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Australia: Act Now On Climate Change Gov't Warned (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:35
| Inter Press Service: An interim report on Australia's ability to combat climate change has called on the government to take action now as a matter of urgency. Developments in mainstream scientific opinion, says Prof. Ross Garnaut (as well as the government-commissioned Garnaut Climate Change Review's work), "suggest that the world is moving towards high risks of dangerous climate change more rapidly than has generally been understood." Ben Pearson, energy campaigner with Greenpeace ... |
Canada: B.C.'s carbon tax deftly implemented (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:35
| Windsor Star: The groundbreaking carbon tax unveiled in the B.C. budget will pale in significance to the changes needed over the next few years to meet Premier Gordon Campbell's ambitious targets for fighting climate change. But before we move on to the difficult decisions ahead, let's recognize just how significant a political breakthrough the provincial government has achieved. Most politicians in Canada have shunned the idea of carbon levies because of the stigma attached to any new tax. ... |
Brown Gets Tough With UK Retail Over Plastic Bags (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:35
| Reuters: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday warned retailers they had to start charging shoppers for the 13 billion plastic bags they currently get for free each year or the government would step in to force them. Most bags end as landfill waste or being blown across the countryside, littering the landscape and harming wildlife. They can persist in the environment for centuries. Producing them involves petrochemicals and climate-damaging fossil fuels. "I am convinced ... |
Oil Smashes Records On Supply Woes, UK Gas Fire (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:35
| Reuters: Oil prices surged to new record highs this week, smashing through the $100 a barrel barrier and beyond as more supply disruptions and a fire at a British gas import terminal shook an already jittery European energy market. Brent crude oil hit a high of $101.27 and US light crude soared to an all time high of $103.05 on Friday, above the inflation-adjusted high of $102.53 hit in 1980, as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries looked set to rebuff calls for more oil when ... |
The Senate Shills for Big Oil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:35
| New York Times: One of the major shortcomings in last year's admirable energy bill was its failure to extend vital tax credits to producers of wind, solar and other renewable fuels. This was entirely the doing of the Senate, which caved in to the oil companies and their White House friends. The House had approved the credits but insisted – under the Democrats' pay-as-you-go rules – that they be paid for by eliminating the same amount in tax credits for oil and gas producers. Industry (which is ... |
Australia: Water prices to double: expert (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:36
| AAP: Consumers are more passionate about saving water but instead of being rewarded for their efforts, prices are set to double in the next five to 10 years, a water expert says. Water conservation is "dinner table conversation" and storages are higher than at the same time last year in all capital cities except Hobart, Water Services Association Australia executive officer Ross Young told a drought briefing in Canberra on Monday. Demand for water continued to drop across ... |
China's Tangshan Mulls Move As City Cleans Air (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:36
| Reuters: China's third-largest steel maker, Tangshan Iron and Steel Group, may be moved entirely to new coastal facilities over the next decade as part of a drive to reduce urban emissions, an official from its home city said. The campaign to cut air pollution was spurred by the upcoming Beijing Olympics but is expected to continue long after the Games end. Tangshan, a city of 7 million people a few hours from Beijing, is home to dozens of steel mills fed by rich iron deposits. It ... |
EPA's own study argues for California waiver (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:36
| San Francisco Chronicle: California currently suffers disproportionately heavier air pollution casualties than other states due to global warming, and this problem will become worse as warming increases. The Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to protect human health, including Californians', and, when the state's health risks are more severe than others, it should allow California to address its own air pollution problems. Yet the federal EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson ignored the ... |
Tough Times For US Ethanol To Force Shake-Out (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:36
| Reuters: US ethanol producers likely face an industry shake-out as record corn prices driven by the alternative fuel boom are set to last into the foreseeable future, squeezing profits for small distillers. Washington has offered producers hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives in an attempt to reduce foreign oil imports while supporting the agriculture business. But that has had the unintended consequence of helping to boost corn prices to a record of more than $5.40 a bushel. ... |
Antarctic Boulders May Point To Sea Level Rise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:36
| Reuters: Boulders as big as soccer balls show that a thinning of West Antarctic glaciers has become 20 times faster in recent decades and may hold clues to future sea level rise, scientists said on Friday. Rocks trapped in glacier ice start to react like clockwork when exposed to the air because of a bombardment of cosmic rays. Scientists studied boulders by three glaciers to find how long they have been out of the ice and so judge the pace of thinning. "Boulders the size of ... |
Climate change's most deadly threat: drought (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:39
| Christian Science Monitor: Spring is on its way back to northern latitudes. In many locales, it will arrive earlier than "normal," yielding, ostensibly, a longer growing season, a hotter summer, balmier autumn, and future winters will lack their ferocious post-Pleistocene bites. While vineyards are being planned for northern England, millions of residents around desiccated Atlanta are praying for enough rain to flow through their taps. Brian Fagan believes climate is not merely a backdrop to the ... |
Brazil Sends in Police, Sacrifices Jobs to Protect Rainforest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:39
| Bloomberg: Antonio Laudir Carvalho Lima knows his chances of finding a new job are slim after Brazil began its biggest-ever crackdown on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. Lima, 43, is vying with 6,000 other out-of-work laborers who lost their jobs after the Federal Police and environmental inspectors swept through the small Amazon town of Tailandia, seizing wood and fining sawmills and charcoal producers that couldn't prove their products came from legal sources. Environmental ... |
Air suffers as vehicles further supplant feet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:40
| Chicago Tribune: Pupils attending Monee Elementary School line up in their neighborhood for school buses each weekday morning, even though many live only a couple of blocks from the school built on the outskirts of the Will County village. The absence of sidewalks, crosswalks, proper school zone signs and road markings on the streets surrounding the school and nearby Country Meadows subdivision in Monee means it's simply unsafe for the kindergartners through 5th graders to walk or bicycle to ... |
United Kingdom: Call for hydrogen fuel stations (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:40
| Press Association: Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has called on the UK Government to create hydrogen fuel filling stations to help the fight against climate change. The Virgin chairman also appealed to governments world wide to build hydrogen garages. His call came as Virgin announced in New York that it was teaming with car giant General Motors to offer zero-emissions hydrogen fuel cars as part of Virgin's limo service for first class passengers. The first of three of these cars will be ... |
United Kingdom: Climate camp to target coal power station (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:40
| Guardian: Climate change activists are to target the site of the proposed new coal-fired power station with a week-long camp in Kent this summer, organisers announced today. The Camp for Climate Action will be held from August 4-11 at the site of Kingsnorth in Kent, where German energy company E.On is proposing to build the country's first new coal-fired power station in 30 years. The protest will begin with a one-day event at Heathrow airport, the site of last year's camp, followed by a ... |
Computing industry claims climate-change leading role (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:40
| Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Computing industry leaders claimed Monday a leading role in the fight against climate change, arguing that software could cut world energy use. "Green computing" has been adopted as a theme of the CeBIT computing expo which opens in Hanover, Germany on Tuesday. The US-based Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a partner of the trade fair. IBM Germany chief executive Martin Jetter, who is on the board of the German computing trade federation Bitkom, said software and ... |
Earlier plantings underlie yield gains in northern Corn Belt (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:40
| Innovations Report: Midwest corn-growers produce three times more corn today than they did a half-century ago. After finding that farmers also sow seeds around two weeks earlier now than 30 years ago, Chris Kucharik, a scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, set out to discover if earlier plantings – and, thus, longer growing seasons – have contributed to the jump in production. In a study published online today (Feb. 27) in the Agronomy Journal, ... |
EU governments broadly welcome climate change package (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:41
| Associated Press: European Union governments broadly welcomed proposals Monday for the EU to spend billions of euros to fight global warming, and said they could adopt them by year's end. At a meeting, EU environment ministers praised the European Commission for proposals to slash greenhouse gases by 20 percent by 2020 – or 30 percent if the United States and others join Europe in a global climate accord when the current one expires in 2012. Matthias Machnig, the German delegate, said Berlin ... |
EU to adopt climate fight plan despite differences (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:41
| Reuters: European Union environment ministers expect to approve pivotal plans by December to combat climate change, despite differences over plans for energy-intensive industries and the sustainability of biofuels. The 27 ministers broadly backed a blueprint to slash carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by at least one-fifth compared to 1990 levels by 2020, increase the share of renewables in power production to 20 percent and boost the share of biofuels used in transport to 10 percent. But ... |
EU, US must engage emerging powers, UN climate chief says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:41
| Deutsche Presse-Agentur: The European Union and US must boost their support for emerging states such as China, India and Brazil in the fight against climate change, in order to make an international deal viable, the head of the UN's climate body said Monday. "Europe has to begin thinking now about the kind of financial architecture it can put in place that will make it possible for large developing countries like China, India and Brazil to engage" in a world deal on climate change, Yvo de Boer, head of the ... |
Helping developers map out renewable energy source (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:41
| Seattle Times: Remember the thrill of checking out your house from outer space with Google Earth? Now a Seattle company wants you to know whether there's enough wind to power it with renewable energy. 3Tier, a weather-consulting service geared toward renewable-energy developers, is expected to release a global wind map, available free on the Web. The company also aims to create a similar tool to portray the potential of solar energy, to be released within the next 18 months. The wind ... |
Swaziland: To Relocate or Not To Relocate? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:41
| Inter Press Service: Climate change appears to have permanently altered certain areas of east and southern Swaziland, where good harvests have not been achieved for over a decade. Agriculture officials and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) now question whether these areas can still support communities. "Before donor fatigue sets in, we have no choice but to confront the obvious. Otherwise we can be accused of turning a blind eye," said Charles Ndwandwe, an agriculture extension officer in ... |
UN urges EU to aid developing nations on climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:42
| Reuters: The European Union should speedily work out ways to help developing nations fight global warming to avert a "Catch 22" impasse that could brake action worldwide, the U.N.'s top climate change official said on Monday. "This is a priority that all industrialised countries need to get moving on quickly," Yvo de Boer told Reuters of a message he would give to EU environment ministers at a meeting in Brussels later on Monday. About 190 nations agreed in Bali, ... |
Western States Consider New Dams (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:42
| Associated Press: The Western states' booming population and growing fears about climate change have governments studying construction of new dams to capture more winter rain and spring snowmelt for use in dry summer months. "The West and the Northwest are increasing in population growth like never before," said John Redding, regional spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Boise. "How do you quench the thirst of the hungry masses?" The population of the Western ... |
United States: Working together for the delta (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:42
| LA Times: Early last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's water plans looked to be headed down the path of universal healthcare. A Feb. 21 meeting with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) raised hopes that a bipartisan water bond might surface in Sacramento. But then rumors that the governor would begin work on a peripheral canal in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta sent Northern Californians into fits. Radio ads warned ominously of a "water giveaway" to "a few wealthy Southern ... |
Less Rainfalls Predicted for Most of Africa (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:42
| BuaNews: The greater horn of Africa is set to receive depressed rainfall over most of the region, says the director of the Centre for Climate Predictions and Applications, Professor Laban Ogallo. Mr Ogallo has called on governments in the region to prepare contingency measures in order to reduce suffering of the public following the expected weather anomaly. He said the region, which includes Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan, would receive less rainfall ... |
Seafloor cores show tight bond between dust and past climates (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 01:00:42
| Innovations Report: Each year, long-distance winds drop up to 900 million tons of dust from deserts and other parts of the land into the oceans. Scientists suspect this phenomenon connects to global climate–but exactly how, remains a question. Now a big piece of the puzzle has fallen into place, with a study showing that the amount of dust entering the equatorial Pacific peaks sharply during repeated ice ages, then declines when climate warms. The researchers say it cements the theory that atmospheric ... |
Biodiesel fuels show variation in strength (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 04:00:40
| Boston Globe: In the transportation world, it is one of the trendiest ways to fight global warming: Stir a little vegetable oil into your fuel. Biodiesel is a chemically created fuel from animal fats and vegetable oils that is blended with traditional diesel. The result emits fewer pollutants, such as sulfur, and is thought to be less of a contributor to climate change because it is from a renewable source. Governor Deval Patrick has filed a bill to require diesel fuels and some home heating oil to ... |
Global warming threatens more than just coral (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 04:00:40
| Xinhua: Rising sea levels from global warming will threaten the livelihoods and homes of more than 200,000 people who live on coral atolls in coming generations, the PACNEWS reported on Monday. The warning came from Australia's University of Queensland archaeologist and expert on the prehistoric use of coral atolls, Marshall Weisler. Weisler said the Central Pacific islands of Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands as well as the Maldives in the Indian Ocean are most at risk. ... |
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