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Forget hybrid cars; conserve and think small (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:16
| Times Union: Gore touring the world like a rock star while presenting evidence of catastrophic global warming. He then suggests we buy hybrid cars. President Bush was challenged to explain what he is doing about the high price of gasoline. His response is extending tax credits for hybrids. Thomas Friedman, columnist and author of "The World is Flat," claims Detroit's problems result from failing to develop hybrids. Garrison Keillor interrupts his popular "A Prairie Home ... |
The biofuel dream (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:16
| Free New Mexican: James Bostwick grows sorghum on 5,000 acres near this Eastern New Mexico community. His lonely farm is a long way from the oil fields of the Middle East, but he believes people like him are key to America's energy future. Bostwick sells his grain to an ethanol plant in nearby Portales, where the sorghum is distilled and mixed with conventional fuel to power American cars and trucks. Bostwick is a believer. "As long as it's $70 a barrel for the petroleum, we can compete with ... |
United Kingdom: Blue turns to green: it might not save the planet but it could save the Tories (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:16
| Telegraph: It has been the political equivalent of an explosion in a dyeworks. From Sacramento to Tokyo, red Republicans and true-blue Tories are turning green. On Wednesday, the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to a plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in his state by a quarter within the next 15 years. On Thursday, the Conservative shadow chancellor George Osborne told an audience in Japan that a future Tory government would consider increasing the share of revenue ... |
California And Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:16
| Hartford Courant: When it adopted the most aggressive state law in the nation for curbing greenhouse gas emissions last week, California placed itself firmly in the forefront of forward-thinking states doing their part to tackle global warming. If only the federal government acted so responsibly. One of the world's largest economies, California is also the 12th-largest source of greenhouse gases, generating 10 percent of the carbon dioxide produced nationally. So California's legislature passed a law ... |
Norway: Carbon Dioxide Emissions Get Buried at Sea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:17
| LA Times: Buffeted by crosswinds, the lone helicopter flew on for an hour across the shale-gray waves of the North Sea with no destination in sight. A relief crew huddled unsteadily inside, sweating in their 20-pound immersion suits, festooned with safety whistles, buddy lines, emergency lights and inflatable life vests. Even in summer, survival in the choppy 40-degree water is measured in minutes. Finally – far off the coast of Norway – the superstructure of the Sleipner platform came ... |
United States: State cool to confront warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:17
| Dallas Morning News: Evidence of global trouble lurks in the bays of coastal Texas. The brackish water that circulates between marshes and barrier islands – water that has sheltered and nourished a rich soup of marine life for millennia – is changing, and fast. Power companies plan to build 16 new coal plants in Texas over the next half-dozen years. During the past three decades, the water in Texas' coastal bays has warmed by 3 degrees Fahrenheit. The state scientist who discovered that big increase says ... |
United States: The coal-burning question (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:17
| Houston Chronicle: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made national headlines this last week, and it was no movie stunt or doomsday film release: In what is so far America's most significant solution to the global warming crisis, He announced a deal with the California Legislature that assured passage of a landmark bill that will reduce California's that state's emissions of carbon dioxide, the most significant greenhouse gas. That's the good news. The bad news is that here in Texas, our governor ... |
Future won't favor new nuclear plants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:17
| Minneapolis Star Tribune: The climate for building new nuclear power plants in the United States hasn't been this good for decades. The Bush administration is solidly behind them. Some prominent foes have changed sides, embracing uranium-derived electricity as the best available answer to global warming. Boosters are wearing told-you-so smiles. And Congress is doing its best to help. After establishing liability limits and start-up assistance for new plants, it voted last year to offer utilities a variety of ... |
Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:17
| Oregonian: Can Americans get off the dime on global warming? Is it OK to just wait for a more enlightened administration in Washington? Across the country, pioneering citistate regions -- Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis and others -- have begun to define directions we all need to take. And, last week, a deal could make California the first state to restrict all greenhouse emissions. Portland was the clear early leader, pledging in 1993 to reduce its emissions of ... |
'Disturbing' global warming data seen in fruit flies (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:17
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Ray Huey began his scientific career decades ago in southern Africa's Kalahari Desert, studying how lizards behave according to seasonal variations in climate. He moved on, and now, somewhat by accident, has discovered that global climate change is altering the genetics of fruit flies. In the new issue of Science magazine, the University of Washington evolutionary biologist and colleagues in Spain and Virginia report finding "disturbing" evidence of global warming in the ... |
Hundreds of fires rage across Indonesia (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:17
| Agence France-Presse: Hundreds of forest fires are raging across Indonesia, from the island of Borneo to Maluku, eastern Indonesia, during the country's "fire season". Nearly 1,800 hotspots have been detected said Johnie Hadi Prakoso, according to an official from the Forestry Ministry in Jakarta. "It's very dry and there is no rain, so the farmers in the fields, sometimes illegal farmers and sometimes companies start fires," he said Saturday. "Every year from June to August is fire ... |
United States: Schwarzenegger Explains Why He Went Green (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:17
| ABC News: Just days after California passed legislation restricting greenhouse gas emissions, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said fighting for environmental issues is important, even if that meant opposing the president. "I don't think one should look at greenhouse gas emissions or global warming as a political issue," Schwarzenegger told ABC News. "So, if that policy of fighting global warming is against our, the Bush Administration, then so be it." State ... |
Nuclear Energy Hotly Debated in United States (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:17
| Voice of America: There is a debate under way in the United States about the benefits of nuclear power, as the country looks for alternatives to its dependence on foreign oil. Advocates say nuclear power will provide a clean and safe form of energy, but opponents say concerns about safety and what to do with nuclear waste far outweigh any benefits. There are currently 104 nuclear power plants operating across the United States. President Bush is calling for expanding the nation's reliance on ... |
Wind power a vexing question for Vermont (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:17
| Associated Press: When farmer Greg Bryant first heard about plans for windmills along a swath of mountain ridges in this northeastern Vermont hamlet, he was all for it. The idea of tapping a plentiful natural resource for power was appealing. Now he's dead set against it, one of many people here who fear the prospect of 400-foot tall windmills sprouting from the tops of picturesque mountains. For a state that normally prizes environmental initiatives, the debate over wind power poses a thorny ... |
California takes lead in global-warming fight (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2006 at 03:00:18
| Christian Science Monitor: California's landmark deal to require a 25 percent cut in industrial greenhouse gases by 2020 is a largely symbolic victory with only a tiny impact on climate. But it's one that could prompt significant change in the nation's stance on global warming - and give the state a competitive edge in future years. The agreement, which has not yet cleared the state legislature, would require industries - including oil refineries, chemical manufacturers, and utilities - to slash carbon-dioxide ... |
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