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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 |
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