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Australia: Harming climate change battle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:26
Courier-Mail: RECENTLY in this section Bob Carter questioned the reality of climate change. All scientists welcome honest criticism, but scepticism based on half-truths is not helpful. There is now almost no doubt that human-induced climate change is happening. Our planet's climate is complex so it is not surprising that there are still uncertainties, but that should not be an excuse for denying the impacts that humans and our greenhouse gas emissions are having on the Earth's climate and ...

Canada: 91% say individuals must fight climate change: poll (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:26
Ottawa Citizen: A majority of Canadians feel it's their responsibility to improve the environment, but that the government should also have an active role in fighting climate change, a new poll has revealed. The Ipsos Reid survey, conducted online in March and June for Sympatico/MSN, found that 91 per cent of Canadians believe "individuals need to take an active role, and not rely on the government to solve problems." However, in the same poll, 72 per cent of respondents said it is ...

China covers up pollution deaths (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:26
Age: THE World Bank has reluctantly censored a report revealing that pollution-related diseases kill 750,000 people in China every year. The bank acted under pressure from Chinese officials who feared the revelation would provoke "social unrest". Almost a third of the report, Cost of Pollution in China, produced in co-operation with several Chinese government ministries, was cut out, including a map showing where the deaths were concentrated. China's State ...

Concern about global warming doubles - survey (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:26
Agençe France-Presse: Concern about global warming has more than doubled since last October, a worldwide consumer survey released on Wednesday by research group Nielsen has found. It said global warming was fast emerging as one of the major concerns among the world's consumers, with 17 percent citing it as a major concern. That compares with seven percent in October, when the last survey was conducted, Nielsen said in a news release. The findings were part of the company's Global Consumer Confidence ...

Drought Is Sapping the Southeast, and Its Farmers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:26
New York Times: Northern Alabama has become acre after acre of shriveled cornstalks, cracked red dirt for miles and days of unrelenting white heat. The region's most severe drought in over a century has farmers here averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields. The drought is worst here, but it is wilting much of the Southeast, causing watering restrictions and curtailed crops in Georgia, premature cattle sales in Mississippi and Tennessee, and rivers so low that power ...

Few Are Investing in Alternative Energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:26
Associated Press: Most U.S. investors see putting money into alternative energy companies as both potentially lucrative and a way to support the environment. But while many might see opportunity, few are taking it. A recent Calvert Group Ltd. survey that coincided with the establishment of an alternative energy fund found that while about 85 percent of investors believe there is money to be made from investing in areas such as solar power and wind power, only about 20 percent of investors have broached ...

Gadget boom to drive up energy demand: report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:26
Reuters: Flat-screen televisions, computers and other hi-tech gadgets will use nearly half of a typical British household's total electricity by 2020, an energy conservation body said in a report on Wednesday. Britain's Energy Saving Trust (EST) said consumer electronics will overtake kitchen appliances and lighting as the biggest single drain on domestic power. Its report, "The Ampere Strikes Back," said new devices are often more power-hungry than earlier models and many are ...

Italians fight global warming by shedding their ties (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:26
International Herald Tribune: Last week, when employees at Eni, Italy's largest power company, turned on their computers, a survey popped up on the screen: Would they be willing to relinquish suits and ties for the summer so that Eni could turn down its central air-conditioning, saving money and reducing carbon emissions? Ninety percent said yes. So this week, corporate offices in Rome and Milan began an experiment in permitting "lighter and cooler" office attire as the height of summer approaches. In ...

Live Earth's first green test: clean up own mess (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:26
Reuters: Live Earth concerts on Saturday meant to spur action to fight global warming must first tackle another environmental hazard -- mountains of trash and thousands of tons of greenhouse gases caused by the events. "We want to set a new global standard for dealing with waste and recycling," said John Rego, environmental adviser for the eight concerts meant to rock the world around the clock on a rolling basis from Sydney to New York and organized by an alliance led by former Vice ...

Technology addiction 'threatens climate change effort' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:27
Guardian: Consumers' love of hi-tech gadgets is set to undermine attempts to curb the UK's carbon emissions, the Energy Saving Trust (EST) claimed today. The proliferation of home entertainment equipment such as flatscreen TVs, digital radios and laptops in homes means that by 2020 this type of technology will account for 45% of domestic electricity use. This means 14 power stations will be required just to power equipment used for communication and entertainment, the EST said in its ...

The ocean surface, a whole world in motion (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:27
Physorg: Technical advances over the past 50 years have allowed improved knowledge to be gained of the properties of sea water at great depths. Yet the first centimetres of the ocean remain its least well known part. They are difficult to sample and study owing to the mixing the oceanographic vessel provokes between this superficial layer and the deeper strata of water. Nevertheless, a whole ecosystem exists within this layer, carrying numerous living organisms like bacteria, zooplankton and larger ...

The world's biggest global pop concerts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:27
Reuters: Live Earth's 24-hour pop concerts will see over 100 acts playing in eight cities around the world on July 7 to help raise awareness of climate change. Up to two billion people are expected to watch in person and via internet, TV and radio broadcasts. Here are some facts on the world's biggest global benefits to date -- Live Aid and Live 8: * LIVE AID, 1985: -- AIM: Live Aid's 16-hour transatlantic "global jukebox" was organized by Irish rock star Bob Geldof ...

Biofuels to buoy farm prices in next decade: OECD/FAO (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:27
Reuters: The rapid growth of the world's biofuel industry is likely to keep farm commodity prices at high levels in the next decade as it will boost demand for grains, oilseeds and sugar, a major study said on Wednesday. The study, co-written by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said biofuels would have a major impact on the agriculture sector between 2007 to 2016. "Bioenergies have ...

United Kingdom: Climate bill does not go far enough, say MPs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:27
Guardian: The government's flagship climate change bill does not go far enough in cutting emissions, a panel of MPs warned today. The draft climate change legislation - the main achievement of the former environment secretary, David Miliband, before he was promoted to foreign secretary - called for at least a 60% cut in carbon emissions by 2050. But the cross-party environment select committee, while calling the target "extremely ambitious", said it agreed with the ...

Climate change and the world's poor (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:27
Science Alert: Climate change is arguably the gravest threat ever faced by humanity. Some say more of a threat to global peace and security than terrorism and diseases such as HIV-AIDS. But what is beyond doubt is its threat to global economic progress in developing countries as well as wealthy nations such as Australia. Nowhere will the impacts of climate change be felt more than in the world's poorest nations where hundreds of millions of people live on less than a dollar a day. It is a ...

United Kingdom: Companies shrug off green pressure - report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:27
Guardian: More than a quarter of British businesses say that the public debate around climate change and environmental degradation has had "little impact" on the way they conduct their businesses up till now and 56% say they have taken only minor steps to reduce their financial exposure, a new survey shows. But almost every corporation says it has been influenced by the discussions and most say they have responded to some degree to the issue, according to the poll contained in a ...

Canada: Emissions cuts now will lighten the burden for our descendants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:27
Vancouver Sun: Any discussion of climate change and what Canada needs to do, or not do, about it should start with one thing clearly understood: Whatever the answer turns out to be, it's certain to cost money. Canada is already suspect in the eyes of most of the developed world. We are, per capita, the worst greenhouse gas polluters on Earth -- with less than 0.5 per cent of the global population we create two per cent of all carbon dioxide emissions. We keep spewing more, and our federal ...

Chile: Global warming 'made lake vanish (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:27
BBC: Scientists in Chile have blamed climate change for the sudden disappearance of a lake in the south of the country. Park rangers who patrolled the area in the Magallanes region in March reported that the two-hectare (five-acre) glacial lake was its normal size. But two months later they found a huge dry crater and stranded chunks of ice that previously floated on the water. Experts now say melting glaciers put pressure on an ice wall that acted as a dam, causing it to ...

China: Global warming is heating up Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:27
Shanghai Daily: GLOBAL warming may have raised the yearly average temperature on China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by at least two degrees Celsius by 2030, said experts with the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature. It will be hotter by 2.2 degrees to 2.6 degrees than at the beginning of this century, Shanghai Morning Post reported today. Tibet experienced its third warm winter between December 2006 and February 2007 in the past seven years, with temperatures increasing by nine degrees in some areas, ...

United Kingdom: Hell and high water (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:27
Guardian: Some while ago I read, in a Greenpeace news sheet, a disturbing story about oystercatcher chicks on the Norfolk coast. The chicks had been affected in the egg by the parent birds' intake of pollutants. Their behaviour was erratic and untypical; they seemed to have lost their instinct; it was as if they didn't know they were oystercatchers. In short, they had been born mad. I couldn't get this bleak fact out of my mind. At the time I had other work in hand, but soon found myself working, ...

Live Earth: Musicians with guilty consciences? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:28
Philadelphia Inquirer: It took Live Aid 20 years to spawn Live 8, but pop-culture history repeats at an ever-accelerating pace. So, just two years on, the latest iteration is upon us: Live Earth. Like any worthy sequel, Live Earth -- which takes place Saturday at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., and eight other locations around the globe -- has even grander ambitions. The previous Lives, which had their U.S. concerts in Philadelphia, aimed only to save Africa. What, just one continent? ...

Brazil: Rio may nix Live Earth gig for safety reasons (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:28
Reuters: Brazilian authorities have obtained a court injunction suspending the Rio show of the Live Earth global series of concerts set for Saturday on concerns about security in the crime-hit city. The Rio de Janeiro state prosecutor's office said on Wednesday there were not enough police to safeguard the concert for climate change awareness on Copacabana beach as all security efforts would be concentrated on preparations for the Pan American Games, which start on July 13. "In the ...

Energy programs need recharging (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:28
Boston Globe: CALLS BY Governor Deval Patrick and House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi for a state energy policy that emphasizes conservation, as well as their concerns about the high cost of energy, are welcome news for the business community. At the same time, however, energy conservation, reliable supply, the environment, and costs are hardly new targets of state policy. Consumers are paying some of the highest electricity rates in the nation, which severely limits the ability to attract and retain ...

Australia: Farmers warned of climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:28
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Tasmanian farmers are being warned to expect changes to their industry in the near future due to weather and climate trends. Ian Barnes-Keoghan from the Bureau of Meteorology was one of the key speakers at a regional outlook conference in Launceston today. Mr Barnes-Keoghan predicts small-scale temperature increases in Tasmania over the next decade will lead to more weather extremes. He says many farmers will have to change their practices to accommodate the ...

United Kingdom: London children 'thinking globally about climate change' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:28
24dash: The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, today (Wednesday) announced the winning schools of the annual London Schools Environment Awards. In its fourth year, a record 752 schools across the capital registered for the awards scheme. The Mayor was joined this morning by TV presenter and wildlife photographer Chris Packham at a reception in City Hall where 65 London schools were praised and celebrated for their work for the environment. The London Schools Environment Awards were set ...

Rock concerts to save the globe (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 12:00:28
Agençe France-Presse: Some 7 000 events in 129 countries including eight giant concerts are being promoted by former US vice president Al Gore as part of his passionate bid to focus attention on the dangers of climate change. The 24-hour event on July 7 includes music, theater and other shows and will be broadcast live worldwide to get the message across to two billion people about the need for drastic measures to protect the environment, say promoters. A wave of music is set to ripple round the ...

Al Gore's son busted for drugs in hybrid car (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:40
Reuters: THE 24-year-old son of former vice-president Al Gore was arrested for drug possession yesterday after he was stopped for allegedly speeding in his hybrid Toyota Prius, a sheriff's official said. Al Gore III - whose father is a leading advocate of policies to fight global warming - was driving his environmentally friendly car at about 160km/h on a freeway south of Los Angeles when he was pulled over by an Orange County sheriff's deputy at about 2.15am local time. A subsequent ...

Change will 'almost kill off humanity' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:40
Advertiser: HUMANS will have to learn to use the planet to save themselves if they hope to combat climate change. That is the view of James Lovelock, who invented the Gaia Theory that treats the world as an organism. He is in Adelaide to speak at the Festival of Ideas, which opens tonight and runs until Sunday. "It's going to get rough," he said of climate change. He predicted massive change within a few decades - it will wipe out most of humanity by the end of ...

Analysis: Behind China's smokescreen on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:40
United Press International: The Chinese government's irresponsible stance toward mitigating climate change, based on its developing country status, is increasingly untenable. China is the world's fourth largest economy and, according to a new report, is now the top emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas heating up the planet. Global warming is an unintended consequence of the global trading system. Now is not the time for finger pointing between the developed and developing worlds: CO2 and other ...

Clean or Not Thailand Sees Dollars in Palm Oil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:40
Inter Press Service: The new governor of this southern province has set his sights on another prize to add to its list of unique features. ''We are aiming to be the palm oil capital of Thailand,'' says Siwa Sirisoawaluk who has been Krabi's chief administrator for nine months. He shares his ambition, standing within easy view of a grove of tall palm trees that produce the kind of bio-fuel that is increasingly in demand globally. These trees, locals say, were introduced some three decades ago and are ...

Humans use or abuse quarter of all energy from plants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:41
Guardian: Nearly a quarter of the energy processed by land plants is either harvested by humans or lost due to our activities, according to a global analysis of agricultural production. The figures show the remarkable extent of humankind's stranglehold over nature, but the researchers say they also indicate how difficult it will be to increase agricultural production to feed an ever-growing global population or find sources of biofuel to replace oil and gas - seen by some as a way to reduce ...

Tech Firms Tap Into the 'Green' Movement (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:41
Time: Being "green" is all the rage with technology companies these days, but what's not clear is whether or not the environment-friendly approach is bringing in more greenbacks. Tech buyers say they desire devices that are kind to the environment, but they haven't shown a strong predisposition to buy them – except when it saves them money. "There's high-level awareness and low-level activity," said Christopher Mines, an analyst at Forrester Research. "The goal is ...

Al Gore's son on drugs charges (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:41
Guardian: The son of the US former vice-president Al Gore was arrested today on suspicion of possessing marijuana and prescription drugs after being pulled over for speeding in California, authorities said. Al Gore III, 24, was driving a blue Toyota Prius at close to 100mph on a motorway near San Diego when he was pulled over by sheriff's deputies, said police department spokesman Jim Amormino. The deputies smelled marijuana and searched the car, Mr Amormino said. They found less than an ...

Analysis: Biofuels -- vice or virtue? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:41
United Press International: Germany's biofuel companies hope for government support to keep their industry thriving. While critics say the environmental and social damages caused by the biofuel boom are severe, industry members say biofuels can be an important factor in the battle to stop global warming. Both the United States and the European Union are heavily supporting the increased use of biofuels to drive down greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector. At a summit earlier this year, the ...

Climate change tops agenda as western premiers prepare to meet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:42
Canadian Press: Climate change will be at the top of the agenda as Canada's western premiers head north, where global warming's effects are most drastic and visible. "By virtue ... of us meeting in the Far North, where climate change is most observable, we will be looking at the strategies for adaptation that we're all going to have to pursue given the reality of climate change," said Saskatchewan Premier Lorne Calvert. Last month, a United Nations panel said temperatures in the ...

Environmentalist tapped to lead Calif. air board (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:42
Reuters: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named a veteran environmentalist to lead a pivotal pollution board on Tuesday, hoping to defuse criticism that the state is moving too slowly on its landmark legislation against global warming. Schwarzenegger's choice of Mary Nichols to chair the California Air Resources Board earned praise from environmental groups like the Sierra Club and Environmental Defense. The governor fired chairman Robert Sawyer last week after sharply criticizing ...

Australia: Govt told to plan for 'enviro soldiers' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:42
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Federal Government is being urged to consider the ways climate change could affect how the Australian Defence Force (ADF) operates. A new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute says the next Defence white paper should plan to provide the armed forces with equipment that is more energy-efficient and adaptable to shifting environments. The Institute's Jacob Townsend says the ADF is likely to be involved in more humanitarian missions due to extreme weather, ...

New gadgets 'wasting more energy' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:43
BBC: New forms of entertainment are using far more energy than traditional technology, a new report has claimed. The Energy Saving Trust said the new 'ICE age' (Information, Communication, Entertainment) was undermining efforts to manage domestic energy demand. The popularity of digital radios, flat screen TVs and laptops increased the threat of climate change, it said. The report said by 2020 'ICE age' technology would account for almost 50% of electricity used in NI homes. ...

United States: Resignation hurts 'green' Schwarzenegger (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:43
Independent (UK): The executive director of California's air-quality board, which is responsible for implementing the state's landmark environmental emissions law, has resigned amid allegations that the office of the Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been deliberately getting in the way of its work. The unexpected ruckus is deeply embarrassing for a governor who has visited capitals worldwide, including London last week, touting his state as an example to everyone because of its supposed commitment ...

Say 'Hybrid' and Many People Will Hear 'Prius' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:43
New York Times: A riddle: Why has the Toyota Prius enjoyed such success, with sales of more than 400,000 in the United States, when most other hybrid models struggle to find buyers? One answer may be that buyers of the Prius want everyone to know they are driving a hybrid. The Prius, after all, was built from the ground up as a hybrid, and is sold only as a hybrid. By contrast, the main way to tell that a Honda Civic, Ford Escape or Saturn Vue is a hybrid version is a small badge on the trunk ...

UK Panel Recommends Changes to Proposed Climate Change Law (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 03:00:43
Bloomberg: A panel of U.K. parliament members said the government should alter its proposed climate change law so an independent committee can set targets for cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide, the main gas blamed for global warming. Goals to cut U.K. carbon dioxide output 26 percent to 32 percent from 1990 levels by 2020, and 60 percent by 2050 should be dropped from the draft law, said Michael Jack, chairman of the cross-party Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. Instead, an ...

China: Beijing Taking Million Cars Off Streets in August Trial (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 06:00:26
Reuters: Beijing officials will withdraw one million cars from the city's streets next month in a trial run as plans are drawn up to reduce pollution levels for next year's Olympics. Pollution has been a worry for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as China's economic boom has fuelled increased energy consumption. "Concerns (over pollution) within the IOC executive board were eased," IOC director of communications Giselle Davies told reporters on Monday after ...

Hurricanes May Aid Stressed Coral (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 06:00:27
Associated Press: Corals stressed by warming conditions may benefit from the passage of a hurricane -- as long as it doesn't slam right into them. Bleaching of corals has been a growing problem in recent years with the loss of algae or reduction of pigment in the living corals that occurs when they are stressed by warming water. Now, a team of researchers led by Derek P. Manzello of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that hurricanes mix the warm surface water and colder deep ...

New law to hinder haze fight in Indonesian province (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 06:00:29
Antara: A new law in a fire-prone Indonesian province that allows small patches of land to be burned is expected to worsen an annual haze that spreads across the region, officials said Tuesday. Lawmakers from Sumatra's Riau province passed a regulation last month which permits land parcels under two hectares (five acres) to be cleared by fire, which allows small-scale farmers to continue their traditional method of land-clearing. "I personally think hotspots in Riau will increase ...

Netherlands: The Hague Announces Project To Warm 4,000 Houses Using Geothermal Heating (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 06:00:29
Associated Press: The Dutch city of The Hague on Wednesday announced plans to use geothermal heating -- water from a hot well deep underground -- to warm 4,000 households and several industrial buildings, as part of a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Although the idea of using underground warmth to heat homes is not new, the plan would be the largest attempted in the Netherlands and is unusual in its design. Water of 75 degrees Celsius (170 degrees Fahrenheit) was discovered at a depth ...

US, Russia Launch Nuclear Energy Initiative (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 06:00:29
Reuters: The United States and Russia on Tuesday pledged to expand nuclear energy cooperation, make nuclear power available to other states and reduce their own strategic nuclear weapons to the lowest possible levels. The initiatives aimed to capitalize on and shape a growing demand for nuclear energy and to answer complaints that Moscow and Washington, with the world's biggest nuclear weapons arsenals, are intent on maintaining overwhelming dominance. But they immediately drew fire ...

Indonesia: Hot spots detected in N. Sumatra (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 06:00:29
Antara: A number of hot spots started to be detected in Sumbagut, especially in the border areas between North Sumatra, West Sumatra and Riau provinces. In North Sumatra alone, three hot spots were detected respectively in Mandailing Natal Districts, South Tapanuli District, and Labuhan Batu District, a local official of the Medan meteorology office, Heron Tarigan, said here on Wednesday. In West Sumatra, there were two hot spots and in Riau only one hot spot, he said. According ...

Malaysia air unhealthy after Indonesian forest fires (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-04-2007 at 06:00:29
Agençe France-Presse: Air quality in a Malaysian state has plunged to unhealthy levels in recent days because of smog from forest fires in neighboring Indonesia, officials said Wednesday. A Department of Environment official told AFP that the Air Pollution Index (API) at Bakar Arang in northern Kedah hit 104 early Wednesday. The API index considers a score of 101-200 to be unhealthy. And major western coast areas from Negeri Sembilan and central Selangor to the northern states of Perak, ...

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