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Australia: Hotter, drier fire risky future (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 12:01:37
| Daily Telegraph: SEVERE drought will increase by almost one quarter in the next 20 years across most of Australia, according to startling new climate projections from CSIRO. By 2070, the number of drought months in eastern Australia could increase by 40 per cent and by 80 per cent in the country's south-west. The climate change projections, released this morning at the Greenhouse 2007 conference in Sydney, suggests Australia needs to prepare for a hotter, drier future. The average ... |
Australia: It's going to get hotter and drier (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 12:01:37
| Sunshine Coast Daily: Temperatures across Australia will rise and annual rainfall could drop by up to 30 per cent in parts of the country if greenhouse gas emissions remain high, says a new report. As south-east Queensland and other areas already struggle with water shortages, the Climate Change in Australia report serves as a dire warning for the future. It says droughts and evaporation rates are expected to increase, as is the high-fire-danger weather in the south-east. The report is the ... |
Australia: Climate change report 'a wake up call' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 12:01:37
| AAP: Predictions that temperatures could climb one degree Celsius across Australia by 2030 should be a wake-up call to the major parties to act swiftly on climate change, the Australian Greens say. The latest Climate Change in Australia report, produced by the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, indicates the probability of warming exceeding one degree is 10 to 20 per cent for coastal areas of Australia, and more than 50 per cent for inland regions. Rainfall is also expected to ... |
Australia: Schools pitch in to reduce energy consumption (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 12:01:37
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: In Newcastle a city council matching up businesses - including big coal companies - with schools, as part of a five-year project to lower energy and resource consumption. According to Newcastle City Council the ClimateCam for Schools project, launched in July, has slashed thousands of dollars from the energy bills of the six participating "pilot schools". The council's energy and resources manager Peter Dormand says students are reaping the benefit of the lessons, ... |
Australia: Scientists: South West will be hardest hit by global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 12:01:37
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Scientists are predicting that Western Australia's South West region will be hard hit by climate change with less rain, higher temperatures and more years of drought. In a joint report, the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology predict temperatures across Australia will rise one degree by 2030. The CSIRO's Penny Whetton says rainfall in the South West is expected to drop by as much as 10 per cent by 2030 and up to 35 per cent by 2070. "There's going to be a long term ... |
Brazil: Amazon jungle could be lost in 40 years, say campaigners (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:53
| Guardian: The Amazonian wilderness is at risk of unprecedented damage from an ambitious plan to improve transport, communications and power generation in the region, conservationists warned yesterday. Development plans have been drawn up to boost trade links between 10 economic hubs on the continent, but threaten to bring "a perfect storm of environmental destruction" to the world's oldest rainforest, according to a report from Conservation International. Projects to upgrade ... |
Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:53
| New York Times: The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia. Over all, the floating ice dwindled to an extent unparalleled in a century or more, by several estimates. Now the six-month dark season has returned to the North Pole. In the deepening chill, new ice is already spreading over vast stretches of the Arctic Ocean. Astonished by the summer's ... |
Green Group to Target Banks Financing Coal Projects (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:53
| Reuters: Environmentalists are stepping up their assault on the coal industry by targeting two major banks that finance the mine companies blamed for greenhouse gas emissions. The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) declined to say Friday which banks it has in its sights, but earlier this week it identified Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc as companies that report low levels of emissions while continuing to invest in coal projects. RAN pointed a finger at the institutions last ... |
More droughts, floods for Australia as globe heats up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:53
| Agence France-Presse: Floods and droughts will become more frequent in Australia and cyclones more intense, as the world's driest inhabited continent heats up due to global warming, a new scientific report warned Tuesday. Sea levels are expected to rise and snow and rainfall to decrease as average temperatures rise by as much as five degrees Celsius within 70 years, according to the report by government scientists. 'By 2030 we will are looking at an increase in temperature of about one degree,' said ... |
Australia: Temperatures may rise by 5 degrees by 2070 - experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:53
| Herald Sun: AUSTRALIANS have been warned to brace for catastrophic heatwaves, bushfires, drought and severe water shortages as climate change causes widespread havoc. And Victoria is in line for hotter summers and more extreme bushfire days and evaporation. The number of days a year in Melbourne topping a scorching 35 deg. could almost triple to 26 days by 2070. Fiercer solar radiation in Melbourne will also raise skin cancer risks. Rising temperatures, lower rainfall and ... |
Tourism Industry Faces Rising Climate Change Threat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:53
| Reuters: Booming demand for international travel is exacerbating climate change pressures and threatening many coastal, mountain and outdoor destinations, United Nations experts said on Monday. Tourism currently accounts for 5 percent of global emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, and the sector's contribution to global warming is expected to jump as increasing numbers of people travel, particularly by air. "The tourism industry is going to double between now and 2020. We ... |
Australia: Cyclones may speed up climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:53
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The CSIRO says cyclones could accelerate climate change. Research scientist Garry Cook says rising sea temperatures and more intense cyclones in northern Australia could see enormous amounts of carbon released from tropical forests.. Dr Cook has been studying the impact of Cyclone Monica, which devastated thousands of square kilometres of eucalypt forest in Arnhem Land last year. He says the loss of tree-stored carbon in a single cyclone would be the same as the nation's ... |
Mozambique Plans US$1.7 Bln Hydro-Electric Project (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:54
| Reuters: Mozambique plans to build a US$1.7 billion hydro-electric development on the Zambezi river in a bid to meet industry's growing demands for power, its energy minister said on Friday. In an interview with Reuters, Salvador Namburete said construction of a dam and other generating facilities in the northern Tete province was expected to begin in 2009 and be completed four years later. The project, which is expected to be approved by the government shortly, would be one of the ... |
Warming inevitable in Australia: climate report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:54
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australia could be 5 degrees Celsius hotter and 40 to 80 per cent drier by 2070, the latest CSIRO/Bureau of Meteorology projection on climate change says. The findings, released at the Greenhouse 2007 Conference in Sydney, indicate it is too late to avoid even hotter and drier conditions. The joint assessment, Climate Change in Australia, forecasts temperatures will rise by 1 degree by 2030, based on 1990 averages. The report says cities like Adelaide, Perth and Darwin ... |
Australians taking action on climate change: survey (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:54
| NEWS.com.au: AN overwhelming majority of Australians are taking steps in their daily lives to help the environment but still believe Governments should lead the way in tackling climate change. While four out of every 10 respondents to a NEWS.com.au / CoreData survey said they either don't believe or have doubts that humans were the cause of the problem, 71 per cent said that they were doing things to prevent climate change. More than 52 per cent of respondents said the Government was the ... |
Don't Blame Ethanol for Food Prices - USDA's Conner (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:54
| Reuters: The growing use of corn to produce ethanol is not chiefly to blame for rising US food prices, the top federal farm official said on Friday. "When we break down what is happening with food prices, we do see a complex set of factors at work. It's not quite a simple equation of rising ethanol demand equals higher food prices," acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner said at a food policy conference. For the Bush administration, increasing renewable energy supplies is ... |
Australia: Glimpse of future reveals our water woes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:54
| Mercury: HOBART climate scientist Dr Peter McIntosh knew he was taking on a tough assignment when Hydro Tasmania approached him a few years ago and asked him to find out what will happen to our climate over the next 35 years or so. For one thing, Tasmanian conditions are notoriously difficult to predict -- even for days or weeks ahead -- because of the state's varied topography and the many dynamic forces in play at any given time in Southern Ocean latitudes. Another problem was scale. ... |
Global Aviation Body Opposes EU Emissions Plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:55
| Reuters: The International Civil Aviation Organization has passed a resolution opposing a European Union plan to include foreign airlines in its emissions trading system, the U.N. body said on Friday. "A resolution was adopted which said ... that emissions-trading schemes are fine, but they should not be applied to the aircraft of foreign countries without mutual consent," Jeffrey Shane, the undersecretary for policy in the US Department of Transportation told reporters in Montreal. ... |
Toyota Fuel-Cell Car Covers Osaka-Tokyo on One Tank (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:55
| Reuters: Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday its improved FCHV zero-emission fuel-cell car completed a road test from Osaka to Tokyo, covering 560 km (350 miles), on a single tank of hydrogen. The latest version of the FCHV features a high-pressure tank of 70Mpa that can store double the amount of hydrogen as its previous fuel tank, increasing its cruising range. Two cars were tested and both completed the trip, the automaker said. Most big automakers are working on developing fuel-cell ... |
UNHCR Says More People On the Move (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:55
| Voice of America: The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, is calling for new strategies and greater international commitment to deal with increasing numbers of people fleeing their homes. At the start of the UNHCR's annual refugee conference, Guterres told delegates protection and assistance must be given to people whether they are fleeing from persecution or from poverty. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from the conference in Geneva. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio ... |
Climate activists among favourites for Nobel Peace Prize (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:56
| Deutsche Presse-Agentur: The Nobel Committee remains mum but just days before its announcement of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize there was speculation that it would highlight climate change. 'We are not finished yet,' Geir Lundestad, secretary of the Nobel Committee, told Norwegian news agency NTB on Monday. Lundestad noted that the announcement of the prize worth 10 million kronor (1.55 million dollars) was not due until October 12. Among the 181 nominations that are known were former US vice ... |
Cold War over North Pole? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:56
| United Press International: What may turn into a Cold War-like resource conflict started quietly, with a vehicle called "Peace 1" some 2,500 miles below the North Pole. The Mir 1 miniature submarine, manned with three Russian scientists, on Aug. 2 planted a titanium capsule with a Russian flag into the seabed -- a symbol for Russia's controversial claim of the vast resources that are believed to be stored below it. For the Russians and other states surrounding the North Pole, global warming may yet ... |
Indonesia pledges sustainability in palm production (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:56
| Reuters: Protecting the environment is at the heart of Indonesia's future plans for palm oil production and companies caught destroying protected forests are being prosecuted, the country's agriculture minister said on Monday. Anton Apriyantono said accusations of bad farming practice leveled by non-government organizations were not giving concerned European consumers the correct picture of palm oil production in Indonesia, set to overtake Malaysia this year as the world's top ... |
World at climate change crossroads: UNEP (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:56
| Reuters: The world went through a tipping point in dealing with climate change in 2007 as public opinion recognised the crisis, but time is running out fast for action, the head of the UN Environment Programme said on Monday. Achim Steiner said politicians across the world, driven in part by public opinion and in part by signs of climate change like droughts and floods, were finally waking up to the need to take urgent action. What was needed now was momentum. "We really have now ... |
Europe energy chiefs urge public to trust nuclear (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:57
| Reuters: European energy executives urged governments on Monday to work on the attitudes of their citizens so they can reopen the door to nuclear as a carbon-free source of power for the continent over coming decades. As the European Union tries to cut emissions of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and improve the security of its power supply, nuclear is coming back as an option, despite public fears arising from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. "We're facing a nuclear renaissance," ... |
Some EU Officials Want to Resist Nuclear Power Renaissance (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 03:00:57
| Deutsche Welle: High-ranking European government officials, representing seven anti-nuclear states called Monday for alternatives to nuclear energy, which is experiencing a renaissance as attention turns to lowering greenhouse gases. Representatives from Germany, Austria, Ireland, Norway, Italy, Luxembourg, and Latvia started a two-day meeting in Vienna on Sunday, Sept. 30, to forge a joint declaration against nuclear energy. Participating politicians called for more investments in energy-efficiency ... |
Australia to be hit hard by climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:26
| Reuters: Australia, the driest inhabited continent in the world, will get even hotter and drier due to climate change triggered mainly by greenhouse gases, authorities said on Tuesday in new projections. Temperatures had already increased, sea levels had risen and the oceans surrounding the country had warmed, said Scott Power, principal research scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology. "Further warming and further sea level rise seems inevitable," he said, releasing the ... |
UK chief scientist confident on 2009 climate deal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| Reuters: A new global climate deal should be reachable by 2009, with nations outside the Kyoto Protocol more sympathetic to such a pact, the U.K.'s chief scientific adviser said on Tuesday. "The point is it really needs to be in place by 2009 if we're going to have a process to operate from 2012," David King told Reuters. The Kyoto Protocol obliges 36 industrialized countries to cut their overall emissions of greenhouse gases to 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12. But the ... |
UN says climate will alter travel patterns in decades (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| Reuters: Global warming will produce stay-at-home tourists over the next few decades, radically altering travel patterns and threatening jobs and businesses in tourism-dependent countries, according to a stark assessment by U.N experts. The U.N. Environment Programme, the World Meteorological Organisation and the World Tourism Organisation said concerns about weather extremes and calls to reduce emissions-heavy air travel would make long-haul flights less attractive. Holiday-makers from ... |
40 pc of US voters will choose President on global warming plank (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| ANI: Nearly half of the Americans, who now believe that global warming is a threat, have said in a recent poll, that their voting in the next year's Presidential poll would be influenced according to the stand taken by the candidates on this issue. A growing number of respondents, nearly 40 percent, said that urgent drastic action must be taken, and that a presidential candidate's position on global warming will be either extremely important (16 percent of respondents) or very important (24 percent ... |
Appliance upgrades can help reduce energy usage, costs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| St. Cloud Times: Ernie Diedrich compares the extra dollars he spent for energy-saving home appliances to the money someone else might spend on a round of golf. The economics and environmental studies professor at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, who describes himself as "someone who is pretty passionate about sustainability," said making his home as efficient as possible is his recreation. "I just like the idea of not using very much," Diedrich said. "I'm trying to stay ahead ... |
Australia: MP warns of climate-driven Asian invasion (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:28
| Australian: AUSTRALIA'S north faces a future threat of invasion by Asian refugees who have run out of water because of climate change, outspoken Liberal senator Bill Heffernan has warned. In a Bulletin article to be published tomorrow, Senator Heffernan says that underpopulated northern Australia has to be developed and settled to avoid such a fate. "Without being alarmist, it would be better for us to do it than letting someone else," he told the magazine. "We're not ... |
The benefits of a low-carbon future (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:28
| EurActiv: The costs of early action on climate change are likely to be "several orders of magnitude below those of inaction" and are not just economic, writes Janet Sawin for the Worldwatch Institute. The 26 September article outlines the benefits of addressing climate change now rather than leaving it until later. The non-economic costs of climate change range from disruption caused by drought, flooded coastal areas and loss of arable land to national security threats, ... |
Idyllic holiday destinations raise climate change alarm (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:29
| West Australian: Idyllic island and beach holiday destinations today launched a cry of alarm about the impact of climate change, warning it was threatening their scenery and their livelihoods. Tourism and government officials from Australia, Egypt, the Fiji islands and the Seychelles underlined that rising sea levels, warmer temperatures and storms were damaging beaches and coral reefs that underpin a vital part of their economies. "The issue of climate change is no longer an issue for the ... |
Japan to remap climate plans to reach Kyoto goal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:29
| Reuters: Japan will draw up new measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions by next March in an attempt to meet its targets under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, a top official said on Tuesday. Japan, home to the ancient city that gave its name to the Kyoto Protocol, has proposed halving global emissions by 2050, but is struggling to meet its own target of cutting emissions from 1990 levels by 6 percent over the 2008-2012 period. After a meeting of top officials including Prime ... |
Japan to review anti-global warming measures (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:29
| Deutsche Press Agentur: The Japanese government on Tuesday decided to re-evaluate its climate change prevention measures by next March to meet the guidelines set under the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, local media said. Under the current plans, Japan would fail to meet the Kyoto Protocol target set to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 6 per cent by March 2011 from the level in fiscal 1990. To reach the goal, Japan plans to reassess measures for businesses and households because their greenhouse gas ... |
Canada: Wanted: A coherent greenhouse-gas policy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:29
| Montreal Gazette: Yesterday, the day Quebec's new carbon tax kicked in, a large group of Canadian CEOs declared that climate change is the "most pressing and daunting issue" of our day. The 150 CEOs called for aggressive action and cited a need for "absolute" cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions. Is this confluence of events a sign of things to come? Is Canada reaching a tipping point, converted after years of government inaction to doing something constructive about ... |
Australian Temperatures to Rise With Gas Emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Bloomberg: Australia's average temperatures may rise by about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2030 and by 3.4 degrees Celsius by 2070 unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut, the nation's weather bureau and science agency said. Temperatures will be more extreme with ``substantially'' more days over 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit), the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO said today in a joint report. Rainfall will decrease and droughts and high fire-danger weather become more ... |
Biofuels not all that green (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Science Matters: Earlier this year, when I crossed our great country to talk to Canadians about environmental issues, some media pundits took issue with our vehicle of choice – a diesel bus. Even when I explained that diesel actually has a lower carbon footprint than gasoline, some of them immediately shot back with, "Then why isn't it biodiesel?" In truth, we had actually wanted to showcase an alternative fuel like biodiesel; we just couldn't find a leasing agent who could get us an appropriate ... |
Czech President Clashes with Environmentalists after UN Speech (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Inter Press Service: "The recent rise in global temperatures has been very small in historical comparison, and its impact on man and his activities are basically negligible," Czech President Vaclav Klaus told a United Nations conference on global warming last week, causing domestic uproar. Klaus also called on "monopoly" and "one-sidedness" to be removed from the debate on climate change, and proposed the setting up of two parallel inter-governmental panels under the auspices ... |
Prize-Winning Activists Tour U.S., Link Illegal Logging and Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 12:00:25
| Sierra Club: Rainforest defenders from Indonesia, Peru and Papua New Guinea kick off a tour of the U.S. Monday in San Francisco focusing on illegal logging and the United States' role in driving it. The internationally-acclaimed, prize-winning activists are speaking out about the impact of illegal logging and associated trade on their communities, forests and global warming. Worldwide, illegal logging crimes drive human rights abuses, environmental harm and billions of dollars in annual economic ... |
Australia: Greens urge more action on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 12:00:25
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Greens want the Federal Government to respond to the latest climate change projection by implementing long-term strategies. The most comprehensive assessment of Australia's climate was released today by the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO. The report predicts temperatures in Australia will rise one degree by 2030 and up to four degrees by 2070. The CSIRO says this will result in a decrease in rainfall, a high fire danger and rising sea levels. Greens ... |
Malaysia: Monkey business puts macaques in danger (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Sydney Morning Herald: Prominent notices in the rooms at the Club Med Cherating Beach on Malaysia's east coast warn guests to keep their doors and windows closed at all times. If you fail to take heed of the warnings, you may find the contents of your suitcase thrown around the room and banana skins hanging from lampshades. Zippers, clip-locks and screw-top containers are no obstacle for the nimble fingers of the local long-tailed macaques as they search for food. This monkey business takes on a more ... |
Australia: Weather warning heats up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Daily Telegraph: DIRE new evidence that Australia will face a sharp rise in temperatures, danger from bushfires and drought if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed have prompted stern warnings from experts. The first comprehensive climate projections from the CSIRO since 2001, released yesterday, suggest temperatures in Sydney could rise by an average 4.3C by 2070. In that time, the city's sweltering days above 35C could leap from 3.5 days now to 12 days by 2070. Rainfall in Sydney is ... |
Australia: Climate control: the heat is on (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Sydney Morning Herald: A hotter, drier future that will put pressure on water resources and farming is inevitable. Nationally, temperatures will rise by about 1 degree by 2030, and rainfall will decline by up to 5 per cent, according to the report, Climate Change in Australia. The impact of human activity will then depend on how quickly greenhouse gas emissions are cut, with a worst-case scenario leading to a 5 degree warming and a 30 per cent decline in annual rainfall by 2070. An author of ... |
Australia: Hot, parched and sinking - apocalypse Sydney (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Sydney Morning Herald: SYDNEY faces a temperature rise of up to 4.3 degrees by 2070, and a tripling of the number of days a year when the thermometer soars above 35 degrees, if global greenhouse gas emissions are not cut deeply, a report warns. But it is already too late for the city to avoid a warming of about 1 degree by 2030 as well as a 3 per cent reduction in annual rainfall because of polluting gases present in the atmosphere. The report, Climate Change in Australia, provides the most ... |
Indian techies see gold in carbon trade (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Times of India: The rest of India might be fearing the impacts of climate change but Indian techies are fast realising the business opportunity it has brought to their doorstep. Cashing on the carbon credit trade, many of them have begun business ventures to write up projects and take consultancies to help Indian and international businesses turn green. It's a gold rush at the moment – India has the highest number of carbon credit projects in the world. Not surprisingly, the business is also ... |
Australia: Climate change as much a concern as terrorism: survey (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Another major survey has found that an overwhelming majority of Australians believe global warming is at least as serious a threat to the nation as terrorism. Later today, Sydney University's US Studies Centre will release one of the most comprehensive surveys ever undertaken on Australian attitudes to America. The survey reports that 76 per cent of people believe global warming is now equal to or more serious a threat than Islamic fundamentalism. That supports another ... |
Australia: Energy efficient homes to get rebates (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| AAP: Rebates being offered for home insulation and energy efficient hot water systems could save NSW householders up to $1,500, the state government says. The government has brought forward its hot water system rebate, which had originally been scheduled to begin in January 2008, because of the contribution it could make to reducing emissions. Under the plan, a $1,200 rebate is offered to replace an electric hot water system with an approved solar or heat pump hot water ... |
Thailand: Sea water temperature tests to see impact on turtle population (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Bangkok Post: The Marine and Coastal Resources Department is monitoring sea water temperatures at five major turtle nesting grounds to study the impact of global warming on their population. The targeted areas are Koh Surin, the Similan islands, Tai Maung beach and Prathong beach in Phangnga, and Koh Kram in Chon Buri province. The move comes after international marine biologists recently found evidence that a rise of just one degree Celsius in sea water temperatures can stop the ... |
Australia: There are alternatives to our wasteful use of water (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:25
| Age: CLIMATE change is happening more rapidly than expected and its effect on water resources seems to have caught everyone by surprise so that many of the water management plans we made only 12 months ago are now obsolete. Static plans are no longer adequate. We need dynamic planning. Scientists seek 99 per cent probability before making links between events such as this drought and climate change. However, water managers must operate on a much lower burden of proof, as the risks are ... |
Chinese, Australians top green consumers poll (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:25
| Reuters: When it comes to buying green products and supporting environmentally conscious companies, nobody beats the Chinese or Australians. China and Australia came top in poll of more than 16,000 people in 15 countries that was designed to see how concerned consumers around the globe are about climate change. Nearly seven out of 10 Chinese consumers and more than half of Australians said they would prefer to buy products and services from green companies. This compared to less ... |
Green group targets US banks over coal financing (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:25
| Reuters: An environmental group called on two U.S. banks on Tuesday to stop underwriting a "coal rush" to build 150 new coal-fired power plants, which it said would add to greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. The Rainforest Action Network launched a campaign targeting Citigroup and Bank of America Corp because they finance coal company projects that it charges cause carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and toxic mercury pollution. Coal mining, it said, is responsible ... |
No U.S. climate law under Bush: key Senator (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:26
| Reuters: No U.S. law curbing climate-warming emissions is likely until President George W. Bush leaves office in 2009, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Democratic chairman of the powerful energy committee, said on Tuesday. Major climate change legislation "is less likely than not" with Bush as president "given the position that he's taken in opposition to any mandatory limits on greenhouse gases," Bingaman told the Reuters Environment Summit in Washington. The fact that 2008 is a ... |
United Kingdom: UK judge: Gore film biased but OK in schools (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:26
| Associated Press: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's Oscar-winning climate change documentary can be shown in English schools, a judge said Tuesday, even though he believes it promotes partisan political views. Educational authorities are making Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," available to all English secondary schools, a decision challenged in court by a part-time school official who calls the film inaccurate and biased. High Court Judge Michael Burton said Gore's movie ... |
Airlines should join CO2 trade in 2010: EU lawmakers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:26
| Reuters: All airlines flying to, from and within the European Union should be included in the bloc's emissions trading system from 2010, EU lawmakers said on Tuesday, voting to move up the date from an original proposal. The European Commission had proposed that inter-EU flights be included in the scheme from 2011 and international flights that land in or depart from the 27-nation bloc be included from 2012. Members of the European Parliament's environment committee voted to accelerate ... |
Group sues White House over documents on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:27
| Cherry Creek News: The Center for Biological Diversity filed suit September 27th against the White House Office of Management and Budget for stonewalling on a request for documents related to global warming and fuel-economy standards for SUVs and pick-up trucks filed under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents at issue relate to fuel-economy standards for model year 2008-2011 SUVs and pick-up trucks sold in the United States. Despite a requirement to set gas mileage at the "maximum feasible ... |
Yo, Kyoto - Bush shifts his stance on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 06:00:28
| Financial Times: The spectacle of US President George W. Bush exhorting other countries to follow his lead in tackling climate change came as a puzzle last week to many. Since a 2001 speech in which he questioned the science of global warming, he had barely mentioned the subject until his State of the Union address this January, when a single mention crept in. Now the White House is seeking to be portrayed as leading the pack. "What I'm telling you is that we've got a strategy, we've got a ... |
China Would Follow US Lead on Climate - NRDC (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:26
| Reuters: China would soon follow the US lead if Washington agrees to tackle its emissions in the next few years because China's government takes the threat of global warming more seriously than the United States does, a climate expert said on Tuesday. "My impression is that the national government -- top level ministry officials -- in China regard the threats of global warming to their country with a much higher level of seriousness than their counterparts do here in the United ... |
Oil-Rich Norway Must Play Bigger Climate Role - Minister (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:26
| Reuters: Norway must play a leading role in the fight against climate change because its wealth is based on oil and gas production, the country's new energy minister said on Tuesday, urging the industry to do more on the environment. Norway's offshore oil and gas industry is already subject to some of the strictest environmental standards in the world, including a carbon dioxide tax and a ban on flaring. But in her first public speech since taking office last month, Aaslaug Haga said ... |
A New Approach To Fighting Western Fires (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-02-2007 at 09:00:28
| Associated Press: Fueled by drought and development, wildfires in the West are getting bigger and more aggressive, creating conditions so dangerous that fire bosses are increasingly reluctant to risk lives saving houses - particularly if the owners have done nothing to protect their property. From Southern California to Montana, seven firefighters have died this year battling blazes that have destroyed more than 400 houses, a dramatic increase from last year. The firefighters' job has been ... |
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