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Protesters occupy Australian power station (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:36
| Agence France-Presse: Environmental activists targeting an Asia-Pacific summit meeting broke into an Australian power station Monday and chained themselves to a conveyor belt, a company spokesman said. The Loy Yang power station in the south-eastern state of Victoria activated emergency procedures and reduced power output after four demonstrators locked themselves onto the coal-carrying belt, the spokesman said. Loy Yang Power owns and operates a 2,000 megawatt station and an adjoining coal mine and ... |
Britons 'pay £10.2bn too much in green tax' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:36
| Telegraph (UK): Britons are paying more than £10 billion extra a year in green taxes than is required to cover the cost of Britain's "carbon footprint", research claims. Using previous research into climate change, the report for the TaxPayers' Alliance estimated that covering the social cost of Britain's carbon emissions would have cost £11.7 billion in 2005. But receipts from "green" taxes such as fuel duty, road tax and the climate change levy in the same year totalled ... |
Industrial Nations Reach 2020 Climate Compromise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:37
| Reuters: Industrial nations agreed a compromise at UN climate talks on Friday that stiff 2020 targets for greenhouse gas cuts would be useful pointers for future work on a new climate treaty, delegates said. A draft text to be put to delegates for approval at the end of the Aug. 27-31 meeting noted that leading climate scientists reckon that cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels are needed by 2020 to slow global warming. It said that the range ... |
Japan: Abe to seek progress on climate change pact at APEC summit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:37
| Japan Times: When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets his fellow Asia-Pacific leaders for this week's regional summit, he is expected to take the lead in building a consensus on global warming and world trade liberalization. During the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Sydney, Abe will try to get all 21 member economies to join a framework to curb greenhouse gas emissions that would take effect after the Kyoto Protocol runs down in 2012. Of the 21 economies, securing ... |
German ministers fly into flak (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:37
| Guardian: Germany's environment minister is usually famed for his tough stance on climate change but yesterday attention switched to his allegedly extravagant flying habits. Under the headline: "How our environment minister poisons the air," the newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported that Sigmar Gabriel often took planes to meetings. Citing a list from the defence ministry, the paper said he had taken more flights with military-run planes than any other minister in the first half of the ... |
As carbon dioxide rises, grasslands may lose out (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:37
| Bloomberg: Rising levels of carbon dioxide are causing shrubs to encroach on grasslands, threatening the loss of grazing grounds for livestock farming, U.S. scientists said. The trend is an "important problem" for ranchers who may face "relatively rapid changes" in the amount of grasslands as a result of gains projected in levels of the gas, called CO2, in the atmosphere, researchers said recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. U.S. Agriculture ... |
United Kingdom: Expert View: Fields full of willows as power stations switch to energy crops (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:38
| Independent (UK): Most UK coal-fired power stations have announced plans to burn more energy crops such as willow chippings in their boilers. Recent changes to the subsidy scheme for renewable energy have boosted the attractiveness of wood and dried grasses to supplant coal. Drax, the Yorkshire power station producing 7 per cent of the country's electricity, says it wants to buy 1.5 million tons a year of energy crops to replace some of the 10 million tons of fossil fuel it burns. Powergen's parent ... |
Australia: Protesters removed from power station (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:39
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Police have used angle grinders to cut protesters from equipment at the Loy Yang power station in Gippsland in Victoria. The climate change protesters broke into the site at about 5:00AM. A woman and three men spent about five hours chained to two separate conveyor belts, stopping the delivery of brown coal to the power station, and cutting electricity generation by a quarter. Before cutting the protesters free, police search and rescue crews covered them with blankets ... |
John Howard lowers expectations of climate change consensus (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:30
| Courier-Mail: PRIME Minister John Howard has been forced to downgrade his expectations of what APEC will achieve on climate change amid resistance from other nations. Mr Howard had been hoping for a positive APEC announcement to boost his credentials on climate change ahead of the looming federal election, but other nations are struggling to reach agreement. There had been expectations they would agree to non-binding emissions targets which would reduce emissions by up to a ... |
Climate activists target Asia-Pacific summit in Australia (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:31
| Agence France-Presse: Climate change activists staged a break-in at an Australian power station Monday as a pattern of guerrilla-style raids emerged ahead of a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in Sydney. The protest came as already draconian security measures were boosted a day ahead of the arrival in Sydney of US President George W. Bush, who was expected to be greeted with a flurry of angry protests. Four environmental activists chained themselves to a coal-carrying conveyor belt at the Loy Yang ... |
Grasslands are losing ground (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:31
| Denver Post: On eastern Colorado's grassy rangeland, the dominant plant of the future may be one shunned even by the hungriest of cattle: fringed sage. The unpalatable mint-green shrub increased in bulk by 40 times during climate change experiments conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Colorado State University, the scientists reported last week. "It was a minor species at the beginning of the study, but by the end of four years, 10 percent of the aboveground cover was ... |
Population fix (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:31
| Aspen Times: Call me an alarmist, but if the human race fails to address the urgency of climate change, we're screwed. This isn't science fiction. The planet is sweating out the equivalent of a hormonal hot flash ... and we're the hormones! One fix requires addressing our limits. It means some rain is gonna fall on the parade of our militaristic and materialistic glories. We can't go on consuming the planet like a custard-filled éclair or we'll meet a fate that only lemmings can ... |
UN conference sounds warning on spread of deserts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:31
| Agence France-Presse: The global spread of deserts poses a severe challenge to humanity that transcends any international borders, a UN-sponsored conference in Madrid heard Monday. "It's clear now that desertification is amongst the greatest challenges that humankind faces," Crown Prince Felipe, heir to the Spanish throne, said in an opening address to the forum, which included more than 2,000 delegates. "We should never forget that the impact of desertification is not only felt in ... |
Drastic action to reduce impact of plastic (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:31
| Edinburgh Evening News: A PLASTIC bag-free frenzy is currently sweeping the nation as North Berwick gears up to become one of the first Scottish towns to ban plastic bags. Modbury, in Devon, became Europe's first plastic bag-free town in March this year, and a few months ago the Scottish town of Dunoon announced its plans to be plastic bag-free by next summer. So why are we getting drastic on plastic? North Berwick and District Business Association, leading the campaign, says the estimated 1.3 ... |
Grid computing to study African climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:32
| Vnunet: The University of Cape Town is to monitor climate change in Africa with the help of Microsoft's World Community Grid. Environmental changes have particularly serious implications for Africa because of the widespread lack of healthcare and social services. The AfricanClimate@Home project will use the grid's massive computing power to improve regional climate models, allowing for more accurate predictions of how changing weather patterns will affect the continent. Users of the ... |
Project to monitor climate change in the Arctic (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:32
| CORDIS: With what happens to ice and snow in the Arctic having a direct effect on Europe's climate, a new research project is keeping a close eye on climate change in this coldest of regions. The goal of the EuroCryoClim project will be to develop an operational and sustainable system capable of monitoring climate changes in the Arctic and other areas of the world covered by ice and snow. 'The goal of the project is to establish an operational and sustainable monitoring system ... |
Russia, US, China could prevent climatic changes - Howard (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 12:00:32
| Itar-Tass: Russia, the United States and the People's Republic of China could agree to pool efforts in warding off climatic changes on our planet, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said at a meeting of top officials of the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Organisation (APEC) here on Monday. According to Howard, those leading powers are the main polluters of the planet. Howard expressed hope that the Asia-Pacific countries would put forward initiatives on ways to prevent the ... |
Climate change drove human evolution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 06:00:21
| Mongabay: Climate change appears to have been a significant driver of human evolution, report researchers writing in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). Studying deep sediment cores from Lake Malawi in Africa, Syracuse University professor Christopher Scholz and colleagues found evidence to suggest that the transition from a long dry period susceptible to extreme drought to a stable, wetter climate may have stimulated the expansion and ... |
Australia: Blooming algae 'no water risk' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 06:00:21
| Sydney Morning Herald: A blue-green algae bloom in Warragamba Dam is still growing but Sydney's drinking water is not under threat, the climate change, environment and water minister Phil Koperberg stressed today. The bloom now stretches about 26 kilometres from the dam's wall but Mr Koperberg said the cooler weather forecast for this week should cause the bloom to start dissipating. Blue-green algae has forced the Sydney Catchment Authority to draw water from deep below the surface to avoid sucking ... |
Judge Imposes Flow Limits to Protect Fish that Swim in Water Used by Californians (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 06:00:22
| Associated Press: A federal judge on Friday imposed limits on water flows caused by huge pumps sending water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta to users around the state, saying the pumps were drawing in and destroying a threatened fish. U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger said pressure from the pumps helped reverse the natural direction of water within the estuary, damaging habitat and killing delta smelt, a fish experts say might be on the brink of extinction. "The evidence ... |
Power Outage From California Heat Wave (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 06:00:22
| Associated Press: Dozens of cooling centers opened across California as a scorching heat wave strained the state's electrical grid and left many residents without power. Nearly 14,000 customers were without power late Sunday, largely because of increased demand on air conditioners. Highs reached 109 degrees in Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley and more than 100 degrees in other parts of the state. "Whenever it's this warm in the late evening hours and the system does not have time ... |
APEC Needs to Focus on Trade, Leave Climate Change for the UN (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 06:00:22
| Bloomberg: A plan by U.S. President George W. Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard to sign a climate-change agreement at an Asia-Pacific summit may put the leaders at odds with developing nations, who only want to discuss trade. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group isn't the right forum to discuss climate change, Malaysia's Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz was cited as saying by state news agency Bernama. ``The `E' in APEC doesn't stand for the environment, it should stand ... |
Greece Buries Fire Victims, Hopes For Autumn Rain (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 06:00:23
| Reuters: Sobbing villagers on Sunday buried a Greek mother and her four children who died in destructive forest fires, as the first autumn rains raised hopes of dousing the flames that have killed 64 people. Storms in northern Greece flooded two villages as firefighters continued to battle blazes in the southern Peloponnese region. Rains were expected across Greece from Sunday night. "The burnt forests contributed to the floods, which swept cars into the sea," said fire ... |
Climate Change a Hot Topic at APEC Gathering (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:22
| Reuters: Climate change will be a major focus when leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific economies meet in Sydney this week. No binding targets for greenhouse gas reductions are expected to be agreed but officials might back a consensus on what a replacement for the UN Kyoto Protocol climate change pact might look like. Many governments want environment ministers meeting at UN climate talks in Bali, Indonesia, in December to launch two-year negotiations to agree a broader international treaty to ... |
Australia: APEC protesters arrested at coal site (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:22
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Eleven people have been arrested in the Port of Newcastle, in the New South Wales Hunter region, after climate change protesters tried to disrupt coal loading operations this morning. The 11 protesters were part of a group of 20 young people staging a demonstration at the port's Carrington coal loading terminal. Earlier this morning, they scaled a perimeter fence and five locked themselves onto machinery, disrupting coal loading operations for about two hours. Police ... |
Australia: Eleven held in coal protest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:22
| Sydney Morning Herald: Police have made 11 arrests after climate change activists attached themselves to coal loading equipment at a Newcastle coal terminal this morning. The activists, from a group called People for Climate Action Now, used chains and locks to fasten themselves by the neck to four coal reclaimers at the Carrington coal terminal. This follows a similar action in Victoria yesterday, when protesters broke into the Loy Yang power station and locked themselves to coal conveyor belts, ... |
Exotic spider with a nasty bite swarms across England - and its all thanks to global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:22
| This is London: For decades, only the gardens of the South Coast were warm enough for them. But after years of mild winters, one of Britain's most colourful and striking spiders is on the march. The population of the wasp spider has exploded and is spreading rapidly north. This year, females have been spotted in Surrey and Hertfordshire. By the end of the autumn - the season when spiders are most in evidence - they could have spread well beyond the Home Counties. ... |
Australia: Protesters chained to port equipment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:22
| AAP: Protesters have jumped a fence at the Port of Newcastle where they have chained themselves to coal transport equipment. Police say they were called to the port's Carrington Terminal about 8am (AEST) and the protest is continuing despite a number of arrests. "Police were called ... following reports that eight protesters had jumped the fence to gain entry to the terminal," a NSW Police spokesman said. "They were refusing to leave (and) several protesters chained ... |
Thousands Flee Hurricane Felix in Central America (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-03-2007 at 09:00:22
| Reuters: Tens of thousands of people, including Miskito Indians and foreign tourists, began fleeing low-lying coastal areas on Central America's Caribbean coast on Monday to escape the approaching Hurricane Felix. The highly dangerous Category 4 storm charged toward Nicaragua and Honduras with top sustained winds of 145 mph (230 kph), provoking fears of a repeat of Hurricane Mitch, which killed some 10,000 people in Central America in 1998. "We are faced with a very serious ... |
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