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Fight against global warming must start now (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 03:00:24
| Yomiuri Shimbun: Global warming is real, and it is progressing at a quickening pace. This chilling conclusion was included in a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the most authoritative group on global warming, comprising 2,500 scientists from around the world. The IPCC's latest report--a collection of the most up-to-date scientific findings about the greenhouse effect and climate change--came six years after its third such report was published in 2001. The new report ... |
Nations urge tougher UN environment role (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 03:00:24
| Reuters: Forty-six nations have called for the creation of a more powerful UN environment agency, saying the survival of humanity was at risk, but the US, China and Russia did not sign up. "We must realise that we have reached a point of no return, and have caused irreparable damage," according to the Paris Call for Action read out by French President Jacques Chirac after a two-day conference at his Elysee Palace. The world's top climate scientists said global warming was ... |
Warming to alter Japan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 03:00:24
| Yomiuri Shimbun: Koshihikari rice will be less tasty and the zone suitable for producing mikan will move northward, according to a forecast released by the Environment Ministry. The ministry released its report, based on a number of national studies Friday, in conjunction with that day's unveiling of a U.N. report that warns of an accelerating global warming trend. According to the forecast, compiled by organizations including the National Institute for Environmental Studies, the number of ... |
46 nations back new environmental body; U.S. out (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 03:00:24
| Associated Press: Forty-five nations answered France's call Saturday for a new environmental body to slow inevitable global warming and protect the planet, perhaps with policing powers to punish violators. Absent were the world's heavyweight polluter, the United States, and booming nations on the same path as the U.S. - China and India. The charge led by French President Jacques Chirac came a day after the release of an authoritative - and disturbingly grim - scientific report in Paris that said ... |
Europe's Endangered Ski Resorts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 03:00:25
| Inter Press Service: Ski lovers in Europe are joining the list of those hurt by global climate change. This year the northern hemisphere winter is seeing moderate temperatures and little snowfall -- and is looking more like springtime. Numerous winter sports events scheduled for European venues have been postponed or cancelled, such as the Tour de Ski, a new cross-country ski championship organised by the International Ski Federation, to begin Dec. 29 in the central Czech town of Nove Mesto. The lack of ... |
Insurers See Profit in Less Pollution as UN Warns of Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 03:00:25
| Bloomberg: Insurance companies including American International Group Inc. and Swiss Reinsurance Co. said a global commitment to reducing pollution would provide them an opportunity to create new products for managing risks associated with climate change. Already hurt in 2004 and 2005 by claims from costly hurricanes, which some scientists think are growing more severe due to global warming, the insurers are looking for better ways to assess the risks involved in providing coverage. ... |
Philippines: The false promise of ethanol (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 03:00:25
| Manila Times: The Biofuels Act that President Arroyo signed into law requires all oil companies to blend at least 5-percent ethanol with regular unleaded gasoline or be fined in amounts ranging from P50,000 to P100,000 a day. The oil companies are not howling in pain which only means that their bottom lines will not be affected - possibly even enhanced. To produce enough 5-percent ethanol, 15 plants will have to be set up. At the same time 120,000 hectares will have to be planted to ... |
Australia: The message is loud and clear: climate change tops voter concerns (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:23
| Sydney Morning Herald: THE state's water crisis and protection of the environment have soared to the top of voter concerns for the coming election. The Sun-Herald's exclusive poll reveals that water and the environment combine to make the hottest issue for 91 per cent of voters across all ages and all parties. The poll result will put renewed pressure on Premier Morris Iemma, who is struggling to sell the $1.2 billion seawater desalination plant to deeply sceptical voters. Electors rated ... |
A planet on the edge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:23
| Sunday Telegraph: THEY cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming. Captured on film by Canadian environmentalists, the pair of polar bears look stranded on chunks of broken ice. Although the magnificent creatures are well adapted to the water, and can swim many kilometres to solid land, the distance is getting ever greater as the Arctic ice diminishes. "Swimming 160km is not a big deal for a polar ... |
Change irreversible, so adapt or suffer: UN author (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:23
| Age: AN AUTHOR of the bleak UN report into climate change has warned that people must adapt to a permanently altered planet. Mike Coughlan, head of the Bureau of Meteorology's National Climate Centre and an editor of the report's Australia and New Zealand chapter, said Australians must learn to live in a warmer climate with less rainfall. He said that while it was too late to reverse the trends noted in the report, it was still possible to limit the damage. "There's ... |
Australia: Price hike for drinking water (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:23
| Sunday Telegraph: HOUSEHOLDS would be forced to pay more for drinking water under a NSW Government plan, as officials concede the State is running dry. As water restrictions fail to address the seriousness of the crisis, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that bureaucrats have been secretly examining hundreds of options, despite the Government's assurances that the problem was under control. Other options under review include metering fire hydrants, installing valves in schools to shut down ... |
A canary in the Chinese coal mine (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:24
| Globe and Mail: The wheat farmers of Donglu village can't sell their harvest. The wheat kernels are dark, sooty, hollow and twisted. "Nobody wants to buy it, so we have to eat it at home," says Zhang Xiaojiao, a farmer in the village. "Look at it," she says, brandishing a handful of the stuff. "It doesn't taste good. It tastes bitter. It's because of the coal pollution. But nobody cares about us, and nobody comes to investigate." All around this valley, ... |
United States: Gore sounds warning at Silicon Valley event (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:24
| Contra Costa Times: As the world awakens to the perils of the climate crisis, Silicon Valley is poised to play a "historic" role in developing technologies to curb dependence on fossil fuels, former Vice President Al Gore told a gathering of valley business and community leaders Friday. On the same day that a global consortium of scientists forcefully declared that human activities are accelerating the climate crisis, Gore made a presentation on opportunities in clean technology. His address ... |
Humans Faulted For Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:24
| Washington Post: An international panel of climate scientists said yesterday that there is an overwhelming probability that human activities are warming the planet at a dangerous rate, with consequences that could soon take decades or centuries to reverse. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of hundreds of scientists from 113 countries, said that based on new research over the last six years, it is 90 percent certain that human-generated greenhouse gases account for most of the ... |
US, Australia Pushed To Ink Kyoto (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:24
| CBS: Officials and environmentalists pressed the United States and Australia to sign the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and urged other governments to cut pollution after a U.N. report warned of catastrophic global warming. Maldives Foreign Minister Ahmed Saeed said rising oceans could devastate low-lying countries like his coral island nation, which is three feet above sea level in the Indian Ocean. "If the sea level rises permanently, it will submerge ... |
Bush accepts science on warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:24
| Washington Times: The White House yesterday embraced a new international report faulting humans for global warming, marking the furthest President Bush has gone in placing blame. But administration officials again rejected the Kyoto-style caps on carbon emissions that have been the preferred solution of European nations. The report, released in Paris by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the fact that the Earth is now warming "is unequivocal," and said it is ... |
Canadians will be hit harder (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:24
| Toronto Star: Climate change is going to hit Canada harder than most other parts of the world and Canadians have little choice but to adapt to the impacts. That was the sombre message here yesterday from Canadian climate scientists in a briefing organized by the agency that pays for most of the non-government climate change research in the country. "Our climate is changing and it will continue to change for decades. Canadians need to think about what that means to them," said ... |
China media downplays UN climate change report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:24
| Agence France-Presse: China's state-run media has played down fresh warnings on climate change issued by a UN scientific panel, with centrally-controlled television news ignoring the issue altogether. China Central Television in its Friday night and Saturday news broadcasts failed to mention the report by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) that called for international action to slow down global warming. The Communist Party's leading People's Daily ran a three paragraph factual on ... |
Deal with warming, don't debate it, scientists warn (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:24
| LA Times: A United Nations report released Friday that blames humans for the "runaway train" of global warming has abruptly shifted the international debate from "Are humans to blame?" to "What are we going to do about it?" "The world's scientists have spoken," said Timothy E. Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation. "It is time now to hear from the world's policymakers. The so-called and long-overstated 'debate' about global warming is now ... |
From global warming report, U.S. feels heat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:24
| Chicago Tribune: Global warming is "very likely" a human-caused problem that will last for centuries and require concerted international action to reduce its potentially devastating impacts, a United Nations panel of climate experts declared Friday in a landmark report. Now the question is whether the bleak report will change the politics of global warming in the U.S. and lead to a more united effort to deal with the problem, and for the moment, that appears uncertain. The Bush ... |
Peru's Amazon oil deals denounced (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:25
| BBC: Environmental and human rights group in Peru have denounced the government's campaign to auction off large swathes of the Amazon to oil and gas companies. They say the amount of Peruvian Amazon territory open to exploration has risen from 13% to 70% in two years. They say this is putting at risk the biodiversity of the Amazon and the lives of indigenous people. Peruvian President Alan Garcia has said the plans are part of his investment programme to tackle widespread ... |
Science Panel Says Global Warming Is 'Unequivocal' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:25
| New York Times: In a grim and powerful assessment of the future of the planet, the leading international network of climate scientists has concluded for the first time that global warming is "unequivocal" and that human activity is the main driver, "very likely" causing most of the rise in temperatures since 1950. They said the world was in for centuries of climbing temperatures, rising seas and shifting weather patterns – unavoidable results of the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. ... |
Ban calls for rapid response to climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:25
| Yonhap News: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the international community to deal swiftly with global warming, following a warning by the world's leading climatologists of impending catastrophe caused by the climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of 2,500 climate experts convened by the U.N., said in a report that human activities such as producing gas emissions are increasing the temperature of the globe and jeopardizing many ... |
Climate change report proves Aust should go nuclear: Howard (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:25
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Prime Minister John Howard says a new United Nations (UN) report on climate change is further proof that Australia should be looking towards nuclear energy. The UN report paints a bleak picture of of higher sea levels and temperatures this century. It urges the world's governments to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but Mr Howard says looking to solar and wind energy is not the solution. Mr Howard says Australia is taking the appropriate measures to ... |
Climate Change Report, Grim global warming prognosis for Western U.S. (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:25
| San Francisco Chronicle: Global warming has already led to rising sea levels and dramatic increases in temperature in the Arctic, and scientists warned Friday that its effects will hit closer to home, creating heat waves, droughts and hurricanes. How bad it gets, say international scientists in the latest release of findings on climate change, depends on what actions people and nations take to reduce the burning of fossil fuels, the destruction of forests and everyday activities that emit carbon dioxide and ... |
United States: Gore calls for tech leaders to solve climate woes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:25
| San Jose Business Journal: Silicon Valley will play a major role in solving the world's climate crisis, says former Vice President Al Gore. "Technology gives us the leverage to change the patterns of behavior that are creating this crisis, and the most significant role in creating that technology will played here by you," he said. Gore spoke to an audience of 1,500 business and civic leaders gathered Friday at the McEnery Convention Center for the annual report of Joint Venture: Silicon ... |
Canada: Heightened climate concerns spark Green party windfall (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:25
| Ottawa Citizen: With climate change and the environment dominating political debate in Canada, the Green party's fortunes continue to rise as it quietly doubled the amount of money it raised in 2006 compared with the previous year. The latest party fundraising results released by Elections Canada this week show the party, led by its new leader Elizabeth May, raised about $800,000 in 2006, with about half of that record amount for Greens - $384,215 -- coming in the last three months. May said ... |
United States: Moratorium on coal-burning plants rejected (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:25
| Lawrence Journal World: A proposed two-year ban on construction of coal-burning power plants appears dead. The House Energy and Utilities Committee on Friday tabled the measure on a voice vote. The only lawmaker who could be heard opposing the motion to derail the bill was state Rep. Vaughn Flora, D-Topeka, who drafted the proposed moratorium. The bill was filed as state officials consider a $5 billion project by Sunflower Electric Power Corp. to build three 700-megawatt coal-fired plants in ... |
Australia: Perth faces global warming hit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:25
| AAP: PERTH is one of the few cities in the world which scientists say will almost certainly suffer dramatic effects from climate change. Scientists meeting in Melbourne yesterday to discuss the International Panel on Climate Change report on global warming agree there is a more than 90 per cent chance southern WA will become drier and hotter. A grim scenario of Perth becoming uninhabitable has already been raised by Australian of the Year Tim Flannery. The outspoken ... |
Australia: PM uses climate warning to push nuclear (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:25
| AAP: Prime Minister John Howard has used a United Nations report on climate change to push his nuclear plan. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released in Paris, specified a greater than 90 per cent chance that temperatures were rising due to human activities. The IPCC report is bad news for Australia as temperatures and sea levels are predicted to rise, unleashing increasingly intense storms, heatwaves and heavy rains in the 21st century. Mr ... |
Report spurs calls for aggressive action (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:25
| San Francisco Chronicle: The dire forecast by an international panel of scientists Friday that the Earth will warm and sea levels will continue to rise for centuries even if the world starts limiting greenhouse gases spurred new calls for urgent action. In Paris, where the report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released, scientists and top officials called for new talks toward an agreement among all nations to cut emissions. In Washington, lawmakers called the report the ... |
Australia: Turnbull says Govt on track in adapting to climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:26
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ELIZABETH JACKSON: Joining me in the studio now is the Federal Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Malcolm Turnbull. (to Malcolm Turnbull) Minister, welcome. It's official now, the predictions are dire, and the clock seems to be ticking faster than ever before. Do you accept the widespread criticism that your government has been tardy in failing to take sufficient action early on to avoid this very situation? MALCOLM TURNBULL: Not at all. For more than a ... |
United States: Wolk pushes state to consider climate change in water plans (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 06:00:26
| California Chronicle: Assemblywoman Lois Wolk (D-Davis) introduced Assembly Bill 224, legislation to update California water plans to include the projected effects of climate change, Monday. The bill requires the California Department of Water Resources to consider accepted projections of climate change in plans for the State's existing water delivery system–including the State Water Plan, urban water management plans, and basin water quality plans by state and regional water boards. The bill would also ... |
Chirac leads calls for new UN body to save the environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 09:00:23
| Independent (UK): More than 40 countries are backing calls for an international organisation to police governments that fail to act against climate change. It would also fight threats such as global warming, water shortages and the loss of species. President Jacques Chirac, proposing the United Nations Environment Organisation (UNEO) at a conference at the Elysée Palace yesterday, said: "It is our responsibility. The future of humanity demands it." This comes just days after a report by the ... |
Green: They are. Are you? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 09:00:23
| Independent (UK): Acting cool will help save the planet, according to top stars, who are setting out to convince the world. They have launched a 10-year campaign to try to make environmentally friendly living fashionable, thus putting pressure on world leaders to act. The multimillion-pound campaign, which has won the admiration of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, aims to persuade a billion people worldwide to take simple steps to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, ... |
Another warning... and another chance for the world to do nothing (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 09:00:23
| Scotsman: ANOTHER month, another apocalyptic report on climate change. Maybe this will be the one that finally tips the balance between words and action. But then again, maybe not. It seems like only yesterday - actually it's 12 whole weeks - since the Stern Report was predicted to have exactly that effect. "February 2 will perhaps one day be remembered as the day the question mark was removed," declared Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environmental Programme. ... |
IPCC puts it bluntly on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 09:00:24
| Telegraph (UK): Reports from large international scientific committees are rarely anything other than bland, committed as they are to reflecting consensus and avoiding the controversial. But the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has dozens of authors, and consolidates evidence from more than 2,000 scientists, breaks that rule. It is unusually blunt. The evidence for global warming, it states, is now "unequivocal"; the warming is "almost certainly" ... |
Iceland: Smokestacks in a White Wilderness Divide Iceland (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 09:00:24
| New York Times: In the depths of winter there is almost nothing to see here but snow and rock: snow across the uneven, unearthly landscape, snow on the mist-shrouded mountains, snow stretching to what looks like the edge of the world. But tucked into Iceland's central highlands, where the Karahnjukar mountain meets two powerful rivers flowing north from Europe's largest glacier, a nearly completed jigsaw of dams, tunnels and reservoirs has begun to reshape the wilderness. This is the $3 ... |
Australia: Floods a sign of warming, says Beattie (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 09:00:24
| AAP: QUEENSLAND Premier Peter Beattie has said today that flooding in North Queensland was another sign of global warming. "I'm delighted we're getting rain in north Queensland, although we never like getting too much because there's always floods," he told ABC Radio. "But the trouble is this, is what the future holds - this is what climate change is doing to us. "What it also means is you can get very large amounts of water at one time - and you can ... |
One Gigantic Wild Card In Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 09:00:24
| ABC News: The findings in the new report are sobering enough -- that the world's scientists agree global warming is "unequivocal" and irreversible: Manmade greenhouse gases are shooting up -- driving the rise in earth's temperature and sea level, and the decline in earth's snow cover. But there's a massive unknown worrying the scientists: Sea levels could rise in the coming decades faster than anyone thought. Ominous news in the fourth unanimous assessment in 20 years by the IPCC ... |
Climate report says India vulnerable, but is Delhi listening? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 09:00:25
| Indian Express: Just before the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was being hammered out in Paris, the Chinese government experts were in full force at the meeting while New Delhi was conspicuous by its absence. This report is the final word on the science of climate change and some of the findings show that India may need to engage with the issue of climate change more closely than it has done in the past. With the first instalment of the fourth assessment report, IPCC ... |
United Arab Emirates: 'Tap solar energy for water desalination' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 09:00:25
| Gulf News: The Environment 2007, the annual ecological conference and exhibition, concluded last week with the experts calling for the promotion of solar technology and energy efficiency in water desalination. A panel of experts from 40 countries, who participated in the conference, issued a set of recommendations for regional countries to explore new renewable and sustainable sources of energy. The panel also recommended extension of the re-use of water for potential human consumption, ... |
Anger over Peru's plan to bring oil firms to Amazon (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 09:00:26
| BBC: Indigenous leaders and environmentalists in Peru have sharply criticised the Government's campaign to auction parts of the Amazon rainforest to oil and gas companies for exploration. Representatives from several organisations say the Peruvian part of the forest open to exploration has risen from 13 to 70 per cent in two years. This month, the state-run agency Peru Petro is hoping to attract American oil companies to buy 11 drilling concessions in the jungle covering the size of ... |
Polar Bears Put Alaska Oil Development on Thin Ice (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 09:00:26
| Reuters: Until now, the Alaskan oil industry and polar bears have coexisted peacefully, but proposals by the U.S. government to list polar bears as endangered by global warming have cast a shadow on oil development on Alaska's North Slope. A "threatened" listing for the struggling bears, proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, could bring new regulatory hurdles for future exploration and drilling, industry advocates say. Listing the bears as threatened "has the ... |
Scientist hopes climate study `makes a difference' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2007 at 09:00:27
| Grand Forks Herald: Andrei Kirilenko began his academic career in mathematics in Russia. About 20 years and one class from a very influential mentor later, Kirilenko discussed his role in the most in-depth global warming report to date. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the first installment of its new report Friday, about six years after its previous report was released. The groundbreaking document says that global warming is "very likely" caused by man, a minor syntax ... |
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