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France's Chirac Says Wants EU Carbon Tax Post-2012 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:20
| Reuters: President Jacques Chirac unveiled on Thursday plans for an international conference next month to promote a French proposal to tax imports from countries that refuse to join the successor to the UN Kyoto environment pact. French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin proposed in November a carbon tax on imports of industrial products from such nations, but gave no details. Kyoto, which was agreed in 1997 and runs until 2012, binds 35 industrialised countries to curb their ... |
German Renewable Energy Usage at Record High in 2006 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:20
| Reuters: Renewable energy usage will rise further in Germany this year after reaching its highest ever level in 2006, the BEE renewable energy association said on Thursday. Renewable energy sources accounted for 7.7 percent of total energy consumption in Europe's biggest economy last year, up from the 2005 level of 6.8 percent, the group said. That equates to supplies of about 200 billion kilowatt hours, or the power, heating and fuel consumption of 10 million households, the BEE said. ... |
Fossil Records Show Yo-Yo Effect Of Changing Climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:20
| Science A Go Go: The mid-Permian transition from ice age to an ice-free planet was marked by dips and rises in carbon dioxide and extreme swings in climate, according to University of California, Davis (UC) researchers writing in Science. During the mid-Permian, 300 million years ago, much of the southern hemisphere was covered in thick ice sheets and floating pack ice likely covered the northern polar ocean. But forty million years later, all the ice was gone and the climate hot and dry with sparse ... |
Firebreaks around Melbourne water catchments made permanent (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:21
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Victorian Government has announced permanent firebreaks will be established around Melbourne's water catchments. This means the firebreak already protecting the Thompson Dam will be maintained. Acting Premier John Thwaites says in the past fire breaks have been regenerated after the fire season. But he says this summer's severe fire conditions make the new measures necessary. "What we're saying is because of climate change and the increased risk of ... |
United Kingdom: Miliband warns of climate changes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:21
| BBC: Britons will have to change every aspect of their lives if they are to tackle climate change, Environment Secretary David Miliband has said. Mr Miliband said changes would not be for the worse - but would respect the environment rather than abuse it. The government should consider harnessing tidal power, and investing in technology to make zero-carbon cars cheaper and more accessible, he said. He was speaking to children aged nine to 12 for the First News newspaper. ... |
U.S. and German Leaders Explore Climate Cooperation (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:23
| Environment News Service: Climate change and energy efficiency were high on the agenda today as President George W. Bush hosted German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House. The two leaders pledged to work closely together in this new year, which marks the beginning of Germany's presidency of both the European Union and the Group of Eight industrialized nations. "We talked about climate change," President Bush told reporters in a joint news conference with Chancellor Merkel after their private ... |
Miliband: Brits must change entire lives for climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:14
| Politics.co.uk: To fight climate change UK residents will have to make changes to every aspect of their lives, David Miliband has said. The environment secretary said Britons have been "short-sighted" in their efforts at tackling environmental problems in the past. "Every part of the way we work, go to school, the way we live is going to have to change," he told children's newspaper First News. "Not change for the worse, but change so that we live in a way ... |
British lifestyle 'a barrier to climate change' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:14
| Press Association: People in Britain will have to change every aspect of the way they live in an effort to tackle climate change, Environment Secretary David Miliband warned today. In an interview with children's newspaper First News, Mr Miliband admitted people had been "short-sighted" in tackling environmental problems. Mr Miliband said: "Every part of the way we work, go to school, the way we live is going to have to change. "Not change for the worse, but change so ... |
Chilled out Baltic fish feel the heat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:14
| New Scientist: A direct link between rising sea temperatures and a declining fish population has been established for the first time. The decade-long study of a North Sea fish species shows how small ocean temperature changes can drastically affect a marine organism's oxygen supply. Previous research on the effect of warming on fish stocks have used statistical correlations only, says Hans Pörtner at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany. This ... |
China's largest lake may vanish in 200 years (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:14
| Reuters: China's largest lake, holy to Tibetans but suffering from global warming and desertification, may vanish in two centuries even as the government pledges $870 million to stop it shrinking, Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Desertification had been brought about by overgrazing around Lake Qinghai, in the remote western province of Qinghai, which is at the crossroads of several bird migration routes across Asia and is about 360 km (220 miles) in circumference. Overfishing had ... |
Europe lays out plan to tackle energy dilemma — but will governments and consumers balk? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:14
| Associated Press: An energy crunch that chokes fuel supplies, dims the lights at homes and workplaces, and ravages Western economies may no longer be the stuff of 1970s history books. It could be a vision of the near future. The 1970s oil crisis gave Western countries a glimpse of what life is like when the energy supply isn't enough to go around. Worried that an even bigger crisis lies in wait, the European Commission is presenting an energy "roadmap" on Jan. 10 that aims to steer the bloc's ... |
Merkel, Bush talk climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:15
| Associated Press: U.S. President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are pledging closer cooperation on combating global warming and in trying to prod a Middle East peace, brushing aside lingering differences between the two countries. Merkel was in Washington for a brief visit Thursday just days after Germany assumed the rotating presidencies of the European Union and the Group of Eight major industrialized nations. She said she intended the visit as a signal that trans-Atlantic ... |
Scientists research stretches of global warming, cooling (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:15
| San Francisco Chronicle: The ancient Earth has seen its global climate come and go -- a few million years of ice-covered cold at times, and long epochs of dry, ice-free warmth at others, all due to the vagaries of nature. Then there are danger times like today, when after thousands of years of relatively cold temperatures around the globe, planet Earth is warming measurably as greenhouse gases of the industrial age spur an ever-faster rise in worldwide thermometer readings. A UC Davis scientist and ... |
United Kingdom: Society must change to tackle global warming, says Miliband (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:15
| Guardian: People in Britain will have to alter every aspect of the way they live in an effort to prevent climate change, David Miliband warned today. In an interview with children's newspaper First News, the environment secretary admitted that people had been "short-sighted" in tackling environmental problems. The government needed to invest more in technology to develop cleaner fuels, Mr Miliband added. "Every part of the way we work, go to school, the way we live ... |
Southeast Asia pays for nature's fury (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:15
| Viet Nam News: The onrush of storms and natural disasters that raged across Southeast Asia last year buried the region in fatal floods and heavy haze that took hundreds of thousands of lives and left survivors without basic shelter. In the first six months of the year, Southeast Asia accounted for 85 per cent of worldwide deaths from natural disaster, according to an estimation from the Belgium-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters. Since the total figure of regional damage for ... |
United Kingdom: Airline chief hits back at 'foolish' minister (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:15
| Guardian: Ryanair today hit back at government criticism by branding environment minister Ian Pearson "foolish and ill-informed". Michael O'Leary, the budget airline's flamboyant chief, said the minister "hasn't a clue what he's talking about" after Mr Pearson branded the no-frills Irish carrier "the irresponsible face of capitalism". In an interview with the Guardian, the minister condemned the airline for refusing to take climate change seriously and ... |
Alaska natives left out in the cold (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:15
| BBC: A day after Christmas, the Anchorage Daily News ran an article about flooding and erosion in small native villages on the west coast of Alaska with names familiar to no one else except Alaskans. But this is a very familiar story to us. With thinner sea ice arriving later and leaving earlier in the year, coastal communities are experiencing more intensified storms with larger waves than they have ever experienced. This threat is being compounded by the loss of permafrost which ... |
Italy's Enel to build wind farms in Kansas and Newfoundland (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:15
| Associated Press: Enel SpA, Italy's largest utility, said Friday it will build two wind farms in the United States and Canada with a combined capacity of 277 megawatts as part of a €4 billion (US$5.2 billion) investment in renewable energy. Enel said a 250 megawatt capacity wind farm will be built in Smoky Hills, Kansas, and a 27 megawatt plant in Newfoundland – reducing carbon emissions by 415,500 tons a year. The first phase of the Smoky Hills project, representing 100.8 megawatts of capacity, ... |
Bulgaria: Mild winter triggers spring fever in zoo (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:15
| Reuters: An unusually warm winter has sown confusion among animals at a zoo on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, causing two bears to miss their usual hibernation period and peacocks to lay eggs months early. "The animals are confused. They are acting more like it is spring than the dead of winter," said Todor Hristov, zoo director in the port city of Varna. Temperatures have risen to as high as 13 degrees Centigrade (55 degrees Fahrenheit) over the last few days in Varna, far ... |
United Kingdom: Ryanair hits back at UK govt criticism of airlines for climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:15
| AFX: No-frills airline Ryanair Holdings PLC has hit back at a UK government minister's claims that major airlines are failing to take climate change seriously. Ryanair's chief executive Michael O'Leary said in a statement that the comments by environment minister Ian Pearson were 'foolish and ill-informed'. Pearson branded Ryanair as the 'irresponsible face of capitalism' and said O'Leary was refusing to recognise climate change as a genuine problem, according to a report in the ... |
World May Be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:21
| Earth Policy Institute: Investment in fuel ethanol distilleries has soared since the late-2005 oil price hikes, but data collection in this fast-changing sector has fallen behind. Because of inadequate data collection on the number of new plants under construction, the quantity of grain that will be needed for fuel ethanol distilleries has been vastly understated. Farmers, feeders, food processors, ethanol investors, and grain-importing countries are basing decisions on incomplete data. The U.S. Department ... |
World's Largest Gas Pipeline Proposed to Run Through Amazon (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:21
| National Geographic: Plans to build the world's largest natural gas pipeline through 5,000 miles (8,047 kilometers) of South American wilderness are prompting warnings of environmental calamity. Known as Gasoducto del Sur, or Southern Gas Pipeline, the proposed 21-billion-dollar (U.S.) structure would connect Venezuela's rich natural gas fields to Argentine markets. But to do this the pipeline would have to cross through several ecologically vulnerable regions, including Brazil's Amazon rain ... |
Ancient global warming was jarring, not subtle, study finds (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:21
| LA Times: Foreshadowing potential climate chaos to come, early global warming caused unexpectedly severe and erratic temperature swings as rising levels of greenhouse gases helped transform Earth, a team led by researchers at UC Davis said Thursday. The global transition from ice age to greenhouse 300 million years ago was marked by repeated dips and rises in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and wild swings in temperature, with drastic effects on forests and vegetation, the ... |
Korea does not hear sound of global warming alarm (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:21
| Hankyoreh: It is the summer of 2057. Ten years have passed since the once-annual jangma (summer rains) ceased in Korea. The soil is dessicated, and regular heat waves cause strings of deaths among city dwellers. To make matters worse, the weatherman forecasts the onslaught of a colossal typhoon, more destructive than the 2005 hurricane Katrina. The news of dengue fever deaths on Jeju Island is no longer surprising. The Amazon Rainforest is turning into a desert. Half of the ice shelf once ... |
Trinidad's Smelter Switcheroo (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:22
| Inter Press Service: For environmentalists here, it was almost the perfect New Year's gift. After years of community protests, including a semi-permanent tent camp, the Trinidad and Tobago government abruptly announced that it was backing away from plans to construct aluminium smelter plants in the southwest peninsula villages of Cedros and Chatham. In his end-of-year address, Prime Minister Patrick Manning informed the public that his administration had "decided to immediately discontinue ... |
Australia: Uranium to China a mistake, say Greens (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:22
| AAP: THE Australian Greens say selling uranium to China is a mistake which will fuel regional insecurity, and is calling on the foreign minister to rule out selling uranium to India. Earlier today, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer announced that Australia and China have ratified an agreement to permit the sale of Australian uranium from as early as this year. "Selling uranium to China is a mistake with potentially catastrophic consequences,'' Greens Senator Kerry Nettle ... |
United Kingdom: Airlines accused on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 12:00:22
| Press Association: A government minister has launched an attack on major airlines for refusing to take climate change seriously. Environment minister Ian Pearson branded low cost flyer Ryanair "the irresponsible face of capitalism" and warned British Airways was "only just about playing ball" in the fight to reduce carbon emissions. Mr Pearson described Ryanair's chief executive Michael O'Leary as "just completely off the wall" and stated the attitude of several ... |
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