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Burning biofuels may be worse than coal and oil, say experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:35
| Guardian: Using biofuels made from corn, sugar cane and soy could have a greater environmental impact than burning fossil fuels, according to experts. Although the fuels themselves emit fewer greenhouse gases, they all have higher costs in terms of biodiversity loss and destruction of farmland. The problems of climate change and the rising cost of oil have led to a race to develop environmentally-friendly biofuels, such as palm oil or ethanol derived from corn and sugar cane. The EU has ... |
California to sue government over car emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:35
| Guardian: California has gone head to head with the Bush administration over its approach to global warming, suing the US government for its refusal to allow the state to press ahead with its own cuts in car pollution. The move takes the increasingly adversarial relationship between California and Washington into a state of open confrontation: California which wants to impose sharp cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and accuses the federal government of dragging its feet on the issue. The ... |
Forests failing in carbon relief role (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:35
| Sydney Morning Herald: THE ability of forests to soak up carbon dioxide is weakening, an analysis of two decades of data from more than 30 sites in the globe's frozen north has found. The finding, published yesterday, is crucial because it means that more of the CO2 released by humans will end up affecting the climate in the atmosphere rather than being safely locked away in trees or soil. The results may partly explain recent studies suggesting the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing ... |
United Kingdom: Pressure on Brown to veto coal-fired power station (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:36
| Independent: Gordon Brown has been challenged to prove his green credentials by blocking plans to build Britain's first coal-fired power station for 24 years. Environmental activists condemned a decision by councillors to support an application to demolish an outdated plant in Kent and replace it with another that burns coal, widely regarded as the dirtiest fossil fuel. The final decision on allowing the development of the proposed station at Kingsnorth, near Rochester, lies with the ... |
Australia: This drought may never break (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:36
| Sydney Morning Herald: IT MAY be time to stop describing south-eastern Australia as gripped by drought and instead accept the extreme dry as permanent, one of the nation's most senior weather experts warned yesterday. "Perhaps we should call it our new climate," said the Bureau of Meteorology's head of climate analysis, David Jones. He was speaking after the release of statistics showing that last year was the hottest on record in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and the ACT. NSW's ... |
United Kingdom: £1bn coal-fired power station gets green light (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:36
| Guardian: The first coal-fired power station in Britain for more than 30 years has been approved by a local government authority, triggering delight from industry but anger from green campaigners who said the government must halt a plan which would increase carbon emissions and undermine the fight against climate change. Medway Council in Kent gave the green light to the £1bn Kingsnorth plant proposed by the German-owned gas and electricity provider Eon, which argued that it was a much cleaner ... |
China closes over 10,000 coal mines in last three years (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:36
| China View: China closed 10,412 coal mines in the last three years amid efforts to improve workplace safety and to check extravagant use of natural resources, the country's top industrial safety inspector said. Li Yizhong, head of the State Administration of Work Safety, said another 1,100 coal mines must be shut soon as the government had ordered the closure of 11,618 coal mines by the end of last November. He made the remarks at a recent meeting on coal mine development in Beijing. ... |
Grass could help save the world (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:36
| Sydney Morning Herald: WITH new research showing that the world's forests are absorbing less man-made carbon dioxide each year, two Australian scientists said some plants could store CO2 for thousands of years. Grasses such as wheat and sorghum can store large amounts of carbon in microscopic balls of silica, called phytoliths, that form around a plant's cells as they draw the mineral from the soil, a report in the latest issue of New Scientist says. When a plant dies, the phytoliths, or plantstones, ... |
United Kingdom: Nuclear power consultation flawed (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:37
| Reuters: The government's public consultation last year on the need for new nuclear power plants to tackle climate change and bridge the looming energy gap was flawed and misleading, a group of academics said on Friday. The government, which has said repeatedly new nuclear power stations are needed, was forced by a legal ruling last February to undertake the consultation which ended in October. It is expected early next week to give the green light to a new generation of nuclear power ... |
Rising CO2 levels tied to increasing human mortality (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:37
| Mongabay: Rising carbon dioxide levels have been tied to increases in human mortality, reports a study to be published in Geophysical Research Letters. Using a complex computer model of the atmosphere, Stanford University professor Mark Jacobson estimates that air pollution resulting from each increase of 1 degree Celsius caused by carbon dioxide, would lead annually to roughly a thousand additional deaths and many more cases of respiratory illness and asthma in the United States. Worldwide, ... |
Britain: 2008 May Be Among Hottest Years (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:38
| Associated Press: This year is forecast to be among the top 10 hottest years on record, Britain's weather office said Thursday, despite a strong cooling effect predicted from the tropical weather phenomenon known as La Nina. The global surface temperature in 2008 will rise 0.67 degrees Fahrenheit above what climate scientists call the long-term average of 57.2 degrees Fahrenheit, the Met Office said. The average is derived by calculating the mean of surface temperatures registered globally between 1961 ... |
United Kingdom: Council approves plans for Kent coal power station (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 09:00:39
| Guardian: A council in Kent last night backed plans for a new coal-fired power station, the first to be built in the UK for more than 30 years. Energy firm E.On's application to build the station at Kingsnorth, near Rochester, was given the green light when the Tory-controlled Medway council voted in favour of replacing an existing power station. E.on UK said the £1bn investment to build two new cleaner coal units would produce power from coal more efficiently and cleanly than ever ... |
United Kingdom: Green campaigners furious as new coal-fired power station approved (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:31
| Times (UK): The comeback of coal as an energy source cleared its first hurdle yesterday when a council approved plans for Britain's first coal-fired power station for 20 years. Environmental campaigners and the international development lobby have made it clear that they will continue to fight the planned Kingsnorth power station in Medway, Kent. The £1 billion investment was recommended by Medway council, but still faces a final decision from the Secretary of State for Business. ... |
What to do when oil hits $100 a barrel (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:31
| Christian Science Monitor: For the first time, oil prices have nosed above $100 a barrel. Gasoline is higher by 73 cents a gallon from a year ago. In past decades, such price jumps brought a knee-jerk reaction to conserve or to find more oil. The world has done both. Yet prices continue to rise. So what's left to do? Congress tried to mandate more conservation last month when it insisted on better fuel efficiency in automobiles (from 25 to 35 miles per gallon by 2020). But some evidence suggests that better ... |
North Atlantic warming tied to natural variability; but global warming may be at play elsewhere (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:32
| EurekAlert: A Duke University-led analysis of available records shows that while the North Atlantic Ocean's surface waters warmed in the 50 years between 1950 and 2000, the change was not uniform. In fact, the subpolar regions cooled at the same time that subtropical and tropical waters warmed. This striking pattern can be explained largely by the influence of a natural and cyclical wind circulation pattern called the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), wrote authors of a study published Thursday, ... |
2008 to be in top 10 warmest years say forecasters (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:32
| Reuters: 2008 will be slightly cooler than recent years globally but will still be among the top 10 warmest years on record since 1850 and should not be seen as a sign global warming was on the wane, British forecasters said. The Met Office and experts at the University of East Anglia on Thursday said global average temperatures this year would be 0.37 of a degree Celsius above the long-term 1961-1990 average of 14 degrees and be the coolest since 2000. They said the forecast took into ... |
Australia to become hotter and hotter each year (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:32
| Live News: Water restrictions might be saving billions of litres every year but it seems that's still not enough to keep up with climate change. A survey by the Australian shows in most cases the scheme hasn't been able to keep up with reduced rainfall. 2007 was the country's warmest on record with temperatures more than half a degree above the annual average. This is said to become a common trend with predictions Australia will become a little bit hotter each year. British ... |
Global Climate in 2008 May Be Coolest Since 2000 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:33
| Bloomberg: Average global temperatures will be lower in 2008 than in any year since 2000 because of cooling waters in the Pacific Ocean, according to an estimate from the Met Office, the U.K. weather forecaster. Still, temperatures will be 0.37 degree Celsius above the 14-degree (57.2-degree Fahrenheit) average from 1961 to 1990, and this year will probably be one of the 10 hottest on record, according to a statement on the Met Office Web site. 2007 was one of the 10 warmest years ever, ... |
US energy bill won't undercut oil prices for years to come (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:33
| Associated Press: The energy bill signed into law late last year, just weeks before oil first hit $100 a barrel Wednesday, will have little impact on U.S. oil or gasoline prices for years – if at all. Although two of the biggest components of the wide-ranging bill – a renewable fuels mandate and new vehicle efficiency standards – focus on boosting fuel supply and curbing gasoline demand, they are not likely to ease pressure on tight crude and gasoline markets. "In the short term, of course, ... |
World to cool slightly in 2008: British experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-03-2008 at 11:00:33
| Agence France-Presse: World temperatures will cool slightly in 2008, but it will remain among the top 10 hottest years on record, British weather experts predicted Thursday. The impact of a strong La Nina climate pattern over the Pacific will help keep temperatures down, according to the annual forecast by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia. Overall the global temperature is expected to be 0.37 degree Celsius above the long-term average of 14.0 degree, making it the coolest year since ... |
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