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Australia: Science tempers fears on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Australian: THE world's top climate scientists have cut their worst-case forecast for global warming over the next 100 years. A draft report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, obtained exclusively by The Weekend Australian, offers a more certain projection of climate change than the body's forecasts five years ago. For the first time, scientists are confident enough to project a 3C rise on the average global daily temperature by the end of this century if no action is taken ... |
Heat and drought take toll on southwest China (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Reuters: The worst drought to hit southwest China in more than a century is spreading to neighbouring provinces with temperatures reaching record highs, state media has said. The densely populated municipality of Chongqing and eastern parts of Sichuan province have been plagued by repeated heatwaves and have seen no significant rainfall since early July. The drought is the worst since 1891 when meteorological records began in Chongqing, now hosting a population of 30 million, and had ... |
Brazil Proposes Fund to Stem Rainforest Cutting (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Reuters: Brazil proposed Thursday a fund to compensate developing countries that slow the destruction of their rainforests, a move that could help lower emissions of gases blamed for rising world temperatures. The Brazilian initiative, presented at a planning meeting for upcoming global climate talks in Rome, calls for creating a fund that countries could tap into if they could prove they had brought deforestation below rates of the 1990s. "Once again Brazil is acting as a ... |
British Conservative leader calls for legal targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Associated Press: Britain should write annual targets into law to commit to cutting greenhouse gas emissions 60 percent by 2050, Conservative Party leader David Cameron said Friday. Cameron has made the environment – particularly fighting global warming – a key issue in his effort to overhaul the Tories' image and make them electable after nine years out of power. He has accused Prime Minister Tony Blair of failing to back up his ambitious talk about tackling climate change with real ... |
California's action could spur feds, other states to cut emissions, experts say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| San Francisco Chronicle: California's new effort to curb greenhouse gases will cut less than one-half of 1 percent of the world's emissions, slowing global warming by just a tiny fraction of a degree, scientists say. But the groundbreaking program is likely to be a catalyst for other states and the federal government to curtail fossil fuel emissions and will spur development of innovative technologies and policies, experts said Thursday. Dan Cayan, director of the climate research division of the ... |
Peru: Climate change endangers Andean cloud forests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Smithsonian Magazine: On the crest of the eastern Andes is an expansive vista of one of the most diverse forests on Earth. Storm clouds boil up in the pink evening sky, and fog advances over the foothills, suffusing the mountains with the moisture that makes them so astonishingly full of life. These are the cloud forests of Peru. Clouds born of moisture rising from the Amazon River Basin sustain a great variety of trees, which in turn support ferns, mosses, bromeliads and orchids that struggle to lay down ... |
Global Warming Shows Up in Fly Genes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Scientific American: Climate warming over the last quarter century is writ large in tiny fruit flies, according to a genetic analysis. In a species of fruit fly, the frequencies of so-called inversions, in which a piece of chromosome is flipped around, were observed decades ago to correspond to the latitude at which the flies were found. In nearly all the sites where the flies have recently been sampled--a span of three continents--the frequency of specific inversions has increased hand in hand with climbing ... |
Mammoth, $200 Million Wind Farm Proposed in Iowa (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Associated Press: Northern Iowa could have one of the nation's largest wind farms by 2008. Iowa Winds LLC wants to build a 200- to 300-megawatt farm covering about 40,000 acres in Franklin County. A county zoning board will consider approving permits for the $200 million project next month. "It's something new and renewable," said Amber Schwarck, a spokeswoman for the Iowa Falls-based company. "It's great for national security, so we can start depending on ourselves and the ... |
United States: Marchers hoping to heat up action on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Times Argus: Bill McKibben can't recall more than 200 Americans ever launching a five-day walk calling for government action on global warming. And so he deemed what happened in his Vermont town Thursday to be historic. "It's perhaps the largest single demonstration yet in this country against global warming," the Middlebury College environmental scholar said. "It's time to start summoning the political will to do something." McKibben, whose book "The End of ... |
Scientist says climate changing faster than predicted (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: MARK COLVIN: Very few scientists now doubt that the earth's climate is changing, but there's still furious debate over what's causing it and how fast it's moving. Now one of America's top scientists has not only attacked President Bush for failing to cut carbon dioxide emissions, but said we're already in the climate change danger zone. Professor John Holdren is the new President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he told the BBC that the climate was ... |
Top scientist's fears for climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| BBC: One of America's top scientists has said that the world has already entered a state of dangerous climate change. In his first broadcast interview as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, John Holdren told the BBC that the climate was changing much faster than predicted. "We are not talking anymore about what climate models say might happen in the future. "We are experiencing dangerous human disruption of the global climate and ... |
U.S. State CO2 Laws Won't Prevent Coal Boom (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Reuters: U.S. states' plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could lead to little change in national carbon output, simply pushing coal-fired power plants and other dirty industries to relocate in states without rules, experts said on Thursday. California reached a deal Wednesday to cut emissions of gases scientists believe are causing climate change. The plan, which would reduce emissions 25 percent by 2020, follows an agreement by seven states in the Northeast to cut greenhouse emissions ... |
US$1 billion to cut Chinese greenhouse gas emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| SciDev.Net: The biggest agreement so far to cut greenhouse gas emissions in a developing country was finalised this week (29 August). Under the deal, Asian and European companies will pay two Chinese chemical companies more than US$1 billion to reduce their emissions of one of the most potent gases involved in global warming. The World Bank's Umbrella Carbon Facility brokered the deal, which will reduce emissions of the gas – called HFC-23 – by an amount equivalent to 100 million tonnes of ... |
Australia facing water restrictions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| United Press International: The first day of spring in Australia has brought water restrictions to the state of Victoria. In Melbourne, the state capital, less than half the average rainfall was recorded during winter and water storage levels are about 45 percent of capacity. Environment Minister John Thwaites announced a list of restrictions on the household use of water, watering gardens and washing automobiles. In the country areas of Bendigo, Castlemaine and Kyneton even tougher restrictions have ... |
California Plan to Cut Gases Splits Industry (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| New York Times: After becoming chief executive of PG&E last year, Peter Darbee met with a large number of leading climate scientists, he said, to make up his own mind about global warming. As a result of his wide inquiries, PG&E, the parent of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, which serves Northern California and is one of the nation's largest energy utilities, broke away from the industry pack to support sweeping efforts to reduce the greenhouse-gas emissions that are widely blamed for ... |
United Kingdom: Cameron sets PM climate challenge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Press Association: Tory leader David Cameron has called on the Government to reduce carbon emissions. Mr Cameron wants a climate change Bill to be included in this year's Queen's speech. At a press conference with Friends of the Earth (FoE) in Devon, he explained he wanted annual targets set for greenhouse gas emissions so they are reduced by 60% by 2050. He also called for an independent panel to report to Parliament on what progress had been made in meeting those ... |
Cities move into vanguard on fighting climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| San Mateo County Times: Now that Al Gore has urged Americans to slow climate catastrophe by switching to energy-efficient light bulbs and buying hybrid cars, more concerned citizens in state and local government are going one step beyond the home and the highway. The California Legislature struck a deal with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday that requires the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020, becoming the first state in the union to require industries to lower ... |
Don't pander on Kyoto (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Washington Time: Internal signals indicate that the Bush administration is considering a watered-down version of Kyoto-style regulation to try and take the hot-button issue of "global warming" off of the table for the 2008 Republican presidential primaries. Though well-intended, this would prove disastrous in practice. As a candidate in 2000, President Bush read a speech in Saginaw, Mich., calling for regulation of carbon dioxide, one of six "greenhouse gases" (GHGs), which proceeded to ... |
United States: Going with the Flow: Analysts say it's an inevitable sea change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| San Francisco Chronicle: California's sheer size ensures plenty of fallout from its new initiative on global warming, analysts said, as businesses and politicians alike see an inevitability to the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. Leading Republican politicians have been slowly drifting into the emissions reduction camp, despite steadfast opposition by the Bush administration. California's legislation is almost sure to goad more businesses into trying to shape regulation rather than fight it, analysts said, and ... |
In California, a breakthrough (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| New York Times: California, long a leader on environmental issues, has done it again, approving a pathbreaking bill that would impose America's broadest and most stringent controls on emissions of carbon dioxide, the main global warming gas. California's action stands in bold and welcome contrast to the U.S. government's reluctance to take aggressive action on a problem of mounting concern among scientists and the general public. The deal between the state's Democratic leadership and its Republican ... |
Kempthorne Gets Firsthand Look at Oil-Rich Wildlife Refuge in Alaska (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Associated Press: Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne made his first visit to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and was greeted by local leaders concerned not about drilling in the refuge, but by plans for offshore oil development. Tribal leaders said offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea would interfere with their whaling. Kempthorne, on a three-day tour of Alaska's North Slope, landed Thursday at Kaktovik, the only village in the refuge, after aborting an earlier try when his chartered twin ... |
United States: Making Good on California's Global Warming Gambit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Time Magazine: California's new greenhouse gas legislation signals a massive commitment to fighting global warming on the part of the world's sixth largest economy. But can industry rise to the challenge of what amounts to the nation's strictest curbs on carbon dioxide emissions? Not surprisingly, environmentalists contend that technologies and strategies already exist to meet a sharp reduction in carbon emissions from power plants, oil refineries and other sources. And better technology, they ... |
Once among worst, Monaco near best on gas emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Reuters: Citizens of the tiny Mediterranean principality of Monaco can apparently feel less worried that their speedboats, helicopters and cars are stoking global warming. From being worst in the class -- except Spain -- among about 40 industrial states based on surging greenhouse gas emissions, Monaco has leapt to the ranks of the best after revisions filed to the U.N. Climate Secretariat in Bonn. Monaco, with 32,000 inhabitants and an area of just 2 sq km (1 sq mile), said that it had ... |
Peak Oil Forecasters Win Converts on Wall Street (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Bloomberg News: The death of cheap, abundant crude, peak forecasters warn, might unleash war and plunge the world into a second Great Depression. That's not the prophecy of some apocalyptic cult. Willem Kadijk, a hedge fund adviser, is just one new proponent of a geologic theory known as peak oil. Behind this controversial idea is the belief that global oil production is now at or near its zenith. Once the flow crests and starts to decline – and some geologists say it already has – oil will no longer ... |
Third World greenhouse gas cut plan seen doubling (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:19
| Reuters: A fast-growing U.N. project to cut emissions of greenhouse gases in the Third World could more than double by 2012 with new growth in regions such as the Middle East, a leading industry expert said on Friday. "I'd expect it at least to double by 2012," Einar Telnes, director of climate change services at Det Norske Veritas (DNV) certification group told Reuters of gas volumes likely to be cut in developing nations by 2012. "But I wouldn't be sure that it would ... |
Brussels threatens to regulate CO2 emissions from cars (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:20
| Canada Free Press: On August 29th, the European Commission has released its annual report on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new cars sold in the EU-15 for the year 2004. The good news is that average emissions are down by more than 12% relatively to 1995's level. The bad news is that the final objective of reducing these emissions 25% below 1995's level by 2008 is very unlikely to be achieved. The EU-15 member states generate about 20% of the world green house gas emissions. Both the EU-15 and its ... |
United States: California power companies eye details on greenhouse gas bill (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:20
| MarketWatch: Electric utilities and power producing companies are now moving on to negotiating the vast amount of details involved in executing California's global warming bill. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state's Democratic Party leadership reached a deal Wednesday on legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The state Senate and Assembly passed the bill Thursday, sending it to the governor's desk for enactment. Edison International (EIX), the parent ... |
United States: Global Warming Plan Could Be Costly (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:20
| LA Times: California's ambitious plan to curb global warming will be costly to businesses and consumers, experts said Thursday, and its effect on the climate could be negligible – unless other states and nations follow. Although it is too early to know what will happen over the next two decades, the state's basic industries, including utilities, oil refineries and steel mills, can expect to make major changes in how they do business. And consumers may face higher bills for electricity, gasoline ... |
United States: What Bill Would Do, Who's Affected (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2006 at 03:00:20
| LA Times: Amid concern about global climate change, the state Legislature gave final approval Thursday to AB 32, a bill to combat global warming. What would the bill do? 32 requires California's Air Resources Board to develop a program to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, a cut of about 25% from today's levels. Reductions will be required starting in 2012. What are greenhouse gases? Greenhouse gases, which trap heat in the atmosphere, ... |
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