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United Kingdom: Butterflies and lambs...in winter! (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:04
| Daily Express: It is the first day of 2007 but the deep midwinter is having little effect on Mother Nature. New born lambs, flowering rhododendrons, and rare peacock butterflies are all putting in an unseasonal appearance on the British landscape today. Spring arrived early at Pat Stephens' Venn Farm in Ugborough, Devon with new born lambs frolicking in the fields. But the onset of stormy weather saw them safely back in a warm barn last night. After a lengthy stay indoors for the rest ... |
United Kingdom: Concern for rainforest forces RWE to scrap palm oil project (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:04
| Times (UK): A leading German utility has abandoned plans to convert a British power station to run on palm oil, in a blow to the promotion of biofuels in Europe. The decision by RWE npower to scrap the project at its Littlebrook plant in Dartford, Kent, which was seen as a test case for palm oil as an alternative energy source, comes after it was unable to secure sufficient supplies without risking damage to tropical rainforest. The move highlights the mounting alarm over the scramble in ... |
Has solar push lost its luster in Florida? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:04
| Orlando Sentinel: They are frustrated that more isn't being done to harness the sun - which shines 70 percent of days in Florida - to power water heaters or air conditioners. "The sun is free for the taking," said James Fenton, director of the Florida Solar Energy Center in Cocoa. "The best kilowatt, the best gallon of gas is the one you don't buy." Ecologist Charles Lee, director of advocacy for Audubon of Florida in Maitland, offers a theory for the seeming lack of ... |
Canada: Provinces signing climate deals with states (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:04
| Globe and Mail: At least seven provinces have joined climate-change plans with U.S. states, a trend environmentalists say is long overdue given their authority over the coal- and gas-fired power plants that are the continent's biggest source of greenhouse gases. Some also say the provincial deals highlight a leadership vacuum in both Ottawa and Washington on global warming. Manitoba Premier Gary Doer and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have signed a memorandum of understanding ... |
United States: Trees Abloom Amid Winter Warm Spell (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:04
| Washington Post: When the cherry trees in front of her Northwest Washington apartment building began to turn pink with blossoms several days ago, delighting her and her children, Nina Chkhenkeli took pictures and sent them to family members in Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia. "It's amazing," she said yesterday, standing next to one of the Macomb Street trees and joining the rest of the Washington area in celebrating the end of a warm year. "I told everyone back home, this is what it is ... |
World faces hottest year ever, as El Nino combines with global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:04
| Independent (UK): A combination of global warming and the El Niño weather system is set to make 2007 the warmest year on record with far-reaching consequences for the planet, one of Britain's leading climate experts has warned. As the new year was ushered in with stormy conditions across the UK, the forecast for the next 12 months is of extreme global weather patterns which could bring drought to Indonesia and leave California under a deluge. The warning, from Professor Phil Jones, director of ... |
2006, Year of Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:04
| Blue Oregon: As is usual, we celebrate December 31st with the ritual of the naming. Having sorted over the events of the past year, we identify the most important person, news event, sports story, drunken celebrity gaffe--whatever headlines our particular area of focus. I've done my sorting, and despite a near unanimous consensus on the major political stories of the year (Iraq and congressional scandals), I'd like to dissent. The real story, which has both domestic and foreign policy ramifications, was ... |
Grappling with Asia's 'Tsunami of the Air' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:04
| Haveeru Daily: Close to a thousand people from all over the world converged in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for a few days in mid December 2006. They discussed and debated one of Asia's biggest development challenges: how to clean up its fouled air. The historic city -– close to the World Heritage Borobudur temple -- had been badly shaken by an earthquake only a few months earlier, in May 2006. And as Better Air Quality 2006, Asia's leading event on the subject, got underway, results of the December 11 ... |
United States: Like It or Not, City's Lack of Snow Is a Rarity (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:04
| New York Times: No children screeching on toboggans. No thwack against a friend's head. No melting on tongues. No snow. November. December, too. For the last two months, no snow has fallen on Central Park, and it probably won't fall anytime soon, forecasters say. Indeed, not since April 8 has there been even a flurry. The National Weather Service said that last month appeared to be the first December without a snowflake here since 1877, when Rutherford B. Hayes was president. Moreover, ... |
Moderation emerges in debate over change in climate, as experts reject extremist views (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:05
| New York Times: Amid the shouting lately about whether global warming is a human-caused catastrophe or a hoax, some usually staid climate scientists in the usually invisible middle are speaking up. The discourse over the issue has been feverish since Hurricane Katrina. Seizing the moment, many environmental campaigners, former Vice President Al Gore and some scientists have portrayed the growing human influence on the climate as an unfolding disaster that is already measurably strengthening ... |
Native grass a good source of power, new study shows (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:05
| Argus Leader: Biofuel from a mix of native prairie grass would yield more energy than ethanol from corn or switchgrass and would do more to combat global warming. A recent study in the journal Science found that a diverse mixture of grasses can produce more raw material than a single-species planting of, for example, switchgrass. The University of Minnesota research compared several such plantings on poor-quality soil without fertilizer. If turned into ethanol, the grass mixture would ... |
United States: String of warm winters is unlike any on record (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:05
| Albert Lea Tribune: Jim and Grace Thompson have lived across from the City Beach for 60 years and don't recall seeing open water on Fountain Lake after Christmas Day. They recall one year when Santa Claus skied on the water on Dec. 8, but this week they've seen geese and ducks swimming on the water. "They've gotten so used to the helicopter coming to the hospital they don't even look up at it," James said. There is no debate that climate change is happening, said state climatologist Mark ... |
'Nigeria vulnerable to climate change' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:05
| Vanguard: Environment Minister Helen Esuene says the country is "extremely vulnerable to the impact of climate change". Esuene made the observation at a workshop on Nigeria's Communication under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Lokoja at the weekend. "Nigeria is extremely vulnerable to the impact of weather and climate events that occur on a large scale in all sectors of the economy, including energy, agriculture, industry and land use,'' she said. Esuene said ... |
Australia: 2006 was Hobart's driest year yet, forecaster says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:05
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: There is evidence Hobart has experienced its driest year on record. The private forecaster, Weatherzone, says the city received 343 millimetres of rain this year, a little more than half the average of 619 millimetres. Hobart's driest year previously was 1976, when 390 millimetres was recorded. Weatherzone meteorologist Matt Pearce says the El Nino weather pattern in the second half of the year is largely responsible for the low rainfall in Australia's ... |
China's 2006 weather — very warm and quite disastrous (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:05
| Reuters: China experienced its warmest year in 2006 since 1951, packed with an unusually high number of natural disasters, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday, putting the blame on global warming. Dong Wenjie, director of the Beijing Climate Centre, said there was less rain, higher temperatures and a series of storms and typhoons followed by drought. The annual meteorological report released by the China Meteorological Administration said the amount of damage was "rare" in the ... |
Climate change could be more than just sour grapes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:05
| Associated Press: Climate change may lead to hotter, drier heat waves, heavier rains and quicker snowmelts in the future, scientists say -- and a change in the taste of Oregon's signature pinot noir wines also could be on the horizon. Vintners already are shifting their vines uphill to keep them cool during warmer summers. But researchers forecast that by the end of this century, pinot noir grapes, the centerpiece of the state's $1 billion wine industry, will grow better along Puget Sound than they do ... |
Canada: Ottawa leaves the burning green question unanswered (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:05
| Globe and Mail: Once a leader in the fledgling market for greenhouse gas emission credits, TransAlta Corp. has been on the sidelines as it awaits a clear climate change policy from Ottawa. Two years ago, the Calgary-based power company spent $9-million (U.S.) to finance a methane-capture project on a Chilean hog farm. The resulting reductions in greenhouse gases emissions were used as credits to offset the release of carbon dioxide at the new Genesee 3 coal-fired power plant, after the Alberta ... |
United States: Renewable energy likely to top agenda (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:05
| Denver Post: Renewable energy and environmental conservation issues are likely to top the agenda for lawmakers returning to the Colorado Capitol this month. Democratic Gov.-elect Bill Ritter made renewable energy a centerpiece of his campaign, touting its promise to reduce dependency on oil and gas and to spur economic development in rural regions of the state. And Democratic lawmakers - now firmly in control of the state House and Senate with bigger majorities than two years ago - have ... |
Wood burns cleaner than coal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:01:06
| Nashua Telegraph: The environmental benefits of making electricity by burning wood aren't as great as switching to emission-free sources such as wind, tides or solar power, but they're undeniable, especially if the wood replaces fossil fuels. PSNH expects the wood project to produce electricity that would otherwise have been generated by about 130,000 tons of coal annually. On the greenhouse-gas front, coal, like oil, is very bad. Both were formed from dead plant or animal material millions of ... |
'If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2007 at 09:00:17
| Independent (UK): One of the world's leading experts on climate change has warned that the Earth is being turned into a "different planet" because of the continuing increase in man-made emissions of greenhouse gases. In an interview with The Independent, Jim Hansen, who was one of the first scientists to warn of climate change in scientific testimony to the US Congress in 1988, claimed that we have less than 10 years to begin to curb carbon dioxide emissions before global warming runs out of control ... |
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