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Cut Emissions Now or Pay, UK Tells Climate Talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:17
| Reuters: Britain told the world's worst polluting nations on Tuesday that acting now to cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases would be vastly cheaper in the long run than doing nothing. British government scientist and former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern told a meeting in northern Mexico that it makes economic as well as environmental sense to pursue green energy sources. A long-awaited study by Stern on the economic effects of combating global warming is due in ... |
The century of drought (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:17
| Independent (UK): Drought threatening the lives of millions will spread across half the land surface of the Earth in the coming century because of global warming, according to new predictions from Britain's leading climate scientists. Extreme drought, in which agriculture is in effect impossible, will affect about a third of the planet, according to the study from the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. It is one of the most dire forecasts so far of the potential ... |
Canada Begins Talks on Tougher Auto-Emission Rules (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:17
| Reuters: The Conservative government is to present its case for tougher emissions standards to Canadian auto industry chief executives Tuesday as it fashions a "green plan" to present to Parliament this autumn. Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has summoned CEOs from major vehicle manufacturers in Canada as well as union leaders and a handful of cabinet ministers to a meeting in Ottawa to discuss a key piece of the minority government's promised environmental plan. Auto ... |
Global warming devastates sea ice in Arctic Circle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:17
| Independent (UK): Sea ice in the Arctic last month melted to its second lowest monthly minimum in the 29-year record of satellite measurements. Scientists at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in Colorado said the total surface area covered by sea ice during September was smaller than in any previous year apart from 2005, when it reached an all-time record minimum. And it was only a sudden change to cool and stormy weather in August that prevented another record low being set this ... |
Scientists Question US Govt Air Pollution Decision (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:18
| Reuters: Pollution experts have "serious scientific concerns" that newly unveiled US air quality standards may pose risks to human health and welfare, according to a letter made public on Tuesday. The experts, all charter members of a key advisory panel to the US Environmental Protection Agency, questioned the agency's decision to keep annual standards for fine soot particles at the same level they have been since 1997. The panel's scientists, along with a broad range of environmental ... |
Study warns of stark costs of failing to counter climate change as leaders meet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:18
| Guardian: Gordon Brown is about to publish a ground-breaking study which will warn the world that it faces paying multi-trillion pound economic costs if it does not move urgently to act on climate change. The study, led by Sir Nicholas Stern, a former World Bank economist, is a stark warning to world leaders, especially George Bush, that the climate change issue cannot be stalled by claiming economic competitiveness will be damaged by taking action now. The report, regarded by experts as ... |
Montana Announces Coal-to-Liquids Plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:18
| Reuters: Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and a consortium of energy and technology companies Monday announced the state will be home to one of the nation's first coal-to-liquids energy plants. The US$1 billion Bull Mountain Coal-to-Liquids Plant is slated to begin producing 22,000 barrels per day of diesel fuel and 300 megawatts of electricity - enough to power 240,000 homes - in six years. Schweitzer and the companies behind the plant, including chief developers Arch Minerals, part of ... |
United Kingdom: Protection plea as basking sharks head for Scottish waters to breed (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:18
| Scotsman: RECORD numbers of giant basking sharks are coming to Scottish waters to find a mate, according to new research. Conservationists recorded nearly 300 of the world's second-largest fish, mainly in two "hotspots" in the Hebrides, leading to calls for those areas to be given official protection by the Scottish Executive. Colin Speedie, a marine conservationist who has carried out an annual survey of basking sharks around the UK coastline since 2002, said it appeared ... |
Scientists to study global warming process in Indian Ocean (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:18
| Hindu: Top scientists from different continents gathered on Tuesday, here to exchange information on global warming, with reference to the Indian Ocean region and its consequent impact on the rim countries. They were participating in a 4-day international workshop on "Sustained Indian Ocean biogeochemical and Ecological Research" that began here under the ageis of the prestigious National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) as part of celebrating its 40th anniversary. It was ... |
A Plug For Hybrids (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:18
| U.S. News and World Report: When Andy Frank first tried to demonstrate how electricity could help a car get 100 miles per gallon of gasoline, he resorted to the only big power source he could find, the lead acid battery from a Caterpillar tractor. But the farm vehicle-to-auto transplant didn't work, and the young professor concluded the battery technology of 1972 wasn't up to the job. Still, he didn't give up. "This is fundamental engineering," he says. "If you do the physics and calculations, and have ... |
Extreme droughts will spread, warn forecasters (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:18
| Guardian: Nearly a third of the world's land surface may be at risk of extreme drought by the end of the century, wreaking havoc on farmland and water resources and leading to mass migrations of "environmental refugees", climate experts warned yesterday. Predictions based on historical trends in rainfall and surface temperatures dating back to the 1950s reveal that regions blighted by moderate droughts are set to double by the end of the century, with tentative data suggesting areas ... |
United States: Climate Change Affects Forest-Floor Ecosystem (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:18
| Scientific American: To see how far-reaching climate change effects could be, you might try looking under your feet. In some regions, climate change models predict new rainfall patterns that may affect how leaves on forest floors decompose. Entomologists from the University of Kentucky report that low rainfall leads to a series of events that result in faster decomposition. Forest floors are active places consisting of intertwined life cycles among various organisms. The main predators in this web of ... |
Nations Discuss Global Warming in Mexico (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:18
| Associated Press: Representatives from 20 of the world's most polluting nations met behind closed doors in this industrial city in northern Mexico on Tuesday to discuss ways to combat global warming. Officials said energy and environment ministers from G-8 nations as well as developing countries such as China, India and Brazil considered how to create a new framework for tackling climate change before the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol requires 36 industrial nations to ... |
Canada: Ambrose apologizes for dismissing Quebec's environmental concerns (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:18
| Canadian Press: Environment Minister Rona Ambrose apologized Tuesday for saying that "Quebec is not really a concern to me" in developing plans to combat climate change. "I'm very sorry if my remarks have been misintepreted," Ambrose told the Commons in response to a complaint from Liberal MP Lucienne Robillard. "I know Quebecers love their environment." Ambrose told CanWest columnist Don Martin that the federal government will avoid an enforced limit on ... |
Global Warming Affecting Mass. Costal Areas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:19
| CBS News: Global warming is of particular concern to all coastal areas. Experts say that sea levels have already risen about a half a foot around here. We currently lose about 65 acres a year along the southern New England coastline due to erosion, but that's nothing compared to what could happen if global warming isn't checked. The historic Blizzard of '78 is considered a once in one hundred year storm. That timetable, however, will most likely change with global warming. Paul Kirshen studies ... |
Canada: Ontario failing to adapt to climate change: watchdog (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:19
| Canadian Press: Several powerful windstorms this summer that left tens of thousands of residents without power are proof climate change is already impacting Ontario, and the Liberal government is not prepared for the consequences, the province's environmental watchdog warned Tuesday. Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller's annual report, titled "Neglecting Our Obligations," warns the province has no strategy to ensure bridges, dams, sewage treatment plants, drainage systems or power transmission ... |
Study: Arctic ice coverage lowest-ever (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 12:00:19
| Canadian Press: The ocean area covered by Arctic sea ice last summer was as low as it's ever been, according to a newly released study. And the rate of melting gets faster every year, suggesting that a self-perpetuating warming cycle predicted by climate change models is already at work, said the data released by the main American centre for ice studies. "Sea ice is not doing well and it has not recovered and it doesn't appear that it is going to recover," said Mark Serreze of the National ... |
Alaskans sure it's getting warmer (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| Anchorage Daily News: Four of every five Alaskans believe the Earth is getting warmer, a new poll suggests, and most of them think global climate change is transforming the landscape as the summer Arctic ice pack shrinks, forests burn and fall storms batter coastal villages. Could be good for tourism, though. Those are some of the findings from a lengthy survey of more than 1,000 residents across the state, conducted by pollster and public opinion researcher Jean Craciun between May 9 and June 29 ... |
Arctic sea ice at all-time low, researchers say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| Canadian Press: The ocean area covered by Arctic sea ice last summer was as low as it has ever been, according to a study. And the rate of melting gets faster every year, suggesting that a self-perpetuating warming cycle predicted by climate change models is already at work, the study by the main U.S. centre for ice studies said. "Sea ice is not doing well, and it has not recovered, and it doesn't appear that it is going to recover," said Mark Serreze of the National Snow and Ice ... |
Climate change - How viable is a consumer carbon tax? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| Ethical Corporation: In a recent announcement about Ford's billion-dollar green investment, the Head of Ford Europe, Lewis Booth warned that individual responsibility is key to tackling environmental change. He foresaw future consumers having an awareness of how each person's carbon consumption could affect the planet. One strategy he put forward was a carbon credits scheme, where "customers may decide how his or her CO2 allocation is spent." This idea has already been posited by ... |
The big melt: Canada's North on front line (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:19
| CanWest News Service: The northwest wind has picked up, sending waves crashing on to the gravel spit that helps protect this remote community on the edge of the Arctic Ocean. By early evening, the water is rolling right over the spit, and a little more of Jackie Jacobson's townsite is swallowed by the sea. "We need to get some rock to protect that point, otherwise I'm going to have three- or four-foot rollers coming into town," says Jacobson, the mayor of Tuktoyaktuk, the most northern community ... |
The Gospel of Green (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:19
| AlterNet: First came the mighty winds, blowing across the Gulf with unprecedented fury, leveling cities and towns, washing away the houses built on sand. Toss in record flooding across the Northeast, and one of the warmest winters humans have known on this continent, and a prolonged and deepening drought in the desert West. For Americans, this has been the year the earth turned biblical. Pharaoh may have faced plagues and frogs and darkness; we got Katrina and Rita and Wilma. But this was also ... |
Canadian firms lag in disclosing climatic impact (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:19
| Canadian Press: Canadian companies are not keeping up with international firms in disclosing exposure to climate risk, says a Conference Board of Canada report. Only 28% of Canadian companies answered a questionnaire about potential climate impacts on their operations, the lowest rate of any country in the global survey, says the report. "We lag the pack," report author David Greenall said yesterday. "It does raise eyebrows." One explanation for the low response ... |
Getting closer to the cosmic connection to climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:19
| Innovations Report: An essential role for remote stars in everyday weather on Earth has been revealed by an experiment at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen. It is already well-established that when cosmic rays, which are high-speed atomic particles originating in exploded stars far away in the Milky Way, penetrate Earth's atmosphere they produce substantial amounts of ions and release free electrons. Now, results from the Danish experiment show that the released electrons significantly ... |
Arctic Sea Ice Melt Accelerating (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 03:00:18
| Environment News Service: The Arctic Ocean will be ice-free by 2060 if current warming trends continue, scientists with the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said Tuesday. Measurements of Arctic sea ice from this year continued a pattern of sharp annual decreases due to rising temperatures, the researchers said, and the melting is consistent with predicted changes to the climate caused by rising greenhouse gas emissions. "I'm not terribly optimistic about the future of the ice," said ... |
El Salvador: Carbon Is the Biz (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 03:00:18
| Inter Press Service: El Salvador is studying the Kyoto Protocol carefully, not because it has to cut its emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, but because this international agreement opens a way to earn profits and encourages investment for development. The treaty on climate change provides a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows rich countries -- the only ones obliged by the treaty to reduce their emissions -- to implement projects in developing countries, such as ... |
The effects of breathing unhealthy amounts of air pollutants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 03:00:19
| Radio Singapore International: The US Environmental Protection Agency has decided not to reduce the permissible levels of fine soot particles in the air. This decision has angered a group of scientists, citing health risks from such air pollutants. The scientists claim that exposure to such air pollutants can aggravate heart and lung diseases and cause premature deaths. Meanwhile, in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, the density of such fine soot particles in the air has increased ... |
Doubled carbon emission may be price of growth in India, China (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:17
| Financial Express: The rapid growth of emerging economies like China and India–along with moderate growth registered by developed countries–could have a serious long-term impact on global energy consumption and carbon emission. According to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, countries will end up doubling global carbon emission by 2050 if they adopt a "business as usual approach". This can, potentially, have serious long-term implications on global warming and climate change as well. The report ... |
Arctic Sees Near-Record Melt in 2006 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| ABC News: Summers in the Arctic Circle could be ice-free in about 50 years if current melting trends continue, according to new projections by scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. What causes alarm among scientists is the rate at which the summer arctic sea ice is disappearing, at about 8.6 percent per decade. At that rate, scientists warn, the Arctic could be completely free of ice by about 2060 -- about a decade earlier than had been previously ... |
Climate change threat 'daunting' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| BBC: One of the world's most prominent business leaders has expressed his fears over the "daunting" challenge of preventing dangerous climate change. Rick Samans, head of the Davos-based World Economic Forum, said the global effort to tackle the problem was beginning 10-15 years late. He said politicians had to act fast and set targets to cut CO2 emissions. Mr Samans made his comments at a conference of the world's top 20 polluting nations in Mexico. ... |
Researchers link ice-age climate-change records to ocean salinity (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| Phys.org: Sudden decreases in temperature over Greenland and tropical rainfall patterns during the last Ice Age have been linked for the first time to rapid changes in the salinity of the north Atlantic Ocean, according to research published Oct. 5, 2006, in the journal Nature. The results provide further evidence that ocean circulation and chemistry respond to changes in climate. Using chemical traces in fossil shells of microscopic planktonic life forms, called formanifera, in ... |
US Northeast could warm drastically by 2100- study (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| Reuters: For those who love New England's mild summer weather, scientists have some advice: enjoy it while you can. If greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current course, Massachusetts may feel more like sultry South Carolina by century's end, researchers said on Wednesday in a report on clear signs of global warming in the U.S. Northeast. The region, comprising nine of the 50 U.S. states, is critical, since it alone is the world's seventh-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, ... |
Going green — the made-in-Canada way (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| CanWest News Service: Gary Lunn waves off the offer of coffee from the breakfast server at the historic Empress Hotel. "Never drink the stuff. Don't want it to stunt my growth," he grins. To see the federal natural resources minister, you'd get the self-deprecating quip. Let's just say the vertically challenged Lunn does not stand head and shoulders above a crowd. There's also not much doubt he's got the smaller political profile in a climate-change plan being crafted and carried primarily by ... |
Pay now to avoid catastrophic climate change costs later, UK tells polluting nations (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| Edie: In the Treasury-commissioned Review of the Economics of Climate Change due to published shortly former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicolas Stern will show that acting now makes economic sense - in sharp contrast to the US position - it was revealed at the Mexico meeting. Nicolas Stern presented the results of his review at a closed meeting of ministers from the US, Britain and the other G8 nations as well as developing countries including China, India and Brazil, gathered for ... |
Report: Global warming could make Northeast like the South (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| Associated Press: Global warming might make New York feel more like Georgia. That's the warning from the Union of Concerned Scientists. The group says the climate of the nine northeastern states could become like that of the South by the end of the century unless greenhouse gas emissions are steadily lowered. The advocacy group's report is the most detailed regional report yet on the issue. It says longer, much hotter summers, warmer winters with less snow and other changes fueled by ... |
Snowball Effect Fuels Arctic Meltdown (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| LiveScience: A pair of studies out this week along with other recent evidence suggests an observed meltdown of Arctic ice is snowballing into a situation that could leave the North Pole ice-free during summer in just a few decades. A rapid annual retreat of ice is exposing the darker ocean, which absorbs more of the sun's energy and fuels increased melting of ice. "I'm not terribly optimistic about the future of the ice," said Mark Serreze, a research professor at the University ... |
UK warns of extreme cost of not tackling climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| SciDev.Net: The United Kingdom is about to publish a report warning that climate change will cost the world trillions of dollars – far more than the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The report was prepared by Nicholas Stern, a former World Bank economist. He presented his findings to a private meeting of environment and finance ministers from 20 industrialised and emerging economies in Mexico this week (2-3 October). In a statement summarising Stern's analysis, the UK treasury ... |
Alaskans feel the heat of global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:18
| EurekAlert: A new study finds that most Alaskans believe global warming is happening and is a serious threat to the state. The statewide survey, with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University, was commissioned by Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz of Decision Research and conducted this summer by the Craciun Research Group. Jean Craciun, research director for CRG said, "Across the board, no matter what ... |
United States: Global warming study: Boston temperatures could mirror highs in South (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:19
| Boston Globe: Summers in Boston will feel like July and August in South Carolina by the end of the century if global warming is allowed to continue unchecked, according to a new scientific report released this morning. A team of 14 scientists and the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists have produced the most detailed look at what the Northeast will feel like in an ever-warming world. They spent two years examining two scenarios: If the world switches to more renewable power that will slow ... |
Study: Arctic sea ice still declining (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-04-2006 at 09:00:19
| United Press International: A U.S. study suggests 2006 continued the pattern of sharp annual decreases in Arctic ice due to global warming. Although lower August temperatures prevented sea ice in the Arctic from reaching its lowest summer level on record, the University of Colorado-Boulder scientists said the latest measurements indicate the sea ice minimum reached Sept. 14 was the fourth lowest on record in 29 years of satellite record-keeping. CU-Boulder Research Professor Mark Serreze, a member of the ... |
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