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United States: Hands off ANWR (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| LA Times: WHAT'S MORE cynical than offering Americans $100 each to soothe the pain of high gasoline prices? The proposal by some in Congress to open the nation's last, best wild place to exploring and drilling for oil. Most of us can see the $100 offer for what it is: pure political pandering. And we should be equally skeptical of the latest rush to industrialize the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. President Bush and some members of Congress will do just about anything to drill in ... |
It's the climate, stupid (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Toronto Star: Mark Jaccard's book does not have a catchy title and will not make the best-seller lists, but it stands to influence what kind of car you drive and how you heat your home. Jaccard won this year's $35,000 Donner Prize for Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy (Cambridge University Press). In making the announcement on April 28, the judges picked it as the most important book on Canadian public policy to come out in ... |
United States: New day for solar power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Mercury News: Gasoline prices may be going up. But costs for another form of energy -- solar power -- are falling across the Bay Area as a result of public pressure. Six months after the Sierra Club published a report listing how much cities in Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Benito counties charge for permits to install solar panels on homes, 12 of the 40 cities have lowered those fees. The average cost for a solar permit in the region has fallen from $652 to $446 -- a drop of more than 31 ... |
Gore invites 250 to view his global warming documentary (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Tennessean: Earth's growing population and reliance on non-renewable resources are having a "crushing impact" on the planet, Al Gore told a small group in Nashville Saturday. "We simply have to change," the former vice president said following a screening of the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." The film focuses on Gore's efforts to educate the public about global warming, an issue the former presidential candidate has spoken out on for years. About 250 ... |
Great Lakes will slow pace of global warming effects in Michigan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Ann Arbor News: Global warming caused by human activity likely will have significant effects on American coastal areas, scientists say. The buildup of greenhouse gases and the accompanying rise in temperature could affect marine food chains, wind patterns and climates. Natalia Andronova studies global and regional climate change, focusing in part on how human activity affects the chemical composition of the atmosphere and thus our climate. She says the Great Lakes are not insulated from global ... |
United States: Senators clash over wind farm (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Associated Press: The Bush administration and two influential senators weighed in Friday against a provision that would block a 130-turbine wind farm off Cape Cod, where some of Washington's most powerful have vacation retreats. The wind farm has been a focus of controversy for five years. Developers won favorable environmental reviews and hoped to have it completed in 2009. A provision tucked into a bill authorizing U.S. Coast Guard activities would give the governor of Massachusetts a veto ... |
Critics doubt benefit of ethanol gas blend (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Toledo Blade: For sheer engine performance, no fuel on the market today burns hotter than ethanol. But its sizzling 113 octane rating isn't why the clear, corn-distilled liquid is white hot. First used in America 180 years ago, subject to tax during the Civil War, and filling auto gas tanks as early as 1896, ethyl alcohol is the new rising star and investment buzzword for a nation gone cranky over $70-a-barrel foreign oil and $3-a-gallon gas pump prices. "Who knew? If we knew it ... |
Alternative energy index to launch (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Financial Times: A new index tracking the performance of a portfolio of US alternative energy stocks is set to be launched on Friday, among the first to focus on the relatively young and fast-growing sector. The launch comes as high oil prices, geopolitical uncertainty and worries about climate change are generating growing investor interest in non-hydrocarbon based energy businesses. Merriman Curhan Ford, the San Francisco-based boutique investment bank, has developed the Merriman next ... |
Below the Belt - New Industry Ads Use Kids to Pimp Coal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Huffington Post: This is as low as it gets, lower than any industry has gone to promote their product since Big Tobacco paid doctors to recommended certain brands of cigarettes over others. The coal industry's new multi-million dollar ad campaign features a series of kids extolling the wonderful virtues of this dirtiest of fuels. These ads are running non-stop and are unfortunately impossible to ignore. Believe me, I've tried. How despicable is it to use kids to advertise a product that is literally ... |
Man-Made Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Innovations Report: A new study published in this week's issue of Nature is the first to show that human activity is altering the circulation of the tropical atmosphere and ocean through global warming. Scientists widely agree that the climate has warmed over the past century and that human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, have significantly contributed to this global warming. This study tapped historical records that date back to the mid-19th century as well as simple theory and ... |
United States: Officals move to protect Cape Cod project (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Associated Press: The Bush administration and two influential senators weighed in Friday against a provision that would block a 130-turbine wind farm off Cape Cod, where some of Washington's most powerful have vacation retreats. The wind farm, which would be located in Nantucket Sound about six miles off shore, has been a focus of controversy for five years. Developers won favorable environmental reviews and hoped to have it completed in 2009. A provision tucked into a bill authorizing ... |
Scientists chart plankton in the sea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Globe and Mail: Scientists have returned from an unprecedented expedition to catalogue the tiny drifters of the deep _ miniature flying snails, swimming worms and shrimp-like creatures that paddle themselves with oar-like feet. These little life forms _ known as zooplankton _ are essential to life as we know it on Earth. Marine biologists usually study these creatures in relatively shallow water. But they wanted to know more about the populations in deeper water, between one and five kilometers ... |
China Makes Artificial Rain for Beijing (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Associated Press: Chinese weather specialists used chemicals to engineer Beijing's heaviest rainfall of the year, helping to relieve drought and rinse dust from China's capital, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday. Technicians with the Beijing Weather Modification Office fired seven rocket shells containing 163 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide over the city's skies on Thursday, Xinhua said. The reaction that occurred brought as much as four-tenths of an inch of rain, the ... |
Gore urges Canada to hold politicians accountable on environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Canadian Press: Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore says Canada's new Conservative government was elected on issues that have nothing to do with global warming and now it is pretending to have a mandate to abandon the country's historical commitment to the environment. "Each of us, as citizens, either in the U.S. or Canada, have a responsibility to hold our leaders accountable, keep their feet to the fire, yes, or to the solar cooker or whatever," he said Friday during a visit to Toronto to ... |
United States: Governor got it right on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| San Francisco Chronicle: Californians have led the way in several key environmental policy areas over the years including requiring catalytic converters on cars, sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxides trading to reduce particulates in the air and clean water and land-use restrictions. Naturally, many Californians think their state should take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases, even if none of their neighbors follows suit. Last year, when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the executive order establishing ... |
Canada: Ottawa axes another Kyoto program (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Globe and Mail: The federal government has quietly axed a program to help low-income households cope with high energy costs and cut greenhouse gas emissions. EnerGuide for Low Income Houses, a $500-million, five-year initiative introduced with all-party support last November, is the 14th Kyoto climate accord program to bite the dust. "All climate change-related initiatives are being re-examined to make sure they will achieve results for Canada," Christine Choury, spokeswoman for ... |
Canada: Program to help low-income homes cut energy use axed (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Canadian Press: The federal government has quietly axed a program to help low-income households cope with high energy costs and cut greenhouse gas emissions. EnerGuide for Low Income Houses (EGLIH), a $500-million, five-year initiative introduced with all-party support last November, is the 14th Kyoto climate accord program to bite the dust. "All climate change-related initiatives are being re-examined to make sure they will achieve results for Canada,'' said Christine Choury, ... |
What Are Zooplankton? (And Why You Should Care) (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Inter Press Service: Scientists probing the depths of the Sargasso Sea have discovered new species and learned more about the vital role of its smallest animals, zooplankton. "We found a large number of species, including a number that may be new to science, at depths of one to five kilometres," said Larry Maden, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, located on the U.S. northeast coast. "Despite inhospitable conditions of permanent darkness, crushing ... |
White House Opposes Law Killing Wind-Power Project (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-07-2006 at 03:00:13
| Bloomberg: The Bush administration joined lawmakers from both parties expressing opposition to legislation that would block the nation's first offshore wind-power project, saying it may harm future investment in wind power. Under Secretary of Energy David Garman urged lawmakers in a letter today to remove a provision from Coast Guard spending legislation that would allow the governor of Massachusetts to veto the Cape Wind project off the shores of Cape Cod ``Singling out wind generation ... |
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