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Asia as bad as West for global warming, says study by US (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:34
| Independent (UK): Dirty brown clouds created by millions of cooking fires in Asia contribute as much to global warming as greenhouse gas emissions and are a major factor in the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, scientists have announced. Experts had previously thought the clouds, which hang in a haze over the Indian Ocean, were actually deflecting sunlight and cooling the atmosphere. The new findings will add weight to the argument that India and other developing nations need to use more ... |
Sweeping Energy Measure Will Get Its Day in House (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:34
| New York Times: This was to have been the year that that Congress finally took meaningful action to address the related problems of energy dependence and global warming. The new Democratic majority vowed to make these issues a top priority, President Bush spoke of ending America's addiction to imported oil and industry groups promised to do their share to build a cleaner and more efficient future. All this will come to a test Friday when the House debates a 786-page energy bill that could be a major ... |
APEC finance ministers see need to 'go beyond' Kyoto (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:34
| AFX: APEC finance ministers said Friday that the world needed to 'go beyond' the Kyoto Protocol to adequately address climate change. The call came in a communique issued by the ministers following an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in the north Australian town of Coolum. 'Recognising the need to take strong and early action to address the challenge of climate change while maintaining economic growth, we considered the global architecture for addressing climate ... |
US Rejects Russian Claim to Mineral-Rich Seabed at North Pole (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:35
| Bloomberg: The U.S. said Russia planting its tri-color flag on the seabed under the North Pole doesn't validate the former communist country's claim to the mineral- rich Arctic territory. ``I'm not sure of whether they've put a metal flag, a rubber flag or a bed sheet on the ocean floor,'' State Department spokesman Tom Casey said in Washington yesterday. ``Either way, it doesn't have any legal standing or effect on this claim.'' The Mir-1 and Mir-2 mini-submarines yesterday transported ... |
UN Skips Gender Perspective in Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:36
| Inter Press Service: When the United Nations concluded a two-day debate Thursday on the potential devastation from climate change, it covered a lot of territory: deforestation, desertification, greenhouse gases, renewable energy sources, biofuels and sustainable development. But one thing the debate lacked, June Zeitlin executive director of the New York-based Women's Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO) told IPS, was a gender perspective. "Women and children are 14 times more ... |
EU Car Makers Have a Long Road Ahead (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:37
| Inter Press Service: Over the next few months, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will mull proposed limits on the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the traffic that clogs up the continent's roads each day. If the experience so far this year is anything to go by, the MEPs will almost certainly be heavily lobbied by car makers determined to avoid measures that could prove vital in fighting climate change but which they deem too costly. Soon after MEPs sitting on the assembly's environment ... |
Bush sets global climate meeting (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:17
| Reuters: President George W. Bush has set a multinational conference on climate change for September 27-28 in Washington, a senior administration official said on Friday. Bush issued invitations to 11 other countries plus the European Union and the United Nations to attend the meeting intended to pave the way for agreement by the end of 2008 on a long-term goal to cut greenhouse emissions, the official said. Bush had proposed the conference, which will be hosted by U.S. Secretary of ... |
California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard Takes Shape (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:17
| Environment News Service: Drivers will be able to keep their gasoline-powered cars for many years, as fuel providers lower the global warming effects of gasoline, according to the first detailed outline of California's new Low Carbon Fuel Standard released Thursday by University of California transportation energy experts. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard was commissioned in January by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He asked the specialists to design a standard that would reduce carbon dixoide emissions from ... |
Climate Deal Talks Gain Global Support (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:18
| Associated Press: Nearly 100 countries speaking at the first U.N. General Assembly meeting on climate change signaled strong support for negotiations on a new international deal to tackle global warming. There was so much interest among worried nations -- many facing drought, floods and searing heat -- that the two-day meeting was extended for an extra day so that more countries could describe their climate-related problems, how they are coping, and the help they need. "We now have the ... |
Global warming fight may get boost from ozone plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:18
| Reuters: Countries can take a big and easy step this year to combat climate change by agreeing to tighten a U.N. treaty outlawing gases that damage the ozone layer, the U.N. Environment Programme said on Friday. Most efforts to cut greenhouse gases focus on axing use of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, with everyone from leaders of major industrialised nations to rock stars lining up this year to urge deeper cuts and shifts to cleaner energies. But UNEP said the 1987 Montreal ... |
Solar IPOs shine (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:18
| CNN: Talk about a sun spot. The solar power sector has been rolling in dough lately as concern over global warming and dwindling oil supplies has fueled massive investor interest in renewable energy companies. Recent solar power offerings, most out of China, have surged along with the sector in general. Is a correction coming? Since the start of the year, the 17-company solar component in the Wilder Hill Global Innovation index has soared 75 percent. This recent ... |
European heat waves double in length since 1880 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:18
| Innovations Report: The most accurate measures of European daily temperatures ever indicate that the length of heat waves on the continent has doubled and the frequency of extremely hot days has nearly tripled in the past century. The new data shows that many previous assessments of daily summer temperature change underestimated heat wave events in western Europe by approximately 30 percent. Paul Della-Marta and a team of researchers at the University of Bern in Switzerland compiled evidence from ... |
Gold rush under the ice (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:18
| Economist: RUSSIA's foray into the Arctic is an audacious geopolitical adventure, as popular at home as it is troubling for outsiders. At stake are the region's natural riches, until now frozen both in law and in nature. But global warming is making them look more accessible. They may include 10 billion tonnes of oil and gas deposits, tin, manganese, gold, nickel, lead, platinum and diamonds, plus fish and perhaps even lucrative freight routes. Exploiting them will be technically tricky, and is ... |
House votes today on crucial changes in US energy policy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:18
| Mercury News: A new technology boom has taken root in Silicon Valley and high tech hubs across the country, fueled by revolutionary advances in green technologies - renewable and ultra-clean energy innovations with the potential to dramatically transform our energy economy. A convergence of technological advances in a host of scientific disciplines (including materials science, physics, electrical engineering, synthetic chemistry, and biotechnology) are yielding breakthroughs in next-generation ... |
United Kingdom: MPs say climate law should go further (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:18
| Reuters: Britain's plans to fight climate change through laws that set binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions do not go far enough, an influential group of MPs said on Friday. In a report, they said failure to include the fast-growing aviation sector undermined the credibility of the proposed laws -- the first of their kind in the world. "We consider this to be a serious weakness," said the report by a parliamentary committee set up to scrutinise the draft climate change ... |
Legislators fiddle while Earth warms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:18
| San Francisco Chronicle: Crazy weather patterns have appeared recently in the form of humidity in usually foggy San Francisco, California-like weather in Washington, D.C., torrential downpours and massive flooding in Britain and torrid temperatures in the Mediterranean. These and other episodes such as Hurricane Katrina add more evidence to the scientific studies that say we are at the outset of an era of blowback, environmentally speaking. Human activities have pumped massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the ... |
Australia: Coral bleaching as record cold hits reef (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:19
| Australian: A RECORD cold snap across southern Queensland has triggered coral bleaching normally associated with the extremes of hot weather linked to climate change. Scientists say the bleaching has been caused by a combination of cold waters, winds and air temperatures hitting exposed reefs around the Capricorn-Bunker group of islands at the southern end of the reef. While other sections of the reef appear to have been spared by being fully submerged or far enough north to avoid the ... |
Australia: Market-based carbon trading plan wins support (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:19
| Australian: AUSTRALIA has won the support of the 21 APEC members for using market-based trading of carbon permits to combat climate change. The two-day APEC finance ministers meeting at the Coolum resort in Queensland concluded yesterday with an agreement that climate change should be linked to the security of energy supplies and economic growth. Peter Costello said the economies of the Asia-Pacific region would not grow unless they were assured of energy, but their energy demands would ... |
APEC Calls for Post-Kyoto Protocol to Tackle Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:19
| Bloomberg: A framework to reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change needs to be put in place to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012, Asia-Pacific finance ministers said. Australia, which hosted the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting of finance ministers in Coolum, Queensland, spearheaded climate change as a topic at the meeting, which included the world's two largest carbon dioxide emitters, the U.S. and China. Market-based strategies for cutting so-called ... |
Pollution Amplifies Greenhouse Gas Warming Trends to Jeopardize Asian Water Supplies (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:19
| Innovations Report: Scientists have concluded that the global warming trend caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases is a major contributor to the melting of Himalayan and other tropical glaciers. Now a new analysis of pollution-filled "brown clouds" over south Asia by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego offers hope that the region may be able to arrest some of the alarming retreat of such glaciers by reducing its air pollution. The team led by Scripps ... |
Bush announces plans for global climate conference (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:20
| Reuters: The United States has unveiled plans for a high-level conference on global warming in September that would bring together the world's biggest polluters to seek agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. US President George W Bush has issued invitations to 11 other countries, including the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN), to attend the September 27-28 meeting in Washington intended to work towards setting a long-term goal by 2008 to cut emissions. Mr Bush ... |
Chugging bottled H2O is bad for Earth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:20
| MSNBC: Why is anyone who cares about the environment drinking bottled water? Yesterday, I went out for lunch at a trendy Philadelphia spot. The city has a very hip and environmentally conscious restaurant scene. Just as is true in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the city's menus boast that there are no genetically engineered grains or vegetables. Most things being served are grown relatively locally and the chickens that appear on plates have ranged freely and happily before being ... |
Nations Urge Action on Global Warming at U.N. (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:20
| National Public Radio: Representatives from nearly 100 countries at the first U.N. General Assembly meeting on climate change signaled strong support for talks on a new international deal to tackle global warming. There was so much interest among worried nations - many facing drought, floods and searing heat - that the two-day meeting was extended for an additional day. "We now have the momentum," General Assembly President Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa told delegates at the closing ... |
Senate Cap and Trade Climate Bill Floated for Comment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:20
| Environment News Service: Senators Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent, and John Warner, a Virginia Republican, Thursday unveiled a detailed proposal for the climate bill that they will introduce this fall, America's Climate Security Act. Lieberman and Warner, who are the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection, requested comment on the proposal from Senate colleagues and all interested ... |
Nuclear plant fires stoke nuclear power debate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 12:00:21
| Reuters: Fires in power stations are not unusual, but when they strike nuclear plants, they reignite the debate over whether they should be shut down for good. A transformer blaze at Spain's Cofrentes nuclear plant on Thursday followed similar incidents in Germany last month and in Sweden last November, which had already alarmed the anti-nuclear lobby. Experts say these fires posed little threat because they were well away from the reactors, but this will probably not silence nuclear's ... |
Bush Sets Emissions Summit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:17
| Washington Post: President Bush yesterday formally invited top officials from the world's leading economic powers to take part in a climate change summit aimed at establishing voluntary goals for lowering greenhouse gas emissions while sustaining growth. The meeting follows a May pledge by Bush to convene the world's leading economies -- and most prolific polluters -- to find a solution to the problem of climate change that would both promote energy efficiency and encourage ... |
Legionnaires' spreading across UK (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:18
| Independent (UK): Legionnaires' disease, the lethal bacterial lung infection that kills more than one in 10 of those that it infects, is spreading rapidly across Britain. Record levels of the infection were recorded in five of the first six months of this year and experts say the worst is still to come. The Health Protection Agency, which released the figures yesterday, said it was investigating the rise. The disease is caught when infected water is inhaled as a vapour and causes pneumonia-like ... |
Millions forced to flee and 1,100 die after heavier than usual monsoon hits south Asia (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:18
| Guardian: Monsoon rains whipped the Indian subcontinent yesterday, flooding a wide swath south of the Himalayas and bringing the death toll in recent weeks to more than 1,100, with 19 million people displaced. Hundreds of miles stretching from the Gangetic plains to the Bangladeshi delta are under water after rivers burst their banks. Most deaths were in central India. Parts of the northern Indian states of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have had almost three weeks of rain, swelling rivers, ... |
Bush hosts multinational climate change summit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:19
| Telegraph (UK): US President George W Bush, who is under international pressure to tackle global warming, has announced his government will host a multinational summit on climate change next month. The talks are the first step towards setting in place, by 2008, an agreement by major industrialized and developing countries on long-term goals to cut greenhouse gases. India and China, who are major consumers of oil, gas, and coal and rapidly becoming major emitters of greenhouse gases, have been ... |
Bush calls climate conference (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:20
| Agence France-Presse: President George W. Bush has invited the world's major polluters to a September 27-28 conference to set long-term goals on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the White House said Friday. Environmental groups have called the plan, which Bush proposed in a speech on May 31, a diversion from other global efforts to combat global warming, while Washington says it complements UN-driven talks on the issue. Bush asked Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, ... |
United Kingdom: How Heathrow's lawyer has made a career of opposing right to protest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-03-2007 at 09:00:20
| Independent (UK): To his many enemies, Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden is the establishment solicitor who gags their protests. To his clients, he is legal barbed wire - an expert who can hold back a rabble. For the past week, the double-barrelled former Army officer has been seeking to prevent anti-aviation campaigners from holding a "climate camp" at Heathrow. But the British Airports Authority (BAA) is just one of many corporations who have called on Mr Lawson-Cruttenden's expertise. Arms ... |
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