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Australia: Extreme weather wreaks havoc (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 12:00:23
| Daily Telegraph: OUR unpredictable summer continued to baffle weather watchers yesterday as a secret government report warned that extreme climate change could wreak havoc in NSW. For the first time in six months heavy rain fell across the state, with Warragamba Dam recording the highest levels, at 71mm in 24 hours. Towns that were parched just a day before were now rejoicing in the wet. Forbes, in the Central West, was celebrating after a lake in the town centre that had been reduced to ... |
Huge ice shelf breaks free in Canada's far north (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 12:00:23
| Reuters: A chunk of ice bigger than the area of Manhattan broke from an ice shelf in Canada's far north and could wreak havoc if it starts to float westward toward oil-drilling regions and shipping lanes next summer, a researcher said on Friday. Global warming could be one cause of the break of the Ayles Ice Shelf at Ellesmere Island, which occurred in the summer of 2005 but was only detected recently by satellite photos, said Luke Copland, assistant professor at the University of Ottawa's ... |
Polar Bears May Be Listed as Threatened in the USA (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 12:00:23
| Environment News Service: "Polar bears are one of nature's ultimate survivors, able to live and thrive in one of the world's harshest environments. But we are concerned the polar bears' habitat may literally be melting," Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said last week, proposing to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. A listing would mean that any activities undertaken by federal government agencies could not undermine the survival of the species. ... |
Power-Sipping Bulbs Get Backing From Wal-Mart (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 12:00:23
| Times Daily: As a way to cut energy use, it could not be simpler. Unscrew a light bulb that uses a lot of electricity and replace it with one that uses much less. While it sounds like a promising idea, it turns out that the long-lasting, swirl-shaped light bulbs known as compact fluorescent lamps are to the nation's energy problem what vegetables are to its obesity epidemic: a near perfect answer, if only Americans could be persuaded to swallow them. But now Wal-Mart Stores, the giant ... |
Norway plans to buy greenhouse gas quotas for public servants' foreign air travel (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 12:00:23
| Associated Press: Norway plans to buy greenhouse gas quotas for public officials when they fly aboard to help curb global warming, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said. In his annual News Year's Day speech Monday evening, Stoltenberg said the proposal would probably make the Norwegian government the first in the world to buy such quotas for international air travel. "In parts of the country, we have had the warmest autumn and winter months in 100 years," the prime minister said in his ... |
Norway, UK try to tackle planes' greenhouse gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 12:00:23
| Reuters: Norway plans to join Britain in offsetting greenhouse gases caused by bureaucrats jetting around the world, announcing it will buy emissions quotas to combat global warming. Emissions from jet fuel burnt on international flights are among the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gases with cheaper flights but are exempted under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol for fighting climate change until 2012. "The government has decided that when state employees travel by plane abroad, we ... |
Spain to Exclude Polluting Cars from Tax Break (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 12:00:23
| Reuters: A tax break offered to Spaniards who scrap old cars for a new vehicle will be extended for another year but will no longer apply to purchases of high-powered, polluting cars, the government said on Friday. The new version of the so-called Plan Prever will offer a 480.81 euro (US$634) tax break to anybody swapping a car more than 10 years old for a new vehicle with an engine of up to 2,500 cc. That rules out many four-by-fours, which have enjoyed a huge gain in popularity in ... |
Warming to a market in carbon (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 12:00:23
| News Observer: At a time when so much public policy seems not to be working, policy successes need publicity. One example is America's clean air policy that rapidly decreased acid rain, impressing nearly all parties involved, especially with its financial efficiency. The story of how the country controlled acid rain needs telling if only because the public paid for this improvement in environmental quality. The acid-rain story also introduces us to a much more complicated story -- the story of how ... |
The silence of the polar bears (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Boston Globe: ARCTIC POLAR BEARS are becoming canaries in the mine, warning of the consequences of global warming. Even the Bush administration has been forced, grudgingly, to acknowledge this. Last week, it proposed to put the bears on the threatened species list because rising temperatures in the Arctic are depriving them of the ice platforms from which they hunt seals. But Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne acted only under pressure of a suit from environmental organizations, and has refused to ... |
South Korea: Voices weigh in on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Hankyoreh: Many domestic and foreign scholars have warned about abnormal climate changes this year due to a combination of global warming and the El Nino phenomenon. Professor Byeon Hi-ryong of Pukyong National University said on January 1, "A drought that began last fall has been spreading to the Chungcheong areas, such as Boryeong, Daejeon, Cheongju, and Seosan, and north Gyeonggi areas, including Ganghwa," adding that "by April next year, the nation may be hit by a serious ... |
Australia: Year of drought, flooding rains (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Courier Mail: PARTS of far north Queensland were the wettest places in Australia last year, while areas of southeastern Australia endured a drought described by the weather bureau as "unprecedented". In its annual climate statement to be released today, the bureau says 2006 was nearly half a degree hotter and only slighter wetter than normal. But it says there were stark contrasts in weather patterns across the country, with well-above-average rainfall across the north and inland ... |
Environmental Harmony (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| New York Times: The long history of Congressional bipartisan cooperation on environmental issues dating back to Richard Nixon has been seriously challenged only twice. The first time was in 1995, when the Gingrich Republicans swept into Washington determined to roll back environmental laws, a threat averted by President Bill Clinton's veto pen and the exertions of a group of moderate Republicans. The second challenge occurred during the Congress that has now thankfully drawn to a close. The ... |
Is the Yucca Dump Doomed? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 03:00:16
| LA Daily News: While supporters vow to plow forward with plans for a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, Nev., critics hope Democrats will be able to kill the project -- which would take highly radioactive material transported through the Southland -- when they take control of Congress this month. Led by incoming Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., who already has declared the federal nuclear waste repository "dead," congressional Democrats are expected to severely decrease funding ... |
Nigeria: Country Vulnerable to Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 03:00:16
| This Day: The Minister for Environment Minister Helen Esuene has raised fears that the Nigeria 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. Esuene said "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, ... |
Bush tipped to talk tough on energy but snub Kyoto (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 06:00:14
| Financial Times: Energy will be a central theme of President George W. Bush's state of the union speech this month, as it was in last year's address when he briefly caught national attention with the claim that the country was "addicted to oil". But his critics doubt that he will do much more than call for more spending on alternative fuels, and again fail to embrace international efforts to agree a post-Kyoto regime to tackle greenhouse emissions. "We've had the hydrogen ... |
Global Warming is Here. Now What? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 06:00:14
| AlterNet: The world's economy appears to be robust, but masks an approaching crisis -- the sustainability of future generations "can no longer be taken for granted." That's the opinion of the 1,300 scientists who participated in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a four-year analysis of the world's ecosystems sponsored by the Worldwatch Institute and reported in Vital Signs 2006-2007. Examining 24 major ecosystems that support human life, scientists found that 15 are "being ... |
Ethiopia: Lake may 'predict climate change' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 06:00:15
| BBC: Sediment underneath an African lake, which is thought to date back more than 80,000 years, may help predict future climate change, researchers claim. Scientists from Aberystwyth, Bangor, St Andrews and Addis Ababa universities will drill about 75m (246ft) below Lake Tana in Ethiopia to test their theory. They said analysis of the sediment will show how the lake has changed and when there were droughts in the past. This could then help experts predict climate change, ... |
Norway to offset flight emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-02-2007 at 06:00:15
| BBC: Norway has announced plans to offset the greenhouse gases produced by public employees when they fly abroad by buying emissions credits. The move, which is intended to fight global warming, was announced by Norway's prime minister. He said the scheme was thought to be the most ambitious of its kind in the world and hoped others would follow. Under the scheme the government will buy credits to be invested in projects which reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ... |
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