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Gore slams US-led climate pact as sham (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 09:00:36
| Reuters: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore slammed the United States and some other big polluters for forming what he called a sham global warming pact separate from the rest of the world. Those countries -- including Australia, China, India, South Korea and Japan -- must join the rest of the world in a new deal to fight global warming, Gore told Reuters ahead of Saturday's Live Earth concerts aimed at raising awareness of climate change. In an interview, Gore expressed doubts about ... |
Monsoon season sends ripples across Indian economy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 09:00:37
| International Herald Tribune: Every year during the first full moon in June, the people of this small southern hamlet appeal to the gods to bless them with a healthy monsoon. They recite prayers. They slaughter chickens. They race their painted oxen through the muddy lanes of Puchaldini. But this year the annual monsoon festival was different. A week before, unusually heavy rains submerged Puchaldini's fields, destroying crops, drowning cattle and goats and killing 10 people, part of a death toll of 160 across ... |
Al Gore Says Son Getting Treatment Day After Arrested for Drug Possession (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 09:00:37
| Associated Press: Former Vice President Al Gore said Thursday he's glad his son is safe and getting treatment a day after the 24-year-old was arrested in California on suspicion of illegally possessing marijuana and prescription drugs. "We love him very much," Gore told NBC's "Today" show, adding, "We are going to leave it as a private matter." Gore, who appeared on NBC to publicize this weekend's Live Earth concerts, also briefly discussed politics. He called ... |
Al Gore's inconvenient tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:23
| Christian Science Monitor: The current crop of US presidential candidates can only wish for the spotlight that will shine on Al Gore Saturday. He's the luminary for a globe-spanning, rock-star-studded, anti-global-warming concert called Live Earth. Most likely, though, his most radical idea won't get a mention. The former vice president (and almost president) wants to replace the current payroll tax with a consumer tax on fossil-fuel use. This "carbon tax" would, of course, raise the price of ... |
China Environment Chief Says Pollution Fuelling Unrest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:23
| Reuters: Chinese anger with worsening pollution is fuelling increasing protests, the nation's top environmental official said, criticising local governments who he said protected factories turning rivers into "sticky glue". Chief of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), Zhou Shengxian, said discontent with pollution "has resulted in a rising number of 'mass incidents'" -- an official euphemism for riots, protests and collective petitions -- the official ... |
Drought, Floods Fuel Australian Climate Change Debate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:23
| Voice of America: A long drought and recent floods have intensified debate in Australia over climate change. Many Australians believe man's reliance on fossil fuels is warming the earth, while skeptics say it is all part of a natural cycle. Phil Mercer reports on Australia's climate change debate from a sheep farm near the outback town of Goulburn in New South Wales. Alix Turner sees his sheep farm in this rolling corner of New South Wales as a giant carbon sponge. He rotates his 1800 sheep through a ... |
EU Faces Policy Juggle in Push for Biofuels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:23
| Reuters: The European Union is juggling policy priorities ranging from farming to trade as it prepares for a surge in the use of plant-based fuels, a cornerstone of the bloc's ambitious target for fighting climate change. The 27-nation EU agreed in March that biofuels should make up at least 10 percent of vehicle fuels by 2020. That goal, along with stricter rules for fuel quality and carbon emissions from cars, means a huge increase in production and probably imports of fuels such as biodiesel and ... |
UN official says biofuels raise food supply risk (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:23
| Reuters: The head of the U.N. Environment Program said on Wednesday Cuban leader Fidel Castro and others are justified in raising concern about the potential for ethanol production to threaten food supplies for the poor. But UNEP director Achim Steiner said the jury is still out on whether risks outweigh the benefits when using food crops to produce ethanol as an alternative fuel. Castro, who has taken to writing articles since he was sidelined from power last year by intestinal ... |
UN says China is a 'crucial target' of Live Earth's anti-global warning message (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:23
| Associated Press: China, by some reports the world's largest carbon dioxide emitter, is a "crucial target" of the Live Earth concerts' anti-global warning message, the United Nations representative in Beijing said Thursday. China's business center of Shanghai is one of seven cities staging the 24-hour concerts on Saturday aimed at raising awareness of climate change. The location is poignant since the city is the linchpin of the booming Chinese economy – blamed for spewing ever-growing ... |
West Sizzles As Temperatures Soar (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:24
| Associated Press: heat wave sizzling across the West showed little sign of letting up Thursday, with Las Vegas forecast to tie a record high and even northern Idaho expected to top 100 degrees. "You can become dehydrated really quick before you know it. You step outside and, 'wow,'" said Charlie Schlott, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Las Vegas. Las Vegas was expected to hit 116, which would tie a record for the date set in 1985. Near-record highs were also ... |
United States: Arnie's aides 'undermining green policy' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:24
| Telegraph: Arnold Schwarzenegger's attempt to style himself as an environmental crusader suffered a setback yesterday after a senior air pollution regulator resigned, accusing the California governor of secretly trying to undermine the state's landmark greenhouse gas regulations. The departure of Catherine Witherspoon, executive officer of the California Air Resources Board, followed the firing last week of the board's chairman Robert Sawyer. Both said Mr Schwarzenegger's aides were interfering ... |
Big show, big impact? Live Earth hopes so (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:24
| USA Today: Al Gore couldn't ask for a bigger bullhorn. On Saturday, the global-warming guru and former vice president will host Live Earth, a 24-hour, seven-continent concert series designed to inspire a crusade to save the environment. With 100 acts in eight cities projected to reach an estimated 2 billion people via television, radio and the Internet, it's easily the planet's biggest show to date and history's most ambitious benefit event, eclipsing 1985's Live Aid and 2005's Live ... |
California inspires US revolt on climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:24
| BBC: In the first of a series on California's "green revolution", the BBC News website's Sam Wilson reports from Sacramento on how state legislation to combat climate change may have a knock-on effect across the US. After a week-long battle, firefighters have finally subdued the worst blaze to hit California's Lake Tahoe region in a century. But to Linda Adams, who heads California's Environmental Protection Agency, it is only a sign of things to come. "We ... |
EU urged to monitor biofuel boom (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:24
| BBC: Europe must act to prevent biofuels from becoming an environmental threat, the EU's trade commissioner has said. Demand for "green" fuels could lead to developing nations tearing down rain forests to produce fuel crops, Peter Mandelson warned. At a conference in Brussels, he also told EU member states they should not view the biofuel boom as a new way to finance the farming sector. Instead, the EU should look for "cheaper, cleaner" imports, he ... |
China: Global warming raises Tibet's temperature to five degrees (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:24
| Deccan Herald: In the face of global warming, the average temperature in Tibet for the first four days of July is up to five degrees higher than the average temperature on the plateau region in previous years. Temperatures were three to five degrees higher in Xigaze Prefecture, Shannan Prefecture and areas around Lhasa over the past four days, a senior engineer with the region's meteorological station, He Xiaohong said. The temperature in Lhasa on Monday reached a high of 29 degrees, the ... |
Haze-causing fires increase in Indonesia (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:24
| Radio Singapore: More than 400 hot spots have been detected in Indonesia's Sumatra province from satellite images provided by Singapore. The hotspots reflect areas where temperatures on the ground are higher than usual. This increase marks the start of the annual haze season in the region. Most of these fires are deliberately lit by farmers or plantation companies as the cheapest and easiest way of clearing the land for new crops. Malaysia has begun to feel the effects of these fires ... |
India Invests US$595 Million in International Reactor Project To Combat Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:24
| Associated Press: India is investing nearly US$600 million in an international project to create an experimental fusion reactor aimed at combating global warming by providing an alternative to fossil fuels, the government said Thursday. The Cabinet approved the 25 billion rupee (US$595 million; euro437 million) investment Thursday, enabling India to take part in the International Thermonuclear Experiment Reactor, the Cabinet spokesman said in a statement. India will join the United States, the ... |
Brazil: Live Earth in Rio cancelled due to security concerns (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:24
| Guardian: With two days to go until Live Earth, one of the series of huge concerts hoping to raise awareness of global warming has apparently been cancelled after police in Rio de Janeiro said they did not have enough officers to guarantee crowd safety. Organizers of the free show on Rio's Copacabana Beach said they were trying to get the order overturned in order to prevent Latin America from being left out of the event. Promoted by former US Vice President Al Gore, Live Earth concerts ... |
Live Earth: How global warming became cool (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:24
| Agençe France-Presse: For much of its history, climate change has faced indifference or ignorance, thanks mainly to sceptics who challenged the sometimes-sketchy evidence and fossil-fuel lobbyists who dismissed it as nothing more than a greenmongering scare. Thirty years ago, only a tiny number of individuals -- "climate scientists and the granola-and-sandals brigade," says US historian Spencer Weart -- took notice of the idea that unbridled burning of oil, gas and coal might eventually mess up ... |
Spain plants trees to offset its greenhouse gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:25
| Reuters: Two of Spain's regional governments and its capital city plan to plant millions of trees to help offset the impact of the country's spiralling greenhouse gas emissions, environment officials said on Thursday. Spain's emissions in 2006 were 48 percent above their level in 1990, the base year for the Kyoto agreement under which most developed countries are committed to cutting their contribution to global warming. Spain, whose economy in 1990 lagged other European Union ... |
UN Chief Tells Business Leaders To Do More To Fight Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:25
| Associated Press: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told business leaders Thursday they must do more to reverse climate change. "Certainly we have made some progress in implementing the Global Compact's principles," Ban told the opening of a U.N.-sponsored summit of corporate leaders, politicians and advocacy groups that have signed on to the so-called Global Compact. "But it is still uneven," he said. More than 4,000 business leaders, campaign organizations and ... |
UN Official Says Cuba Has Solved Its Energy Crisis Without Sacrificing Its Environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:25
| Associated Press: Cuba has solved crippling energy shortages that plagued the island as recently as 2004 without sacrificing a long-term commitment to promoting environmentally friendly fuels, the head of the U.N. Environment Program said Wednesday. The electric grid still relies too heavily on wasteful gas-flare reactors and heavy polluting diesel generators, but the communist government has taken important steps toward developing wind and solar power, as well as ethanol from sugar cane, said Achim ... |
US is pressured to help China curb emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:25
| San Francisco Chronicle: Now that China has surged past the United States to become the world's leading source of greenhouse gases, pressure is growing on U.S. policymakers to cast aside longtime anti-Beijing sentiment and help China clean up its emissions-spewing coal power industry. The argument for aiding China is being made in the most urgent terms. While scientists agree that the United States and other wealthy nations caused the greenhouse gas buildup that has brought the planet close to a ... |
United Kingdom: Climate change policies are ineffective, say businesses (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 12:00:25
| Independent (UK): A survey of British business has delivered a damning verdict on the Government's environmental policies. The study, carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers, concludes that "current economic policy instruments to reduce the environmental impact of industry are not encouraging sufficient behavioural change". Some 71 per cent of respondents said that climate change and environmental issues were affecting the way they conduct business. However, almost half said that ... |
Fear for crucial sea ice (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 06:00:31
| Herald Sun: CLIMATE change may affect the birthplace of Antarctic sea ice, which helps control the circulation of ocean water around the planet, Australian scientists believe. Scientists from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-operative Research Centre and the CSIRO say climate change could inhibit future formation of polynyas, a large body of open water or an area covered by very thin ice that is found in winter sea ice. The team examined what might happen in the Mertz Glacier ... |
Leading Scientist Says Climate Change Increases Poverty and Hunger (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 06:00:32
| Voice of America: A leading climate change scientist says the warming of the planet would have a devastating impact on the poor and the hungry. He urges the United Nations to make greater efforts to help the poor, the hungry, and malnourished adapt to the realities of climate change and its difficulties. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva. The chairman of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, says the effects of climate change will be mainly felt in the areas of ... |
As 'Live Earth' Plays, Millions to Work for Climate Protection (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 06:00:33
| OneWorld US: As global concerts raise the profile of climate protection among viewers on all seven continents this weekend, some 10,000 "satellite" events are expected to bring millions of individuals into the action to help stop climate change. Live Earth 7/7/07 -- former U.S. vice president Al Gore's high-profile call to action on global warming, in partnership with his organization the Alliance for Climate Protection, MSN, and the production company Control Room -- will rock some ... |
Brazil ethanol industry goes green for the money (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 06:00:33
| Reuters: Brazil's ethanol industry is cutting out the dirty habits that contribute to global warming and environmental degradation. But it's not just a noble effort -- it makes good financial sense, too. Billionaire George Soros, who is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Brazilian ethanol production, is in the forefront of the effort. "If ignored, global warming can destroy civilization," Soros said at an Ethanol Summit in Brazil last month. Brazilian ethanol ... |
China Denies Loans to Polluting Firms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 06:00:34
| Associated Press: China said Thursday it would bar bank loans to companies that violate environmental rules, an apparent effort to target firms that find it cheaper to pay fines or bribes than help reduce the country's worsening pollution. The initiative is part of efforts to enforce frequently ignored environmental rules amid increasing concerns about pollution that has left millions without access to clean water and made China's cities some of the world's dirtiest. The deputy director of ... |
Germany aims to boost 'green' electricity (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 06:00:34
| Agençe France-Presse: Germany plans to boost the percentage of electricity generated by renewable resources to 45 percent by 2030 in a bid to curb global warming, environment minister Sigmar Gabriel said Thursday. Gabriel told reporters that a progress report on a renewable energy law (EEG) passed in 2000 showed that the country had already surpassed the quota of 12.5 percent set for 2010. He said Berlin was now setting a more ambitious target to produce at least 20 percent of electricity used in ... |
Growing Oases in the Sky (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 06:00:34
| Inter Press Service: An industrial park seems an unlikely location to find a native plant garden. "It's mind-blowing," says Jim Mumford, who ripped up his old roof and replaced it with something alive and verdant atop a small one-storey building that he's converted into a haven for wayward butterflies and pollinating plants. As the founder and president of Good Earth Plant Co., a container plant and design firm, Mumford combines business acumen with the enthusiasm of an amateur ... |
Live Earth to rock Rio: Brazilian judge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 06:00:36
| Agençe France-Presse: A Brazilian judge on Thursday found that a Live Earth concert may play this weekend in Rio, one of eight world cities to host the festival to combat global warming. A judge had suspended the show citing lack of security for the 700,000 spectators expected on Copacabana beach on the much-hyped 7/7/07 date Saturday. The judge overturned the decision at the request of municipal tour operator Riotur, which assured federal police will provide security, according to a statement from ... |
Oldest Known DNA Found in Greenland Ice Core (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 06:00:36
| National Geographic: The oldest known strands of DNA have been recovered from frozen mud taken from the base of Greenland's ice sheet, according to a new study. The discovery could rewrite what was thought about Greenland's ecological past–and could alter current predictions about how global warming will affect the island's ice. Today most of the Danish-owned island is covered with an ice sheet up to two miles (three kilometers) thick. But the newfound DNA–genetic material from pine trees, ... |
China rejects binding target to cut greenhouse gas emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 09:00:29
| Guardian: China will not agree any form of binding target to reduce its soaring greenhouse gas emissions as part of a new international deal on climate change, a senior official confirmed yesterday. Lu Xuedu, deputy director of the Chinese government's office of global environmental affairs, said it "was not the time" for China to consider binding commitments, and he criticised developed countries for playing what he called the "games of children" over global warming.But Mr ... |
Rio can rock, says judge, but campaigners fear no one will listen (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-05-2007 at 09:00:29
| Guardian: As a chance to kick back on the golden sands of Copacabana - and save the world at the same time - it should have been simple. Invite a million people to South America's most famous beach tomorrow to watch Lenny Kravitz, Macy Gray and Brazilian star Jorge Benjor perform on the Rio leg of the Live Earth concerts. What could go wrong? Yesterday Al Gore's global crusade against climate change found out. A judge cancelled the event, ruling that the police were too busy to ... |
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