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The cost of coal on the environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:42
| WWF: A worldwide rush to use "cheap" and dirty coal to supply power is threatening to impose huge costs to the environment and the global economy. In a new briefing paper released today to coincide with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) meeting about the economic impacts of climate change, WWF shows that the short-term economics which are driving the use of coal to generate cheap power have created a "fool's paradise" that will lead to profound long-term ... |
Crucial climate change agreement reached after fierce debate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:42
| Agence France-Presse: Climate change experts agreed Friday on measures the world can take to combat global warming, following intense debate and marathon negotiations at a crucial UN conference here, a French delegate said. Scientists and other leading authorities from 120 nations finally achieved a consensus after an exhausting session that lasted from Thursday morning until 4:30 am on Friday (2130 GMT Thursday), French delegation chief Marc Gillet told AFP. "It is over. The report has been ... |
Deadly Frog Disease Is Spreading (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:44
| Science Daily: The deadly chytrid fungus is making devastating in-roads into Australia's vulnerable frog populations, with a Griffith University study revealing the disease-causing fungus is now established in frog populations throughout Eastern Australia. Griffith researcher Kerry Kriger has just completed a PhD study within the Endangered Frog Research Group in Griffith University's Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, focusing on the geography of the disease across the region from the ... |
Top U.S. intelligence analysts studying climate change, but Republicans object (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:44
| Associated Press: Top intelligence analysts are diving into the politically sensitive issue of climate change, but some Democrats in Congress are demanding more. The House Intelligence Committee approved a provision late Wednesday as part of a spy budget bill that would require the National Intelligence Council to produce its highest-level assessment – a National Intelligence Estimate – specifically on climate change. The bill, which the House of Representatives could take up next week, calls on ... |
Arctic leaders blame warming for wolves, suicide (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:45
| Reuters: Global warming sent marauding wolves into an Alaskan hamlet, killed Norwegian reindeer with unlikely parasites and may even spur suicide among Inuit youth, Arctic leaders said on Thursday. As scientists and government officials in Bangkok put the finishing touches on a report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on what to do about global warming, the three Arctic emissaries came to Washington to tell how the phenomenon was making their lives more difficult ... |
Australia: No more excuses for climate lethargy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:31
| Sydney Morning Herald: THERE is a simple message for the Federal Government from the final report of the United Nations' expert panel on climate change: get with the program. We have the technology and the means to arrest climate change. We can save the planet and the economy. We will not bankrupt the world or the nation. Even Rupert Murdoch gets it. Next week the world's most powerful media baron is expected to announce that News Corp will set targets to cut its greenhouse gas emissions globally, using ... |
'A Problem of Lifestyles' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:31
| Inter Press Service: An eleventh hour intervention by the Indian delegation at a major U.N. climate change conference here pushed to centre stage the need for a dramatic shift in lifestyles rather than dependence on green-friendly technology for solutions to global warming. The call by the Indians to include lifestyle changes and behaviour patterns to mitigate climate change was ''welcomed across the board,'' said an observer at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a meeting that drew ... |
Emission targets hot topic at climate conference (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:31
| Associated Press: 445 was the hot number at this week's climate change conference in Bangkok. For China, India and the United States, the number – representing parts per million of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere – came to symbolize a cap on emissions that would hurt their economies. European countries, in contrast, used the figure as a rallying cry to save the planet. At the current rate, the world is expected to hit 450 ppm within the next three decades, a threshold scientists have ... |
Beating global warming need not cost the earth-UN (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:31
| Reuters: Humans need to make sweeping cuts in greenhouse gas emissions over the next 50 years to keep global warming in check, but it need only cost a tiny fraction of world economic output, a major U.N. climate report said on Friday. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in the third of a series of reports, said keeping the rise in temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius would cost only 0.12 percent of annual gross domestic product. "It's a low premium to pay to ... |
Global Warming Can Be Stopped, World Climate Experts Say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:31
| National Geographic: Humans have the means to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the catastrophic consequences of global warming, a major climate report released today concludes. But in order to stabilize the climate, the transition from fossil fuels like coal and oil needs to occur within decades, according to the final report this year from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Delegates representing a network of 2,500 scientists, economists, and ... |
Report: Climate Change Plan Affordable (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:32
| Associated Press: Delegates from 120 countries approved the first roadmap for stemming greenhouse gas emissions Friday, laying out what they said was an affordable arsenal of anti-warming measures that must be rushed into place to avert a disastrous spike in global temperatures. But a U.S. official raised concern about the economic costs. The report, a summary of a study by a U.N. network of 2,000 scientists, said the world has to make significant cuts in gas emissions through increasing the ... |
Why Asia Is Ignoring Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:32
| Time Magazine: In the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, traffic moves as slowly as blood through a corpse. Streams of motorcycles part for SUVs and diesel-spewing buses, and everyone gets nowhere fast. The air is clogged from the vehicle exhaust and from the frequent forest fires that break out around Indonesia. Once home to some of the most extensive rainforests in the world, Indonesia is now losing trees at a faster rate than any other nation in the world, to flames but also to rampant logging. Since ... |
United Kingdom: Court challenge to Gore film in schools (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:32
| Press Assocation: Government plans to provide every secondary school in England with Al Gore's climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth are to be challenged in the courts. An application has been lodged at the high court by a father of two schoolchildren, who is seeking permission to apply for a ruling that the proposal is unlawful. The environment secretary, David Miliband, and the education secretary, Alan Johnson, announced the project in February. Critics say using the former ... |
United Kingdom: Organic farmers see Prince Charles as role model (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:32
| Reuters: Warning. You are now entering a GMO-free zone. The sign greets visitors to the country home of Prince Charles, champion of Britain's organic farming movement, at Highgrove House about 100 miles (160 km) west of London. Slugs are killed by natural predators rather than pellets, rare breeds of pigs are kept to protect gene diversity, while head gardener David Howard has begun his preparations for global warming with a banana tree among the newer additions. Charles, whose ... |
United States: Sierra Club sues UW-Madison over power plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:32
| Associated Press: The Sierra Club sued UW-Madison on Thursday, saying the school is failing to live up to its progressive tradition by illegally operating a 53-year-old power plant that is a major source of pollution. With its lawsuit, the Sierra Club is targeting the school where the club's founder, John Muir, studied in the 1860s. The San Francisco-based group claims the university violated the Clean Air Act by failing to install modern pollution controls when it performed several upgrades to ... |
Widespread 'Twilight Zone' Detected Around Clouds, Not Included In Most Climate Change Models (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 12:00:32
| Science Daily: There seems to be something new under the sun -- in the sky, specifically -- that could complicate scientists' efforts to get a fix on how much the world will warm in the future. Greenhouse gases are not the only things in the air that influence the temperature of our atmosphere. Clouds and small airborne particles called aerosols also play an important and complicated role. And now a new ingredient has been discovered: an extensive and previously unseen "twilight zone" of ... |
Emissions deadline gone: UN (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:35
| Australian: IT may already be too late to cut global greenhouse emissions to safe levels, with the latest report from the world's leading climate change policy-makers flagging the need for massive and sustained reductions for the rest of the century. The third report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says emissions should have peaked by now if the world stood any chance of containing global temperatures within 2C of pre-industrial levels. Instead, emissions are ... |
Energy revolution may come at only a small cost (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:35
| Sydney Morning Herald: THE cost of saving the planet from catastrophic climate change will not be a major burden on the world economy, shaving only a small amount from global growth if governments act now, says a report by the United Nations expert panel on climate change. Recommending that nations act swiftly to boost renewable energy, energy efficiency and halt deforestation, the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released yesterday, said the world could be on the brink of an energy ... |
Australia: Out on the land there's little gold in them climate-saving trees (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:35
| Sydney Morning Herald: This week's copy of The Land newspaper contains one of the more unusual items the state's august rural newspaper has published. It's a two-page ad presenting an invoice for $10.5 billion from some farmers to the governments of Australia. The farmers want to be paid for carbon dioxide their farms have absorbed because of state government laws banning land clearing. After all, the more trees left standing, the more carbon gets sucked out of the air. The farmers argue that laws to ... |
China calls for access to clean energy technology (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:35
| Reuters: The world's rich countries must be prepared to share energy-saving technologies such as cleaner power stations with poorer nations if a bid to curb global warming is to work, a top Chinese energy official said on Friday. "It is something the developing countries have been asking for for many years, but up till now it has not happened," said Zhou Dadi, director of China's Energy Research Institute and co-author of a major United Nations report on climate ... |
China: Delegates resist China's urges to relax climate guidelines (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:36
| Associated Press: Delegates at an international conference on climate change brokered a blueprint Friday for combatting global warming, resisting pressure from China to tone down language on cutting emissions of heat-trapping gases. The delegates agreed the world can avoid the catastrophic consequences of global warming by drastically reducing its reliance over the next few decades on the burning of coal, oil and other fossil fuels that produce greenhouse gases. Their report also advocates ... |
EU leads clamour for carbon cuts after UN climate change report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:36
| AFX: The European Union (EU) led demands for a deal to slash global greenhouse-gas emissions after the UN's top scientific panel said deep cuts in this pollution over the next couple of decades could avert longer-term climate damage. In a statement issued shortly after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its report, EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas called for a breakthrough in efforts to shape a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. 'Negotiations on a ... |
Experts say lifestyle changes key to fighting global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:36
| Agence France-Presse: Individuals have an important role to play in tackling global warming, not just governments and industry, experts said here Friday as they called for people to change their lifestyles. Taking the train to work instead of driving, turning the temperature up a degree or two on the office air conditioner and eating less meat are just some of the options to consider in the fight against global warming, they said. Lifestyle change was one key issue highlighted in a landmark report ... |
Leaders argue over global climate change agency (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:36
| Reuters: A diplomatic tussle over which world agency should tackle global warming sees France demanding a new U.N. agency with broad powers, while others say time is short and existing U.N. bodies must rise to the challenge. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon wants to reform the array of U.N. bodies affected by climate change, whose impact will be felt across the board, leading to upheavals in the security, social, environmental, health and education sectors. France and others argue no ... |
Summary of UN panel's report on environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:36
| International Herald Tribune: "Measures to reduce emissions can, in the main, be achieved at starkly low costs especially when compared with the costs of inaction," said Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, which, together with the World Meteorological Organization, established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1988. The final report addresses possible ways of reducing emissions from principal sectors: The energy supply sector: Governments ... |
Tackling greenhouse gases looks to be affordable (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:36
| Nature: Bringing greenhouse gas emissions under control looks to be both achievable and affordable, on the basis of the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Today marks the end of an often fraught week of talks by the IPCC's Working Group III, which evaluates strategies to counter the rising levels of greenhouse emissions. Their summary report1, released in Bangkok, Thailand, says that stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases at a level likely to ... |
What it would cost to tackle climate change—about 0.1% of world GDP, a year (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:36
| Economist: THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up under the auspices of the United Nations to establish a consensus on global warming and what to do about it, has now completed its fourth assessment report. The first two parts, published earlier this year, about the science and the impacts of climate change, were designed to spread gloom. Change was happening, they said; it was mankind's fault; and it was going to be damaging. The third part, released on Friday May 4th in Bangkok, ... |
Germany: Disease-Carrying Ticks Spread in Germany as Climate Warms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:37
| Spiegel: Experts are warning of an epidemic of disease-bearing ticks in Germany this summer after a particularly mild winter. Their range is likely to keep increasing as the climate warms. No one likes to think of tiny arachnids burrowing into their flesh, but if Germans know what's good for them, they'll start paying more attention to ticks and their nasty habits. The country is bracing itself for a tick epidemic this summer after a mild winter -- and experts say the problem will keep getting ... |
European countries endorse international climate report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:38
| Associated Press: Several European countries and the EU welcomed Friday's climate change report by a U.N. network of 2,000 scientists as an important affirmation of the need for a significant global reduction of greenhouse gases. Germany, which is currently holding the rotating presidency of the European Union and the G-8, has made climate change a top priority for the June G-8 summit in Heiligendamm. "The report shows – and this is encouraging – that ambitious climate protection is ... |
Global Warming Can Be Kept in Check, UN Panel Says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:38
| Bloomberg: Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere can be kept at levels that avoid the worst ravages of global warming by using available technologies and strategies, a United Nations panel said. Keeping concentrations of gases at levels similar to those in the air today will cost less than 3 percent of world economic output by 2030, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said today in its third report of the year. ``We can go a long way to addressing this problem at relatively ... |
Global warming can cause 400 mn to starve: Study (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:38
| Hindustan Times: The steady rise in global temperature, at an average of three degrees Centigrade, would cause up to 400 million people to starve, according to a computer-modelled prediction for the British Government. "If no measures are taken to manage the average temperatures rising by three degrees Centigrade to reduce global warming, few eco-systems would be able to adapt and up to 400 million people worldwide would be at risk of hunger, as almost 440 million tonnes of cereal production was ... |
IPCC says tackling global warming need not be expensive (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:38
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: MARK COLVIN: There's a glimmer of hope on tackling global warming in a major international report today. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the third part of its report in Bangkok. It lays out a range of things the world can do about climate change, and estimates of the effect that they'll have and what they'll cost. Climate scientists meeting in Bangkok say a global temperature increase of at least two degrees Celsius is now inevitable. But ... |
Is China turning green? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:38
| Fortune: Sometime this year China will surpass the U.S. as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. This "accomplishment" reflects the pace and scale of industrialization in a country that is already home to eight of the world's ten most polluted cities. It may also mark a turning point in China's approach to climate change. For years China's top leaders have downplayed the environment, paying lip service to the need for sustainable development but arguing that alleviating ... |
Plant 'thirst' shapes Panama's tropical forests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:38
| SciDev.Net: The distribution of plant species in tropical forests at local and regional levels is due to differing sensitivity to drought, according to a study published in Nature this week (3 May). The authors say understanding this will help model how changes in rainfall and soil moisture ― caused by climate change ― will affect the makeup of tropical forests, as well as inform forest conservation efforts. Researchers from Germany and the United States linked data on the ... |
U.N. findings on costs of fighting global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:38
| Reuters: Following are the main findings in a report by the U.N. climate panel issued in Bangkok on Friday. The survey by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) looks at the costs of slowing climate change and the tools available for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The IPCC report is the third of four this year in a review that will guide government policymakers. The IPCC draws on the work of 2,500 scientists from more than 130 countries and last issued reports in ... |
US supports climate change proposals report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:38
| AFX: The US voiced support today for a report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laying out proposals to fight climate change. 'The United States was an active and constructive participant in the international dialogue among experts and governments meeting in Bangkok,' said Harlan Watson, the chief US negotiator at the talks. Greenpeace environmental campaigners who attended the Bangkok talks said the US delegation had lobbied hard for the report to include ... |
Weather of mass destruction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:38
| Reuters: Drought, crop failure, submerged coastal cities, mass migration, armed conflict - those are the kind of horrors we can look forward to if the world fails to get its collective act together on climate change, and temperatures and sea levels continue to rise. As the implications of "weather of mass destruction" - to quote Greenpeace - become better understood, climate change is being framed in a new way. These days, whether you talk to politicans, scientists, academics or ... |
Asian Development Bank may embrace nuke energy to fight global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:39
| Associated Press: The Asian Development Bank may end its long-standing rejection of nuclear energy and embrace it as a green power source for rapidly expanding Asia, the bank's energy chief said Friday. The ADB, which was founded four decades ago to fight poverty through economic growth, has a standing policy of not advocating atomic power out of concerns of safety and possible conversion to weapons use. But under increased pressure to promote alternatives to the fossil fuels that fan global ... |
Call the carbon bailiffs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:39
| Guardian: Climate change is revealing a further inconvenient truth. Today's UN report confirms the warnings of many campaigners; that only the most stringent of programmes to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases in rich countries - some 80-90% reduction by 2050 - will give us any chance of keeping any global warming temperature increase below 2C. Those 2C are the crucial "tipping point", beyond which the likelihood of humankind being able to manage the ... |
China Attempts to Water Down Language in International Report on Cutting Greenhouse Gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:39
| Voice of America: Delegates to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meeting in Bangkok this week say China tried hard to tone down recommendations and targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. As VOA's Luis Ramirez reports from Beijing, the Chinese government is worried that tighter controls may mean job losses. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Friday that steps need to be taken now to reduce emissions. But China - already the world's number-two emitter after the ... |
United Kingdom: Climate change impacts stream life (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:39
| EurekAlert: Climate change is warming Welsh streams and rivers, affecting the number and variety of some of their smallest animals, a major Cardiff University study has found. Rivers and streams are key ecosystems for many aquatic species and form important links with surrounding habitats, yet little emphasis has been given so far to the ecological effects of climate change on these running-waters. Now a twenty-five year study at Llyn Brianne in central Wales, led by Professor Steve ... |
Climate change major threat for India: Expert (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:39
| Hindustan Times: Terming India and China as major future threats for adverse impact of climate change, Professor Jeffrey D Sachs, Special Advisor to Secretary General of United Nations, asked both the countries to deploy Carbon Capturing Summarisation (CCS) in the new power plants to reduce carbon emissions. At the sidelines of Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2007, Professor Sachs said both the countries are planning huge thermal power plants to meet its future energy needs and they should look ... |
Hopeful messages in IPCC report, scientist says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:39
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: MARK COLVIN: Bill Hare is one of the lead authors of the introductory chapter for the report, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report, and of the final synthesis report for policymakers. He's an Australian who's a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, while on paid leave from Greenpeace International, where he worked as Director of climate policy from July 1992. On a scratchy mobile phone line from Bangkok, he ... |
Nuclear industry welcomes climate report backing (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:39
| Reuters: The world nuclear power industry welcomed on Friday the tacit backing given to their technology by some of the world's top scientists and economists in the latest analysis of the climate change crisis. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Bangkok said tackling global warming was both technologically and financially feasible as long as action was taken promptly, and that nuclear power could be in the arsenal. "It is common sense. What else is ... |
United States: Scientist testifies on auto emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:39
| Associated Press: A NASA scientist who once clashed with the Bush administration over global warming testified Thursday that forcing automakers to build cleaner-running vehicles is an important step toward stemming its potentially catastrophic effects. James Hansen, 66, a physicist who is director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, took the stand as a climate expert on behalf of the state of Vermont, which is being sued by automakers over regulations that mandate reductions in carbon ... |
World agrees it can afford to tackle climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-04-2007 at 03:00:40
| Telegraph (UK): The world has the technology and can afford to limit catastrophic climate change, scientists and delegates from more than 120 countries, including the United States, China and the EU, agreed in Bangkok earlier today. But the world must act now if it is to stand a chance of reducing the harmful effects of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the blueprint for governments on what to do about climate change. Prompt take-up of biofuels, renewable energy sources, greater energy ... |
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