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Climate report a call to arms for valley entrepreneurs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 06:00:39
| Mercury News: The latest news on global warming is depressing. The world has already spewed so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that no matter what we do, temperatures will continue to rise for centuries, causing disruptive changes in our climate. But if we do nothing, the impact will be even worse, according to a report Friday by the world's leading climate scientists. By the end of the century, average temperatures could be as much as 11 degrees higher. We'll suffer severe droughts and ... |
China: Prosperity or Pollution? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 06:00:39
| Inter Press Service: Following the release of an authoritative United Nations report that unequivocally links human activities with climate change, the rulers of the world's most populous country are faced with the quandary of balancing prosperity against pollution. China's economy has been growing at a double-digit rate for the last 20 years and is now the second-largest emitter of energy-related carbon dioxide after the United States. The increased atmospheric concentration of carbon emissions that ... |
Climate debate request criticized (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 06:00:39
| Washington Post: A Washington-based think tank has been soliciting critiques of the just-released international assessment of the evidence on climate change, a move that prompted some academics and environmentalists to accuse the group of seeking to distort the latest evidence for global warming. Advocacy groups such as Greenpeace and the Public Interest Research Group questioned why the American Enterprise Institute has offered $10,000 to academics willing to contribute to a book on climate change ... |
Global warming: Let the science speak (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 06:00:39
| Philadelphia Inquirer: As most of the world anxiously awaits the latest international update on climate science, Congress investigates allegations that the Bush administration suppressed and censored global-warming research by U.S. scientists. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, established in 1988 by the United Nations and World Meteorological Organization, on Friday released the first of four climate-change reports this year. A summary of the published, peer-reviewed science as of ... |
Pioneer low-carbon communities launched (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 06:00:39
| Guardian: Bristol and the East Midlands will this week be named as the first places where a new network of eco-friendly houses is to be created. Ministers are working with English Partnerships, the regeneration agency, to establish dozens of small-scale communities across England made up of only zero-carbon or low-carbon houses, to help reduce the impact of climate change. Initially 1,000 such homes will be built. The properties will get their power from renewable sources of energy such ... |
Australia: Dry, and getting dryer (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 06:00:39
| Herald Sun: SOUTHERN Australia will continue drying out in the next 100 years as climate change takes hold, according to a lead author of a recently released major UN report. Prof Neville Nicholls said the science behind climate change predictions was unquestionable. "The projections all show Australia warming through the next century," he said. "The worrying thing for Australia is most of the models suggest the far south and southwestern areas will continue to dry and ... |
Algae-Based Fuels Set to Bloom (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:30
| Technology Review: Relatively high oil prices, advances in technology, and the Bush administration's increased emphasis on renewable fuels are attracting new interest in a potentially rich source of biofuels: algae. A number of startups are now demonstrating new technology and launching large research efforts aimed at replacing hundreds of millions of gallons of fossil fuels by 2010, and much more in the future. Algae makes oil naturally. Raw algae can be processed to make biocrude, the renewable ... |
Australia Leader Touts Emissions Trading (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:30
| Casper Star Tribune: Australia must place a price on carbon emissions to fight climate change, Prime Minister John Howard said Monday in an apparent softening on his refusal to join in global emissions trading. Australia, the world's largest exporter of coal, joined the United States is refusing to sign the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which called for deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions believed to worsen global warming. Australia is also one of the world's worst greenhouse gas polluters per capita because of ... |
Australia softens stand on carbon trading (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:30
| Reuters: Australia's conservative government softened its long-held opposition to carbon trading on Monday, prompting business to warn the move could cost jobs and shift emissions offshore to China or Indonesia. Prime Minister John Howard has regularly ruled out imposing a carbon tax or setting up a national system of carbon trading to combat greenhouse gas emissions, saying Australia would only have carbon trading as part of a global system. But with global warming and the environment ... |
Ban says climate change to hit poor (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:30
| Reuters: The world's poor, who are the least responsible for global warming, will suffer the most from the effects of climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told global environment ministers on Monday."The degradation of the global environment continues unabated ... and the effects of climate change are being felt across the globe," Ban said in a statement after last week's toughest warning yet mankind is to blame for global warming.In comments read on his behalf at the start of a week-long ... |
Bush's annual hot air emission (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:30
| Asia Times: In his sixth State of the Union address, US President George W Bush renewed his call to increase his country's energy independence and acknowledged "the serious challenge of global climate change", a topic that his administration has largely ignored since taking power in 2001. With two years remaining in a presidential term that will be defined by the grim realities of the conflict in Iraq, Bush used his annual address to Congress as an attempt to salvage a domestic agenda. ... |
China plans for climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:30
| Reuters: China is preparing its first plan to battle wrenching climate change, a senior policy adviser said, stressing rising alarm about global warming in a nation where economic growth has gone untethered. Zou Ji, a climate policy expert at the People's University of China in Beijing, told Reuters the national programme will probably set broad goals for emissions and coping with changing weather patterns. It is likely to be released this year after at least two years of preparation ... |
Tax carbon emissions to save the Earth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:30
| Albany Times Union: It's become painfully obvious that the oil-addicted United States must take action to stop global warming -- and equally obvious that sensible energy action will have to come from Congress, business and the American people. Piecemeal approaches won't work. What we need -- and quickly -- are market-based incentives to make it attractive to stop emitting the carbon that causes global warming. The longer we wait to take action on global warming, the more it will cost us in the long run. ... |
UN chief says climate change has driven world to 'critical stage' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:31
| Agence France-Presse: United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has warned that climate change had driven the world to a "critical stage," directly affecting human health and the environment. "The world has reached a critical stage ... despite our best intentions, the degradation of the global environment continues unabated," Ban said in a message to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) conference in Nairobi on Monday. Amid concerted calls for global action to stem further damage, Ban ... |
United Kingdom: 'Sea level rising around estuary' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:31
| BBC: Sea water around the Severn Estuary has risen by 2.5mm per year since 1950 according to a geological expert. Research conducted by Professor Simon Haslett has found the rise was in line with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predictions. He also found that salt marshes which act as a major natural coastal defence by dampening wave energy were drowning. This could potentially lead to the sea defences being breached, leaving the low-lying areas flooded, he ... |
Global Warning (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:31
| Washington Post: IT'S NOT quite the hurricane-force blow to skeptics of global warming that many climatologists would have preferred, but for a document drafted by hundreds of scientists representing 113 governments, the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released Friday, is nevertheless full of frightening evidence and, we hope, policy-inducing conclusions. Here are some of the more notable conclusions: There is no doubt that the planet is warming, ... |
Key facts about China and climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:31
| Reuters: China could overtake the United States by 2009 as the world's largest emitter of the greenhouse gases adding to global climate change as its rapid economic development continues. Here are some key facts about climate change and China: PER CAPITA EMISSIONS ARE LOW: - Per capita, China's energy-related emissions are very low. - Each citizen was responsible for emitting around 2.72 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2003. - This compares to 19.95 tonnes per capita ... |
No more cold shoulder for global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:31
| Republican: It's official. Man is responsible for global warming. That's the word from hundreds of the world's experts on climate change. The scientists, in a report released Friday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the climate changes are "very likely" caused by human activity, meaning there's at least a 90 percent certainty that global warming is the result when man burns fossil fuels. These scientists are to climate change what Betty Crocker is to ... |
Vietnam highly vulnerable to climate change: expert (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 09:00:31
| Agence France-Presse: Vietnam could be among the countries worst hit by climate change and rising sea levels, a British government expert has said. "Vietnam potentially is one of the countries where sea level rises could have the most dramatic impact," said Mark Lowcock, a senior official with Britain's Department for International Development on Monday. Lowcock said that, while many forecasters predict dire consequences for low-lying Bangladesh, Vietnam would also be badly hit, and ... |
Oceans' health linked to warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 12:00:27
| Herald Tribune: People in low-lying coastal zones, like much of the state of Florida, might want to take a better look at the ocean waters that a new global warming report predicts will steadily creep ashore. The seas aren't just rising because of human influence on climate, as a United Nations panel reported last week. They are in terrible condition, too. Advocates for quick action on ocean problems, which include red tide, dead zones, dwindling fish stocks and dying coral reefs are hitching ... |
Australia says emissions trading needed to fight global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 12:00:28
| Agence France-Presse: worldwide system to put a price on harmful gas emissions should be a key part of any plan to combat global warming, but should not come at Australia's expense, Prime Minister John Howard has said. "Market mechanisms, including carbon pricing, will be integral to any long-term response to climate change," Howard said during his weekly radio address on Sunday. But the prime minister, whose government has refused to adopt the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas ... |
Canada: Climate shift fires public's green interest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 12:00:28
| Vancouver Sun: Climate change isn't just warming the globe and causing crazy weather -- it has also cranked up the public's interest in the environmental movement. "Our phones are ringing off the hook," said Ian Bruce, climate change specialist at the David Suzuki Foundation in Vancouver. Bruce said his group is receiving many more calls and e-mails than ever before from citizens and reporters wanting to know about climate change issues. "We are getting a lot of support ... |
The coming green industrial revolution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 12:00:28
| Toronto Star: Liberal leader Stéphane Dion argues that by becoming a leading green nation, Canada will also be a more prosperous nation. By tackling climate change head on, there would be enormous economic gains because Canadian companies would have an incentive to develop the new technologies they could then sell all over the world, he says. "Countries that embrace the environment as a core priority will lead the global economy in the 21st century," he argues. By undertaking a tough ... |
Australia: PM 'considering' carbon trading, rules out tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2007 at 12:00:28
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Prime Minister John Howard says he is considering how Australia could participate in a carbon trading scheme, but he does not support a carbon tax. Mr Howard set-up a task force on carbon trading last year and will receive its interim report this week. Mr Howard says he is prepared to look at a system where there is a price on carbon so emissions can be traded, but he is against a new tax. "I am not going to embrace an approach to climate change that damages our ... |
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