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76pc want subsidies for renewables (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:41
| Australian: THREE-QUARTERS of Australians would prefer the Federal Government to subsidise renewable energy instead of fossil fuels, an opinion poll has found. The Galaxy Research poll conducted for independent political group GetUp! found 76 per cent wanted renewables like wind and solar power funded in the federal budget. This compared with 17 per cent who preferred subsidies for fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. The survey follows a Newspoll commissioned by Greenpeace earlier ... |
An unsustainable scam (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:41
| Guardian: Just in time for April Fool's Day comes news of the latest scam in the biofuels industry. As we report today, cargo loads of biofuel are being shipped from Europe to the US where they are topped up, allowing traders to claim a subsidy from Washington, and then shipped back. Despite the dateline, this is no prank - it accounts for up to 10% of all biofuel exports from America to Europe - even though it makes a mockery of the notion of a green fuel. The attraction of biofuels is ... |
Australia: Protesters to 'shut down' Newcastle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:41
| Brisbane Times: Brisbane climate change protesters will head to Newcastle in July in an attempt to shut down the world's largest coal exporting port. The Camp for Climate Change is being set up in Newcastle, or the nearby Hunter Valley, as a base for hundreds of protesters to take action against Australia's reliance on coal-generated power. Newcastle ships 211 million tonnes of coal exports each year, making it the world's largest coal exporting port and the heart of Australia's coal ... |
Talks Begin on New International Climate Treaty (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:41
| New York Times: Representatives of more than 160 countries began formal negotiations here on Monday on a treaty to address climate change, with the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, urging governments to help in "saving the planet." The weeklong meeting will lay out the agenda for the talks, which are scheduled to conclude at the end of 2009. A rancorous meeting three months ago in Indonesia exposed deep fissures over how countries plan to approach global warming. "Saving ... |
Talks to test post-Kyoto will (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:41
| Shanghai Daily: THE first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact opened in Thailand yesterday with appeals to a common human purpose to defeat global warming. "The world is waiting for a solution that is long term and economically viable," United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon said in a video address to the 1,100 delegates from about 160 nations gathered in Bangkok. The week-long meeting stems from a breakthrough ... |
World cooling on biofuel solution to climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:41
| Agence France Presse: Once a golden promise in the fight against climate change, biofuels are fast losing their lustre as high demand for essential crops drives land clearing and pushes up the price of food. Biofuels made from food crops such as corn, sugar, soybeans and oil palm burn cleaner than fossil fuels, but experts say high demand is sending ripples through the world economy, and could be doing the environment more harm than good. Rudy Gosal, a 36-year-old courier who queued with hundreds of ... |
'Kyoto II' Climate Talks Open In Bangkok (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:41
| Reuters: The first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a common human purpose to defeat global warming. "The world is waiting for a solution that is long term and economically viable," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon said in a video address to the 1,100 delegates from 163 nations gathered in Bangkok. The week-long meeting stems from a breakthrough agreement in Bali last ... |
United States: As Fight for Water Heats Up, Prized Fish Suffer (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:41
| New York Times: It's a simple fact of life across the rural West, as it is here in Montana's mountain-ringed Big Hole River Valley. Flooding river bottoms to grow hay sustains the economy but means less water in the river for the prized wild trout population. The competition for water is not new, but it is intensifying as the climate here gets warmer and drier. "The biggest worry for trout is that smaller streams will simply run dry in late summer and temperatures in the remaining pools will ... |
Gore Group Plans Ad Blitz on Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:42
| New York Times: Former Vice President Al Gore and a nonprofit climate group have begun what they say will be a three-year $300 million advertising blitz to recruit 10 million advocates to seek laws and policies that can cut greenhouse gases. The campaign was introduced in a "60 Minutes" appearance by Mr. Gore on Sunday. The first ad, posted online at wecansolveit.org , compares the challenge of fighting global warming to the invasion of Normandy and the civil rights movement. That ... |
Gore Launches US$300 Mln Climate Change Campaign (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:42
| Reuters: Al Gore, former US vice president, Academy Award winner and Nobel peace laureate, on Monday launched a $300 million, three-year campaign to mobilise Americans on climate change. "We can solve the climate crisis, but it will require a major shift in public opinion and engagement," Gore said in a statement. "The technologies exist, but our elected leaders don't yet have the political will to take the bold actions required. When politicians hear the American ... |
Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:42
| Guardian: Al Gore yesterday launched a drive to mobilise 10 million volunteers to force politicians to act on climate change - twice as many as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support of civil rights during the heyday of US activism in the 1960s. During the next three years, his Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend $300m (about £150m) on television advertising and online organising to make global warming among the most urgent issues for elected American leaders. ... |
Undercut and under fire: UK biofuel feels heat from all sides (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:42
| Guardian: It was barely 18 months ago that the British biofuels industry was surfing on a wave of euphoria. There were almost weekly announcements from companies big and small that they were going to invest heavily in a sector that promised to play an important role in the battle against global warming. On April 15, the sector is to be given an even bigger boost when the government introduces its Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO) that requires the station forecourt to supply at least ... |
Poor nations fear being left in cold on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:43
| Agence France Presse: Outraged poor nations bearing the brunt of global warming have become increasingly bold in UN-led climate talks, but some worry that recent trysts of large countries are leaving them out in the cold. A grouping of 192 countries under the United Nations is leading the way in negotiating a groundbreaking climate change treaty, and most of its members are currently in Bangkok to try to hammer out a two-year work plan. The meeting comes soon after the United States chaired a ... |
'Fossil Fools' Protests Target Oil Industry (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:43
| OneWorld US: Green groups are planning to celebrate April Fools Day Tuesday with a variety of actions designed to embarrass oil industry bosses gathering in Washington. "Our political and corporate leaders have been fooling around with our future by refusing to take the bold action needed to avert a climate crisis," said Brianna Cayo-Cotter of the Energy Action Coalition, which has billed the event as "Fossil Fools Day." Tuesday's protests will take place as chief ... |
United States: Baby step to protect the coast from drilling (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:43
| San Francisco Chronicle: California moved a step closer to permanently protecting its shores from offshore oil drilling Monday when the House approved legislation to ban development in federal waters along all 76 miles of Sonoma County's coastline and off the southern tip of Mendocino County's coast. The measure would more than double the size of two existing National Marine Sanctuaries near San Francisco and Marin - Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank. The newly protected zone would stretch from Bodega ... |
Chunk of Antarctic ice shelf collapses; global warming blamed (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:43
| Canadian Press: A chunk of Antarctic ice suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said last Tuesday. Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 414-square-kilometre chunk in western Antarctica, which started Feb. 28. It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for hundreds, maybe 1,500 years. In an earlier story The Canadian Press erroneously reported the ice chunk was about the size of Newfoundland and ... |
Global Warming Bringing Early Spring Seasons To Eurasian Forests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:43
| Science Daily: With the help of satellite data, researchers from laboratories in France(1), the UK, Japan and Russia have completed the accurate and large-scale mapping of leaf appearance dates in boreal forests. Their work has revealed a remarkable trend towards earlier foliation, which occurred between 1987 and 1990, over a large part of northern Eurasia, caused by the unprecedented increase in spring temperatures since 1921. By comparing these results with the previous studies available, they were able ... |
Global warming, global health: Campaign will raise awareness (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:44
| USA Today: From deadly heat waves in the Midwest and Northeast to more intense Gulf Coast hurricanes and Southwest droughts, the effects of climate change will have an unprecedented impact on the health of Americans, a report said Monday. The connection between global warming and public health is the focus of a new campaign announced by the American Public Health Association. "There is a direct connection between climate change and the health of our nation," says the campaign's new ... |
Gore Announces Global Warming Effort (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:44
| Associated Press: Former Vice President Al Gore launched a three-year, multimillion-dollar advocacy campaign Monday calling for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. The Alliance for Climate Protection's campaign, dubbed "we," will combine advertising, online organizing and partnerships with grass-roots groups to educate the public about global warming and urge solutions from elected officials. "We're trying to get a movement happening to switch public opinion so that ... |
United States: PG&E to announce biggest solar-power deals in its history (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 12:00:44
| San Jose Mercury News: Pacific Gas & Electric today will announce the largest series of solar-power contracts in the utility's history. The deal, to buy as much as 900 megawatts of electricity - or enough to power 540,000 California homes each year - involves five plants to be built over the next decade. If the solar-thermal power plants designed by Oakland's BrightSource Energy become operational, a significant amount of power for PG&E customers could come from the sun that beats down on the Mojave ... |
Brazil: Amazon forest gets help against illegal farms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 02:00:38
| Associated Press: A moratorium on the purchase of soybeans from newly deforested areas of the Amazon appears to be keeping grain fields from adding to rain forest destruction, environmentalists and an industry group said Monday. No new soybean plantations were detected in any of the 193 areas that registered deforestation of 250 acres or more between August 2006 and August 2007, according to Greenpeace and the Brazilian Vegetable Oils Industry Association. U.S. commodities giants Cargill, Archer ... |
Are the oceans giving up? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 02:00:38
| Deccan Herald: Ocean deserts, which are non-productive areas, have increased by 15 per cent in the period 1998-2007, according to a study done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US and the University of Hawaii. This translates into a total of 6.6 million sq km. On the whole, there are 51 million sq km of such desert zones. The data was collected by Nasa's orbiting SeaStar craft. Attributed mostly to warming surface waters, which is happening at a rate of 1 per cent ... |
Talks on Global Warming Get Under Way With Deep Divisions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 02:00:38
| Associated Press: Negotiators began their first talks Monday on forging a devilishly complex global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol -- and faced wide divisions between rich and developing countries over how to slash greenhouse gases. The weeklong gathering of representatives from 163 countries launched a 21-month process aimed at concluding a new climate change agreement by December 2009 to rein in gases such as carbon dioxide blamed for the rise in world temperatures. Organizers of ... |
US Rejects China's Call for Climate Change Funding (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 02:00:38
| Bloomberg: The U.S. rejected a Chinese proposal that developed countries should contribute a percentage of their gross domestic product to mitigate the effects of climate change. China, the world's second-biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, called for developed nations to provide financial support of 0.5 percent of their GDP a year to help it and other developing nations fight global warming. Asked whether China's proposal is reasonable, Harlan Watson, the U.S. climate-change negotiator, said: ``No.'' In ... |
United Kingdom: Demands for crackdown on biofuels scam (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 02:00:39
| Guardian: The EU is being urged to take action to stop a biofuel trading scam that exploits US agricultural subsidies and undermines the fight against global warming. Up to 10% of biofuel exports from the US to Europe are believed to be part of the rogue scheme reaping big profits for agricultural trading firms. The "splash and dash" scam involves shipping biodiesel from Europe to the US where a dash of fuel is added, allowing traders to claim 11p a litre of US subsidy for the ... |
Environmentalists praise moratorium on growing soy in Brazil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 02:00:39
| Associated Press: Decatur, Illinois-based Archer Daniels Midland Company is 1 of 3 U.S. companies participating in a moratorium on the purchase of soybeans from deforested areas of the Amazon. Environmentalists and industry experts said today that the effort appears to be keeping grain fields from adding to rain forest destruction in Brazil. ADM along with three other companies account for the majority of the soy trade in Brazil, the world's Number 2 producer of soybeans, after the United ... |
Shock prediction on Australian power prices (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 02:00:39
| Courier Mail: ENERGY costs could spiral up to 10 times current levels within a decade, Reserve Bank board member and ex-Woolworths chief Roger Corbett has warned. His gloomy prediction came yesterday as new figures showed the price of petrol and food continued to soar and as St George became the third bank in the past week to raise its interest rates. The only positive news was that stretched households should be granted a breather today with the Reserve Bank expected to leave official ... |
Pakistan: Climate change badly affects food security (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 02:00:40
| Daily Times: Exerts say that climate change was a global issue and its link with sustainable development and security (food, water, energy, social) was crucial. The climate problem could not be resolved through environment policy, but has to be integrated with development, said Dr Adil Najam, a renowned scholar and a distinguished professor at the Boston University, USA. He expressed these views at a seminar organized by LEAD Pakistan. "Pakistan has faced a water crisis, a food crisis, among many ... |
United Kingdom: Energy giant calls for delayed decison on coal-fired power station (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 02:00:40
| Independent: Environment campaigners said the Government suffered a "major blow" yesterday after the energy giant E.ON argued that a decision on whether it should build Britain's first coal-fired power station since 1984 should be delayed until later in the year. The company said that a decision on whether to approve the application, at Kingsnorth in Kent, should wait until ministers had finished their consultation into carbon capture and storage (CCS). The move, which threatened to ... |
Land Once Preserved Now Being Farmed (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 02:00:40
| US News and World Report: Since the mid-1980s, the U.S. government, in an attempt to reduce the environmental fallout from large-scale farming, has been paying farmers to set aside less-than-ideal land for conservation. The results have been overwhelmingly positive: Soil erosion has been reduced; chemical and fertilizer runoff has eased; habitats for game birds and endangered species have been created and enlarged. The pushback to climate change has been equally noteworthy: In 2007, the lands trapped 50 million ... |
Britain Introduces Biofuel Target Amid Concerns (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 02:00:41
| Voice of America: Britain is stepping up the use of biofuels with new targets in the coming weeks - as the first step toward meeting an EU directive that five percent of all transport fuels come from renewable energy sources by the year 2010. Tendai Maphosa takes a closer look at the pros and cons of biofuels in this report from London. Efforts to find sustainable, renewable sources of energy are growing and at the center of that trend is the switch from fossil fuels to biofuels, which are derived from ... |
Some Biofuels Risk Biodiversity And Could End Up Harming Environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 05:00:44
| Science Daily: Biofuels are widely considered one of the most promising sources of renewable energy by policy makers and environmentalists alike. However, unless principles and standards for production are developed and implemented, certain biofuels will cause severe environmental impacts and reduce biodiversity – the very opposite of what is desired. Corn-based ethanol is currently the most widely used biofuel in the United States, but it is also the most environmentally damaging among crop-based ... |
Brussels to push for development of offshore wind energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 05:00:45
| EUobserver: With wind energy expected to serve as a major power source in the future, the European Commission is pushing for the further development of its potential from offshore sites. "A maritime grid infrastructure is needed for the development of offshore wind energy. Without it, no offshore wind farms will be built," EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs said at the European Wind Energy Conference on Monday (31 March). He added: "As this is not yet in place, it must ... |
Formal negotiations on climate change begin in Thailand (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 05:00:45
| International Herald Tribune: Representatives from more than 160 countries began formal negotiations here yesterday on a treaty to mitigate climate change, with the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, urging governments to help in "saving the planet." more stories like thisThe talks, which are scheduled to conclude at the end of 2009, come three months after a rancorous meeting in Indonesia that exposed deep fissures in how countries plan to battle global warming. "Saving ... |
Gore calling on youth to save the planet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 05:00:45
| San Francisco Chronicle: Al Gore believes the road to solving the climate crisis winds through American pop culture, from "American Idol" and "The Biggest Loser" on through "The Daily Show" and "The 700 Club." The former vice president and the beneficiary of his Nobel Prize, the Palo Alto-based Alliance for Climate Protection, want Washington politicians to act faster to solve the climate crisis. And they think the way to do this is to create a popular movement that ... |
Spanish study sheds light on Woolly Mammoth demise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 05:00:46
| Reuters: Climate change drove woolly mammoths to the edge of extinction and then humans finished them off, according to a Spanish study on Tuesday that adds to the debate over the demise of the Ice Age behemoths. Using climate models and fossil remains, the researchers determined that warming temperatures had so shrunk the mammoths' habitat that when humans entered their territory about 6,000 years ago the species were already hanging by a thread. "The collapse of the climatic ... |
United Kingdom: Climate change protest 'halts mine work' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 05:00:46
| icWales: DEMONSTRATORS today claimed to have stopped work at an open-cast coal mine in a protest about climate change. The protesters chained themselves to excavation machinery at the site on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales, as well as blocking one of the main entrances. The group said it was highlighting the "hypocrisy" of Government claims that ministers were taking climate change seriously. The demonstrators pointed out that coal has the biggest impact on ... |
United States: House advances proposal to impose state's first CO2 tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 05:00:48
| Associated Press: A proposal imposing the state's first tax on carbon dioxide emissions won first-round approval Monday night in the House, but some members didn't see it as a sincere effort to combat global warming. The proposal's sponsors drafted it so that its tax of $37 on each ton of excess CO2 emissions probably would apply only to the Board of Public Utilities in Kansas City, Kan. Some House members interpreted the measure as an attempt to punish Wyandotte County legislators who have ... |
Canada: Imperial oil sands plans dealt blow (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 05:00:48
| Globe and Mail: The federal government has revoked a key water permit for Imperial Oil Ltd.'s [IMO-T] proposed $8-billion Kearl oil sands mine, delaying work on a major new oil sands development as environmental scrutiny of the massive projects around Fort McMurray intensifies. Imperial, which is majority-owned by Exxon Mobil Corp., has been granted an expedited court hearing, scheduled for early May, on its application to overturn the decision. The company says the lost permit could mean a delay of ... |
Solar power moves towards grid parity (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:38
| Finance Asia: In a Green Wave Panel discussion on the future of solar power at Credit Suisse's Asian Investment Conference, an underlying theme emerged that "grid parity" with rival energy sources must be attained to make it a cost-effective choice for governments. It also became clear that this might be sooner rather than later. Frank Haugwitz, EU renewable energy manager of the European Union-China Energy & Environment Programme, gave a presentation which focused on the impressive ... |
Malaysia: 'Do not take our water resources for granted' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:38
| New Straits Times: The people have been cautioned against taking the country's water resources for granted. "We take it for granted that when we turn on the tap, water will flow in abundance. "We rarely think about its importance until it becomes unavailable," the Regent of Perak, Raja Dr Nazrin Shah, said yesterday. "Being a tropical country, it is hard to imagine a time of drought as it seems to rain almost everyday. "However, with weather conditions ... |
United Kingdom: £3bn climate change bill for energy firms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:38
| Guardian: Hilary Benn, the environment secretary, will claim today that profiteering energy companies will be required to spend nearly £1bn a year over the next three years to help individuals fight climate change, twice the amount required under previous schemes. Benn will argue that everyone has to do more to fight climate change in their everyday lives. His speech appears to coincide with a critical report from the communities select committee that attacks ministers for failing to ... |
Australia: Climate change, economy top of Rudd's US agenda (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:38
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Climate change and the economy have been the key topics of discussion between the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and senior US politicians on Capitol Hill overnight (Australian time). House Speaker Democrat Nancy Pelosi and Republican leader John Boehner have greeted the Prime Minister at the US Capitol. The meeting was Mr Rudd's last official duty in Washington. He used the meeting to restate the importance of links between Australia and the United States. "We ... |
Humans killed off woolly mammoths (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:38
| Daily Telegraph: CLIMATE change pushed the woolly mammoth to extinction even if it was hunting by our ancestors that finally finished off the species about 3,500 years ago, a Spanish study said Tuesday. Using climate models and fossil remains, researchers concluded that the habitat available to the mammoth had shrunk by 90 per cent as glaciers receded through the ages. By 6,000 years ago, the "suitable climactic area" available to the woolly mammoths "was too small to host ... |
Australia: UN climate meeting looks at indigenous role (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:39
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: International experts will meet in Australia today for a United Nations forum on Climate Change and Indigenous People. The three day event is being held in the northern city of Darwin and will hear from a number of indigenous representatives from Australia, the Arctic circle and South America. North Australian Indigenous Sea Management Alliance spokesman Joe Morrison, one of the forum speakers, says talks will focus on how indigenous populations deal with climate ... |
Italy: Venice flood barrier blossoms into coral reef (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:39
| Telegraph (UK): A coral reef has bloomed in the Adriatic Sea on the site where a tidal barrier is being constructed to protect Venice. Marine biologists said the Mose project - a Thames Barrier-style defence around the Venetian lagoon - has proven an irresistible magnet to rare coral, fish and crustaceans. They have discovered more than 150 different species, including the giant pen shell (Pinna Nobilis), an endangered bivalve that can grow up to 3ft long and is normally found in the warmer ... |
Canada must adapt to climate impact on forests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:39
| Reuters: Canada must prepare for the impact of global warming on its forests, such as increased fires in the west and ice storms in the east, the country's forest ministers said on Tuesday. Canada's lumber and paper industry must also address its declining competitiveness and use trees for non-timber products such as biochemicals, the provincial and federal officials said in a draft report on the future of the country's forests. Canada is home to about 10 percent of the world's forests, ... |
Congress grills oil execs on record pump prices (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:40
| Reuters: U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday took oil industry executives to task for booking huge profits on record gasoline prices while not investing more in renewable energy to help wean the country off foreign oil. Congress dragged in executives from five international oil companies to explain why they should not forfeit $18 billion in tax breaks after posting profits of $123 billion in 2007. Executives from Exxon Mobil, Chevron Corp, ConocoPhillips, BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell testified ... |
Coral reefs and climate change: Microbes could be the key to coral death (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:40
| EurekAlert: Coral reefs could be dying out because of changes to the microbes that live in them just as much as from the direct rise in temperature caused by global warming, according to scientists speaking today (Wednesday 2 April 2008) at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Tropical ecosystems are currently balanced on a climate change knife edge. Corals in coral reefs, which are made up of animals called ... |
Australia: Govt to unveil underground carbon storage plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 11:00:39
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Federal Government will today unveil its first carbon storage plant which will bury 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the ground. The plant in south-western Victoria is the biggest in the southern hemisphere and will lock the carbon 2 kilometres underground, removing it from the atmosphere. Dr Peter Cook from the CO2 Cooperative research centre which runs the plant, says the technology will help reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. "We could store ... |
United States: Los Angeles to impose driver fee to help fight global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 11:00:39
| Xinhua: Motorists in the Los Angeles area would be required to pay "climate change mitigation and adaptation fees" under proposals aimed at getting them to help fight global warming. The board of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has endorsed legislation that requires motorists to pay an extra 9 cents per gallon at the gas pump, or an additional 90 dollars on their vehicle registration, according to the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday. The ... |
United Kingdom: Shoppers say no to plastic bag levy to tackle climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 11:00:39
| Times (UK): The British public has delivered an overwhelming snub to the Government's push to introduce a plastic bag levy at supermarkets to tackle climate change. An exclusive survey for The Times, conducted by Populus, reveals today that shoppers would rather see throwaway plastic bags scrapped altogether than pay any charge at all, however small. The vast majority - 72 per cent - believe that incentives such as offering reward points at the checkout are the best way to effect a change in ... |
United States: CO2 Tax Dies in House (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 11:00:40
| Associated Press: Touted as good, "green" policy, a proposal to impose the state's first tax on carbon dioxide emissions survived less than a day after its birth in the House. But, then, some House members never thought addressing environmental issues was the real point of the proposal. The House voted 74-51 against a bill Tuesday to impose a tax of $37 for each ton of excess CO2 emissions by four large utilities. The night before, members had voted 78-42 to add the proposal to a bill ... |
PNG's almost 3000 Carteret Islanders could be world's first climate refugees (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 11:00:40
| Radio New Zealand International: Papua New Guinea's almost 3000 Carteret Islanders in Bougainville are reportedly already preparing to be among the world's first "climate refugees''. The United Nations rights body, the Human Rights Council, which has been instituted to study climate change in affected countries in the world, says sea expansion is eating away at places including Carterets. The Post Courier newspaper reports that the Council commissioned a study into the impact in the Maldives and the ... |
Algae: 'The ultimate in renewable (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 11:00:41
| CNN: Texas may be best known for "Big Oil." But the oil that could some day make a dent in the country's use of fossil fuels is small. Microscopic, in fact: algae. Literally and figuratively, this is green fuel. Plant physiologist Glen Kertz believes algae can some day be competitive as a source for biofuel. 1 of 3 "Algae is the ultimate in renewable energy," Glen Kertz, president and CEO of Valcent Products, told CNN while conducting a tour of his algae ... |
Climate Change talks eye deep emission cut by industrialized countries (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 11:00:42
| Xinhua: Defining actions to deep emissions cut by industrialized countries will be the central issue to be addressed in a new round of UN-sponsored climate change negotiations, started with the five-day Bangkok Talks March 31-April 4, said the United Nations' top official on climate change on Tuesday. "Central to a successful Copenhagen agreement is clearly going to the deep emission cut by the industrialized countries, which are the main one responsible for the problem, and the one the ... |
Climate Change, Then Humans, Drove Mammoths Extinct (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 11:00:42
| National Geographic: Ancient climate change cornered the woolly mammoth into a shrinking habitat, but humans delivered the final blow by hunting the species into extinction, a new study suggests. Climate change and hunting have long been blamed for forcing the mammoth into decline at the end of the Pleistocene era about 10,000 years ago. The last mammoth died out 4,000 years ago, experts estimate. But this study marks the first time that the massive, shaggy-haired animal's demise has been explained ... |
Climate Change: The Future Is Now (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 11:00:42
| Inter Press Service: Our fingers are glued to the global thermostat, pushing it ever higher, and climate catastrophe has already begun to reshape human civilisation. Drought. Flood. Heat wave. Tornado and hurricane. Once sole products of natural forces, all are now amplified by the massive amounts of additional heat trapped in the atmosphere because of burning fossil fuels, scientists warn. Such calamities are no longer distant in time or space. Tens of millions have already been impacted by ... |
Congress Slams Oil Chiefs on Profits (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 11:00:42
| Associated Press: Don't blame us, oil industry chiefs told a skeptical Congress. Top executives of the country's five biggest oil companies said Tuesday they know record fuel prices are hurting people, but they argued it's not their fault and their huge profits are in line with other industries. Appearing before a House committee, the executives were pressed to explain why they should continue to get billions of dollars in tax breaks when they made $123 billion last year and motorists are paying ... |
Democrats Call for Shifting Subsidies to Green Energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 11:00:42
| CNBC: Investors in renewable energy have long suffered from Washington's seesawing policy support. That's in contrast to the warm – and generous - embrace big energy firms have always found in Congress. Now Democrats think they have a revenue-neutral solution: shift some $18 billion in subsidies now helping the bottom line of the oil and gas industry to fledging green industries – wind, solar and alternative fuels. That's the thrust of the proposed Renewable Energy and ... |
United States: Carbon tax gains, then loses support (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 11:00:43
| Garden City Telegram: House Republicans solidly backed the nation's first carbon tax on Monday night. But by this morning the majority party's conservatives had changed their minds on adding a new tax in an election year. Characterizing the proposal as an environmentally friendly approach, the House GOP and a few Democrats easily passed an amendment, 78-42, on Monday to impose a $37-per-ton levy on carbon emissions that surpassed set levels. As the amendment was written, it applied only to ... |
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