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China climate offensive has eye on growth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:37
| Reuters: China, poised to become the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluter, has gone on the offensive in global warming politics, opposing emissions caps likely to shape contentious negotiations about solutions. Beijing objects to much in the draft of the latest U.N. report on global warming being discussed by scientists and officials in Bangkok this week. Analysts said Beijing wanted to protect long-term growth from pressure to cut greenhouse gases. "China doesn't want to be ... |
Chinese puzzle bamboozles climate talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:37
| Reuters: UN talks on climate change in Bangkok are at risk of bogging down under the weight of hundreds of amendments from governments and China's objections to a proposed blueprint for battling global warming, a senior delegate has said. Scientists and government officials from more than 100 countries are meeting in the Thai capital to review a 24-page draft summary for policymakers outlining ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions and the costs of preventing damaging climate change. But, ... |
EU seeks views on biofuel sustainability (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:37
| Edie: Europe's goal of using biofuels to power a tenth of Europe's road transport came under scrutiny this week as the Commission launched a consultation on how the target can be met sustainably. With the consultation on "biofuel issues in the new legislation on the promotion of renewable energy" the EU hopes to produce a biofuel sustainability scheme to allow the 10% by 2020 target produce maximum carbon savings. The Europe-wide biofuel push, part of the recently ... |
Climate change threatens Indonesian farmers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:37
| Agence France-Presse: Indonesian rice farmers in Java and Bali must invest in hardier crops and better water storage methods if they hope to maintain harvests in the face of man-made climate change and weather systems such as El Nino, according to a new study. The warm El Nino weather system has already been shown to wreak havoc with the region's rice production by delaying monsoon rains, disrupting the planting of the main rice crop and prolonging the "hungry season" before the main rice ... |
Nations urged to reduce greenhouse gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:37
| Associated Press: The European Union called on developing countries Tuesday to take immediate steps to reduce greenhouse gases, saying they must stop blaming richer nations for their own failure to act. Policymakers from around the world are meeting with scientists in Bangkok this week to adopt a blueprint for preventing global warming from having catastrophic effects. But the guidelines proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations network of 2,000 scientists ... |
Top 50 countries by greenhouse gas emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:37
| Antara: Following is a ranking of the top 50 national emitters of greenhouse gases in 2000, showing huge gaps in the world picture of emissions in recent years. Countries facing emissions caps under the Kyoto Protcool, plus several others such as the United States, have posted emissions reports for 2004 to the U.N. climate change body over the past few months. But big developing countries such as China and India do not face any obligations under Kyoto and the latest widely available ... |
Arctic sea ice melting faster than most scientists project: study (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:37
| Associated Press: Arctic sea ice is melting three times faster than many scientists have projected, U.S. researchers reported Monday, just days ahead of the next major international report on climate change. Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado in Boulder, using actual measurements, concluded Arctic sea ice has declined at an average rate of about 7.8 per cent a decade between 1953 and 2006. By contrast, 18 computer models used by the ... |
China battles forest fire in northeast mountains (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:38
| Reuters: China was sending thousands of personnel to battle a forest fire across a 3 km (1.9 mile) front in its remote northeastern mountains on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Nearly 1,000 firefighters had reached the scene of the blaze in the Great Xingan Mountains, near the Russian border in Heilongjiang Province, after the alarm was sounded on Monday. The local meteorological bureau has forecast strong winds in the next few days, which could make controlling the ... |
M'sia Wants Global Warming Addressed With Global Accord (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:38
| Bernama: Malaysia Tuesday asked the US to join Kyoto Protocol signatories to address global warming with a global agreement. It also urged developed countries not to take advantage of the issue to create unfavourable conditions for other countries. Datuk Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, Head of the Malaysian Delegation to the 116th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting here, said if each country insisted on playing by its own rule, then there would be no tenable solution to the problem which ... |
Coral is dying. Can it be reborn? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:34
| International Herald Tribune: Clouds were moving across the sun and a 20-knot northeast wind was stirring a 3-foot chop as Meaghan Johnson headed her open boat into the Florida Straits. Johnson, a program coordinator for the Nature Conservancy, headed the boat into the swells, to minimize swamping, as her passengers tried in vain to avoid soaking spray. One of them, Ken Nedimyer, stood next to her at the console, gazing out at the seemingly featureless welter of waves, seeking signs – a slight change in ... |
Facing extinction, amphibians fail to cope with global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:34
| Mongabay.com: Despite surviving the age of dinosaurs and numerous bouts of severe climate change, amphibians are not keeping pace with the current rate of global change, reports a new study published in the journal Bioscience. "We know that there are various causes for amphibian population declines, including UV-B light exposure, habitat loss, pesticide pollution, infections and other issues," said Andrew Blaustein, author of the study and a professor of zoology at Oregon State ... |
For Asian Countries, Targeting Rice Paddies Could Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:34
| Associated Press: As delegates at a global warming conference hash out the best ways to reduce greenhouse gases, one of the problems -- and a possible solution -- may lie just outside Thailand's teeming capital in the country's rice fields. The flooded paddies may at first seem inconsequential when compared to China's coal-fired power plants or the diesel-spewing buses that ply Manila's streets. But the report from the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change meeting this week in Bangkok ... |
Poor countries demand a voice (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:34
| Agence France-Presse: As climate change experts meet in Bangkok, poor nations suffering the brunt of global warming's worst effects are determined their voices will not be drowned out by bickering world powers. Impoverished countries, struggling with a lack of money, basic technology, large populations and weak infrastructure, have few tools to tackle climate change or halt its impact on their environment. That will not stop them demanding a say as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... |
The Energy Challenge Recruiting Plankton to Fight Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:35
| New York Times: Can plankton help save the planet? Some Silicon Valley technocrats are betting that it just might. In an effort to ameliorate the effects of global warming, several groups are working on ventures to grow vast floating fields of plankton intended to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and carry it to the depths of the ocean. It is an idea, debated by experts for years, that still sounds like science fiction – and some scholars think that is where it belongs. But even ... |
The rich world's policy on greenhouse gas now seems clear: millions will die (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:35
| Guardian: Rich nations seeking to cut climate change have this in common: they lie. You won't find this statement in the draft of the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was leaked to the Guardian last week. But as soon as you understand the numbers, the words form before your eyes. The governments making genuine efforts to tackle global warming are using figures they know to be false. The British government, the European Union and the United Nations all claim to ... |
Amphibians in losing race with environmental change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:35
| EurekAlert: Even though they had the ability to evolve and survive for hundreds of millions of years - since before the time of the dinosaurs and through many climatic regimes - the massive, worldwide decline of amphibians can best be understood by their inability to keep pace with the current rate of global change, a new study suggests. The basic constraints of evolution and the inability of species to adapt quickly enough can explain most of the causes that are leading one species after another ... |
Arctic sea ice melting faster, a study finds (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:35
| International Herald Tribune: Climate scientists may have significantly underestimated the power of global warming from human-generated heat-trapping gases to shrink the cap of sea ice floating on the Arctic Ocean, according to a new study of polar trends. The study, published online Tuesday in Geophysical Research Letters, concluded that an open-water Arctic in summers could be more likely in this century than had been estimated in the latest international review of climate research released in February by the ... |
Arctic Sea Ice Retreat Underestimated by Models, Scientists Say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:35
| Bloomberg: The retreat of the sea ice in the Arctic is underestimated by computer models used by the United Nations in preparing its assessments on climate change, U.S. scientists said. Observational records from satellites, ships and aircraft showed the extent of sea ice coverage in September, the annual low-point, declined by an average 7.8 percent per decade from 1953 to 2006, the scientists say today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. That's more than triple the average ... |
Beijing Car Ban Cut Air Pollutant by 40 Percent, Study Shows (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:35
| Reuters: When officials in Beijing kept about 800,000 cars off the road for three days last year, it cut the amount of nitrogen oxide air pollution almost instantly by about 40 percent, scientists reported Monday. The difference was apparent from space, observed by a NASA satellite, said Michael McElroy, a Harvard University professor of environmental studies and co-author of the report in Geophysical Research Letters. Nitrogen oxides are key ingredients in ozone, which can exacerbate ... |
Chinese object to climate draft (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:35
| BBC: China is leading objections to a major report on climate economics being discussed at a Bangkok conference. A draft copy of the report concludes that the world's climate can be stabilised at a reasonable cost, as long as nations act now. But correspondents say the Chinese see the document as a potential threat to their economic growth. The report is being discussed at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Two reports issued earlier ... |
Civilization depends on stable climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:35
| Argus: IF you were to able to travel back in time 50,000 years, abduct a paleolithic hunter from a river valley in southern France and haul him back to 21st century America, would he stand out in a crowd? Depends on the crowd. He probably wouldn't blend in very well at the New York Stock Exchange. But dress him in shorts and flip-flops, hand him a backpack and he could probably stroll across any college campus in the country without attracting attention. Human beings who lived 500 ... |
Climate change may decimate Indonesia's food supplies, worsen fires (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:35
| Mongabay.com: Climate change could worsen food shortages in Indonesia by delaying the onset of monsoon rains reports a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The findings suggest that the country could face increasing risk of drought and forest fire if nothing is done to control rising greenhouse gas emissions. Using climate models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a team of researchers led by Rosamond L. Naylor of Stanford University ... |
Corn ethanol not good for the Midwest, world (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:35
| La Crosse Tribune: I must take issue with the Sparta residents' blue T-shirts with the words: "The Right Answer, The Wrong Place" –that they wore to oppose a new ethanol plant in that city's industrial park. Heaven knows the U.S. needs new sources of fuel for our inefficient cars, and it is true that for us here corn is the least cost feedstock available for ethanol production. But there are serious problems. From a global perspective, corn-derived ethanol is relatively expensive: it costs ... |
Reports: Japan to set up US$100 million environment fund at Asian Development Bank (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:36
| Associated Press: Japan plans to contribute US$100 million (€73.5 million) to set up a special fund at the Asian Development Bank to finance environmental projects, reports said Tuesday. The grant will be announced at the ADB's annual meeting, which starts Friday in the western city of Kyoto, the Nikkei and Mainichi newspapers said. The fund will promote renewable energy resources, such as solar power, and encourage nations to build environmentally friendly infrastructure, the report said. The ... |
U.S. Air Pollution: Less Smog, but More Soot in East (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:36
| Reuters: The United States is less smoggy than it used to be, but dangerous soot particles are rising in the densely populated eastern part of the country, the American Lung Association reported Tuesday. In its annual State of the Air report, the group applauded reductions in smog since its peak in 2002, and blamed the rise in soot -- also called particle pollution -- on coal-fired power plants in the East. "Particle pollution is lethal, it can kill you," the association's ... |
Arctic melt faster than forecast (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:36
| BBC: Arctic ice is melting faster than computer models of climate calculate, according to a group of US researchers. Since 1979, the Arctic has been losing summer ice at about 9% per decade, but models on average produce a melting rate less than half that figure. The scientists suggest forecasts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be too cautious. The latest observations indicate that Arctic summers could be ice-free by the middle of the century. ... |
United Kingdom: Businesses to make climate pledge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:36
| BBC: Prince Charles has issued a "mayday" alert to curb greenhouse gas emissions. "This is an emergency we face", he told more than 1,200 business leaders attending a climate summit and said that the time for discussion was over. Delegates are being asked to promise to cut their companies' carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions over the next year. Organisers hope the commitments made at the event will lead towards an ongoing nationwide business effort that ... |
Chinese objections bogging down climate talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 12:00:36
| Radio Australia: More than 1,500 amendments and objections have been raised as scientists consider a draft report by the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change in the Thai capital, Bangkok. The IPCC meeting has brought together around 400 experts from about 100 countries to consider ways of lowering greenhouse gas emissions in a bid to counter the effects of global warming They are considering a 24-page draft summary for policymakers which outlines ways of reducing ... |
Arctic ice cap melting 30 years ahead of forecast (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 03:00:29
| Reuters: The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.S. ice expert said on Tuesday. This means the ocean at the top of the world could be free or nearly free of summer ice by 2020, three decades sooner than the global panel's gloomiest forecast of 2050. No ice on the Arctic Ocean during summer would be a major spur to global warming, said Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at ... |
Envoys named to lead climate change at UN (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 03:00:30
| Reuters: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed on Tuesday three international figures to recommend a global response to climate change. The envoys are former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos and former South Korean Foreign Minister Han Seung-soo. U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said the three would come up with proposals for a critical U.N. conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December and perhaps a high-level conference on ... |
Arctic Ice Melting Much Faster Than Predicted (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 03:00:30
| National Geographic: Arctic Ocean sea ice is melting faster than even the most advanced climate change models predict, a new study concludes. The work, published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used the models to retroactively predict sea-ice decline from 1953 to 2006. Scientists then compared the results to what has actually been recorded by Earth-based and satellite observations during that time frame. The team found that, on average, 18 climate models used in a 2007 ... |
Britain's Charles: climate change battle is like World War II (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 03:00:31
| Agence France-Presse: Britain's Prince Charles compared the challenge of tackling climate change to the Allies' struggle in World War II during a speech to business leaders Tuesday. Addressing representatives from firms including Barclays Bank, British Airways and Rolls-Royce at Saint James's Palace in London, Charles said that "we need to act very rapidly indeed" to avert environmental disaster. "We can do it, just think what they did in the last war. Things that seemed impossible ... |
UN says Canada silent over Kyoto targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 03:00:31
| Reuters: Canada has not said whether it will breach the U.N.-sponsored Kyoto Protocol even though the country's new climate change plan is weaker than its goals under the international pact, the U.N. climate chief said on Tuesday. Under Kyoto some 35 countries have to meet legally-binding caps on their greenhouse gas emissions by 2012. Canada is way over target and its plans to extract oil from sands in northern Alberta, a highly energy intensive process, could deflect it ... |
Australia: Major water options on hold until '08 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 06:00:27
| Age: TREASURER John Brumby sported a green tie and flashed olive-hued budget papers as he committed $280 million towards water and environment projects in yesterday's budget. But the most anticipated announcement, major infrastructure to secure Melbourne's future water supplies, is still under wraps. The Government's options include a $1 billion desalination plant, or pipelines to send recycled water to cool Latrobe Valley power stations in return for sending Gippsland drinking ... |
China's demands dog latest climate talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 06:00:28
| New Scientist: The latest round of international talks on climate change are being bogged down by hundreds of amendments from governments, and by China's objections to a proposed blueprint for battling global warming, according to a senior delegate. Scientists and government officials from more than 100 countries are meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, this week to review the summary for policy makers of part 3 of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. The latest ... |
Experts Target Rice As Climate Culprit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 06:00:28
| Associated Press: As delegates to a climate conference here debate how to reduce greenhouse gases, one of the problems _ and a possible solution _ lies in the rice fields that cover much of Thailand, the rest of Asia and beyond. Methane emissions from flooded rice paddies contribute to global warming just as coal-fired power plants, automobile exhausts and other sources do with the carbon dioxide they spew into the atmosphere. In fact, the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... |
United Kingdom: Prince Charles says talk is not enough to stop climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 06:00:29
| Associated Press: Prince Charles said Tuesday that urgent action was needed to fight climate change, likening the struggle to Britain's battle against Nazi Germany in World War II. The environmentalist prince told a business conference at his St. James's Palace residence that "the crisis of climate change is far too urgent and discussion simply isn't enough." "I do not want my children and grandchildren, or anyone for that matter, saying to me 'Why didn't you do something when it ... |
Warm temperature records set across Europe (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 06:00:30
| United Press International: Climate change is being blamed for record-breaking temperatures and tinder dry conditions in France and across western Europe. The sustained period of above-average temperatures across a number of countries is undoubtedly linked to global warming, Patrick Galois, a forecaster at Meteo France, told the International Herald Tribune. April's warm temperatures broke weather records in England, Germany, France and Italy, the newspaper reported. The British Met Office ... |
Arctic sea ice 'vanishing at faster rate than expected' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:33
| Independent (UK): Scientists may have seriously underestimated the speed at which Arctic sea ice will melt in the coming decades, caused by global warming, according to a study published today. All of the computer models used by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) appear to have erred on the side of extreme caution when estimating the time it will take for sea ice to disappear during summer. Researchers have found that the sea ice, which is essential for polar bears to ... |
ANZ commits to going carbon neutral (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:34
| AAP: Australia's third largest bank, ANZ, says it is aiming to reduce its environmental footprint in its Australian and New Zealand operations by becoming carbon-neutral by 2009. ANZ today said it will invest in renewable energy to offset its greenhouse gas emissions and also unveiled plans to create its new building in Melbourne's Docklands the most sustainable large commercial building in Australia. ANZ chief executive officer John McFarlane said ANZ was committed to improving its ... |
United Kingdom: Charles summons wartime spirit to tackle climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:34
| Telegraph: The Prince of Wales yesterday urged business leaders to think of the Second World War when they came to tackle climate change. "Things that seemed impossible were achieved almost overnight," he told an audience of more than 1,000 business leaders at a May Day business summit on developing a low carbon economy. He said: "The reason we are all here is because if the scientific consensus is right, we need to act very rapidly indeed." Unless people in the ... |
Solar lighting cuts kerosene emissions in India (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:34
| Edie: Since the $1.5m UN-led loan programme helping Indian banks offer loans for the solar systems the number of small businesses and households installing them has jumped 13-fold, from 1,400 to 18,000. People living in rural areas often have no access to reliable electricity as power outages are common, and have to trek long distances to obtain expensive kerosene fuel for lamps whose fumes can cause respiratory problems. "To average citizens of most developed countries, with ... |
Britain to bask in heat of another glorious summer (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:34
| Scotsman: BRITAIN is set to bask in a hotter summer than usual with climate change raising the country's temperatures at twice the average global rate, the Met Office said yesterday. If the latest forecast is correct, summer 2007 will be hotter than the long-term average for the ninth year in a row. Over the past 20 years, Britain has seen average land temperatures rise by twice the average warming trends over the rest of the world because of a combination of man made and natural ... |
Lawmakers of all political stripes in U.S. want more ethanol to replace gasoline (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:36
| Associated Press: Some livestock farmers in the United States are worried that a rush to ethanol production will leave too little corn to feed their animals. If they want help from their representatives in Washington, they might as well be talking to a wall. There is an ethanol juggernaut moving through the Congress that will call for a sevenfold increase in biofuels production, almost all as ethanol, during the next 15 years. Presidential primaries, anger over gasoline prices and global warming make ... |
Britain's maligned moths suffer drastic decline (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:36
| Independent (UK): Sir David Attenborough is turning his attention to the humble - but increasingly endangered - moth. The renowned conservationist will launch a campaign at London Zoo today, called Moths Count, to halt the drastic decline of the butterfly's less-loved cousin and improve its much-maligned image. Campaigners say the moth's reputation as an ugly, cloth-eating beast is unfair and undeserved. "We need people to love moths," said Richard Fox, of Moths Count. A report, ... |
Chinese see climate draft a growth threat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-01-2007 at 09:00:37
| United Press International: A U.N. draft proposed in Thailand reportedly says global climate can still be stabilized if nations act now but that China sees it as a threat to its growth. The world body's draft, seen by the BBC, is designed to find ways to control rising levels of greenhouse gases. It is being discussed behind closed doors by delegates from 120 countries attending the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Bangkok. The draft, a follow-up to earlier warnings that the Earth has already ... |
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