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Bush Seeks Discussion of Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 12:00:44
| Associated Press: President Bush invited representatives of major industrialized and developing countries to a fall climate change summit in Washington the same week that the United Nations is holding a similar conclave in New York. ``In recent years, science has deepened our understanding of climate change and opened new possibilities for confronting it,'' Bush said in his invitation letter Friday, asking other nations to take part in discussing a long-term strategy. Under international ... |
China: Hottest day as mercury soars to 35.3 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 12:00:44
| Standard: The heatwave continued Friday with the temperature hitting 35.3 degrees Celsius - the highest registered so far this summer. Senior scientific officer Ma Wai- man of the Hong Kong Observatory said the temperature was the ninth highest on record in Hong Kong. The very hot weather warning, issued 10 days ago, remained in force Friday, and is expected to remain on Saturday. "It's hard to predict when we'll cancel the very hot weather warning as various factors, such ... |
Bush will host rival climate talks to UN (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 12:00:45
| Financial Times: President George W. Bush will host talks with government leaders on climate change in September – three days after the United Nations holds a key meeting on the same topic. Mr Bush has invited the heads of 15 industrialised and developing countries to Washington on September 27 and 28 to seek agreement on a process to reduce carbon emissions. The timing raises fresh questions about whether the US is trying to create a rival process to UN efforts to find a replacement for the ... |
European Heat Waves Double In Length Since 1880 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 12:00:46
| Science Daily: 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 54 ... |
Bush adds new track to U.N. climate bid (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 12:00:48
| Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush introduced plans for a global warming conference in September that would bring together the world's biggest polluters to seek a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Following is a timetable, and some hurdles, for a global deal likely to start up on January 1, 2013, after the first period of the United Nation's Kyoto Protocol runs out. Under Kyoto, 35 industrialized nations have agreed to cap their greenhouse gas emissions, cutting by 5 percent on ... |
Europe hotter than thought in past century (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 12:00:48
| Reuters: Western Europe has heated up more than previously thought over the past century, according to a new study that adds to evidence pointing to a future of hotter summers and longer-lasting heat waves. The study, published on Friday in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, showed that the actual mean temperature since 1880 had risen 1.6 Celsius degrees, not the 1.3 degrees as previously thought, said Paul Della-Marta, a climate scientist at Switzerland's national weather ... |
Europe's recent heatwaves aren't a mirage (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 12:00:48
| New Scientist: The heatwave that has already killed hundreds across Eastern Europe is no aberration. Since 1880, the frequency of extremely hot days has nearly tripled and the length of heatwaves across the continent has doubled. Previous studies have shown that climate change is likely to make heatwaves more common across Europe. In April for example, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a report linking a range of changes seen in Earth's weather and ecosystems to global ... |
Jack Bauer's Next Mission: Fighting Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 09:00:19
| Washington Post: From "An Inconvenient Truth" to popularizing the Prius, Hollywood has helped lead the way on some environmental issues. One of the latest initiatives: Cool Change, Fox's company-wide program to reduce the network's impact on global warming. As part of that effort, the seventh season of "24" will take steps to reduce and offset the carbon emissions from the show's production, with the goal of having the season finale be entirely carbon-neutral. It may sound like a publicity stunt, but ... |
Bush pushes for post-Kyoto plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 09:00:19
| Ottawa Citizen: U.S. President George W. Bush has invited the world's largest economies to a summit at the end of September to draw up a road map for co-ordinating new international efforts and policies to address the threat of global warming. In a letter dated Aug. 2, Mr. Bush invited leaders from 11 countries, including Canada, along with European Union members and UN representatives, to the Washington meeting scheduled for Sept. 27-28. He pledged that his government would work toward a new ... |
New combustion technology to dramatically reduce global warming emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 09:00:19
| ANI: US scientists have designed an experimental gas turbine simulator that is equipped with an ultralow-emissions combustion technology, called the Low Swirl Injector (LSI), and which uses pure hydrogen as a fuel. Researchers say this is a milestone that indicates a potential to help eliminate millions of tons of carbon dioxide and thousands of tons of NOx from power plants each year. The LSI designed at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a ... |
Fight Over Oil Tax Threatens Energy Bill (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 09:00:21
| Associated Press: House leaders pressed Democrats from oil states Friday to support $16 billion in oil industry taxes and sought a compromise over use of renewable fuels by electric utilities, hoping to clear the way for approval of energy legislation. The White House, meanwhile, expressed broad opposition to the two Democratic energy bills saying they make ``no serious attempts to increase our energy security or address high energy costs'' and would harm domestic oil and gas production. The ... |
United Kingdom: RSPB: Only 80 per cent emission cuts will work (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 09:00:22
| Politics.co.uk: The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has called on the government to toughen its stance against climate change following a third parliamentary committee report urging more stringent responses to climate change. The MPs and peers warned a 60 per cent cut in emissions by 2050 may not be sufficient to prevent severe temperature rises and called on the government to remove the maximum rate at which emissions can be cut. "Climate change legislation must target ... |
Senators Line Up Behind Economy-Wide Approach to Slow Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 12:00:18
| Associated Press: Senators are lining up behind a carbon trading plan to slow global warming, with the aim of cutting 70 percent of U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2050. The approach draws on the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol, the controversial system begun in 2005 but rejected by President Bush. That accord has produced little overall reduction in greenhouse gases but has enriched some traders with huge profits. Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and John Warner, ... |
Bush invites globe to his climate forum (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 12:00:19
| La Times: A White House summit on climate change next month began to take shape Friday, with the announcement that invitations had been extended to such key developing countries as India and China as well as industrialized countries. Conceived as a forum to discuss ways to halt the rise in global temperatures and show President Bush's relatively recent embrace of the issue, the summit next month apparently will not signal any change in the administration's policies. Bush opposes mandatory curbs ... |
Environmentalists Allege Political Meddling with EPA Smog Analysis (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 12:00:21
| Associated Press: The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released an analysis of its new proposal to reduce smog levels that shows higher economic costs -- but potentially more lives saved -- the more stringent the regulation is. The document angered environmentalists because in addition to analyzing three relatively stringent smog levels, EPA decided to study a fourth less-stringent smog level after intervention by the White House Office of Management and Budget, according to public ... |
China suffers floods, drought and now forest fires (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 03:00:44
| Reuters: Flash floods in just one county in central China killed 78 people and left at least 18 missing, state media said on Saturday, as hundreds of firemen struggled to control forest fires in the north. Lushi county, in the west of the province of Henan, was hit by continuous torrential rain last week. Xinhua news agency said it triggered flash floods and disrupted transport, power, communications and other facilities in 10 townships. The floods destroyed more than 6,000 houses and ... |
Heatwaves 'getting longer' in Europe (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 03:00:44
| BBC: The duration of heatwaves in Western Europe has doubled since 1880, a study has shown. The authors of the research also discovered that the frequency of extremely hot days has nearly tripled in the past century. The study shows that many previous assessments of daily summer temperature change underestimated heatwaves in Western Europe by about 30%. The research appears in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres. The team found that heatwaves lasted ... |
Indonesia: Losing land to palm oil in Kalimantan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 03:00:44
| BBC: Barto is more sad than angry. He is a leader of a Dayak Kanayan community in a remote part of the rainforest in deepest Borneo. Gazing out over a vast expanse of freshly planted palm oil plants, he says: "This is our ancestors' land which we have had for years, and now we have lost it." Barto's village of Aruk is on the Indonesian side of the border with Malaysia, in West Kalimantan. It is a key region earmarked for palm oil expansion, as Indonesia hopes to ... |
UN climate chief calls on rich nations to cut emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 03:00:44
| Agence France-Presse: The UN's top official on climate change on Friday called on wealthy countries to emulate the European Union (EU) and Japan by offering to slash their carbon emissions at a conference to be hosted by the US next month. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said the talks for long-term emissions reductions in Washington on September 27-28, announced by the White House earlier, offered an exceptional chance to break the deadlock for ... |
Making data centers greener (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 03:00:45
| Mercury News: While the high-tech industry pursues solutions to global warming, it's also contributing to the problem. Ever-multiplying computer server facilities will double their consumption of energy in the next five years, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study sent to Congress on Friday. EPA officials and some industry leaders hope the findings will spur policies to make large computer facilities, and the cooling systems they require, more efficient. Server facilities ... |
Bush calls climate change talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-04-2007 at 03:00:47
| BBC: US President George W Bush has announced that his government will host a multinational conference on climate change in Washington next month. The US has invited the UN, EU and 15 of the world's leading economies to the high-level talks on 27-28 September, the White House said in a statement. The talks will seek to set the stage for an agreement by 2008 on a long-term goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists say the accumulation of such gases is causing global ... |
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