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Analyst: Carbon markets 'bullish' after EU climate proposals (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 06:00:35
| Euractiv: The growing scarcity of CO2 emissions permits expected to result from tighter EU regulation is sending favourable signals to the carbon market, according to Per-Otto Wold, CEO of Point Carbon. Per-Otto Wold is chief executive officer (CEO) of Point Carbon, a market analysis and consulting firm. Despite the uncertainties over an international agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, how do you see carbon markets developing in the coming years? It depends which markets ... |
United Kingdom: Drax Profit Falls on Coal Costs, Lower Power Prices (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 06:00:35
| Bloomberg: Drax Group Plc, the owner of Western Europe's biggest coal-fired power plant, reported a 24 percent decline in full-year profit because of lower power prices and higher fuel costs. Net income was 353 million pounds ($701 million), or 99 pence a share, from 463.5 million pounds, or 116 pence, in 2006, the Selby, England-based company said today in a statement. The company's finance director will resign later this year. Profit per unit of power produced slid as gains in ... |
To save the world, have fewer children (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 06:00:35
| Roanoke Times: The evolution of life on this planet took millions of years to reach a state of diversity and relative species harmony. Undisturbed, life in nature's various ecosystems, whether they be desert, ocean or tropical forest, can thrive and remain in a relatively stable biological balance. We now know, or should know, that all life is intimately connected. There are hundreds of examples where species survival, including our own, is dependent on the presence of unrelated species. Where would ... |
Germany seeks relief in EU carbon standard (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 06:00:35
| Toronto Star: Germany stepped up its fight against a planned European Union cap on carbon dioxide from cars in a bid to limit the cost for luxury automakers including Daimler AG and Porsche SE of countering climate change. The German government said French and Italian competitors should make deeper emission cuts to lower average CO2 from new cars in Europe by a fifth in 2012. The draft EU law would force German car makers to slash CO2 as much as 49 per cent compared with a maximum 15 per cent ... |
Merkel suggests France, Germany deal on car emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 06:00:36
| Agence France Presse: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday after talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Germany that the two countries could reach a deal on EU plans to cut carbon emissions from cars. After talks on the margins of the CeBIT IT trade fair in Hanover, Merkel -- whose country has fiercly opposed the plans -- said "a deal is envisaged with France on the European targets to reduce carbon dioxide from cars". She added that a top level working group would be set up ... |
United States: Confessions on Climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 09:00:36
| New York Times: The Bush administration has now provided the rationale for its lamentable decision to deny California permission to develop its own stricter rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. The explanation was full of holes, but it was not a total setback for those who want urgent action on global warming. The essence of the administration's reasoning was that California had failed to demonstrate "extraordinary and compelling" circumstances justifying stricter rules. To make ... |
Climate Skeptics Roast Gore On Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 01:00:39
| Reuters: Al Gore, who won the Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his environmental advocacy, was the main target on Monday at a conference of dissident scientists skeptical of his views on global warming. Several speakers at the conference on climate change whose theme was "Global warming is not a crisis," took pot-shots at the ex-vice president and his film, "An Inconvenient Truth," which won last year's Academy Award for best documentary. "Whether we like it ... |
Conti's Lithium-Ion Cell To Power Mercedes Hybrid (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 01:00:39
| Reuters: Mercedes-Benz will launch an S-Class hybrid next year equipped with a lithium-ion battery supplied by Continental AG in what Mercedes owner Daimler said on Friday was a crucial technological breakthrough. Carmakers have been competing fiercely to be the first to market with a gasoline-electric hybrid powered by a lithium-ion battery, which can store more energy in less space but has been a safety concern after recalls involving overheating laptops that burst into flames. ... |
France, Germany Draw Battlelines On Car Emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 01:00:39
| Reuters: European Union countries that make heavy cars, led by Germany, clashed on Monday with makers of smaller ones such as France over tough measures to force automobile manufacturers to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. In December, the executive European Commission proposed steep penalties for car makers whose fleet exceeds an average of 120 grams per km of CO2 -- the main greenhouse gas blamed for climate change. The EU executive favours fines based on a system of CO2 emission ... |
United Kingdom: Virgin To Use GM Fuel Cell Cars As Limos (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 01:00:40
| Reuters: Virgin Atlantic Airways will start using General Motors Corp zero- emission fuel cell cars as limousines for VIP passengers in the United States, the latest move by Virgin founder Richard Branson to present his airline as the greenest in the market. The scheme, unveiled by Branson and GM in New York Monday, will put three of GM's Chevrolet Equinox hydrogen fuel cell cars into Virgin's limousine fleet in Los Angeles this month, ferrying its first class passengers to and from the ... |
Australia: Battling farmers told: quit the land (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:37
| Sydney Morning Herald: FEDERAL drought relief is keeping inefficient farmers on the land and it is time to stop the handouts, the Government's top agricultural forecaster declared yesterday. Phillip Glyde, executive director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, said farmers had to increase their productivity to stay viable in the face of climate change, but drought assistance was allowing struggling farmers to stay when they would otherwise have been forced to leave the ... |
Australia: Cut drought aid to farmers, Rudd told (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:37
| Age: FEDERAL drought aid is being wasted on inefficient farmers and the Government should think about cutting back on future handouts, Canberra's top agriculture forecaster has said. In a candid assessment before an audience that included many farmers, Phillip Glyde suggested some drought aid was doing more harm than good by encouraging inefficient operators to stay on the land and accumulate debt, while discouraging necessary rationalisation of the farming sector. Mr Glyde, head of ... |
United Kingdom: Activists target coal-fire power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:37
| BBC: Climate change activists are to stage a week of action at the site of a proposed coal-fired power station. Campaigns announced on Tuesday that they plan to set up a Climate Camp at E.ON's Kingsnorth site near Rochester, Kent, from 4 to 11 August. The organisers said they would start the week with an event at Heathrow Airport, the site of the 2007 Climate Camp, before marching to Kent. E.ON said it supported their right to hold a peaceful protest on public ... |
Record Warm Winter for Northern Europe (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:37
| Associated Press: Icebreakers sit idle in ports. Insects crawl out of forest hideouts. Daffodils sprout up from green lawns. Winter ended before it started in Europe's north, where record-high temperatures have people wondering whether it's a fluke or an ominous sign of a warming world. "It's the warmest winter ever" recorded, said John Ekwall of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. In December, January and February, the average temperature in Stockholm was 36 ... |
UN warns of climate change in Mideast (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:37
| Associated Press: A United Nations agency says climate change is likely to reduce agricultural production and worsen water shortages in the Middle East, threatening the region's poor. A new report says higher temperatures, droughts, floods and soil degradation will add to stresses in areas already suffering from limited water, food price shocks and shortages of arable land. The report says there could be an increased risk of conflict over scarce resources. It finds that hunger and ... |
India: Climate change will affect food security: Pachauri (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:37
| Hindu: The earth is clearly facing a catastrophe of substantial dimension and lack of climate stability can have an impact on agriculture and food security, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr R K Pachauri, said on Tuesday. "Climate change is not smooth and linear. The factors of a fairly balanced climate have been disturbed quite systematically leading to increase in precipitation -- rain and snow -- in the upper latitudes and decline in the lower ... |
Cool View of Science at Meeting on Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:38
| New York Times: Several hundred people sat in a fifth-floor ballroom at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square on Monday eating pasta and trying hard to prove that they had unraveled the established science showing that humans are warming the world in potentially disruptive ways. One challenge they faced was that even within their own ranks, the group – among them government and university scientists, antiregulatory campaigners and Congressional staff members – displayed a dizzying range of ... |
Australia: Corals suffer as acid builds (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:38
| Courier Mail: CORAL growth on the Great Barrier Reef has plummeted by more than 20 per cent as acidity rises in the world's oceans. Scientists warn warmer sea temperatures and acidity are having an unprecedented impact on coral growth. Townsville-based Australian Institute of Marine Science climate change expert Dr Janice Lough said the findings were extremely worrying. Dr Lough's study, published today in Global Change Biology, found a 21 per cent fall in the rate at which Porites ... |
Dutch think tank criticises EU climate change plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:38
| Agence France Presse: The Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency think tank on Tuesday warned that EU plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions using biofuels will increase food prices and threaten biodiversity. In a report presented to the European Parliament, the body, which also advises the Dutch government, was critical of the European Commission which presented plans in January setting targets for EU member states. Under the plans, the use of renewable energies like biomass, wind and solar power ... |
EPA Chief Under Fire for Ignoring Scientists (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:38
| OneWorld US: The vast majority of scientists and other specialists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have withdrawn from a key labor-management partnership, citing rising distrust of the agency's chief Stephen Johnson. In a letter to Administrator Johnson, trade unions representing the workers complain that Johnson retaliates against whistle-blowers and union officers, "abuses our good nature and trust," and ignores the agency's Principles of Scientific Integrity. ... |
Global Warming Polluting World Water Bodies (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:38
| Africa News: A new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has for the first time mapped the multiple impacts of pollution; alien infestations; over-exploitation and climate change on the waters of the seas and oceans. The report entitled "In Dead Water" warns that Global Warming is adding to pollution and over-harvesting impacts on the World's Key Fishing Grounds The report, the work of UNEP scientists in collaboration with universities and institutes in Europe and the United ... |
Shark numbers increase ten-fold off Spain (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:38
| Telegraph: Spanish scientists have reported a ten-fold increase in the number of sharks spotted off popular tourist beaches in north eastern Spain. At least 20 sharks were recorded in Mediterranean waters off the Catalan coast last year, a figure that far exceeded previous years. In 2003 three were seen, in 2004 five were reported and in 2005 and 2006 only two of the fish were found each year. A report published by the Foundation for the Conservation and Rehabilitation of Marine ... |
Will global warming increase plant frost damage? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:39
| Innovations Report: Widespread damage to plants from a sudden freeze that occurred across the Eastern United States from 5 April to 9 April 2007 was made worse because it had been preceded by two weeks of unusual warmth, according to an analysis published in the March 2008 issue of BioScience. The authors of the report, Lianhong Gu and his colleagues at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and collaborators at NASA, the University of Missouri, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found ... |
Canada's oil-rich Alberta province re-elects Conservatives (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:39
| Agence France Presse: Ruling Conservatives in oil-rich Alberta won an 11th straight majority late Monday, in the Canadian province's first general election with new leader Ed Stelmach at the helm. The party took 72 of 83 seats in the provincial legislature, up from 60 seats held previously. "Welcome to Alberta's century," Stelmach told supporters in Edmonton, the provincial capital. He replaced long-time premiere Ralph Klein last year. The election campaign pitted energy companies ... |
Italy approves EU requested CO2 cut plan 2008-2012 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:39
| Guardian: Italy has given its final approval to a plan to cut annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2008-2012 by the full amount the European Commission has requested, the Environment Ministry said on Tuesday. Brussels said last May Italy must cut the greenhouse gas emissions by companies covered by the bloc's emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2008-2012 to 195.8 million tonnes a year, or by about six percent less than Rome had proposed initially. Italy had agreed to cut C02 ... |
Canada: Province's forests are in bad shape (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:39
| Nova News Now: "We're at the crossroads in terms of Nova Scotia's natural resources," says Joanne Cook, former coordinator of the Ecology Action Centre's 'Standing Tall: Forests for Life' campaign. That's what she told an audience at the Dr. Arthur Hines School in Summerville last Thursday night, Feb. 28. Around 30 people came out on a wintry evening to attend the Citizen Action to Protect the Environment (CAPE)-sponsored presentation. She said the N.S. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) ... |
Fuel Cells Make Power for Homes in Japan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 03:00:41
| Associated Press: Masanori Naruse jogs every day, collects miniature cars and feeds birds in his backyard, but he's proudest of the way his home and 2,200 others in Japan get electricity and heat water – with power generated by a hydrogen fuel cell. The technology – which draws energy from the chemical reaction when hydrogen combines with oxygen to form water – is more commonly seen in futuristic cars with tanks of hydrogen instead of gasoline, whose combustion is a key culprit in pollution and global ... |
Global warming may raise tundra wildfire risk (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:41
| New Scientist: Arctic tundra fires may increase significantly as a result of continued global warming, warns a new study examining the relationship between historic changes in climate, vegetation, and wildfires in Alaska. And as about a third of the world's soil-based carbon is locked in high-latitude tundra and boreal forest ecosystems, the release of carbon dioxide from an increase in burning tundra could also play a significant role in fuelling further warming, the study's authors ... |
United Kingdom: The green betrayal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:41
| Independent: It is the Great Green Betrayal. With environmental issues becoming ever more critical, the green policies of Gordon Brown's government are standing still or even going backwards, it became clear last night. On the day of a major warning that time is running out to solve the problems caused by climate change, it emerged that Britain's own green policies are stalled or backsliding in three crucial areas. First, environmental taxation, which could help curb greenhouse gas emissions and ... |
United States: Adopt Greenhouse-Gas Caps (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:41
| Hartford Courant: Obviously, Connecticut isn't going to solve climate change on its own. But by committing now to meaningful cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions – standards that will change the way state agencies, municipalities, utilities, businesses and Connecticut residents use energy every day – Connecticut will reap the rewards in better energy efficiency, lower costs, cleaner air and a healthier environment. There will be another benefit, too. By adopting rigorous standards sooner rather than later, ... |
Brazil GMO Cane Research Advances, Waits For OK (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:42
| Reuters: Sugar cane genetically modified for greater ethanol and sugar production could be developed in three to five years but strict Brazil biotechnology regulation could keep it off the market for as much as seven years, companies said on Tuesday. Scientists are field-testing GMO cane varieties with higher sucrose yields than conventional ones, said Brazilian leading biotech companies Alellyx Applied Genomics and Sugarcane Technology Center (CTC). "At this point, (the GMO ... |
United Kingdom: Energy firms tell Treasury: don't bring in windfall tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:42
| Guardian: Energy companies last night launched a pre-emptive strike on the government ahead of next week's budget, warning that any windfall tax on the industry would undermine investment in green power projects and other measures to combat climate change. The companies fear ministers are considering a windfall tax on the industry after a public outcry greeted moves to raise household bills by as much as 15% in recent weeks. British Gas, whose Centrica parent group is behind a number of ... |
Climate change causes infectious diseases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:42
| Daily Star: An integrated approach is needed to face the challenges of human and animal diseases, as climate change contributes to emergence of new infectious diseases, experts told a seminar yesterday. The British Council organised the seminar titled 'Infectious diseases: A vision for future detection, identification and monitoring' as part of a campaign for having a universal action plan to tackle veterinary infectious diseases. The seminar was also designed to raise the level of ... |
United Kingdom: MPs call for rise in green taxes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:42
| BBC: The UK Treasury has "continually demonstrated a lack of ambition and imagination" when it comes to green taxes, a report by MPs has concluded. The Commons Environmental Audit Committee says there is little sign that ministers have acted on the recommendations of the Stern Review. They also call for a rise in air taxes, especially on long-haul flights. Failure to act would undermine the government's environmental credibility, warned the MPs. The ... |
Australia: WA farmers urged to increase carbon levels in soil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:42
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The farming lobby says producers must be involved in the development of new drought management policies based on climate change. Yesterday the Federal Government announced a $130 million package to assist farmers in difficulty. The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wants the farmers to help reduce emissions and increase farming productivity by looking at ways to increase carbon levels in soil. Trevor DeLandgrafft from the WA Farmers Federation says the science is largely ... |
India: Pachauri bats for solar light (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:44
| Telegraph India: When Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Nobel Peace Prize winner of 2007 on climate change, gave away a solar lantern to Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi today, he was highlighting a problem which the state is acutely facing – a large number of unelectrified homes. Pachauri, also the director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), asked Gogoi to be a part of the "lighting a million lives campaign" through which solar lighting devices are being propagated as it provides a smoke ... |
Reducing carbon footprints isn't 'mission impossible' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:44
| Telegraph: The supply chain is facing one of its biggest challenges since motor manufacturers used the concept to force their suppliers to deliver more cheaply. A new link in the shape of the carbon footprint is exercising the business and consultancy mind, driven by political, social and cost pressures. "Climate change, global warming and carbon emissions will fundamentally change supply chain thinking,'' said Alek Adamski, a supply chain specialist with PricewaterhouseCoopers. A ... |
Australia: Rudd seeks study of soil's role in carbon storage (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:44
| AAP: The federal government's decided to investigate how soil management by farmers can help tackle climate change, by examining how carbon storage in soils can be enhanced. The investigation will be added to the 130 million dollar Australia's Farming Future initiative, to help primary industries cope with climate change. The prime minister says the government needs to investigate how practices like low or no-till soil management might give agriculture a role in carbon reduction ... |
The Ostrich Brigades (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:44
| Inter Press Service: Colder than usual January temperatures in the United States have brought the climate change deniers out of hibernation, flooding websites, and opinion and letters pages about the "great global warming hoax". They even organised their own conference on denial in New York City this week. "Global warming is not a global crisis" declared the Heartland Institute, organiser of the "International Conference on Climate Change". Heartland is a well-known ... |
Why we're green with eco-envy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:44
| Telegraph: Forget the Joneses - these days the socially ambitious fret about keeping up with the Jonathon Porritts. Suddenly the nation has become green with envy for next door's eco status symbols. If you want Hyacinth Bucket twitching her curtains, drive home in a Prius not a Porsche. Once, many years ago, having a satellite dish proclaimed your affluence. Now the socially desirable kit to stick on your house is a wind turbine. Sure, it will barely generate enough power to boil an organic free-range ... |
California cows start passing gas to the grid (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:45
| Reuters: Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure covering the area of five football fields and 33 feet deep. Meet California's most alternative new energy. On a dairy farm in the Golden State's agricultural heartland, utility PG&E Corp began on Tuesday producing natural gas derived from manure, in what it hopes will be a new way to power homes with renewable, if not entirely clean, energy. The Vintage Dairy Biogas Project, the brainchild of life- long dairyman David Albers, aims to ... |
EU and Latin America Talk Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:45
| Associated Press: European Union and Latin American officials met Tuesday for the first time to discuss global efforts to tackle climate change as the EU pushes for all major regions to match its efforts to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Both sides skirted the biofuel boom that some environmental and poverty campaigners fear will lead to developing countries clearing land, evicting farmers or shrinking food output to feed Europe's lucrative thirst for less-polluting transport fuel. The European ... |
Stage set for emission trading in the US (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 08:00:45
| Economic Times: It is loud and clear now. United States has sought to join the carbon emissions trading game finally. It can be well credited to the event called Carbon Forum America, to set the stage ready for United States to board on. The event was jointly organized between the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and the Chicago-based show organizer Koelnmesse, Inc. More than 1,400 companies, consultants and other delegates, including 80 exhibitors, felt the buzz of this ... |
Warming Climate May Cause Arctic Tundra To Burn (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 09:00:43
| Science Daily: Research from ancient sediment cores indicates that a warming climate could make the world's arctic tundra far more susceptible to fires than previously thought. The findings are important given the potential for tundra fires to release organic carbon -- which could add significantly to the amount of greenhouse gases already blamed for global warming. Montana State University post-doctoral researcher Philip Higuera is the lead author on the paper, which summarizes a portion of a ... |
US Won't Meet Ethanol Goal Due Cellulosic Shortfall (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 09:00:44
| Reuters: The United States will not meet Congress' mandate to produce more ethanol from waste products over the next 15 years, resulting in an overall shortfall in ethanol production requirements contained in a new energy law, a government forecaster said Tuesday. The new energy law requires the United States to produce 36 billion gallons of biofuels a year by 2022 to help stretch gasoline supplies and reduce oil imports. But only 32.5 billion gallons of the renewable fuels standard ... |
Polls shows climate change high on NZers' priorities (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 11:00:41
| New Zealand Herald: Most New Zealanders seem to think we should come down hard on countries who aren't as committed to climate change action as we are. A new nationwide poll released today shows New Zealanders support imposing a carbon tax on imports from countries which don't impose carbon charges on their own emitters. The survey also shows people support giving this country's large greenhouse gas emitters special emission credits until 2020, or until their competitors overseas also pay a price ... |
Australia: Reef coral expert fears ocean acidifying (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 11:00:42
| AAP: A slowing in the growth of an important reef-building coral in the Great Barrier Reef may point to a disastrous phenomenon that will one day affect all sea creatures, a new report says. The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) study examined two regions at the northern end of the reef and found a 21 per cent decline in the rate at which Porites corals, also known as finger corals, had grown in the past 16 years. "A decline in coral calcification of this magnitude with ... |
Rising Rice Prices Hit Asian Stomachs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 11:00:42
| Inter Press Service: Soaring global rice prices are hitting the stomachs of Asia's poorest citizens. The people of East Timor, where nearly 40 percent live on less than 0.55 US cents a day, have just been told they may not receive their annual quota of food aid. ''We have been forced to provide less food to East Timor; provide less rice than we intended to,'' Paul Risely, Asia spokesperson for the United Nations food agency, told IPS. ''We have requested the people of East Timor to look for local ... |
China 2007 per capita energy use falls; to boost energy efficiency in 2008 - Wen (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 11:00:43
| Thomson Financial News: China's per-capita energy use fell 3.27 pct in 2007, and more efforts will be exerted to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions in 2008, Premier Wen Jiabao said in his speech to parliament. Among the measures to be considered are limits on loan growth to energy-intensive and polluting industries and limits or an outright ban on foreign investment in such sectors. Wen said China also plans to shut down more obsolete production facilities in 2008. Noting a need to ... |
Skeptics say humans not behind warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-04-2008 at 11:00:46
| United Press International: Global warming skeptics are meeting in New York at a conference challenging the theory that humans are at fault for climate change. Christopher Monckton of the Science and Public Policy Institute, University of Virginia professor emeritus S. Fred Singer and Virginia state climatologist Patrick J. Michaels are among the scientists attending the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change who argue recent climate change stems from natural causes, The Washington Post ... |
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