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Australia: Climate: the heat is on (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| Age: CONFIRMATION that Australia has just experienced its hottest year on record puts the heat on our politicians to deliver real action on global warming. The alarming report from Australia's Bureau of Meteorology that the mean annual temperature for 2005 was up more than one degree on the standard average between 1961 and 1990 is yet more scientific evidence that our climate is changing. Greenhouse pollution from the use of coal, oil and gas to power our industries, homes and cars is the ... |
Surging seas force islanders to pack their bags (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| Age: It's happening already: an entire village on a small island in Vanuatu is on the move because of rising sea levels. Ben Bohane visits Tegua Island. "The sea has its own ways. We can't control it," says Chief Reuben Selwyn as he stands on a thin wall of coral, which is all that now separates his little village from the invading sea. The destiny of Tegua island, home to 64 people in the remote Torres group of islands in far north Vanuatu, has always rested on the ... |
Talks to ignore emissions targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| Sydney Morning Herald: THE role of nuclear power and technological fixes to rising greenhouse gas emissions will be discussed by six of the world's largest power consumers in Sydney next week. But there will be no mention of targets or timetables for reducing the gases that cause global warming. "China and India are simply not interested in that sort of target approach," the Minister for the Environment, Ian Campbell, told the Herald yesterday. "Targets are a proxy for not doing ... |
Australia: Kyoto 'too late' to stop warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| Australian: CONFIRMATION that last year was Australia's hottest on record proves the country is in the grip of global warming, but signing up for the Kyoto agreement is not the answer, Environment Minister Ian Campbell has said. "The science is clearly overwhelming," he said yesterday. "All the evidence points toward warming." But Senator Campbell said the Kyoto agreement, under which 35 industrial nations will by 2012 reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to below ... |
Australia: Action needed on climate change: Labor (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| AAP: The government is facing opposition pressure to take action to counter dangerous climate change, after official figures revealed Australia has just experienced its hottest year on record. The Bureau of Meteorology's annual climate summary shows 2005 was, on average, more than one degree warmer than the average temperature between 1961 and 1990. Opposition environment spokesman Anthony Albanese said the summary showed that climate change was responsible for the temperature ... |
What 3 Degrees of Global Warming Really Means (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| Pacific Ecologist: PETER BARRETT[1] puts projected global warming in perspective, comparing it with climate fluctuations in the geological past. Greenhouse gas emission rates from human activity have increased in the last few decades, and CO2 levels will soon be higher than at any time in the past 25 million years. If not reduced soon, temperatures will return our climate to where it was before humans existed and global sea level was 70m higher. Much greater effort is needed to reduce CO2 levels, to lessen ... |
Australia records hottest year (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| BBC: Australia's meteorology bureau has found that 2005 was the country's hottest year on record, prompting renewed fears of global warming. The average temperature was 22.89 C - a rise of more than 1 C from the average in previous years and the highest since records began in 1910. Environment Minister Ian Campbell admitted the change was "alarming". But he defended Australia's decision not to sign the Kyoto pledge to cut greenhouse gases. The annual mean ... |
Global warming shrinking size of 'world's rooftop' in Tibet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:20
| Asahi Shimbun: MEILI SNOW MOUNTAIN, China--The "rooftop of the world" is melting. Thanks to global warming, glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau are rapidly liquefying, possibly causing many of the region's water woes--especially flooding--in the past decades. The huge meltdown could cause serious ecological trouble in the future, including water shortages, Chinese experts say. The Tibetan Plateau is the source of many major rivers in Asia. It is estimated that the annual ... |
India: Govt to prepare solar energy roadmap up to 2022 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Malayala Manorama: New Delhi: After finalising a hydrogen energy roadmap, the government is now preparing a strategy to harness solar energy as part of efforts to promote renewable energy sources in the country. The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources is making a Solar Photovoltaic Technology Roadmap for the country up to 2022, in line with the 11th, 12th and 13th five-year plans. The Ministry has set up a ten-member Group of Experts to prepare the roadmap which would look into the present ... |
Australia: It's official: last year was hottest ever (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| AAP: Last year was Australia's hottest on record, new figures show. The Bureau of Meteorology annual climate summary shows 2005 was more than one degree warmer than the average temperature between 1961 and 1990, the world standard used to track temperature change. The figures, released today, have forced the federal government to defend its action on climate change and global warming. Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell says he recognises climate change is the biggest ... |
Planting trees is not always best (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Christian Science Monitor: Tree plantations have often been touted as a tool for scrubbing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – at least for a while – to combat global warming. But a new study suggests that new tree plantations also could degrade soil and deplete groundwater, depending on their location. Using trees as air cleaners is one approach countries can take to meet CO2 emissions targets under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Industrial countries party to the pact must reduce their CO2 emissions by an average ... |
Australia Records Hottest Year on Record in 2005 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Bloomberg: Australia had its hottest year on record in 2005, with daytime temperatures averaging 28.55 degrees Celsius (83.4 degrees Fahrenheit), 1.21 degrees Celsius above average, the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology said. Temperatures in Australia, the world's biggest wool producer and second-biggest exporter of beef and wheat, have risen by about 0.9 degrees Celsius since 1910, when standard national climate records were first kept, the Melbourne-based bureau said in a report on its Web ... |
Beijing Experimental Buses Aim to Cut Smog, Fuel (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Reuters: BEIJING - Beijing is fitting out 50 of its buses with experimental braking systems that it hopes could cut fuel use by up to 30 percent and help clear its smoggy skies, the China Daily reported on Tuesday. The 50 buses in the trial will be fitted with hydraulic hybrid vehicle technology, which absorbs energy released as a vehicle brakes and allows it to be released when they restart or speed up, the paper said. It can cut fuel consumption by over 30 percent, and emissions by ... |
France not Ready for Compulsory Biofuel Blending (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Reuters: PARIS - France is not yet ready to introduce compulsory blending of biofuels with conventional fuels and wants to keep tax incentives to boost green fuel output, government and industry sources said on Tuesday. Plans for compulsory blending already exist in Britain, which has announced oil companies would have to include five percent of biofuels in their fuel mix by 2010, in Germany, which plans to introduce compulsory blending and end tax breaks, and in the Netherlands, which has ... |
Gas showdown rekindles German nuclear energy debate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Reuters: Conservatives in the German government are urging a rethink of plans to phase out nuclear power in the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute, setting them on a collision course with coalition partners. The gas showdown between Moscow and Kiev, resolved on Wednesday with a face-saving 5-year supply deal, has fuelled concerns about Germany's reliance on Russia, which provides around a third of its annual gas needs. Calls have come from both the right and left to diversify ... |
Good intentions won't make biodiesel usage a success (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| RICHARD S. DAVIS: A political head of steam has built up behind efforts to boost the alternative fuels industry in our state. High energy prices, political opportunity, Washington's reflexive Green ethos and a flagging agricultural economy come together to make this the year to push highly symbolic and substantively questionable legislation to promote production of biodiesel fuels and mandate their use. It's classic "pass quick – feel good" lawmaking. Falling gas prices are unlikely to make ... |
Australia: Govt Says Climate Change Requires Global Response (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Pacific Magazine: The ABC News Online reports that the Australian Federal Government says new information showing 2005 was the hottest year on record needs to be reflected in future planning. The Bureau of Meteorology released figures today showing the average temperature last year was 22.89 degrees. It is the highest average temperature in Australia since comprehensive record keeping began in 1910. ABC News further reports that Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell says the data ... |
Australia: Heat a taste of change: Greenpeace (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Daily Telegraph: THE extreme heat and bushfires over the New Year period are a small taste of what is to come if the world fails to address climate change, according to Greenpeace. The Bureau of Meteorology today revealed last year was Australia's hottest year on record, at one degree warmer than the average temperature. Fires have caused devastation in many parts of southern Australia, with houses, farm stock and thousands of hectares of bushland and farmland burnt out. "2005 gave ... |
Hottest year on record for Australia (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| AAP: The Howard government is facing a king tide of pressure to commit to greenhouse gas cuts after figures showed the nation has sweltered through its hottest year on record. The government, which refuses to sign the Kyoto Protocol on reducing emissions, has been accused of neglect and an over-reliance on new clean energy technologies to solve the global warming crisis. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology's annual climate summary, released on Wednesday, shows 2005 was more than ... |
United Kingdom: Ministers urged to strike a blow by putting wind turbines on offices (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Evening News: THE Scottish Executive was today urged to set an example on renewable energy by installing wind turbines or solar panels on its offices. Liberal Democrat MSP Donald Gorrie said politicians had to give more of a lead if people were going to take concerns about climate change seriously. And he claimed nothing could be better than a visible commitment to alternative energy at high-profile public buildings like Victoria Quay, the Executive's main centre of administration. ... |
Sweden: Stockholm Residents Choke on New Congestion Charge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Reuters: STOCKHOLM - On an overcast winter morning, traffic heading into Stockholm on the main route from the north is heavy, but it is moving - unlike the rush-hour gridlock typical in some metropolitan centres. Yet the capital of Sweden, a country known for its vast, unspoiled natural vistas and clean air, will soon have the world's most extensive system of traffic congestion charges. A test run costing 3.8 billion crowns ($485.2 million) starts on Tuesday and will last until July. ... |
United Kingdom: Warm weather 'to boost food bugs' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| BBC: Britain could see a dramatic increase in food poisoning cases and waterborne disease as the warmer, wetter weather linked to climate change takes hold. Hotter summers could lead to more salmonella cases as people opt for more barbecues but leave food out of the fridge, Professor Paul Hunter warned. Heavy rain may also lead to more cases of diarrhoea-inducing cryptosporidium. The University of East Anglia expert said Britain may also see some malaria cases - but is ... |
Warming Climate of American West Pushes Pika to Extinction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Environment News Service: SEATTLE, Washington, January 4, 2006 (ENS) - The American pika, a small mammal related to the rabbit, appears to be facing extinction in the Great Basin, new research has found. The pikas, pronounced pie-cas, are sensitive to high temperatures, a characteristic that makes them an indicator species for global warming in the western United States where they live high in the mountains. Pikas live in rock-strewn talus slopes that provide them with relief from hot temperatures and ... |
Senators headed to Antarctica for update on climate research (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Foster's Daily Democrat: U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and two of her colleagues left Tuesday on an eight-day visit to Antarctica that will provide an update on the latest research on climate change. Collins, of Maine, and fellow Republicans John McCain of Arizona and John Sununu of New Hampshire will travel to McMurdo Station to meet with leading researchers, including staff from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Collins, an advocate for climate change research, said she was invited on the ... |
United Kingdom: Cabinet minister puts money where his house is (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Press Association: Cabinet minister Peter Hain, who used a government grant to install solar panels in his home, today said he was putting his money where his mouth was by making his new home environmentally friendly. Mr Hain, the secretary of state for Northern Ireland, and the secretary of state for Wales, made use of a government grant to help fund the installation of light-sensitive panels to power his constituency home in south Wales and demonstrate his concern about global ... |
Japan: Road changes planned to cut 8 mil. tons of CO2 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Yomiuri Shimbun: The Construction and Transport Ministry plans to reduce carbon dioxide emitted from automobiles by 3 percent, equivalent to 8 million tons, annually by 2010 through road improvements, sources said Tuesday. The ministry is drafting an action plan to cap the amount of CO2 emitted from the transportation sector at 250 million tons in 2010 by slashing 21 million tons of CO2 in an effort to combat global warming. The ministry plans to cut more than one-third of this amount by ... |
UN International Year of Deserts and Desertification Opens (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2006 at 09:00:21
| Environment News Service: NEW YORK, New York, January 2, 2005 (ENS) - To raise global public awareness of advancing deserts as a major threat to humanity, the United Nations has declared 2006 to be the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Desertification is the loss of the land's biological productivity, caused by human activities and climate change. Activities planned for this year will explore ways to safeguard the biological diversity of the arid lands that cover one-third of the planet and ... |
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