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China's strategy complicates climate talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 09:00:43
| Associated Pres: Nations racing to finish a report mapping out measures to combat global warming split on Thursday over an effort by China to water down proposed limits on the growth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, delegates said. China has emerged as a key voice in the debate this week at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, where a U.N. network of 2,000 scientists and delegates from more than 120 nations have held closed-door meetings on how best to cope with global ... |
Is the IPCC Doing Harm to Science? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 09:00:43
| Spiegel: No United Nations organization currently dominates the headlines as much -- or is as controversial -- as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Critics call the panel politically one-sided and its reports alarmist. Its defenders say the opposite is true. The IPCC will publish its third report on Friday. It was about 10 a.m. when Rajendra Pachauri climbed up on a chair in the lobby of a European Union conference building in Brussels and turned to the cameras and microphones to ... |
Climate change a threat to Indonesian agriculture, study says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 09:00:43
| Innovations Report: Rice farming in Indonesia is greatly affected by short-term climate variability and could be harmed significantly by long-term climate change, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University, the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin. The results are scheduled for publication the week of April 30 in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). "Agriculture is central to human survival and is probably ... |
As drought worsens, Australian cattle scour roadsides for food (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:47
| Agence France-Presse: As Australian farmer Philip Bell coaxed his cattle along the road, a bystander nodded toward a straggler ambling behind the rest of the herd searching for an overlooked tussock of grass. "Not much of a bull, is he?" the local said, prompting a rueful smile from beneath Bell's oversized Akubra hat. "Nah," the cattleman replied. "Used to be, but. He should be 600-700 kilos (1,300-1,550 pounds) but he's nearer 400 now." As the world's top ... |
Biofuels criticized as stop-gap climate solutions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:47
| Associated Press: There's no shortage of ideas for high-tech measures to combat global warming: develop clean biofuels made of corn or palm oil, build more nuclear power stations or bury harmful carbon emissions in underground vaults. But for the green lobby pushing this week for forceful action at a U.N. conference on limiting the rise in global temperatures, such answers either cost too much, delay an inevitable weaning from fossil fuels or get in the way of the real solutions, such as renewable ... |
Old king coal hard to dethrone (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:47
| Agence France-Presse: Dirty and dangerous, coal is a notorious source of climate damage yet is destined to remain a key energy source for decades to come. Coal's 19th-century image of puffing steam trains and billowing factory chimneys belies the fact it is firmly cemented in the 21st century, accounting for nearly half of the planet's energy mix. It is especially popular in China, which is expected to outstrip the United States within the next couple of years as the world's biggest carbon ... |
UN climate talks down to wire, EU and China spar (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:47
| Reuters: U.N. talks on ways to fight climate change are on track to approve a blueprint for governments on Friday, but major differences are still being thrashed out, delegates say. "Normal progress is being made and we will complete on time. I think it's a very positive mood and people are keen to get the job done," Mohan Munasinghe, a vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said on Thursday. But talks in the Thai capital were expected to drag ... |
US told to stop climate preach (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:47
| Jakarta Post: Environmental experts have strongly urged the United States and other industrialized nations not to preach about global warming until they take real and concrete steps of their own to tackle the burgeoning problem. Yoshio Yatsu, president of the Japan-based Global Legislators Organizations for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE), told the participants of a special panel discussion on global warming at the Inter-Parliamentary Union's (IPU) 116th assembly on Wednesday that the U.S. should ... |
Climate change and Australia's health (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:48
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Most of the dire warnings about climate change have focused on costs from damage to ecosystems, loss of habitat, and damage to property from freak weather patterns; fires, storms, floods and so on. There hasn't been much attention given to the effect on the long-term health of populations. But anything that radically affects housing, water and food supply, will affect our wellbeing. And climate change has the ability to affect all these in spades. The latest United Nations ... |
Germany to press for emissions curbs at G8 summit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:48
| Reuters: Germany, which hosts the Group of Eight (G8) leaders' summit next month, will press them to match its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, a senior environment official said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of U.N. climate change talks in Bangkok, Michael Muller, a junior minister in the Environment Ministry, said the meeting's blueprint for fighting climate change would be high on the agenda of the G8 meeting. "If politicians ... |
Global warming taking bloom off gardening? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:48
| New York Times: Like a true belle, this city flounces into bloom when the weather turns, its redbuds, azaleas and forsythia emerging like so much lace on a bodice. But in recent years, subtropical plants have begun crashing the ball. At Habersham Gardens nursery, where well-heeled homeowners choose their spring seedlings, a spiky-leafed, sultry coastal oleander has been thriving in a giant urn. "We never expected it to come back every year," said Cheryl Aldrich, the assistant ... |
Nuclear power a 'dangerous distraction' says Greenpeace (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:48
| Guardian: The average nuclear power station is four years behind schedule and runs three times over-budget, a new report out today says. The Economics of Nuclear Power, commissioned by Greenpeace concludes that atomic power has been historically linked with high subsidies, complex technology and safety concerns, leaving it a "dangerous distraction" to finding better ways of tackling global warming. Steve Thomas, professor of energy policy at Greenwich University and an author ... |
Rising sea levels threaten small Pacific island nations (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:48
| International Herald Tribune: Dire climate change predictions may seem like science fiction in many parts of the world. But in the tiny, sea-swept Pacific nation of Tuvalu, the crisis has already arrived. Tuvalu consists of nine low-lying atolls totaling just 26 square kilometers, or 10 square miles, and in the past few years the "king tides" that peak in February have been rising higher than ever. Waves have washed over the island's main roads; coconut trees stand partly submerged; and small patches of ... |
Submergence - Grim Reality for Coastal Folk (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:48
| Inter Press Service: The sound of waves from the nearby sea is no comfort for the chief abbot of the Buddhist temple in this fishing village in the Gulf of Thailand. It is a constant reminder of the peril that awaits the temple, Wat Khun Samuttrawachine, built in 1967, from an encroaching sea. ''This temple is always under threat from the sea; during the monsoon it is worse,'' says Phra Somnuk Atipanyo in a quiet tone. Visible from the entrance of the decaying temple is a stark image that affirms ... |
World has 15-year window to curb emissions, experts say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:49
| Globe and Mail: A respected panel of scientists organized by the UN says the world probably has only 15 years left to stabilize the growth in greenhouse-gas emissions and, at that point, will have to cut releases in half by 2050 to avoid extremely damaging warming of the planet. The conclusion, contained in a draft summary of a report from the group of scientists known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says big cuts in emissions could be achieved through such steps as imposing carbon ... |
WWF: Stopping Climate Change Is Possible (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:49
| Environment News Service: The third and final report this year by the UN's intergovernmental climate panel is set for release on Friday. Now undergoing a line-by-line review by governments meeting in Bangkok, the report is expected to show that the cost of doing nothing about global warming is much higher than the cost of taking action. "Mitigation of Climate Change," written by the Third Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, follows a report on the state of climate ... |
5 questions for global warming activist Laurie David (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:49
| Rocky Mountain News: Global warming guru Laurie David, producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth starring Al Gore, pops into town tonight to speak at the Colorado Convention Center. She's here to wrap up a month of "green" events sponsored by the Denver Public Library and Greenprint Denver, the city's program of environmental initiatives. The event is sold out. 1 What's it like to be the producer of an Academy Award-winning film? What's amazing to me is how ... |
China resists calls for climate change spending (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:49
| Radio Australia: Scientists are struggling to reach agreement as the week-long Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meeting in the Thai capital Bangkok enters its second-last day. Delegates say China is railing against the expected cost of mitigating the effects of climate change. Researchers from 120 countries are attending the meeting, which seeks to finalise wording of the third and final report by the IPCC. Two earlier reports issued this year looked at the evidence for and ... |
Poisonous spiders invade Britain (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:49
| Register: A Natural History Museum expert has warned that global warming is giving invasive poisonous spiders the chance to thrive in Britain. The false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis, was first recorded in the UK in 1897, according to the museum. The female's bite can hospitalise an adult man. One victim reported: "Bitten on the shoulder. Initially the top of my arm ached, then felt itchy. Ten minutes later my armpit became numb. The skin was hot and sticky and looked wrinkled. The ... |
US named top climate change culprit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:49
| Agence France-Presse: The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says the United States is the biggest culprit in climate change. WWF head Stephan Singer has urged the US, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, to take swift action against global warming. "They are the biggest culprit and they are the biggest offender of climate," he said at a week-long session of the UN global warming authority, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in Bangkok. "The United States should take ... |
Australia: Victorian government under fire for water crisis (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 12:00:50
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ELEANOR HALL: Despite being the only state not to sign on to Federal Government's plans for the Murray-Darling Basin, there's been behind the scenes support for Victoria's Premier Steve Bracks who has demanded more detail before he'll sign on. Now though, the Bracks Government is copping flack for the way it's handling the water crisis within its own borders. With news today that Melbourne's reservoirs have dropped to less than 30 per cent of capacity, the State Government is ... |
Australia: Metropolis 'may become ghost city' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 03:00:47
| BBC: The Australian of the year 2007 environmentalist Tim Flannery once predicted that Perth in Western Australia could become the world's first ghost metropolis, its population forced to abandon the city due to lack of water. While some critics scoffed at this idea, there's no doubt that it has forced the city to wake up to the fact its water is running out and that it can no longer rely on its natural supply. Australians are some of the world's greatest energy consumers, and ... |
Senate Panel OKs Bill To Increase Green U.S. Power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 03:00:47
| Reuters: The U.S. Senate may vote later this month on an energy bill that would by 2020 require that 15 percent of U.S. electricity be produced by renewable sources such as wind and solar. The same bill would require 10 percent of federal power purchases to be produced by "green" methods by 2010. The Senate Energy Committee Wednesday sent to the full chamber a bill that also targets demand for gasoline -- the biggest chunk of U.S. petroleum use -- by increasing fuel economy ... |
Use of wind energy in US growing, but planning and guidelines are lacking (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 03:00:49
| EurekAlert: Although the use of wind energy to generate electricity is increasing rapidly in the United States, government guidance to help communities and developers evaluate and plan proposed wind-energy projects is lacking, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council. To inform the development of guidelines, the report offers an analysis of the environmental benefits and drawbacks of wind energy, along with an evaluation guide to aid decision-making about projects. ... |
WHO Says Fighting Global Warming a Win-Win To Prevent Health Problems, Save Money (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 03:00:50
| Associated Press: Countries that start battling global warming now won't have to wait generations to see the rewards: burning cleaner fuels can yield immediate health benefits that save lives and money, world health experts say. Big developing countries like China and India can play a huge role in improving health by expanding their use of cleaner energy sources, said Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, a scientist on global environmental change and health at the World Health Organization in Geneva. ... |
Religious Leaders Tour Kentucky Coal Mining Sites, Praying for End to Mountaintop Removal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 03:00:51
| Associated Press: Amid a backdrop of bulldozers, warning sirens and mine blasts, demonstrators bowed their heads and prayed for the land, the water and mostly for an end to the practice of removing mountaintops to extract coal. "Let's pray for a time when we can stop defiling the land," said Allen Johnson, co-founder of Christians for the Mountains in West Virginia and one of about two dozen religious leaders who signed a statement Wednesday against mountaintop removal. The outdoor ... |
India: Rising sea chases Orissa villagers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 03:00:51
| IBN: 52-year-old Maheswar Rout is leaving Kanupur, a village in the Kendrapara district of Orissa, where he spent his entire life. Kanupur had been home to his father and grandfather too, and Rout's decision to leave the place has not been an easy one. The sea, which is right next to his house today, wasn't there years ago. It was quite a distance away and Kanupur was a much bigger village, Maheshwar fondly remembers. For instance, a hand pump that now stands on the seaside was at ... |
Climate Panel Reaches Consensus on the Need to Reduce Harmful Emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 09:00:25
| New York Times: The world needs to divert substantially from today's main energy sources within a few decades to limit centuries of rising temperatures and seas driven by the buildup of heat-trapping emissions in the air, the top body studying climate change has concluded. In an all-night session capping four days of talks in Bangkok, economists, scientists and government officials from more than 100 countries agreed early today on the last sections of a report outlining ways to limit such emissions, ... |
Malaria fear as global warming increases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 09:00:25
| Independent (UK): Global warming could lead to a return of insect-borne diseases in Britain such as malaria, and increased incidence of skin cancer caused by exposure to the sun, a government report warns today. With temperatures forecast to rise into the high 30s this summer, scientists fear Britain could be in line for at least one extreme heatwave before 2012. Tick-borne diseases are set to increase, along with the threat of other diseases associated with hotter climates. The report by a ... |
As the Climate Changes, Bits of England's Coast Crumble (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 09:00:25
| New York Times: This winter a 50-foot-wide strip of Roger Middleditch's sugar-beet field fell into the North Sea, his rich East Anglian lands reduced by a large fraction of their acreage. The adjacent potato field, once 23 acres, is now less than 3 – too small to plant at all, he said. Each spring Mr. Middleditch, a tenant farmer on the vast Benacre Estate here, meets with its managers to recalculate his rent, depending on how much land has been eaten up by encroaching water. As he stood in a muddy ... |
Bhutan to pay for others' climate sins (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 09:00:25
| Reuters: High in the Himalayas, the isolated mountain kingdom of Bhutan has done more to protect its environment than almost any other country. Forests cover nearly three quarters of its land, and help to absorb the greenhouse gases others emit. Its strict conservation policies help to guard one of the world's top 10 biodiversity hotspots, often to the chagrin of its own farmers. Yet Bhutan could pay a high price for the sins of others -- global warming is a major threat to its fragile ... |
Wind Farms May Not Lower Air Pollution, Study Suggests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 09:00:25
| New York Times: Building thousands of wind turbines would probably not reduce the pollutants that cause smog and acid rain, but it would slow the growth in emissions of heat-trapping gases, according to a study released Thursday by the National Academy of Sciences. The study found, however, that officials who will decide whether to build the turbines have few tools to measure the devices' impact on air quality, on animals like birds and bats, and on wilderness preservation. In fact, making ... |
Deal reached on climate change report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 09:00:25
| Associated Press: International delegates reached an agreement early Friday on the best ways to combat climate change despite efforts by China to water down language on cutting destructive greenhouse gas emissions. The closed-door debate over everything from nuclear power to the cost of cleaner energy ran into the early morning hours with quibbling over wording. But consensus was eventually reached on a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N. network of 2,000 scientists and ... |
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