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Loss of Arctic ice leaves experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 03:00:25
| Guardian: The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and levels of sea ice in the region now stand at record lows, scientists have announced. Experts say they are "stunned" by the loss of ice, with an area almost twice as big as the UK disappearing in the last week alone. So much ice has melted this summer that the Northwest passage across the top of Canada is fully navigable, and observers say the Northeast passage along Russia's Arctic coast could ... |
Sort It Out In The Air (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 06:00:28
| Inter Press Service: Air travel needs to be quickly included in a European Union programme for addressing climate change if pledges on curbing greenhouse gas releases are to be kept, a new study has found. Since 1990, emissions of carbon dioxide have more than doubled from flights taking off in EU airports, making aviation the Union's fastest rising contributor to global warming. But despite that exponential growth, aviation has been granted exemption from the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), ... |
Brazil cool on Bush's global warming meeting (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 06:00:28
| Reuters: Brazil on Tuesday played down the importance of a meeting on climate change called by U.S. President George W. Bush, and said the issue should be tackled at the United Nations. Bush has called a meeting in Washington on September 27-28 to work out new greenhouse gas curbs. Brazil will attend but a senior official said on Tuesday it expects no change in the behavior of the world's leading greenhouse gas emitters. "The U.S. debate does not represent any new path," said ... |
Coke launches lighter bottles that use less plastic (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 06:00:28
| Reuters: Coca-Cola Co said on Tuesday it launched a new 20-ounce plastic bottle for its cola drinks that uses 5 percent less plastic, in a bid to please some critics of the beverage industry who claim its reliance on plastic aides global warming. The new bottles for Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero, which also have ridges to make it easier to grip, will be available nationwide by early next year, the Atlanta-based drink maker said. The world's largest beverage company has already ... |
Hurricane Felix hits Central America (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 06:00:28
| Reuters: Hurricane Felix ripped into Central America on Tuesday, trashing a port on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast and threatening dangerous mudslides in Honduras and Guatemala. Two people were reported dead in Puerto Cabezas in northern Nicaragua, where howling winds tore the roofs off homes and shelters and badly damaged a church. "My house felt like it was moving with the wind," said resident Julio Mena. Street lights and phone cables lay on the ground. Uprooted trees ... |
United States: Stevens says Earth's warming trend may reverse (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 06:00:29
| Associated Press: U.S. Senator Ted Stevens says he believes the worst of global climate change may be over. Stevens says the Earth is at the end of a long warming period, perhaps as much as 700 to 900 years. He says that if the Earth is close to the end of that, it means the planet will start getting cooler gradually. Stevens spoke while discussing Shishmaref, a Chukchi Sea community that has been hit hard by erosion because sea ice no longer provides it protection from fall ... |
UN schedules special climate summit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 06:00:29
| Deutsche Presse-Agentur: A special one-day conference will take place on September 24 to be attended by world leaders to discuss climate change, which the United Nations said Tuesday has become more a development and economic issue than just an environmental issue. More than 100 governments have registered to take part in the debate, one day before the UN General Assembly is to open the annual session, allowing leaders of the 192 UN member states to discuss a wide range of political, economic and social ... |
Global warming tie to hurricanes unclear (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 06:00:29
| Reuters: Despite growing consensus that global warming may spawn stronger tropical cyclones, weather experts believe it is too soon to blame climate change for the unprecedented punch of back-to-back monster hurricanes. Hurricane Felix, a top-ranked storm on forecasters' Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, slammed into Central America on Tuesday. Hurricane Dean, also a Category 5, battered Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on August 21. It was the first time on record that two ... |
Region is harming planet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 09:00:32
| Sydney Morning Herald: ASIAN-PACIFIC economies account for more than half the damage being done to the planet by fossil fuels and are the primary culprits behind large-scale deforestation, two environment reports published yesterday say. Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation's 21 members, who are gathering in Sydney this week to discuss trade opportunities, could determine whether the worst impacts of dangerous climate change will be avoided, green groups warned yesterday. At the same time, APEC ... |
China Asks Leeway on Greenhouse Gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 09:00:32
| Associated Press: China said Tuesday it was working hard to increase its use of renewable energy, but needs to be given some leeway in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gases. China's contribution over time to climate change has been relatively small, an economic planning official said when asked about China's attitude toward the focus on the issue at a meeting of Pacific Rim nations in Australia this week. President Hu Jintao, who is attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, ... |
Growth in carbon emissions slows (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 09:00:33
| Reuters: Growth in global emissions of the heat-trapping greenhouse gas carbon dioxide slowed slightly last year, preliminary data from the U.S. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) suggest. CDIAC is the primary source of climate-change data and information analysis for the U.S. Department of Energy. In the past, its preliminary emissions estimates have been subsequently revised upwards. "It is hard to put too much emphasis on the last number in a time series, it is ... |
Aussies 'looking down the barrel of climate change' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 09:00:33
| NBC: Everybody here seems to be talking about climate change, but when it comes to action, there are two very different responses to be seen in Australia this week. The first will be the discussions at APEC, taking place in Sydney amid intense security. The second couldn't be more different – the practical, dogged and groundbreaking work of conservationists in the country's bush. Take APEC first. Asia Pacific leaders have started to arrive here in fortress Sydney. The first to ... |
EU parliament calls for European force to tackle natural disasters (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 09:00:33
| Agence France-Presse: European parliamentarians on Tuesday called for an EU rapid-reaction force to tackle natural disasters, backing a similar call from Athens following devastating fires on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula. The Eurodeputies, who approved the proposal through a show of hands, called on the European Commission to come up with "concrete proposals." They deplored the political "inertia" on the matter since former French foreign minister Michel Barnier last year ... |
Exxon Mobil Sees Fossil Fuels Dominating Through 2030 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 09:00:34
| Dow Jones: The head of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s international unit said Tuesday that he's forecasting a dominant role for fossil fuels through 2030 to feed the world's economic growth, even as alternative energies gain traction. While wind and solar power are expected to grow rapidly, they will account for about 1% of global energy demand by 2030, while 80% of the energy needs will be met by oil and gas, according to Robert C. Olsen, chairman and production director of Exxon Mobil International Ltd. ... |
United States: High nighttime temperatures damage plants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 09:00:34
| Columbia Missourian: The best excuse I have for the sorry state of my garden this summer is that I was vacationing with my children and grandchildren well into the worst of our latest heat spell. Still, when I returned, most of the plants were alive, and I began the recommended watering of at least an inch of water per week, indeed more, and at the roots where the plants need it and can use it best. The situation only worsened as the heat continued, and by mid-August even my tomato plants were failing ... |
Philippines: Tuna breeding seen to prevent shortage due to global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 09:00:34
| Philippine Inquirer: Tuna industry players in Mindanao should work together to realize a tuna-breeding venture in the country in the wake of an impending shortage in supply due to global warming. Citing studies that indicate a continuing migration of tuna species into cooler parts of the oceans, Philip Ong, fisheries committee chair of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), said a shortage of the fish could happen in the next two decades. Speaking at the end of the two-day National ... |
China aims high in renewable energy usage (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-04-2007 at 09:00:35
| China Daily: China will increase the portion of renewable resources to 15 percent in its total energy consumption in 2020 in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pursue sustained economic growth, according to a national plan published on Tuesday. China's renewable energy usage will total 600 million tons of coal equivalent by 2020, compared with 166 million tons in 2005 which accounted for 7.5 percent of the country's total energy consumption. The plan would cost China two trillion ... |
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