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Gore show is set to be biggest on earth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:01:25
| Observer: Nowhere, perhaps, will be more important than Shanghai. One of eight cities hosting Live Earth concerts for Al Gore's crusade against climate change on Saturday, it will help deliver a vast audience across China. And with the world's most populous country on board, organisers believe they can reach 2 billion people and eclipse even Live8 as the biggest global media event of all time. It will begin at 1.10am British Summer Time in Sydney, Australia, then roll around the globe with ... |
US ambassador calls for APEC agreement on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:01:26
| Associated Press: The United States wants an in-principle global agreement on climate change that does not harm economic development to emerge from an Asia-Pacific leaders' summit in September, the U.S. ambassador to Australia said Sunday. Prime Minister John Howard, who will chair the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Sydney, has placed climate change at the top of the agenda. U.S. ambassador to Australia Robert McCallum told Ten Network television his country wanted from the ... |
United Kingdom: Labour plans flood defence cuts as Britain flounders in the deluge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:01:26
| Times (UK): England's flood defence programme is facing funding cuts that could last until 2011, according to a memo sent by Environment Agency executives to senior staff last month. The document, understood to have been prompted by demands from the Treasury, says flood defence plans might have to be pared back as the cuts take hold. The memo, written despite high-level reports warning that Britain's flood defences are in a parlous state, could prove deeply embarrassing to Gordon Brown's ... |
United Kingdom: Warm spring takes fizz out of bubbly (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:01:27
| Telegraph (UK): Champagne producers fear that this year's vintage is in danger of going flat. Following an unusually warm spring, this summer's harvest in the Champagne region of France will be the earliest since records began. This has led to predictions of low yields and raised concern that, because early harvests tend to have lower acidity, the drink produced will lose its crisp, sharp quality. Britain is the biggest importer of champagne. Last year, 37 million bottles were bought in ... |
Eerily quiet: Mysterious disorder can destroy honeybee colonies (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 03:00:48
| Washington Post: Billy Davis of Purcellville, Va., used to breed cattle. Now he raises honeybees. Which carry more weight? Bees, of course. Through their industry and sheer numbers, these pollinators give us almost a third of our food. So the sudden and mysterious disappearance of the bee might sound like fare for a sci-fi horror film. But as you may have heard, this is happening across the United States, attributed to a new and deadly malady named colony collapse disorder, or CCD. Most people ... |
It's not the end of the world, but it sure looks like it (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 03:00:48
| Pioneer Press: I keep expecting the world to end. As I work and eat and play, I'm hypersensitive to signs around me that society is somehow crumbling, or that the global climate is cataclysmically shifting, or that some other catastrophe is about to plunge the human race into chaos and misery. It's a lifelong obsession fueled by Armageddon-themed novels, movies and TV series. And lately, there have been lots of these. From Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel "The Road," ... |
Climate change tops agenda at global forest meet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 03:00:49
| United Press International: Some 500 politicians, scientists, business leaders and aid workers from 60 countries gathered in a small Swedish forest town this past week to discuss innovative ways of tackling climate change. Burden sharing versus free-runner effect, negotiating platforms, living to learn versus learning to live -- to many these catch phrases may be nothing more than mumbo jumbo but to participants at this year's Taellberg Forum they offered new ways of looking at the global warming ... |
Too much Gore (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 03:00:49
| Sunday Times: My breakfast with Al Gore didn't get off to a good start. Let me explain. The only time the former American vice-president was available for interview was very early. So we arranged to meet in the English Tea Room at Brown's hotel in Mayfair. I don't need to remind you that Gore is a very important man. His documentary about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, won an Oscar. He very nearly beat George Bush to the White House. Remember the Florida recount and the pesky hanging chads ... |
Live Earth Seeks Carbon Emissions Cut of 90 Percent by 2050 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 03:00:51
| Environment News Service: Nine days to go before Live Earth - the global day of music to combat the climate crisis - and everyone on Earth is being asked to take their own personal actions to keep the planet cool. Live Earth is asking everyone to support a 90 percent reduction in emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by 2050 and a comprehensive international treaty on global warming by 2009. On July 7, 2007, Live Earth will stage concerts in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, ... |
A new war on the planet? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 03:00:51
| Green Left: During the last year the global warming debate has reached a turning point. Due to the media hype surrounding Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth, followed by a new assessment by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the climate sceptics have suffered a major defeat. Suddenly the media and the public are awakening to what the scientific consensus has been saying for two decades on human-induced climate change and the dangers it poses to the future of life on ... |
Climate vandals prepare a do-nothing APEC (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 03:00:51
| Green Left: With a federal election looming, the Coalition is still trying to convince us that its refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol and its support for the coal and uranium industries don't mean it doesn't care about the future of the planet. The recent announcement that he'd consider an emissions trading scheme hasn't shifted the Howard sceptics. Bush is also under pressure for his head-in-the-sand approach on global warming. Leading the charge for a European-style carbon trading regime is ... |
Why the market cannot solve the environment crisis (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 03:00:51
| Green Left: The good news is that Australian politicians and corporations are finally recognising that there is an environmental crisis. The bad news is that the "solutions" being promoted by the establishment define what is realistic for capitalism, so the "need" for big business to remain profitable sets the parameters of what is "possible". Symptomatic of this is the preponderance of economists on panels set up to investigate environmental questions and look for solutions. Market mechanisms ... |
Climate change threatens historic monuments (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:00:25
| Sunday Times: HISTORIC monuments across Europe including the Colosseum, the Eiffel Tower and the Parthenon that have survived wars are now under threat from climate change. An Italian study warns that heavier rainfall and changing humidity levels will take a heavy toll from cultural treasures, wiping away layers of stone. In southern and central Europe, higher temperatures could cause monuments to crack and fall apart. The study, part of the Noah's Ark project run by Italy's National ... |
United States: Financial incentives are putting solar in reach (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:00:25
| Contra Costa Times: Q: The more energy costs go up, the more determined I get to someday be energy-independent. Are the costs of solar electricity ever going to be cost-effective for the average homeowner? A: During the past 21 years I've been writing this column, I've gotten hundreds of questions asking this very same thing, and I've always answered them the same way: Someday down the road, photovoltaics (solar electric systems, also called PV systems) will be economic enough to consider their widespread ... |
Greenland's ice meltdown quickens (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:00:25
| Albany Times Union: A slab of pale blue ice the size of a semitrailer broke off the side of the Russell Glacier and splashed into a rushing stream of meltwater some 100 feet below. The thunderous sound of splintering ice was frightening enough, especially after hearing a guide describe how a huge chunk of plummeting glacier killed several tourists and injured dozens near here with its icy shrapnel in the 1970s. But the truly scary part was that we had witnessed another ominous reminder that the ... |
Western consumption may cause famines (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:00:25
| Agençe France-Presse: FOOD production in developing countries will halve in the next 20 years unless wealthy nations lower their rate of consumption, a research group has warned. The livelihoods of more than three billion people in the world are being undermined by the wealth of the privileged few, said the director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, Johan Rockstroem. "The risk is that we might halve... food production in sub-Saharan Africa because of our lifestyles," he said at an ... |
Climate change sceptics criticise polar bear science (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:00:25
| New Scientist: As the poster child for the climate change generation polar bears have come to symbolise the need to tackle climate change. But their popularity has attracted the attention of global warming sceptics funded by the oil industry, who have started to attack polar bear science. Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and his colleagues question whether polar bear populations really are declining and if sea ice, on which the animals hunt, will actually disappear as ... |
Emission regulation dropped from House bill (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:00:25
| Seattle Times: The state of Washington could lose the ability to regulate its tailpipe emissions if a key Democratic leader has his way when the House takes up a climate-change bill in September. After weeks of debate, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the House energy committee, agreed to drop a provision from the upcoming House energy bill that would have allowed automakers to circumvent states' emissions laws. But Dingell, a longtime supporter of the automobile industry, has since ... |
How green is Congress? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:00:26
| San Francisco Chronicle: CLIMATE CHANGE, foreign oil dependence and gas pump prices are monumental energy problems that Congress can no longer dodge. The Senate took a major, though incomplete, swipe at the issues. Now, it's up to the House -- meaning Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- to match or strengthen the deal. So far, she's inclined to take small steps, postponing the heavy lifting. Political calculations aside, the general message is remarkable. Both sides of Capitol Hill appear committed to major ... |
UN says urbanisation near coasts a matter of concern (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:00:26
| PTI: Continuing urban growth in low elevation coastal zones across the world, especially Asia, is a matter of serious concern given the threat posed by climate change, according to a UN report. To mitigate the disaster and shift people away from low elevated coastal zones (LECZ), it urges the states to avoid further development in such areas through policies and awareness. "While uncontrolled coastal development is likely to damage sensitive and important ecosystem, the ... |
Australia: Farming systems that fight drought (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:00:26
| Science Alert: One man who has found a way to combat the trend to increasing drought under climate change is Zenon Gomel Apaza. Zenon thought he knew all about farming in 1994 when he packed up his books and returned from his university studies in agronomy to his village in the Peruvian Andes, 60 kilometres north of Lake Titicaca, where his ancestors had tilled the fields for centuries. Yet in the harsh Altiplano, almost 4,000 metres above sea level, he realized that the modern agricultural ... |
Great Lakes' history shows fears of low levels may not hold water (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:00:26
| Chicago Tribune: From one view of history, the Great Lakes are near record lows, approaching the bottom-scraping frustration of the mid-1960s. But from another, longer view, the lakes are nearly as high as they've ever been, just a few feet below the high-water mark reached in the 1850s. Both pictures are scientifically accurate and are getting increased attention from climatologists, lake scientists and environmentalists curious about history's large climate cycles and how they tip the lakes' ... |
US Ambassador urges APEC declaration on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 12:00:26
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The United States Ambassador to Australia, Robert McCallum, says his country wants a declaration of fundamental climate change principals agreed at September's APEC meeting in Sydney. Last month the Prime Minister John Howard appointed a special envoy to work with leaders in the Asia Pacific to develop a joint regional climate change strategy ahead of the meeting. Mr McCallum says there should be recognition that climate change must be addressed cooperatively by the global ... |
Nuclear energy using new momentum to take on old obstacles (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 03:00:42
| Associated Press: Nuclear energy is hot again. Thanks to global warming, nuclear energy's promise of abundant, carbon emissions-free power is being pushed by the president and newly considered by environmentalists. But any expansion won't come cheap or easy. The enormous obstacles facing nuclear power are the same as they were in 1996, when the nation's last new nuclear plant opened in Tennessee. Waste disposal, safe operation and security remain major concerns. And there is ... |
United States: Park rangers are sweating over severe fire danger (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2007 at 03:00:42
| San Francisco Chronicle: In the wake of the Tahoe's devastating Angora Fire and on the eve of Fourth of July, park rangers and county sheriffs across California are ordering fire restrictions, boating closures and stepping up enforcement and education to protect people from themselves for the upcoming holiday week. In Yosemite, they're also taking a close look at the trails leading out of the valley, such as up to Half Dome. You might call it "Fear of Fire." Or, after talking to many rangers across ... |
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