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Bush adds a few caveats to court's EPA ruling (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:48
| LA Times: President Bush, acknowledging that humans are at least partly responsible for global warming, said Tuesday that he took "very seriously" the Supreme Court's ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles as pollution. But he attached two conditions that appeared likely to retard EPA regulation of carbon dioxide and other gases that trap heat at the Earth's surface: He said any regulatory program should not slow ... |
EU Moves to Cut Greenhouse Gas to Spur US, China (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:48
| Bloomberg: The European Union's decision to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent was aimed at persuading other nations to move ahead with efforts to fight global warming, the region's top environmental official said. ``We need the cooperation of all the countries,'' European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said in a March 27 interview in Brussels. ``Up to now the discussion really was who would go ahead first, and everybody was expecting somebody else to make the first step. We ... |
Global warming driving Australian fish south: report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:48
| Reuters: Global warming is starting to have a significant impact on Australian marine life, driving fish and seabirds south and threatening coral reefs, Australia's premier science organization said on Wednesday. But much more severe impacts could occur in coming decades, affecting sea life, fishing communities and tourism. In particular, warmer oceans, changes in currents, disruption of reproductive cycles and mass migration of species would affect Australia's marine life, particularly ... |
In West, quest for water expands (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:48
| New York Times: A Western drought that began in 1999 has continued after the respite of a couple of wet years that now feel like a cruel tease. But this time people in the driest states are not just scanning the skies and hoping for meteorological rescue. Some $2.5 billion in water projects are planned or underway in four states, the biggest expansion in the West's quest for water in decades. Among them is a proposed 280-mile pipeline that would direct water to Las Vegas from Northern Nevada. A ... |
Millions could suffer from coral reef collapse (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:48
| Scenta: The report on island coral reef fisheries reveals that over half (55 per cent) of the 49 island countries reviewed were being exploited unsustainably. Fish landings are currently 64 per cent higher than can be sustained. In order to support this level of exploitation, an additional 75,000 km2 of coral reef would be needed – an area 3.7 times greater than Australia's Great Barrier Reef. These figures will nearly triple by 2050, given current human population growth ... |
Bush agrees with greenhouse gas ruling, sort of (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:48
| LA Times: President Bush, while acknowledging Tuesday that he took "very seriously" the Supreme Court's ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles as pollution, set up a potential conflict with Congress by attaching two conditions to comply with the decision. Bush said that any regulatory program should not slow economic growth, nor should its benefits to the atmosphere be offset by mounting emissions from China, India and ... |
Bush: No push on emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:48
| Denver Post: A day after the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the authority to regulate greenhouse gases, President Bush said that he thought the measures he has taken so far are sufficient. But the court's ruling was being welcomed by Congress and the states, which are already using the decision to accelerate their own efforts to regulate the heat-trapping gases that contribute to global climate change. As a result, Congress and state legislatures are almost certain to be the ... |
Climate change could alter our landscape, including the very soil that we stand on (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:48
| Nashua Telegraph: As climate change kicks in over the upcoming decades and the Earth gets slowly warmer, it's obvious that New Hampshire's trees and birds and animals will be affected – but at least the dirt under our feet can shrug it off. Or can it? "It's a new idea to a lot of people," UNH professor Scott Ollinger said. "Of all the things that have been looked at about the effects of climate change, the effects in the soil is probably . . . the least well-studied." Lack of research ... |
Canada: Climate change could eliminate 30 per cent of all species: report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:49
| CanWest News Service: Climate change is rearranging the global landscape, threatening to wipe out 20 to 30 per cent all the life forms on Earth and flood hundreds of millions people out of their homes, according to the authors of an international report to be released Friday. Their draft report, obtained by CanWest News Service, says Canada will face big problems as temperatures rise -- twice as many forest fires, vast tracks of melting permafrost, deadly heat waves -- but they pale beside the grim ... |
United States: EPA Revives California Emissions Rule (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:49
| Associated Press: California can move forward with its efforts to set the nation's first standards to cut tailpipe emissions from cars, light trucks and sport utility vehicles, the Environmental Protection Agency said. The state has been seeking an exemption from the federal Clean Air Act since 2005 to set emissions standards in hopes of reducing greenhouse gases. The EPA had refused, arguing that the authority to set fuel economy standards belonged only to the U.S. Department of Transportation. ... |
United Kingdom: Government to take red tape out of going green (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:49
| Reuters: The government will produce plans on Wednesday to take the red tape out of home microgeneration to help householders play their part in the fight against global warming. The Department for Communities and Local Government will issue a consultation document on proposed changes to planning regulations that currently make actions like installing a rooftop wind turbine a bureaucratic struggle. Environment Secretary David Miliband has said that from October 1 the rules would be ... |
Japan's cars greenest, US cars dirtiest, report says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:49
| Associated Press: Japanese automakers are driving Americans toward a cleaner environment, while their U.S. counterparts are producing cars and trucks ranked among the worst when it comes to smog emissions and global warming, according to a report released Tuesday by an environmental group. Honda and Toyota lead the rankings of a biennial report produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists, while Ford, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler come in last at sixth, seventh and eighth places, ... |
United States: Nuclear power revisited in state (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:49
| San Francisco Chronicle: A small but growing movement to promote nuclear power construction, dormant for three decades, is working to overturn the state's ban on new reactors as worries about climate change have softened voters' opposition to new plants. A legislator from Southern California has introduced a bill to lift the state's ban on new nuclear power plants. The bill would give a boost to plans by investors to bring nuclear power to the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. Assemblyman Chuck ... |
Australian PM defends water plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:49
| Radio Australia: The Australian prime minister, John Howard, has defended the federal government's stance on water and climate change, after criticism by the head of the treasury department. In a speech last month, Ken Henry reportedly stated the government's water management plan for the Murray-Darling would have been better if treasury's views had been more influential. But Mr Howard says the government feels vindicated by the support it has received for the $US8 billion ... |
Gore issues climate-change challenge to engineers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:49
| Mercury News: Climate activist and former Vice President Al Gore challenged engineers Tuesday to help find a solution to global warming, a mission he said would inspire a new generation of Americans to take up their profession. Gore, whose 2006 film "An Inconvenient Truth" brought national attention to the global-warming issue, said the sight of thousands of engineers addressing climate change would alter the way the profession appeals to young people around the country. "When ... |
Australia: Murray-Darling plan is flawed: Brumby (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:49
| AAP: A revelation that treasury had little input into the federal government's $10 billion Murray-Darling Basin plan is further evidence of its flaws, says Victoria's Acting Premier John Brumby. Treasury secretary Ken Henry - the country's most senior economic bureaucrat - has told an internal forum that his department had little influence on the $10 billion water package and its advice on water and climate change had not been followed in recent years. Mr Brumby said the information ... |
Indonesia: Palm Oil: The Biofuel Of The Future Driving An Ecological Disaster Now (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:49
| And Network: The numbers are damning. Within 15 years 98% of the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia will be gone, little more than a footnote in history. With them will disappear some of the world's most important wildlife species, victims of the rapacious destruction of their habitat in what conservationists see as a lost cause. Yet this gloomy script was supposed to have included a small but significant glimmer of hope. Oil palm for biofuel was to have been one of the best solutions in saving the ... |
Malaysia: Perak Sultan Wants Ailing State Companies Shut Down (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:49
| Bernama: The Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah, said today he wanted the state government to shut down ailing state-owned companies so as to prevent them from turning into liabilities draining the state's finances. The key performance index must be introduced and applied as the gauge to evaluate the performance of all state-owned companies, he said when opening the fourth session of the 11th Perak state legislative assembly at the Perak Darul Ridzuan building, here. Earlier, the sultan ... |
Bush Splits With Congress and States on Emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 12:00:51
| New York Times: A day after the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the authority to regulate heat-trapping gases, President Bush said he thought that the measures he had taken so far were sufficient. But the court's ruling was being welcomed by Congress and the states, which are already using the decision to speed their own efforts to regulate the gases that contribute to global climate change. As a result, Congress and state legislatures are almost certain to be the arenas for ... |
Australia: Carbon tax 'would cut emissions' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 12:00:51
| AAP: A MAJOR government advisory body said today a carbon tax could be introduced as a first step in cutting greenhouse emissions in Australia. "Due to its administrative simplicity, a tax has some merit as a transitional tool and could be introduced in a revenue neutral way," the Productivity Commission said in a submission to the Prime Minister's task force on emissions trading. Prime Minister John Howard has opposed the introduction of a tax to curb emissions and ... |
Warming Thins Herd for Canada's Seal Hunt (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 12:00:52
| Washington Post: Hunters and animal rights activists face off on the ice this week as Canada's annual seal hunt begins, but a succession of unusually warm winters in the Gulf of St. Lawrence already has drowned thousands of the animals. Canadian authorities reduced the quotas on the harp seal hunt by about 20 percent after overflights showed large numbers of seal pups were lost to thin and melting ice in the lower part of the gulf, off Prince Edward Island. "We don't know if it's weather ... |
Is Earth near its 'tipping points' from global warming? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 12:00:52
| USA Today: Earth is spinning toward many points of no return from the damage of global warming, after which disease, desolation and famine are inevitable, say scientists involved in an international report due Friday on the effects of climate change. Opinions vary about how long it will take to reach those "tipping points" and whether attempts to cut planet-warming gases churned out by power plants, vehicles and other human industry can slow, halt or reverse the harmful effects in ... |
United States: Silicon Valley's 'Best Brains' Work on Energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 03:00:47
| Reuters: Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley have been searching for the next big thing in high-tech for years, but now many have switched to greener pursuits -- finding technology to help cut global warming. Although commercial success could take years, venture capitalists are pouring cash into solar power, fuel cells, wind energy, biofuels, new lighting microchips, "smart" power grids, and other innovative energies. "The best brains in the country are no longer ... |
Will Climate Change Kill The Amazon? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 03:00:47
| Science Daily: One of the most profound predicted impacts of climate change was discussed in a landmark conference at Oriel College by scientists, conservationists and policymakers from Europe and North and South America. They discussed some key research showing that although intact forests are fairly resistant to climate change, with partial deforestation the entire landscape could become drier and a domino effect could occur producing a 'tipping point' affecting the whole forest. Scientists were ... |
Biofuels in Africa: Investment Boon or Food Threat? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 03:00:47
| Reuters: JOHANNESBURG - Africa's vast arable lands have the potential to rival top agricultural nations like the United States in supplying biofuels to a world seeking cleaner energy sources. But using land reserved for food production to supply biofuel demand could squeeze food supplies in a region vulnerable to shortages. It could also hurt poor consumers if the biofuel boom continues to push food prices higher. As alternative energy takes off, Africans hope to cash in on the ... |
Bush Holds Line on Global Warming Despite Ruling (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 03:00:47
| Reuters: President Bush said Tuesday he planned no new action to impose caps on greenhouse gases blamed for global warming despite the Supreme Court ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate US emissions. Instead, Bush pointed to his proposal to require cars to burn more gasoline made from home-grown sources like ethanol, and repeated his long-held stance that US action is meaningless without changes by China and India. "My attitude is that we have laid out a ... |
Supreme Court's Ruling On CO2 Another Defeat For Bush Administration (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 03:00:49
| Oregon Public Broadcasting: Monday's US Supreme Court decision on global warming is just one of several recent victories for environmentalists over the Bush Administration. Rob Manning has more. ----------- The global warming decision says federal officials should regulate carbon dioxide from cars. Two lower court decisions condemned the Bush Administration for its policies on public lands. A decision late Friday in San Francisco found that new national forest rules avoiding environmental reviews violate ... |
EU carbon trading scheme failing to curb emissions from big polluters (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 03:00:49
| Independent (UK): Europe's big polluters pumped more climate-changing gases into the atmosphere in 2006 than during the previous year, according to figures that show the EU's carbon trading system failing to deliver curbs. Critics said the data underlined the gap between the rhetoric of European leaders, who have promised to cut C02 emissions by one-fifth by 2020, and the reality of delivering reductions. Yesterday's figures relate to the carbon produced in 22 nations by big industrial users ... |
U.S. Supreme Court Gives Boost to Environmental Groups on Power Plant Cleanup (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 03:00:50
| Associated Press: The U.S. Supreme Court supported a federal clean air initiative aimed at forcing power companies in the U.S. to install pollution control equipment on aging coal-fired power plants. In a unanimous decision Monday, the justices ruled against Duke Energy Corp. in a lawsuit originally brought by the administration of President Bill Clinton, part of a massive enforcement effort targeting more than a dozen utilities. Most companies settled with the government, but several cases ... |
Coping with water scarcity (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:56
| Christian Science Monitor: As climate change becomes the No. 1 environmental issue around the world, it presents a new framework for evaluating – and gives greater urgency to – a host of other sensitive environmental issues, such as loss of biodiversity, desertification, natural disasters, and water scarcity. Even as policymakers debate ways to limit global warming by decreasing the emission of greenhouse gases, there is a growing sense that no level of human response can completely forestall the effects of ... |
Delegates debate urgency of climate change in key policy report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:56
| Associated Press: Scientists and diplomats debated the urgency of changes in the Earth's climate as they worked on a report that will guide the world's policymakers for decades to come. In closed-door meetings Wednesday, delegates from more than 120 countries argued over revisions in a 21-page draft text, in one case highlighting how global warming will reduce staple crops in countries such as China and India, where millions of people could go hungry. The delegates slogged through line-by-line ... |
UN Draft Cites Humans in Current Effects of Climate Shift (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:56
| New York Times: The latest United Nations assessment of the role of humans in global warming has found with "high confidence" that greenhouse gas emissions are at least partly responsible for a host of changes already under way, including longer growing seasons and shrinking glaciers. A summary of the working draft of the report, to be released tomorrow in Brussels, was provided to The New York Times yesterday by several people involved in reviewing it. It is a detailed follow-up to a February report ... |
White House expected to feel the heat from Supreme Court's ruling on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:56
| Christian Science Monitor: The US Supreme Court has pushed up the political temperature on climate change. And judging by most reporting and analysis, the White House is likely to feel much of that heat. Across the news media – print, broadcast, and Internet – there was general agreement that, as BusinessWeek.com put it, "the high court's first global warming case is a rebuke to the administration of President George W. Bush." In essence, the high court told the US Environmental Protection ... |
Faced with a lack of energy options, Thailand looks to coal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:56
| Christian Science Monitor: As the Thai economy continues its steady growth, policymakers are drafting energy strategies with a view toward keeping the lights on for the next 15 years. To do that, planners say, Thailand must nearly double its electricity production to about 55,000 megawatts each year. But as Thailand is learning and Malaysia has already discovered, coal could be the key to energy security in the coming decades. To secure supply in a cost-effective way that won't hold the country hostage ... |
Man the dikes for climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:56
| Christian Science Monitor: What to do? A glacier that provides water to Peru's capital is melting away fast, perhaps gone in 25 years. Should the people of Lima pay to desalinate seawater, bring in water on ships, or simply move? Like the Whos of Dr. Seuss's Whoville, many parts of the world are looking for a Horton to help them adjust to global warming, which is forecast to last for decades even if radical steps are taken soon to curb greenhouse gases. Tomorrow, the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel ... |
China, US, Russia looking to tone down UN climate report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:56
| Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Some of the world's biggest polluters have threatened to derail a new UN-backed global climate report, questioning its scientific basis and working to tone down its language before the report is released later this week, according to delegates at the climate conference in Brussels Wednesday. The United States, Russia and China have reportedly taken the lead in seeking modifications to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report's final draft, compiled ... |
Winter Arctic sea ice near record low (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:57
| Reuters: Winter Arctic sea ice this year was the second smallest area on record in a sign of greenhouse warming, U.S. climate scientists said on Wednesday. Sea ice extent, or the area of ocean that is covered by at least 15 percent ice, was 5.7 million square miles in March, the Colorado-based National Sea and Ice Data Center said on Wednesday. March usually marks the end of winter in the Arctic, a period when sea ice recovers from the summertime minimum. This March's ice level ... |
Canada: Not on target (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:58
| CanWest News Service: Canada has little chance of making its Kyoto Protocol commitments because its targets are much more stringent than commonly believed, suggest experts on the treaty. The target all federal parties talk about – about a 26% cut in carbon emissions by 2012 – is just the start, say Kyoto insiders. It would leave the country far behind its legal requirements. The single most important part of the protocol is a twist seldom mentioned in public: Canada's target is a five-year average, ... |
Scientists, diplomats finalize warming report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:58
| Associated Press: Scientists and diplomats from more than 120 countries debated the urgency of changes in the Earth's climate Wednesday as they tried to finalize a report on global warming that will guide policymakers for decades to come. In closed-door meetings, the delegates argued over revisions in the 21-page draft text, in one case making changes to highlight how global warming will reduce staple crops in countries such as China and India, where millions of people could go hungry. The ... |
Surviving a warmer world: Global forecast is 'mostly dry' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:58
| Christian Science Monitor: It's a late March morning, and a light breeze tousles the tops of aspens and Ponderosa pines at Elk Cabin, one of the oldest spots in New Mexico for recording the depth of winter snow. Richard Armijo, a measuring stick in hand, is there to gauge this spring's snowpack. The site, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, sits just upstream from two reservoirs that serve the city of Santa Fe. In late March, Elk Cabin should have a foot of snow on the ground, but it's nearly bare. Like ... |
U.N. Study Shows Likely Impact of Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:58
| New York Times: The latest United Nations assessment of the role of humans in global warming has found with "high confidence" that greenhouse gas emissions are at least partly responsible for a host of changes already under way, including longer growing seasons and shrinking glaciers. A summary of the working draft of the report, to be released Friday in Brussels, was provided to The New York Times today by several people involved in reviewing it. It is a detailed follow-up to a February report ... |
Global warming to shrivel Brazil coffee crop: study (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-04-2007 at 09:00:58
| Reuters: Brazilian coffee output could fall to 2.4 million 60-kg bags in 2100, from a forecast 32 million bags this year, due to global warming, government agricultural research agency Embrapa said on Wednesday. The head of Embrapa Informatica Agropecuaria, Eduardo Assad, said in a study that a 5.8-degree Celsius increase in temperature could result in Brazil's coffee area plunging to 1 percent of its current productive area of 2.1 million hectares (4.9 million acres). "Embrapa is ... |
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