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UK peatlands face future stress (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| BBC: Severe erosion and climate change could result in a vast volume of carbon from the UK's peatlands being released into the atmosphere, scientists have warned. Hotter summers and wetter winters could result in the habitat, described as the "most severely eroded in the world", becoming even less stable, they said. But if areas were conserved properly, they could actually help the UK reduce emissions, the paper's authors added. The study was presented at the ... |
Al Gore, James Hansen, and Civil Disobedience (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 09:00:33
| ZNet: In his recent global warming op-ed in the New York Times ("The Big Melt," August 16, 2007) , Nicholas Kristof reported on a conversation with Al Gore in which the former Vice-President said: "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers, and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants." His comment was a reaction to the ever- quickening pace of polar ice meltoff, with all its catastrophic implications, and the huge role ... |
Asia-Pacific predicted to see big rise in greenhouse gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 09:00:33
| Agence France-Presse: Economic growth in Pacific rim countries will increase emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming by 130 percent by 2050, a new Australian study released Sunday predicts. But cleaner and more advanced technologies would slash the pollution scientists say could lead to increasingly wild weather and environmental disaster, the government's Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics said. The study was presented by Prime Minister John Howard at a news ... |
Greenhouse targets on Australian APEC agenda in Sydney (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 09:00:33
| Radio Australia: Greenhouse targets will be a key item on the agenda at this week's APEC summit in Sydney. The summit has officially opened and the main events during the week will bring together the leaders of the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the Pacific. Most of the leaders of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, will also attend. Although climate change will be high on the agenda, the Australian Prime Minister John Howard says the meeting won't be ... |
Australia: Coal-ship protest a challenge to climate change commitment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:38
| New Zealand Herald: Yesterday, as Prime Minister John Howard prepared to launch a new A$70 million climate change package, Greenpeace activists slipped beside the coal carrier NSS Endeavour in Newcastle Harbour. To protest at the four million tonnes of coal Australia would export during the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation forum's week-long series of meetings - and the 11 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions thiswould produce - they painted "Australia pushing export coal" on the ship's ... |
Australia: APEC protesters target Vic power station (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:38
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Climate activists have shut down one of the generating units at the Loy Yang power station in Victoria's Latrobe Valley. The protesters broke into the power station about 5:00am AEST and two locked themselves to a conveyor belt feeding coal into the generator. Another of the four generators has been shut down for routine maintenance so the station's output has been halved by this morning's action. The protesters say they are condemning the lack of action on climate ... |
Thailand: Paddy field methane emissions could be cut (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:38
| Bangkok Post: Thailand will seek the support of other Asean nations this week to help set up a study group to look into ways of mitigating methane emissions from paddy fields and help ease the problem of global warming, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Kasem Snidvongs said. The proposal will be submitted to the 10th Asean Ministerial Meeting on the Environment and the sixth Asean + 3 environment ministers' meeting in Bangkok on Thursday and Friday. The meeting will be attended by Asean's ... |
Spreading deserts threaten global food supply: UN (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:38
| Reuters: Degradation of farmland and spreading deserts caused by climate change will pose a serious threat to food supplies for the world's surging population in coming years, a senior United Nations scientist warns. MVK Sivakumar of the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said the crunch could come in just over a decade as all continents see more weather-related disasters like heat waves, floods, landslides and bush fires. "Should we worry about land being degraded? ... |
Australia: $70m into climate debate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:38
| Advertiser: PRIME Minister John Howard has unveiled $70 million in climate change initiatives to kick off the Sydney APEC summit - in an attempt to set the agenda for the highly important week. The announcement came as world leaders arrived in Sydney yesterday for the first day of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Security has been significantly upgraded, with a 2.8m security fence installed around key areas of the CBD causing major traffic disruptions. Further restrictions ... |
'Carbon dictatorship' may be essential for our survival (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:38
| Hindu: How to keep the Earth from heating up fast? Let's form an Earth Commission for Thermostatic Control, suggests Tim Flannery in 'The Weather Makers' (www.penguin.com). We may need such an agency, he reasons, "if big coal, big oil and their allied interests continue to prevent the world from taking action to combat climate change." The commission, which can grow from the Kyoto Protocol, may have to use the oceans as a tool to regulate the Earth's thermostat, says Flannery. "This will ... |
Climate change: Kyoto Poker to start in earnest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:39
| Agence France-Presse: Efforts to accelerate action against the world's looming climate crisis begin in earnest this month, unfolding against a background of deepening scientific concern but entrenched political obstacles. Two meetings may decide whether a key conference, taking place in Bali, Indonesia this December, will at last smash the logjam over how to step up cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions or be a landmark in fiascos. The Bali meeting, gathering members of the UN Framework Convention ... |
Greek forest fires could be CO2 threat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:39
| Reuters: Greece's huge forest fires have been blamed by some on global warming, but satellite images of smoke plumes drifting as far as Africa prompt the question: are forests a major source of greenhouse gas? Usually it is cars, factories and power stations that are most often mentioned as sources of carbon dioxide (CO2), a gas which traps heat in the atmosphere. Trees, considered the "lungs of the planet", soak the gas up. But what if they burn? "Global emissions from ... |
Save the planet before it's too late, Pope urges (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:39
| Reuters: Pope Benedict, leading the Catholic Church's first 'eco-friendly' youth rally, on Sunday told up to half a million people that world leaders must make courageous decisions to save the planet "before it is too late." "A decisive 'yes' is needed in decisions to safeguard creation as well as a strong commitment to reverse tendencies that risk leading to irreversible situations of degradation," the 80-year old Pope said in his homily. Intentionally wearing green ... |
Australia: Howard to press new climate deal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:39
| BBC: Australian Prime Minister John Howard has urged fellow Asian leaders to find a new way forward on climate change. Speaking ahead of an Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) meeting, Mr Howard said flexible targets should be adopted to cut emissions. Australia and the US are the only industrialised nations not to sign the Kyoto Protocol, arguing that capping greenhouse gases would harm growth. Mr Howard's stance has been criticised by environmentalists. ... |
In Northern France, Warming Presses Fall Grape Harvest Into Summertime (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:39
| Washington Post: On a cobweb-encrusted rafter above his giant steel grape pressers, Ren? Mur? is charting one of the world's most tangible barometers of global warming. The evidence, scrawled in black ink, is the first day of the annual grape harvest for the past three decades. In 1978, it was Oct. 16. In 1998, the date was Sept. 14. This year, harvesting started Aug. 24 -- the earliest ever recorded, not only in Mur?'s vineyards, but also in the entire Alsace wine district of northeastern ... |
Australia: No APEC deal on climate change targets: Howard (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:39
| Agence France-Presse: Asia-Pacific countries will not agree on binding targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions at a major summit this week, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum -- which includes the world's biggest polluters, the United States and China -- will outline tactics for the post-Kyoto fight against climate change at the September 8-9 summit. Howard, who had said the issue would top the APEC agenda in Sydney, ... |
Scotland prepares to fight climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:40
| Observer: The Scottish Executive will launch an ambitious drive tomorrow to ensure that Scotland does its duty to combat climate change while at the same time preparing for the changes ahead. A website to help organisations think about the effects of Scotland's changing climate goes live with the aim of forcing businesses and members of the public to think about the future. While optimists claim that increased temperatures brought about by climate change will lead to a future Scotland ... |
Australia: Bush lacks leadership on climate: Garrett (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:40
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Labor's Environment spokesman Peter Garrett has slammed the US President's climate change record, saying he is not a big fan of George W Bush or his policies. Mr Bush will arrive in Australia on Tuesday for this week's APEC summit and climate change is expected to be top of the agenda. Mr Garrett has told ABC TV's Insiders program Mr Bush has not shown global leadership on climate change. "I'm not a great fan of President Bush and his policies," Mr Garrett ... |
Heat wave shutdown at Browns Ferry stirs nuclear debate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:40
| Associated Press: The recent shutdown of a Browns Ferry reactor because of high Tennessee River temperatures was international news. In the mainstream press from Britain to Germany to Malaysia, on National Public Radio, and in anti-nuclear blogs worldwide, people who could not find Alabama on a map became experts on Browns Ferry. The interest stems from a raging environmental debate that deemed last week's shutdown of Unit 2, and the power reductions in Units 1 and 3, as relevant to the ... |
Australia: Labor slams PM's refusal to set binding emissions targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:40
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Federal Labor has slammed the Prime Minister for ruling out setting binding targets to curb greenhouse gas emissions at this week's Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Mr Howard says climate change will be one of the important agenda items during this week's APEC leaders meeting, but the meeting will not be looking to set targets. He says it would be absurd to try to come up with binding targets. "We must be realistic about what can be achieved on ... |
King Coal: What it really costs us (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2007 at 06:00:42
| Washington Post: Underground coal miners work in the darkness, invisible to most of us, and when they die - also in the darkness, from methane explosions or rock falls or any of the hundreds of other hazards they face every day - their deaths usually merit just a few paragraphs in the local newspaper. The attempted rescue of trapped coal miners, on the other hand, is often headline news. Networks love the real-time drama of the rescue efforts - it's reality TV from the heartland, complete with ... |
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