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Rising CO2 levels not as good for crops as thought - Scidev.Net ![[essential]](../images/redDot.gif) Scientists' predictions that rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide will boost crop yields have been too optimistic, according to a study published today (30 June) in Science. |
30th June 2006 |
| Canadians feel global warming, national unity top concerns in 2020: poll - CBC By the year 2020, a majority of Canadians believe scientists will have found a cure for breast cancer, global warming will be the greatest crisis facing mankind and Quebec may no longer fly the maple leaf, a new poll suggests. |
30th June 2006 |
| Government promises carbon cuts - BBC News The UK government has thrown down a challenge to its EU allies by promising to cut, by 2012, carbon emissions from big business by 12.5% on last year's levels. |
30th June 2006 |
| Green thinking: There's nothing better than Planet Earth - New Statesman "I worry that something is going wrong in our collective perception of risk. Highly unlikely scenarios - the asteroid and rampaging nanobots - are conflated with highly likely ones - global warming and peak oil - as if they were much the same thing. " |
29th June 2006 |
| Thirst threatens as tropical glaciers melt away - NZ Herald Mountain glaciers around the world are melting faster now than at any time in the past 5000 years because of an unprecedented period of global warming, a study has found. |
29th June 2006 |
| Big Three Cars Emit 230 Million Tons of Greenhouse Gas - Planet Ark Cars built by the Big Three automakers gave off 230 million metric tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the United States in a year, more than the biggest US electric utility, environmental researchers said on Wednesday. |
29th June 2006 |
| Germany Gives Coal Opt Out Under CO2 Emission Plan - Planet Ark Germany proposes to tighten its greenhouse gas emissions limit in the second round of the EU's carbon market, but will allow new coal plants to opt out, the environment minister said on Wednesday. |
29th June 2006 |
| Latest report on climate change may turn tables in US - Down To Earth US may finally be pushed to act on the climate change problem. |
29th June 2006 |
| Pulling the plug on a dream - Los Angeles Times GM crushed all of its electric cars, but it didn't dim the ardor of two enthusiasts. |
29th June 2006 |
| Kyoto Protocol: Germany under fire for carbon pollution give-away - WBSCD Environmentalists blasted a government plan agreed Wednesday to grant greater carbon-pollution rights to German industry, warning the concession would gut efforts to combat climate change. |
28th June 2006 |
| France to Cut But Keep Generous CO2 Cap in 2008-12 - Planet Ark France's environment ministry proposed on Wednesday to cut its greenhouse gas emission caps for heavy industry in 2008-12 but environmental groups said the plan was still too lax to force pollution cuts. |
28th June 2006 |
| Germany sets 'lax' carbon quotas - BBC News The German government has unveiled a plan to cut carbon emissions from business by less than 1% by 2012. |
28th June 2006 |
| Quebec gets it right on global warming - CNews Canada:While Environment Minister Rona Ambrose fights for her political career over the federal government's inaction on global warming, Quebec has put forward its own plan to deal with the problem - and it's one that could teach the feds a thing or two. |
28th June 2006 |
| Geo-engineering in vogue - Real Climate "So is the answer to a known and increasing human influence on climate an ever more elaborate system to control the climate? Or should the person rocking the boat just sit down?" |
28th June 2006 |
| Top US court to take on CO2 case - BBC News The US Supreme Court is to consider whether to force the government to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from energy producers and cars. |
27th June 2006 |
| Blair sets climate change deadline and hails Africa aid successes - Guardian Unlimited Tony Blair set a one-year deadline last night for a new global deal on climate change as he warned that time was running out to find a way of limiting greenhouse gas emissions. |
27th June 2006 |
| Britain's first olive grove is a sign of our hotter times - The Independent In one of the most remarkable signs yet of the advance of global warming, Britain's first olive grove has been planted in Devon. |
26th June 2006 |
| British Climate Change Envoy Sees China as Key - Planet Ark China has a key role to play in the drive to convert the world to a low-carbon economy, according to John Ashton, set to travel the world as Britain's first Special Representative on Climate Change. |
26th June 2006 |
| £15m boost for children's cycling - BBC News Parents should abandon the school run and encourage children to cycle to school, the government will say later. |
26th June 2006 |
| Greenland's Ice Sheet Is Slip-Sliding Away - Los Angeles Times The massive glaciers are deteriorating twice as fast as they were five years ago. If the ice thaws entirely, sea level would rise 21 feet. [...and if the east antarctic ice sheet melts completely too...] |
25th June 2006 |
| Lower bills may not be blowing in the wind - Guardian Unlimited There is no guarantee that putting a turbine on your roof will produce enough electricity to make worthwhile savings, writes Terry Slavin. |
25th June 2006 |
| Extreme Weather Fits Global Warming Pattern - ABC Drought, Flooding, Heavy Storms May Become More Frequent and Extreme as Climate Changes. |
25th June 2006 |
| How Wicklow went from arctic to mild in seven years - The Times Ireland: Scientists have discovered that 11,500 years ago, Glendalough in Wicklow changed from Arctic tundra to its present climate in less than a decade. |
25th June 2006 |
| TROPICAL IRELAND ; Sun-Loving Species Wing It Here As Temperatures Rise - Red Orbit IRELAND is getting warmer - and these exotic creatures are proof. |
25th June 2006 |
| Homeowners get green light for 'eyesore' wind turbines - Guardian Unlimited The government is to sweep away planning restrictions so that millions of homeowners can put wind turbines and solar panels on their houses. |
25th June 2006 |
| Hot under the collar - The Times Richard Girling salutes angry books on global warming by Elizabeth Kolbert, Tim Flannery and Fred Pearce. |
25th June 2006 |
| Huskies might soon be out of a job as Norway's frozen fjords turn to mush - The Times Huskies will soon be redundant unless global warming can be slowed. |
24th June 2006 |
| Polar bears are left high and dry by shrinking Arctic ice - The Times Polar bears are being forced to change their behaviour and natural habitat because of the retreating Arctic ice. Melt rates have been accelerated by the exceptionally mild winter, with temperatures 12.7C (23F) above the average for the past three decades. |
24th June 2006 |
| Sea life counts dive for 2nd year - San Francisco Chronicle Decrease in essential plankton and krill disrupt food chain. There's "a great deal of disruption going on in food webs and it's climate related." |
23rd June 2006 |
| US scientists back manmade warming claim - Guardian Unlimited US scientists have endorsed the 'contentious' findings of a global warming study that showed humans are drastically altering the climate. See also what RealClimate had to say. |
23rd June 2006 |
| Earth is Hottest Now in at Least 400 Years, Says National Academy of Sciences - NRDC The U.S. National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the "recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia." |
23rd June 2006 |
| Our Black Future - New York Times "The biggest problem with our bounty of coal is not what it does to our mountains or the atmosphere, but what it does to our minds. It preserves the illusion that we don't have to change our lives. Given the profound challenges we face with the end of cheap oil and the arrival of global warming, this is a dangerous fantasy. "Op Ed by Jeff Goodell author of "Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future. |
23rd June 2006 |
Businesses warned of carbon rationing within five years - BITC ![[hopeful]](../images/greenDot.gif) Representatives who gathered at Business in the Community’s National Environment Conference in Leeds were warned how they could face a carbon-rationing regime in the next five years unless they drastically reduce their use of fossil fuels. |
23rd June 2006 |
| Polluters may have to own up - The Age AUSTRALIA'S biggest greenhouse gas polluters could be forced to start publicly reporting their emissions within a year, despite strong Federal Government opposition to the proposal. |
23rd June 2006 |
| California Sets "Clean Energy" Oil Tax on Ballot - Planet Ark Californians will vote in November on a ballot measure proposing a constitutional amendment that would tax oil production to fund a range of alternative energy efforts, Secretary of State Bruce McPherson said Wednesday. |
22nd June 2006 |
| Earn money for your excess energy - GNN UK: Royal Assent was received late last night for a Government supported Private Member's Bill that will make it easier for householders who produce electricity from microgeneration technologies at their homes to sell unused power back to their supplier. |
22nd June 2006 |
| Methane emissions twice official level - study - Guardian Unlimited The UK's emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane are nearly double what the government says they are, according to a global audit of methane emissions. |
22nd June 2006 |
| A political storm hits Tory Rona Ambrose - Globe & Mail Canada: Environment Minister fends off calls for her resignation as Kyoto debate rages. |
22nd June 2006 |
| New science shows major carbon gas under-reporting - Reuters Many countries may be grossly underestimating the quantity of climate-warming gasses they emit according to a new way of monitoring greenhouse gas output, scientists said on Wednesday. |
22nd June 2006 |
| Is Global Warming Fueling Western Wildfires? - KLTV This year, wildfires have already burned more than 3 million acres - more than 3 times the average. Many scientists say that these fires fit exactly into the pattern predicted for global warming and that it's likely to get, on average, even drier and hotter. |
22nd June 2006 |
| EU, US to Agree "Urgent" Action on Climate Change - Planet Ark The United States and the European Union, long at odds over the significance of climate change, will agree on Wednesday to act with "resolve and urgency" to reduce emissions of gases blamed for global warming. |
21st June 2006 |
| Study says 60 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions feasible - CNews Canada can cut its greenhouse gas emissions 60 per cent by 2050 using existing technology, says a new study by a federal agency. |
21st June 2006 |
| Carbon Trust says EU should set minimum carbon price - Reuters The European Union's carbon market should set a minimum price for pollution permits to send a firmer signal to industry to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the government-funded Carbon Trust said on Wednesday. |
21st June 2006 |
| Back to the caves we go - CBC News Martin O'Malley on an MIT prof who reckons that an underground colony in Antarctica looks like the best bet for human survival. [Good grief! - wouldn't it just be easier and more pleasant to cut emissions now...?] |
21st June 2006 |
| The Promise and Problems of Those Dirty Black Rocks - New York Times "We may not like to admit it," Mr. Goodell writes, "but our shiny white iPod economy is propped up by dirty black rocks." |
21st June 2006 |
2 articles not directly concerned with global warming but indicative of the mindset behind the denial:Americans Prefer Video to National Parks - ENN |
21st June 2006 |
| Pay for it now, or pay for it later - Globe & Mail Global warming: Politicians run from the problem, and brave souls who put forward serious policy options get lambasted. Yet with sound policies, the long-term costs of solutions are likely to be much lower than is currently believed. |
20th June 2006 |
| Mohave Facility Won't Be Reopened - Los Angeles Times Possibility of future carbon emissions caps keeps polluting power plant closed. |
20th June 2006 |
| Americans Concerned Over Climate Change - Angus Reid Many adults in the United States are worried about global warming, according to a poll by Hart/McInturff released by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News. |
20th June 2006 |
| Kentucky global warming special - Gristmill The Courier-Journal (of all papers) out of Louisville, Ky. (of all places), is running a wide-ranging, in-depth look at global warming. Kudos, Kentucky! Click link above to go via the ever wonderful Gristmill or go directly to article |
20th June 2006 |
| Share the truth - Gristmill Check out this new website, Share the Truth, which is set up to spread the word about An Inconvenient Truth. Click link above to go via the ever wonderful Gristmill or go directly to site |
20th June 2006 |
| Nuclear power 'stings' taxpayers - BBC News New nuclear power stations cannot be built without the UK taxpayer getting stung, Sir Menzies Campbell will say. |
20th June 2006 |
| Is it OK ... to use air conditioning? - Guardian Unlimited |
20th June 2006 |
| CO2 Storage Grows; No "Silver Bullet" for Climate - Planet Ark Energy firms are stepping up projects to bury greenhouse gases but storage will not be a silver bullet to stop global warming, an International Energy Agency (IEA) expert said on Monday. |
20th June 2006 |
| Shrinking forests hit Kyoto aims - New Zealand Herald The country's forest estate could shrink by up to 7000ha this year, making it even more difficult for the Government to meet its Kyoto Protocol obligations. |
20th June 2006 |
| Northern health will suffer from climate change, doctor says - CBC News Climate change is the biggest threat to the health of people living in northern regions, the co-chair of the International Conference on Circumpolar Health held in Siberia this month says. |
20th June 2006 |
| Next Victim of Warming: The Beaches - New York Times When scientists consider the possible effects of global warming, there is a lot they don't know. But they can say one thing for sure: sea levels will rise. |
20th June 2006 |
| Quebec Carbon Tax Plan Pressures Ottawa Over Kyoto - Planet Ark Canada's French-speaking province of Quebec plans to bring in a carbon tax to help meet its targets under the Kyoto protocol, putting more political pressure on a federal Conservative government that dislikes the international climate change accord. |
19th June 2006 |
| Farmers call for investment to combat desertification - FoodNavigator.com Farmers around the world have joined forces to raise awareness about the risks facing the planets food producing regions, as climate change increasingly turns expanses of land into desert areas. |
19th June 2006 |
| Oilman Calls for More Fuel Efficiency - Los Angeles Times Good: The chief executive of the world's fifth-largest oil company endorsed tougher fuel economy standards for cars and trucks Sunday. Bad: He also wants more off-shore drilling in environmentally sensitive areas. |
19th June 2006 |
| States Vie for Next-Generation Power Plant - The Columbian In fierce bidding reminiscent of efforts two decades ago to win the superconducting super collider, seven states are aggressively trying to land a billion-dollar power plant prototype that's virtually pollution free. |
19th June 2006 |
| Bank of NY Spawns Voluntary CO2 Registry - Sources - Planet Ark The Bank of New York Co. has created a registry it hopes will ease and increase trade in the growing global market for voluntary greenhouse gas credits, sources at the company said on Friday. |
19th June 2006 |
| Spoof penalty tickets spook British SUV owners - The Star UK: Fake parking tickets placed on SUVs read: "Do Not Pay Now. Our children and grandchildren will pay for our dependence on fossil fuels." |
19th June 2006 |
| Jesus Is Not a Republican - Chronicle Review "I went to Sunday school nearly every week of my childhood. But I must have been absent the day they told us that the followers of Jesus were obliged to secure even greater economic advantages for the affluent, to deprive those Jesus called "the least of these" of a living wage, and to despoil the environment by sacrificing it on the altar of free enterprise." |
19th June 2006 |
| Tom Toles - Washington Post Cartoon |
18th June 2006 |
| Farmers look to adapt with innovation - Great Falls Tribune Farmers depend on the weather. Climate change, or potentially hotter and drier conditions, poses a threat, and Montana farmers are rethinking their practices. They are looking at new sources of income, new crops and other ways to adapt. See also: Montana's ag future is clouded by climate change |
18th June 2006 |
| Warmed seas ready to whip up a storm - Sunday Oregonian "...measurements around the world show that the oceans have taken up about 85 percent of the globe's excess heat in the past five decades -- roughly enough energy to power the United States for 1,400 years." |
18th June 2006 |
| Cool Biz Goes Continental - Japan Times Dress-fest for a warming world thaws political chill. |
18th June 2006 |
| Rising seas could be death knell to sportfish - Bonita News Global warming models show a 15-inch sea level rise in Southwest Florida by year 2100, wiping out much marshland where fish breed. |
18th June 2006 |
| Time to act - Times Union "To wait for yet more clarity while carbon dioxide levels continue to rise is not a sign of prudence; it's just the opposite. Dangerous climate change can still perhaps be averted. But not if we waste another 14 years." |
18th June 2006 |
| Greenpeace says M&S is the best - The Independent For decades, British supermarkets have fought to provide the cheapest baked beans, knickers and fish fingers. But this year's battle on the high street is for the "green pound", and environmentalists have declared one store the winner: Marks and Sparks. |
18th June 2006 |
| Sierra Club gives Quebec an A-plus rating for climate change plan - Canoe The Sierra Club of Canada is giving top marks for its plan to impose a carbon tax on the petroleum industry and tighten vehicle emissions standards. |
17th June 2006 |
| Miners, Polluters Face Pocket-Book Pressure - Planet Ark A Norwegian pension fund has thrown down the gauntlet to the mining industry, and any other business that causes havoc to communities and the environment: Clean up your act, or you don't get our money. |
17th June 2006 |
| The rise of a political paradox brings hope for the world - Planet Save The great irony of politics today: Conservation — conserving the environment, natural resources, energy, a sense of community or anything else—is considered unnecessary, or even a dangerous obstacle to economic progress, by most so-called Conservatives. |
17th June 2006 |
| Acidic Seawater Endangering Marine Life - IPS Carbon dioxide emissions have led to a substantial increase in seawater acidity, endangering marine life, leading scientists say. |
17th June 2006 |
| Time running out to curb effects of deep sea pollution, warns UN - Guardian Unlimited Damage to the once pristine habitats of the deep oceans by pollution, litter and overfishing is running out of control, the United Nations warned yesterday. |
17th June 2006 |
| Tax My Carbon - EV World OpEd by Forbes columist by William Baldwin says all energy legislation should be replaced with a simple, one-sentence statute that levies a tax on carbon emissions. |
17th June 2006 |
| The climate change melody in my head - Toronto Star In climate change, feedback loops pose the greatest danger, because they multiply the amount of carbon dioxide and methane entering the atmosphere. |
17th June 2006 |
| Wake up and smell the climate change - Taipei Times Our planet's climate is changing and some fear disaster. But we are still in control of our fate, at least for now... |
17th June 2006 |
| Looming energy crisis requires new 'Manhattan Project': US scientists - PhysOrg.com The United States urgently needs an effort similar to the Manhattan Project or NASA's moon mission to confront a looming energy crisis, scientists said at a high-level energy conference. |
17th June 2006 |
| An Electric Car Murder Mystery - EV World Noel Adams reviews Chris Paine's new documentary, 'Who Killed the Electric Car?' |
17th June 2006 |
| Stop the world, I'm getting off! - Daily Mail Civilisation as we know it will collapse in 35 years, says university scientist Dylan Evans. His solution? To set up a commune and live in tents with 200 strangers in the Highlands. |
17th June 2006 |
| Thawing Permafrost Could Unleash Tons of Carbon - Planet Ark Ancient roots and bones locked in long-frozen soil in Siberia are starting to thaw, and have the potential to unleash billions of tonnes of carbon and accelerate global warming, scientists said on Thursday. |
16th June 2006 |
| Quebec unveils carbon tax - Globe & Mail Quebec hopes levy on oil and gas firms will put $1.2-billion toward its Kyoto goals. If you agree with carbon taxation why not email Jean Charest and send him some words of support? |
16th June 2006 |
| "Myth" that green protection hits economy - Reuters The world must lay to rest a "myth" that protecting the environment harms economic growth, the new head of the U.N. Environment Programme said on Thursday. |
16th June 2006 |
| A thirsty planet - The Parliament.com Climate change and falling water tables are having a dramatic effect on the world’s water resources, writes Satu Hassi MEP. |
16th June 2006 |
| Nighttime flights 'boost warming' - BBC News Night flights by aircraft are much more damaging to the environment than air travel during the day, a study shows. |
16th June 2006 |
| UK Private Sector Raises Doubts on Nuclear Support - Planet Ark The private sector could not shoulder the full clean-up costs of new nuclear power plants in Britain, potential investors say, casting doubts on government claims this week that it would not subsidise new reactors. |
16th June 2006 |
| Global warming could burn insurers - Seattle Post-Intelligencer The alarm sounded by scientists about global warming has deep implications for the insurance industry and consumers, participants said Thursday at a climate change summit in Seattle. |
16th June 2006 |
| Forbes editor calls for tax increase to fight global warming - Gristmill First, get rid of all other energy taxes. And legislation, while we're at it. Then tax carbon. Slowly. Start at a penny a pound, then increase -- let's not get crazy -- a penny a year. |
15th June 2006 |
| Firms 'to waste £500m of energy' - BBC News UK businesses will waste more than £500m worth of energy over the summer months, a report has said. |
15th June 2006 |
| Reward and risk: Global warming and the eternal present - Orlando Sentinel Florida: Legislation planned to make taxpayers foot the bill for future insurance company bailouts due to extreme weather. |
15th June 2006 |
| New Green Crop Network to Tackle Global Warming - Earthvision In the first scientific collaboration of its kind, Canada's top plant researchers are joining forces with government and industry partners to come up with new ways to use crops to reduce greenhouse gases, provide alternative energy sources and mitigate climate change. |
15th June 2006 |
| Global warming necessitates new approach to ecosystem restoration, say scientists - 123 India Ecological scientists have warned that the phenomenon of global warming may warrant new approaches to ecosystem restoration, and that restoration methods of the past may not always be applicable in the future. |
15th June 2006 |
| Governments accused of giving industries permission to pollute - Guardian Unlimited European officials were under mounting pressure last night to tighten the pollution limits on European industry in the second phase of its flagship emissions trading scheme (ETS). See also: In theory, only the virtuous are rewarded |
15th June 2006 |
| Investors Seek Climate Change Information - New York Times Investors worried about the possible financial fallout from greenhouse gas emissions have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to require that companies disclose their financial vulnerability to changes in climate. |
15th June 2006 |
| Nuclear Energy: Not a Climate Change Solution? - Energy Bulletin When nuclear power forced to use uranium from low quality ore, it begins to slip into a negative energy balance: more energy goes in than comes out, and more carbon dioxide is produced by nuclear power than by the fossil-fuel alternatives. |
15th June 2006 |
| Fewer Night Flights Could Cut Climate Change Impact - Planet Ark Cutting the number of flights that take off at night could help to reduce the contribution of aviation to global warming, researchers said on Wednesday. |
15th June 2006 |
| China 'ignoring cyclists' needs' - BBC News A senior Chinese government official has criticised city planners for ignoring the needs of the nation's cyclists. |
15th June 2006 |
| Flaherty rejects request to end tax breaks for booming oil industry - CBC Canada: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has rejected a request from environmental groups to end an estimated $1.4 billion in annual tax breaks to the booming oil industry. |
15th June 2006 |
| Scientists urge G8 not to ignore global warming - Reuters World leaders must not allow concern for energy security to distract them from taking promised action on global warming, top world scientists said on Wednesday. |
14th June 2006 |
| Warming at the Court - Washington Post USA: The EPA claims it can't regulate greenhouse gases and wouldn't if it could. |
14th June 2006 |
| Heading off a 'Coal War' with China - Boston Globe Today, China and the United States have the Coal War. President Bush could salvage a portion of his legacy by ending it. |
14th June 2006 |
| Toyota to Explore Plug-In Hybrids - Los Angeles Times The Japanese carmaker will make a big push to boost its offering of fuel-efficient vehicles, a top executive says. |
14th June 2006 |
| Howard government blind to climate security threat - Scoop Australia: The Howard government has failed to grasp the security implications posed by climate change, leaving Australia and the region exposed. |
14th June 2006 |
| Hawking envisions new homes for humans in space - Globe & Mail The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth, world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking said yesterday. See also: UK Conservatives go off their rockers with bizarre sci-fi floating cities scheme - no mention of floating farms... |
14th June 2006 |
| Behind the spin, the oil giants are more dangerous than ever - Guardian Unlimited The green rebranding of Shell and BP is a fraud. Far from switching to biofuels, it's drilling and devastation as usual. See also: Make Me Sustainable, but not yet. |
13th June 2006 |
| Scotland to hit green energy target three years early - The Scotsman "That this industry has got this far with electricity with only half-hearted Executive support really is proof that renewables have massive economic potential. Further, it underlines that Scotland does not need new nuclear power stations..." |
13th June 2006 |
| Gore to train 1,000 to spread word about climate - Reuters Al Gore hopes to train 1,000 messengers he hopes will spread out across the country and present a slide show about global warming that captures the essence of his Hollywood documentary and book. |
13th June 2006 |
| China Makes U-Turn to Embrace Small, Efficient Cars - Planet Ark China: Small cars were banned from Beijing's main roads less than a decade ago, as China's rulers worried that cheap, spluttering vehicles would clog lanes they hoped to fill with sleek modern autos. |
13th June 2006 |
| UN Scheme to Save 1 Billion Tonnes of Greenhouse Gas - Planet Ark A UN scheme to promote renewable energy use in poor nations is growing sharply and will axe emissions of greenhouse gases by more than a billion tonnes by 2012, the UN Climate Change Secretariat said on Friday. |
13th June 2006 |
| UK Sets "Green" Targets for Government - Planet Ark The British government, under fire for missing its own targets on combatting global warming, set itself a new goal on Monday, pledging to ensure that within six years its own offices would not add to the climate crisis. |
13th June 2006 |
| Warming 'threat to Asian security' - CNN Rapid global warming poses a variety of security threats to the Asia Pacific region that have been "seriously underestimated," a new study says. |
13th June 2006 |
| Carbon Costs Menace Investment in Europe - Planet Ark The rising costs of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by smokestack industries may trigger a shift in major investments in such sectors from Europe to countries where carbon controls are less strict, analysts said. |
13th June 2006 |
| Robert Redford to Democrats: Show more courage, avoid compromises - CBC Redford said efforts to talk with the Bush administration about energy policy is a waste of time. "Things will really improve when they're out of there, so the next elections are going to be very important," Redford said. |
13th June 2006 |
| U.S. Foot-Dragging Fuels Global Warming - Common Dreams "By the time we get proof of climate change, it will be too late to reverse course."- Elizabeth Kolbert. |
12th June 2006 |
| Reef at forefront of CO2 battle - BBC News Scientists monitoring the Belize Barrier Reef are backing a petition pressing the United Nations World Heritage Sites Committee to acknowledge that climate change is already damaging world heritage sites. |
12th June 2006 |
| Climate change a bigger security threat than terrorism - Guardian Unlimited The government's obsession with the "war on terror" is counterproductive and distracting politicians from more fundamental threats to global security, a leading UK thinktank warns today. |
12th June 2006 |
| Blue chips see the green light - Guardian Unlimited UK: The cream of British business lobbied Tony Blair last week. Executives from Vodafone, Unilever, BAA, John Lewis Partnership, Tesco, Shell and eight other companies demanded urgent action on carbon emissions & climate change from the prime minister. |
12th June 2006 |
| Sea urchins threaten Tasmanian fisheries - ABC The infestation of a destructive species of sea urchin along Tasmania's coast is alarming marine ecologists and the fishing industry who claim climate change and overfishing have caused the spread of the pest, which is now threatening two of the State's key fisheries. |
12th June 2006 |
| China's burning of coal casts a global cloud - International Herald Tribune One of China's lesser-known exports is a dangerous brew of soot, toxic chemicals and climate-changing gases from the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants. |
11th June 2006 |
| Just do nothing?: Climate change debate - National Post Canada: '...humanity cannot say, "We will only incur costs to reduce climate change effects or their probability when we are certain the effects will be devastating and that their probability is 100%." This is no way to run a business -- or a planet.' |
11th June 2006 |
| Ministers told to fund urgent Arctic research - The Times Britain must establish a network of research bases around the North Pole and Arctic to monitor and predict the impact of climate change, leading scientists are to tell ministers. |
11th June 2006 |
| Americans and Climate Change: Leveraging the social sciences I - Gristmill If communicating climate change effectively is the goal, it makes sense to call on the expertise of social scientists, whose work is devoted to studying the social dynamics in which communication takes place. |
11th June 2006 |
| Gardeners can slow climate change - Guardian Unlimited UK: Experts appeal for the land around every home to become a sanctuary for endangered wildlife. |
11th June 2006 |
| Family planning is good for planet - Toledo Blade "Family planning makes sense for people - and for our fragile planet. More people will use more energy. The sooner we stabilize population growth, the more likely we are to meet the climate change challenge." |
11th June 2006 |
| Climate Change Hits The American West - New West No longer dismissed as an invention of Chicken Littles, climate change is upon us and Americans are addressing it head on. Consider this possible view of the West in the year 2056. |
11th June 2006 |
| The next green battlefield - Hamilton Spectator Pollution wars may take to the skies to curb, or tax, airplane emissions. |
10th June 2006 |
| Sustainable Architecture Can Help Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions - Washington Post Carbon dioxide is in the air like never before. Increasingly the subject of everyday conversation and cultural discourse, rising CO2 emissions are seen by many as no less a threat than terrorism, uncontrolled immigration, avian flu or escalating gasoline prices. |
10th June 2006 |
| Canada: Sudden Wealth's High Price - CorpWatch Huge mines here turning tarry sand into cash for Canada and oil for the United States are taking an unexpectedly high environmental toll, sucking water from rivers and natural gas from wells and producing large amounts of gases linked to global warming. |
10th June 2006 |
| NOAA: Apres moi le deluge… - RealClimate Hurricanes: There are two scientific camps: one for the natural variability of the hurricane cycle and one for global warming. Funny that that the warming camp accepts the cycle phenomenon but cyclists won't accept the warming... |
10th June 2006 |
| More Companies Weighing Environmental Cost of Travel - Los Angeles Times When a jet flies round-trip from Los Angeles to New York, it leaves behind an estimated 1,600 pounds of carbon dioxide in the skies — and that's per passenger. |
10th June 2006 |
| US Weather Program Needs European Aid To Work As Planned - Morning Star The U.S. government's next-generation weather satellites now will need European assistance to operate as planned, officials told the House Science Committee. Due to budget cuts the new satellites also won't have a set of sensors planned to assess climate change. |
10th June 2006 |
| CNN falsely reported climate change skeptic Gray "predicted last year's hurricane season better than the National Hurricane Center" - Media Matters |
10th June 2006 |
| Brassed off: scientists warning on NASA cuts - Sydney Morning Herald NASA is cancelling or delaying a number of satellites designed to give scientists critical information on the earth's changing climate and environment. |
10th June 2006 |
| UN scheme to cut greenhouse gases - Red Orbit A U.N. scheme to promote renewable energy use in poor nations is growing sharply and will axe emissions of greenhouse gases by more than a billion metric tonnes by 2012, the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Friday. |
9th June 2006 |
| West's emissions 'fuelling destruction of Heritage Sites' - The Independent The United Nations is facing pressure from scientists and campaigners to acknowledge the potentially devastating effect of climate change on the world's most precious ecological sites. |
9th June 2006 |
| CLIMATE DEBATE MARRED BY SPIN - Planetsave.com "There is a line between PR and propaganda. There is a difference between using your skills to help rescue a battered reputation and using them to twist the truth - to sew confusion on an issue critical to human survival. It is infuriating to watch my colleagues use their training and intellect to poison the debate on climate change. " |
9th June 2006 |
| Profs provide climate forecast - Daily Camera Squiggly, compact-fluorescent light bulbs are a nice start, but they won't come close to solving the climate-energy problem... |
9th June 2006 |
| More Than Drought Affecting Wheat Yields - Science Daily Wheat streak mosaic virus and red stripe virus are both vectored by the wheat curl mite; all have increased due to unusual weather. Higher temperatures reduce wheat's resistance to these attacks. |
9th June 2006 |
| Renewables: 25% of energy use in '25? - Christian Science Monitor A broad coalition of politicos, activists, and businesses united this week to try to put greener energy on a fast track. |
9th June 2006 |
| Global warming causing new evolutionary patterns - New Zealand Herald Some species of animals are changing genetically in order to adapt to rapid climate change within the timeframe of just a few generations, scientists said today. |
9th June 2006 |
| NASA shelves climate satellites - Boston Globe NASA is canceling or delaying a number of satellites designed to give scientists critical information on the earth's changing climate and environment. |
9th June 2006 |
| 'Business can save the planet' - BBC News Business ingenuity is a prerequisite to successfully tackling climate change, says Conservative environment spokesman Peter Ainsworth. In this week's Green Room, he argues for a policy framework which gives the market long-term certainty about the value of the environment. |
9th June 2006 |
| Exxon Declines Talks on Global Warming - Los Angeles Times Exxon Mobil Corp. has declined a request from pension fund trustees in seven states, including California, and New York City to discuss global warming with independent board members of the oil giant. |
8th June 2006 |
| Climate change conference: debating how we can save the world - Socialist Worker The Campaign Against Climate Change’s second annual conference last Saturday was a resounding success. Some 350 people attended a day of meetings and discussion about climate change and what we can do about it. |
8th June 2006 |
| The ethics audit 2006 - The Independent Big brands are despised as enemies of the environment. But they're trying to win back our hearts - by flashing their green credentials. Should we trust them? |
8th June 2006 |
| Britain to appoint climate envoy - BBC News Britain is to appoint an international envoy on climate, the BBC has learned. |
8th June 2006 |
| Gorbachev puts anti-nuclear case to Blair - Guardian Unlimited Nuclear power is neither an answer to energy problems nor a panacea for climate change, Mikhail Gorbachev told Tony Blair. |
8th June 2006 |
| Renewable Energy Effort Gains Steam in US Congress - Planet Ark A group of mostly farm-state lawmakers in the US Congress want the federal government to require that 25 percent of the nation's energy come from renewable sources like ethanol and solar power by 2025. |
8th June 2006 |
| HEINZ MEANZ TO SAVE CROP - Daily Record Ketchup kings Heinz are to freeze their tomato seeds to protect future crops against global warming. |
8th June 2006 |
| Climate change could crush wheat yields - The Age Soaring temperatures and declining rainfalls caused by climate change could wipe a billion dollars a year off Australia's wheat industry within 30 years, a study suggests. |
7th June 2006 |
| Animals lose sleep over environment - ANSA.it Animals are losing sleep and shedding pounds over climate change, according to a new study by Italian scientists . |
7th June 2006 |
| Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change - Red Orbit UK: "It is clear from the work presented that the risks of climate change may well be greater than we thought..." |
7th June 2006 |
| Construction on World's Largest Solar Power Plant Starts in Southern Portugal - ENN U.S. energy companies GE Energy and PowerLight Corporation, and Portuguese renewable energy company Catavento began building the world's largest solar power plant on Tuesday. |
7th June 2006 |
| Tycoons urging Blair to curb CO2 - BBC News Thirteen business leaders are set to meet Prime Minister Tony Blair to urge tougher action on climate change. |
6th June 2006 |
| Campaigners Welcome World's First Wave Farm - This Is Cornwall Environmentalists have been giving their backing to the world's first wave farm due to be created off the coast of Cornwall. |
6th June 2006 |
| Trees not so guilty on methane - Sydney Morning Herald Trees are still mankind's friend in the war against global warming, Australian scientists confirm. |
6th June 2006 |
| Rising acidity threatens marine life - International Herald Tribune The problems of acid rain and acid lakes, which came to public attention in the 1980s, have been addressed to a considerable degree. Today we face a far more profound challenge: increasingly acid oceans. |
6th June 2006 |
| The OUTLAW WORLD - Maxim news The 1997 manifesto of the neoconservative organization Project for the New American Century, signed by such people as Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Scooter Libby, proclaimed that the detention of Augusto Pinochet, the new International Criminal Court, and the Kyoto Protocol on global warming were all threats to American security. |
6th June 2006 |
| Lloyd's tells members climate change could destroy insurers - Guardian Unlimited Lloyd's of London, the oldest insurance market in the world, yesterday urged its members to start taking global warming more seriously, by increasing prices to avoid being "swept away" in a sea of future financial claims. |
6th June 2006 |
| PORTUGAL: One-Way Trip to Disaster - IPS Portugal is facing catastrophe as it heads down a path marked by rising emissions of greenhouse gases, wasteful use of water, unbridled construction activity and coastal erosion, environmentalists warn. |
6th June 2006 |
| Climate chaos: Bush's climate of fear - BBC Panorama Video [RealPlayer] Has the Bush administration covered up the findings of global warming scientists? Panorama visits the first climate change refugees |
5th June 2006 |
| Why deserts will inherit the Earth - The Independent Few places on Earth are less hospitable, less suited to human life than the Sahara desert. Yet as global warming accelerates and the prospect of profound climate change looms large, we must face the fact that vast areas of our planet will be rendered equally barren. See also:Desert life threatened by climate change and human exploitation, Deserts 'need better management' |
5th June 2006 |
| A Martian's Electic Observations of Earthlings - Common Dreams "I, Naitram, formerly of the Planet Mars, am pleased to offer you Earthlings who call yourselves Americans a few eclectic observations on your lives and prospects on Planet Earth. " |
5th June 2006 |
| Insurers must act on climate change, says Lloyd's - Reuters Insurers must do more to understand the implications of climate change on their businesses or risk going out of business, Lloyd's of London [LOL.UL] said in a report released on Monday. |
5th June 2006 |
| Householders encouraged to cut power use - The Age Ausralia: Victorians will be urged to save energy to save the planet, with a new advertising campaign expected to be launched today. |
5th June 2006 |
| WHY YOU HAVE TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING NOW - Daily Mirror UK's top weatherman: "I Have little doubt global warming will kill more people than have died in all human conflict. For years I have been saying that global warming is the ultimate weapon of mass destruction." |
5th June 2006 |
| Swords into Plowshares - American Politics Journal As the climate, environmental and energy emergencies that are now upon us are global, so too must be our response. And the gravity of these global emergencies are such that they require an international commitment and response sufficient to render obsolete and irrelevant all remaining violent disputes among nations. For there is in fact no national interest which transcends in importance the common international interest in halting the onset of global climate change, in repairing and restoring ecological balance, and making the transition to a post-fossil-fuel world economy, thus securing common survival on a functioning planet. |
4th June 2006 |
| Junketing Judges: A Case of Bad Science - Washington Post According to documents released by a watchdog law firm last week, Exxon Mobil Corp. and other large businesses contribute to conservative think tanks to help "educate" federal judges through seminars. |
4th June 2006 |
| Global Warming vs. Election Integrity - OpEdNews.com If we are going to effect change, we need to focus our energies, so how can we know what our top priority really should be? |
4th June 2006 |
| DeSmogBlog at the Skeptics Conference Fascinating reports from Skeptics Magazine's 'The Environmental Wars' Conference in Pasadena. |
4th June 2006 |
| Climate Change: The View From the Patio - New York Times The increase in nuisance species, and the potential disappearance of other, much-prized species, may help raise awareness of climate change. |
4th June 2006 |
| Greenhouse-gas goobers - Los Angeles Times Carbon dioxide is our friend? Conservatives must think we're really stupid. |
4th June 2006 |
| Doctors urged to explain climate change - The Age Doctors should take the lead in Australia's fight against global warming by informing the nation about the health consequences of climate change, a new report urges. |
4th June 2006 |
| Power dilemma 'threat' to future - BBC News Leading environmentalists at the Hay Festival have told audiences that if we do not alter how we generate electricity very soon, the world faces a change in climate so destructive that civilization itself will be threatened. |
4th June 2006 |
| Charest dares Bloc to bring down Harper government over climate change - Global News Quebec Premier Jean Charest dared the Bloc Quebecois to bring down the minority Harper government if it's genuinely upset about Ottawa's refusal to foot the bill for Quebec's climate change plan. Contact and lobby: Jean Charest Gilles Duceppe |
4th June 2006 |
| Warming signs - The Age No matter what happens, the global warming that past human activity has already unleashed will make this a different planet in the years ahead. But it could still be a liveable, even hospitable, planet, if enough of us get smart in time. If we don't, a metre of water could be just the beginning |
3rd June 2006 |
| Achenbach's "Tempest" and the Global-Warming Skeptics - Scientific American Does writing about the skeptics, no matter how disparagingly, further their cause? |
3rd June 2006 |
| Piqued by peak oil - Energy Bulletin “The peaking of world oil production presents the US and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem”. - US department of Energy |
3rd June 2006 |
| The Art of Climate Change at the Natural Hostory Museum - 24 Hour Museum Since the initial voyage in 2002, the Cape Farewell project has been taking renowned artists and writers to the High Arctic to inspire them to create works related to one of the major issues of our time, climate change. |
3rd June 2006 |
| Al Gore slams Harper government over Kyoto - CTV News "If somebody would have told me there was going to be a third nation to go into the dunce box with the U.S. and Australia, and say, 'Guess which nation is going to walkout on its international obligations,' Canada would be the last country I would guess." |
3rd June 2006 |
| Time to measure our footprints on the planet - The Age Monday is World Environment Day. Spare a thought for our little blue planet by thinking about the size of your feet. It's not always easy being green, but do something now before our footprints wash away for good. |
3rd June 2006 |
| Submarine farms could help EU face climate change threat - EUobserver Norwegian firm Statkraft says subaquatic sea tide-harnessing machines could in future provide 3 percent of the EU's electricity, as new research shows rising CO2 levels are causing epochal changes in the Arctic seas. |
3rd June 2006 |
| Strip Politics From Global Warming Issue - The Ledger Florida: One of the tactics most often used by the oil industry and others who oppose controlling global warming pollution is to try to reduce the debate to partisan politics. |
3rd June 2006 |
| Runaway Global Warming Created Tropical Arctic 'Paradise'... for Mosquitos 55 Million Years Ago - EV World What's troubling is that this hints that future projections for warming -- several degrees over the next century -- may be on the low end. |
3rd June 2006 |
| Bare mountains anticipated soon - Oak Bay News UVic geography professor warns that glaciers are disappearing at rapid rate. |
3rd June 2006 |
| U.S. Leads Rise in 2004 Greenhouse Gas Emissions - New York Times Many rich nations' emissions of greenhouse gases rose in 2004, led by a U.S. rebound to record highs. |
3rd June 2006 |
| 3 horsemen of eco-apocalypse - Daily Yomiuri Authors foresee hot, stormy world with little drinkable water |
3rd June 2006 |
| China beats Canada on Kyoto - Toronto Star Renowned environmentalist and businessman Maurice Strong, considered by many as the lead architect of the Kyoto Protocol, says Canadians are misguided if they believe their country is more progressive than China in tackling pollution and global climate change. |
3rd June 2006 |
| Technofix bubbles of hydrogen and biofuels at Pentagon’s energy conversation - Energy Bulletin Bursting the technofix bubbles of fantasy and deception. |
2nd June 2006 |
| Denmark offers roadmap to freedom from Big Oil - Inside Bay Area Denmark achieved energy independence through small things: toilets with two buttons — one for a big flush, one for a little; highly insulated houses; a switch years ago to compact fluorescent bulbs; high energy taxes; wind. |
2nd June 2006 |
| NASA's Science Programs Threatened by Missions to Put Humans in Space - NNS NASA has canceled or indefinitely postponed more than two dozen science missions, from spacecraft that would have searched for black holes, gravity waves and Earthlike planets to satellites intended to improve weather forecasting, climate modeling and storm prediction. |
2nd June 2006 |
| Radical turbine aims to take wind power to towns and cities - Guardian Unlimited In the first radical redesign of the turbine for many years, a small engineering firm has linked up with aerospace designers to devise a wind generator uniquely for urban areas. |
2nd June 2006 |
| Curbing Global Warming - Philadelphia Inquirer Here's an inconvenient truth for President Bush: His voluntary attack on global warming isn't working. |
2nd June 2006 |
| Oil Sands' Natural Gas Demand Expected to Triple - Planet Ark A massive rise in crude production from Canada's oil sands region over the next decade will nearly triple the area's call on strained natural gas supplies, Canada's national energy regulator said Thursday. |
2nd June 2006 |
| Republican Über-Strategist Takes Canada for a Spin - IPS "Frank Luntz is the Republican Party's undisputed master of right-wing propaganda, conservative spin-meistering, political-deception, diversion, redirection and focusing the imagination of an unsuspecting audience in ways that bring about specific outcomes or foster public support for anti-environmental, anti-democratic or pro-business positions." |
2nd June 2006 |
| Towards a Sustainable World Economy - EV World Address by Earth Policy Institute founder Lester Brown at the Sustainable Energy Forum, Washington, D.C. |
2nd June 2006 |
| Carbon crisis on the home front - Guardian Unlimited Responses to Monbiot's "Strange but true: shoddy building work in Exeter kills people in Ethiopia" |
2nd June 2006 |
| US Hurricanes May Wipe Out 20-40 Insurers - Planet Ark The US hurricane season kicked off Thursday with another gloomy prediction: major storms could cause US$100 billion worth of property loss, and wipe out 20 to 40 insurers. |
2nd June 2006 |
| Real changes need real incentives - BBC News UK: A fundamental change in how we tackle climate change needs to be made, says Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary Chris Huhne. In this week's Green Room, he argues that financial incentives may be the answer. |
2nd June 2006 |
| Power to change the world - 24 Hours Canada: "My sense is there's a direct link between the biggest donors to our elected governments in B.C. and Canada and their status quo corporate interests - oil and gas companies are in denial of climate change and we have governments answering to them." |
2nd June 2006 |
| 'Climate of fear' in solar research - Canberra Times Australia: Murdoch University Professor of Energy Studies Dr Phillip Jennings said scientists were fearful of losing research grants if they were perceived as criticising Federal Government policies on renewable energy or climate change |
2nd June 2006 |
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1st June 2006 |
| Eat the Press - Grist "...20 percent of our fossil-fuel consumption is going to feeding ourselves. " |
1st June 2006 |
| The plot to kill the green machine - The Independent These days we see them everywhere, but if it had been up to the motoring bigwigs, electric cars would have been run off the road long ago. Andrew Gumbel reports on an eco-conspiracy. |
1st June 2006 |
| Insurers May Cash In on Climate Change - US News Climate change isn't just a crisis. It's a business opportunity--at least in the view of insurance industry leaders, who are mapping out a strategy that could force the rest of the economy to grapple with global warming as never before. |
1st June 2006 |
| Conservation Lagging as Emissions Climb - IPS Late last week, representatives from 165 industrialised and developing countries -- excluding the United States -- agreed to extend a global plan to reduce the emissions that contribute to global warming past its expiration date of 2012. |
1st June 2006 |
| Fear of CO2 Regime Helps Spur US Coal Rush - Planet Ark US power companies are rushing to build coal-fired plants, in part because they are hoping to get them on the books ahead of potential US regulations on greenhouse gases, the author of a book on the coal industry said in an interview. |
1st June 2006 |
| Americans Not Warming Up to Nuclear Power As Solution to Energy Crisis and Climate Change - Red Orbit Despite a major sales push by the Bush Administration and the electrical utility industry, nuclear power is viewed in a deeply skeptical way by a "strong and strikingly bipartisan majority" of Americans, according to a major new survey released today |
1st June 2006 |
| Arctic's tropical past uncovered - BBC News Fifty-five million years ago the North Pole was an ice-free zone with tropical temperatures, according to research. |
1st June 2006 |
| Temperature Rising - US News Feeling a bit warm? You may just have to live with it |
1st June 2006 |
| China fights double fury of floods and forest fires - Reuters China, where natural disasters killed 2,500 people last year, is battling forest fires in its arid north and floods in its center, east and south that have killed 59 and "affected" 19 million, state media reported. |
1st June 2006 |
| Cyberpunk pioneer has designs on a better world - Guardian Unlimited The author of seminal science-fiction works is taking a very pragmatic approach to the world's environmental challenges |
1st June 2006 |
| Economy tells only part of the story - Sydney Morning Herald "... we're desperately trying not to think about global warming and the despoiling of our land and rivers while we sacrifice family relationships on the altar of a higher material standard of living." |
31st May 2006 |
| Climate change and hurricanes: New evidence - Seattle Post-Intelligencer Climate researchers at Purdue University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology separately reported new evidence Tuesday supporting the idea that global warming is causing stronger hurricanes. |
31st May 2006 |
| Born again - Guardian Unlimited Al Gore talks to Jonathan Freedland about going green, what he thinks of Bush - and if he'll stand again for president |
31st May 2006 |
| Energy-Hungry Nations Also Most Wasteful - IPS China, India and Brazil could cut their rapidly rising energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25 percent using existing energy efficient technologies. |
31st May 2006 |
| We can afford to reduce emissions - Toronto Star Canada: he federal government just posted a $12 billion surplus (Federal government reports $12B surplus, May 25) — $4 billion higher than expected. So we could meet our entire Kyoto commitment out of the "surplus" surplus. |
31st May 2006 |
| 'Grey' water to be used in new homes - Barnet & Potters Bar Times Recycled sewage water will be used in new homes across London under the mayor's radical plans to fight climate change. |
31st May 2006 |
| Global warming threatens Baltic Sea marine life - AlertNet Global warming is adding new threats to marine life in the almost land-locked Baltic Sea, where fish are already struggling in polluted, brackish waters, a leading expert said on Wednesday. |
31st May 2006 |
| Canada Pays Environmentally for U.S. Oil Thirst - Washington Post Canada: Tar sands oil production is rapidly draining rivers, cutting into forests and boosting emissions. |
31st May 2006 |
| US Has Easy Ride Under Kyoto - Planet Ark Washington is having an easy ride in UN talks to curb greenhouse gas emissions and the world may have to wait until after 2008 for greater US involvement, the chair of a main UN climate group said. |
31st May 2006 |
| Dutch Preparing for 14-Inch Ocean Rise by 2050 - ENN The Dutch can expect wetter winters and a threatening rise in sea levels of up to 35 centimeters (14 inches) by 2050, said a report Tuesday by the national weather service. |
31st May 2006 |
| Mussel beds don't like it hot - New Scientist Higher sea-surface temperatures have increased stratification of the water, decreasing ocean biodiversity. |
31st May 2006 |
| Warnings of fire threat in full bloom - Denver Post Colorado: Higher temperatures have caused an infestation of Bark Beetles and a lower than normal snowpack; both are pre-requisites for a record breaking wildfire season. |
31st May 2006 |
| Treasury Secretary Nominee Says Failure To Ratify Kyoto Undermines U.S. Competitiveness - Think Progress President Bush’s new nominee for Treasury Secretary, Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry M. Paulson Jr., not only endorses the Kyoto Protocol to limit GHG emissions, but argues that the United States’ failure to enact Kyoto undermines the competitiveness of U.S. companies. |
30th May 2006 |
| Global warming affecting Alaska's forests - World Peace Herald A forest ecologist in Alaska is warning that the state is losing its forests to global warming and could soon turn out to be a state of grasslands. |
30th May 2006 |
| Climate change responsible for increased hurricanes - EurekAlert Human induced climate change, rather than naturally occurring ocean cycles, may be responsible for the recent increases in frequency and strength of North Atlantic hurricanes, according to Penn State and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers. |
30th May 2006 |
| Gore's plea on climate change wins ovation - Guardian Unlimited "We're running the planet like a company in liquidation," the former US vice-president Al Gore told an audience at the Hay festival, in an impassioned plea to act on climate change before it is too late. |
30th May 2006 |
| Pollution Market Collapses: But Without Triggering Concern Among Experts - ENN A new commodity burst onto trading markets a year ago, heralded as a key ingredient in the effort to curtail climate-changing greenhouse gases. That item was carbon permits - the right to pollute - and it soared from zero to a US$10 billion business. Then the market crashed. |
30th May 2006 |
| Strange but true: shoddy building work in Exeter kills people in Ethiopia - Guardian Unlimited Housing inspectors could make a huge impact on climate change - by enforcing the laws on energy efficiency |
30th May 2006 |
| The Emperor's New Biofuel - The Watt Podcast interview with Tad Patzek, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, on the energy balance of ethanol. |
30th May 2006 |
| China, India 'could slash energy use' - The Age China, India and Brazil could reduce energy use by a quarter with simple efficiency schemes but banks have been sluggish to lend to such projects, an international study suggests. |
30th May 2006 |
| The iceberg cometh - Guardian Unlimited UK: Ministers may have wet feet before they confront the imminent dangers of climate change. |
29th May 2006 |
| Why Should I Be Good? - Time If the world is to slow global warming, individuals need a helping hand. |
29th May 2006 |
| Europeans urged to act on climate - BBC News A campaign to convince Europeans they can help stop climate change is being launched by the European Commission. |
29th May 2006 |
| Toepfer Warns Climate Change Could Destabilise World - Planet Ark Global warming is hitting the poor the hardest and climate change could cause worldwide destabilisation if solutions are not found, one of the world's leading environmentalists said on Friday. |
29th May 2006 |
| Terror or error: is humanity on the eve of destruction? - Guardian Unlimited Humankind 'holds planet's future in its hand'. Politicians should do more to counter the danger posed by climate change, "ravaging" the biosphere. |
29th May 2006 |
| Funding blocked to Kyoto alternative - ABC The World Today Transcript: The US House of Representatives has blocked funding for the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate Change, which was launched last year by Prime Minister, John Howard. |
29th May 2006 |
| Poll shows Canadians in the dark about Kyoto - National Post It may be one of the most politically charged topics of today, but more than two-thirds of Canadians say they know nothing about the international Kyoto agreement on climate change, a new opinion survey has revealed. |
29th May 2006 |
| Energy efficiency improvement call - Guardian Unlimited The Government has been urged to step up efforts to improve energy efficiency, as a report found it would not only cut Britain's production of global warming gases but also improve economic growth and employment and reduce inflation. |
29th May 2006 |
| Is this our gift to future generations? - The Age Australia: Fears have also emerged that in the worst-case scenario, Melbourne landmarks such as Luna Park and Crown Casino may be under up to six metres of water as much of the city sinks. |
28th May 2006 |
| Energy groups seek green light to pump carbon under the sea - The Independent Two companies are in talks to build the world's first commercial-sized project to take CO2 from a power station and store it under the sea, rather than allow the gas to be emitted into the atmosphere and contribute to global warming. |
28th May 2006 |
| Hot issue sparks a chain reaction - Sunday Mail "Nuclear fails that test – it would take at least 12 years to build a power station then another eight years to repay its energy debt from its construction. We should be concentrating on renewable energy options such as wind and solar power we can be proud of exporting." |
28th May 2006 |
| Global warming causes dry spells in north, stormy weather in south - China View Chinese government should pay due attention to the effect of global warming, which led many parts of northern China to suffer the worst dry spells for 50 years with its southern part hit by typhoons and tropical storms, an expert on disaster reduction said. |
28th May 2006 |
| Welcome to the Climate Crisis - Washington Post How to Tell Whether a Candidate Is Serious About Combating Global Warming. |
27th May 2006 |
| Flash Floods Warn of Climate Change - IPS Flash floods that hit northern Thailand this week, killing nearly 100 people, have revealed the vulnerability of communities to freak weather patterns in the region, say environmentalists. And this, they warn, will not be the last.. |
27th May 2006 |
| Foresters brace for climate change - Salmon Arm Observer Canada As the federal government drops its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol as an impossible goal for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, a new report for B.C.'s forests ministry stresses the need to adapt to higher average temperatures. |
27th May 2006 |
| Too hot not to handle - Globe & Mail A little science and a little history on global warming are needed by those in denial. |
27th May 2006 |
| Lilacs enlisted to test global warming theory - Cape Cod Times Scientists around the world use lilacs as a ''canary in the coal mine'' in the study of climate change. |
27th May 2006 |
| Creating a climate for change - Guardian Unlimited The BBC's climate chaos season shows Britain is ready to act on global warming. Al Gore's film is moving the US in a similar direction. |
27th May 2006 |
| Designing ourselves to death - Guardian Unlimited Cars are killing the planet. The carbon arithmetic allows no other conclusion. But there is an alternative. |
27th May 2006 |
| U.N. Body: Emission Controls Need to Stay - ABC Environmentalists from 165 nations agreed that climate controls need to remain in place after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, a U.N. body on climate change said Friday. |
27th May 2006 |
| The Alt Fuels Distraction - Tom Paine.com n the next 50 years, give or take, those of us in the United States will face two challenges. We must wean ourselves off of oil and we must cut our carbon-dioxide emissions by around 60 percent. |
26th May 2006 |
| Your electricity choices revealed - BBC News A BBC survey indicates UK would like more than a third of UK electricity to come from renewables such as wind and tidal turbines by the year 2020. |
26th May 2006 |
| Ceres Analysis of Two New Reports From ExxonMobil Finds No Meaningful Advances on Climate Change - Houston Chronicle BP, Shell Investing Up to 80 Times More Than Exxon in Cleaner Alternative Energy; Exxon Understates Existing Renewable Energy Advances in Order to Defend Its Reliance on Oil. |
26th May 2006 |
| Situation in Sinking Tuvalu Scary, Says PM - Planet Ark Low-lying nations such as Tuvalu are slowing slipping under the waves and only dramatic steps, such as legal action against big polluter the United States, might stem the tide, Tuvalu Prime Minister Maatia Toafa said on Thursday. |
26th May 2006 |
| Subtropic warming could mean bigger deserts - Planet Ark Earth's atmosphere is warming faster over the subtropics than anywhere else, which could mean bigger deserts and more drought from Africa to Australia to the Middle East, researchers said on Thursday. |
26th May 2006 |
| The fuels of tomorrow - The Independent Worried about the greenhouse gases your car pumps out? Sustainable energy is the future, but what's available? Meg Carter reviews the alternatives to petrol |
25th May 2006 |
| Buying your love, one word at a time - Canoe How governments 'reframe' the issues to make their policies appear acceptable. |
25th May 2006 |
| Fate of world climate lies with U.S., China - Inside Bay Area If energy and economic trends persist, scientists say, two nations are likely to decide the climate for the whole planet. |
25th May 2006 |
| Chronic Problems, Acute Symptoms - IPS In Argentina, an area 10 times the size of the capital is deforested every year, while the burning of forests generates more greenhouse gases than the country's motor vehicles, according to a new report by the Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina. |
25th May 2006 |
| NASA launches GOES-N weather satellite - Boston Globe After months of delay, NASA on Wednesday launched a weather satellite that will allow forecasters to better pinpoint severe storms and investigate world climate change. |
25th May 2006 |
| Charging up the stairs - BBC News Can we harvest the energy expended from footsteps and the vibrations from trains? Architect Claire Price describes how this can be put into practice. |
25th May 2006 |
| World fire maps now available online in near-real time - PhysOrg.com For a decade now, ESA satellites have been continuously surveying fires burning across the Earth’s surface. Worldwide fire maps based on this data are now available to users online in near real time through ESA's ATSR World Fire Atlas. |
25th May 2006 |
| A fool's paradise - Guardian Unlimited We in the west must abandon our tainted notion of success - before it destroys the whole world. |
24th May 2006 |
| Attenborough: Climate is changing - BBC News Naturalist Sir David Attenborough has said climate change is the biggest challenge facing the world. Also includes video interview See also: David Attenborough's own article from The Independent |
24th May 2006 |
| Government 'lagging on climate' - BBC News The UK government is a "climate laggard" when it comes to policies on tackling global warming, MPs say. |
24th May 2006 |
| Climate change and drought - BBC News How climate change will transform the way we live: A collection of articles and video interviews. |
24th May 2006 |
| Finally Feeling the Heat - New York Times Has anything happened in recent years that should cause a reasonable person to switch sides in the global-warming debate? Yes: the science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous. |
24th May 2006 |
| Wall St. Develops the Tools to Invest in Climate Change - New York Times Socially conscious investors long ago hopped on the climate-change bandwagon, putting their money into companies that control greenhouse gases and shunning those that do not. |
24th May 2006 |
| Global warming risk 'much higher' - BBC News Global temperatures will rise further in the future than previous studies have indicated, according to new research from two scientific teams. |
23rd May 2006 |
| The vicious cycle of rainforest destruction - PhysOrg.com Rainforests and savannas contain 70% of the world’s plants and are critical to the health of our planet. A new £1.6m international project is looking at the impact of global warming on these sensitive areas. |
23rd May 2006 |
| Parti Quebecois leader demands made-in-Quebec Kyoto - Canada.com Ottawa is "sabotaging" the Kyoto climate accord, so Quebec should go it alone by passing a law that commits the province to meeting Kyoto's targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, Parti Quebecois Leader Andre Boisclair said Monday. |
23rd May 2006 |
| Hailing Gore a 'committed visionary,' Clinton unveils plan to reduce oil imports by 50% - The Raw Story In an appearance before the National Press Club, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) called for a reduction of U.S. oil imports of 50% by 2025. |
23rd May 2006 |
| Superweeds, air caves and the future of energy - CNET Steve Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, sat down with CNET News.com recently to talk about alternative energy and other topics. If we don't address the energy situation soon, he warns, war, pollution and economic hardship could be the result. |
23rd May 2006 |
| Arctic ice on its way out - WWF Scientists at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) recently announced that March 2006 showed the lowest Arctic winter sea ice extent since satellite measurements began. |
23rd May 2006 |
| Greenhouse gas/temperature feedback mechanism may raise warming beyond previous estimates - YubaNet Climate change estimates for the next century may have substantially underestimated the potential magnitude of global warming. They say that actual warming due to human fossil fuel emissions may be 15-to-78 percent higher. Listen to podcast interview with lead scientist Marten Scheffer |
22nd May 2006 |
| Feedback Loops in Global Climate Change Point to a Very Hot 21st Century - Berkeley Lab Studies have shown that global climate change can set-off positive feedback loops in nature which amplify warming and cooling trends. Results point to global temperatures at the end of this century that may be significantly higher than current climate models are predicting. |
22nd May 2006 |
| The Flipping Point - Scientific American How the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flip |
22nd May 2006 |
| Climate Scientist To CEI: Stop Misrepresenting My Research - Think Progress One of the CEI's anti-global warming advertisements claims a study found the “Antarctic ice sheet is getting thicker, not thinner.” The primary author of that study, Curt Davis, has issued statement blasting CEI’s use of his study. |
22nd May 2006 |
| The fall of the house of finance - Guardian Unlimited We must rebuilt our economic system so that it works in the interests of society and the ecosystem. |
22nd May 2006 |
| NOAA: North Atlantic could see 10 hurricanes this season - CNN The North Atlantic Ocean could see 10 hurricanes form this year and four to six of them become major storms, the National Hurricane Center announced Monday. |
22nd May 2006 |
| Weather-Hit Crops Tighten European Wheat Supply - Planet Ark Flooded fields in central Europe, a harsh Black Sea winter and low rainfall in France have dimmed the prospects for this summer's wheat crop, adding to tightening world supplies next season, analysts said on Friday. |
22nd May 2006 |
| Rising Ocean Temperatures Threaten Florida's Coral Reef - New York Times On May 9, for the first time, two species of Caribbean coral — acropora palmata, or elkhorn, and acropora cervicornis, or staghorn — were added to the list of threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act. |
22nd May 2006 |
| No plane sailing for global climate - The Age Aviation is now by far the biggest growth area for carbon emissions, yet the industry is exempted from most climate change treaties, including the Kyoto treaty. |
22nd May 2006 |
| Global Warming Hurts Spain's Vineyards, Forces Vintners to Move - Bloomberg Global warming is killing vineyards in southern Spain, threatening a 2 billion-euro ($2.4 billion) wine industry and forcing grape growers to move to cooler climes of the Pyrenees. |
22nd May 2006 |
| PM's nuclear bombshell won't stop climate change - Sydney Morning Herald Australia: "Energy efficiency and renewable energy work now and can be deployed rapidly if the political will exists. Nuclear energy is a dangerous diversion from real solutions." |
22nd May 2006 |
| Al Gore's Unlikely Helpers - Washington Post The oil industry and its Republican allies are rooting for Al Gore, albeit unintentionally. |
22nd May 2006 |
| More Salmon Being Caught in Waters of North Slope - Red Orbit In recent years salmon have seemed to turn up more and more in an odd place - the Arctic Ocean... |
22nd May 2006 |
| How to cut your carbon footprint - The Scotsman There is much we can do to limit our own impact on the environment - particularly by reducing the size of our individual "carbon footprint". |
22nd May 2006 |
| It's not a wonderful world anymore - The Telegraph Preserving the biodiversity of the planet is not a luxury but a necessity |
22nd May 2006 |
| Attenborough says stop climate change - The Times Long a sceptic, UK naturalist David Attenborough tells Stuart Wavell why he is now certain the planet is warming up and issues a call to arms . |
21st May 2006 |
| Africa on the brink of catastrophic change: blame global warming - Seattle Post-Intelligencer Africa is facing the greatest catastrophe in human history. Climate change represents a nightmare scenario for the future of the people of the world's poorest continent. |
21st May 2006 |
| Look what we have done - Guardian Unlimited In this extract from her acclaimed book on climate change, Elizabeth Kolbert reports on how changing weather patterns and rising sea levels are threatening the world's coastlines. Is it too late to turn the tide? |
21st May 2006 |
| Brazil leads field in alternative fuel race - Guardian Unlimited As use of ethanol fuel increases, George Bush is looking to his South American neighbour for lessons in energy self-sufficiency. |
21st May 2006 |
| Liberals demand environment minister recall Kyoto delegation and resign - Macleans Canada: The federal Liberals are demanding Environment Minister Rona Ambrose recall Canada's delegation from Bonn after they said she deliberately tried to "undermine" the Kyoto Protocol. AMAZING: If you're wondering how a minority government with only 36% of national vote gets away with this, why not email the other parties and ask them why they aren't doing more to stop Harper & Ambrose. Jack Layton (NDP) Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois) |
20th May 2006 |
| The Sway of the World - Grist Gore-backed group will spend big to convince Americans climate change is real |
20th May 2006 |
| Home Insurers Embrace the Heartland - New York Times Premiums for homeowners in Michigan are going down as insurers fight for their business. Not so for the owners of homes on the coast from Texas as far north as Cape Cod — their premiums are going up, if they are lucky enough to keep their policies. |
20th May 2006 |
| What next? Carbon markets and clean development SciDev.Net "..decisions have been based on an incomplete economic analysis because they have not factored in the cost of releasing gases into the atmosphere". "That cost has not been carried by the emitter, but has been shared by the rest of humanity." |
20th May 2006 |
| Turned Off by Global Warming - New York Times US: All the current plans to halt climate change fall short. "...we need to achieve global warming solutions on par with the problem". |
20th May 2006 |
| End Times - Los Angeles Times Gore is—at the risk of paraphrasing—a candy-assed optimist, according to James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century." |
20th May 2006 |
| 'Why would you cut a program like that?' - The Record Canada: Committee wants Ottawa to bring back Residential Energy Efficiency Program |
20th May 2006 |
| EU says US, China open to global emissions trade - Boston Globe The European Union's environment chief said on Friday the United States was open to discussing a global greenhouse gas emissions market, but the U.S. government said it remained opposed to mandatory caps on emissions as called for by the Kyoto Protocol. |
20th May 2006 |
| The fair choice for climate change - BBC News Contraction and Convergence is the only long-term framework for regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions which does not make carbon dioxide production a luxury that only rich nations can afford. JOIN THE DISCUSSION - ADD YOUR COMMENT |
19th May 2006 |
| US States, Investors Attack Exxon on Global Warming - Planet Ark A group of pension funds and institutional investors Thursday accused Exxon Mobil Corp. of failing to act on global warming concerns |
19th May 2006 |
| Temperatures Hit Record May Highs in Central Spain - Planet Ark Temperatures in parts of central Spain set record highs for May this week, the National Meteorological Institute said on Thursday. |
19th May 2006 |
| China Faces Rising Temperatures, Shrinking Crops - Planet Ark China's average temperature may rise by 2.8 degrees Celsius by 2030 and its crop production could tumble by 10 percent as global warming throws the climate into disarray, a senior Chinese climate official said on Thursday. |
19th May 2006 |
| New century of thirst for world's mountains - PhysOrg.com The Andes in South America will have less than half their current winter snowpack, mountain ranges in Europe and the U.S. West will have lost nearly half of their snow-bound water, and snow on New Zealand's picturesque snowcapped peaks will all but have vanished. |
19th May 2006 |
| It's an ill wind - Sydney Morning Herald Enemies in high places and activists with nuclear links have taken the puff out of clean energy. |
19th May 2006 |
| Make Every Home a Generator - Huffington Post Instead of building more of the same we need a complete rethink on how we should produce power -- a new paradigm where we are no longer simply consumers of electricity. We need to turn our homes into renewable energy generators. |
19th May 2006 |
| Saving the planet can be a real pain in the butt. - Wired Ex-lard-ass in record breaking speedboat attempt using biodiesel liposuctioned from his own bum. Note facts on biodiesel production at bottom of article. |
19th May 2006 |
| Global Food Supply Near the Breaking Point - IPS Rising population, water shortages, climate change, and the growing costs of fossil fuel-based fertilisers point to a calamitous shortfall in the world's grain supplies in the near future, according to Canada's National Farmers Union. |
18th May 2006 |
| Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore - Think Progress Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) will unveil two 60-second TV ads focusing on what it calls “global warming alarmism and the call by some environmental groups and politicians to reduce fossil fuel and carbon dioxide emissions.” |
18th May 2006 |
| Lib Dems plan a £2,000 road tax - BBC News UK: The owners of cars which generate the most pollution would face annual road taxes of £2,000 under Liberal Democrat plans to tackle climate change. |
18th May 2006 |
| Using Satellite Observations To Study Photosynthetic Trends In Northern Circumpolar High Latitudes - Science Daily Satellite observations indicate that tundra areas consistently and predominantly show greening trends while forested areas show browning, indicating that the boreal forest biome might be responding to climate change in previously unexpected ways. |
18th May 2006 |
| Blair's toxic legacy - guardian Unlimited "So here's to six more Sizewells on the flood-threatened coasts of Britain some time after 2020, when it is too late to make any difference about global warming even if they really did cut emissions..." |
18th May 2006 |
| The facts are not with him - Guardian Unlimited Nuclear is not the answer: If we want to reduce our dependence on imported gas, the option that is fastest and offers the best value for money is to increase efficiency in our 24m energy-leaky households. |
18th May 2006 |
| Scientists Back Plug-In Hybrids - ENN A group of scientists urged Congress on Wednesday to fund research for plug-in hybrid vehicles, touting the technology as another way to reduce the nation's dependence on oil through the help of a simple electrical socket. |
18th May 2006 |
| Griping About Gas Prices ... in a New SUV - MSNBC USA: With all the histrionics about rising gas prices coming out of Washington these days, SUVs must be an endangered species in our nation's capital, right? Well, not exactly. At Capitol Cadillac, just inside the Beltway, SUVs are flying off the lot... |
18th May 2006 |
| The gassy elephant in our living room - Globe & Mail Canada: "Injecting natural gas into the oil sands to produce oil is like turning gold into lead." Q:Why do they do it? A: NAFTA rules. |
17th May 2006 |
| Harper playing politics of the disingenuous kind - Nanaimo News "If Canadians really want action on the environment, we have to demand it from our leaders. And if our leaders fail, we have to throw the bums out." |
17th May 2006 |
| Opposition parties to force Tories to meet Kyoto targets - Globe & Mail Canada: The three opposition parties will join forces today to pass a motion aimed at embarrassing the Conservatives over their position on the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. |
17th May 2006 |
| Ex-minister Morley says figures are a fix - Guardian Unlimited UK: The sacked environment minister Elliott Morley yesterday rejected the case for new nuclear build, saying a true comparative analysis would prove the economic case for investment in energy efficiency and renewables. |
17th May 2006 |
| Anger as Blair pre-empts 'smokescreen' nuclear review - Daily Telegraph Nuclear campaigners have branded a forthcoming Government energy review a sham after Tony Blair indicated he would give the go-ahead to a new generation of nuclear power stations, weeks before the report was due to be published. |
17th May 2006 |
| Carbon trading's real colours - BBC News There are no shortage of nightmare consequences that could result from rampant global warming. So it's all the more worrying that cracks are already appearing in one of the industrialised world's most publicised weapons for fighting climate change. |
17th May 2006 |
| EU finds carbon trade emission impossible - FT The preacher has fallen out of his pulpit. The European Union, which has been chief proselytiser for the Kyoto climate change treaty and for trading of carbon permits as the best way of meeting Kyoto's goals, has just seen its emissions trading system dissolve into chaos. |
17th May 2006 |
| Time for an upgrade - Guardian Unlimited Nuclear power is a proven failure. Instead, the government must radically overhaul the way buildings are constructed and run |
17th May 2006 |
| Shell's critics come back with a vengeance - Guardian Unlimited Campaigners queue up to attack oil group's 'hypocrisy'. Some argue that the gap between rhetoric and reality is so great they feel more cynical about Shell and BP than they did previously. See the rosy side: Companies and Critics Try Collaboration and What's Kind to Nature Can Be Kind to Profits |
17th May 2006 |
| Companies and Critics Try Collaboration - New York Times If politics makes for strange bedfellows, global warming, endangered forests, dwindling water supplies and scary new technologies have made for even stranger ones. Environmentalists and corporations are engaging in a new spirit of compromise. |
17th May 2006 |
| AIG Adopts First Policy on Global Climate Change - Planet Ark American International Group Inc. this week became the first major US insurer to adopt a policy on climate change, saying it would develop projects to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. See also: Director of the US National Association of Insurance Commissioners on the decision to establish a task force on climate change |
17th May 2006 |
| Elizabeth may announces that she will be a candidate for the leadership of the green party of canada See also: Watch Out Boys, Here Comes Elizabeth May! |
16th May 2006 |
| In theory, only the virtuous are rewarded - The Guardian The European emissions trading scheme was meant to be a market-based solution to a thorny problem: Yesterday the scheme was under fire for failing to deliver on Kyoto and handing big windfall gains to power generators through over-generous allowances. See also: Governments accused of giving industries permission to pollute |
16th May 2006 |
| Fabled equatorial African icecaps to disappear - EurekAlert Fabled equatorial icecaps will disappear within two decades, because of global warming, a study British and Ugandan scientists has found. An increase in air temperature over the last four decades has contributed to a substantial reduction in glacial cover, they say. |
16th May 2006 |
| "EU needs 'quantum leap' in use of renewable energy" - WBCSD Europe should lead the new global energy agenda and take a "quantum leap in the production of renewable and low carbon energy", according to EU energy commissioner Piebalgs. |
16th May 2006 |
| Central Hungary Region Turning Into Desert - Planet Ark A large region of central Hungary is turning into desert as a result of irrational communist planning and climate change, threatening the livelihood of 300,000 people, an expert advising government said. |
16th May 2006 |
| New figures reveal scale of industry's impact on climate - The Guardian Five companies in Britain produce more carbon dioxide pollution together than all the motorists on UK roads combined, according to new figures which reveal heavy industry's contribution to climate change. |
16th May 2006 |
| EU 2005 CO2 Emissions 44 Million Tonnes Below Quota - Planet Ark EU emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in 2005 were 44 million tonnes below a quota of 1.829 billion tonnes under the European Union's carbon trading scheme, the European Commission said on Monday. |
16th May 2006 |
| Global warming turns pristine coral into rubble - The Independent Miles of unblemished coral reefs have been turned to slime-covered rubble because of rising sea temperatures caused by global warming. |
16th May 2006 |
| Carbon Trading Scheme Challenged - IPS European Union governments are abusing the bloc's emissions trading scheme by allowing their industries to produce as much carbon dioxide as they wish at no cost, environmental organisations are warning. |
15th May 2006 |
| Global warming likely to speed up, CSIRO finds - The Age Global warming is likely to speed up, says Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, with a new report showing near record growth in many heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. |
15th May 2006 |
| First drought order for 11 years - BBC News UK: A drought order has been granted in England and Wales for the first time since 1995, banning the non-essential use of water. |
15th May 2006 |
| Meltdown fear as Arctic ice cover falls to record winter low - Guardian Unlimited Record amounts of the Arctic ocean failed to freeze during the recent winter, new figures show, spelling disaster for wildlife and strengthening concerns that the region is locked into a destructive cycle of irreversible climate change. |
15th May 2006 |
| Climate change a 'deadly threat' - BBC News The Christian Aid charity has warned that 184 million people in Africa alone could die as a result of climate change before the end of the century. |
15th May 2006 |
| Poor Nations to Tell Rich to Do More on Climate - Planet Ark Developing nations will urge rich countries to show more leadership in combating global warming at talks of almost 190 states in Bonn from Monday that will underscore deep rifts on climate policies. |
15th May 2006 |
| Inaction said costing Canadian farmers - Leader Post Players in the new Kyoto-inspired emissions trading industry say they've moved up to $1 billion in Canadian investments and technology out of the country because Ottawa is stalling on a plan to reduce greenhouse gases. |
15th May 2006 |
| No Weather Relief for Drought and Flood-Hit China - Planet Ark Drought and floods in China are threatening millions of people in cities and on farms and the weather outlook offers little prospect of relief, state media reported on Friday. |
15th May 2006 |
| Climate Change And Peak Oil - Tom Paine.com "Even renewable energy sources can be used unsustainably ... It’s not an oil addiction—it’s an addiction to high per-capita energy consumption ... We have to get the goals right. Is it a high GDP or high human wellbeing?" |
14th May 2006 |
| Global warming is about to hit high gear - Citizen-Times "This country, which has led the world in environmental understanding for a long time, is now not the caboose on the train but the anchor thrown off the back of the caboose." |
14th May 2006 |
| Conservative climate strategy said to be inspired by U.S. communications expert - Macleans Environmentalists say the Canadian Conservatives' communications strategy on climate change echoes advice by U.S. pollster Frank Luntz - the use of simple messages, carefully tested and frequently repeated, to overcome public suspicions on potentially unpopular policies. Tell her you're not so easily fooled. Email her at: rona.ambrose@ec.gc.ca |
14th May 2006 |
| Revealed: minister's links to nuclear lobby - The Times UK: David Miliband, the new environment secretary, is embroiled in a sleaze row this weekend over his links to a nuclear industry lobbyist. |
14th May 2006 |
| Charity warns on human cost of climate shift - FT Climate change could reverse the gains made in combating poverty in the developing world and contribute to the deaths of hundreds of millions of people, the charity Christian Aid warns in a report on Monday. |
14th May 2006 |
| The Great Coral Reef disaster - The Independent US admits for first time that global warming is killing reefs - and will now be legally obliged to protect them. |
14th May 2006 |
| Vital bay grass can't take heat - Batimore Sun Experts say the Chesapeake's plant life couldn't stand another summer of temperatures near record highs |
13th May 2006 |
| Backbencher's climate bill beats the filibusters - The Scotsman UK: A backbench bill to combat climate change and promote energy efficiency cleared the Commons yesterday after a parliamentary marathon, and now stands a good chance of becoming law. |
13th May 2006 |
| Of frogs and free markets - Ottawa Citizen Canada needs a carbon tax. |
13th May 2006 |
| Oil tax would fund energy research - Contra Costa times Backers of tax on crude producers say the measure will reduce consumption, bolster work on alternatives |
13th May 2006 |
| Five British firms to sue EC over CO2 allowances as price falls - The Guardian The EU's CO2 emissions trading scheme hit renewed turbulence yesterday when prices fell to a new one-year low. It emerged that five UK energy groups are suing the EU commission over cuts in their allowances. Brussels, meanwhile, is planning new legal action against the UK. |
13th May 2006 |
| HOUSE FACES MOMENT OF TRUTH ON GLOBAL WARMING - NRDC Members of the U.S. House of Representatives next week face a fateful vote next week that may have repercussions for generations to come. Will they, or won't they, confront the truth on global warming? |
13th May 2006 |
| Canada would lose credibility if it withdrew from Kyoto - Times Colonist Canadian Conservative government credibility in question as it allegedly exaggerates emissions increase as an excuse to duck its Kyoto obligations. |
13th May 2006 |
| Sweden's Path to a Petroleum-free Future - EV World Sweden's Path to a Petroleum-free Future: Official remarks of Mona Sahlin, Sweden's Minister for Sustainable Development at the "Beyond Peak Oil" conference, Washington DC, May 9th 2006 |
13th May 2006 |
| Miliband 'open minded on nuclear' - BBC News Britain's new environment minister David Miliband said on Friday nuclear power had to remain an option as the country studied how to meet its international obligations to tackle global warming. Let him know what you think; email him at: milibandd@parliament.uk |
13th May 2006 |
| Why global warming is to blame for Britain's hay fever epidemic - The Independent Global warming is to blame for the rising numbers of Britons suffering from hay fever, in the first direct impact of climate change on human health in this country. |
13th May 2006 |
| Solution or Distraction? An Ethanol Reality Check - NY Times ETHANOL is on a roll, increasingly promoted as a homegrown alternative to oil from the Middle East. But is ethanol really the fuel of the future, or is it destined to remain a niche product in the Midwest, subsidized by Congress for the benefit of farm-state politicians? |
13th May 2006 |
| Greening Up With the Joneses - NY Times Some consumers share experiences of trying to go 'green'. Environmental organisations should to offer more practical information about the consequences of different consumer choices. |
13th May 2006 |
| Pollution, Greenhouse Gases And Climate Clash In South Asia - Science Daily A new analysis by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography has produced surprising results showing how air pollution, global warming-producing greenhouse gases and natural fluctuations in the climate may have a range of significant consequences in S.Asia. |
12th May 2006 |
| Parties fight for green supremacy - BBC News UK: Tony Blair has asked the new environment secretary to look at setting up an office on global warming. The Tories and Lib Dems have called on David Miliband to join a cross-party consensus on climate change. |
12th May 2006 |
| 190 nations seek to bridge policy gaps on climate - Reuters About 190 nations meet in Germany next week to try to bridge vast policy gaps between the United States and its main allies over how to combat climate change amid growing evidence that the world is warming. |
12th May 2006 |
| Halliburton Solves Global Warming - Peace Earth & Justice News "SurvivaBalls" save managers from abrupt climate change: "Halliburton" presents a "gated community for one". The Yes Men. |
12th May 2006 |
| Canada's infrastructure at risk - CNews Canada's bridges, sewers, roads and buildings are at risk of failure because of climate change over the next 50 years, says a new study by Environment Canada. |
12th May 2006 |
| Ottawa wants Kyoto softened - Globe & Mail In report to UN, Tories argue second phase of climate pact should be more lenient |
12th May 2006 |
| Beijing suffering worst drought in 50 years - Yahoo China's capital is suffering its worst drought in 50 years, prompting the government to monitor rainfall at sites to be used during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, state media reported. |
12th May 2006 |
| Norway's CO2 Emissions Dip in 2005 - Planet Ark Norway's emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) fell to 54 million tonnes in 2005 from 55 million in 2004 but the dip is unlikely to be the start of a long-term decline, Statistics Norway said on Thursday. |
12th May 2006 |
| NOTES FROM A DYING PLANET - Media lens The Media's Aversion To Addressing The Juggernaut of Economic 'Growth' - "...the pursuit of economic growth makes controlling CO2 an impossibility, and that a different path must be sought." |
11th May 2006 |
| Obviation not generation - New Statesman We don’t need more energy – just more imagination, intelligence . . . and political courage. |
11th May 2006 |
| Fear, greed, and finance - New Statesman UK: The gulf between rising investor awareness about climate change and actual patterns of investment urgently needs to be closed if the world is to achieve energy security and environmental sustainability. See also: Heat & Liight: UK energy & climate policy in context |
11th May 2006 |
| Climate Change Evidence Stronger - Planet Ark Global temperatures may be increasing more quickly than first thought, and evidence is stronger that humans are causing the rise, the World Bank's Chief Scientist Robert Watson told Reuters on Thursday. |
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| Five Countries Urge for Action on Environment - Angus-Reid Adults in 5 nations around the world believe more should be done to protect the earth, says new poll. At least 84% of respondents in Australia, UK, New Zealand and Indonesia believe the world’s environmental problems could become uncontrollable unless action is taken now. |
11th May 2006 |
| Crop Shortages Could Curb European Biofuel Growth - Planet Ark BioFuel Pie-in-the-Sky: Shortages of suitable nationally grown crops could slow European moves to replace contaminating transport fuel with clean-burning, plant-based alternatives, industry sources said at a conference on Wednesday. |
11th May 2006 |
| Al Gore Emerging -- Presidency Secondary to Global Warming? - ABC With New Film and Group, Gore Turns Focus From Politics to Environment |
11th May 2006 |
| A cracking alternative to cement - The Guardian UK: Alternative cement products make good environmental sense, writes Sean Dodson, especially if Britain is to meet its ambitious targets to reduce carbon dioxide emissions |
11th May 2006 |
| Kyoto Gives Poor Countries US$2.7 Billion Boost - Planet Ark Rich nations' funding of clean energy projects in developing countries reached US$2.7 billion in 2005, through deals allowed under the global Kyoto treaty to tackle climate change, the World Bank said on Wednesday. |
11th May 2006 |
| China, India move up on a dubious list - CNN Greenhouse gas pollution from China and India rose steeply during the past decade, but rich countries, including the United States, remain the world's biggest polluters, a World Bank official said on Wednesday. |
11th May 2006 |
| As a matter of principle, sustainable investment hits the mainstream - The Age If there were any doubts that sustainable investment has gone mainstream, the launch of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan should put them to rest. |
11th May 2006 |
| It's Only $300 Billion - Washington Post If We Can Fund the War in Iraq, Why Can't We Fund the Kyoto Protocol? |
10th May 2006 |
| What Price Nature? Bogs US$6,000, Reefs US$10,000 - Planet Ark A 1997 study, published in the journal Nature, concluded the world's ecosystems were worth US$33 trillion - almost double world gross national product at the time. "The estimates we used were conservative." |
10th May 2006 |
| Giant wind farm to power 8m homes - BBC News Plans to build an undersea grid network to link existing and new electricity generating wind farms in the North Sea are due to be announced on Wednesday. |
10th May 2006 |
| Global Warming Will Be Core Focus Of Gore-Led Group - Wall Street Journal An educational group that former Vice President Al Gore is helping to launch intends to spend millions of dollars convincing Americans that global warming is an urgent problem. |
10th May 2006 |
| Al Revere - Grist An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore |
10th May 2006 |
| China, India lead 15% rise in CO2 emissions - Hindustan Times Fast-growing China and India helped to drive up global greenhouse gas emissions by 15 per cent over 1992-2002, fuelling the effects of climate change, the World Bank has said. |
10th May 2006 |
| US Group to Make Power Conservation a Commodity - Planet Ark US companies and organizations that conserve electricity by switching to more efficient lighting or by moderating heating and cooling will earn a credit they can trade or bank. |
10th May 2006 |
| European Cities Pledge to Slash Greenhouse Gas Emissions - ENS An association of European cities linked in partnership with indigenous rainforest peoples has resolved to reduce their emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by 10 percent every five years as a long term strategy. |
10th May 2006 |
| Shivering and Unsung, Scientists Monitor the Arctic Year After Year After Year - New York Times Fascinating account of the scientists who dive beneath the ice to monitor climate changes in the arctic. |
9th May 2006 |
| Wildlife under threat on coast with the most - The Scotsman "If global warming continues at this rate, it's going to have a devastating effect on marine life in Scotland. The global temperature rose by 0.6 per cent during the last century and, although this may seem quite small, it has already had a massive impact on our seas .." |
9th May 2006 |
| Lack of Cost Understanding is a Leading Cause of Energy Wastage - PR Newswire Twenty million British adults have little or no understanding of the amount they spend on electricity or gas while using domestic appliances, listening to music or watching TV, according to research released today. |
9th May 2006 |
| Kyoto Carbon Trading on Track, UN Body Says - Planet Ark Carbon trading under the global Kyoto treaty is on track to kick off in April 2007, allowing developed countries to buy pollution permits from poorer states, the United Nations climate change body said on Monday. |
9th May 2006 |
| Heritage chief sounds flood warning - Eircom Eire: The most serious threat to Georgian Dublin is that rising sea levels as a result of global warming will ultimately reclaim the land on which the city's 18th century streets and squares were built. |
9th May 2006 |
| Next wave of tax reforms should be green - The Age Australia: It's high time for measures that encourage energy efficiency and make polluters pay the full cost of their damage . |
8th May 2006 |
| What will happen if Britain becomes 3C warmer? - Guardian Unlimited The IPCC says that if emissions are not cut, sea leavels will rise 43cm by 2100, and go on rising after that for 200 more years. Britain, a small island, will become much smaller. |
8th May 2006 |
| Bye Bye Birdies - Time Populations of many migratory species have plummeted--and, in some cases, global warming seems to be at fault |
8th May 2006 |
| Spain Likely to Tighten CO2 Emissions in 2008-12 - Planet Ark Spain is likely to give its contaminating industries lower carbon dioxide emission permits in the future, despite them having overshot their limits in 2005. |
8th May 2006 |
| A push for cars to get better gas mileage - CS Monitor US: Politicians argue whether proposed fuel standards should apply equally to all vehicles. |
8th May 2006 |
| It's the climate, stupid - Toronto Star Building hybrid cars is missing the point. Global warming is killing the planet, and only clean energy systems can save us. |
7th May 2006 |
| Ice-capped roof of world turns to desert - The Independent Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and continent's great rivers dry up |
7th May 2006 |
| The ice cream man cometh to save the world - The Telegraph Jerry Greenfield, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's raises global warming awareness, visiting students in the Arctic sponsored by his foundation. |
7th May 2006 |
| Moving toward a hydrogen economy - Herald-Tribune 50 year plan to reduce greenhouse emissions to zero using "stabilization wedges" . |
7th May 2006 |
| Wake up while you can still smell the roses - Sydney Morning Herald The proof of climate change is convincing, writes Peter Doherty. Now we owe it to ourselves to learn more, and do more, about it. |
6th May 2006 |
| White House opposes move to scrap Cape Wind - Cape Cod Times In the Bush administration's most significant statement to date on the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm, a top energy official is urging Congress to strike controversial legislation that could doom the project. |
6th May 2006 |
| Converting trash gas into energy gold - CNN Growing concern about the U.S. dependence on foreign oil is raising more urgent calls for developing alternative energy sources. |
6th May 2006 |
| Alternative energy index to launch - FT A new index tracking the performance of a portfolio of US alternative energy stocks is set to be launched on Friday, among the first to focus on the relatively young and fast-growing sector. |
6th May 2006 |
| Dutch study sheds light on climate change's threat to birds - PhysOrg.com Environmental scientists in the Netherlands say they have found evidence that climate change can decimate migrating bird species by affecting the date when their main food supply becomes abundant. |
6th May 2006 |
| War on greed is war on terror: Many say 'no' to ExxonMobil - Indian Country "Interestingly, the oil companies making it hand over fist at the pump are the ones most dependent on Middle Eastern oil. And one, ExxonMobil, has done more to obfuscate and confuse the legitimate issue of global warming than any other entity on earth." |
5th May 2006 |
| It's easy being green - Sydney Morning Herald Ray Anderson of Interface- "Our products are better than ever because sustainability has proved to be an unimagined source of inspiration and innovation." |
5th May 2006 |
| Climate Change Drives Disease To New Territory - Washington Post Global warming -- with an accompanying rise in floods and droughts -- is fueling the spread of epidemics in areas unprepared for the diseases, say many health experts worldwide. Mosquitoes, ticks, mice and other carriers are surviving warmer winters and expanding their range, bringing health threats with them. "Things we projected to occur in 2080 are happening in 2006..." |
5th May 2006 |
| Hydro-Québec targets energy for export in $25-billion plan - Globe & Mail Hydro-Québec plans to invest $25-billion in new hydroelectric projects over the next 10 years, aiming the power straight at lucrative markets in Ontario and the United States. |
5th May 2006 |
| Scientists Probe Atlantic, Find New Species of Life - ENN Scientists have found about 10-20 new species of tiny creatures in the depths of the Atlantic in a survey that will gauge whether global warming may harm life in the oceans, an international report said on Thursday. |
5th May 2006 |
| MY Review of Books - RealClimate Three books on climate change reviewed from a scientist's perspective |
5th May 2006 |
| Plan to limit supermarkets' CO2 emissions - Guardian Unlimited Thousands of British companies and organisations could have to restrict the amount of carbon dioxide they emit under radical plans to cut UK pollution put before ministers today. Tesco and the BBC would be among those covered by the new plans, seen by the Guardian. |
5th May 2006 |
| Chicago Climate Market Books First Europe CO2 Deal - Planet Ark A voluntary Chicago emissions market said on Thursday one of its members had executed the first transaction linking greenhouse gas emission trading systems in Europe and North America. |
5th May 2006 |
| Green claims for hybrid cars fail to add up - Guardian Unlimited New tests suggest that hybrid cars are not quite as green as buyers may have been led to believe. |
5th May 2006 |
| As Hurricanes Loom, Many in Florida Keys Flee - Planet Ark Spiralling living costs, lingering trauma from past evacuations and fear that one day million-dollar homes could be reduced to rubble or again flooded are driving people out of the vulnerable Florida Keys as another hurricane season looms. |
5th May 2006 |
| Secrecy breach by US officials steals thunder of climate change report - Guardian Unlimited A confidential draft of a high-level international report on the state of climate change has been posted on the internet by US officials months before it was due to be made public. The move to effectively publish the findings of the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has surprised experts, who say it could undermine the final report when it is released in February. |
4th May 2006 |
| 3C hotter. Earth's danger point. Now scientists say it is going to happen - The Times The world will warm by 3C (5.4F) even under emissions projections for 2050 that leading scientists consider optimistic, the United Nations group that studies global warming has said. |
4th May 2006 |
| Trade winds weaken with global warming - Guardian Unlimited Trade winds that sweep around half the globe are weakening as global warming disrupts normal atmospheric circulation, scientists report today. |
4th May 2006 |
| Life, but not not as we know it - The Independent Zero emissions, village-style car-free neighbourhoods - and no landfill. A new settlement on the Yangtze will show the world that China wants to help save the planet after all. By Meg Carter |
4th May 2006 |
| Seabirds threatened as temperatures rise - The Age Great Barrier Reef-dwelling seabirds are in hot water because of a dramatic rise in sea temperatures along the Queensland coast, a new study has found. |
4th May 2006 |
| Suburbs at risk of a termite invasion Climate change is putting Australia's suburbs at risk of a termite invasion. |
4th May 2006 |
| Carbon Slide Will Not Halt Kyoto Projects - UN - Planet Ark Solar, wind and other green energy projects based in developing countries and funded under the Kyoto Protocol will survive the plunge in the European carbon market, which underpins project investment, the UN says. |
4th May 2006 |
| 1942 and the Global Battle for the Environment - The Globalist Global warming. Rising oil prices. And continued intransigence on the part of the Bush Administration to do what’s smart — and future-oriented, both with regard to the environment and energy efficiency. While it seems the U.S. government may not turn the corner in time, Lester Brown provides a historic example to explain that the job, at long last, can still be done. |
3rd May 2006 |
| Power sector can slash emissions - The Age Australia's electricity sector could cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2030 and still meet growing demand from industries and households, a new report has found. |
3rd May 2006 |
| Study Reconciles Data in Measuring Climate Change - Washington Post A government study released yesterday undermines one of the key arguments of climate change skeptics, concluding there is no statistically significant conflict between measures of global warming on the earth's surface and in the atmosphere. |
3rd May 2006 |
| On your bike: Cameron the green is forced to backtrack - Guardian Unlimited David Cameron was forced to backtrack on his personal green credentials yesterday by admitting that he travelled to work by bicycle not to cut carbon emissions, but because he found it enjoyable. |
3rd May 2006 |
| Plugging the gap - Guardian Unlimited A look at the pro-nuclear lobby's PR tactics in the UK . See also www.NuclearSpin.org |
3rd May 2006 |
| MIT hoping to short-circuit energy crunch - Boston Globe The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is planning an ambitious effort to solve the world's energy problems, including spending at least $25 million annually on new research, according to a report set to be released today. |
3rd May 2006 |
| Japanese find it easier to be green - Christian Science Monitor In a country that has often paved paradise, more citizens back taxes aimed at stemming environmental degradation. |
3rd May 2006 |
| The Global Warming Denial Lobby - The Tyee The people out to 'poison the debate on climate change.' |
2nd May 2006 |
| Peugeot reduces global warming with tree planting project - Car.co.nz Two million trees have been planted by Peugeot in an environmental project to help reduce the effect of motor vehicle emissions on the environment. |
2nd May 2006 |
| Polar bears sink deeper into danger - Nature Global menace of climate change and pollution add to local hunting concerns. |
2nd May 2006 |
| Hurricane Destruction Powers Global Warming Debate - New York Times "The strongest hurricanes in the present climate may be upstaged by even more intense hurricanes over the next century as the earth's climate is warmed by increasing levels of greenhouse gases....," |
2nd May 2006 |
| Chilling warnings on receding permafrost - Chemistry World The annual loss of around 1 per cent of the world’s permafrost areas will trigger the release of more greenhouse gases, starting a vicious circle that could make global warming even worse than anticipated, scientists have warned. |
2nd May 2006 |
| The Heat on Ecuador - Chronogram Global warming is vanquishing ancient glaciers throughout South America, killing crops, and threatening the water source for millions. |
2nd May 2006 |
| The greening of corporate Canada - Investment Executive Tree huggers and the “greed is good” crowd are hardly natural allies, but with environmental worries on the rise, financial services firms are increasingly finding themselves at the centre of efforts to limit the human-inflicted damage being done to the planet. |
2nd May 2006 |
| China's "roof of the world" glaciers melting fast - Reuters Glaciers covering China's Qinghai-Tibet plateau are shrinking by 7 percent a year due to global warming and the environmental consequences may be dire, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. |
2nd May 2006 |
| Nine states to sue over gas mileage rules - The Gainesville Sun Nine states, including California and New York, plan to file suit this week to force the Bush administration to toughen mileage regulations for sport utility vehicles and other trucks. |
2nd May 2006 |
| Canada’s Kyoto role reduced - Chronicle Herald Canada’s role in UN negotiations on climate change appears to be shrinking in response to the Conservative government’s mixed messages about the Kyoto Protocol. |
2nd May 2006 |
| 'Climate scientists' about politics and business - Scoop The newly formed group of ‘climate scientists’ is about politics and big business, not science, says Greenpeace. |
2nd May 2006 |
| Shoppers urged to 'switch allegiances' - Clearly business "...it would take more than 60 greengrocers to match the carbon dioxide emissions from just one average superstore." |
2nd May 2006 |
| Greenhouse gases showed steady rise in 2005 - Reuters Greenhouse gases -- the heat-trapping chemicals linked to global warming -- continued to increase steadily in 2005, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported on Monday. |
1st May 2006 |
| Hippopotamus among 26,000 New Species on Endangered List - Common Dreams More than 26,000 species of animals, birds, plants and fish will this week be added to the list of those in serious danger of extinction. Thousands of species including the common hippotamus are to be added or moved up the so-called "red list" drawn up by The World Conservation Union (IUCN). |
1st May 2006 |
| Violent storms lash Malaysia as the country becomes warmer - Yahoo / AFP Rising temperatures from global warming are creating violent storms in Malaysia which have killed several people and set buildings ablaze, a report said. |
1st May 2006 |
| 75% back new climate law as Thom Yorke plays sell out climate change gig - FOE Three quarters of the UK population would support the introduction of a new law to combat climate change, a new survey revealed today (1 May). The results were released as some of the UK's top musicians prepare to play `The Big Ask Live' - a sell out bank holiday concert at KOKO in London in support of The Big Ask, Friends of the Earth's climate campaign. |
1st May 2006 |
| Sustainable Companies Aim to Make it in Mainstream - Planet Ark Refillable lipstick, a soft camisole made of soybean waste, a normal hybrid car -- these are just some of the new "sustainable" products companies hope will attract the mainstream consumer. |
1st May 2006 |
| CO2 Price Crash Signals Tougher EU Pollution Goals - Reuters / Planet Ark A price crash which this week wiped nearly 40 billion euros (US$50.19 billion) off the value of Europe's greenhouse gas trading scheme will not endanger the market but is likely to make Brussels toughen pollution targets. |
1st May 2006 |
| Barrage of support for tidal lagoons - Guardian Unlimited A tidal lagoon, which looks like a small rocky island, is a constructed lagoon with turbines embedded in the walls capturing energy as the water flows in and out of the structure with each rising and falling tide. The cost of these lagoons is such that for the same price as the proposed Severn barrage at least 150 lagoons could be constructed. Estimates show generation costs from the barrage of 5.5 pence and from lagoons 2.5 pence per kilowatt hour. Lagoons can also be built in close proximity to the communities using the power, cutting transmission loss and building a decentralised system. |
1st May 2006 |
| £1bn windfall from carbon trading - BBC News Power firms could make a £1bn windfall profit from the EU Carbon Emissions Trading Scheme, BBC News has learned. |
1st May 2006 |
| Less Snow and Drier Summers in German Forecast - Deutsche Welle New weather models predict arid summers and less time for winter sports in Germany if climate changed isn't turned around, according to a study released this week by the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology. |
1st May 2006 |
| Believe it or not: The battle over certainty - BBC News "Unfortunately, where arguments about the ecology are concerned, time is not on our side. We cannot afford ourselves the luxury of waiting for evidence which clinches the theory. We are going to have to learn how to participate in debates which are not about certainties. We have to decide right now whether we should sacrifice our right to cut-price air travel in order to cut carbon emissions. A public understanding of science has never been more important." |
30th April 2006 |
| A battle for oil could set the world aflame - Guardian Unlimited International powers will do everything to protect their access to dwindling resources. We are mad not to have an alternative strategy |
30th April 2006 |
| Wall Street Analysts Concerned About Impact of Oil Prices, Energy Policies and Climate Risk on Auto Sector Companies - CERES A new Ceres report released today finds that the uncertainty in the U.S. regarding the future course of energy and climate change policy is a major problem for investors and Wall Street analysts in assessing the value of auto companies, and that analysts need better disclosure from auto companies about their strategies for managing the risks and capturing the opportunities posed by new energy and climate change policies taking effect worldwide. |
30th April 2006 |
| Insurers Retreat From Coasts - Washington Post Alarmed at the sharply rising cost of hurricanes and other disasters, home insurers are pulling back from some U.S. coastal markets. The development is yet another legacy of Hurricane Katrina, whose mounting toll of destruction along the Gulf Coast has crystallized a growing industry debate about the combined effect of climate trends and population growth in coastal areas. |
30th April 2006 |
| Canada needs to think big - Montreal Gazette "The well-reported extent of environmental degradation, collapsing ecosystems, loss of species and the melting of our polar ice cap has dwarfed any claim that we could make of having achieved a state of sustainable development. The science of global-warming is sufficiently certain that delay is no longer an option. We must commit the resources necessary to address the causes and consequences of climate change." |
30th April 2006 |
| Antarctic on thin ice - Sunday Mail With more icebergs calving from the Antarctic ice shelf than ever recorded, scientists are wondering not only what's going on in the frozen southern continent, but what it means for the rest of the planet. |
30th April 2006 |
| U.S. Investors Support Global Warming Resolution with Dominion Resources - CERES Several leading U.S. institutional investors, representing over $475 billion in invested assets, today announced they are supporting a shareholder resolution requesting that Dominion Resources in Richmond, VA prepare a report on the company's strategies and potential risks from foreseeable regulations to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power plants. The resolution will be voted on at the company's annual meeting Friday April 28. |
30th April 2006 |
| Danube bursts its banks - Nature Rising water: are Europe's floods a sign of climate change? |
29th April 2006 |
| It's only going to get drier on the Prairies - Toronto Star Glaciers that feed rivers are shrinking |
29th April 2006 |
| World Aware of Global Warming Threat - Angus-Reid Many adults in 30 countries express concern about climate change, according to a poll by the Program on International Policy Attitudes. 65 per cent of respondents think global warming is a very serious problem, while 25 per cent call it somewhat serious. |
29th April 2006 |
| Climate change threatens sugar bush - Toronto Star Preliminary research shows that within 20 years, not much of an industry will be left in the United States, the study says. In Canada, the industry will remain viable during those 20 years, but over 90 years the range for sugar maple trees will shift northward by up to two degrees latitude — that's the equivalent of shifting north from Sherbrooke to Trois Rivières in Quebec, or from Brockville to Arnprior in Ontario. |
29th April 2006 |
| The real cost of a bag of salad: You pay 99p. Africa pays 50 litres of fresh water - The Independent To you it is a bag of salad, dropped into the supermarket trolley with the weekly groceries. But to farmers in Kenya starved of the water extracted by large scale agriculture to grow it, it may spell destitution. The world is running out of water and British supermarket shoppers are contributing to global drought, according to environmental pressure groups. |
29th April 2006 |
| Keep your hair on! Trump blows into town with attack on wind farms - The Independent "When I stand on the 18th hole of Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, I want to see the ocean. I do not want to see windmills..." |
29th April 2006 |
| Labrador's polar bears under threat - CBC Global warming is posing a significant threat to the polar bear population in Labrador, a leading Canadian wildlife biologist says. |
29th April 2006 |
| While Washington Slept - Vanity Fair The Queen of England is afraid. International C.E.O.'s are nervous. And the scientific establishment is loud and clear. If global warming isn't halted, rising sea levels could submerge coastal cities by 2100. So how did this virtual certainty get labeled a "liberal hoax"? |
28th April 2006 |
| Going zero on carbon: it can be done - Guardian Unlimited George Monbiot accuses me of wanting to solve the problem of climate change with 'resources that do not exist'. They not only exist, they are easy to use. |
28th April 2006 |
| Bush: Raise fuel-efficiency standards - CNN President Bush on Thursday said he wants to raise fuel-efficiency standards on automobiles, as members of both parties jockeyed for political position on the issue of rising gas prices. |
28th April 2006 |
| Cameron's bike ride to work - with a car in tow - Telegraph The Conservative leader David Cameron's pursuit of the green vote has been dealt a blow after it emerged that his bicycle ride to the House of Commons is routinely followed by his official car. |
28th April 2006 |
| Hot times for Exxon’s Raymond - Kansas City Star "It’s impossible to say Exxon Mobil actually changed public policy. But whatever small chance there was of action to limit global warming became even smaller because Exxon Mobil chose to protect its profits by trashing good science." |
28th April 2006 |
| It's no longer emission impossible - Guardian Unlimited Making your company more environmentally friendly needn't be a costly chore. Reducing carbon emissions can not only save money, but also attract new business, says SA Mathieson |
28th April 2006 |
| Carbon trade on trial - Financial Times Every market, especially one as young as the European carbon emissions trading system that started last year, is prone to sharp swings. But the 25 European Union governments that have created this market have no interest in seeing the traded price of carbon suddenly halve, as it did in the period of only 48 hours this week. Such market plunges could undermine what ought to be the most efficient and flexible way for EU governments to implement their carbon reduction obligations under the Kyoto climate change treaty. |
28th April 2006 |
| West must take Africa's climate burden - BBC News Helping poor farmers in Ethiopia adjust to the worst effects of climate change will minimise future human tragedies, argues Tadesse Dadi of Tearfund; and the West has a responsibility to provide that help. |
28th April 2006 |
| Subsidizing Our Own Exploitation - Sierra Club Compass Even with oil at $70+, BigOil is still receiving government subsidies |
28th April 2006 |
| People in greenhouses should turn up the heat - Sydney Morning Herald "When a corporation pollutes a river, we expect the corporation to pay to clean it up, and compensate those affected. If that is a fair principle, then the US should be paying a big slice of the costs of global warming, as it is not only the biggest polluter now, but has been for the past century or more, and most of the gases it has emitted over that period are still in the atmosphere." |
28th April 2006 |
| 10 states sue EPA over global warming - CNN Ten states fired a new legal salvo Thursday at the federal government in a long-running court battle over global warming and pollution from power plants. |
27th April 2006 |
| Massive wind farm gets approval - BBC News Plans to build Europe's largest onshore wind farm on a vast stretch of moorland south of Glasgow have been approved by the Scottish Executive. |
27th April 2006 |
| When Science Inconveniences Bush - Inter Press Service News Agency The unprecedented efforts of the administration of President George W. Bush to gag and suppress research findings it doesn't like are putting science in the United States at risk, say experts. |
27th April 2006 |
| Let's preserve nature's services while free - hometownlife.com The best things in life are free. That is, they used to be. Already, many ecological services we've taken for granted have a price tag: |
27th April 2006 |
| Europe carbon market on brink as prices dive - Reuters European carbon prices continued a collapse on Thursday that has wiped up to 50 percent off the value of carbon credits over the past week and could leave a key plank of the EU's Kyoto strategy in tatters. |
27th April 2006 |
| Tesco Announces Energy-Efficiency Fund - Reuters / Planet Ark Britain's top retailer Tesco Plc has launched a £100M fund to increase energy efficiency and cut carbon emissions. |
27th April 2006 |
| 'Say You’re Sorry': A Guest Commentary - ENN "My kids deserve an apology from the global warming “skeptics.” For longer than my kids have been alive, these skeptics have intentionally muddied the climate change debate, confusing the public, misleading policymakers, and successfully delaying any meaningful action to develop solutions. Thanks to their actions we are now at the point where my children – not to mention the rest of the world – are committed to a radically changed planet. " |
27th April 2006 |
| Campbell in green challenge to Tories - Guardian Unlimited The Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, challenged David Cameron today to sign up to five "green" principles to forge a cross-party consensus on the environment. |
27th April 2006 |
| Corals go fishing to survive - Nature Hungry corals have an unexpected trick up their sleeve that could help reefs to escape destruction at the hands of warming seas. Marine biologists have discovered that some corals can weather 'mass bleaching' events by gorging on marine animals. |
27th April 2006 |
| AP6 plan is no alternative to Kyoto - WWF Interest in joining the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (known as AP6) expressed by Environment Minister Rona Ambrose yesterday indicates that the federal Government is willing to accept runaway climate change, says WWF, the global conservation organization. |
27th April 2006 |
| The time is now - The Hour In Canada even businesses are feeling the burden of Conservative cuts to the environment |
27th April 2006 |
| Ford to Promote Green Investments to Consumers - ENN Ford Motor Co. said it will give consumers concerned about harmful greenhouse emissions an opportunity to invest in clean energy projects via a new Web Site that will calculate suggested investments based on the amount of carbon dioxide produced while driving. ['an opportunity' = a TerraPass brochure on offsetting their GHG emmissions] |
27th April 2006 |
| The environment becomes a moral issue for politicians - The Church of England Newspaper The issue of global warming has shot to the top of the political agenda in recent months as it seems the industrialised world is finally waking up to the urgent need for action to tackle the effects of climate change. Anyone watching the news on television will be depressingly familiar with the subject being subjected to a daily diet of images such as melting ice caps and rising sea levels as the consequences of the West’s dependence on fossil fuels becomes increasingly apparent. |
27th April 2006 |
| What is the value of a tree? - CS Monitor Antoinette Campbell loses an oak: Her a/c bill goes up $120 a month - the toll on her city is even bigger. [The sooner we start pricing the value of 'free' natural environmental goods & services, the sooner we will realise how cheap reducing emissions will be compared to replacing what nature does now for free.] |
26th April 2006 |
| Bank investments 'bad for environment' - Sydney Morning Herald Australian banks and other financial institutions have invested in activities that are contributing to global warming, says Australian Conservation Foundation. |
26th April 2006 |
| An expensive moral duty -Guardian Unlimited Linking climate change to development could cost the Earth. |
26th April 2006 |
| Gorbachev urges G8 to back solar power, not oil or nuclear - Yahoo News Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev urged the world's biggest industrialized nations to set up a 50-billion-dollar (44-billion-euro) fund to support solar power, warning that oil or nuclear energy were not viable energy sources for the future. |
26th April 2006 |
| Extreme makeover - Guardian Unlimited "...many of the biggest challenges of the next few years will only be solved with a substantial contribution from social innovation. Take climate change. New technologies will have a critical role to play, as will taxes and regulations. But sharp reductions in CO2 emissions will depend just as much on social innovations that develop new models of housing or transport - like the radical public transport models invented in Curitiba, Brazil, or London's congestion charge." |
26th April 2006 |
| The green bandwagon - FT "Environmental problems are real and deserve more serious attention and less grandstanding. The first step would be for the government to impose higher taxes on polluting products and activities and, importantly, reduce taxes elsewhere." |
26th April 2006 |
| Save the planet, workers tell bosses, but don't ask us to pay - Management-Issues Nearly six out of 10 British workers believe their employers should donate a higher proportion of their profits to the protection of the environment, new research has suggestions. Yet, hypocritically, nearly eight out of 10 said they would not be prepared to sacrifice their own benefits to help the environment, said the study by travel consultancy Portman Travel. |
26th April 2006 |
| Blame Everyone but the Culprit - AlterNet With gas prices at an all-time high, Democrats, Republicans and President Bush are all quick to point blame. But they're ignoring the biggest offender: all of us. |
26th April 2006 |
| Margaret Beckett sets out goals for a sustainable food industry - GNN A strategy to tackle the impact of the food industry on precious resources, such as energy and water, and its contribution to climate change, was published by Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, today. |
26th April 2006 |
| Barrage option for energy needs - BBC News A £10bn Severn barrage is among options for future energy provision recommended by the Welsh Assembly Government. |
26th April 2006 |
| Republicans Find Public Wants "Green" - NRDC When House Republicans talk about the importance of "green" these days, they're just as likely talking about the state of the environment as the color of money. |
26th April 2006 |
| Shrinking Alpine Glacier Points to Snowless Future for Swiss Mountain Resorts - ENN Trends don't bode well for Switzerland's ski resorts, which have been seeing shorter seasons. Average temperatures in the Alps are at their highest since 1500, which many experts blame partly on the burning of fossil fuels increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. |
26th April 2006 |
| The Critical Importance of Sustainability Risk Management "The "prudent fiduciary" equation is being turned on its head. Since there is now evidence that superior environmental and social performance improves the risk profile, profitability and stock performance of publicly traded companies, fiduciaries can be seen to be derelict in their duties if they do not consider sustainability." |
25th April 2006 |
| Only the WTO can stop global warming - Guardian Unlimited If we're serious about climate change, then international agreements have to be enforced. |
25th April 2006 |
| 2006 Environmental, Social Shareholder Proxy Resolutions Up From 2005, With Emphasis on Global Warming, Toxics and Political Donations - Yahoo Social, environmental and corporate governance shareholder resolutions are seeing another robust year in 2006. An estimated 180 social and environmental shareholder resolutions either already have come to votes or are scheduled to be decided at U.S. corporate meetings for the first half of 2006, compared with 169 for the first half of 2005, the Social Investment Forum reported today. |
25th April 2006 |
| Canada backs Kyoto alternative group - CNN Canada's new Conservative government, which is openly skeptical about the Kyoto climate change protocol, said Tuesday it backs a breakaway group of six nations that favor a voluntary approach to cutting emissions of greenhouse gases. |
25th April 2006 |
| The Next Green Revolution - Wired Green-minded activists failed to move the broader public not because they were wrong about the problems, but because the solutions they offered were unappealing to most people. They called for tightening belts and curbing appetites, turning down the thermostat and living lower on the food chain. They rejected technology, business, and prosperity in favor of returning to a simpler way of life. No wonder the movement got so little traction. Asking people in the world's wealthiest, most advanced societies to turn their backs on the very forces that drove such abundance is naive at best. |
25th April 2006 |
| Alaska senator's bid to block wind farm linked to Kennedy - Boston Globe For weeks, it has been unclear why an Alaska senator had introduced language into a Coast Guard funding bill that could kill a proposed wind farm off Cape Cod. But now, it appears that Senator Edward M. Kennedy is behind the amendment that would give Governor Mitt Romney veto power over the project. |
25th April 2006 |
| Biofuels: cure or a new threat? - Socialist Worker Though they are presented as an ecologically acceptable form of power generation, there are real dangers with biofuels. |
25th April 2006 |
| Global warming behind hurricanes, says US expert - The Age A leading US government storm researcher says last year's record hurricane season could be attributed to global warming. |
24th April 2006 |
| Scientists to seek orcas in Nunavut waters - CBC Global warming may have boosted orca population |
24th April 2006 |
| Ottawa scientist's book 'hotter than hell' on East Coast - CBC A small New Brunswick publishing house has a bestseller on its hands, after the author was discouraged from attending a promotional event by the federal government. |
24th April 2006 |
| Spanish summers could be 5-7 degrees hotter - Reuters Summer temperatures in Spain already reach 45 Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in some parts, but they could rise by another 5 to 7 degrees this century as global warming increases, a climate expert said on Monday. |
24th April 2006 |
| Poll Finds Worldwide Consensus: Climate Change a Serious Problem; Concern Growing Sharply - US Newswire A 30-country poll finds large majorities in all countries believe climate change is a serious problem. No country has more than one in five saying it is not a serious problem. |
24th April 2006 |
| Global Warming Real for Two-Thirds of Americans - Angus-Reid Many adults in the United States are aware of climate change, according to a poll by the Center for Survey Research and Analysis at the University of Connecticut. 66 per cent of respondents think the claim of a gradual warming of the earth’s atmosphere caused by carbon dioxide emissions is completely or probably true. |
24th April 2006 |
| Bold idea for energy woes: global cooperation - Christian Science Monitor Some analysts envision an alliance of consumer countries to boost energy security and stabilize supplies. |
24th April 2006 |
| Climate change forces plants to search for better places to live - Guardian Unlimited Climate change is reshaping the landscape of Britain as rising temperatures allow orchids and ferns to flourish in the north, while other species retreat to cooler conditions on high land and mountainsides. |
24th April 2006 |
| Global warming real theat, insurer warns - Sydney Morning Herald MMC chief executive Michael Cherkasky said today that companies were already considering the impact and governments needed to follow suit. |
24th April 2006 |
| Dark Days For Energy Efficiency Business Weekly Federal funding for research aimed at cutting energy use faces the knife |
24th April 2006 |
| Trickle-up response to global warming - The Albuquerque Tribune Instead of sliding into cynicism like the Bush administration and Congress, Americans are leading their country towards smart energy solutions that will preserve this beautiful planet for our children. |
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| Is God an environmentalist? - USA Today "Every day is Earth Day if you are a landowner." So President Bush proclaimed to the leaders of several conservation organizations he had invited to tour his Texas ranch during his 2004 re-election campaign. Bush might well feel that way about his 1,600-acre spread outside of Crawford. But Earth Day 2006, this past Saturday, marked the greatest erosion in environmental protections in modern U.S. history. |
23rd April 2006 |
| Yelling 'Fire' on a Hot Planet - New York Times There is enough static in the air to simultaneously confuse, alarm and paralyze the public. Is global warming now a reality? What do scientists know for sure and when are they just guessing? |
23rd April 2006 |
| Scientists look at possible climate changes and their effects on the Valley - East Valley Tribune Extended forecast: Unbearable heat, diminishing water supply, more frequent and devastating wildfires, eradication of indigenous plants and animals. It’s not an absolute certainty, but it’s not science fiction, either, say scientists studying the impact of global warming on the Valley. |
23rd April 2006 |
| 'We might become extinct' - Globe & Mail It's no secret what the pine beetle is doing to B.C.'s trees -- millions of hectares are dead or dying. But that's only half the story, TERRY GLAVIN explains. Coupled with global warming and modern forest management, the bug's impact on natives and their culture could be catastrophic |
23rd April 2006 |
| Global warming's PR problem - International Herald Tribune "Without a connection to current disasters, global warming is the kind of problem people have proved singularly terrible at solving: a long-term threat that can only be limited by acting promptly, before the harm is clear." |
23rd April 2006 |
| Should I offset my holiday flights? - Guardian Unlimited Monitoring your carbon footprint isn't just a matter of fewer airmiles, says Lucy Siegle, but reducing household emissions |
23rd April 2006 |
| So now green is the new blue - and also the new red -Guardian Unlimited Gordon Brown and David Cameron are both pretending we can save the planet at no cost to our carbon-crunching lifestyles |
23rd April 2006 |
| The Hidden Cost of Our Oil Dependence - EV World A one-on-one conversation with Milton Copulos, president of the National Defense Council Foundation. |
23rd April 2006 |
| Climate change fight 'moral duty' - BBC News Chancellor Gordon Brown has spoken for the first time of the "moral need" to tackle climate change. |
22nd April 2006 |
| Laurie David Raises Awareness of Global Warming - New York Times "I am terrified," Laurie David said between bites of her Cobb salad, avocados on the side. "I'm terrified. I'm terrified. And fear is a great motivator." |
22nd April 2006 |
| $100 Challenges and $500 Rebates on Priuses - New York Times As he was running one day, deep into what he calls "head-talk," William H. Hinkle had an environmental epiphany. He had recently sold his wholesale electronic bond trading company and was voraciously reading about global warming. It was not enough merely to worry about the ice caps melting; he had to act. So he decided to put together a list of 500 well-heeled friends and colleagues and try to make them carbon conscious. |
22nd April 2006 |
| MTV Launches Break the Addiction - WRI Sets goal to educate and empower young people to help end global warming and mass overconsumption |
22nd April 2006 |
| Disasters set off by severe weather show sharp rise - FT Environmental damage and climate change may lie behind a sharp rise in the number of natural disasters, setting back efforts to combat poverty, according to an encyclopaedic report of natural disasters by the World Bank. |
22nd April 2006 |
| Q&A: Climate change levy - BBC News Conservative leader David Cameron has said he would scrap the climate change levy and replace it with a better way of tackling carbon emissions. BBC News environment correspondent Roger Harrabin explains what this is about. |
22nd April 2006 |
| Udall: Future of the Earth depends on energy - Daily Camera Finding better ways of producing and using energy is one of the most pressing challenges for America and the world, because energy production and consumption affects our health, environment, economy and national security — and indeed, the very future of our planet. |
22nd April 2006 |
| BP joins bank in record solar-power project - Guardian Unlimited A Spanish bank, Santander, and BP's solar energy branch have launched what they claim is Europe's largest single investment project in solar power. |
22nd April 2006 |
| Earth Day 2006: Saving the Future By Looking to the Past - Huffington Post Tomorrow is the 36th anniversary of Earth Day. While some celebrate this day planting trees or collecting trash, our world leaders must rapidly confront a dangerous reality: our early twenty-first century civilization is on an economic path that is destroying and disrupting the natural systems on which it depends, consuming renewable resources faster than they can regenerate. |
21st April 2006 |
| Scientists fear new attempts to undermine climate action - Guardian Unlimited Britain's scientists are drawing up a plan to fight renewed attempts by sceptics and industry-funded lobby groups to derail international action on climate change. According to a confidential internal memo, the Royal Society expects "groups and individuals" to question the science of global warming and the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions. |
21st April 2006 |
| Brown, blue and green - Guardian Unlimited Green politics make an irresistible vehicle for politicians. With a reach that takes him from the local to the global, David Cameron can pitch his policies at voters in next month's council elections at the same time as putting down markers for the next national campaign. In reverse, Gordon Brown can address the IMF and the United Nations with an eye to the position at home. Green politics take the debate outside the traditional political tram lines and let politicians talk in fresh language. The battle for the green vote is on, to the great advantage of green policies themselves. |
21st April 2006 |
| Scientists urge PM to set strategy on climate change - Toronto Star A group of top Canadian climate scientists and oceanographers is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to develop a national strategy on climate change. |
21st April 2006 |
| The Environmental Costs of Biofuel - Inter Press Service News Agency The passage of a law on biofuels in Argentina is both good and bad news for sustainable development. While the new law will foment the production and use of alternative sources of fuel, it will also give a boost to soybean production, which has come in for harsh criticism from environmentalists. |
21st April 2006 |
| Backing for Severn barrage power - BBC News Senior politicians in Wales and Westminster say a £15bn plan to build a barrage across the Severn Estuary could help solve the growing energy crisis. |
21st April 2006 |
| BP attacked over CO2 emissions - Guardian Unlimited BP drew fire yesterday from environmentalists for quietly halving its estimate of the carbon emissions that result from all the oil and gas it produces. |
21st April 2006 |
| Homeowners make market in green power - Reuters Australian homeowners are setting the price for the government's mandate to produce more green energy by snapping up solar water heaters and selling the credit they get to more reticent power firms. |
21st April 2006 |
| Q&A: The Carbon Trade - BBC News With climate change now an increasingly important concern for policy-makers, carbon trading is riding high on the agenda. BBC News examines current approaches to the issue. |
20th April 2006 |
| Battle Over Cape Cod Wind Farm Blows Into Congress - Environment News Service Advocates of a plan to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod are scrambling to defeat an amendment to a U.S. Coast Guard reauthorization bill that would effectively kill the first offshore wind energy project in the United States. |
20th April 2006 |
| On Earth Day, hope for the environment - CS Monitor "we're up against the granddaddy of them all in global warming, which if allowed to continue at its current, unprecedented rate, will overwhelm everything else, successes and failures alike." |
20th April 2006 |
| Sweden goes for green as Nordics mull energy future - Reuters Twenty years after Sweden alerted the world to the meltdown at Chernobyl, it aims to phase out nuclear power and end dependency on fossil fuels, putting the country in the vanguard of green energy policy. |
20th April 2006 |
| The insurance industry prepares for climate change - American Chemical Society Interview with Evan Mills, an expert on the economic risks posed by climate change. |
20th April 2006 |
| Gordon Brown: 'The environment must be centre of policy worldwide' - The Independent " For too long too many governments thought their objectives began and ended with economic prosperity and jobs. But I believe that the world needs a new paradigm that moves the environmental challenge to the centre of policy." |
20th April 2006 |
| Parties battle for green crown - BBC News As Tory leader David Cameron jets to Norway to see the effects of global warming up close, Chancellor Gordon Brown has flown to New York where he will deliver a speech calling for a new global deal to combat climate change. |
20th April 2006 |
| Americans See Environment as Getting Worse - Gallup Gallup's annual Environment poll finds Americans' stated concern about the environment is not matched by their willingness to make compromises on behalf of the environment. |
20th April 2006 |
| Open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper - CBC An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Canada on Climate Change Science by climate science leaders from the academic, public and private sectors across Canada. (PDF format) |
20th April 2006 |
| Community and Trade - ENN "Enabling communities to participate in polluting air and greenhouse gas cap and trade markets would create a multitude of benefits. It would unlock a reservoir of small but cumulatively important emission reductions. It would enable communities, particularly low income ones, to generate much-needed revenues for public services. And perhaps most importantly, it would engage neighborhoods and individuals in what up until now has been widely considered an abstract problem about which there may be little we can do. " |
20th April 2006 |
| Scramble is on for Arctic oil - Guardian Unlimited The US Geological Survey (USGS) is lining up a project with BP and Statoil to find oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, under the auspices of a flagship scientific initiative intended to tackle global warming. But the head of the British Antarctic Survey, which coordinates UK activity at the poles, has said he is "very uncomfortable" with the idea and has questioned its ethical and scientific justification. |
20th April 2006 |
| Feinstein suggests sacrificing some islands - Inside Bay Area Shoring up all of California's levees will be too costly, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Wednesday, and some of the sunken Delta islands that they protect probably must be sacrificed. |
20th April 2006 |
| Gardeners told 'grow drought-resistant plants' - icWales "Drought is already a problem in eastern England and people are thinking about climate change." |
20th April 2006 |
| Why nuclear power is out of the question - Guardian Unlimited Nuclear power doesn't reduce emissions |
19th April 2006 |
| Global warming hits Canada's remotest Arctic lands - Reuters "All months are warmer by between 3 and 6 degrees (Celsius). This is beyond the usual variations," said local weather man Wayne Davidson. "We're in a total transition ... it's a one-way street right now." "When I hear people say there is no such thing as global warming, I find them totally appalling." |
19th April 2006 |
| Scientists condemn US as emissions of greenhouse gases hit record level - Belfast Telegraph The United States emitted more greenhouse gases in 2004 than at any time in history, confirming its status as the world's biggest polluter. |
19th April 2006 |
| Groups release energy 'manifesto' - BBC News Thirty-five environmental and energy groups have issued a joint manifesto in response to the UK government's current energy policy review. |
19th April 2006 |
| Global-warming talk to broadcast over IPTV - PhysOrg.com Some 16,000 science classes will partake in a global-warming debate via the Earth Day Network using the new PowerTV Network over Internet Protocol television.Participating in the live, two-way IPTV video/chat broadcast on April 21 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. will also be nine leading scientific and religious experts. |
19th April 2006 |
| UK's Brown Wants US$20 Billion Clean Energy Fund - Reuters / Planet Ark British finance minister Gordon Brown will this week call for a new US$20 billion World Bank fund to help developing countries invest in alternative energy sources in order to combat climate change. |
18th April 2006 |
| Field of Nightmares - AlertNet Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert translates science speak on climate change and discusses the public's role in changing the course of global warming. |
18th April 2006 |
| CNN Future Summit forum Are you optimistic about the promises of technology, or pessimistic about the challenges? Let CNN know what you think. |
18th April 2006 |
| Global Dimming and climate models - RealClimate Commentary on the scientific basis (especially the incorporation of aerosol pollution in climate models) of the PBS Nova TV programme, "Dimming the Sun". |
18th April 2006 |
| California tackles greenhouse emissions - Christian Science Monitor Companies could reap huge financial rewards, some say. Others see a net loss of jobs. |
18th April 2006 |
| Group says climate in dire straits - Houston Chronicle "This issue cannot be addressed solely through policies. We can only cooperate on a global issue if it's added to our moral consensus ... if everyone understands that they have to do the right thing by future generations and take these steps to protect the climate." |
18th April 2006 |
| Here's Dr. Doom - Newsweek Interesting article with an unfortunate title about the James Lovelock's book, "The Revenge of Gaia". -"Lovelock has done his part by saying what nobody else dares..." |
18th April 2006 |
| The spiritual journey - BBC News Not directly about climate change, but highlighting two of the fundamental motors of global warming, 'progress' and individuation. |
17th April 2006 |
| Climate change adds to Alaska woes - Casper Star-Tribune Climate warming has accelerated conditions ideal for conflagration, contributing to record fire seasons in America's largest state and starting a trend that forest managers fear has changed the forest into the next century. |
17th April 2006 |
| Industries blind us with 'science' - The Daily Breeze How much of a beating does the world have to endure before oil firms admit the connection between its actions and global warming? |
17th April 2006 |
| 25% of Canadians think global warming will kill planet - CNews The Leger Marketing survey found that 62 per cent of respondents believed global warming can be curbed, while 23 per cent said it will trigger a disaster that will destroy Earth. |
17th April 2006 |
| UT scientist sheds light on ocean bacteria - Knox News Research by a University of Tennessee scientist shows that tiny bacteria that help regulate greenhouse gases survive best in specific water temperatures, a finding with significant implications in the face of global climate change. |
17th April 2006 |
| Could Global Warming Be Worse Than You Think? - Scientific American "The main lesson of worst-case scenarios is that uncertainty cuts both ways. Skeptics often invoke uncertainty as a reason to defer action because global warming may not be as bad as the headline predictions. But uncertainty equally well means that the outcome could be even worse. Our response should be neither complacency nor panic, but risk-management - exactly what we do when we buy insurance or strap on seat belts." |
16th April 2006 |
| Fiddling while the Earth burns - The Daily Camera The refusal to acknowledge that great likelihood is to engage in one the most dangerous of all human behaviors: Denial. |
16th April 2006 |
| Nuclear power's sick legacy - The Age All the reasons to reject nuclear power. |
16th April 2006 |
| Scientists say they're being gagged by Bush; White House monitors their media contacts - SF Gate Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a danger that Americans are not getting the full story on how the climate is changing. |
16th April 2006 |
| So, do you really have to get on board that plane? - The independent Carbon-offset schemes promise to save the earth. But do they work? |
16th April 2006 |
| Japan hot and cold on warming - SF Gate Two parents, two children, a grandmother, two cars - and a generation gap that is jeopardizing Japan's leadership in the campaign to limit global warming. |
16th April 2006 |
| Four ways Mr Cameron can save the world - Guardian Unlimited There are many good reasons for David Cameron to travel to the Arctic this week to learn more about global warming. First-hand experience makes politicians more sympathetic to appeals for research funding and policy action when necessary. Standing by a shrinking glacier will memorably identify Mr Cameron and his party with global warming, an important consideration when he inevitably confronts opposition from industrialists, motorists and other more sceptical interests. And the picturesque publicity will add to growing public acceptance of the need for action on global warming. |
16th April 2006 |
| Dash for new nuclear power rejected - Reuters A parliamentary committee on Sunday rejected any dash for nuclear power to stop the lights going out as ageing power stations are closed down by 2016, because new nuclear plants would not be ready in time. |
16th April 2006 |
| Too late on global warming? - Toronto Star Colin Challen, chairman of the UK parliamentary climate change group, says that the current concept of growth, which hasn't significantly changed since Victorian times, needs to be radically altered. Growth should be governed by how much CO2 society can afford to emit, he says. Unfortunately, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's laissez-faire approach to coping — relying basically on voluntary efforts and technology changes — doesn't inspire much confidence. |
15th April 2006 |
| Britain now 'eating the planet' - BBC News The UK is about to run out of its own natural resources and become dependent on supplies from abroad, a report says. |
15th April 2006 |
| Is This Humanity's First Planetary Emergency? - ABC News The reports of a number of leading scientists show a new level of concern about the possibility of global warming producing planetwide upheaval in the lifetimes of today's children. |
15th April 2006 |
| Climate change: the weakest links - Guardian Unlimited Climate change scenarios are tough to predict because the Earth is such a complex system. But scientists can point to several weak links in parts of the planet where climate change could bring about the sudden, catastrophic collapse of important ecosystems, even at a rise of 3C. |
15th April 2006 |
| Death, famine, drought: cost of 3C global rise in temperature - Guardian Unlimited In a stark warning issued yesterday Sir David King said that a rise of this magnitude would cause famine and drought and threaten millions of lives. |
15th April 2006 |
| The chocolate biccie paradox - Guardian Unlimited The Germans make the cars, the Italians make the clothes, the French make the wine, the British make the pharmaceuticals - and then they all buy and sell from each other. That's the way international trade is supposed to work. Each country specialises in what it does best, sells its produce on the world market and uses the money raised to buy things it can't make efficiently for itself. That's the theory. According to the UK Interdependence Report, it doesn't quite work out that way in practice. |
15th April 2006 |
| Stranded Walrus Pups Cry for Help - Live Science On a summer research cruise through the Arctic Ocean aboard the icebreaker Healy, scientists were surrounded by an unprecedented number of barking, abandoned walrus pups. Strict restrictions on interacting with marine mammals prevented the researchers rescuing the nine pups, which were probably abandoned when their moms were forced to chase rapidly retreating seasonal sea ice. |
14th April 2006 |
| Could Reducing Global Dimming Mean a Hotter, Dryer World? - The Earth Institute Despite concerns over global warming, scientists have discovered something that may have actually limited the impact of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in recent years by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the Earth. |
14th April 2006 |
| Fragrance of pine forests helps to slow climate change - Guardian Unlimited The fresh fragrance released by trees in northern pine forests is a significant component in slowing climate change, according to research. |
14th April 2006 |
| Livingstone plans 1,000-home eco-estate - Guardian Unlimited The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, set out plans today to build Britain's biggest eco-development in east London, modelled on a sustainable city being planned in China. |
14th April 2006 |
| Nuclear power is not energy solution, say MPs - Guardian Unlimited A new generation of nuclear power stations cannot solve energy supply problems in the short term and crucial questions of security, cost and effectiveness remain unanswered, MPs will warn in a report to be published this weekend. |
14th April 2006 |
| Planting trees 'will not cancel out climate change' - SciDev.Net Insufficient amounts of nitrogen gas will limit plant growth regardless of how much extra carbon dioxide is available. |
14th April 2006 |
| The vanishing of a tropical nation - Salon Rising seas are swamping the 33-island republic of Kiribati. Where will its 100,000 inhabitants go when their country becomes uninhabitable? |
14th April 2006 |
| UK seeks agreement on carbon cap - BBC News UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is asking international leaders to agree a top limit for greenhouse gas emissions. The UK government believes we are probably heading for a massively disrupted climate, the BBC has learned. |
13th April 2006 |
| Labour has made up its mind to go nuclear, Lib Dems claim - The Times The UK Government has already “made up its mind to go with the nuclear option” and is using the current Energy Review only to justify its decision, a senior Liberal Democrat said last night as the deadline for submissions on the Government’s energy shake-up passed. |
13th April 2006 |
| Minister stops book talk by Environment Canada scientist - CBC News Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has stopped an Environment Canada scientist from speaking publicly about his own novel. |
13th April 2006 |
| Old Europe’s New Ideas - Sierra Club By requiring industry to go green, the European Union is challenging the way America does business. |
13th April 2006 |
| No ducking on the issue of climate change - The Financial Express "The issue of climate change cannot be ducked. Nor can governments afford to dither over what should be the new targets, post-Kyoto in 2012. Or, in other words, on who should do what and what financial and other incentives should be provided to ensure continued research on cleaner energy. The imperative, particularly for the bigger producers of greenhouse gases like US, India and China, must be to spell out explicitly the reduction targets they wish to achieve after 2012." - VIKRAM S MEHTA, chairman, Shell Group of Companies in India |
13th April 2006 |
| Entrenchment, environment and National Security - Corvallis Gazette-Times "The drive to accumulate wealth has been the motivating force of our society and government. This, perhaps, originated in the Protestant Ethic which, simply stated, said that all righteous people should work. This mutated into the belief that: Righteousness/heavenly approval could be measured by the amount of goods and wealth one accumulated. Ever notice that the leaders of our government are all pretty well off? Wealth, power, politics, industries all go hand in hand to thwart changing the environmental status quo." |
13th April 2006 |
| Ottawa plan hacks green programs - Globe & Mail The new Conservative government has decided to slash spending on Environment Canada programs designed to fight global warming by 80 per cent, and wants cuts of 40 per cent in the budgets devoted to climate change at other ministries, according to cabinet documents obtained by The Globe and Mail. |
13th April 2006 |
| Don't waver on a waiver - Sacramento Bee The Bush administration's attempt to block California from enforcing tougher emissions standards on new cars and trucks is not being ignored by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. To his credit, Schwarzenegger sent Bush a letter this week urging him to let California enforce new rules requiring auto companies to reduce greenhouse gases from their vehicles by 30 percent by 2016. The federal EPA needs to issue a waiver for California to enforce the rules. Yet the automobile industry is lobbying against the waiver, claiming (falsely) that the rules represent fuel efficiency standards, which only the federal government has authority to set. |
13th April 2006 |
| China's Hu heads to US on energy efficiency wave - Reuters Chinese President Hu Jintao may find his energy saving initiatives an unlikely source of pride during a visit next week to the United States, where he faces criticism over human rights and Beijing's currency policy. The two countries are the world's top oil consumers and emitters of greenhouse gases, but Hu has turned away from China's previous mantra of economic growth at almost any cost to spearhead a huge drive to cut wasteful energy use. |
13th April 2006 |
| The Middle Kingdom Convulses With Change - ZNet Assessment of climate change in China |
13th April 2006 |
| Developing nations may save the tropical forest - Innovations Report In an article this Friday (April 14) in the international magazine New Scientist, a leading rainforest biologist from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama argues that a new initiative by developing nations offers great promise to help reduce the rampant rate of tropical forest destruction. |
13th April 2006 |
| Industrial logging threat looms large over rainforest Eden - Greenpeace A new detailed map released by Greenpeace and Forest Watch Indonesia today reveals plans to cut down as much as 35% (29 million hectares) of New Guinea Island's rainforest, the 'Eden' where scientists recently discovered a host of new species. |
13th April 2006 |
| Climate Change: A Design Problem - OhmyNews Climate Change Is like Diabetes: In the case of diabetes, the problem accumulates over a period of time. It requires changes in people's behavior to bring about a benefit in the future. And the benefit is not what happens to you, but what does not happen to you in terms of "having a functioning kidney" or "not being blind." But, by the time you see the impact of diabetes, it is too late to change. This is tough for many people to understand and respond to. |
12th April 2006 |
| Big Oil, like Big Tobacco, talks sweet but plays dirty - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution With polls showing that large majorities of Americans now see global warming as a serious threat, the folks at ExxonMobil are spending a lot of money on TV ads, trying to convince the public that they too take climate change seriously. - And they do, but only in terms of the threat it poses to their enormous profits. |
12th April 2006 |
| Open Thread on Lindzen Op-Ed in WSJ - RealClimate Fascinating discussion of Lindzen's much syndicated piece about 'alarmist' scientists nabbing all the funding. Contains many interesting links. |
12th April 2006 |
| 'Carbon tax' to compensate for G8 presidency aviation - The Independent A carbon "tax" will raise £100,000 across Whitehall departments to compensate for the 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide caused by extra air travel associated with Britain's presidency of the G8 and the summit at Gleneagles last year. |
12th April 2006 |
| Scientists Predict Extinctions from Global Warming - Scientific American Global warming has extended the destructive reach of humankind. Plants and animals far from human habitation are now threatened by the climate change resulting from the carbon we release into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels. In fact, according to a new study, global warming may surpass other byproducts of human activity, such as deforestation, in driving species into extinction. |
12th April 2006 |
| Governor urges care on emissions cap - Contra Costa Times Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger cast some cold water Tuesday on a proposal to set firm limits on greenhouse gas emissions but endorsed other major recommendations of a new report and left open the possibility that a cap on emissions could be put in place later. |
12th April 2006 |
| Lessons from Venus - RealClimate The applicability to Venus of concepts originating in the study of Earth climate is a testament to the beauty and generality of the physical underpinnings of climate science. In turn, testing the resilience of these ideas against radically different climate encountered on other planets and in the distant past of Earth serves a valuable role in helping to shake loose new ideas. |
12th April 2006 |
| Quebec Cree plan wind power megaproject - CBC News A group planning a wind park in northern Quebec says it is considering selling its electricity to the United States. |
12th April 2006 |
| Caribbean & Central America may get drier summers - SciDev.Net Central America and the Caribbean will see a major decrease in summer rainfall by the end of the century because of climate change, say researchers. |
12th April 2006 |
| Who will be next target of right-wing fund? - The Herald FEAF styles itself as "the first mutual fund to seek long-term capital appreciation through investment and advocacy that promote the American system of free enterprise." That means it doesn't like senior business figures, like Lord Browne, who acknowledge any link between climate change and our unsustainable use of carbon-based fuel. In FEAF's view, that is tantamount to the destruction of shareholder value. So Milloy is coming to get the man who once suggested BP stands not only for British Petroleum, but also for Beyond Petroleum. |
11th April 2006 |
| Gov. Backs Greenhouse Gas Strategy - Los Angeles Times Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will announce today his support for a strategy to combat global warming that has drawn criticism from Republicans and business leaders, aides said Monday. |
11th April 2006 |
| Coral experts warn of 'underwater nightmare' - Independent Online Deadly diseases are attacking coral reefs across the Caribbean Sea after a massive surge of coral bleaching last summer, a two-pronged assault that scientists say is one of the worst threats to the region's fragile undersea gardens. |
11th April 2006 |
| Conceding on climate change - Salon For the first time, energy execs are requesting caps on carbon emissions. But will new regulations be too little, too late? |
11th April 2006 |
| Crisis must be nipped in bud - Edinburgh News I have no doubt climate change is going to be disastrous for millions of people, if only because of the inevitable rise in sea levels. |
11th April 2006 |
| Diversity of species faces 'catastrophe' from climate change - The Independent Tens of thousands of animals and plants could become extinct within the coming decades as a direct result of global warming. |
10th April 2006 |
| Business warms to change - Sydney Morning Herald George Bush and John Howard have both cold-shouldered the case for more direct government intervention to combat global warming. But last Thursday Morgan - and five other top businesss executives - put their heads above the parapet with the launch of the Australian Business Roundtable on Climate Change, a powerful new voice which wants business and government to respond more rapidly to inexorably rising world temperatures. |
10th April 2006 |
| Nature can help reduce greenhouse gas, but only to a point - EurekAlert "We do know that CO2 in the atmosphere would be increasing faster were it not for current carbon storage in the oceans and on land," he said. "But land ecosystems appear to have a limited and diminishing capacity to clean up excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Reducing our reliance on fossil fuels is likely to be far more effective than expecting natural ecosystems to mop up the extra CO2 in the atmosphere." |
10th April 2006 |
| Climate Change Shattering Marine Food Chain - Inter Press Service News Agency Vast swaths of coral reefs in the Caribbean sea and South Pacific Ocean are dying, while the recently-discovered cold-water corals in northern waters will not survive the century -- all due to climate change. |
10th April 2006 |
| Governor to focus on global warming Critics question his resolve on an issue dear to green voters - SF Gate With his plan to build new schools and roads stalled, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is turning his focus to combatting global warming -- a burgeoning political issue that aides and pollsters say could be election-year gold for a governor in need of a major accomplishment. |
10th April 2006 |
| Storms claim $US83bn - The Age Insurance industry sources say the industry is coping well with the dramatic rises in catastrophic losses, but if global warming does have a significant impact, it will become increasingly difficult and expensive to get insurance in high risk areas. |
10th April 2006 |
| In the balance - Boston Globe Is balanced journalism to blame for the lack of action on global warming? |
10th April 2006 |
| Americans say they're willing to fight warming - Detroit Free Press Most think they can help reduce greenhouse gases and are willing to make necessary sacrifices. |
9th April 2006 |
| California is spreading the word on global warming - Daily Breeze Religious leaders backing governor's attack on environmental peril. "We know the science, we see the threat. ..." |
9th April 2006 |
| Leading scientists attack Blair over nuclear power - Sunday Herald Tony Blair’s plan to resurrect nuclear power is going to be dealt a damaging blow by 40 of Britain’s leading energy and climate scientists, the Sunday Herald can reveal. Engineers, experts and academics from Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Oxford and Cambridge will forcibly tell the Prime Minister this week that building more nuclear reactors is not the solution to global warming. |
9th April 2006 |
| Warming Sound has lobsters in a pinch - Norwalk Advocate Rising water temperatures could be to blame for the steep decline in lobsters and other cold-water species once found in abundance in Long Island Sound. According to researchers gathered yesterday in Bridgeport for the 16th annual Long Island Sound Summit, the Sound is experiencing a dramatic change in the types of wildlife that reside there. |
9th April 2006 |
| Climate crisis - Detroit Free Press "If only a fraction of what these books predict comes to pass, no other crisis of our lives will matter." |
9th April 2006 |
| A Satellite for Solving the Polar Ice Mysteries - Inter Press Service News Agency The European satellite Cryosat 2, slated for launch in March 2009, will determine for the first time the rate of polar ice melt, which is a vital piece for understanding the changes the planet's climate is undergoing, mission director Volker Liebig told Tierramérica. |
9th April 2006 |
| Violent US storms leave 12 dead - BBC News At the end of March, an estimated 286 tornadoes had hit the US, against an average of 70 for the same three-month period over the past three years. |
9th April 2006 |
| Global warming is near its tipping point - Salt Lake Tribune. Tim Flannery isn't one to paint a hopeless picture of climate change. By taking personal responsibility for the dilemma and forcing a shift in government policies and regulations, the noted Australian scientist and author says there is still time to stave off the most egregious impacts of global warming. |
9th April 2006 |
| Climate change will test resiliency of our ecosystems - Toronto Star Eight years after Eastern Ontario's greatest disaster, the ice storm of 1998, injured trees are still dying. |
8th April 2006 |
| Will and Novak misled on climate change - Media Matters In separate columns, George Will and Robert Novak misrepresented the facts and omitted key evidence -- embraced by the vast majority of climate scientists -- demonstrating that global warming is occurring and that human activity is contributing to the problem. |
8th April 2006 |
| For scientist, theory hurricanes will slow doesn't hold water - Houston Chronicle MIT's Kerry Emanuel reckons increases hurricane activity isn't due to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) - human-induced climate change. |
8th April 2006 |
| Scientists confirm: no pain, no gain - Sydney Morning Herald Conforming to the group culture has got us into this mess, can it get us out? |
8th April 2006 |
| Dissecting a world of trouble - Los Angeles Times According to NASA, 2005 was the warmest year since the late 1800s. The next four warmest were 2004, 2003, 2002 and 1998. The last time the Earth was this warm, by many estimates, was 100,000 years ago. Scientists point to disturbing signs: The melting of glaciers and the polar ice caps. The migration of animals, worldwide, to higher, cooler altitudes. The drop in nighttime temperatures across America during the three-day jet grounding following Sept. 11. The deaths of overheated coral reefs. |
8th April 2006 |
| Kyoto hopes vanish - Ottawa Sun "It's as though they're throwing in the towel before we've even begun," said NDP leader Jack Layton. |
8th April 2006 |
| Climate right to start talking - The Age The business case for taking action now rather than waiting … "Hopefully, this is the beginning of more business engagement with the issue (because) I'd challenge anyone to identify a business or a sector that's not going to be affected by climate change." |
7th April 2006 |
| GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS ACHIEVABLE, BUT MUST START NOW OR WINDOW WILL CLOSE - NRDC "In order to avert catastrophic global warming impacts, the United States must start cutting greenhouse gas emissions within 10 years and cut them in half by mid-century," said David Doniger, policy director of NRDC's Climate Center, during a daylong "climate conference" sponsored by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee |
7th April 2006 |
| An ill wind from Congress - The Boston Globe The country's most important renewable energy project is in danger of being sandbagged in Congress. An amendment to a spending bill for the US Coast Guard would grant veto power over the plan for a wind farm off Cape Cod to Governor Romney, an outspoken opponent. As important as funding for the Coast Guard is, Congress should reject this bill and stop playing games with the nation's hopes of weaning itself from fossil fuels and the greenhouse gases they emit. |
7th April 2006 |
| Air trends 'amplifying' warming - BBC News Reduced air pollution and increased water evaporation appear to be adding to man-made global warming. |
7th April 2006 |
| Tories will neither kill nor live up to Kyoto - Globe & Mail Ottawa 'working within' environmental pact despite belief its targets are 'unrealistic' |
7th April 2006 |
| Americans Are Finally Getting the Full Story on How the Climate Is Changing - ABC Interesting commentary on the timelines of public perception and media managing of climate change. Ends with "...why has our country and its government been so slow to confront this unprecedented danger?" |
7th April 2006 |
| Maryland Governor Signs Air Pollution Bill - New York Times Gov. Robert Ehrlich unexpectedly signed into law a bill requiring cleanups at power plants, after saying last year that Maryland did not need such a law. The bill signed into law Thursday requires coal-fired power plants in parts of Maryland to dramatically reduce emissions of four pollutants, including mercury. It also calls for Maryland to join seven northeastern states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 10 percent by 2019. |
7th April 2006 |
| Scientists say climate research is censored - Daily Camera Researchers say global warming references have been removed |
7th April 2006 |
| Americans Still Not Highly Concerned About Global Warming - Gallup Americans are more convinced than ever that the Earth is being affected by global warming, but they have still not grown especially concerned about it. Only a third predict global warming will pose a serious threat in their lifetimes. |
7th April 2006 |
| Arctic water flow speeding up - Nature One of Siberia's largest rivers is dumping about 10% more fresh water into the Arctic today than it was some 60 years ago, thanks to the complex effects of increased snowfall, melting permafrost and changing weather. |
6th April 2006 |
| Do nothing? You cannot be serious - The Times Climate change sceptics want more evidence. But this is a completely irrational view. |
6th April 2006 |
| Extreme London flood investigated - BBC News Scientists have been investigating the effects of a 7m-high wave travelling up the Thames, using computer simulations. |
6th April 2006 |
| Big business acts before climate woes hit bottom line - The Age The call by the Australian Business Roundtable on Climate Change to increase efforts to curb the country's greenhouse gas emissions shows how companies increasingly see it in their interests to take a stand. |
6th April 2006 |
| EU executive gets tough on environmental violations - Reuters European Union regulators said on Thursday they were taking legal action against several EU member states for failing to apply four of the 25-nation bloc's climate change laws. The European Commission sent first warnings to Cyprus, Greece, Luxembourg, Malta and Poland for their failure to link national registration of emission allowances with an EU-wide registration system. |
6th April 2006 |
| NASA Helps Researchers Diagnose Recent Coral Bleaching At Great Barrier Reef - Science Daily An international team of scientists are working at a rapid pace to study environmental conditions behind the fast-acting and widespread coral bleaching currently plaguing Australia's Great Barrier Reef. NASA's satellite data supply scientists with near-real-time sea surface temperature and ocean color data to give them faster than ever insight into the impact coral bleaching can have on global ecology. |
6th April 2006 |
| Vic govt keen to save wind farm project - The Age The Victorian government is seeking legal advice on whether it can reverse the federal government's rejection of a $220 million wind farm in South Gippsland. Would you prefer your orange bellied parrots minced by windmills or boiled by climate change? |
6th April 2006 |
| Marine bacteria are cutting cooling gas emissions - PhysOrg.com Marine bacteria are reducing the amount of an important climate cooling gas given off from our seas and studies on enzymes from a model bacterium could help to understand this important process, say scientists. |
5th April 2005 |
| Poor data hides crisis facing species - Boston Globe Animal and plant species are dying off rapidly around the world due to climate change, but scientists are struggling to monitor the decline due to a lack of data, top scientists said on Wednesday. |
5th April 2005 |
| PM playing with fire on climate change - The Chronicle Herald Harper, taking his slim minority win as a coast-to-coast endorsement for his entire platform, says he is simply making good on his campaign promise to deliver a "made-in-Canada" approach to climate change. The problem? We already had a made-in-Canada solution. And he just abolished it. |
5th April 2005 |
| Token stabs at reducing greenhouse gases will not halt global warming - The Scotsman Global warming may become catastrophic if the present slight warming triggers positive-feedback effects that could cause runaway warming. Fertile lands would then be dried into deserts and much of mankind driven from low-lying lands by rising seas. |
5th April 2005 |
| Environment a concern for voters: poll - The Age Environmental issues like water and clean energy are more important to voters than interest rates, tax reform and the war on terrorism, according to a new McNair Gallup poll. |
5th April 2005 |
| Author stokes climate change debate - SignOnSanDiego.com More Q&A with the very excellent Tim Flannery |
5th April 2005 |
| Climate of hope - Salon Global warming is the worst news of our time. But pessimism saps our will. It's time to embrace the challenge, and call boldly on Americans to win the fight of a lifetime. |
4th April 2006 |
| Survey: Americans fear for environment - Palo Alto Online News A national survey taken by Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment shows most Americans fear the environment is getting worse and that something needs to be done to improve its health. |
4th April 2006 |
| The True Costs of NUCLEAR POWER - Red Orbit Taxpayer subsidies for high-risk nuclear power plants should be redirected to promote alternative energy. |
4th April 2006 |
| Looming drought on Prairies will be worse than Dust Bowl days of 1930s - CBC News The Prairies are likely to face a severe drought within the next couple of decades, and Alberta should limit the number of people who move there, two Canadian experts said on Monday. |
4th April 2006 |
| Antarctic birds 'breeding later' - BBC News Antarctic seabirds may be breeding later in response to climate change, according to a scientific study |
4th April 2006 |
| 'Major melt' for Alpine glaciers - BBC News Europe's Alps could lose three-quarters of their glaciers to climate change during the coming century. |
4th April 2006 |
| Preparing America for nature's attack - Herald tribune "We Americans can agree to disagree on the causes of climate change. What we all must agree on, though, is that it poses a risk - one for which the United States is woefully unprepared." |
4th April 2006 |
| State Democrats Get Tough on Emissions - Los Angeles Times Democratic lawmakers unveiled legislation Monday aimed at controlling industrial emissions of greenhouse gas, setting up a possible showdown with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — and the federal government — over how far the state should go in trying to combat global warming. |
4th April 2006 |
| Government to offset carbon emissions for ministers' flights - The Independent Every flight by a minister or civil servant on government business will be offset by payments into funds that help developing countries cut their carbon emissions, under a new scheme. |
4th April 2006 |
| Australian States' Carbon Trading Faces Battle - Planet Ark Australia's states hope to do what their national government won't -- cut greenhouse gases by developing a carbon credits market -- but disagreements over emissions limits are already threatening to dampen the plan. |
4th April 2006 |
| Bold steps urged on global warming - Boston Globe Many scientists say the world is moving closer to the point at which it will not be able to avert global warming disasters such as drastic climate upheavals and severe rises in sea levels. |
3rd April 2006 |
| Twenty-One Senators Press EPA on Emissions Standards - ENN Twenty-one senators called on the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to let California implement stricter restrictions on vehicle emissions, which other states could then enact. |
3rd April 2006 |
| Dazzled by the dollars - The Advertiser Why selling South African uranium to China is a BAD idea. |
3rd April 2006 |
| Sen. Obama hits administration's energy policies - CNN Sen. Barack Obama accused the Bush administration Monday of a "stubborn refusal" to attack the causes of climate change, and said tougher fuel standards, stricter curbs on oil imports and more investment in cleaner energy are essential to avert global catastrophe. |
3rd April 2006 |
| Deep-sea corals in danger - Seattle Post-Intelligencer Even the coldest, darkest depths of the world's oceans can't escape the harmful effects of global warming -- and that includes deep-sea corals, local researchers have found. |
3rd April 2006 |
| Households lose incentives to install solar power - The Independent The solar power industry has warned that it is on the brink of crisis as a result of Government "incompetence" in the awarding of grants for householders buying renewable energy. |
3rd April 2006 |
| Your world. Your verdict: the small but beautiful ways that can help the fight to save the planet- The Independent Last week, following the launch of an all-party inquiry into climate change, we invited Independent readers to send in suggestions for saving the planet. The response was huge. Today we publish a summary of the most popular ideas which, if put into practice, would be potent weapons in the fight against global warming |
3rd April 2006 |
| Soon we'll pay the true price of air travel - Guardian Unlimited Uncontrolled air travel is a luxury that the planet cannot afford. It is not priced as such because subsidies skew the market. The government must end the airlines' tax perks. If it cannot do so unilaterally it must lobby for international agreement for cleaner skies. If necessary, tradable carbon allowances such as those allotted to businesses may eventually have to be assigned to individual passengers. The courage to promote radical policies such as these will be the test of our politicians' new-found commitment to fight global warming. See Also: Should air travel be rationed? -Thinkers share their views on rationing air travel to rein in global warming CO2 emissions |
2nd April 2006 |
| Blair blocked plan to cut emissions - The Independent Tony Blair personally frustrated measures to cut Britain's emissions of the pollution that causes global warming, despite repeatedly calling for action. |
2nd April 2006 |
| Mulling the World From a Bench on Broadway - New York Times Interview with Gavin Schmidt, NASA climate modeller and force behind RealClimate.Org - the site that provides scientific context for climate stories in the news media. |
2nd April 2006 |
| Blair’s head stuck in the clouds on climate change - Sunday Herald On the one hand, we have a prime minister who likes to go around the world preaching to business leaders about the risks of climate change as he seeks to persuade them to do more to reduce the threat. On the other, it seems the government has failed to make the right choices on the environment in its own backyard. |
2nd April 2006 |
| Pollution threat as flights hit 500m a year - Guardian Unlimited The new growth figures mean the government faces an even tougher battle to curb greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change - less than a week after admitting it will miss its key target to tackle the problem. |
2nd April 2006 |
| States Take the Lead - U.S.News Call it the Greenhouse in the Statehouse effect. While climate change may sow no fear in the White House, plenty of worried governors, legislators, and other local officials are rejecting Washington's cue. |
2nd April 2006 |
| Turning up the Heat - U.S.News It's a group you'd be hard pressed to find sharing the same table, much less a point of view. Evangelicals and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Greenpeace and DuPont. Even some Republicans and Democrats are growing flirtatious. It's still no lovefest, but a number of strange bedfellows are cozying up on a subject that was once all but taboo in Washington: global warming. |
2nd April 2006 |
| Thandie quits her 4x4 to be a green goddess - The Sunday Times Beautiful starlet in car-swap shocker. |
2nd April 2006 |
| Germany to invest millions in new fuel research - Reuters LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - The German government plans to invest around 500 million euros ($605.8 million) in alternative fuel technology research over the next 10 years, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said on Saturday. |
1st April 2006 |
| Feeling the Heat: The World Wakes Up - E Magazine Two thousand and six is emerging as the year Americans finally wake up to the reality of global warming. Of course, E has been hammering away at the issue for six years or more, but now it has momentum, with the release of several new books and a Time magazine cover story ("Be Worried, Be Very Worried") April 3. |
1st April 2006 |
| Ottawa stops funding One Tonne Challenge - Globe & Mail The new Conservative government in Ottawa has abruptly stopped funding groups across the country that have been promoting the One Tonne Challenge, the quirky program to persuade Canadians to do their bit to help the environment by cutting their greenhouse gas emissions. |
1st April 2006 |
| David Suzuki:New elder still asking the same old questions - Cnews "... one thing is for certain - we cannot continue on this relentless march for growth without eventually confronting the biological limits of the planet itself. The question is, will we have turned around enough by then? Will we learn to live within the planet's limits before we reach them?" |
1st April 2006 |
| Significant Warming of the Antarctic Winter Troposphere - RealClimate The "iconic" Antarctic temperature trends are the large warming seen on the Antarctic Peninsula, which has had various repercussions including the collapse of several ice shelves (some documented in a previous post). Elsewhere, though, the pattern of surface warming is more complex - trends are smaller, and while more are positive than negative they are generally not significant - see this map. Contrary to what you might have heard, this is in general agreement with model predictions |
1st April 2006 |
| The Prince of Emissions: Charles fails to offset environmental damage caused by 9,000-mile tour - The Independent 'We should be treating the whole issue of climate change with a far greater degree of priority' - Prince Charles, 27 October 2005 Round trip to India via Egypt and Saudi Arabia: 9,272 miles, 42 tons of C02 emissions, no carbon offset. See also: How to fly around the world without costing the earth |
1st April 2006 |
| Research in Pacific shows ocean trouble - Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Acidification is more frightening than a lot of the climate change issues," said oceanographer Joanie Kleypas. That's in part because the process is hard to alter. "It's a slow-moving ship, and we're all trying to row with toothpicks," she said. |
31st March 2006 |
| New NASA Policy Backs Free Discussion by Scientists - New York Times Two months after NASA's top climate scientist complained that political operatives in the agency's press office were trying to censor his views on global warming, Administrator Michael D. Griffin issued a new communications policy on Thursday that he called a "commitment to openness." |
31st March 2006 |
| Green TV channel makes strong start - MediaGuardian An environmental internet TV channel which launches today has already scooped top spot on Apple's iTunes podcasting front page |
31st March 2006 |
| Giving micropower to the people - BBC News Green Room this week. A hands-on approach to energy generation, he argues, gives people a sense of empowerment and the impetus to reduce their environmental footprints. |
31st March 2006 |
| Wave Dragon wins Welsh funding - Water Power and Dam Construction KP Renewables, the AIM-quoted renewable energy project developer, has been awarded a £5M (US$8.6M) grant from the Welsh European Funding Office for its wave power station off the west Welsh coast. |
31st March 2006 |
| Climate blamed for mass extictions - EurekAlert MOST mass extinctions were caused by gradual climate change rather than catastrophic asteroid impacts. That's the controversial view of one palaeontologist, who says it could mean we are in the midst of a mass extinction now. |
31st March 2006 |
| Bush a true Conservative? - Barnstaple Patriot George W. Bush should outrage any Conservative worth his salt. |
31st March 2006 |
| Climate for change - New Statesman When America's mainstream media give prominence to green issues, you know that the crisis is upon us. |
30th March 2006 |
| Brown: Rescuing planet under stress - Lexington Minuteman "If we fail to build a new economy before decline sets in, it will not be because of a lack of fiscal resources, but rather because of obsolete priorities. The world is now spending $975 billion annually for military purposes. The U.S. 2006 military budget of $492 billion, accounting for half of the world total, goes largely to the development and production of new weapon systems. Unfortunately, these weapons are of little help in curbing terrorism, nor can they reverse the deforestation of the earth or stabilize climate". |
30th March 2006 |
| For People and Planet - EV World 'As some have said, "We are operating the Earth like it's a business in liquidation." More mechanisms to incorporate environmental and social externalities will be needed to enable capital markets to achieve their intended purpose -- to consistently allocate capital to its highest and best use for the good of the people and the planet.' |
30th March 2006 |
| Caribbean Coral Suffers Record Death - CBS News A one-two punch of bleaching from record hot water followed by disease has killed ancient and delicate coral in the biggest loss of reefs scientists have ever seen in Caribbean waters. Researchers from around the globe are scrambling to figure out the extent of the loss. Early conservative estimates from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands find that about one-third of the coral in official monitoring sites has recently died. |
30th March 2006 |
| Unexpected warming in Antarctica - BBC News Winter air temperatures over Antarctica have risen by more than 2C in the last 30 years, a new study shows. |
30th March 2006 |
| Is Blair Bungling on the Global Climate Strategy? -WWF Tony Blair needs to urgently clarify his plans for how the world should tackle climate change, warns WWF the global conservation organization. |
30th March 2006 |
| Springing Back - SEED The beginning of the warm season is coming sooner than expected and could throw off ecological harmony. |
30th March 2006 |
| Global Warming: Be Very Afraid - Wired News Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, author of "Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change". 'If people say, "Why should I be worried about global warming?" I think the answer is, "Do you like to eat?" ' |
29th March 2006 |
| Hot air but no action - Guardian Unlimited Britain has at least acted more responsibly than most, not least at last year's Montreal talks. Tony Blair and Ms Beckett are certainly sincere on the issue. But they must be judged on their results, which are so far not impressive. |
29th March 2006 |
| Most Americans Aware of Global Warming - Angus Reid Many adults in the United States acknowledge climate change, according to a poll by TNS released by Stanford University, Time and ABC News. 85 per cent of respondents think global warming is probably happening. |
29th March 2006 |
| When the ice melts, will your feet get wet? - Sierra Compass Check out potential sea level rises with thisGoogle Maps mashup. |
29th March 2006 |
| Too late to stop global warming, scientists say, but still time to stop major disasters - Independent Record "I believe we are past the point of no return". "What does the point of no return mean? To me, it means we've reached a point where we are seeing the impacts of global warming ... The question is: How much worse is it going to get? That is a case in which we can control our destiny - if we act now." |
29th March 2006 |
| Australia braces for second big cyclone in two weeks Australia braced for its second powerful cyclone in two weeks as a "very dangerous" storm bore down on the country's mineral-rich west coast, forcing a halt to some mining and oilfield operations. |
29th March 2006 |
| Drought threatens disaster for wetland birds - The Independent Drought is hitting wetland birds harder than ever before, with waders in south-east England facing their worst-ever breeding season. |
29th March 2006 |
| Government accused of pitiful failure to meet target for greenhouse gas emissions - Guardian Unlimited Scientists, environmental campaigners and opposition politicians yesterday issued a scathing response to the government's admission that it will fail to meet a key target to cut greenhouse gas pollution. They called the results of an 18-month review of climate change policies "pitiful" and accused ministers of lacking the political will to tackle global warming. |
29th March 2006 |
| Earth forum hears dire warnings of environmental collapse - Yahoo / AFP In a keynote speech opening the fourth biennial State of the Planet conference at New York's Columbia University, Jeffrey Sachs, director of the UN Millennium Project, said ignorance, misplaced priorities and indifference were keeping the world firmly on a path to disaster. "Everything we think is at the core of our geopolitics -- the war on terror, Islamic fundamentalism -- have almost nothing to do with the real challenges we face on this planet," Sachs said. "They are a distraction and a misunderstanding." |
28th March 2006 |
| We must think the unthinkable, and take voters with us - The Independent Climate change means that business as usual is dead. It means that economic growth as usual is dead. But the politics of economic growth and business as usual live on. What needs to change to bring about a political tipping point? What is stopping us from taking the radical path we need to follow today if we are to avoid dangerous climate change tomorrow? |
28th March 2006 |
| Electricity Calculator - BBC News The electricity calculator gives you the opportunity to choose how you would like the UK’s electricity to be generated in 2020. Once you have made your choice, the calculator will work out the possible impact in terms of carbon emissions, whether you managed to keep the lights on and how it will affect people’s annual bills. Click 'submit' to add your choice to the trends database. |
28th March 2006 |
| Global warming: Have your say - The Independent 'Independent' readers are invited to send submissions to the all-party inquiry on climate change, which will then seek a response from ministers. Send your contribution to: Climate change debate, Independent House, 191 Marsh Wall, London E14 9RS or by e-mail from this morning to: climatechange@ independent.co.uk |
28th March 2006 |
| Brown Didn't Go Far Enough - It Should Be Pounds 1,000 - Red Orbit The Chancellor's budget announcement to increase car tax does not go far enough to make drivers of large cars and 4x4s pay for the pollution they cause. Environmentalists claim that the emissions produced by these vehicles make a growing contribution to global warming and run counter to efforts made in recent years to reduce pollution from cars. |
28th March 2006 |
| Archbishop urges world to tackle global warming - In The News The Archbishop of Canterbury has argued that the world has a "moral duty" to tackle global warming. Dr Rowan Williams said that the effects of global warming could lead to mass hunger in the developing world as farmland was damaged and has urged the international community to work together to avoid "rising spirals of hunger and deprivation". |
28th March 2006 |
| NOAA accused of hiding truth about global warming - Scripps Howard News Service Hurricanes are getting worse because of global warming. Kerry Emanuel, a veteran climate researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made that assertion to a roomful of University of Rhode Island scientists a few months ago. He also charged the federal government's top science agency with ignoring the growing research making that link. Instead of telling the public the truth, he said, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials are insisting that hurricanes are worse because of a natural cycle. |
28th March 2006 |
| Review 'will confirm' CO2 target - BBC News The UK government is likely to restate its commitment to a cut of about 20% in CO2 emissions by 2010 when it releases its climate policy review on Tuesday. |
28th March 2006 |
| Britain's changing wildlife - Guardian Unlimited What have the short-haired bumblebee and the red-backed shrike got in common? They are now officially extinct in Britain. Unlike the golden twin-spot moth, a native of North Africa, which quite happily breeds here now. Whether due to global warming, changing farm practices or loss of habitat, Britain's flora and fauna is changing. |
28th March 2006 |
| Global warming: Your chance to change the climate - The Independent Four senior ministers will, this morning, make one of the most embarrassing admissions of the UK Labour Government's nine years in office - that the official policy for fighting climate change has failed |
28th March 2006 |
| Global Warming Speeds Up Arrival of Spring - Red Orbit The sun still crossed the equator on March 20th marking the vernal equinox and the official start of spring, but Mother Nature is increasingly getting a jumpstart on the celestial movements. Over the last 150 years, scientific measurements show that events signifying the beginning of spring have all shifted. |
27th March 2006 |
| Canada's Crisis - Time Global warming will heat the Arctic first. A Canadian study offers a preview of how environmental change will alter our society. |
27th March 2006 |
| After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control Global Warming - FPIF The coming years will undoubtedly witness intensive negotiations on global warming as concerns mount and the quantitative approach under the Kyoto Protocol makes little difference. As policy makers search for more effective and efficient ways to slow the trends, they should consider the fact that harmonized environmental taxes on carbon are powerful tools for coordinating policies and slowing climate change. |
27th March 2006 |
| Arizona temps on the rise in winter for last 70 years "It's not just water. It's not just ecology. It's not just fire," said Gregg Garfin, a climatologist and program manager for the UA's Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, which monitors and studies climate change. "It's when you add it up. It's mutually reinforcing." |
27th March 2006 |
| UK will meet emissions target, says Beckett - Guardian Unlimited The UK could still meet the government's ambitious pledge to cut greenhouse gas pollution by 20% by the end of the decade, the environment secretary, Margaret Beckett, insisted yesterday. |
27th March 2006 |
| How much future sea level rise? More evidence from models and ice sheet observations. - RealClimate Lots of press has been devoted to four papers in this week's Science, on the topic of ice sheets and sea level. |
27th March 2006 |
| The Impact of Asia's Giants - Time Every step forward that these countries take today risks being swamped by growth tomorrow. What China and India really need to ensure green development is what the world needs: a broadly accepted post-Kyoto pact that is strict enough to make it economically worthwhile to eliminate carbon emissions. Though actual cuts are off the table for now, Beijing and New Delhi seem willing to discuss softer targets, such as lowering carbon intensity. But they feel that Washington must take the lead. "It is possible for these countries to achieve the growth they deserve without wrecking the climate," says Diringer. "They just can't do it on their own. It has to go through the U.S." Maybe we can begin by living a bit more like the average Chinese or Indian--before they start living like us. |
26th March 2006 |
| Was Confusion Over Global Warming a Con Job? - ABC News Some Claim Disinformation Campaign Attempted to Create the Impression Scientists Were Broadly Divided |
26th March 2006 |
| UK onshore wind power set for rapid growth-industry group - Reuters Onshore turbines capable of powering 3 million homes, or five percent of UK electricity supply, will be spinning by the end of the decade as the industry grows much faster than previously expected, the British Wind Energy Association said in its submission to a government consultation on future energy policy. |
26th March 2006 |
| Be worried, be very worried - CNN / Time The problem -- as scientists suspected but few others appreciated -- is that global climate systems are booby-trapped with tipping points and feedback loops, thresholds past which the slow creep of environmental decay gives way to sudden and self-perpetuating collapse. That's just what's happening now. |
26th March 2006 |
| Is It Too Late to Stop the Warming? - ABC News James Hansen, still at NASA, now warns that a deadline of sorts is approaching: In the next 20 years or so, he says, greenhouse warming may cause enough changes that, even if everyone stopped burning fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, some processes would have been set in motion that would continue anyhow. |
26th March 2006 |
| Turn your home into a mini power station - The Independent Ministers will this week announce new measures to enable Britons to turn their homes into power stations, generating the electricity they need to run them and feeding the rest into the grid. |
26th March 2006 |
| Earlier birds threaten the cuckoo - The Independent Global warming is said to have shattered the delicate timing that the cuckoo needs to pull off its trick of hiding its eggs in the nests of other birds. |
26th March 2006 |
| Climate change close to home - Stuff Evidence is growing that New Zealand's climate is changing in line with global warming predictions. |
26th March 2006 |
| Climate change is in the air - Seattle Post-Intelligencer Calling global warming a "planetary emergency," elected officials and a mayoral commission presented a series of recommendations Friday for curtailing Seattle's greenhouse gas emissions. |
25th March 2006 |
| The pollution gap - The Independent Report reveals how the world's poorer countries are forced to pay for the CO2 emissions of the developed nations. |
25th March 2006 |
| World's Ecological Footprint Exceeds Biological Capacity by Nearly 40 Percent - EV World New, more comprehensive methodology identifies overfishing, industrial agriculture, urban sprawl and carbon emissions as the chief culprits driving ecological overshoot. |
25th March 2006 |
| 'Great Warming' Premieres with Packed House -Christian Post NEW YORK - Proof is everywhere. The "Great Warming" has already begun. Hundreds of people packed into New York City's Ziegfeld Theater yesterday for the world premier of "The Great Warming" - a documentary film revealing a changing climate whose fingerprint is marked by the human species. |
25th March 2006 |
| Alaskan eskimo village melting away The Daily Journal Giant storm surges have so battered the place — once well protected by sea ice — that villagers voted in 2002 to leave their ancestral home for the mainland. They are being called one of the first refugees of global warming. |
25th March 2006 |
| Will Christians Save the Planet? - Huffington Post In 1992, hundreds of the world's leading scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates, signed a joint declaration titled "The World Scientists' Warning to Humanity." These 1,600 scientists accurately predicted the magnitude of global warming, species extinction, and destruction of the earth's complex ecosystems. Their words went largely unheard and unheeded. |
25th March 2006 |
| Ad Council Takes On Global Warming - Broadcasting & Cable he Advertising Council and Environmental Defense today unveiled a new public service campaign to fight global warming. The work includes one 15-second and two 30-second television commercials and two 60-second radio spots that are being distributed to media outlets this week. Watch one of the advertisements. Go to Ad Council website |
24th March 2006 |
| A New Ethics Needed to Save Life on Earth - Inter Press Service News Agency Affect, care, cooperation and responsibility are the four central principles of a new ethics that humanity urgently needs to adopt, in order to avoid becoming extinct as "a victim of itself." |
24th March 2006 |
| Will Ferrell - Bush on Global Warming Very funny (or terrifying!) video clip of Will Ferrer as G.W. on G.W. (via transbuddah.com) |
24th March 2006 |
| Scientists forecast metre rise in sea levels this century - Guardian Unlimited Half of Greenland and vast areas of Antarctica are destined to melt if global warming continues at the same pace until the end of the century, scientists warned yesterday. (...yes, but what if pace quickens?) |
24th March 2006 |
| Don't wait for Bush on climate change - The Mercury News DESPITE LACK OF WHITE HOUSE LEADERSHIP, TIME TO ACT ON GLOBAL WARMING IS NOW |
24th March 2006 |
| Little time to avoid big thaw, scientists warn - Christian Science Monitor Arctic temperatures near a prehistoric level when seas were 16 to 20 feet higher, studies say. Global warming appears to be pushing vast reservoirs of ice on Greenland and Antarctica toward a significant, long-term meltdown. The world may have as little as a decade to take the steps to avoid this scenario. |
24th March 2006 |
| Climate change 'harms world poor' - BBC News The poorest people in the world in Asia and Africa will be worst hit by climate change, a UK government report says. |
24th March 2006 |
| Warnings rise over rising seas - Nature Fresh predictions about climate change prompt news@nature.com to ask what we know about the future of our oceans. |
23rd March 2006 |
| Governments must heed warnings on climate change now - Yahoo / AFP Governments around the world need to act now to tackle global warming and a destructive surge in storms and floods over coming decades, the senior scientist advising the British government said. In a presentation to mark World Meteorological Day, David King, the chief scientific adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, highlighted recent disasters to demonstrate that authorities tended to either ignore warnings from scientists or were inadequately prepared. |
23rd March 2006 |
| Waking Up America about Climate Change - E Magazine Interview with TV comedy producer turned environmental activist, Laurie David. |
23rd March 2006 |
| In Bolivia, world's highest ski resort melting away - Reuters / AlertNet Scientists say Chacaltaya's diminished piste could disappear altogether within five years due to climate change. |
23rd March 2006 |
| Price of Wind-Generated Electricity Plummeting - digitaljournal.com Environmental advocates say the price of wind-generated electricity is plummeting, making the alternative energy source more viable in the commercial market. |
23rd March 2006 |
| Carbon Cloud Over Green Fuel - Christian Science Monitor An Iowa corn refinery, open since December, uses 300 tons of coal a day to make ethanol. |
23rd March 2006 |
| Ethicist Singer says America lacking in global ethics - Mankato Free Press From climate change and international law to free trade and foreign aid, Singer outlined general ethical rules he believes countries of the world — led by America’s example — need to follow. |
23rd March 2006 |
| Brussels' hi-tech eco house - BBC News The building, which houses a cluster of renewable energy associations, is now something of a living laboratory. Over the past few years it has been gutted and rebuilt. As it has been reconstructed, state-of-the-art environmental technology has been embedded within. |
23rd March 2006 |
| IBM think-tank calls on businesses to save the world while making money - Yahoo / AFP While Hollywood celebrities and Silicon Valley executives have the cash to pay for trendy earth-friendly lifestyles, ordinary people don't, a US think-tank warned. The onus was on businesses worldwide to lead a "green" revolution by sharing technology and costs before authoritarian governments slapped them and citizens with life-altering regulations, according to panel members. |
23rd March 2006 |
| What the Left Hand's Doing - Grist Magazine Rabbi Michael Lerner calls on environmentalists to develop a spiritual vision. (Not specifically about climate change - but a must-read nonetheless) |
22nd March 2006 |
| Saving the Planet With Plan B 2.0 - Wired News Interview with Lester R. Brown author of Plan B2.0 a strategy to "rescue a planet under stress and a civilization in trouble." |
22nd March 2006 |
| Exxon Exxposed - The Huffington Post The Wall St. Journal reports that ExxonMobil is the key funder of a front group called Public Interest Watch which has been pushing the IRS to audit Greenpeace. |
22nd March 2006 |
| Brazilian farming will doom 40 percent of Amazon - Yahoo / AFP Cattle ranchers and soybean farmers will destroy four-tenths of Brazil's Amazonian forest by 2050 on present trends, threatening biodiversity and adding hugely to the global warming problem, a study says. |
22nd March 2006 |
| The Evolution of Galapagos Wind - E Magazine.com One of the world’s most prized ecological zones will soon become a showcase for renewable energy in remote locations. Early this year, crews are expected to break ground on a wind farm on San Cristóbal, the largest of four inhabitable islands in the Galapagos Archipelago. After construction is done in late 2006, the farm’s three turbines will generate up to 2.4 megawatts—meeting half the energy needs of San Cristóbal’s 6,000 residents and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 2,800 tons a year. |
22nd March 2006 |
| Statue of Liberty to go all 'green' power - Christian Science Monitor By the end of March, all electricity for the Old Lady in the Harbor and Ellis Island will be from wind power. |
22nd March 2006 |
| Brown targets polluting vehicles - BBC News The UK chancellor is to raise taxes for gas-guzzling vehicles, with the worst offenders now attracting a vehicle excise duty of £210. The move has been coupled with a zero rate for a small number of cars with the lowest carbon emissions, and £40 duty for cars with low emissions. |
22nd March 2006 |
| Radiohead singer snubs Blair climate talks - Guardian Unlimited Radiohead star Thom Yorke has revealed that he turned down a meeting with the prime minister to discuss climate change. He dismissed Tony Blair as a man with "no environmental credentials" and said dealing with Labour spin doctors had made him feel ill. |
22nd March 2006 |
| Statue of Liberty to go all 'green' power - Christian Science Monitor By the end of March, all electricity for the Old Lady in the Harbor and Ellis Island will be from wind power. |
22nd March 2006 |
| Cyclone points to global warming - The Australian THE cyclone that devastated parts of far north Queensland is a stark reminder of the worsening impact of climate change, conservationists say. |
22nd March 2006 |
| Inuit alarmed by signs of global warming - MSNBC 'Sentries for the rest of the world' report massive changes to Arctic life |
22nd March 2006 |
| Power debate asks is small beautiful? - Reuters Britain is at a crossroads as it decides how to supply its future electricity needs -- upgrade the ageing "big power" National Grid or scrap it in favour of decentralised systems such as combined heat and power (CHP). |
22nd March 2006 |
| Birds and flowers signal 'season creep' as spring comes earlier - Canoe.ca The early arrival of robins and the early flowering of lilacs might gladden many hearts, but scientists aren't cheering what they call "season creep." "One of the things we are definitely finding is that the changes we were predicting 30, 40, 50 years out are showing up now. "It is frightening to think about it, but it's here already. The whole world is beginning to see the impact." |
21st March 2006 |
| Argentina's Floating Icebergs Worry Farmers Who Fear Flooding - Bloomberg.com The Argentina coast guard was astonished to find icebergs floating along the Atlantic coast. ``It's the first time icebergs of such size reached Buenos Aires,'' said the coastguard. |
21st March 2006 |
| Alternative energy inspires new power generation - Guardian Unlimited The wind is roaring, the temperature outside is below zero and fuel bills are going through the roof, but woodsman Ben Law is not bothered. The timber house that he built three years ago in a Surrey forest is warm and bright and the heating and lighting is completely free. |
21st March 2006 |
| Global warming plan splits oil firms - Contra Costa Times Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's pledge to fight global warming has opened a rift as wide as the Atlantic Ocean between two groups of oil companies in California. |
21st March 2006 |
| Almost half of capital's businesses support higher aviation taxes - Guardian Unlimited Environmental concerns about air travel are changing attitudes in the boardroom, with almost half of businesses in the capital declaring themselves in favour of higher taxes on the cost of flights. |
21st March 2006 |
| Climate change a threat to Amazon rainforest - WWF Curitiba, Brazil – Climate change and deforestation could convert the majority of the Amazon rainforest into savannah, with massive impacts on the world’s biodiversity and climate, WWF said today at the 8th UN Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. |
21st March 2006 |
| Climate change puts pressure on London defences - Reuters London is mustering its flood defences more often as global warming raises sea levels. |
21st March 2006 |
| Water-saving technology plans range from simple to surreal - Today Online Towing freshwater icebergs from the Antarctic, building a huge canal to link two seas, catching fog in the desert and half-flush toilets -- the search for ways to bring water to thirsty parts of the world is becoming increasingly ingenious and frantic. |
21st March 2006 |
| Sea trials start for h&w's wave power generator - Belfast Telegraph Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries in Belfast is keeping its fingers crossed that a sea-going prototype power generator will successfully come through trials. |
21st March 2006 |
| Reactions to tighter hurricane intensity/SST link - RealCimate There was another twist to the hurricanes/global warming issue in Science Express on Friday where a new paper from the Webster/Curry team just appeared. This study, lead by Carlos Hoyos, crosses a few t's and dots a couple of i's on the connection of increasing numbers of intense hurricanes (Cat. 4 and 5) to sea surface temperatures (SST). |
21st March 2006 |
| Chilling proof that glacier meltdown is getting faster - The Independent Many of the world's mountain glaciers are melting at a faster rate than at any time in the past 150 years, according to the latest assessment by glaciologists. |
20th March 2006 |
| Living the eco-life in Cornwall - The Independent A year ago, the Strawbridge family swapped their comfortable suburban life for self-sufficiency in a dilapidated house in Cornwall. Sanjida O'Connell visits their solar-powered, wool-insulated eco-haven |
20th March 2006 |
| Cyclone batters Australian coast - BBC News Tropical Cyclone Larry smashed into Queensland at Innisfail, about 100km (62 miles) south of Cairns - packing winds of up to 290km/h (180mph) and forcing thousands to evacuate their homes. |
20th March 2006 |
| How to spot the signs of global warming in your back garden - The Independent Global warming doesn't only mean melting polar ice caps - it's changing the plants, birds and insects in your own back garden. |
20th March 2006 |
| Adapting to hotter world - The London Free Press Global warming is a fact. We must fight it, but mankind also must prepare to manage the inevitable changes it will bring. |
20th March 2006 |
| The era of renewables - Business Day The era of renewables may not be upon us, but it is coming and it needs to be encouraged. |
20th March 2006 |
| Rewriting The Science - CBS News Hansen is arguably the world's leading researcher on global warming. He's the head of NASA's top institute studying the climate. But this imminent scientist tells correspondent Scott Pelley that the Bush administration is restricting who he can talk to and editing what he can say. Politicians, he says, are rewriting the science. |
19th March 2006 |
| UK at risk as world heats up - The Independent Wildfires will break out in national parts and "stifling" temperatures in cities will hit café culture as global warming takes hold, a new report has concluded. |
19th March 2006 |
| It's my rainforest now. No logging - The Sunday Times New 'green colonialism' as millionaire businessman John Eliasch buys a 400,000-acre plot in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. |
19th March 2006 |
| Chomsky criticizes U.S. policy - The Morning Call Linguistics professor offers harsh view of country's actions. |
19th March 2006 |
| Olives are the new English roses - Guardian Unlimited Gardening book signals a Mediterranean revolution in dried-up gardens. |
19th March 2006 |
| The world as a war zone - Workers World As we move into an era of more and more natural disasters caused by the unnatural phenomenon of global warming, the areas affected are coming to look more and more like war zones.The question is no longer if or when global warming will seriously affect life on the planet. It is an established fact, and each new study shows more rapid change. It is not just future generations but today’s generation that will see rising sea levels that can inundate low-lying countries. Some predictions are apocalyptic. This is a vast problem caused by the effect of human activity on the environment, and it can only be meaningfully addressed through profound social change. |
18th March 2006 |
| MP's green Bill step closer to becoming law - The Scotsman Edinburgh MP Mark Lazarowicz's Westminster Bill to try to reduce global warming has taken a giant step towards becoming UK law. |
18th March 2006 |
| Sinking islanders are facing mass evacuation - The Daily Telegraph "We face the real prospect of losing three nations: Tuvalu, neighbouring Kiribati and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean," said Dr Clive Hamilton, the executive director of the Australia Institute think-tank. |
18th March 2006 |
| Canadian scientists measuring the Earth's ozone layer are the new Arctic explorers - Toronto Star Their big challenge is to discover if the Arctic is solely a victim of global climate change, or perhaps also a perpetrator — "the canary and the bulldozer." |
18th March 2006 |
| Pollution regarded as big sin - Akron Beacon Journal Evangelical Christians embracing `creation care' of God's green Earth |
18th March 2006 |
| No, says Canberra to protecting Reef - The Age The Australian Government has joined the United States to oppose efforts by the United Nations to protect world heritage sites such as the Great Barrier Reef from global warming. |
18th March 2006 |
| Beijing makes US offer on energy - The Financial Times China has said it is willing to work with the US on future oil, gas and renewable energy projects, as well as on global energy security. |
18th March 2006 |
| Climate science 2005: Major new discoveries - World Resources Institute "2005 was a year in which the scientific discoveries and new research on climate change confirmed the fears and concerns of the science community. The findings reported in the peer-reviewed journals last year point to an unavoidable conclusion: The physical consequences of climate change are no longer theoretical; they are real, they are here, and they can be quantified". This is a brilliantly comprehensive document which summarises all the relevant global warming topics from the past year. |
17th March 2006 |
| Drought threatens spring planting in Canadian west - Reuters Parts of Canada's grain belt will need timely spring rains to stave off drought conditions as the planting season approaches, crop and weather specialists warn. Soil moisture is below average in much of Alberta and pockets of Saskatchewan, where fall rains and winter snowfall were minimal. |
17th March 2006 |
| Global warming blamed for increasing force of hurricanes - Guardian Unlimited Global warming is increasing the frequency of the most intense hurricanes, insist scientists who have analysed data from six oceans. |
17th March 2006 |
| Bangladesh to lose 17pc land due to climate change The Financial Express The effects of climate change have the potential to exacerbate poverty in Asia and over 17 per cent land of Bangladesh could be permanently lost as a result of rising sea level, according to an energy expert. |
17th March 2006 |
| Koch's lobbyists could derail Cape Wind - MSBNBC As federal lawmakers prepare to vote on legislation that could doom the Nantucket Sound wind farm, plenty of eyes are watching closely. Take, for instance, Bill Koch, the Osterville billionaire and wind farm opponent whose company paid a lobbying firm $60,000 last year to influence, in part, the Coast Guard bill that could kill the wind farm, according to recent lobbying reports. |
17th March 2006 |
| Minnows lead majors to greener future - Reuters Woking (UK), a town of 90,000 has slashed emissions of carbon dioxide from civic buildings by 77 percent and its success is proving a model for giants like nearby London and other cities from Australia and Canada. |
17th March 2006 |
| Climate of change in Seattle - Seattle Post Intelligencer Mayor Greg Nickels -- who rallied city leaders nationwide when he launched his fight against global warming more than a year ago -- will unveil next week his plan for curbing Seattle's greenhouse gas emissions. |
17th March 2006 |
| UN urged to save glaciers and reefs - Guardian Unlimited United Nations experts will today hold an emergency meeting aimed at protecting some of the world's natural wonders from the escalating threat of climate change. Melting glaciers on Mount Everest and damage to the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia have prompted calls for the UN to officially acknowledge that global warming poses a danger to some of its world heritage sites. |
16th March 2006 |
| Soya is not the solution to climate change - Guardian Unlimited Brazil's use of biofuels is only worthwhile if they really limit environmental damage, says Giulio Volpi |
16th March 2006 |
| Global Warming Reaches 'Tipping Point' - Red Orbit Human-fueled global warming has reached a "tipping point," according to a new survey of scientific research that found warming would continue even if greenhouse gas emissions halted immediately. |
16th March 2006 |
| Environment changes hit Europe's butterflies - Guardian Unlimited Seven in 10 British butterfly species are declining dramatically as a result of intensive farming, habitat loss and climate change, the largest survey of Europe's butterflies has revealed. |
16th March 2006 |
| Mayor outlines London energy vision for Greenpeace - EDIE The mayor used the lecture to launch a new report Powering London into the 21st Century which outlines City Hall's aspirations to use efficient, local power stations and renewable energy sources to meet demand in the capital. |
16th March 2006 |
| Whales move north as oceans warm - New Scientist The song of the gray whale is being heard further north these days. It's just one part of a massive ecological shift affecting the 2 million square kilometres of the Bering sea, one of the world's richest fisheries. |
16th March 2006 |
| Climate change: Only 10 years to act - The Scotsman New figures show urgent action must be taken to avoid climate change becoming unstoppable within ten years, a leading environmentalist warned yesterday. |
15th March 2006 |
| 3/4 Americans Fault Federal Leadership on Global Warming & Alternative Energy - Yahoo Finance 58 Percent More Concerned About Global Warming Now Than Two Years Ago; Bipartisan 4 Out of 5 Urge Energy, Climate as Top Issues for Bush & 2006/2008 Elections |
15th March 2006 |
| Homes at risk to save planet - icNewcastle The Government plans to tighten dramatically the time in which the building industry can comply with new climate-change regulations, which come into force on April 6. |
15th March 2006 |
| Grappling With Climate Change - Wired News The scientific evidence is now overwhelming that unchecked growth in fossil fuel use throughout the next half-century will produce a global climate catastrophe. Interview with Tim Flannery, author of 'The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth'. |
15th March 2006 |
| NASA Says Northern Ozone Pollution Spurs Arctic Warming ENN Ozone pollution in the Northern Hemisphere, churned out by factories and vehicles that burn fossil fuels, is a major factor in the dramatic warming of the Arctic zone, NASA climate scientists reported Tuesday. |
15th March 2006 |
| Insurance industry feels the heat of global warming - Boston Globe ''People are getting the idea that there is nowhere to hide on this issue." See also: States Calculate Global Warming Pricetag |
15th March 2006 |
| Famous Argentinian glacier sheds huge chunks - Independent OnLine Huge chunks of ice have tumbled off Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier - a rare spectacle that prompted a vigil by hundreds of tourists. |
15th March 2006 |
| Sharp rise in CO2 levels recorded - BBC News US climate scientists have recorded a significant rise in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, pushing it to a new record level. |
14th March 2006 |
| Climate change 'irreversible' as Arctic sea ice fails to re-form - The Independent Sea ice in the Arctic has failed to re-form for the second consecutive winter, raising fears that global warming may have tipped the polar regions in to irreversible climate change far sooner than predicted. |
14th March 2006 |
| A climate change of heart - Los Angeles Times Here's a case where virtually everybody is acknowledging a weapon of mass destruction — the threat of climate chaos — but still President Bush refuses to take action. When the evangelical community, Bush's stalwart base, called for climate action last month, the news grabbed headlines. But the more important Bush defectors on this issue are some of the world's largest corporations, including British Petroleum, General Electric, DuPont and Cinergy. So, the question arises: Why does Bush persist in his increasingly lonely stance? |
14th March 2006 |
| Decision to close climate change research sites is flawed, say experts - Guardian Unlimited Four leading research centres which focus on wildlife and climate change are to close, despite widespread opposition to the move from Britain's scientific elite, officials confirmed yesterday. |
14th March 2006 |
| Earth Insurance - The Dallas Morning News Because the warming of the Earth's surface is already causing havoc far from any ice cap or coastline. Insurance companies have seen a 15-fold increase in insured losses over the past 30 years from floods, tornadoes, severe hailstorms, droughts and brushfires, in addition to hurricanes. That's what prompted the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to embark on a hard look at how well insurance companies are prepared to meet the growing challenge. |
14th March 2006 |
| A Port's Ice Is Thinning, and So Is Its Tourist Trade - New York Times In Mombetsu, a traditional japanese fishing town with a smattering of stores catering to Russians engaging in the crab trade, the drift ice has usually appeared in mid-January and stayed strong until mid-March, often lingering until May. The drift ice made the sea impassable to all ships but icebreakers for an average of 40 days. This year, the sea remained locked for only 10 days. |
14th March 2006 |
| Winter of 2005/2006 the warmest ever, coast to coast - Canoe Between December and February, the country was 3.9 degrees above normal - the warmest winter season since temperatures were first recorded in 1948. |
13th March 2006 |
| Ghostly coral bleachings haunt the world's reefs - Reuters Australia has just experienced its warmest year on record and abnormally high sea temperatures during summer have caused massive coral bleaching in the Keppels. Sea temperatures touched 29 degrees Celsius (84 Fahrenheit), the upper limit for coral. |
13th March 2006 |
| Global Warming Impact on Polar Ice Sheets Confirmed - Environment News Service Climate warming is changing how much water remains in Earth's greatest treasuries of ice and snow, NASA scientists have confirmed. The most comprehensive survey ever undertaken of the enormous ice sheets covering both Greenland and Antarctica shows a net loss of ice to the sea. |
13th March 2006 |
| Glaciers Melting In Montana Park - CBS News A panel meeting in France this week plans to discuss concerns that human-caused warming of the climate is why the glaciers in Glacier National Park are melting. |
13th March 2006 |
| The case for wave and tidal power investment - Engineer Live Marine energy could provide up to 20 per cent of the UK's current electricity needs and become cost-competitive with conventional and other renewable types of energy generation in the long term - given the right level of investment now. |
13th March 2006 |
| Cal grad student working on thin solar panel - San Francisco Chronicle Long before President Bush told Americans they were addicted to oil, UC Berkeley graduate student Ilan Gur was down in his basement chemistry lab working toward a cure. |
13th March 2006 |
| Weather is melting state's identity - Duluth News Tribune Warmer winters in Minnesota have changed people's recreation, and could alter lakes and wildlife if they continue. |
13th March 2006 |
| Commentary: We're going over the climate cliff - The Albuquerque Tribune We need leadership on climate change, and we're not getting it. Leaders would understand the issue and help educate us. Leaders would realize the magnitude of the problem and shape a commensurate response. Where we need focus, we get distractions. Where we need courageous and decisive action, we get ignorance, arrogance and denial. And time is not on our side. |
13th March 2006 |
| Pollution soaring to crisis levels in Arctic - Guardian Unlimited Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that indicates Earth's most vulnerable regions - the North and South Poles - are poised on the brink of a climatic disaster. |
12th March 2006 |
| Acid seas threaten to make British shellfish extinct - The Times Shellfish, crabs, lobsters and a host of other familiar species could become extinct around Britain and Europe because our seas are becoming steadily more acidic. |
12th March 2006 |
| Hosepipe ban as UK water crisis deepens - Guardian Unlimited Britain's biggest water company is expected to announce the first hosepipe ban of the year tomorrow as the country's drought reaches crisis levels. |
12th March 2006 |
| Death of the world's rivers - The Independent The world's great rivers are drying up at an alarming rate, with devastating consequences for humanity, animals and the future of the planet. |
12th March 2006 |
| Australia a portal into global warming future - Independent Online People in this sheep ranching town gave up washing their cars and sprinkling their gardens long ago because of a water shortage. Children are barred from school sport fields because they are dried rock-hard and dangerous. Goulburn, a hub for the region's Merino sheep industry that's a two hour drive from Sydney, could represent a here-and-now example of what many scientists say are problems the world will face because of global warming. |
12th March 2006 |
| The Coming Resource Wars - AlertNet America's closest ally has announced that climate change has ushered in an era of violent conflict over energy, water and arable land. |
11th March 2006 |
| Coastal carbon sinks are shrinking - New Scientist MANGROVE forests play a major role in pumping carbon from the atmosphere into the ocean, and may help regulate greenhouse gas concentrations. The trouble is, they are disappearing. |
11th March 2006 |
| Early birds catch climate change - The Times Predictions of European bird species colonising Britain because of climate change are coming true early. Stephen Moss, a BBC wildlife producer, wrote in 1998 that zitting cisticolas, Mediterranean grassland warblers could be nesting in Kent and Sussex by 2020 and the cattle egret was a likely colonist. He learnt yesterday that two zitting cisticolas had wintered on Jersey. Cattle egrets are now regular winter visitors in southern England. |
11th March 2006 |
| Warming trend has chilling side - Poughkeepsie Journal Northeast winters have grown warmer, springs arrive earlier and — a new report predicts — continued climate change may lead to significant disruptions of the local environment that will affect people's health and wallets. |
11th March 2006 |
| Sweating It - The New York Times Review: Climate Change Books by Tim Flannery and Elizabeth Kolbert, "The Weather Makers" and "Field Notes From a Catastrophe". |
11th March 2006 |
| NASA scientist has chilling global warming tale - NorthJersey.com The Earth is fast approaching a global warming "point of no return," a tipping point that could lead to lifeless poles and inundated coasts -- and even floodwaters that reach Ridgewood and Tenafly, a top NASA scientist warned Friday. |
11th March 2006 |
| Q&A: Threats to global security, part three - Monsters&Critics "There is a growing realization that the long-term problem that affects everybody in the world is climate change. In our heart of hearts we know theoretically we can do something about it but the likelihood is that it will be too little, too late. And it will cause conflicts as well as a reduction in quality of life, and is therefore a long term security problem in a military sense as well as an environmental sense." |
10th March 2006 |
| Bering Sea Climate Is Shifting - Los Angeles Times Scientists say sea life is fighting to survive as the water warms up and ice melts sooner. The changes are profound and may be irreversible. |
10th March 2006 |
| Scientist turns up heat on Australia's climate of folly - Sydney Morning Herald 'Australia has "done an immoral thing" by selling coal to the world, but taking no responsibility for reducing the worst effects of coal-burning by signing the Kyoto Protocol.' |
10th March 2006 |
| Scientists say British greenhouse gas emissions now higher than in 1990 - Guardian Unlimited A study by scientists at the Tyndall centre, at Manchester University, shows that soaring carbon emissions from the aviation and shipping industries have swamped attempts to reduce pollution from other UK sectors. |
10th March 2006 |
| Public called to reduce emissions - BBC News The UK public are being invited to participate in a mass experiment to reduce climate change as part of National Science Week. Click For The Climate |
10th March 2006 |
| Our culture's corruption - The Daily Camera The Bush administration for too long virtually insisted that there was no such thing as global warming. It has since changed its tune, conceding some of the case, but the epiphany has come late and not until additional damage was done both to the environment and, with the rejection of the Kyoto treaty, to America's international standing. |
10th March 2006 |
| Military Lunacy: How About A Bit Of Common Sense? - Znet In Washington, the Common Sense Budget Act, introduced this week by Representative Lynn Woolsey of California, seems like a far-reaching move. The legislation would divert $60 billion (approx 10%)from the Pentagon budget, and allocate it to social investment, renewable energy and humanitarian aid. |
10th March 2006 |
| Polar ice sheets show net loss - BBC News "This seems to suggest that East Antarctica might not save our bacon after all," - Liz Morris, Scott Polar Research Institute |
9th March 2006 |
| Study previews ice sheet melting, rapid climate change - EurekAlert The behavior of a massive ice sheet that existed in northern Europe at the end of the last Ice Age has been outlined for the first time, and researchers believe it may provide a sneak preview of how major ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will act in the face of global warming. |
9th March 2006 |
| Melting permafrost plagues Dawson City - CBC Dawson City spent more than $600,000 last year dealing with damage to roads and pipes caused by melting permafrost. |
9th March 2006 |
| Judge Rules U.S. Gov't Violating Fuel Law - New York Times A federal judge ruled that the Bush administration is violating a 1992 law aimed at increasing the country's use of alternative fuel vehicles. |
9th March 2006 |
| Power from the people - BBC News Solar panels and miniature wind turbines could soon become an officially-promoted part of the urban landscape. See also: Solar panel blog |
9th March 2006 |
| Lula's UK visit highlights Amazon destruction - edie news centre The unprecedented rate of destruction of Brazil's rainforest over the last three years came into public attention during Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's three-day state visit to Britain. The criticism came as the UK and Brazil signed an agreement Tuesday to work together to combat climate change. |
9th March 2006 |
| Global Warming Threatens New Guinea Paradise - Reuters / Planet Ark "A paradise world of undiscovered species and tropical glaciers in the mountains of New Guinea is disappearing faster than it can be explored." |
9th March 2006 |
| Frogs, beetles sound an alarm - IndyStar.com The warnings are coming from frogs and beetles, from melting ice and changing ocean currents, and from scientists and responsible politicians around the world. And yet what is the U.S. government doing about global warming? The answer, essentially, is nothing. That should shock the conscience of American citizens. Actually, the Bush administration's policy is worse than doing nothing. |
8th March 2006 |
| February was 6th warmest in 127 years - Google groups / alt.global-warming "These globally averaged temperature data come from NASA. They represent the results of tens of millions of readings taken at thousands of land stations and ships around the globe over the last 127 years. Yes, the land data are corrected for the urban heat island effect. The sea data do not need to be. There are few urban centers in the sea." - Roger Coppock |
8th March 2006 |
| EU energy policy: ‘a little less conversation, a little more action’ - WWF The energy strategy for Europe presented today by the European Commission is guided only by concerns on security of supply, but lacks a long-term vision for a sustainable and efficient use of resources, says WWF, the global conservation organisation. |
8th March 2006 |
| A real plan for warming - The Age The incentives for change both to promote more energy conservation by industrial and household users and to create opportunities for big profits from energy-saving innovation by engineers must be created now if there is to be a relatively smooth economic adjustment, instead of crisis brought on by increasingly cataclysmic climatic events. |
8th March 2006 |
| Ice Thawing Earlier on Maine Lakes - New York Times Ice on dozens of lakes in Maine and four other states is melting earlier in the year than in decades past, according to a new analysis. |
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| Reining in Carbon Dioxide Levels Imperative but Possible - The Earth Institute Implementing a plan to keep rising carbon dioxide levels from reaching potentially dangerous levels could cost less than 1 percent of gross world product as of 2050, a cost that is well within reach of developed and developing nations alike. However, without simultaneous progress in the way energy is found, transformed, transported and used, the world is in danger of facing a severe energy crisis sometime within the next century. |
8th March 2006 |
| Global Warming Evidence Grows - UN Expert - Reuters / Planet Ark Evidence humans are to blame for global warming is rising but governments are doing too little to counter the threat, the head of the United Nations climate panel said on Monday. |
7th March 2006 |
| EU weighs up carbon capture - EU Politix “Carbon capture and storage is a transitional measure and should not detract from the move towards renewables and energy efficiency” liberal MEP Diana Wallis argued. |
7th March 2006 |
| New technologies, ideas can help in bid counter global warming - Yahoo / AFP New industrial technologies and novel financial ideas can help the fight against global warming by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to scientists and climate experts gathered here by the World Bank. |
7th March 2006 |
| Global Green Puts Stars in Hybrid Cars - EV World Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, one of Global Green's missions is to raise awareness about the reality of global warming, its causes and consequences. One of the ways it seeks to do that is by organizing the now annual event of providing dozens of Hollywood celebrities with greener transportation to the Oscars each Spring. |
7th March 2006 |
| Where’s the Green Bob Geldof? - First Post When it comes to climate change, argues matt ford, we need a hero to shake our complacency |
7th March 2006 |
| Cutting methane emissions 'will save 370,000 lives' - SciDev.Net Reducing methane emissions by 20 per cent could prevent 370,000 deaths worldwide between 2010 and 2030, say researchers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week (6 March). |
7th March 2006 |
| Chew Magna: Is this greenest village in Britain? - The Independent In a quiet corner of Somerset, a revolution is under way. Locals have made a pact to slash their carbon emissions - and reduce their waste to zero. |
6th March 2006 |
| Sustainable energy for London moves step closer - 24dash.com The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone today announced that EDF Energy has been chosen to work in partnership with the London Climate Change Agency to drive forward work that will aims to provide more efficient and sustainable energy supplies for the capital. |
6th March 2006 |
| Failure to report on climate change in South - SciDevNet A survey of four developing countries says their media have a poor understanding of climate change, and place a low priority on reporting it. |
6th March 2006 |
| States Appeal to US Top Court on CO2 Car Emissions - Planet / Ark A dozen US states appealed to the Supreme Court on Friday on a case that seeks to force the US government to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks, an environmental group said. |
6th March 2006 |
| 'No quick fix' from nuclear power - BBC News Building new nuclear plants is not the answer to tackling climate change or securing Britain's energy supply, a government advisory panel has reported. See also 'Weighing up future energy options' |
6th March 2006 |
| Chretien dismisses Tory claims that Kyoto targets unattainable - canada.com Jean Chretien said Monday that Canada can still reach the environmental targets he committed to before leaving office in 2003. Chretien urged the new Conservative government to keep working toward Kyoto's target of a six-per-cent reduction in greenhouse gas levels from 1990. |
6th March 2006 |
| Clean energy market to clean up - New York Times Global warming and high oil prices will help the clean-energy market to more than quadruple by 2015, according to a new report. |
6th March 2006 |
| An Energy Pearl Harbor? - The Washington Post A Near Miss in Saudi Arabia Hints at Future Shocks |
5th March 2006 |
| Budgets Imperil Environmental Satellites - ABC News Budget cuts and poor management may be jeopardizing the future of our eyes in orbit America's fleet of environmental satellites, vital tools for forecasting hurricanes, protecting water supplies and predicting global warming. |
5th March 2006 |
| So how are we getting on at saving the planet? Could do better - Guardian Unlimited Not long ago, ethical choices were regarded as the idiosyncrasy of people who opted out of consumer society. Helped by celebrity endorsement, dramatic climate change, publicity for poverty, and recognition that saving the planet can save money, they are now mainstream fashion. |
5th March 2006 |
| UN pleads for food as drought grips Kenya - The Observer Climate change is contributing to the drought that has stricken 3.5 million Kenyans. Western tourists are kept oblivious to the starvation threatened if aid does not come in 10 days . |
5th March 2006 |
| Campbell hints at green tax hike - ITN "First, the tax burden must be lighter for those on lowest incomes. "Second, the tax system must provide incentives to companies and individuals to behave in a way that sustains our environment. "Third, the system must be simple - it must support enterprise and must not stifle it." |
5th March 2006 |
| Can our way of living really save the planet? - Guardian Unlimited After a week in which Amex launched its red card, David Cameron said he was going for wind power and the Lonely Planet pleaded for less air travel, Robin McKie, Amelia Hill, Juliette Jowit and Nick Mathiason ask if the shopper in the street can make more difference than politicians. |
5th March 2006 |
| China's premier Wen calls for measures to 'basically halt' damage to environment - Today online The 11th five-year plan, which lasts from this year until late 2010, sets rough numerical targets for a reduction of pollution, calling for a 10 percent reduction in the total discharge of major pollutants by the end of the decade. |
5th March 2006 |
| Earth Talk: Auto-makers destroyed American transport system - Daily Camera Did the car companies really conspire to kill the trolleys and streetcars of bygone days and force us to become dependent on automobiles instead? |
4th March 2006 |
| Qinghai-Tibet Plateau reports warmest winter temperature - New Kerala Some parts of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau reported average winter temperatures that were four to five degrees Celsius above normal for the period between the beginning of December and the end of February, according to China Meteorological Administration (CMA) on Friday. |
4th March 2006 |
| Antarctic ice sheet decline startles scientists - Guardian Unlimited The Antarctic ice sheet, which contains 90% of the world's ice, has lost significant mass in the past few years. The discovery comes as a surprise to scientists, who thought that the continent would gain ice this century because of increased snowfall in a warming climate. |
3rd March 2006 |
| Forecast shows Africa to face river crisis - Guardian Unlimited Africa's rivers face dramatic disruption that will leave a quarter of the continent severely short of water by the end of the century, according to a global warming study published today. |
3rd March 2006 |
| A better place - OECD Observer "There are many challenges lying ahead which we have not yet begun to address, perhaps because we are not yet ready to accept the horrendous consequences of global warming. My generation enjoys in most ways the same world we knew as children: one of unspoiled natural beauty; of diverse animal and plant life; of new virgin frontiers to explore above and beneath the seas. All this may now be in jeopardy." - Donald J. Johnston, Secretary-General of the OECD |
3rd March 2006 |
| 'Hypocritical' ministers reject wind power plan - The Independent The role of wind power in the battle against climate change is in doubt after plans for England's biggest turbine development on the eastern fringe of the Lake District National Park were rejected by ministers. |
3rd March 2006 |
| Antarctica losing ice to oceans - BBC News A new space-based study of Antarctica shows its ice sheet is shrinking. |
2nd March 2006 |
| Telescopes 'worthless' by 2050 - BBC News Ground-based astronomy could be impossible in 40 years because of pollution from aircraft exhaust trails and climate change, an expert says. |
2nd March 2006 |
| Climate change 'will hit London' - BBC News A World Wildlife Fund report has found London is the most likely city in the UK to be damaged by the effects of climate change. Download the Report (PDF) |
2nd March 2006 |
| East coast sweltered in summer - The Age NSW and Queensland sizzled through one of the states' hottest summers on record while western and southern Australia basked in more balmy conditions. |
2nd March 2006 |
| Is it global warming, or just weird? - The Boston Globe The National Climatic Data Center reported that this January was the warmest in the past 111 years in the United States, with an average temperature of about 40. Temperatures between August and January also set a record for warmth, with a national average of almost 53. |
2nd March 2006 |
| Portugal powers ahead as wind champion - Guardian Unlimited Portugal signalled the launch of one of Europe's biggest wind power projects yesterday - a move that will supply enough electricity for 750,000 homes. |
2nd March 2006 |
| China's Waste Could be Treasure for Kyoto Scheme - Reuters / Planet Ark Foreign investors can earn Kyoto credits from climate-friendly projects in China and other emerging economies, under a scheme called Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) - one of the three main emissions-reduction mechanisms prescribed under Kyoto. |
2nd March 2006 |
| Blair leaves campaigners wanting more on climate change - Reuters / Alert Net Worryingly the Prime Minister appears, yet again, to be sidelining the Kyoto process for dealing with climate change. |
2nd March 2006 |
| Climate Change: No Doubt It's Us - TomPaine.com Just as the energy debate in Washington is focusing in on the question of our addiction and dependence, the world's scientific community is making sure we don't forget what some, like Tony Blair's science advisor, consider to be a bigger threat than terrorism: global warming. |
2nd March 2006 |
| Consensus grows on climate change - BBC News The global scientific body on climate change is expected to report soon that emissions from humankind are the only explanation for major changes on Earth. |
1st March 2006 |
| 'Rapid Warming' Spreads Havoc in Canada's Forests - Washington Post Millions of acres of Canada's lush green forests are dying. A voracious beetle, whose population has exploded with the warming climate, has infested an area 3 times the size of Maryland and is killing more trees than wildfires or logging. |
1st March 2006 |
| Water meters to be forced on households - Guardian Unlimited The worsening drought in southern England has prompted the government to allow a water company to install compulsory water meters for the first time. |
1st March 2006 |
| UK Wants Transport Included in EU CO2 Trade Scheme - Reuters / Planet Ark Britain called on Monday for the inclusion of the transport sector in Europe's emissions trading scheme to help curb pollution and tackle climate change. |
1st March 2006 |
| MPs go on climate 'speed dates' - BBC News "It's up to us to put pressure on politicians to demonstrate our concern for the issue and demand urgent action," Dr Ashok Sinha - Stop Climate Chaos |
1st March 2006 |
| Climate change firms dazzle London equity market - Reuters Equity investors are piling into small companies with exposure to a growing market for greenhouse gas credits that has sprung up around the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, bankers and fund managers said on Wednesday. |
1st March 2006 |
| Is it warm out here or is it just that the earth's about to explode? - San Francisco Chronicle "Oh my God are you serious, 7 billion methane-blasting carbon-monoxide-spitting pollution-happy bipeds stomping around the planet for a thousand years and hammering the environment and we haven't had a lick of effect? Please." |
1st March 2006 |
| Americans Are Cautiously Open to Gas Tax Rise, Poll Shows - New York Times The nationwide telephone poll, conducted Wednesday through Sunday, suggested that a gasoline tax increase that brought measurable results would be acceptable to a majority of Americans. |
28th February 2006 |
| Climate scientists issue dire warning - Guardian Unlimited The Earth's temperature could rise under the impact of global warming to levels far higher than previously predicted, according to the United Nations' team of climate experts. |
28th February 2006 |
| US Greenhouse Gases Rose 1.7 Percent in 2004 - Reuters / Planet Ark US emissions of gases blamed for global warming rose 1.7 percent in 2004, as the country burned more fossil fuel for transportation and electricity, according to federal environment regulators. |
28th February 2006 |
| Armed forces are put on standby to tackle threat of wars over water - The Independent In a grim first intervention in the climate-change debate, the Defence Secretary issued a bleak forecast that violence and political conflict would become more likely in the next 20 to 30 years as climate change turned land into desert, melted ice fields and poisoned water supplies. See also:' World's most precious commodity is getting even scarcer' and ' Climate change may spark conflict between nations' |
28th February 2006 |
| China fights to hold back sands - Guardian Unlimited Campaign to plant 12bn trees claims first victory Beijing invested £3.5bn on Great Green Wall project |
28th February 2006 |
| For the sake of the world's poor, we must keep the wealthy at home - Guardian Unlimited We all know the damage aviation does, but the government and the airlines want to turn the country into Airstrip One |
28th February 2006 |
| Royal Society criticises lab cuts - BBC News The UK's top scientists say vital work on environmental issues could be undermined by plans to close a number of global warming research centres. |
27th February 2006 |
| Twin Paths to the Conclusion Climatic Change Is Real - New York Times An irrefutable fact about climate change is this: The subject is heating up at a breakneck pace. Review of two books on climate change set to galvanise public opinion: 'The Weather Makers' by Tim Flannery and 'The Winds of Change' by Eugene Linden. |
27th February 2006 |
| Wind power with no direction - Boston Globe Legislators try to scupper the Cape Wind project despite a public approval rating of 6-1 public in favour of the offshore wind farm. See also: Sneak Attack on Cape Wind - NY Times |
27th February 2006 |
| Research to investigate fish movements - ABC "It turns out that something like 10 per cent of the species that we have in the coastal areas of Tasmania have moved further south." |
27th February 2006 |
| Climate change forecast getting worse - www.stuff.co.nz The outlook on climate change is getting grimmer. Ruth Laugesen reports. For the past 12 months, merchants of doom have enjoyed a permanent rush hour. At every turn, it seems, another eminent scientist is warning of looming disaster. |
27th February 2006 |
| Big polluters capture climate change policy - Scoop independent news “The Ministry is consulting the big polluters, all of which would prefer the new policy to focus on voluntary measures,” said Gary Taylor, chairman of EDS. “But it is not adequately consulting environmental groups, many of which have specialist knowledge of climate change policy and advocate harder measures including the use of economic instruments." |
27th February 2006 |
| We can't turn back tide: National Trust plans retreat in face of climate change - Guardian Unlimited The National Trust is having to rethink its strategy because climate change is affecting hundreds of properties and stretches of coastline, the Guardian has learned. |
27th February 2006 |
| Can Fungi Trim the US Gasoline Habit? - Reuters / Planet Ark Souped-up microscopic fungi could help cut the US gasoline habit by converting a billion tons of agricultural waste into domestic fuel, while also slashing greenhouse gas emissions. |
27th February 2006 |
| German NGO Launches New Climate Protection Index - Deutsche Welle The German environmental NGO Germanwatch has launched a new international climate protection index, saying it offers a better basis for comparing countries' efforts to combat global warming. |
25th February 2006 |
| More missing sockeye, says Sierra Club - Richmond Review “There are indications that climate change is adversely affecting Fraser sockeye,” the report says, noting the warming Fraser puts migrating salmon under increased stress, killing some. |
25th February 2006 |
| Solar power ad pulled in South Australia - ABC News The Commercials Advice regulatory body rejected an advertisement by the Solar Shop in South Australia because it includes a statement by well-known scientist, Dr Tim Flannery, saying "Climate change is the greatest threat facing humanity today." The shop owners and the Greens believe the ad was pulled for political reasons. |
25th February 2006 |
| Wind farm surpasses record - Daily Times-Call Platte River Power Authority spokeswoman Rae Todd said two factors caused the increased output in January: a consistent breeze and a new Liberty turbine by Clipper Windpower. |
25th February 2006 |
| Hotter, Faster, Worser - Common Dreams Over the past several months, the normally restrained voice of science has taken on a distinct note of panic when it comes to global warming. How did we go from debating the "uncertainty" behind climate science to near hysterical warnings from normally sober scientists about irrevocable and catastrophic consequences? |
24th February 2006 |
| Climate-friendly investment initiative tops Liveable City Awards - web4water The Carbon Disclosure Project - the world's biggest initiative providing investors with information on companies' climate change impact - was the overall winner of the 2006 Liveable City Awards, presented last night at Mansion House in London. |
24th February 2006 |
| The power of the poop - Guardian Unlimited Rather than step in it, or throw it on landfill sites, dog owners in San Francisco are using their pooch's poo to generate energy for their homes, writes Dan Glaister |
24th February 2006 |
| Winter drought fears for wildlife - BBC News Concern is growing for flora and fauna in some parts of the UK because rainfall levels are well below the average for winter months. |
24th February 2006 |
| World lawmakers set up global warming monitor group - Reuters Lawmakers and business leaders from around the world launched a campaign on Friday to push recalcitrant governments to take action on climate change. |
24th February 2006 |
| Go-ahead for Europe ice mission - BBC News The Cryosat mission lost in the Arctic Ocean last year minutes after launch from northern Russia will fly again. |
24th February 2006 |
| Farming Provides Wildlife Habitat And Reduces Global Warming - Space Daily Misleading headline - This is an article about ENCOURAGING farmers to adopt practices that would provide wildlife habitat and reduce global warming. |
24th February 2006 |
| Growth Does Not Work Very Well - The Progress Report "Orthodox economics tells us that a rising tide lifts all boats, or that, rather than sharing the cake more evenly, it is better to bake a larger one. Ironically now, however, sea levels really are rising, as a result of global warming and driven by the pollution from economic growth. And millions of the poor have no boats at all to rise in. Where the cake is concerned, the massed ranks of orthodox economists are yet to find the ingredients, or even a recipe, to bake a spare planet to share among the world's population." |
23rd February 2006 |
| Cash Crunch Looms for "Noah's Ark" Seed Project - Reuters / Planet Ark Scientists racing to save the world's plants as global warming and human expansion threaten whole species fear a looming cash crunch may derail the ambitious project. |
23rd February 2006 |
| Four Mayors agree to work together to combat climate change - Black UK online The Mayors of Berlin, London, Moscow and Paris have agreed a joint declaration to tackle climate change during their regular four Mayors' meeting, held in Berlin. |
23rd February 2006 |
| Most Britons willing to pay green taxes to save the environment - Guardian Unlimited Most British people would accept new taxes on goods and services that damage the environment, according to a Guardian/ICM poll which reveals a widespread willingness to make personal sacrifices to tackle the threat of climate change. |
22nd February 2006 |
| EU rejects UK carbon emissions plan - Reuters The government cannot raise the amount of pollution industry can emit under the European Union's trading scheme, the EU executive said on Wednesday, despite a court ruling allowing Britain to alter its first emissions plan. |
22nd February 2006 |
| Greenland Starts Quota to Save Polar Bears - Seattle Post Intelligencer Greenland's government on Wednesday introduced the ice-capped island's first hunting quota for polar bears, which scientists believe are threatened by the effects of global warming. |
22nd February 2006 |
| Researcher Outlines Coral's Future In An Increasingly Acidic Ocean - Science Daily The ocean is getting more and more acidic, and that's bad news for coral reefs. |
22nd February 2006 |
| Global warming breaches the dyke around corporate world's consciousness - The Age Peter Kinder, the president of Boston-based KLD Research and Analytics, an institutional investment social research firm, says consensus is growing among the big investors that global warming is now too big a risk to ignore. |
22nd February 2006 |
| Global Warming in Arctic Ocean May Mean Less Food - Axcess News A warmer Arctic Ocean may mean less food for the birds, fish, and baleen whales and be a significant detriment to that fragile and interconnected polar ecosystem, and that doesn't bode well for other ocean ecosystems in the future. |
21st February 2006 |
| Atlantic Ocean Temperatures Much Higher in the Past - Red Orbit Scientists have examined core samples from the age of the dinosaurs taken off the coast of Surinam.The good news: The life on Earth survived ocean temperatures 25°C higher than those of the present day. The bad news: Current climate models must be be optimistically skewed. Scientists cannot account for such high past temperatures compared to the amounts CO2 that they found. |
21st February 2006 |
| Combating global warming makes economic sense - San Francisco Chronicle |
21st February 2006 |
| 'Dirty dozen' accused over fossil fuels - The Age Twelve of Australia's leading political, business and media figures have been accused of conspiring to mislead the public about climate change. |
21st February 2006 |
| A long hot summer - The Times Man is heating up the atmosphere and Earth's weather is changing as a result, says our correspondent, a leading explorer and zoologist |
20th February 2006 |
| 'Open skies' air treaty threat - Guardian Unlimited Draft pact curbs UK power to fight global warming. Restricting night flights would need US approval Britain could lose its ability to impose environmental taxes, restrictions and safeguards on airlines under a draft treaty between the EU and US which curtails the power of national governments. |
20th February 2006 |
| UK moths 'in serious decline' - BBC News The British moth population is in rapid decline, according to the most comprehensive study of its kind. Climate change fingered as probable suspect |
20th February 2006 |
| It's the wrong time to blow cold on global warming - The Observer Scientists are becoming more and more certain that their predictions of climate catastrophe are coming true. As such, we might expect the government to be doing something extraordinary to protect its citizens. Instead, it is obfuscating, prevaricating, politicking. |
19th February 2006 |
| Paying to pollute: System would limit emission, allow trading of credits - San Francisco Chronicle Good article about the pros & cons of 'cap and trade' as a method of limiting greenhouse emissions. |
19th February 2006 |
| Australias 'Greenhouse mafia exposed - Green left weekly A Liberal Party member, speech writer for former federal environment minister Robert Hill and former lobbyist in Canberra has gone on the record about the self-described 'mafia' representing big business polluters that 'has got the keys to the [federal government's] greenhouse policy car', which is 'being driven by the mining and energy sectors'. |
19th February 2006 |
| Fuel price rises force drivers off the roads - The Observer High oil prices are driving British motorists off the roads - with new figures showing that traffic hardly grew at all last year. Perhaps raising fuel taxes might help reduce greenhouse gas emissions? |
19th February 2006 |
| The Climate Change News - Blogcritics.org Interesting information about possible 'techno-fixes' for high CO2 levels. Whether or not this is bogus science or hopeful news, remains to be seen, especially since the Global Research Technologies website could hardly be called inspiring. If you know the answer, drop us a line (address on the rant page). |
19th February 2006 |
| On Great Lakes, Winter Is Served Straight Up - New York Times "The weather sure is screwy the last couple years..." |
19th February 2006 |
| Could Global Warming Become a Runaway Train? - abc news 'Feedback Loops' Are the Single Biggest Threat to Civilization from Global Warming |
18th February 2006 |
| How to be green - The Times A whole slew of articles on being green. Read them now; usually articles at the The Times are available for free viewing for only a week. |
18th February 2006 |
| Global warming '30 times quicker than it used to be' - The Independent Greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere 30 times faster than the time when the Earth experienced a previous episode of global warming. |
17th February 2006 |
| Climate change: On the edge - The Independent Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to gag |
17th February 2006 |
| Lesson from 55 million years ago says climate change could be faster than expected - Daily Telegraph Scientists searching for lessons on climate change from the Earth's geological past have concluded that burning fossil fuels at the present rate could increase temperatures by far more than current predictions allow for. |
17th February 2006 |
| A Year on, Kyoto Climate Backers Urge US Action - Reuters / Planet Ark Backers of the UN's Kyoto Protocol renewed their pleas to the United States on Thursday to do more to fight global warming, even though their own records are patchy in the year since the pact went into force. |
17th February 2006 |
| China actively responds to climate change challenge - People's Daily Online "Only when the public is aware of the threat of climate change, can they take action to deal with it." |
17th February 2006 |
| Waterworld: how life on Earth will look 1,000 years from now - The Times AN APOCALYPTIC vision of life 1,000 years from now has been painted by a team of scientists studying the effect of global warming. |
16th February 2006 |
| Greenland ice swells ocean rise - BBC News Greenland's glaciers are sliding towards the sea much faster than previously believed, scientists have told a conference in St Louis, US. |
16th February 2006 |
| UK's 'sobering' climate forecast - BBC News The UK could face major flooding and tropical temperatures by the year 3000 if greenhouse gas emissions are not sharply reduced, a new study says. |
16th February 2006 |
| Legal case against US on climate - BBC News US conservation groups have begun a new legal case aimed at forcing government action on climate change. |
16th February 2006 |
| Bacteria aiding global warming - Daily Yomiuri The level of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is likely to grow more than expected as soil bacteria, in response to rising temperatures, break down more organic material and produce more CO2, according to results by an international research team. |
16th February 2006 |
| Apocalypse Now - Red Orbit How mankind is sleepwalking to the end of the earth. Humans have transformed the earth in a dramatic way, especially over the last 50 years. Not only have we drastically changed the carbon cycle by burning fossil fuel and coal and by increasing forest fires, we have also changed the nitrogen cycle worldwide by the amount of nitrogen being fixed by industrial agriculture and fertilizer use. |
14th February 2006 |
| Lack of ice bad news - The Telegram The lack of ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is bad news for harp and hood seals. |
14th February 2006 |
| I was gagged over climate change, says scientist - Guardian Unlimited A former government scientist in Australia claims officials stopped him raising concerns about climate change. |
14th February 2006 |
| Energy funding not hot after all - San Mateo County Times Spending boosts for alternative sources to shrink quickly |
14th February 2006 |
| Floating lab tracks Sahara sandstorms' effect on ecosystem - Guardian Unlimited UK oceanographers are trying to find out how dust and oceans interact |
13th February 2006 |
| Kyoto Protocol celebrates first anniversary - WWF As the Kyoto Protocol celebrates its first anniversary, higher oil prices are a clear opportunity for governments to intensify moves towards cleaner energy alternatives, says WWF. |
13th February 2006 |
| Coal lobbyists 'wrote cabinet briefings' - News.com.au A FORMER Liberal Party insider claims coal industry lobbyists have infiltrated the inner workings of the Federal Government, even writing cabinet briefing papers. |
13th February 2006 |
| Australian scientists say they were silenced on climate change - PhysOrg.com Three scientists who worked at the Australian science agency say they were pressured to keep their views on climate change to themselves to avoid clashing with government policy. |
13th February 2006 |
| Kicking that addiction - Daily Camera Imagine an energy policy that would quickly, without a single new government regulation or piggish industry tax, break reduce our dependence on imported oil by about 40 percent. |
12th February 2006 |
| Bugs Could Be Key to Kicking Oil Addiction - NRDC The key to kicking what President Bush calls the nation's oil addiction could very well lie in termite guts, canvas-eating jungle bugs and other microbes genetically engineered to spew enzymes that turn waste into fuel. |
12th February 2006 |
| Global warming: passing the 'tipping point' - The Independent Research commissioned by The Independent reveals that the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has now crossed a threshold, set down by scientists from around the world at a conference in Britain last year, beyond which really dangerous climate change is likely to be unstoppable. |
11th February 2006 |
| Third Kyoto Pollution Scheme Close to Launch - Reuters / Planet Ark Backers of the international Kyoto Protocol on climate change aim to launch another major scheme to curb pollution as early as May after reaching quick agreement on draft regulations, a senior official told Reuters on Thursday. |
10th February 2006 |
| Sail of the century - BBC News With energy prices on the up, will city skylines bristle with wind turbines and will back gardens become mini wind farms? |
10th February 2006 |
| US Power Providers Say They Expect Carbon Regime - Reuters / Planet Ark US power company executives said Thursday that they expect a series of rules and taxes will be imposed, possibly within five years, on carbon pollution, a contributor to greenhouse gas accumulation and climate change. |
10th February 2006 |
| Climate 'makes oil profit vanish' - BBC News The huge profits reported by oil and gas companies would turn into losses if they had to pay for the social costs of their greenhouse gas emissions. |
9th February 2006 |
| Carbon addicts and climate debt - BBC News The fossil fuel industry is a major source of tax revenue for western nations, which is a disincentive to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. |
9th February 2006 |
| Recent warmth 'most widespread' - BBC News In the late 20th Century, the northern hemisphere experienced its most widespread warmth for 1,200 years, according to the journal Science. |
9th February 2006 |
| Bush budget would cut some energy programs - MSNBC Building codes, Energy Star, weatherization among them |
9th February 2006 |
| The Politics of Science - The Washington Post "In every administration there will be spokesmen and public affairs officers who try to spin the news to make the president look good. But this administration is trying to spin scientific data and muzzle scientists toward that end." |
9th February 2006 |
| The farce of 'Beyond Petroleum' - Johann Hari "...the firm has spent more on its new ‘eco-friendly’ logo than on all renewable energy sources..." |
9th February 2006 |
| World Has Seven Years for Key Climate Decisions - Reuters / Planet Ark The wor |
