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Australia warming faster than world (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:45
| Financial Times: The seriousness of Australia's environmental problems was underlined Wednesday with the release of data showing that the country appears to be experiencing the effects of global warming more deeply than other parts of the world. In its annual climate report, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said 2006 had seen the warmest spring on record, with average temperatures up 1.42 degrees centigrade. The mean temperature for the year was 0.47 degrees above the 1961 to 1990 average. Average ... |
Aus climate report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:45
| Sky News Australia: A new report released today suggests Australia is waging its own unique climate war. The Weather Bureau says we're suffering more from global warming, than any other country. The nation's annual climate report says while 2006 was one of the driest years on record for the south and east, the sparsely populated north had a bumper wet season. While temperature anomalies varied throughout the year but spring 2006 was particularly warm. The report found 2006 was the ... |
Australia 'behind on climate change' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:45
| AAP: Australia is lagging behind other countries in tackling climate change, an environmental lobby group says. The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has called on the federal government to use 2007 to develop a plan to slash Australia's greenhouse pollution. "Australia is a laggard when it comes to leadership and action on climate change," ACF campaigner Phil Freeman said. "In 2007, we need the Australian government to respond to the science by adopting ... |
Canada: Winter meltdown resumes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:45
| Montreal Gazette: Fore real? Golfers were booking tee times yesterday in anticipation of mild weather forecast for the Montreal region from today until the weekend. "We're playing golf like it's summertime," said Andre Guay, president of the International 2000 Golf & Country Club in St. Bernard de Lacolle, about 70 kilometres south of Montreal. Although Boxing Day's snowfall forced the course to close on Dec. 27, it reopened yesterday as the snow melted. Guay expected ... |
Australia: Analyst says rainfall pattern due to global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:46
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: PETER CAVE: Staying with the weather, and the Bureau of Meteorology's annual report for 2006 is out, and surprisingly it says that the country recorded more rainfall than average, it's just that it fell in areas where people don't live. The National Climate Centre's Dr David Jones says that's due to global warming. He's been speaking to AM's Sabra Lane. DAVID JONES: It is really two things. One it was a year of extremes, you know, frost events, heatwaves, bushfires, ... |
China report warns of agriculture problems from climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:46
| Associated Press: Climate change will harm China's ecology and economy in the coming decades, possibly causing large drops in agricultural output, said a government report made public Wednesday. The report, issued by six government departments including the State Meteorological Bureau, the China Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Technology, comes several days after state media said 2006 was hotter than average with more natural disasters than normal. "Climate change will increase ... |
Climate 'benefits' for UK farming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:46
| BBC: A project that highlights the economic opportunities, as well as the environmental threats, from climate change is being launched for farmers. Farming is responsible for 7% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions and needs to be part of the effort to tackle climate change, the organisers say. A website will offer farmers advice on what measures they can take, such as generating green energy from waste. The project will be launched at the Oxford Farming Conference on ... |
Endangered bears, and globe (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:46
| Courier-Journal: Like the ice of the polar bear's habitat in the frozen north, President Bush's stubbornness may be melting, too. After much gigging, his administration is now proposing to designate the polar bear a threatened species. A final decision, nevertheless, may still be months away. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to "aggressively work with the public and the scientific community over the next year to broaden our ... |
Australia: Drying up: Murray on the brink (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 09:00:53
| Age: THE ailing Murray River experienced its driest year on record in 2006, and would have stopped flowing altogether if it had not been artificially boosted, a water expert has revealed. In another sign of the nation's worsening drought, just 1317 billion litres flowed naturally into the Murray system last year – almost 25 per cent less than the previous minimum of 1740 billion litres in 1902, the final year of the devastating Federation drought. Murray-Darling Basin Commission ... |
India's PM says West is environmentally wasteful (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 09:00:54
| Reuters: Slamming the West for its "environmentally wasteful lifestyle", Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on Wednesday for industrialised nations to look at alterative energy sources to save the environment. "We, in the developing world, cannot afford to ape the West in terms of its environmentally wasteful lifestyle," Singh said at a science conference in Chidambaram, 195 km (120 miles) south of Tamil Nadu's state capital, Chennai. "Equally, ... |
NASA scientist warns global warming will be irreversible after 10 years (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 09:00:54
| ANI: A NASA scientist has warned that pollution has increased to such an extent, that unless drastic cuts are made within the next decade, it will become difficult for mankind to reverse the effects of global warming. Jim Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said the situation could come to such a pass that the Arctic would be left with no ice at all. In other words, huge rise in sea levels and extinction of many species, he said. "Half ... |
Animal fat a boon to biodiesel (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 09:00:54
| Associated Press: Jerry Bagby is typical of the oil men who are prospecting for a fortune in the Midwestern biofuels boom. He's convinced there's oil in these hills -- and he's found a well that no one else is using. Bagby and a longtime friend have cobbled together $5 million to build a new biodiesel plant on the lonely croplands outside this southeast Missouri town. They're betting they can hit paydirt by exploiting a generally overlooked natural resource that's abundant in these parts -- chicken ... |
United Kingdom: Councils ignore threat of climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 09:00:54
| Guardian: Hundreds of local councils across the UK are ignoring the threat of climate change and taking no action to address the rising carbon emissions of their residents, a Guardian survey suggests. Only a handful of councils polled said they were taking significant steps to tackle greenhouse gas pollution, with half admitting they had no plans to encourage more environmentally friendly behaviour. The survey results come just weeks after Ian Pearson, climate change minister, claimed ... |
Indoor Air Pollution - Silent Killer of Women (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 09:00:54
| Inter Press Service: Women and young girls coughing and choking as they cook food over traditional stoves that burn wood, leaves or dung is a common a sight in poor homes across Asia, Africa and Latin America. But no one notices the deleterious effects. Over 1.5 million females die prematurely every year by inhaling poisonous fumes as they cook or heat their homes with these organic fuels but catch little attention from governments, policy experts, scientists and medical experts. Almost three ... |
Rising temperatures threaten China's food output (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 09:00:54
| Xinhua: Rising temperatures may pose a challenge to the long-term food security of China, the world's most populous country, according to an official report evaluating climate change. China's output of major crops, including rice, wheat and corn, could fall by up to 37 percent in the second half of this century if no effective measures are taken to curb greenhouse gases in the coming 20 to 50 years, according to the report. Global warming will negatively impact China's ecological, ... |
Special taxes could help save the planet from global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 09:00:54
| Taipei Times: What do we owe to our great-great-great-grandchildren? What actions are we obligated to take now in order to diminish the risks to our descendants and our planet from the increasing likelihood of global warming and climate change? Almost everyone -- except the likes of ExxonMobil, US Vice President Dick Cheney and their paid servants and deluded acolytes -- understands that when humans burn hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide goes into the atmosphere, where it acts like a giant blanket, ... |
Canada: Weird weather strikes the Great White North (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 09:00:54
| CanWest News Service: It rained. It poured. And in some parts of Canada, the temperatures soared. In B.C., heavy was again the order of the day. In Windsor, Ont., temperatures headed to record highs. In Regina, winter seemed like a memory. In Alberta, warm winds created avalanche conditions in the mountains, and in normally chilly Winnipeg, it rained – in January. In Windsor Ont., it appeared "as though Old Man Winter had gone on holiday. Windsor residents basked in spring-like weather ... |
Australia: Govt to release land for geothermal exploration (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 09:00:54
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Queensland Government has moved to step up renewable energy for remote areas by releasing land for geothermal exploration. Tenders are being called for land around Longreach, Roma, Gladstone, Charters Towers, Georgetown and Aurukun. Geothermal energy is created by pumping water onto hot rocks deep underground, the steam released is used to generate electricity. Mines and Energy Minister Geoff Wilson says 5,500 square kilometres is available for tender by exploration ... |
Is it time for a carbon tax? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 09:00:55
| Blue Oregon: Financial planners are always exhorting Americans to save for a rainy day. Those of us who can try to save for retirement, for college, or for an unexpected calamity–a serious illness or the loss of a job. It's become accepted practice that individuals and families should plan financially for the worst in order to remain prosperous economically through bad times as well as good. This makes me wonder why no one seems to be advocating for saving for the inevitable environmental "rainy ... |
Inconvenient questions about our weather (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 12:00:16
| Journal News: it doesn't snow by Friday, it will be the latest appearance of snow in New York City since record-keeping began. But if it is any comfort, New York is not alone. This winter there is a heat wave from Iceland to Siberia, prompting more talk than ever about global warming and Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth," the film that is part science treatise on greenhouse gases and part horror flick, the not-so-subtle message: We are doomed! New York's previous record for a ... |
New Solar Homes Partnership Under Way in California (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 12:00:16
| Renewable Energy Access: A blend of energy efficient solar homes will emerge on California's real estate market this year under the state's New Solar Homes Partnership -- a program that encourages builders to install solar energy systems on new homes as a standard feature for the home buyer, just like granite countertops. Currently, California has over 23,000 photovoltaic system installations, of which 1,500 are installed on new homes. Beginning in 2011, the partnership will not only encourage but actually ... |
The Green Gold Rush (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 12:00:16
| Inter Press Service: The conundrum that has long obstructed progress on global warming and a broader transition from a petro-centric to a bio-centric economy -- can environmental imperatives be addressed within a profit-driven economic system? -- may finally be giving way to a tidal wave of global green innovation, writes Mark Sommer, host of 'A World of Possibilities,' an award-winning, internationally syndicated radio programme that can be heard at www.aworldofpossibilities.com. In this article, Sommer ... |
New Zealand: Coldest on record (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 12:00:17
| Dominion Post: Woeful weather in December - the coldest in Wellington on record - has left beaches deserted and cinemas packed in a summer of discontent. Figures issued yesterday by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research show last month was one of the coldest in New Zealand in 60 years. Most New Zealand temperatures were 2 degrees celsius below normal. In Wellington, where residents endured a stormy winter longing for a hot summer, it was the coolest December since records ... |
UK's Miliband says climate change represents 'opportunity' for farmers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 12:00:17
| AFX: Climate change should be viewed as an 'opportunity' for farmers instead of a threat, said Environment Secretary David Miliband. In a speech to a farming conference in Oxford, Miliband said the sector in England was 'in transition', with pressure from consumers demanding to know how food is produced and sourced forcing changes along the supply chain. 'But farmers have a key role themselves. Supply can create demand if it is explained properly (and) seeing climate change as an ... |
Emission permits fall to record low (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 03:00:21
| Bloomberg: EMISSION permits for this year, the last year of the three-year first phase of a European trading regime, fell to a record low as mild weather curbed energy demand, boosting a surplus of the allowances. European Union carbon dioxide permits for prompt delivery, trading in a market established in 2005 for power plants and factories, fell €1, or 15 per cent, to €5.48 ($A9.15) a tonne, according to prices from the Powernext exchange in Paris. This is the lowest price paid for an ... |
Fast, eco-friendly trains to connect north and south Taiwan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 03:00:21
| International Herald Tribune: The sleek, bulbous-nosed new bullet trains here look like they are designed to whisk passengers across wide-open spaces; but on this congested island, they represent the start of a 300-kilometer-per- hour commuter train system. After a quarter-century of planning and construction, the system is finally scheduled to open Friday. It will tie together cities and towns holding 94 percent of Taiwan the island's population, offering an alternative to clogged highways and the air pollution ... |
Surge in power stations burning world (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 03:00:22
| New Zealand Herald: Should New Zealand worry as China and the United States greatly increase their capacity to produce electricity? It sounds a silly question. But it should not be treated that way. More and more coal around the world is being burned in power plants to generate electricity. This threatens to have the biggest single impact on the potentially catastrophic rise in global temperatures caused by emissions of gases heating the earth's atmosphere. Coal is increasingly popular as an ... |
New Zealand: As the world warms, Kiwis are reducing their energy use (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:13
| New Zealand Herald: People are making lifestyle changes as concern over global warming grows. Nearly four in five people (77.7 per cent) polled in a Herald-Digipoll survey believed they needed to make lifestyle changes to reduce global warming. Two-thirds of the 1003 people surveyed had installed energy-efficient lightbulbs in their home while more than half (56.3 per cent) had cut down on car use. Two in five people (39.1 per cent) had switched to a more fuel-efficient car. Andrew ... |
ExxonMobil cultivates global warming doubt-report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:13
| Reuters: Energy giant ExxonMobil borrowed tactics from the tobacco industry to raise doubt about climate change, spending $16 million (8.2 million pounds) on groups that question global warming, a science watchdog group said on Wednesday. "ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer," Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists said at a telephone news conference releasing the ... |
India: Find alternative energy sources: PM to scientists (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:14
| Deccan Herald: Inaugurating the 94th session of the Indian Science Congress (ISC) at the Annamalai University, which is being attended by over 5,000 delegates from India and abroad, Mr Singh said energy security was a managerial and technological challenge. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday asked scientists to help develop alternative sources of energy like biofuel and solar energy as "our energy security depends strongly upon abilities of the scientific community to provide affordable ... |
Group: ExxonMobil Paid to Mislead Public (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:14
| Associated Press: ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in a coordinated effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted Wednesday. The report by the science-based nonprofit advocacy group mirrors similar claims by Britain's leading scientific academy. Last September, The Royal Society wrote the oil company asking it to halt support for groups that "misrepresented the science of ... |
Warming Up to a New Landscape (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2007 at 06:00:14
| Washington Post: Northern, temperate places such as western Scotland stay alive in the winter: Light at 9, dark by 4, the days are full of fleeting images of flowering plants, the buttercup-yellow winter jasmine or the smoky-pink autumn-flowering cherry. Washington, by contrast, is supposed to be a place where a more brutal cold bullies plants into deep hibernation. But even here, the winters have grown more gentle. I returned from Scotland recently to a mid-Atlantic landscape of . . . winter jasmines ... |
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