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Expert: Arctic polar cap may disappear this summer (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 01:00:37
| Xinhua: The polar cap in the Arctic may well disappear this summer due to the global warming, Dr. Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, said on Friday. The shrinking of the Arctic ice cap has been astonishing, Orheim said in an interview with Xinhua. "Ice sheet hit the historical low of 3 million square km duringthe hottest weeks last summer, while it covered 7.5 million squarekm on average before the year 2000, " he said. "If ... |
United Kingdom: New wave protesters target airport expansion (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 01:00:37
| Guardian: On Monday morning the activists were perched on the tailfin of a BA Airbus 320 at Heathrow. By Wednesday climate change protesters had scaled the roof of parliament and were launching paper aeroplanes made of documents claiming the airport's expansion is a political fix. A decade after Swampy defied Britain's road building programme and invented the eco-protester as national celebrity, a new wave of campaigners is forming around the issue of air travel and global-warming. The ... |
Concerns About the Climate That Go Beyond Snow (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 01:00:37
| New York Times: MENTION global warming and there is a good chance the conversation will turn to the future of ski resorts. But Rob Katz, chief executive of Vail Resorts, is not worried. Vail had more snow in a recent 30-day period than it has had in the last 10 years. And should snowfall decrease significantly in the future, Mr. Katz said, there will be greater concerns than how much snow there is. In an industry that averages $2 billion in annual revenue in the United States, according to a report ... |
EPA: Warming Not Unique to Calif. (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 01:00:38
| Time Magazine: The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday justified blocking California from cracking down on auto emissions by saying global warming isn't unique to the state. The long-awaited analysis drew angry ridicule from environmentalists and officials in California and some of the dozen-plus other states that also wanted to implement the greenhouse gas emissions reductions sought by California. In a 48-page document describing the reasoning behind its December decision, the EPA ... |
EU ministers to fire first salvoes on climate proposals (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 01:00:38
| Deutsche Presse-Agentur: The European Union's environment ministers are set to draw up their battle lines Monday when they hold their first talks on how to hit the bloc's ambitious climate-change targets. The questions of how hard each of the EU's 27 member states should try to cut its emissions, and how hard EU car manufacturers should try to make their products cleaner, are set to dominate the debate, with heavyweights Britain, France and Germany among the states at odds over key details. Over the last ... |
United States: Hummer dealership owner to close shop in dispute with GM (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 01:00:38
| Mercury News: Sales of big SUVs are in the toilet. Headlines scream of $4 gas by spring. So it's no surprise that Silicon Valley Hummer is going out of business, right? Neither factor helped, admits Ron Battistella, the dealership's owner - but that's not the whole story. Ultimately, his disagreement with General Motors about the future of the store led to his decision to close it. He'll stop selling new Hummers within a week and stop servicing them at the end of March. GM, which ... |
Vietnam: Climate change could submerge Mekong Delta (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 01:00:38
| Thanh Nien Daily: Longer storm seasons have caused heavy human and material losses in the central region. Unprecedented severe cold snaps have hit the north. I traveled along central Vietnam to observe the aftermaths of a series of storms and floods that devastated the region last year. Natural disasters are, naturally, unstoppable. What we can do is to reduce losses to a minimum. We can prepare ourselves to overcome their effects as soon as possible. The worst ... |
EPA's Final Decision On California CO2 Ruling Scorned (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 01:00:38
| Dow Jones: Environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers scorned the Environmental Protection Agency's final decision Friday that rejects California's request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. The decision, a controversial ruling made by EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson against the advice of senior agency staff, has been branded by many Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists as politically motivated and followed strong lobbying pressure from auto manufacturers. The EPA ... |
Proof that we are not taking climate change seriously (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 01:00:38
| Independent: Three years ago, in an eye-catching study, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research calculated that if Britain were to meet its target of cutting greenhouse gases by 60 per cent by 2050, and emissions from aviation were not reduced, all other emissions – from households, businesses, energy generation and motor transport – would have to go to zero. Flying would be taking up everything that was available. Somewhat excessive as that prediction may sound, it is clearly well on the ... |
California emissions waiver formally blocked (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 01:00:38
| Reuters: The Bush administration on Friday formally rejected California's bid for a waiver from U.S. law to set its own tailpipe emissions standard to reduce global warming. The Environmental Protection Agency released a regulatory notice signed by Administrator Stephen Johnson, canceling California's plans to impose a state law that would have forced automakers to reduce emissions by making cars that achieve sharply higher gas mileage beginning next year. The decision also affects 18 ... |
Ethanol to come mainly from corn in 2015-Deere (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 01:00:39
| Reuters: More research and development needs to be done on producing ethanol from cellulosic material such as switchgrass, which means most ethanol will still come from corn in 2015, said experts from agriculture equipment maker Deere & Co (DE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday. "Cellulose has some promise but we're also pretty sure there's a lot left to discover and invent," said Don Borgman, Deere's director of agriculture industry relations at the Commodity Class, a U.S. ... |
Climate Skeptics Seize on Cold Spell (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 05:00:38
| New York Times: The world has seen some extraordinary winter conditions in both hemispheres over the past year: snow in Johannesburg last June and in Baghdad in January, Arctic sea ice returning with a vengeance after a record retreat last summer, paralyzing blizzards in China, and a sharp drop in the globe's average temperature. It is no wonder that some scientists, opinion writers, political operatives and other people who challenge warnings about dangerous human-caused global warming have jumped ... |
'Clean' Coal? Don't Try to Shovel That. (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 05:00:39
| Washington Post: Every time I hear our political leaders talk about "clean coal," I think about Burl, an irascible old coal miner in West Virginia. After 35 years underground, he struggled to conjure enough breath to match his storytelling verve, as if the iron hoops of a whiskey barrel had been strapped around his lungs. In 1983, during my first visit to Appalachia as a young man, Burl rolled up his pants and showed me the leg that had been mangled in a mining accident. The scars snaked down to ... |
Coal industry steps up effort (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 05:00:39
| Associated Press: Facing a bruising fight over climate change, the coal industry is on the political offensive this election year to ensure that no matter who wins in November, so does coal.Billions of dollars in corporate profits are at stake for the companies that mine, ship and burn the nation's most abundant domestic fuel.Some powerful Washington voices, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, have lined up against coal-fired power, which churns out 2 ... |
Climate change 'worst for poor' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 05:00:39
| Deutsche Presse-Agentur: The world's poorest countries will be hit hardest by climate change and must begin adapting immediately to prevent some of its worst consequences, the World Bank warned in an annual environment review on Wednesday. But the World Bank also said tackling global warming could provide opportunities for long-term economic progress in developing countries by improving efficiency, coastal protection and agricultural production methods. The Environment Matters review - an annual ... |
Drought, growth have Western states studying dams again (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 05:00:39
| Associated Press: The era of massive dam construction in the West - which tamed rivers, swallowed towns, and created irrigated agriculture, cheap hydropower and persistent environmental problems - effectively ended in 1966 with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam. But a booming population and growing fears about climate change have governments once again studying dams, this time to create huge reservoirs to capture more winter rain and spring snowmelt for use in dry summer months. New dams are ... |
EPA justifies denial of emissions waiver for California (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 05:00:39
| LA Times: California's states'-rights battle against the Bush administration over global warming was freed to move forward in federal court Friday, after the Environmental Protection Agency issued its long-delayed for blocking the state's 2002 law curbing greenhouse emissions from cars and trucks. EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson had written to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in December that he would not grant a waiver of the Clean Air Act, normally a routine action, allowing the state to enact ... |
Canada: Ottawa lobbies U.S. to let new law bypass oilsands (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 05:00:40
| Canwest News Service: The Harper government quietly has urged the Bush administration to protect Alberta's oilsands sector from newly enacted U.S. energy and climate-change legislation, Canwest News Service has learned. In a letter sent last week, Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador to Washington, encouraged U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other members of President George W. Bush's cabinet to exclude oil derived from the oilsands in its application of the new legislation. "Canada would ... |
U.S. Won't Finance Montana Coal Plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 05:00:40
| Washington Post: The Agriculture Department's Rural Utilities Service will not provide financing for a controversial coal plant proposed by a Montana electricity cooperative, an agency spokesman said yesterday. The RUS, which provides low-cost financing to rural electric cooperatives, will not help Southern Montana Electric Generation & Transmission build a 250-megawatt coal-fired plant "because of cost and timing," said RUS spokesman Jay Fletcher. He would not elaborate. ... |
Donnelly: US energy policy a huge threat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 05:00:40
| United Press International: U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., said Saturday the government's current energy policy is a threat to national security and to hard-working citizens. The congressman focused on the current national energy policy during the weekly Democratic Radio Address, saying it has allowed oil companies to reap record profits by continually raising the price of gasoline. "At a time when America is confronted by political instability around the world, our nation continues to rely on ... |
Australia: Turnbull denies $9.6m water waste (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 05:00:40
| AAP: OPPOSITION treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has denied accusations he went on a reckless spending spree at the start of last year's federal election. Mr Turnbull, who was environment minister at the time, wrote to then prime minister John Howard on October 15, the day after the election was called, requesting funding for a $9.6m trial into rain enhancement technology. Mr Howard wrote back approving it the same day. The trial was to be conducted by the Australian Rain ... |
Climate Risk Disclosure Gains Momentum, Report Says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-01-2008 at 05:00:41
| Bloomberg: A tax on carbon dioxide or limits on heat-trapping pollution would lead more Canadian companies to disclose climate-change risks to investors, a Toronto-based law firm said. British Columbia, Canada's third-most populous province, proposed a tax on fossil fuels to fight the effects of rising global temperatures. Carbon dioxide, the main pollutant blamed for global warming, is produced primarily from burning fossil fuels. Canada Environment Minister John Baird has rejected calls for a ... |
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