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United Kingdom: A policy that pretends we can all fly on the cheap is a policy that won't fly (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Times (UK): WHAT NEXT in the heady scramble for eco-respectability? Will we see John Prescott on a bike? Cherie turning down the thermostat and sporting a woolly jumper? Peter Hain's pioneering solar panels narrowly trumped David Cameron's personal windmill this week (will he get planning permission?) But they cannot disguise that Labour is still flunking the true test of eco-manliness. If Gordon Brown taxed aircraft fuel at the same rate as petrol for cars, he would raise a cool £9 billion for the ... |
Drivers atone for exhaust with carbon offsets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Christian Science Monitor: As a business and fundraising consultant, Pat Castleman drives about 1,000 miles a month. So when the Mill Valley, Calif., resident heard that she could "neutralize" the greenhouse gas pollutants emitted by her new Infiniti sedan, she jumped at the opportunity. By signing up with DriveNeutral, a nonprofit launched in October by students at the Presidio School of Management in San Francisco, Ms. Castleman was able to calculate her "climate change footprint," using ... |
Rising sea levels threaten Pacific islands (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY EASTLEY: Rising sea levels from global warming are predicted to make some Pacific islands unliveable within the next decade. Today, the Federal Opposition will release a policy paper, calling on Australia to accept "environmental refugees" as part of a wider strategy to deal with the effects of climate change in the Pacific. The Federal Government has already knocked back two requests to resettle residents of Tuvalu, when their island is expected to be under ... |
Britain Seen off to Slow Start on Biomass, Biofuels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: OXFORD - Britain has made a slow start in developing biofuels and biomass production, UK farming minister Lord Bach said on Wednesday. "I think we in the UK have probably been a bit behind the game in both biofuels and biomass. We are seriously trying to catch up now," he said at the annual Oxford farming conference. Biofuels, which are produced using agricultural products such as rapeseed oil, grain and sugar cane, can replace traditional transport fuels and ... |
Australia: Fatalism concern on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Daily Telegraph: CALLS for Australia to accept climate change refugees should be backed up with efforts to reduce global warming, Greenpeace said today. Labor today will release a Pacific climate change strategy aimed at planning for mass relocations of people living on vulnerable islands in the South Pacific. It follows yesterday's Bureau of Meteorology figures showing 2005 was Australia's hottest-ever year on record. But Greenpeace is warning against a culture of fatalism. Plans ... |
Australia: Kyoto 'too late' to stop warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| 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 1990 levels, would be ... |
Australia: Labor bid to accept climate change refugees (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Age: Australia should prepare to accept climate change refugees from Pacific island nations likely to "sink" under rising sea levels, Labor says. The federal opposition will today release a Pacific climate change strategy aimed at planning for mass relocations of people living on vulnerable islands in Australia's region. Low-lying Pacific island states like Tuvalu - whose islands lie just a few metres above sea level - are at risk from rising sea levels brought about by ... |
United Kingdom: Climate change will be bad for your health (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Telegraph: Britain should be prepared for an increase in food poisoning and upset stomachs as a result of climate change, a meeting will be told today. Global warming could also create conditions favourable for a return of malaria to the UK, where it was once endemic in Kent, although the disease was very unlikely to gain a foothold, said Prof Paul Hunter of the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Prof Hunter, who will talk today at a Society for Applied Microbiology meeting at the ... |
Ocean currents flip out (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Nature: The circulation of the deep oceans reversed abruptly some 55 million years ago, according to a study of fossilized sea creatures. This rings alarm bells about today's climate change, because the reversal coincided with a period of global warming driven by greenhouse gases. Deep ocean currents are intimately linked to our climate, and are driven by colder, saltier water at the poles plummeting to the bottom of the ocean. Recent studies have suggested that the circulation of the North ... |
Disasters of 2005 not completely 'natural,' UN health agency says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| UN News Centre: The high death toll in 2005 from tsunamis, hurricanes, typhoons, mudslides, earthquakes, volcanoes, locusts and pandemics can not necessarily be blamed on "natural" disaster, according to the United Nations health agency which today pointed to a complex mix of human and natural factors that led to tragedy in those events. The UN World Health Organization (WHO) said that routine climate change, global warming influenced by human behavior, socioeconomic factors causing poorer people to ... |
Fossils point to ancient global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| United Press International: A study of fossilized sea creatures has found that circulation of the deep oceans reversed abruptly some 55 million years ago. The research rings alarm bells about climate change, because the reversal coincided with a period of global warming driven by greenhouse gases, the journal Nature reported. Oceanographers at the University of California, San Diego, investigated the chemical makeup of tiny ancient sea creatures at various locations around the world. They probed a four- ... |
Global Warming Can Trigger Extreme Ocean, Climate Changes, Scripps-led Study Reveals (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Space Ref: New research produced by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, helps illustrate how global warming caused by greenhouse gases can quickly disrupt ocean processes and lead to drastic climatological, biological and other important changes around the world. Although the events described in the research unfolded millions of years ago and spanned thousands of years, the researchers say the findings provide clues to help better understand the ... |
After gas crisis, Germany takes another look at nuclear power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| International Herald Tribune: BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirmed her commitment Wednesday to phase out Germany's nuclear power plants amid a heated debate over German energy policies prompted by the natural gas crisis between Russia and Ukraine. The showdown between those countries over the pricing and delivery of natural gas to Ukraine sharpened a debate within Merkel's government over whether the country should stick with measures passed by her predecessor to close all nuclear power plants by about ... |
Debate swirls as wind power grows (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: STAMFORD, Conn. - Giant windmills are popping up on farms, scenic mountain ridges, prairie grass and Indian reservations, dramatically changing the nation's landscape and spinning a debate about where they belong. Wind power grew rapidly in 2005, becoming more competitive as natural gas prices jumped and crude oil prices reached record highs. Improved technology, a federal tax credit and pressure on utilities to use clean energy sources helped fuel the growth from coast to ... |
Lawsuit challenges new auto emission standards (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: AUGUSTA, Maine --A trade organization representing motor vehicle manufacturers has filed a lawsuit challenging Maine's new California-style auto emissions regulations. The suit, filed Friday in Kennebec County Superior Court by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, calls the regulations arbitrary and unlawful and asks that they be invalidated. The suit claims there were two major problems with how the regulations were implemented, the first being that regulators didn't give ... |
Nations to Meet to Discuss Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: WASHINGTON -- Producers of half the world's "greenhouse" gases are angling for more private investment to create cleaner energy technologies and help slow global warming. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman and presidential adviser James Connaughton will meet next week in Sydney, Australia, with representatives from five Asian and Pacific nations. Along with the U.S., these countries account for nearly half the world's population, energy use ... |
Oil spills in Arctic feared as ice melts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: OSLO, Norway - Increasing energy exploration and shipping in the Arctic will pose huge technological challenges to safeguard the environment as global warming thins the polar ice, according to a leading expert. "Oil and gas activity has just started to increase again in many areas" of the Arctic after a slowdown in the late 1990s, Lars-Otto Reiersen, head of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, told Reuters. "The risks are still there," he added of oil and gas activity ... |
Store wind power for later use? Cities bet on it (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: DES MOINES, Iowa - A group of Iowa cities intends to not only harness the wind, but also capture it, store it underground and use it to help make electricity when demand peaks. Members of the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities have invested in a proposed power plant that would use wind turbines to drive compressed air into underground aquifers. The air would be released to generate electricity when needed. It's a new twist on the idea of using wind energy in a way that ... |
Australia: Ministers remain unmoved by threat of rising sea levels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:08
| Sydney Morning Herald: THERE was no evidence to suggest Pacific islands populations were in any imminent danger of being displaced by rising sea levels, the Federal Government said yesterday. Responding to Labor's calls for the Government to accept environmental refugees from the Pacific whose countries were flooded as a result of climate change, the Minister for the Environment, Ian Campbell, branded the suggestion absurd. Labor released a policy paper yesterday that calls on the Government to ... |
Australia: 'No room' for ALP's climate refugees (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:08
| Australian: ACCEPTING climate refugees from Pacific nations affected by rising sea levels was "policy on the run" that would add to Australia's already high greenhouse emissions. After the launch of a Labor Party climate refugee policy yesterday, leading Australian economist Warwick McKibbin said assisting Pacific islanders and peoples from other nations affected by rising sea levels was a legitimate concern. But he said Australia was the last place in the world that should take ... |
Global Warming Can Trigger Extreme Ocean, Climate Changes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:08
| Innovations Report: New research produced by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, helps illustrate how global warming caused by greenhouse gases can quickly disrupt ocean processes and lead to drastic climatological, biological and other important changes around the world. Although the events described in the research unfolded millions of years ago and spanned thousands of years, the researchers say the findings provide clues to help better understand the ... |
Philippines: Group: Logging, global warming to trigger more floods (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:08
| ABS-CBNNEWS: Environmental watch group Greenpeace International on Thursday warned that the country will continue to experience catastrophies such as the recent floodings in the provinces unless steps are undertaken to curb climate change and destructive logging. Greenpeace cited the incidents of flash floods in Oriental Mindoro, Isabela, Palawan, Quezon, Bicol and the Caraga region that killed hundreds of lives and destroyed millions of pesos worth of properties. "Catastrophic floods ... |
United States: New group frets over energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:08
| Daily News Tribune: BOSTON -- A statewide coalition including business, labor and energy industry interests has formed in response to worries about rising energy prices and the prospect of electricity shortages in New England. The Massachusetts Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance, which was announced yesterday, urges reducing reliance on out-of-state energy sources by expanding generation within Massachusetts, even if new energy plants lead to siting showdowns because of opposition from people ... |
Past gives clue to climate impact (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:08
| BBC: A rapid rise in global temperature 55 million years ago caused major disruption to ocean currents, new research shows. Scientists found that the disruption took 140,000 years to reverse. Writing in the journal Nature, the scientists say the phenomenon may be important for understanding the impact of present day climate warming. Recent research suggests north Atlantic currents which bring heat to northern Europe may be weakening. The new study, by Flavia Nunes ... |
There's nothing pretty about real price of cheap coal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2006 at 12:00:08
| Houston Chronicle: IN recent years, one of the toughest turnaround jobs in American industry has been the effort to change the perception of coal from an industrial relic of 19th century to an energy source for the 21st century. The high-water mark of this makeover campaign may well have come last spring, when General Electric began its "ecomagination" advertising campaign touting its new clean coal technology. One ad featured glamorous, scantily clad models (male and female) shoveling ... |
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