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The countdown to climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Age: BOTH the Howard Government and the Rudd Opposition are playing politics in the debate over climate change. Howard is attempting to wedge the ALP by claiming it is soft on promoting clean coal through geosequestration and is irresponsible and hypocritical in its opposition to nuclear power while being prepared to promote the export of uranium oxide. The ALP claims it will match the Government's support for research into geosequestration in order to avoid the Government charge that it ... |
Australia: Emissions trading deadline at risk as report battle rages (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Age: A DEADLINE set by Labor premiers to start emissions trading looks set to be missed, unless a long-running battle over how companies should report greenhouse emissions is resolved at a crucial meeting in April. Last month, the Labor state and territory leaders signed an agreement to set up their own emissions trading scheme by the end of 2010 if the Prime Minister John Howard would not commit to doing so in late May, when an industry taskforce on emissions trading reports back to ... |
Green group claims Honda environment call is irony (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Age: JENSON Button's formula one Honda will be responsible for emitting more than 50 tonnes of carbon dioxide this season, Friends of the Earth has claimed in the week the car maker launched the "Earth Car" as the centrepiece of its environmental-awareness campaign. The car's emissions in the formula one season will probably be more than five times higher than the average British car produces in 12 months, Friends of the Earth says. Englishman Button and his teammate ... |
Australia: Why more firms are getting emissions credit bug (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Age: HOW many industries can you name that generate billions of dollars for not doing something? Policies to combat global warming are already beginning to shift corporate and individual behaviour. The huge transfers of money to prevent greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries are emerging as among the most lucrative markets spawned by the Kyoto Protocol. In its simplest form, European companies unable to meet emissions reduction targets shop for credits generated in ... |
Global warming is human rights issue-Nobel nominee (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Reuters: It sounds like a sick joke about global warming, with a series of horrible punch lines: How hot is it? So hot that Inuit people around the Arctic Circle are using air conditioners for the first time. And running out of the hard-packed snow they need to build igloos. And falling through melting ice when they hunt. These circumstances are the current results of global climate change, according to Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit born inside the Canadian ... |
Global warming threatens - corn-based ethanol not solution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Aberdeen News: We should have known better. Why didn't we anticipate that pollution from cars and trucks would eventually create problems? Didn't high school science teach us that Earth is a closed system, like a large room, and shouldn't we have grasped that these pollutants would impact our atmosphere, our weather, our way of life? We must now admit that internal combustion is at least partially responsible for a pivotal global crisis that especially threatens our progeny. For decades, ... |
How Gore's massive energy consumption saves the world (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Chicago Sun-Times: Stop me if you've heard this before, but the other day the Rev. Al Gore declared that "climate change" was "the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced.'' Ever. I believe that was the same day it was revealed that George W. Bush's ranch in Texas is more environmentally friendly than the Gore mansion in Tennessee. According to the Nashville Electric Service, the Eco-Messiah's house uses 20 times more electricity than the average ... |
Bush seeks ethanol alliance with Brazil, the world's renewable energy leader (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Associated Press: Just an hour's drive outside this traffic-choked metropolis where U.S. President George W. Bush kicks off a Latin American tour Thursday, sugar cane fields stretch for hundreds of miles (kilometers), providing the ethanol that fuels eight out of every 10 new Brazilian cars. In only a few years, Brazil has turned itself into the planet's undisputed renewable energy leader, and the highlight of Bush's visit is expected to be a new ethanol "alliance" he will forge with ... |
Global warming: An inconvenient truth or hot air? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Independent (UK): After two decades, the long scientific and political debate over whether human activities are warming up the Earth is finally over. Or is it? The world scientific community says so. Even the most recalcitrant governments, including the Bush administration, reluctantly agree. But the British media is characteristically unwilling to let an old row simply fade away. On Thursday, Channel 4 will screen what it calls a "polemical and thought-provoking documentary" - The Great ... |
Hansen Offers Options for Addressing Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| World Changing: Speaking at the American University in Washington, D.C. on Monday, renowned U.S. climate scientist James Hansen offered a series of recommendations to stave off the most dangerous effects of climate change. The "worst-case" consequences of global warming, including disintegration of the Earth's polar ice sheets and the extinction of many animal and plant species, could be avoided by taking five key steps to limit the increase in global temperature to less than 1 degree Celsius, Hansen ... |
Revitalize New York with renewable energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Albany Times Union: Gov. Eliot Spitzer has pledged to revitalize New York's economy and combat global warming by luring alternative energy companies to the state. "I'm convinced that clean and renewable energy technologies are a huge growth area for the economy, and New York can be a leader in this emerging industry," he has said. His vision is literally on the money. Energy technology is a hot commodity for venture capitalists right now. Last year, investments in these companies surged to $63 ... |
United Kingdom: There's change in the air at Drax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Independent (UK): The politics of energy are shifting. Nuclear power companies used to be prime targets of the environmental lobby. But that was before the world began worrying about carbon emissions. Now, green protesters have turned their ire on the coal industry. Drax, the FTSE 100 company that owns the coal-fired power station of the same name in North Yorkshire, is very much at the top of their blacklist. It is the UK's largest power station of any kind, producing about 7 per cent of our ... |
Climate change in the Maine woods (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Maine Today: J.D. Irving Ltd. is Maine's largest private landowner, with 1.3 million acres in Aroostook County. Foresters manage its land primarily for spruce-fir sawlogs, as well as paper mill pulp and power plant fuel. Now the Canadian-based company is exploring another potential value for those forests that could be worth millions of dollars -- carbon dioxide storage. Irving is supporting carbon storage as part of plans to establish a Northeast regional program that would cap how much ... |
Govt's push for greener homes futile, say Greens (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Australian Greens say a Government initiative to teach households how to become energy efficient will do little to reduce the impacts of climate change. Households will be sent information on how to use energy wisely under the $52.8 million program. They will also be given money to help combat global warming through measures like tree plantings. The Greens' climate change spokeswoman, Christine Milne, says it is the Government that needs to act to help households ... |
United Kingdom: Why Channel 4 has got it wrong over climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:25
| Observer: We live in an era of conspiracies. Princess Diana was killed by Nazis; 9/11 was the work of the US government, while the manned lunar landings were hoaxes filmed in TV studios. To this list of internet-fuelled daftness, we can now add a new plot: that the world's scientific community is not just wrong about global warming, but is collectively lying when it says industrial carbon dioxide emissions are heating up the planet. Michael Crichton started the ball rolling with his novel State ... |
Australia: Cut and paste: Fires have turned into an uncontrollable monster (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 12:00:23
| Australian: THIS summer, Australia feels like a war zone. Cities and towns across the country are enveloped in a perpetual smoke haze, and the braying of fire sirens is as commonplace as birdsong. Every evening television commentators deliver grim-faced reports from the front lines. Tired farmers look dazedly into the camera. Firemen with soot-smeared clothes and chilli-red eyes shake their heads and mumble that they have never known anything like it. As with every modern war report, helicopters ... |
Australia: Industry closes anti-coal website (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 12:00:23
| Sydney Morning Herald: THE mining industry has used copyright laws to close an anti-mining website launched by a small protest group in Newcastle. The NSW Minerals Council has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a TV, print and billboard advertising campaign and launched a website extolling the virtues of mining. The campaign's slogan is "Life: brought to you by mining". The anti-coal group Rising Tide created its own website sending up the campaign with comments such as "Rising ... |
Australia: PM's emissions trading report expected soon (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 12:00:24
| Australian: PRIME Minister John Howard will receive a report in May from his specially selected taskforce on carbon emissions trading. Although the composition of the group has been criticised, there is no doubt its projections will be widely discussed. Mr Howard's departmental head, Peter Shergold, is chairman of the group, which includes Qantas chairwoman Margaret Jackson and executives from BHP Billiton, Xstrata, Alumina, NAB and National Power. In the past nine months, Mr ... |
Germans ponder holidays at home to save the world (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 12:00:24
| Deutsche Presse Agence: An intense debate has begun in Germany on the kind of lifestyle changes needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions, days before European Union leaders hold a summit on energy and climate change. The call from Greens parliamentary leader Renate Kunast for holidays in Germany to be "in" once more was predictable, but the support she received from other parts of the political spectrum was less so. Werner Schnappauf, Environment Minister for the conservative Christian ... |
US drought risk will grow, report predicts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2007 at 09:00:28
| Associated Press: By 2020, the United States will emit almost one-fifth more gases that lead to global warming than it did in 2000, increasing the risks of drought and scarce water supplies. That projection comes from an internal draft report from the Bush administration that is more than a year overdue at the United Nations. The Associated Press obtained a copy yesterday. The United States is already responsible for about one-quarter of the world's carbon dioxide and other ... |
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