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PM to look at global emissions trade (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Australian: AUSTRALIA could join a global emissions trading system as John Howard shifts ground on climate change. Under pressure to do more to address rising community concerns, the Prime Minister said he would not be "panicked" into policies that were not matched by other countries. But he put Australian industry on notice that it could face a pricing mechanism to reduce greenhouse emissions, as public sentiment hardens in favour of more urgent action. "I would be ... |
Australia: Power, fuel bills to jump in greenhouse remedies (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Age: Consumers need to brace themselves for increases of 30 to 40 per cent in their electricity bills and higher petrol prices if they want governments to solve climate change and business to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane said yesterday higher energy prices were inevitable, even if Australia took the less dramatic step of investing in clean coal technologies. "People need to understand that lowering carbon in Australia (would cost) billions and ... |
United Kingdom: Activists bid to close power plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Press Association: Anti-pollution activists are trying to shut down one of Britain's largest power stations. A Greenpeace spokesman said 30 of its members invaded Didcot coal-fired power plant in Oxfordshire at 5.30am. Protesters hit emergency stop buttons on conveyor belts carrying coal into the plant and attached themselves to machinery. A second group climbed a 200 metre high chimney to set up a "climate camp" at the top. Equipped with masks and food supplies, they intend to ... |
American car buyers get a case of amnesia (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| CNN: Who can remember all the way back to last summer, when we had daylight savings time, baseball and $3 a gallon gasoline prices? Not American car buyers, apparently, and you can see the evidence in the results of October auto sales. Sales of big pickup trucks and SUVs went through the roof - doubling from the year before in some cases. Sales of small, fuel-efficient cars, meanwhile, remained stagnant. It is as if all that moaning and groaning about price gouging by oil companies ... |
Bush probed for 'muzzled climate research' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Reuters: Two federal agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and censor their research, a senator said. Senator Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, said on Wednesday that he was informed that the inspectors general for the commerce department and Nasa had begun "co-ordinated, sweeping investigations of the Bush administration's censorship and suppression" of federal research into ... |
Climate change guide launched as prelude to crucial Nairobi talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Independent (UK): For anyone feeling impotent in the face of climate change, help is at hand, in the form of a new 16-step guide to cutting carbon emissions in your own life. I Count, written by members of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition of organisations dedicated to action on climate change, aims to cut through the mass of information on global warming. Sir David Attenborough, Annie Lennox, Alistair McGowan and Jo Brand are supporting the book, which is published on the eve of global climate ... |
Australia: Climate concerns fuel coal mine opposition campaign (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: KERRY O'BRIEN: Welcome to the program. And the reinvigorated global warming debate continues, kicked along by an opinion poll for green groups suggesting almost 80 per cent of Australians favour targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with more than 90 per cent wanting to see greater investment in wind and solar power. Those sentiments are reflected in the Hunter Valley, the nation's first coal capital, where plans for a massive new coal mine in the Hunter are running into serious local ... |
Australia: Drought-Hit Australia Battles Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Reuters: Australia is already feeling the heat from climate change with a five-year drought devastating rural life, severe early season wildfires and record unseasonal temperatures. Every four days, a farmer commits suicide under the stress of failing crops, dying livestock and debt as the worst drought in 100 years bites deep into the nation's psyche and erodes economic growth. "The current drought highlights how vulnerable we are to climate change," said farmer Mark Wootton. "We will ... |
Essential that US Joins New Kyoto - UK Minister (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Reuters: It is vital the United States signs up to a global agreement on climate change, British Environment Minister David Miliband said on Wednesday ahead of talks to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012. "I don't want to make predictions but it's essential for the world that America is part of a global agreement," said Miliband in a Reuters interview. "They've got a huge contribution to make and it's important that they make it." UN climate ... |
Heading off global overheating (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| New York Times: Except to a few holdouts, the scientific case for the existence and dangers of global warming - that the climate is a changing, that human activities are largely responsible, and that the consequences could be irreversible - seems undeniable. Now, a much-anticipated study ordered up by British Prime Minister Tony Blair sets forth a compelling economic case for action. The study, led by Sir Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, is necessarily conjectural, since ... |
Scientists say White House muzzled climate research (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Associated Press: Two federal agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and censor their research, a senator said Wednesday. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., said he was informed that the inspectors general for the Commerce Department and NASA had begun "coordinated, sweeping investigations of the Bush administration's censorship and suppression" of federal research into global ... |
Solar to Become Top Alternative Energy, Author Says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Reuters: Solar power will become economically viable and available to almost anyone in the next 10 to 15 years, Travis Bradford, a former corporate buyout specialist, says in his book "Solar Revolution." Bradford left Wall Street three years ago to run Massachusetts-based Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, which seeks to promote sustainable technologies. Below are Bradford's answers to questions from Reuters: Reuters: When will the shortage of refined ... |
South Africa: Africa's Worst Polluter Aims to Clean up its Act (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Reuters: South Africa, the continent's worst polluter, hopes to lend momentum to the battle against climate change by seeking ways to clean up its act and offering a good example to other developing nations. Africa's economic powerhouse belches millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, much of it from coal-fired power plants that still provide most of its energy. Now, the government has asked the Energy Research Centre (ERC) at the University of Cape Town to ... |
Beckett takes green message to India (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Guardian: Climate change protesters have broken into one of Britain's biggest coal-fired power stations in an attempt to highlight the extent of Britain's carbon emissions. Around 30 members of Greenpeace entered Didcot plant in Oxfordshire before dawn this morning and have chained themselves to coal conveyor belts and climbed the 200-metre chimney. Their stunt came as the foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, arrived in India for a six-day trip where she will urge the developing country ... |
Climate campaigners shut down one of UK's biggest power stations (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| Greenpeace: One of Britain's dirtiest power stations has been shut down by climate change campaigners. Thirty Greenpeace volunteers invaded the Didcot coal-fired power station at 5:30am this morning, 2/11/2006. They have immobilised the huge conveyor belts that carry coal into the plant by hitting emergency stop buttons and attaching themselves to machinery. A second group is climbing the 200 metre high chimney, and will set up a climate camp at the top. The Didcot site is the second ... |
Climate threat heats up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:14
| LA Times: OVER THE LAST two years, the findings of studies on global warming have grown increasingly dire. The glaciers are melting, the polar bears are endangered. Climate change is linked to the catastrophic western wildfires, and warming oceans have been tied to Katrina-like hurricanes. On Monday, the British government tried to translate it all into dollars and cents. A 700-page report written by former World Bank economist Nicholas Stern argued that global warming will eventually cost ... |
Costs Limit Bigger US Move to Biomass Ethanol (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Reuters: Scientists have developed ways to make ethanol from corn stalks, switchgrass, wood chips and other plant materials, but high production costs and lack of easy access to those materials have slowed the technology's move to widespread commercial use. In the United States, Ethanol is made primarily from corn, but industry experts have said waste materials from agriculture or forestry could be a cheaper alternative in the future. "Some (corn-based) ethanol plants are not getting ... |
Great Barrier Reef may be 'hosed down' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| AAP: SCIENTISTS are considering a plan to make the water of the Great Barrier Reef cooler for corals vulnerable to the damage from climate change. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) executive director Andrew Skeat today said the proposal would involve watering the surface of the ocean at peak times of heat stress to avoid coral bleaching. "It's a proposal ... which would simply pump a fine spray of seawater onto the surface which would just break up the water ... |
MIT survey: Climate change most important (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| United Press International: A U.S. survey shows people rank climate change as the United States' most pressing environmental problem. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say their survey's results represent a dramatic shift from three years ago, when climate change ranked sixth among 10 environmental concerns. Nearly three-quarters of respondents this year said the government should do more to deal with global warming. "While terrorism and the war in Iraq are the main issues ... |
Australia: PM defies supporters over Kyoto (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| AAP: PRIME Minister John Howard is standing by his decision not to sign the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gases – a position at odds with almost 80 per cent of Australians. Mr Howard believes that a panicked reaction will push investments overseas. A Newspoll published today found 79 per cent of Australians want the Government to sign the Kyoto Protocol and commit to targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Seventy-one per cent of Coalition voters believe the same ... |
Australia: Reducing emissions can't wait (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Australian: THE Stern review moves the debate on climate change beyond science to economics and in the process it catches the Howard Government short. Only six weeks ago, Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane declared himself to be "a sceptic of the connection between emissions and climate change". He conceded the need to lower emissions - the kind of non sequitur that only a politician can explain - but said that could be done through new technology and "you don't necessarily need to ... |
Signing Kyoto not the solution to climate change: Howard (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ELEANOR HALL: The Prime Minister John Howard has rejected suggestions that he's out of step with the majority of Australians on the best way to tackle climate change. A Newspoll commissioned by a coalition of green groups, including Greenpeace, has found that 79 per cent of Australians want the Federal Government to sign the Kyoto Protocol and to commit to targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The poll also found that more than 90 per cent of people want the Government to ... |
UBS launches EU carbon emissions index (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Reuters: Switzerland's UBS (UBSN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) has launched an index of future contracts for carbon dioxide emissions traded under the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the bank said on Thursday. The index <WEMITRUS=UBSL> would be published in U.S. dollars, euros and Swiss francs and would include two European trading platforms -- the European climate Exchange and the Nordic Power Exchange. Emission rights trading is a cornerstone of the Kyoto ... |
UK in India climate change plea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| BBC: British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has urged India to help in efforts to tackle climate change. She made the call at the start of a six-day visit to the country. It comes just days after a report commissioned by the British government said that rich nations must act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Mrs Beckett's counterpart, Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, meanwhile stressed the importance of working together to combat terrorism. ... |
Whole Foods Offers Cards to Fund Wind Power Market (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Reuters: Top US natural and organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market Wednesday began selling "wind-power cards" that seek to fund and market the growing renewable energy. Seventy-six Whole Foods stores in nine states will offer US$5 and US$15 plastic cards that are to represent the average electricity use by a person - 250 kilowatt hours - and an average household -- 750 KWh - in the United States per month. Renewable Choice Energy will collect money from the sale of the ... |
Atomic jobs explosion (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Australian: UKRAINE, Finland, Britain, the US, Canada, France, South Korea and Japan: Ziggy Switkowski has been a dedicated globe-trotter in recent weeks. In charge of a key prime ministerial inquiry into Australia's nuclear future, the former Telstra chief executive has been to nuclear reactors, enrichment facilities and waste storage depots across the world. Along with the rest of his six-member taskforce, he has been within 100m of the damaged Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine and heard about the ... |
Australia moots Barrier Reef parasol (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Australia could help preserve an attraction that draws 2 million tourists a year by putting shade cloth over parts of the Great Barrier Reef to protect delicate corals from the effects of climate change, Tourism Minister Fran Bailey said Thursday. Experts have warned that the coral bleaching that goes with higher temperatures could wreck the reef within 20 years. 'We're concerned about this because this is a 5.8-billion-Australian-dollar (4.4-billion-US-dollar) tourist ... |
Blair, Merkel to discuss climate change in London tomorrow (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| AFX: British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his German counterpart Angela Merkel will discuss climate change at a meeting in London tomorrow, said Blair's spokesman. Germany takes over the G8 presidency from Russia next year and Merkel has said she wants climate change to be 'a large part of their agenda,' the spokesman added. 'I think it (the meeting) will range over the usual European issues, but I think also, partly following on from the informal (EU) summit in Finland, we will be ... |
Australia: Climate poll no surprise: Campbell (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| AAP: ENVIRONMENT Minister Ian Campbell said he is not surprised by a new poll showing most Australians believe more needs to be done to fight climate change. The Newspoll found 79 per cent of Australians want the Government to sign the Kyoto climate change accord and commit to targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A huge 91 per cent want a shift from reliance on coal-fired power to focus instead on renewable energy sources and four out of five Australians agree that polluting ... |
Australia: Government and Opposition trade insults over climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: MARK COLVIN: Rooster puppets and idiots featured in federal parliament's last question time of the week. Emotions ran high as both sides traded insults over climate change, interest rates and industrial relations, all shaping up as key election platforms. And in a sign the Government was feeling pressure, ministers took direct aim at the Labor Leader Kim Beazley and two of his close confidants, saying one had no substance and the other had no credibility. From Canberra, ... |
United Kingdom: O'Leary pooh-poohs green tax idea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Guardian: Ryanair has dismissed calls for green taxes on aviation as the "usual horseshit" and warned that extra levies on airlines will not put people off flying. Michael O'Leary, chief executive of the low-cost carrier, also ruled out joining the EU carbon emissions trading scheme, seen by some airlines as their best hope of avoiding punitive taxes as governments consider curbing the industry's contribution to the greenhouse effect. "It's the usual horseshit that we ... |
Canada: Opposition parties vow to 'clean the Clean Air Act' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Globe and Mail: The three opposition parties are vowing to turn the government's Clean Air Act into a vehicle for complying with the Kyoto Protocol, even though Conservatives have warned it's too late to meet Kyoto's targets without major economic havoc. Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed to an NDP request yesterday that the Clean Air Act go straight to committee before second reading, a procedural option that means MPs are free to amend the bill in any way they wish. "We want to ... |
India: Polluters to Tackle Energy-Intensive Industries (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Reuters: An alliance of the world's biggest polluters is working together to make the most energy-intensive sectors such as coal, cement and steel manufacturing more efficient, India said on Wednesday. The Asia-Pacific Partnership -- made up of India, China, Japan, South Korea, the United States and Australia -- favours a voluntary approach to reducing emissions instead following the Kyoto model of setting specific targets. The six countries -- which represent about half of the world's ... |
Solar energy demonstration facility to showcase technology (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Arid Lands Environment Centre in Alice Springs says a new solar technology demonstration facility announced for the area is only a drop in the ocean in terms of the town's renewable energy capacity. The Northern Territory and Commonwealth governments will jointly fund the $2.5 million facility as part of the Desert Knowledge Precinct, south of the town. Desert Knowledge Australia says it will power the precinct and act as a tourist attraction, showing how renewable energy ... |
Growing greener greens (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:15
| Guardian: The Stern review on the economic impacts of climate change rightly emphasises the importance of technological innovation in responding to climate change. It calls for the "development and deployment of a wide range of low-carbon technologies" to cut carbon emissions. In addition, developing countries will need to be accompanied by innovations that help developing countries to adapt to the impacts of climate change. The report says that "declining crop yields, especially ... |
Indonesia: Hotspots drop in Indonesia but some haze lingers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| Reuters: Hotspots in Indonesia, indicators of the forest and brush fires responsible for a choking haze across much of the region, have shrunk to less than half the number two weeks ago, an environment ministry official said on Wednesday. Most of the decline came from Sumatra island, where sporadic but heavy rain has doused fires set by farmers trying to clear land for agriculture. Thick haze still blankets areas of the Indonesian part of Borneo island, however. The haze has ... |
United Kingdom: Not stern enough (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 12:00:16
| Guardian: So now, finally, we have a government report on climate change that the money people can buy into. The science hasn't been enough these last 16 years, evidently. I say 16 years because that was when the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientific assessment came out. It was obvious to many people who read it at the time that we would lose great chunks of the world's economy if global warming continued unabated. And back in 1990, shortly after the IPCC report, I edited Global ... |
Blair pushes to speed up climate change talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:14
| Reuters: British Prime Minister Tony Blair, armed with evidence of the disastrous impact of ignoring climate change, will talk to Germany's leader on Friday about speeding up a drive for a new international pact against global warming. Blair's meeting in London with German Chancellor Angela Merkel comes before United Nations talks in Kenya next week to hunt for new ways to fight climate change. But experts say it may take three years or more to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto ... |
United Kingdom: Climate change protesters climb chimney and cut power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:14
| Guardian: Greenpeace protesters yesterday halved the amount of electricity being generated by Britain's second largest coal-fired power station as more than 25 people occupied Didcot in Oxfordshire. Last night police had failed to remove them. According to the environment group, 30 volunteers from across Britain invaded the site at 5.30am yesterday and immobilised conveyer belts which carry coal into the plant. As one group of protesters hit emergency stop buttons and attached themselves to ... |
'Great Warming' is an eye-opener (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:14
| Seattle Post Intelligencer: In the wake of the big splash made by Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" earlier this year, is there room for another documentary on the apocalyptic dangers of global warming? In a word, yes. "The Great Warming," a film that's been in the works for more than six years and boasts Keanu Reeves and Alanis Morissette as its narrators, does a solid job of dealing with the problem but with enough originality that it's not an exact duplication of the Gore film. And ... |
Climate expert urges Australia to act (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:14
| AAP: The author of a controversial report on climate change says Australia has all the elements which could help fight global warming and should get on with it. Former world bank economist Sir Nicholas Stern released his Review on the Economics of Climate Change earlier this week, warning of economic and climatic disaster if urgent action is not taken to tackle global warming. The Kyoto Protocol, he said, should be the first priority. "There's an urgency about this and ... |
EU warns of four-year delay to carbon trading scheme (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:14
| Independent (UK): Tony Blair's plans for aviation to be included in the EU carbon trading scheme are likely to be delayed until the end of the decade, senior EU figures said yesterday. The disclosure of the delay of up to four years in the aviation scheme will open the Government to renewed charges of talking tough, but doing too little. The Stern report this week warned that urgent action was vital to avert a climate change disaster. A climate change report published by the Institute for ... |
United Kingdom: Push for energy-saving bulbs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:15
| Guardian: Moves to ban traditional lightbulbs are being looked at by the government in the battle against climate change. The aim is to encourage consumers to buy energy-saving bulbs, which last on average up to 12 times as long. People using the energy-saving bulbs will also see their electricity bills reduced by up to £9 a year, according to the Energy Saving Trust. Environment minister Ian Pearson told the Commons the government was committed to using all suitable policy instruments to ... |
Australia: Results of reef shade cloth trial proving positive (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:15
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Researchers involved in a trial of shade cloth to protect the Great Barrier Reef say the early results are encouraging. Federal Tourism Minister Fran Bailey says the Commonwealth is considering funding the use of shade cloths to protect vulnerable parts of the reef from global warming. Marine biologist Russell Hore from Reef Biosearch and Quicksilver Connections in Port Douglas says the shade cloths block out heat and light and reduce the damaging effects of global warming to ... |
United Kingdom: Bulbs must be efficient 'by 2009' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:15
| BBC: Traditional light bulbs could taken off the shelves of UK shops within three years and replaced with energy-saving alternatives, the government has said. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has been talking to retailers and manufacturers about replacing "inefficient" goods. An agreement on minimum standards may even come in before the EU sets laws on such items, spokeswoman Penny Fox said. Studies suggested modern bulbs lasted ... |
Calif. greenhouse emissions up 14 pct 1990-2004 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:15
| ABC News: California's polluting greenhouse gas emissions rose more than 14 percent between 1990 and 2004, a report issued this week by the California Energy Commission showed. That's the wrong direction for a state that has made law and a vow to cut those global warming gases to 1990 levels by 2020, said Dan Kammen of the energy and resources group at the University of California-Berkeley. "It's going in the wrong direction, but it's considerably less than the national ... |
Arizona sets 15 pct power from renewables by 2025 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:15
| Reuters: Arizona utility regulators have approved rules requiring regulated utilities to generate 15 percent of their total energy from renewable sources such as solar and wind by 2025. The new requirement was passed by a 4-1 vote by the Arizona Corporation Commission on Tuesday. It will increase an renewable energy surcharge for customers of the state's regulated utilities, Arizona Public Service (APS) and Tucson Electric Power Co. The Salt River Project, second-largest utility in the ... |
PM against 'climate panic' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:16
| Special Broadcasting Service: Prime Minister John Howard has largely discounted the findings of a Newspoll critical of his government on climate change, but concedes the issue is on people's minds. The online Newspoll found 91 per cent of those surveyed want a shift from reliance on coal-fired power to renewable energy sources, points that 90 per cent of coalition voters agreed with. "To start with, this was an online poll. It wasn't one where people were rung up and properly sampled, so I think we ... |
PM warns of pricey global warming battle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:16
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY JONES: Well, back to down home politics in Australia now, and the Prime Minister has warned that, even without the introduction of a carbon tax, moves to tackle global warming will come at a cost. A Newspoll released today shows the vast majority of Australians want the Government to do more about climate change and more than 9 out of 10 support greater investment in renewable energy. Well, the Prime Minister's admission that even the Government's approach would drive up prices for ... |
Strapped Missouri Farmers Seek Salvation from Declining Economy in Wind Farms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:16
| Associated Press: The decline of the family farm is part of Northwest Missouri's economic problems, which range from the shuttering of a nearby manufacturing plant to a steadily dwindling population. But some farmers in the region who once relied on hogs or soybeans to make ends meet will soon be harvesting wind energy. By next year, more than 100 towering turbines are expected to reach into the sky in Atchison, Gentry and Nodaway counties, generating enough electricity to power 45,000 homes ... |
Web campaign urges Spaniards to switch off (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:16
| Reuters: Closing blinds to keep out the sun instead of turning on air conditioning can save a household more than half a tonne of carbon dioxide emissions a year, Spaniards are being told by a new campaign against climate change. Switching off computers, televisions and music centres when not in use can save 87 kilos (191 pounds) of carbon dioxide (CO2), says the Web page www.movimientoclima.org, launched on Thursday. Spain has the worst record of all the countries that signed the Kyoto ... |
Blair Says UK Should Lead Europe on Nuclear, Renewable Energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:16
| Bloomberg: Prime Minister Tony Blair said Britain should lead Europe on the development of nuclear and renewable energy, as his government decides whether to replace its aging nuclear reactors. ``At least half the European countries are thinking about the next stages of nuclear power,'' Blair said in an interview with the New Scientist magazine, published today. ``We have expertise in this area and we should develop it. Clean energy, clean coal, renewables, energy efficiency -- this is going to ... |
Australia: Climate change forces new farming techniques (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 11-02-2006 at 09:00:16
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY JONES: Well, the threat of climate change has led to farmers being warned to change their practices if they want to survive. Scientists say global warming will continue to have a long term effect on Australia's weather patterns. The farmers who survive will be those who can adapt to new conditions and adopt new techniques. Sarah Clarke reports. SARAH CLARKE: While most farmers go without a winter crop, Ian Carter is just weeks away from harvest. His secret? No burning off and no ... |
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