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Bush has to tackle global warming, now (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:25
| Age: PRESIDENT Bush is playing catch-up. His warning in last week's State of the Union address about the "serious challenge of global climate change" and his commitment to cut domestic petrol consumption by 20 per cent during the next decade was an attempt to seize back the initiative in a public debate that was running away from him. But he is falling short. Constituencies that are important to him are demanding tougher action. Unless he makes further substantial ... |
Al Gore Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:25
| ABC News: Former Vice President Al Gore was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world's attention to the dangers of global warming, a Norwegian lawmaker said Thursday. "A prerequisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize is making a difference, and Al Gore has made a difference," Conservative Member of Parliament Boerge Brende, a former minister of environment and then of trade, told The Associated Press. Brende said he joined ... |
Earth Will Survive Global Warming, But Will We? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:25
| Live Science: The notion that human activity, or the activity of any organism, can affect Earth on a planetary scale is still a hard one for many people to swallow. And it is this kind of disbelief that fuels much of the public skepticism surrounding global warming. A poll conducted last summer by the Pew Research Center found that only 41 percent of Americans believe the burning of fossil fuels causes global warming. But in a meeting this week in Paris, officials from 113 nations have agreed that ... |
Radical is the New Sensible (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Post Global: Yes, let's be radical. It's the only sensible option. We cannot wait a hundred years to see if theories about climate change are correct. It'll be too late. When people buy insurance to protect themselves or their property, it's not because they're certain a disaster is coming. Uncertainty is bad enough. Lately, beliefs about global warming have been changing. The dire scenarios that used to be written off as a mere speculation, or even fiction, are now appreciated for what they are: ... |
The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Stop Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| AlterNet: It has been a winter for the record books in the Northeast and Midwest. People are golfing in Michigan instead of ice fishing, sap is running in Vermont, and cherry blossoms are blooming in Washington, D.C. People are waking up to spring in January and the stark reality of climate change. "Hurricane Katrina blew the door open and Al Gore walked through it with his movie," environmental writer Bill McKibben said. "Now we have to take that education and turn it ... |
U.N. panel to link warming to humans (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Reuters: The U.N. climate panel is set to issue its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are causing a damaging global warming likely to bring more heatwaves, droughts and rising seas. The group, the most authoritative on climate change with 2,500 scientists from 130 countries, is also due to say that oceans will keep rising for more than 1,000 years even if governments stabilise greenhouse gas emissions this century. Scientists and government officials in the ... |
Warming 'very likely' due to man, report to say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Associated Press: Officials from 113 countries agreed Thursday that a much-awaited report will say that recent global warming was "very likely" caused by human activity – a significant change from an earlier report but less than the "virtually certain" phrase that some had championed. Dozens of scientists and bureaucrats are editing the new report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in closed-door meetings in Paris. The report's executive summary for policymakers, which must be ... |
Warming linked to stronger hurricanes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Associated Press: Global warming has made stronger hurricanes, including those in the Atlantic such as Katrina, an authoritative panel on climate change has concluded for the first time, participants in the deliberations said Thursday. During marathon meetings in Paris, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change approved language that said an increase in hurricane and tropical cyclone strength since 1970 "more likely than not" can be attributed to man-made global warming, according to ... |
Articles on animal migration published in BioScience (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| EurekAlert: The February 2007 issue of BioScience, the monthly journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), includes a special section on animal migration that features six articles exploring biologists' understanding of this pervasive and vital syndrome. Animal migration fascinated the ancients and continues to fascinate researchers today. An often highly complex, synchronized suite of changes in behavior, morphology, and physiology enables journeys that may be epic in ... |
Biofuels Not As Eco-Friendly As Hoped (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| United Press International: Scientists say rising demand for palm oil in Europe is creating an environmental nightmare in Southeast Asia. The popularity of the oil, adopted by European energy companies as a sustainable energy source, has resulted in the loss of huge tracts of Southeast Asian rainforest, and the overuse of chemical fertilizer on palm plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia, The New York Times reported. A study released by researchers from Wetlands International and Delft Hydraulics in the ... |
Chirac warns US of import carbon tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| United Press International: French President Jacques Chirac said Europe will impose a carbon tax on U.S. imports if the United States doesn't sign on to the Kyoto environmental protocol. "A carbon tax is inevitable," Chirac told The New York Times. "If it is European, and I believe it will be European, then it will all the same have a certain influence because it means that all the countries that do not accept the minimum obligations will be obliged to pay." Chirac praised U.S. ... |
Coal plans prompt warning (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Associated Press: Environmental groups warned this week that plans for more coal-fired power plants in the Southwest will worsen the threat of global warming and undermine the states' conservation efforts. A report by Environmental Defense and Colorado-based Western Resource Advocates says the greenhouse gas emissions from the roughly dozen coal-fired plants planned or recently built will be the equivalent of 12.5 million cars driving around the Southwest for a year. Spokesmen for two companies ... |
Companies commit to saving the climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| WWF: Twelve major corporations taking part in WWF's Climate Savers Programme are on course to eliminate at least ten million tons of CO2 emissions annually by 2010. If an additional 1,300 large companies join them, current emission reduction targets set out in the Kyoto Protocol could be achieved, says WWF. "Fighting climate change can provide business opportunities and spur innovation and jobs in all parts of the world," says Hans Verolme, Director of WWF's Global Climate Change ... |
Emissions targets hit by rise in air traffic (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Independent (UK): The benefits of persuading householders to save energy in the campaign against climate change are being wiped out by increased air traffic, government figures reveal. Final figures for the year 2005, released yesterday, show that overall carbon emissions fell by 0.1 per cent on 2004. Householders cut their emissions of carbon by 4.6 per cent, but emissions from aircraft went up by 7 per cent. While the figures were an embarrassment for a government committed to cuts in carbon ... |
German Car Lobby Appears to Bend Will of EU Regulators (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Deutsche Welle: It appears Germany's mighty automobile lobby is getting its way in Brussels, as the EU moves its regulatory focus from emissions standards to biofuel use across the bloc. Germany's auto lobby might be feeling celebratory these days, though the oil producers may have shed some tears. The European Commission on Wednesday suggested tightening fuel ecology standards as a measure toward combating climate change. Observers read this as a sign that, in its battle against global ... |
Greens' ad to focus on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| AAP: A new Australian Greens' advertising campaign on climate change will see the letters SOS loom over Australia's major cities for the next 30 days. Billboards, depicting the international distress signal SOS with a satellite image of the earth as the middle letter, are part of the Greens' campaign ahead of this year's federal election. Greens leader Bob Brown launched the campaign in Hobart on Thursday and warned the future of the planet was at stake. "Prime Minister ... |
Canada: Harper supports climate summit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Canadian Press: Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced his support for a UN summit on global warming yesterday as past musings about climate change came back to haunt him. His explicit acknowledgement of the urgent need to tackle climate change was made as his political foes pummelled him with his own words for the second straight day. Harper vowed Canada would attend a global summit that hasn't even been called yet -- a conference on climate change that some in the United Nations are ... |
How to combat climate change? Swedish CEO thinks he has solution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:26
| Associated Press: As world leaders search for ways to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Lars G. Josefsson says he has already found the solution. The chief executive of Swedish energy company Vattenfall AB has launched what many see as the most ambitious plan yet for how industries can succeed in curbing climate change – a detailed program for a global carbon market aimed at minimizing greenhouse gas emissions. Josefsson's plan, Combat Climate Change, or 3C, has quickly been endorsed by ... |
New focus on animal migration (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:27
| Scenta: Animal migration has long fascinated nature lovers, and in today's climate it continues to fascinate researchers today. Scientists put conventional migration down to a highly complex, synchronised suite of behavioural changes, morphology and physiology that enables journeys that are sometimes epic in scale. These feats of endurance and navigation are widely regarded as some of the most astonishing of nature's spectacles. Some very good insights on the evolution of ... |
Scientists, bureaucrats in marathon last day of global warming talks in Paris (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:27
| Associated Press: Running well behind schedule, top global warming experts huddled Thursday for a marathon last day of talks with bureaucrats from more than 100 countries on a closely watched report that could influence government and business policy worldwide. The scientists and government officials worked behind closed doors until well past midnight Wednesday and planned another late night session Thursday to finish the report in time for its Friday morning release. Some expressed concern ... |
WWF Australia calls for reef protection (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:27
| AAP: Conservation group WWF Australia has called on the federal government to invest $300 million over the next five years to revitalise deteriorating coastal wetlands which protect the Great Barrier Reef. WWF Australia spokesman Richard Leck said more than 70 per cent of wetlands in reef catchments along the Queensland coast already have been lost, ensuring "dire consequences" for the Great Barrier Reef. Wetlands protect the reef by filtering pollution, ensuring good ... |
Cost of flying increases following rises in UK air passenger duty (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:27
| AFX: The cost of flying from UK airports increased today after the UK government controversially imposed hikes in air passenger duty (APD). Under measures announced by Chancellor Gordon Brown in his pre-Budget report in early December, short-haul passengers in the lowest class of travel will pay 10 stg in duty from Feb 1, up from 5 stg, and in other classes they will pay 20 stg, up from 10 stg. Long-haul passengers in the lowest class of travel will pay 40 stg, up from 20 stg, and ... |
United States: Gore's secrecy baffles some (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:27
| Mercury News: Al Gore is scheduled to speak in Silicon Valley on Friday to a sold-out crowd of 1,400 people. His topic: how high technology can help reduce global warming. But the broader public won't be able to see or hear what the former vice president says. Gore has banned TV and radio coverage of his keynote address at the ``State of the Valley'' Conference, at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose. The secrecy, which has baffled organizers, is part of a pattern. Over the past two ... |
United Kingdom: Taxes 'fail to curb travel CO2' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:27
| BBC: Current UK green tax plans are unlikely to curb the growth in greenhouse gas emissions from travel, a study says. High-income groups, whose emissions were twice the national average, would absorb any price increase rather than change their travel habits, it said. Researchers from Oxford University said the data revealed how socio-economic factors shaped how people travelled. They said targeted measures, such as personal carbon credits, were more likely to influence ... |
United Kingdom: Warm winter triggers climate fear (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:27
| BBC: This winter in on track to be one of the mildest since records began, triggering fears about global warming and what humans can do to stop it. The UK average temperature for January of 5.9C is more than two degrees above what we've come to expect. It's a similar story across Europe, with daffodils already in bloom in the Netherlands and grass fires in Hungary. It comes as climate experts have a big meeting to discuss how people's behaviour has damaged our planet. ... |
China's Poison for the Planet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 06:00:23
| Spiegel Online: The cloud of dirt was hard to make out from the ground, but at an altitude of 10,000 meters (32,808 feet), the scientists could see the gigantic mass of ozone, dust and soot with the naked eye. In a specially outfitted aircraft taking off from Munich airport, they surveyed a brownish mixture stretching from Germany all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. These kinds of clouds float above Europe for most of the year and they've traveled far to get there. By analyzing the makeup of ... |
The human hand in climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 06:00:23
| Boston Review: Two strands of environmental philosophy run through the course of human history. The first holds that the natural state of the universe is one of infinite stability, with an unchanging earth anchoring the predictable revolutions of the sun, moon, and stars. Every scientific revolution that challenged this notion, from Copernicus' heliocentricity to Hubble's expanding universe, from Wegener's continental drift to Heisenberg's uncertainty and Lorenz's macroscopic chaos, met with fierce ... |
Seas rising faster 'than first thought' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:21
| Australian: CLIMATE models may have underestimated the rate of sea level rise caused by Greenhouse gas emissions, new research suggests. The study, co-authored by a leading Australian researcher, found sea levels could rise by as much as 88cm by 2100 - about 30cm higher than previous highest forecasts. Published in the journal Science, the research comes ahead of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ICPP) report which is expected to find humans are the likely cause of ... |
Water wars tipped as planet heats up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:21
| Dominion Post: Wars will be fought over water, not oil, with the planet staring down the barrel of a global catastrophe driven by climate change. Tonight, the world will be told that there is unequivocal evidence that the planet is warming tens of times faster than it should be, and it is virtually certain that humans are responsible. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will table a report in Paris saying not enough is being done to curb climate change and, by ... |
Calif. aims to settle emissions lawsuit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:21
| Associated Press: The state's new attorney general, wants to settle a federal lawsuit filed by his predecessor that seeks millions of dollars from automakers for the greenhouse gases produced by their vehicles. Attorney General Jerry Brown sent a letter Wednesday to attorneys for the six major automakers California is suing, asking to meet personally with the chief executives of General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, Honda and Nissan. "As I review the litigation and learn more about ... |
Climate Change Science Moves from Proof to Prevention (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:21
| Scientific American: Six years is not a long time in science. Data may be collected, a paper or two published or a PhD earned. But in the six years since the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Charge (IPCC) report was released, the science and certainty of global warming has grown markedly. "In the first IPCC report in 1990 there were no real observations demonstrating that climate had changed, only a prognosis that it would change," says Herve Le Treut, atmospheric physicist at CNRS (France's ... |
Climate report delivers sobering message to the world (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:22
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in the 1980s as a mechanism for the periodic assessment of the status of climate change science in a way that was accessible and understandable by private and public sector decision makers. The IPCC does not do scientific research itself, but builds its assessments on peer-reviewed and published scientific papers. Several thousand scientists from around the world contribute to the process. IPCC has reported ... |
Global warming puts fish stocks at risk (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:22
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Global warming is affecting ocean currents in important fishing areas on the planet, says an international team of scientists. Earth scientist, Dr Helen McGregor, a research fellow at the University of Wollongong in Australia, and colleagues at the University of Bremen in Germany, report their findings in today's issue of the journal Science. The researchers show evidence that global warming has been amplifying a process known as 'coastal upwelling'. Coastal upwelling ... |
Last-Minute Battles Fought Over Climate Report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:22
| New York Times: Hundreds of climate scientists and government officials from around the world have worked all week behind closed doors and frequently darkened windows in a United Nations building here to summarize the factors behind global warming in a report to be released Friday. But the doors and drapes may as well be wide open. The senior authors of the report, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N. body convened every five years or so, have been inundated with e-mail ... |
U.N. panel blames humans for warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:22
| Reuters: The U.N. climate panel agreed in its starkest warning yet on Thursday that human activities are causing global warming that may bring more droughts, heatwaves and rising seas, delegates said. The report, due for release on Friday and bolstering conclusions from a 2001 study, may put pressure on governments and companies to do more to curb greenhouse gases mainly from burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars. The U.N. climate panel agreed in its starkest ... |
Chirac: U.S. Could Face Euro. Carbon Tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:22
| Associated Press: The United States could face possible European carbon taxes on its exports if it does not sign global climate accords, French President Jacques Chirac was quoted as saying in an interview published Thursday. "A carbon tax is inevitable," Chirac reportedly said in the interview with the International Herald Tribune (nyse: TRB - news - people ), The New York Times and French weekly Nouvel Observateur. Chirac urged the United States to sign the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which ... |
Climate Change Predictions Not Exaggerated, Analysis Says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:22
| National Geographic: Tomorrow the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release a major report with grim predictions for the coming decades, according to journalists who have seen draft versions of the paper. If the IPCC's recent track record is any indication, the predictions will be no exaggeration, according to an analysis posted today on the Web site of the journal Science. The Science study compared actual climate measurements with the predictions of ... |
Cool water surges could affect fish stocks: report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:23
| Reuters: Surges of cool waters from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean became stronger off Morocco in the 20th century, apparently because of global warming that could affect fish stocks, a study showed on Thursday. The report, in the journal Science, said there was evidence of similar upwellings in the Arabian Sea, off California, Peru and Chile, also apparently driven by higher temperatures and shifts in winds tied to greenhouse gases. The upwellings could be commercially important ... |
Ethanol and its unintended consequences (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:23
| Scripps News: Many Democrats and some Republicans applauded President Bush's State-of-the-Union proposal for a 20 percent reduction in gasoline use over the next 10 years, largely through greater reliance on ethanol. Bush's idea, however, is adding corn-based fuel to protests in Mexico City. Existing federal laws that mandate ethanol in U.S. gasoline have diverted trainloads of corn from America's food supply-chain to ethanol factories. This boosted U.S. corn prices nearly 80 percent in 2006. ... |
Sea levels 'rising faster than predicted' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:23
| Nature: Climate factors such as sea-level rise may be changing more rapidly than predicted, according to a new survey of global trends since 1990. The figures suggest that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which publishes a fresh assessment of climate change tomorrow, may have previously underestimated the changes that lie ahead. Researchers led by Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany studied the most recent data for atmospheric ... |
China: Jan. temperature degrees higher than normal years (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-01-2007 at 09:00:24
| Xinhua: The average national temperature in January this year was minus 4.5 degrees Celsius, 1.4 degrees higher than normal years, according to the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) on Thursday. High temperatures make it easier for worm eggs and bugs to survive the winter, so plant diseases and insect pests are a real possibility in the spring, said Song Lianchun, head of the disaster reduction forecast department of the CMA. Song warned of a possible spring drought in some ... |
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