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Carbon-offsetting: All credit to them (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| Independent (UK): In the remote village of Bannapur, in northern India, Ram Dyal shows me the tiny patch of farmland from which he scrapes a living. This arid plot, less than an acre, must produce enough vegetables to feed his wife and four children, and, hopefully, something to sell on market day. It is a hand-to-mouth existence at the best of times, but in the dry season, when temperatures soar to 46C and his land is reduced to little more than a dust bowl, he faces a stark choice. Either he must ... |
China and India facing up to the economic chill of global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| Scotsman: A REPORT by six government departments in China yesterday warned that climate change would harm the country's economy and environment in the coming decades, with potentially devastating cuts in agricultural output. The warning, from the State Meteorological Bureau, Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Technology, among others, could be a sign that China - which has experienced dramatic rises in carbon emissions because of a booming economy largely powered by coal-fired power stations ... |
Democrats want to shift oil tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| Washington Post: House Democrats are crafting an energy package that would roll back billions of dollars worth of oil drilling incentives, raise billions more by boosting federal royalties paid by oil and gas companies for offshore production, and plow the money into new tax breaks for renewable energy sources, congressional sources said yesterday. Eager to paint themselves as different from the Bush administration and the past Republican majority, Democratic leaders are targeting a manufacturing tax ... |
So ... you call this winter? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| Associated Press: Crocuses are pushing out of the ground in New Jersey. Ice fishing tournaments in Minnesota are being canceled for lack of ice. And golfers are hitting the links in Chicago in January. Much of the Midwest and the East Coast are experiencing remarkably warm winter, with temperatures running 10 and 20 degrees higher than normal in many places. "I'm not complaining. I can take this," said Rudolph Williams, a doorman in New York City who normally wears a hat this time of ... |
Conserve and $ave (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| NY Daily News: It's your air, your water, your city. Taking better care of it can save you money and help the environment at the same time. "If we care about the quality of the city our children and grandchildren will live in, we need to think more about our behavior," said Eric Goldstein, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's New York City program. "New Yorkers are consuming resources at rates that will be difficult to sustain." Experts recommend small steps to ... |
Exxon linked to doubters of warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| Bloomberg: Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's biggest gasoline maker, spent $15.8 million since 1998 funding groups that reject scientific evidence of a human contribution to global warming, according to a report yesterday by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Exxon gave to 43 organizations promoting "uncertainties" about global warming to delay U.S. action to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, the report said. Exxon also successfully recommended climate advisers for the Bush ... |
Geothermal power seeks hot rock future (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| Reuters: Geothermal power is on the rise as expensive oil and gas make it increasingly competitive despite high capital costs, but a wider reliance on the renewable energy will only come if heat can be tapped from dry rocks. Power generation from drilling wells that allow hot water or steam to power turbines is set to expand in countries such as the United States, the Philippines and Indonesia, where policymakers worry about growing reliance on imported energy. "Several countries ... |
United Kingdom: Hospitals get cash to fight global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| Reuters: The government announced on Thursday a 100 million pound fund to help the National Health Service in the battle to beat the global warming crisis. The fund is intended to help hospitals and other health sector buildings cut carbon dioxide emissions, increase energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption. "The reduction of carbon emissions and greenhouse gases is important for the environment and helps people lead a healthy life," said Health Minister Andy ... |
Inter-faith mobilization against coal-fired plants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| Asia News: Sri Lanka's religious communities have joined forces in a campaign against the construction of the country's first coal power plant and the disastrous impact it could have on the environment and the people. The protest took place on 29 December, starting with a peaceful march of more than 2,000 people in Puttalam, north-west Sri Lanka. The protest was promoted by leaders of the inter-religious Co-group who believe that once the plant is operating at full steam, it will cause acid rain and ... |
Rising temperatures threatens China food supplies (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| CCTV: A recent government report has warned that rising temperatures may pose a grave threat to long-term food supplies in China, the world's most populous country. The report points out that global warming will endanger China's ecological, social, and economic systems, particularly in such areas as farming, animal husbandry, and water supply. If no measures are taken in the immediate future to stop the release of greenhouse gases, China's output of major crops, including rice, ... |
Scotland keen to go with the wind (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| BBC News: It is 10 years since the first wind farm was built in Scotland. As they blow out the candles on the birthday cake, supporters of wind power have plenty else to celebrate. The industry is currently expanding at a furious pace. Right now, there are 40 wind farms in operation, accounting for about 40% of Scotland's renewable energy production. Nearly 50 farms are now either being built or set to be given planning permission. A further 80 schemes are at the ... |
Temperatures Set to Soar in 2007 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| ITN: Climate change experts said the global temperature is expected to be 0.54C above the long-term average of 14C. This adds up to a 60 per cent probability that 2007 will be as warm or warmer than the previous warmest year - 1998 when temperatures were 0.52C above the long-term average. The forecast comes from the Met Office, which joins forces with the University of East Anglia each January to issue predictions for the global surface temperature for the coming year. It ... |
2007 set to be the world's hottest ever year (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| Scotsman: THIS year is set to be the hottest ever recorded, climate changes experts have predicted. The global temperature in 2007 is expected to be 0.54C above the 14C long-term average - and higher than the record set in 1998. The forecast from the Met Office is being hailed as further evidence of the rapid progression of climate change and last night environmentalists called on politicians to do more to tackle the problem. Each January for seven years, the Met Office, in ... |
Snow finally blankets the Alps (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:20
| BBC: Heavy snow is now falling across the Alps giving a much needed boost to the winter tourism industry. All the resorts are getting the benefit with snow falling down to 800 metres (2,600ft). This Christmas was one of the worst on record with very poor snowfalls. The economic consequences for some resorts were terrible as some people cancelled their holidays and stayed at home. A handful of people have even called off their holidays later in the season on the ... |
2007 predicted to be warmest year (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:16
| Reuters: This year is set to be the hottest on record worldwide due to global warming and the El Nino weather phenomenon, the Meteorological Office said on Thursday. The Met Office said the combination of factors would likely push average temperatures this year above the record set in 1998. 2006 is set to be the sixth warmest on record globally. "This new information represents another warning that climate change is happening around the world," said Met Office scientist Katie ... |
Australia feels the heat in battle against global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:16
| Reuters: Australia appears to be suffering an accelerated greenhouse effect, with the pace of global warming quicker across that country than in other parts of the world. The world's driest inhabited continent – suffering a severe drought – was waging its own unique climate war, said Australia's Bureau of Meteorology in its annual climate report which was released yesterday. Half of the country was desperate for water and the other half was awash with a year's rainfall for the entire ... |
Part I: China's Coal Future (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:17
| Technology Review: A visitor arriving in Shanghai immediately notices China's technological conundrum. Through the windows of the magnetically levitated train that covers the 30 kilometers from Pudong International Airport to Shanghai at up to 430 kilometers per hour, both the progress the country is making and the price it is paying for it are apparent. Most days, a yellow haze hangs over Shanghai's construction frenzy. Pollution is the leading cause of death in China, killing more than a million people a ... |
Third World cannot accept a freeze on global inequity: Indian Prime Minister (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:17
| Hindu: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reiterated that developed countries must bear more responsibility in meeting the challenges of climate change and promoting sustainable development by altering their consumption patterns. The "developing world cannot accept a freeze on global inequity." The measures the global community took to protect the environment and deal with climate change should be equitable in their impact on the development prospect of the developing countries. ... |
Geothermal Steams Ahead in Germany, US on Clean-Energy Push (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:17
| Bloomberg: Homes in Unterhaching, a German town of 22,000 south of Munich, will be warmed by hot water piped from 3,300 meters underground starting in May. They're at the leading edge of a shift toward geothermal power generation that may swell Germany's capacity 1,000-fold within a decade. ``All the experts told us this was not possible,'' said Christian Schoenwiesner-Bozkurt, manager of the community-owned project. Clean-energy subsidies introduced in 2004 made geothermal a cost-effective ... |
Japan: Global warming could make coastal storm surges worse (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:17
| Kyodo News: Japan's coastal areas, particularly bays open to the south, may be hit by bigger storm surges and higher waves in the future during typhoons made stronger because of global warming, according to a recent study. The bigger typhoons will raise sea levels higher due to lower atmospheric pressure. The study was compiled by a group of experts led by Hiroyasu Kawai, senior researcher at the Port and Airport Research Institute, an affiliate of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport ... |
Intelligent Growth: A Vision for a New Low-Energy Economy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:17
| AlterNet: Stephan Harding, coordinator of the MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College, explains why standard economic growth is not the answer, and why personal Tradable Energy Quotas are. At last, mainstream economists are waking up to the fact that climate change is going to cost a lot of money. Recently, the U.K. government's Stern Review proposed a series of measures we must implement immediately to "decarbonize" the global economy, including emissions trading, technological ... |
Majority of Americans Fear Global Warming, Support Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:17
| Coastal Post: Earth Day Network (EDN) released a poll that has found a majority of Americans recognize the threat of climate change and want politicians to do something to reverse it. In the wake of the midterm elections in which Democrats took back the House and Senate, it is clear that the people have spoken - and that global warming is a high on their agenda. Some key findings say a majority of Americans (58%) feel global warming will have a "great to extreme" impact on their ... |
Wal-Mart readies large-scale move into solar power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:18
| CNET: The company put out an RFP (request for proposal) last month to solar electric suppliers and expects to receive responses early this month, according to a representative. The move is part of a long-term plan to convert to renewable energy sources. Wal-Mart is keeping the details of the proposal under wraps as the process is still ongoing. However, one person who saw the proposal said that if completed, it could amount to a significantly large installation--on the order of 100 ... |
Canada: British Columbians oppose coal power: survey (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:18
| CBC: A majority of B.C. residents are opposed to producing electricity with coal-fired plants, a new poll commissioned by two environmental groups suggests. The poll results, released Wednesday by the David Suzuki Foundation and the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, found that 69 per cent of those surveyed are opposed to coal power plants. Climate change campaigner Ian Bruce, who works for the Suzuki foundation, said the two groups are hoping the provincial government will reverse its plan ... |
Carbon trading: It's all about commoditising dirty air (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:18
| Economic Times: You have figured out commodities that can be grown, mined, touched. In 2007, step on the gas and trade in dirty air. Carbon dioxide is the new kid on the block. What you need to remember is that when people trade in CO2, they are simply selling the right to emit CO2. Sellers expect their factories to emit less CO2 than they are allowed. So they can sell that unused right to emit to someone who emits more than their allocated amount. But the big picture first. Carbon market took birth ... |
United States: Environmental carbon trades offer farmers potential cash (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:18
| Billings Gazette: Someday soon, farmers in Montana may get extra cash for their environmental good deeds. Those that don't till their fields or take other steps that keep carbon in the ground - thus reducing carbon dioxide contributing to global warming - should soon be able to sell those "carbon credits" at the Chicago Climate Exchange. No one will get rich, but the practice will set the stage for the day when the United States places a mandatory cap on carbon dioxide emissions and ... |
Canada: Ambrose set to be dropped from environment in Harper's first cabinet shuffle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 12:00:16
| Canadian Press: Prime Minister Stephen Harper was poised to expand and shuffle his cabinet Thursday, moving embattled Environment Minister Rona Ambrose out of her portofolio amid growing public concern about climate change. Human Resources Minister Diane Finley was the first minister to arrive at the Governor General's official residence, Rideau Hall, to be sworn in to a new portfolio. Finley has had health problems and was expected to be given a less demanding role. Treasury Board ... |
EU to call for a 'new industrial revolution' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 12:00:16
| Reuters: The European Commission will call next week for "a new industrial revolution" in the energy sector to boost competition, protect the climate and ensure security of supply, a draft paper from the EU executive showed. The draft strategy proposals, obtained by Reuters on Thursday before publication on Jan. 10, call for cutting carbon dioxide emissions further, increasing energy from renewable sources and curtailing the powers of large energy companies. The draft lacks crucial ... |
Exxon Accused of Trying to Mislead Public (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 12:00:16
| New York Times: The Union of Concerned Scientists released a report on Wednesday accusing Exxon Mobil of spending millions of dollars to manipulate public opinion on the seriousness of global warming. "Many of the tactics, and even some of the same organizations and actors used by Exxon Mobil to mislead the public, draw upon the tobacco industry's 40-year disinformation campaign," the report said. The report said that a task force that Exxon Mobil helped create on global climate science ... |
Global warming may put Dutch skating race on ice (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 12:00:17
| Reuters: The Eleven Towns Tour, a marathon skating race along the frozen canals of the Netherlands last held a decade ago, may be put in cold storage if Dutch meteorologists' forecasts of global warming are correct. The Dutch meteorological institute KNMI said 2006 was the warmest year since its records began 300 years ago, with an average temperature of 11.2 degrees Celsius. If the warming trend continues, the race held on Jan. 4, 1997, might have been the last. The event takes ... |
United States: State Climatologist: Warm Winter Weather Alarming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 12:00:17
| New Hampshire Public Radio: Seniors remember winters with brutal winds and snowdrifts you could lose children in. 95-year-old Rose Lenier. T.12 4:45 years ago, when we had winter, it was winter. Didn't have nice days like this. I can remember that. It would stay cold until almost April, it was terrible, never warm up. But never missed school. Didn't close for snow in those days. 3:55 there's some truth in those anecdotal stories.... That's state climatologist Dave Brown. ....if ... |
ExxonMobil Accused of Disinformation on Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 12:00:18
| Inter Press Service: Like the tobacco industry that for decades denied a link between smoking and lung cancer, ExxonMobil has waged a "sophisticated and successful disinformation campaign" to mislead the public about global warming, according to a major new report by the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). The report, which echoes similar charges made by Britain's Royal Society in September, found that the world's largest publicly traded corporation contributed nearly 16 million ... |
Canada to shuffle cabinet to polish environment image (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 03:00:20
| Reuters: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will shuffle his cabinet on Thursday morning, with Environment Minister Rona Ambrose expected to lose her job as the Conservatives try to recover political ground they lost in the debate on climate change. The issue, suddenly a dominant one in Canadian politics, has put Harper's minority government on the defensive. Ambrose has faced mounting criticism over Ottawa's plans to control the greenhouse gas emissions that are widely blamed for ... |
Climate change prompts Cabinet change in Canada (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 03:00:21
| Associated Press: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday his government will do more to combat climate change after he moved his environment minister out of her portfolio amid growing concern about global warming. "We've clearly determined that we need to do more on the environment," Harper said after removing Rona Ambrose as environment minister. "We recognize that, particularly when it comes to clean air and climate change, that Canadians expect a lot ... |
China: Climate report says food security at risk (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 03:00:21
| United Press Information: Warming weather may pose a threat to China's long-term food security, a report on climate change said. China's harvest of crops such as rice, wheat and corn could fall as much as by up to 37 percent in the second half of this century if nothing substantive is done to curb greenhouse gasses in the next 20 to 50 years, the official Xinhua news agency said. Global warming will negatively affect China's ecological and economic systems, especially agricultural and animal farming, ... |
How fish species suffer as a result of warmer waters (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 03:00:21
| Phys.org: Ongoing global climate change causes changes in the species composition of marine ecosystems, especially in shallow coastal oceans. This applies also to fish populations. Previous studies demonstrating a link between global warming and declining fish stocks were based entirely on statistical data. However, in order to estimate future changes, it is essential to develop a deeper understanding of the effect of water temperature on the biology of organisms under question. A new ... |
Canada's environment minister to be replaced (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 03:00:22
| Reuters: Canada's embattled environment minister, Rona Ambrose, confirmed on Thursday she would be replaced in her portfolio. Arriving for a cabinet shuffle swearing-in ceremony, a reporter asked if she was getting a new job. She replied, "Yes -- very excited." Ambrose has come under heavy criticism for her handling of the minority Conservative government's plans to confront climate change. |
Crude Oil Plunges as Mild US Weather Curbs Fuel Consumption (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 03:00:22
| Bloomberg: Crude oil in New York plunged, heading for the lowest close in 18 months, as mild U.S. weather curbed heating-fuel use. Home heating demand in the Northeast, where four-fifths of U.S. heating oil is used, will be 40 percent below normal through Jan. 11, forecaster Weather Derivatives said today. The decline accelerated after the Energy Department reported that U.S. fuel supplies surged last week. Prices are down 8.9 percent in New York, the biggest two-day drop since Dec. 1 and 2, ... |
2007 to be 'warmest on record' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:18
| BBC: The world is likely to experience the warmest year on record in 2007, the UK's Met Office says. An extended warming period, resulting from an El Nino weather event in the Pacific Ocean, will probably push up global temperatures, experts forecast. They say there is a 60% chance that the average surface temperature will match or exceed the current record from 1998. The scientists also revealed that 2006 saw the highest average temperature in the UK since records began in ... |
Environment at center of Canada cabinet shakeup (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:19
| Reuters: Stung by criticism of its environmental policy and preparing for a possible election this year, Canada's government made sweeping changes to its cabinet on Thursday and promised to do more to fight climate change. The environment was not one of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's main election priorities when he won a minority mandate a year ago, but a groundswell of concern, especially over global warming, has forced a new focus. Harper picked John Baird, a fiery ... |
A Shifting Tide, ... or a Tidal Wave? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:19
| Huffington Post: Preparing to take the red-eye back to DC for the swearing-in of the new Congress, it's clearer and clearer that the country is not going to wait for Washington to lead again. Nor will the Sierra Club. Paula Carrell, who coordinates our state policy support efforts, reports that in a completely unprecedented clustering of state legislative interests, the 30 (out of 43) Sierra Club state lobbying offices that have already sent her their preliminary agendas, say they expect to actively lobby 90 ... |
Big Oil braces for Democrats' energy reform plans (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:19
| Reuters: As Democratic lawmakers take control of Congress, U.S. oil companies hope to defeat their efforts to roll back energy tax breaks and install new royalty payback plans that could cost billions of dollars. Going after "Big Oil" is a top priority of the House of Representatives' Democratic leadership, which says oil companies have earned record profits at the expense of U.S. motorists paying high gasoline prices. House Democrats plan to vote Jan. 18 on legislation that ... |
Climate's history-changing impact revealed (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:19
| SciDev.Net: Weak winter monsoon rains may have contributed to the decline of both China's Tang Dynasty and the Mayan civilisation in Mexico, suggests an article published in Nature (4 January). The authors speculate that global climate change, causing a tropical rain belt to migrate, may have been a factor – with the same system affecting monsoon rains in Southeast Asia today. They link shifts in an area of low pressure that follows the equator, known as an intertropical convergence zone, ... |
Canada: Harper Shuffles Cabinet Ahead of a Possible Election (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:21
| Bloomberg: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who may call an election this year, reorganized his cabinet for the first time since he was elected less than a year ago. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty kept his job. Rona Ambrose was moved from environment to become the intergovernmental affairs minister, after weeks of newspaper reports saying she might be moved because Harper wasn't happy with her performance. Ambrose, 37, was replaced by John Baird, also 37 and former President of the ... |
Canada: Harper to blame for environment failures: Dion (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:21
| CBC: Liberal Leader St̩phane Dion dismissed Stephen Harper's cabinet shuffle Thursday as a "game of musical chairs" that couldn't change the one position that mattered most Рthe one at the top. "The problem is the prime minister," Dion said following Harper's introduction of his new cabinet, which included the replacement of beleaguered Environment Minister Rona Ambrose with Treasury Board President John Baird. Shifting Ambrose out of the environment portfolio ... |
United Kingdom: Government must spend more on renewable energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:20
| Reuters: The government must put more money into renewable energy if it is to stand any chance of meeting its target of getting 20 percent of its energy from those sources by 2020, industry associations said on Friday. The goal was set out in last year's review of the country's future energy needs and how to supply them and is expected to be enshrined in the Energy White Paper expected in March. But the British Wind Energy Association and the Renewable Energy Association in their ... |
United Kingdom: Nimbys can't be allowed to put a block on wind farms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:20
| Guardian: This is crunch time. If Britain is to have any chance of meeting its target to generate 10% of its energy from renewable sources by 2010, then a great leap forward is needed right now. So far only 4.2% of energy is from renewables and three years is not long to more than double it. Wind power is the clean energy closest to profitability, yet many projects - on or offshore - are being held up or rejected by local authorities. Forty per cent of all applications were refused in the past two ... |
United Kingdom: Rise of low-cost flights comes at high price (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:20
| Guardian: The government's aggressive language about the aviation industry's failure to get to grips with cutting pollution reflects growing frustration that its emissions are undermining Britain's strategy on climate change. Senior ministers are seeking to lead the international debate about global warming and convince the electorate that the environment is being taken seriously. But cheap flights, globalisation and the mounting cost of train travel have made aviation by far the fastest growing ... |
United Kingdom: Brown plans Whitehall shake-up to put new focus on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:20
| Independent (UK): Gordon Brown is drawing up plans for a major shake-up of Whitehall departments to allow the Government to give greater priority to combating climate change. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) could become a more powerful Department of Environment and Energy. At present, energy comes under the remit of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), which would face abolition. David Miliband, the Secretary of State for the Environment, is likely to head ... |
Japan's bullet train reaches Taiwan at a cost of £7.7bn (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:20
| Independent (UK): The bullet train's journey from Japan to Taiwan has taken a quarter of a century. Today, after seemingly endless political and commercial wrangles, the nationalist Chinese island unveiled its super-fast and environment-friendly rail service borrowed from its island neighbour across Taiwan Strait. From today the Taiwanese will be able to make the 215-mile trip from the capital Taipei to Kaohsiung, the main industrial city in the south, in as little as 90 minutes - and in the knowledge ... |
2007 to Be Warmest Year on Record, Forecasters Say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 09:00:21
| National Geographic: An El Niño weather phenomenon combined with high levels of greenhouse gases are likely to make 2007 the warmest year ever recorded, British climate scientists said today. U.S. government scientists agree with the assessment. According to the British forecasters, 2007 will probably be 0.97 degree Fahrenheit (0.54 degree Celsius) above the long-term average of 57 degrees Fahrenheit (14 degrees Celsius). The current record holder, 1998, was 0.94 degree Fahrenheit (0.52 ... |
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