the amount of snow in the Rocky Mountains have slowed the release of carbon dioxide, the main gas blamed for global warming, from forest soil, researchers said on Wednesday. Professor Russell Monson, who headed the research team, described it as a "serendipitous effect" which could have important ramifications on how much CO2 is emitted from forests. "It is a glimmer of good news in what would otherwise be a cloud of bad ... |
Polar bears to be considered for threatened species list (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 09:00:12
| San Francisco Chronicle: Federal wildlife officials are considering declaring the polar bear a threatened species as a result of growing evidence that rising Arctic temperatures are melting the pack ice that is their home. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday that it will review climate-change studies and the status of the polar bear population and decide within 12 months whether to offer protection under the Endangered Species Act to the furry white marine mammal. If the polar bear ... |
Global Warming a Major Health Risk - Scientists (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: Global warming is already causing death and disease across the world through flooding, environmental destruction, heatwaves and other extreme weather events, scientists said on Thursday. And it is likely to get worse. In a review published in The Lancet medical journal, the scientists said there was now a near-unanimous scientific consensus that rising levels of greenhouse gases would cause global warming and other climate changes. "The advent of changes in global ... |
World Ethanol Demand to Test Brazil Cane Industry (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: Brazilian sugar cane mills, the world's top producers, have visions of motorists from New York to Tokyo filling their tanks with ethanol, making the biofuel a full-fledged world commodity and making local producers as rich as Saudi sheiks. But many observers doubt Brazil's ability to become a reliable international ethanol supplier. A disappointing cane harvest and thin ethanol stocks have helped lift sugar prices to 25-year highs, and the government has demanded price caps on the ... |
Bush Budget Cuts Back on Energy Efficiency Programs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: As gasoline and winter heating costs soar, the short-term answer from President George W. Bush's administration has been conservation, even unveiling a cartoon mascot dubbed "Energy Hog" to bring home the case for lowering thermostats. But consumer and energy efficiency advocates are complaining that the president's budget, sent to Congress this week, goes the other direction, cutting energy conservation programs -- including two the administration has touted repeatedly. ... |
EU to Discuss Mandatory Biofuel Targets this Year (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: The European Commission will discuss later this year the possibility of raising biofuels targets in the 25-nation bloc and making them mandatory, the EU's farm chief said on Wednesday. Biofuels, which are made from biomass - organic matter such as wood, crops and animal waste - are used to power vehicles and seen in the EU as a way to limit the growing role of the transport sector in emitting gases that heat the earth. The EU, struggling to reduce its dependence on foreign ... |
UK Lobby Group Proposes Green Taxes to Save Planet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: Britain must bring in a new tax structure penalising waste and rewarding efficiency to help combat global warming, a green lobby group said on Wednesday. In a report entitled The Green Living Initiative, the Green Alliance - a white-collar environmental lobby group - proposed a shake-up of the tax system to prompt people to adopt more environmentally friendly lifestyles. "If we are to move beyond efficiency there is a need to use fiscal incentives as part of a package of ... |
Britain to Set Industry Tighter Pollution Limits (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: Britain is likely to tighten limits on greenhouse gas emissions by big industrial enterprises from 2008 as the government chases ambitious climate change targets, a senior government official said on Wednesday. Draft measures due next month are likely to call for lower caps on carbon dioxide from factories and power stations covered by a pan-European emissions trading scheme, said Chris Leigh, Head of National Climate Change Policy at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural ... |
Kenya Appeals for $221 Million in Aid as Drought Bites (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: Kenya needs $221.5 million in aid to help feed 3.5 million people threatened by starvation due to drought and avoid a "massive humanitarian catastrophe," the government and the United Nations said on Wednesday. Kenya and UN aid agencies launched a joint appeal for urgent donor support as Oxfam warned the food crisis in east Africa's most developed country could become its worst in more than four decades. "Failure to quickly fund the Kenyan aid effort could lead ... |
Olympics - Turin Games Get Mixed Environmental Report Card (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: The Turin Winter Olympics will mar mountains and waste enough gas with its symbolic flame to supply a small town, but damage will be limited by smart energy planning, a leading environmental group said on Wednesday. WWF, formerly the World Worldlife Fund but now known by its initials, gave the Games a mixed report card in a 38-page document. It slammed a bobsleigh track and two ski jumps that slice down two mountainsides, but praised organisers for using clean fuel and ... |
Swiss Glaciers Retreat Again in 2005, Study Shows (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-09-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: Glaciers in Switzerland again retreated last year, a study showed on Wednesday, in a sign global warming is taking its toll on one of the country's scenic features. The Trift glacier in the canton of Berne had receded 216 metres in one year alone, being hardest hit by rising temperatures. Out of 91 glaciers being observed, 84 had retreated. Only seven had remained unchanged. Not only did glaciers lose length, their volume also diminished. The height of three glaciers closely ... |
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