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Climate change 'could create 200m refugees' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Times (UK): EQUATORIAL lands that are home to hundreds of millions of people will become uninhabitable as food and water run out due to climate change, scientists will warn this week. A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to be published on Friday, will warn that the temperature rises of 2-3C predicted by 2050 spell global disaster for both humanity and the environment. It will say that up to 40% of animal and plant species face extinction as rising ... |
Wars of the world: how global warming puts 60 nations at risk (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Independent (UK): Scores of countries face war for scarce land, food and water as global warming increases. This is the conclusion of the most devastating report yet on the effects of climate change that scientists and governments prepare to issue this week. More than 60 nations, mainly in the Third World, will have existing tensions hugely exacerbated by the struggle for ever-scarcer resources. Others now at peace - including China, the United States and even parts of Europe - are expected to be ... |
United Kingdom: Firms fail to adapt to climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Observer: Companies and public bodies in Britain face expensive repair bills, penalties and even litigation because they are not adapting infrastructure and business plans to the threat of climate change, the government's UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) has warned. The United Nations will publish the second part of its latest global assessment of climate change this week, warning of heatwaves, droughts and big storms, which will cause famine, rising sea levels, mass migrations and even ... |
Australia: Hour of thoughtful darkness inspires (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Sun-Herald: ACTOR Cate Blanchett embraced an hour of "thoughtful darkness" last night as organisers of the inaugural Earth Hour vowed to make it an annual event. The Academy Award-winning actor was joined by Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd, Opposition environment spokesman Peter Garrett and Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore at Earth Hour's official launch. The formal ceremony, at the Fleet Steps near Mrs Macquarie's Chair, was organised by the World Wildlife Fund Australia and ... |
Is Britain warming? Just look around you (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Observer: Shafts of winter sun meekly pierce through a leafy oak tree and light up the frosty grass below. It takes a few minutes to adjust to this beautiful scene before the incongruity begins to jar: the sight of a thick green canopy in mid-winter just doesn't make sense. The moment is caught in one of 90 photographs to go on show this month in a special exhibition by the National Trust to highlight the strange, visually wonderful and often worrying changes around Britain as a result of ... |
Australia: Labor's climate change approach fanatical: Turnbull (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The federal Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has accused the Opposition of taking a fanatical and religious approach to climate change. At Labor's climate change summit yesterday, Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd called for an Australian global warming audit, similar to the influential report recently prepared by economist Sir Nicholas Stern for the British Government. The Opposition has also set a target of reducing emissions by 60 per cent by 2050. But Mr Turnbull ... |
Brazil Aims to Dominate World Ethanol Market (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Inter Press Service: Brazil is working towards producing enough ethanol to substitute 10 percent of the gasoline consumed worldwide within 18 years. That would mean increasing its current production of 17.3 billion litres a year by a factor of 12, without sacrificing forests, protected areas or food cultivation. The government called on a group of experts to study the possibilities and impacts of a sharp increase in fuel alcohol production from sugarcane. The group led by the Interdisciplinary ... |
Federal Judge Strikes Down Forest Management Rules (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| New York Times: A federal judge in California on Friday overturned the Bush administration's revised rules for management of the country's 155 national forests, saying that the federal Forest Service violated the basic laws ensuring that forest ecosystems have environmental safeguards. The rules, issued in early 2005, cut back on requirements for environmental reviews and safeguards for wildlife, and limited public participation in the development of management plans for individual forests. ... |
Fuel in the Car at the Expense of Food on the Table? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Inter Press Service: South Africa has joined the race to find alternative sources of energy: government has already approved a 'Draft Biofuels Industry Strategy', and called on stakeholders to discuss it. The strategy proposes that biofuels ultimately account for 75 percent of the country's renewable energy target. "Maize and sugar, as well as soya beans and sunflowers, were confirmed as potential crops to satisfy the country's biofuels production. The strategy also acknowledges that South ... |
Poor nations to bear brunt as world warms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| International Herald Tribune: The world's richest countries, which have contributed by far the most to the atmospheric changes linked to global warming, are already spending billions of dollars to limit their own risks from its worst consequences, like drought and rising seas. But despite longstanding treaty commitments to help poor countries deal with warming, these industrial powers are spending just tens of millions of dollars on ways to limit climate and coastal hazards in the world's most vulnerable regions – ... |
Campaigns Save Energy With Hybrid Cars (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Associated Press: This year's presidential candidates are trying to get good mileage out of getting good mileage. The candidates, who do a lot of talking about the need for greater energy efficiency, are not just asking who walks the walk but also, who drives the hybrid? Democratic candidate John Edwards makes a point of telling people that after years of driving a regular sport utility vehicle, he and his wife bought a hybrid model to shuttle their kids, strollers, toys, luggage and other stuff ... |
Climate draft charts extinctions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Associated Press: A key element of the second major report on climate change being released Friday in Belgium is a chart that maps out the effects of global warming, most of them bad, with every degree of temperature rise. There's one bright spot: A minimal heat rise means more food production in northern regions of the world. However, the number of species going extinct rises with the heat, as does the number of people who may starve, or face water shortages, or floods, according to the ... |
Damage from global warming 'to worsen' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| Financial Times: Climate change is already threatening vital infrastructure such as road and rail networks, water and energy systems and healthcare, and the damage will worsen, the world's leading climate scientists will warn next week. The damage will occur even as some regions, such as the UK and northern Europe, and parts of the Americas, benefit from human-induced global warming, a United Nations report compiled by leading scientists will conclude. Areas that now have cold climates will ... |
Europe Ambitious on Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| Washington Post: Last week I interviewed a Swiss economist, a board member of UBS Bank Klaus Wellershoff, about the global economy during his brief visit to Rio de Janeiro. My first question was about the risk of recession in the United States, a country which has long held the power to determine the pace of the world economy. His first sentence changed the entire direction of my thinking: "The world consists of more than the US," he said. He added that, since the second quarter of last year, Europe ... |
Judge advances suit claiming U.S.-backed projects contribute to global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| Associated Press: A U.S. federal judge has advanced a lawsuit against the government for its funding of overseas projects environmental groups claim contribute to climate change. The lawsuit, filed by environmental groups and four U.S. cities, says the overseas projects will harm the U.S. environment because the effects of global warming will be felt at home and seeks to require the same environmental reviews that are required for domestic projects. The U.S. administration argued last year the ... |
Judge tosses out Bush's national forest rules (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| LA Times: A federal judge on Friday overturned Bush administration regulations for national forests that critics said expedited logging and energy exploration, weakened wildlife protection, and shut the public out of forest planning. U.S. Northern District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton, based in San Francisco, found that because U.S. Forest Service officials had not conducted required environmental impact reviews of their new policies, nor allowed public comment on "clearly ... |
Report: Global warming to hit poor (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| United Press International: A new report by a United Nations committee finds that rich countries are spending billions of dollars to protect themselves from global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change plans to release the report next week, The New York Times said. The committee found that the United States and European countries are investing in desalinization plants, flood barriers and other infrastructure. Poor countries in Africa and Asia that have comparatively less responsibility ... |
Australia: Sydney Blacks Out for Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| Associated Press: The Sydney Opera House's gleaming white-shelled roof was darkened Saturday night along with much of the rest of Australia's largest city, which switched off the lights to register concern about global warming. The arch of Sydney's other iconic structure, the harbor bridge, was also blacked out, along with dozens of skyscrapers and countless homes in the 4 million-strong city, in an hour-long gesture organizers said they hoped would be adopted as an annual event by cities around the ... |
Australia: Sydney finds climate change a real turn off (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| Reuters: Sydney landmarks turned off their lights for an hour on Saturday, throwing icons such as the Sydney Opera House into darkness as part of a campaign to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Restaurants set candle-lit dinners, the city's tallest building offered special tours on an open-air skywalk and the Sydney Youth Orchestra began its first concert of the year in darkness. Around the city, hundreds of businesses and more than 50,000 homes signed up for the night, while parties and ... |
Australia: Sydney in climate change blackout (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| Associated Press: Australia's largest city dimmed on Saturday night as businesses and homeowners switched off the lights to draw attention to global warming. The normally gleaming white sails of the Sydney Opera House darkened, and so did the iconic harbor bridge and chunks of the city skyline. Security and street lights, as well as those at commercial port operations, stayed on. Throughout the city of about 4 million people, residents turned off the lights for one hour in an event organized by ... |
Australia: Sydney switch-off for climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| BBC: Sydney has made one of the biggest environmental statements Australia has ever seen. Parts of the country's largest city have been plunged into near darkness to raise awareness of global warming. Lights on the city's iconic coat-hanger bridge were switched off, while the famous white sails of the Opera House were darkened. Families held candle-lit picnics on the edges of Sydney harbour, while thousands of suburban homes were blacked out. "I'm feeling very ... |
Canada: Climate change chaos 'closer' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| Vancouver Sun: The looming "destabilization" of Earth's atmosphere means British Columbia faces higher municipal taxes and a reordering of basic government priorities to cope with an accelerating regime of droughts, floods and other weather-related civil emergencies. One of Canada's most eminent climate researchers said the enormous challenges caused by rapidly changing weather systems confronting B.C. and other jurisdictions will be as significant, difficult and costly as reducing ... |
Australia: Rudd to push China on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| AAP: Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd is to lead a Labor delegation to China later this year to push the world's fastest growing economy to limit its greenhouse gas emissions. Launching Labor's climate change summit in Canberra, Mr Rudd said bringing China into the global climate change fold could be Australia's significant contribution to saving the planet. Mr Rudd also proposed an Australian version of Britain's Stern Report on the impact of climate change on the economy and ... |
Australia: Sydney blackout puts spotlight on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| Agence France-Presse: Australia's largest city was plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday night as Sydney underwent a self-imposed blackout to raise awareness of global warming. Residents and businesses across the city of four million flicked off the lights for "Earth Hour" at 7:30 pm (0930 GMT). Tourists had to view the famous Sydney Opera House by moonlight, while the Harbour Bridge's steel span and the clown's face of the waterside Luna Park fairground were also blacked ... |
Europe faces global warming double whammy, but can cope: UN experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:40
| Agence France-Presse: Global warming will hit Europe hard but unevenly this century, causing drought, reduced harvests and deadly heatwaves in the south but inflicting more floods and severe winter storms farther north, UN experts say in a report to be unveiled next week. In Alpine regions, reduced snow cover imperils a multi-billion-dollar ski industry while rising temperatures could wipe out up to 60 percent of plant and animal species, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ... |
Global warming could bring hunger, melt glaciers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 09:00:25
| Reuters: Global warming could cause more hunger in Africa and melt most Himalayan glaciers by the 2030s, according to a draft U.N. report due on Friday which also warns that the poorest nations are likely to suffer most. The U.N. climate panel, giving the most authoritative study on the regional impact of climate change since 2001, also predicts more heatwaves in countries such as the United States, and damages corals including Australia's Great Barrier Reef. "We are talking about ... |
Scientists, diplomats to finalize report on impact of climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Associated Press: For people in their 30s, climate change already has reshaped the world to which they were born. By the time they reach retirement age, the changes will be far more dramatic – and perhaps life-threatening on a massive scale, an authoritative U.N. study will say this week. On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a network of more than 2,000 scientists, opens a five-day meeting in Brussels, Belgium, to finalize a report on how warming will affect the globe and ... |
Zero growth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Boston Globe: Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future By Bill McKibben Times , 261 pp., $25 In the fall of 2004, Bill McKibben undertook what he calls a "modest experiment." He resolved to spend the next six months -- months that included January, February, and March -- eating nothing but locally grown food. Owing to the consolidation of American agriculture, and the fact that McKibben lives in central Vermont, the challenge was substantial. Not only did it ... |
United States: Carbon trading won't work (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| LA Times: Michael K. Dorsey, MICHAEL K. DORSEY, assistant professor on Dartmouth College's faculty of science, teaches in the environmental studies program. Economists, some environmentalists and a growing gaggle of politicians are pushing a grand strategy that a market mechanism – known as "carbon cap and trade" – can rescue us fastest from a climate catastrophe. But early evidence suggests that such a scheme may be a Faustian bargain. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ... |
Impacts for Africa of climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Reuters: Following are impacts of global warming for Africa outlined in a draft U.N. climate report due to be released in Brussels on April 6. The draft, to be discussed by scientists and government experts in the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is looking at the regional effects of warming: AFRICA -- Reductions in the area suitable for agriculture, and in length of growing seasons and yield potential, are likely to lead to increased risk of hunger. -- An ... |
Malaysia: Kelantan Sultan expresses concern over excessive logging (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| New Straits Times: THE Sultan of Kelantan expressed concern over the excessive logging activity by appointed concessionaires that has plagued the State. "I want to remind the State Government that uninhibited logging which meant to open rubber and oil palm estates among others, could lead to erosion and global warming," Tuanku Ismail Petra said. In his speech in conjunction with his 57th birthday today, the Sultan said due to such activity the quality of main rivers in the State ... |
Aussies send blackout message on climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| United Press International: Most areas of Sydney, Australia's largest city, blacked out Saturday night to raise awareness of global warming. The lights on the white-shelled roof of the city's famouse opera house, and on the harbor bridge and most non-essential buildings, were switched off for an hour. Restaurants served dinner by candlelight and even patrons at the Newtown Hotel, Sydney's oldest gay bar, turned off the lights and patrons used torches to light up the stage. The bar's owner, Roger ... |
Australian PM puts climate change on APEC agenda (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| AFX: Prime Minister John Howard said he is making climate change a key agenda item at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in Sydney later this year. Howard said he has written to the other 20 APEC leaders outlining plans to make clean development and climate change a key agenda topic. 'Australia is demonstrating strong leadership by putting the issue at the centre of one of the major leaders' summits of the year and is committed to developing a strong ... |
Reports by the UN climate panel (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Reuters: Scientists who advise the United Nations about climate change will issue a report in Brussels on Friday, the second of four this year outlining increasing risks from global warming. Following are details about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up in 1988 by the United Nations to help guide governments. It draws on work by about 2,500 specialists from more than 130 nations and last issued reports in 2001. CALENDAR PARIS, Feb 2 - The first IPCC ... |
US wind industry growing, equipment supply stretched thin (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 09:00:27
| Arkansas News Bureau: Although legislation offering a tax break to windmill blade manufacturers quickly blew through the state Legislature, U.S. demand for wind energy equipment has been building steadily since 2000. Spurred by federal tax breaks, the U.S. industry's growth has flooded suppliers, causing delays for some overseas wind farm projects. "It's not possible to get even one turbine for love or money for two years because of all the investment in the U.S." Ian Hatton, managing ... |
Climate disasters loom: UN (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Reuters: Global warming could cause more hunger in sub-Saharan Africa and melt most Himalayan glaciers by the 2030s, a draft UN report due on Friday warns. The UN climate panel, giving the most authoritative study on the regional impact of climate change since 2001, also warns that the poorest nations are likely to suffer most. It predicts more heatwaves in countries such as the United States, and damage to coral reefs including the Great Barrier Reef. "We are talking about a ... |
Making Sense Of Melting Ice (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Newsweek: Every year, the cap of sea ice floating atop the North Pole dwindles from about 14 million to 7 million square kilometers–a number that would panic scientists if it weren't a normal occurrence, courtesy of nature. Most of the summer shrinkage is caused by melting, and the pack ice grows again once winter arrives, freezing the choppy water back into solid sheets. Because it's a recurring cycle, scientists have never found this phenomenon worrisome. Until this year, when Ronald Kwok of NASA's ... |
Australia: Renewed hope for renewables, but not business migrants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Age: HALF of Australia's electricity could be supplied through renewable energy by 2040, according to a report that also recommends limiting Australia's immigration in order to deal with our greenhouse gas emissions. The report, to be released today by Mark Diesendorf, director of the sustainability centre at the University of New South Wales, states that a combination of renewable energy sources could power all of Australia's grid electricity in about 40 years without having to resort to ... |
Judge allows lawsuit on environmental impact of US overseas projects (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:38
| Associated Press: A U.S. judge has advanced a lawsuit against the government over its funding of overseas projects that environmental groups claim contribute to climate change. The lawsuit, filed by environmental groups and four U.S. cities, claims that the overseas projects will harm the U.S. environment because the effects of global warming will be felt at home, and it seeks to require the same environmental reviews that are required for domestic projects. The projects at issue in the lawsuit ... |
Australia: Carbon tax better than calamity (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| Age: "Australia is in a very unusual position: we have a small population but we have been blessed by providence with large reserves of fossil fuel. We should play to our natural advantages and I am simply not going to agree to prescriptions that are going to damage the future of the Australian economy and I am not going to agree to prescriptions that are going to cost the jobs of Australian coalminers." John Howard, March 29. AND why not? Why are miners' jobs more ... |
Scientists, diplomats to finalize report on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2007 at 12:00:39
| Associated Press: Get set for another authoritative report this week on how global warming will affect life here on planet Earth. More than 2,000 scientists from around the world convene in Brussels, Belgium, tomorrow for a meeting of a group called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change They issued a report in February that definitively links global warming to human behavior. This week's report will spell out the consequences. And a report in May will say what can be done about ... |
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