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Poll: Americans See Gloom, Doom in 2007 - NY Times
USA: Seventy percent of Americans expect worsening global warming
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31st December 2006 |
Sea level may rise more than 1m by 2100 - Mail & Guardian
Ocean levels will rise faster than expected if greenhouse-gas emissions continue to rise, a leading German researcher warns.
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31st December 2006 |
The opportunity costs of the Iraq War - Gristmill
The total cost of the Iraq War includes not just the tangible price of personnel and materiel. There are also the opportunity costs -- the other things we could and should have been dealing with while our Munch-meets-Marx Brothers nightmare has been consuming all our attention and capital. Foremost among them? - Global warming
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31st December 2006 |
A time to face up to the facts of living sustainably - The Age
Australia: The immense challenges of anticipating and managing the risks of climate change call for a response that goes beyond politics. The community shares responsibility for changing a society that wastefully consumes and discards without thought for the consequences. Whatever the political outcomes of 2007, it must be hoped this proves to be the year that Australians lift their gaze beyond short-term concerns, those of hip pockets and personal comfort, to the bigger picture of what we all must do to give ourselves and our children a sustainable future.
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31st December 2006 |
Innovative Satellite System Proves Worth With Better Weather Forecasts, Climate Data - Science Daily
Preliminary findings from a revolutionary satellite system launched earlier this year show that the system can boost the accuracy of forecasts of hurricane behavior, significantly improve long-range weather forecasts, and monitor climate change with unprecedented accuracy.
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31st December 2006 |
'Shun domestic flights,' Branson urges Britons - Guardian Unlimited
Sir Richard Branson is urging British citizens to stop taking domestic flights to help reduce the damage aviation does to the environment. The Virgin boss, a recent high-profile convert to the dangers of global warming, risks his call being dismissed as self-serving because he runs two train franchises.
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31st December 2006 |
China chokes on a coal-fired boom - The Times
China: Toxic cloud of progress can be seen from space
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31st December 2006 |
Washington Plans $25M Project To Bring Back Its Trolley Cars - New York Sun
USA, Washington: The city is planning a $25 million project to bring back the trolley cars that last rumbled along its streets during the Kennedy administration. The revival will begin next year with a 2-mile line in southeastern Washington that, fittingly, will pass near the Washington Nationals' new downtown ballpark, which is to open in April 2008.
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31st December 2006 |
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Does ExxonMobil Pay the New York Times a Premium to Run Ads Next to Global Warming Stories? - Mother Jones
USA: "I've noticed this is a pattern with ExxonMobil, which seems to always just happen to run a corporate responsibility ad next to NYT op-eds and stories that have to do with global warming. So is the NYT ad sales staff selling against this content? Does ExxonMobil have a standing request to place ads next to global warming content? Or is it all a coincidence?"
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30th December 2006 |
Travel Habits Must Change to Make a Big Difference in Energy Consumption - NY Times
While choosing energy-efficient lighting and appliances makes a difference, changing how we travel would make by far the biggest difference.
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30th December 2006 |
Climate 2006: Rhetoric up, action down - BBC News
"The gap between what the science tells us is necessary and what the politics is delivering is still significant." Once again we will hear demands from climatologists to keyboard players, from theoretical physicists to thespians, for more action. Perhaps we will get it. But the omens are not promising.
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30th December 2006 |
Global warming could transform Amazon into savanna in 100 years - IHT
Global warming could spell the end of the world's largest remaining tropical rain forest, transforming the Amazon into a grassy savanna before end of the century, researchers said Friday.
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30th December 2006 |
Portugal posts one of the warmest years on record - Yahoo / AFP
This year was the fifth warmest in Portugal since records started being kept in 1931, the national weather office said.
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30th December 2006 |
Researchers use Yellowstone as CO2 lab - Helena Independent Record
Researchers studying plants and trees near Yellowstone National Park's thermal vents hope to glean an indication of how rising carbon dioxide emissions could affect vegetation worldwide a century from now. They find elevated levels of CO2 reduce the protein in leaves and promote growth in weeds.
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30th December 2006 |
Global warming threatens plateau - China Daily
The environmental condition of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, seen as a barometer for the world's health, is worsening due in large part to global warming, according to a geological survey
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30th December 2006 |
Small Bugs Point to Global Warming - RedOrbit
Small bugs in some of the most remote areas of the United States are showing signs that the world is getting warmer, researchers said.
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30th December 2006 |
The world at tipping point - The Herald
"For the sake of not just polar bears and Adelie penguins, but our children and their children, we must hope that 2006 was the year when the world finally woke up to the inconvenient truth of climate change."
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30th December 2006 |
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An Inconvenient Truth
Watch the whole film in nine parts
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Climate: Irony in the USA - BBC Green Room
The US stance on global warming is changing, argues Jonathan Lash in the Green Room. But, he says, the international community needs patience still.
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29th December 2006 |
Review of the year: Global warming - The Independent ![[essential]](../images/redDot.gif)
2006 will be remembered by climatologists as the year in which the potential scale of global warming came into focus. And the problem can be summarised in one word: feedback.
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29th December 2006 |
The end of the West as we know it? - IHT
"The question now facing us is whether global capitalism and Western democracy can follow the Stern report's recommendations, and make the limited economic adjustments necessary to keep global warming within bounds that will allow us to preserve our system in a recognizable form; or whether our system is so dependent on unlimited consumption that it is by its nature incapable of demanding even small sacrifices from its present elites and populations."
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29th December 2006 |
A global crusade to save the Great White North - Globe & Mail
SHEILA WATT-CLOUTIER: She's travelled widely, warning policians that greenhouse gases are threatening the Inuit way of life
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29th December 2006 |
Climate change threatens Herschel Island - CBC News
Canada: The Yukon's Herschel Island is being slowly washed away by rising sea levels caused by global warming, says the territory's historic sites manager.
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29th December 2006 |
Buzz Of Bumblebees Heard In Britain In Depths Of Winter - Medical News Today
UK: Driven by climate change, and by planting of exotic garden plants that flower through the winter, one species of bumblebee seems to have given up hibernating altogether.
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29th December 2006 |
Moose population stressed by weather pattern changes - Cook County News Herald
USA: Moose are mysteriously disappearing from northwestern Minnesota. Can the Northeast be far behind?
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29th December 2006 |
Harper boots out environment adviser - Montreal Gazette
Canada: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has dismissed a special environmental adviser the former Liberal government named to kick-start Canada's attempts at curbing greenhouse-gas emissions under the Kyoto accord.
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29th December 2006 |
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Clean technology 2006 year in review - Cnet
Green tech grows up: Who wasn't interested in clean technology in 2006?
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28th December 2006 |
Giant ice island born in Canadian Arctic - Winnipeg Free Press
Canada: AN ancient ice shelf has cracked off northern Ellesmere Island, creating an enormous, 66-square-kilometre ice island and leaving a trail of icy blocks in its wake. "It really is incredible," says Warwick Vincent of Laval University, one of the few people to have laid eyes on the scene. "It's like a cruise missile has come down and hit the ice shelf."
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28th December 2006 |
New global warming wagers have good odds - UPI
UK: The year 2007 looks to be hot for the bookmakers at Totesport, who have come up with a series of "global warming wagers." Among other things, they are offering odds of 25-1 that a great white shark will be caught off shores of Britain in 2007, the Sky News reported Wednesday.
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28th December 2006 |
OCEAN POISON : CARBON DIOXIDE - Workface
The scientists have an united front on this : the major cause of Global Warming is man-made. It's due to the burning of Fossil Fuels, and the main waste gas from this, which is Carbon Dioxide. Climate Change is bad enough, but there is another threat from the excess Carbon Dioxide building up in the atmosphere : ocean poisoning.
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28th December 2006 |
It May Not Be Too Late - GreenBiz
If the world succeeds in avoiding ecological collapse, historians may one day look back on 2006 as the "tipping-point" moment.
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28th December 2006 |
German Credibility at Stake on Climate Change - Planet Ark
Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged to make fighting climate change a top priority when Germany takes over the European Union's rotating presidency next week.
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28th December 2006 |
Norway Wants US Politicians to See Warming Arctic - Planet Ark
Norway will invite US politicians to visit a group of fast-thawing Arctic islands in 2007, hoping to win converts for tougher action against global warming, its foreign minister says.
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28th December 2006 |
Warm weather's a headache for icewine lovers - Globe & Mail
Icewine makers in Eastern Canada are worried the cold weather needed to freeze their grapes and make the popular desert wine will come too late.
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28th December 2006 |
Investment advice is blowing in the wind - Globe & Mail
Evelyn Browning-Garriss is a weather whisperer who advises everyone from Texas cattle raisers to vineyards and Canadian banks about what the coming season will bring. "Expect a lot of weather records to be broken," she says.
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28th December 2006 |
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Green French TV Star Jolts Presidential Hopefuls - Planet Ark
French television star Nicolas Hulot has jolted mainstream politicians by threatening to run for president unless they do more for the environment, but has he managed to push green issues to the top of the agenda?
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27th December 2006 |
Middle-class warriors join green front line - The Times 
UK: Middle-class environmental campaigners are joining forces with hardcore protesters to take direct action using radical campaign tactics.
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27th December 2006 |
2006 Year in review - RealClimate
"A lighthearted look at the climate science goings-on over the last year."
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27th December 2006 |
Barrier Reef fish starving to death, study says - news.com.au
FISH species on the Great Barrier Reef are starving to death because climate change is killing off their food source, an environmental study has found.
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27th December 2006 |
U.S. plans to list polar bears as species at risk Global warming is shrinking sea ice they need for hunting - SF Gate
The Bush administration has decided to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, putting the U.S. government on record as saying that global warming could drive one of the world's most recognizable animals out of existence.
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27th December 2006 |
China fears disasters, grain cut from global warming - AlertNet
Global warming threatens to intensify natural disasters and water shortages across China, driving down the country's food output, the Chinese government has warned, even as its seeks to tame energy consumption
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27th December 2006 |
Barroso Says Germany Must Meet Lower CO2 Targets - Planet Ark
The German government, which has been fighting a European Commission order to lower its future carbon dioxide (CO2) allocations to industry, must obey the ruling, Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Sunday.
See also: German Industry Can Cut Greenhouse Gas, Office Says - Planet Ark
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27th December 2006 |
No Time for Ice Sculptures; They Melt as They’re Made - NY Times
USA, New York: The average temperature this month has been 44 degrees, 6 degrees above normal for this time of year, the National Weather Service said. On Dec. 2, the mercury climbed to 70 degrees in Central Park, a record high for the day.
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27th December 2006 |
Want alternative energy? Try pond scum - CNet
Mounting concern about U.S. dependence on foreign oil and about global warming is causing a surge of interest and investment in biomass, hydrogen, solar power and other alternative energy sources.
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27th December 2006 |
Meat and the Planet - NY Times
Livestock are responsible for about 18 percent of the global warming effect, more than transportation’s contribution. The culprits are methane — the natural result of bovine digestion — and the nitrogen emitted by manure. Deforestation of grazing land adds to the effect
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27th December 2006 |
Uranium price soars as countries give nuclear power the go-ahead - Guardian Unlimited
The price of uranium has soared on the global market by nearly a quarter in the past three months, but a new report predicts it will rise a further 75% within the next two years
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27th December 2006 |
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Yo, Earth! - Anorak
USA, EPA court-case: QUOTE: “When? I mean, when is the predicted cataclysm?” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on global warming. Figure of Speech: Straw Man fallacy, the sneaky issue-switch.
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26th December 2006 |
As Atlantic warms, more fires predicted in West - MercuryNews
Researchers predict a decades-long increase in widespread fires across the Western United States in the coming years, based on a new study that reviews the link between sea-surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean and the ferocity of wildfire seasons in the West.
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26th December 2006 |
Village lands wash away - Alaska.com
Alaska: Ocean and rivers creep inland, force residents to seek high ground
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26th December 2006 |
Climate change at crisis level - MercuryNews
EVERYONE -- PUBLIC AND PRIVATE -- MUST ACT TO AVOID CATASTROPHE
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26th December 2006 |
African States Work to Share Nile Water - NY Times
After three years of closed-door talks, nine nations are quietly edging toward a deal to jointly oversee the waters of the Nile, an agreement that has eluded lands along the great river since the days of the pharaohs. United Nations experts say populations in the river basin may double by mid-century. The U.N.'s climatologists, meanwhile, say computer scenarios show global warming decreasing water flows in the Nile by up to 40 percent.
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26th December 2006 |
New wheat and sugar cane breeds to store greenhouse gases in soil - The Australian
FARMERS may soon be able to capture and store millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases in their soil by using new genetic variants of existing crops. [...biotech...]
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26th December 2006 |
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Climate change on agenda for 2007 - Philippine Daily Inquirer
Nothing beats a whiff of Apocalypse for focusing minds and, next year, climate change will be the big issue that will send an icy shiver down spines followed by a clamor for action. On February 1, the world's top scientists will issue their first installment of a massive three-part update on global warming.
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25th December 2006 |
Lazy Cooks Get A Christmas Roasting - Annanova
UK: Natural gas consumption increases by an average of 15% over the festive period and consumers reportedly spend £3.5m on energy through roasting turkeys.
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25th December 2006 |
Global warming 'may impact' bluefin tuna - Sydney Morning Herald
Shingo Kimura, a professor of marine environmental science at the University of Tokyo, warns that the tuna population, already hit hard by overfishing, could be dealt a further blow as seawater temperatures rise above the level comfortable for the fish's growth.
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25th December 2006 |
Melting North Pole will leave Santa homeless - IOL
In another 40 years or less, Santa won't have a home in the North Pole: and he won't be the only one, according to ground-breaking research.
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25th December 2006 |
Invasion of beavers felt in far north Warming trend is eroding a way of life - Anchorage Daily News
Alaska: "Before, there were no beavers there because there was no source of food for them," said Cochran, 57, executive director of the Alaska Native Science Commission. "Now there are trees in people's front yards. The treeline has moved so much farther north that the beavers are now moving into the area. That has so much to do with everything that's going on in the environment."
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25th December 2006 |
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Why Isn't Global Warming News? - World Changing
If the news does not make the connection between the weather we are experiencing and climate change, then the public sees no cause and effect. "Is anyone game to start a campaign on our local news outlets demanding that they make the connection between the events we are experiencing and the larger pattern of which they are a part? To not do so is to "spin" people into both ignorance and passivity."
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24th December 2006 |
Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island - The Independent
For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas.
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24th December 2006 |
Climate change sceptics issued with challenge - Guardian Unlimited
Britain's leading climate scientist has challenged those who question the impact of the human population on global warming to defend their claims that car and factory emissions of carbon dioxide are not heating up the planet.
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24th December 2006 |
Australia ponders climate future - BBC News
Parts of Australia are in the grip of the worst drought in memory. The parched conditions have sparked an emotional debate about global warming
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24th December 2006 |
GET READY FOR MORE FUTURE SHOCK - Toronto Star
Our species has been all about progress – now we must downsize. Books on global warming are more popular than ever, and settling in for a long stay on the bestseller list. Unfortunately, in order to actually do something for our children, the solutions they point to require changes in behaviour that are massively unpopular.
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24th December 2006 |
Global warming could bring 'killer' to JHB - IOL
South Africa: New battlefronts are opening in the war against malaria. The main cause is climate change, which is seeing the disease spread to new areas. Because people in such places are less resistant, many more die of infections.
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24th December 2006 |
Deck the halls with boughs of holly - before it dies out - Guardian Unlimited
UK: One of the crowning glories of the festive season - holly trees groaning with clusters of crimson berries - is being destroyed by a combined assault from car exhausts and global warming.
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24th December 2006 |
Red face for green tsar who jets to work - Scotland on Sunday
WE MUST be "conscious of our global contribution". We must "act responsibly". Saving the planet "means making radical changes to how we live our lives". The green message from the Scottish Executive is clear, but practising what you preach is never that easy. Scotland on Sunday can reveal that the head of the Executive's department in charge of lowering the nation's greenhouse gas emissions is commuting to work by jet every week from his home in the south of England.
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24th December 2006 |
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Waking Slow - Sierra Club
"We need to rise and shine if we hope to pass along a livable world to future generations. I know that still sounds like Chicken Little hysteria in some (increasingly lonely) corners, but so be it. For the record, I sincerely hope they -- the dogged skeptics and blind optimists -- are right and the rest of us are wrong, but things sure don't look good."
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23rd December 2006 |
Peace on Earth also requires goodwill towards the planet - Sydney Morning Herald
WHEN he released the report of the British Government-commissioned study into the economic effects of climate change in October, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, said the scientific evidence of global warming was overwhelming and the results potentially disastrous. This was no empty rhetoric.
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23rd December 2006 |
Carbon sequestration in obese humans - New Scientist
"Emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the US from burning fossil fuels rose from 1415 million tonnes in 1994 to 1582 MT in 2002. Human fat is approximately 76% carbon by mass so, over the period considered (which includes the period of negotiation and signature of the Kyoto treaty) US citizens sequestered the equivalent of 2.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide about their person.
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23rd December 2006 |
Global Warming-era parenthood - Los Angeles Times
Apocalyptic fears have shadowed U.S. childhood before this. Who among us boomers doesn't remember all that Cold War ducking and covering? But global warming is profoundly scarier. For starters, to trigger a nuclear holocaust, somebody has to be the first to bomb. To trigger eco-Armageddon, all we need do is continue to ignore leading scientists' warnings.
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23rd December 2006 |
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Americans Chide Bush's Environmental Record - Angus Reid
Adults in the United States are dissatisfied with the way their president has dealt with environmental issues, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 42% said 'poor', 11% said 'excellent'.
[Apparently there was no category for 'diabolical']
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22nd December 2006 |
Big Democratic energy bill not likely - Delaware Online
USA: Democrats campaigned on promises of making sweeping changes to the nation's energy policy, but it's unlikely they'll deliver on most of those promises
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22nd December 2006 |
Harnessing wind would aid America and Bush - Kansas City Star
"Here is some advice I can give the president: The only way for you, Mr. President, to salvage your legacy is to get back in touch with your Texas roots and devote the rest of your term to really ending America’s oil addiction and making America the leader in renewable energies that combat climate change."
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22nd December 2006 |
The world as one - Guardian Unlimited
"When it comes to the environment, the consequences of an unconstrained market could be even more disastrous... In a speech this week, on the urgency of tackling climate change, EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson argued liberalisation could provide solutions, advancing freer trade in environmental services to make his case. But alongside other obvious effects of a successful trade round - more goods being shipped round the world and more demand for the produce of cleared rainforests - his hopes look like window dressing. More serious was Mr Mandelson's claim that the prosperity generated by trade could help tackle climate change, but that is not guaranteed, especially in a context where, as the commissioner conceded, world trade rules make it "highly problematic" to use trade policy to pressure states to cut emissions. Mr Mandelson sees this as a reason to avoid such action. Instead, it exposes just how inadequate the World Trade Organisation remains."
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22nd December 2006 |
Tides affect speed of Antarctic ice slide - AlertNet
Tides affect the speed at which an Antarctic ice sheet bigger than the Netherlands is sliding towards the sea, adding a surprise piece to a puzzle about ocean levels and global warming, a study showed on Wednesday.
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22nd December 2006 |
Oceans Warming and Rising - IPS
Ocean levels will rise faster than expected if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, a leading German researcher warns.
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22nd December 2006 |
Extreme Autumn Temperatures Cause Unseasonable Flowering In The Netherlands - Science Daily
Observers in the Netherlands reported that more than 240 wild plant species were flowering in December, along with more than 200 cultivated species. According to biologist Arnold van Vliet of Wageningen University, this unseasonable flowering is being caused by extremely high autumn temperatures.
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22nd December 2006 |
Rockhopper penguin numbers decline - Guardian Unlimited
The rockhopper penguin, one of the stars of current blockbuster Happy Feet, has seen its numbers dwindle, according to a new study. Falklands Conservation, a partner to the UK-based Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), said the drop might have been caused by climate change.
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22nd December 2006 |
Climate Change Blamed For England's Hot, Wet Summer - Potato Grower
UK: Potato growers in Yorkshire are blaming climate change for the hot, wet summer that produced what they called the worst potato harvest in living memory.
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22nd December 2006 |
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Are you ready to sacrifice for future generations? - Seattle Times
Americans can adapt, one supposes, to an Alaska without polar bears, a New Hampshire without fall colors and a Florida without its bottom third. But most would probably like to save these things for their descendants. A recent Time/ABC poll found that 88 percent of Americans think global warming threatens future generations. "There's no way to replace the dead Bush years of inaction. But we may have a last chance to deal with global warming. Will today's Americans sacrifice for a posterity they will never see?"
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21st December 2006 |
Making noise on global warming - Boston Globe
THE REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. warned that "our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." There are few matters of international importance that could have more dire consequences than being silent about the dangers of global warming.
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21st December 2006 |
Climate change making Christmas fare a real turkey - The Age
Australia: Food price rises due to extreme weather events, however, are transforming the climate-change battleground and may leave Prime Minister John Howard vulnerable to those Aussie battlers who have been crucial to his electoral success. In the past year food prices have soared 10 per cent. Lamb and beef prices could leap by up to 25 per cent in the next few months, while bread becomes 10 per cent more expensive due to a 40 per cent surge in flour prices. Australian citrus growers declared recently that orange prices had risen from $80 a tonne to $200, with inevitable price hikes on orange juice.
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21st December 2006 |
NASA Provides New Perspectives On The Earth's Changing Ice Sheets - Science Daily
It's widely documented that climate change is causing the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to shrink. Air temperatures in many parts of the polar regions have increased and waters that surround parts of the ice sheets have warmed up. What most do not know is that until just six years ago, we had no real way of measuring whether the ice sheets were shrinking or growing, or at what rate.
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21st December 2006 |
Washington Warming to Southern Plants - Washington Post
USA: A warming climate in the Washington area is beginning to affect the area's trees, with cold-loving species finding the weather less welcoming and southern transplants thriving, according to findings released yesterday by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
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21st December 2006 |
Canada's cutting-edge energy model - CS Monitor
Canada: Prince Edward Island aims to generate 30 percent of its energy needs from its own renewable resources by 2016.
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21st December 2006 |
Greens attack EU's 'weak' flight emissions trading plan - Guardian Unlimited
Air travel will be included in the European Union's carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS) from 2011 under plans announced by Brussels today. The European Commission urged other countries to work with it on a global version of its programme for fighting climate change.
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21st December 2006 |
Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists reveal that bears have stopped hibernating - The Independent
Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world.
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21st December 2006 |
U.N. emissions-trading program gets rich nations off the hook - Press Democrat
Foreign businesses have embraced an obscure U.N.-backed program as a favored approach to limiting global warming. But the early efforts have revealed some hidden problems.
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21st December 2006 |
Coal-fired power plants show greatest increase in greenhouse gas emissions - Canoe
Canada: Coal-fired power-generating stations were among Canada's biggest polluters last year as the country continued to produce nearly 280 million tonnes of annual greenhouse gas emissions.
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21st December 2006 |
Indian islands have disappeared under rising seas - ABC News
Two islands off the Indian subcontinent seem to have disappeared. Scientists believe it is more evidence of the impact of rising sea levels caused by global warming.
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21st December 2006 |
Pee-cycling - New Scientist
You recycle your household waste. You buy locally grown food, fit low-energy light bulbs and try not to use the car unnecessarily. Maybe you even irrigate the garden with your bath water. But you've still got an environmental monster in your house. Your toilet is wrecking the planet.
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21st December 2006 |
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Canada leader hints at unlikely political alliance - Reuters
Canada: Hinting at a possible deal that could stave off an early election, Canada's Conservative prime minister said on Tuesday he has held constructive and cooperative talks with a left-wing opposition party, at first sight an unlikely political ally.
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20th December 2006 |
New German community models car-free living - CS Monitor
It's pickup time at the Vauban kindergarten here at the edge of the Black Forest, but there's not a single minivan waiting for the kids. Instead, a convoy of helmet-donning moms - bicycle trailers in tow - pedal up to the entrance.
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20th December 2006 |
Airline charge 'big step forward' - BBC News
Moves to set limits for airline carbon emissions are a "big step forward" in fighting pollution despite plans to expand airports, the UK government says.
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20th December 2006 |
Worrying rise in greenhouse emissions forecast - The Age
Australia will slightly overstep its greenhouse emissions target by 2012, but a worrying big rise is predicted within the following decade, a new report has found.
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20th December 2006 |
Climate shifts small UK sea life - BBC News
Britain's barnacles, limpets and seaweeds are moving north and east in response to climate change.
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20th December 2006 |
The year the world woke up - Guardian Unlimited
Climate change In 2006, the public, politicians and industry have all shown significant signs that tackling global warming is on the agenda after scientific studies showed the pace of change gathering speed.
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20th December 2006 |
No Dramatic U-Turn Seen on US Climate Change Policy - Planet Ark
Washington is likely to stay out of the UN Kyoto Protocol for curbing greenhouse gases beyond 2012 even with a shift in power to Democrats from Republicans, a former top US trade and economics official said.
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20th December 2006 |
EU's Dimas Confirms Change in Aviation CO2 Plan - Planet Ark
The European Commission's top environment official confirmed on Tuesday he had decided to soften a plan to include aviation in the European Union's emissions trading scheme.
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20th December 2006 |
Profit and losses - Guardian Unlimited
This year saw the first carbon millionaires. The European emissions trading scheme (ETS) made windfall fortunes of more than pounds 1bn for UK power companies alone, and other corporations that were given generous carbon credits by government profited handsomely. Although emissions were theoretically cut, there were accusations that the handout was unfair and favoured only the rich with the money not being put back into sustainable energy projects. Next year should see aviation join the carbon scheme and, if a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research is to be believed, airlines could make £2.7bn.
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20th December 2006 |
Spain Set for Warmest Year on Record - Planet Ark
This year is on track to be the warmest on record in Spain, a country which was already hot before global warming set in, the government said on Tuesday.
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20th December 2006 |
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Ministers know emissions trading is a red herring and won't work - Guardian Unlimited
Inter-industry carbon shuffling and optimistic figures mask the true extent of envionmental damage caused by flying
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19th December 2006 |
EU concern over climate progress - BBC News
European environment ministers have warned that the pace of international negotiations on climate change need to be "accelerated considerably" in 2007
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19th December 2006 |
Stern science: our shrinking global economy - cafebabel
Europeans politicians are catching onto the voters’ awakening interest in the environment. Is ecology compatible with politics?
[Short summary of the people making a difference on the EU stage including Nicolas Hulot whom you may not of heard of because most of his stuff is in french. However you can read his manifesto in english here. Hopefully he will have a big influence on the greening of french politics. (Thanks Christophe!)]
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19th December 2006 |
ExxonMobil funds European global warming skeptics - PSL Web
In an effort to distort the public discourse on global warming, especially in Europe, ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company has contributed millions to projects hostile to the Kyoto treaty. The projects question the scientific consensus about global warming.
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19th December 2006 |
Gadgets drive up energy bills and emissions - Guardian Unlimited
Consumer appetites for electrical gadgets will push up UK energy consumption by 82% over the next five years, a report warned today.
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19th December 2006 |
Climate change tops NDP agenda - CBC News
Canada: The NDP will continue to push for strong climate change legislation in the next session of Parliament, leader Jack Layton said Monday
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19th December 2006 |
NOAA REPORTS 2006 MARKED BY SEVERE HEAT WAVES, WIDESPREAD DROUGHT, WILDFIRES - NOAA
The average annual temperature for the contiguous U.S. will likely be the third warmest on record in 2006, according to scientists at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The year is noted for widespread drought and record wildfires, as well as heavy precipitation and flooding in some parts of the country. Following the warmest year on record for the globe in 2005, the annual global temperature for 2006 is expected to be sixth warmest since recordkeeping began in 1880
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19th December 2006 |
EU environment chief seeks 30 pct emissions cut - AlertNet
The European Union's environment chief said on Monday he will seek a 30 percent cut in EU greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 as the bloc tries to set an example for the world on how to fight global warming. Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas will propose a target for binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 for the EU as part of a wide-ranging set of energy and environmental proposals to be unveiled in January.
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19th December 2006 |
Fest organizers feelin' heat - Ottawa Sun
Canada, Ottawa: With Winterlude a mere six weeks away, there are concerns unseasonably warm weather could throw a wrinkle into the NCC's festival plans.
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19th December 2006 |
Australian Fires Kill Thousands of Native Animals - Planet Ark
Australia: Hundreds of thousands of native Australian animals such as koalas and kangaroos have been killed in bushfires that have burnt across southeast Australia in the past two weeks, wildlife officials said on Monday
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19th December 2006 |
Execs say carbon trading coming soon - The Age
Australia: More than 50 per cent of business executives think regulated carbon emissions trading will be a reality in Australia in the next two to five years, and most would welcome it, a survey shows
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19th December 2006 |
Monckton fights for Exxon's freedom of speech - DeSmogBlog
Christopher Monckton, a well-known climate change "skeptic" and British aristocrat has fired off a response to U.S. Senators Snowe and Rockefeller for their letter this fall urging oil giant ExxonMobil to cease funding to US "think" tanks that are actively involved in the PR campaign to confuse the public about climate change.
Check out what RealClimate thinks of Monckton and his 'cuckoo science'.
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19th December 2006 |
Expanding Markets and Dying Oceans: Eating the Planet Like a Bag of Doritos for Jesus. - Atlantic Free Press
"The capitalist's drive for endless abundance has allowed us to ascend the fast food chain, yet we blink uncomprehendingly at the catastrophic algorithms of global climate change. "
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19th December 2006 |
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EU trade chief to reject ‘green’ tax plan - FT
The European Union’s trade commissioner will on Monday dismiss French proposals for a “green” tax on goods from countries that have not ratified the Kyoto treaty as not only a probable breach of trade rules but also “not good politics”.
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18th December 2006 |
[It's hotter than it should be]
Seasonal Disorder - The Independent
UK: The countryside is looking rather peculiar this winter. It seems we have a number of unexpected guests for Christmas. Dragonflies, bumblebees and red admiral butterflies, which would normally be killed off by the frost, can still be seen in some parts of the country. Bigger beasts are here too. Swallows and house martins, which normally fly south to Africa at this time of year, are still lingering. These strange winter guests could presage something far more sinister and unwelcome for our planet.
See also:Do they know it's Christmas?
Boston feels the warmth - Los Angeles Times
USA, Boston: Mail carriers cheerfully walked their routes, unburdened by hats or coats or boots made for blizzards. Joggers ran beside the (unfrozen) Charles River in shorts, and swimmers leapt into the sea at L Street Beach. Middle-aged guys cruised Commonwealth Avenue in top-down convertibles.
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18th December 2006 |
Comrade Climate-change - The Economist
Global warming is likely to make Russia richer rather than poorer. Which may help explain the reluctance of some Russian members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body charged by the UN with establishing the facts on climate change, to accept that global warming is a problem that needs to be dealt with
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18th December 2006 |
Carbon moves 'may boost airlines' - BBC News
Airlines could reap billions of pounds in profits if emissions from planes are included in the European Trading Scheme (ETS), say two reports.
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18th December 2006 |
ICC climate change petition rejected - Nunatsiaq News
The effort to link climate change with human rights has suffered a setback. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights won’t consider a petition that alleges that the United States government is violating the human rights of Inuit by refusing to limit its greenhouse gas emissions.
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18th December 2006 |
Green light for world's biggest windfarm - Guardian Unlimited
UK: The government has given the go-ahead for the world's largest offshore windfarm to be built off the coast of south-east England.
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18th December 2006 |
Tip of the iceberg of climate costs - Scoop
Statistics New Zealand figures released today showing the financial impact of floods on some local governments are just the tip of the iceberg for the expected economic impacts of climate change the Green Party says.
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18th December 2006 |
Green laws no slam-dunk in new Congress - Los Angeles Times
USA: Environmentalists are busy these days crafting their holiday wish-list, giddy about the prospects for success in the new Democratic-controlled Congress. But industry groups are gearing up to fight, and their forces may include more than the usual Republican allies. "We're confident that there are plenty of Democrats who know and understand us," said Charles Drevna of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Assn.
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18th December 2006 |
[..with implications]
Fifth of Farm Animal Breeds May Face Extinction - Planet Ark
About 20 percent of farm animal breeds have been brought to the brink of extinction as world agriculture narrows its focus to just the most productive livestock, the United Nation food body said.
Two-Thirds of Congo Basin Forests Could Disappear - Planet Ark
Two-thirds of the forests in the Congo River Basin could disappear within 50 years if logging and mineral exploitation continues at current rates, environmental group WWF said in a report.
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18th December 2006 |
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Winds of climate change becalmed - The Age
It's not happening, is it? Is anything of substance being done to fight climate change? Six weeks ago British Treasury adviser Sir Nicholas Stern released his landmark report on the economics of global warming. Stern matters because he turned old thinking on its head. It was not action, but inaction, on climate change that would devastate the world's economies, he wrote. But in Britain this month, Chancellor Gordon Brown released his pre-budget report. The document would normally hold little interest, except that it was hyped in advance as a visionary statement of what Brown will do if and when he becomes prime minister next year. The report was brown all right. Green was hard to find.
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17th December 2006 |
On a swift boat to a warmer world - Boston Globe
USA: I watched in horror as Inhofe's witnesses spouted outrageous claims intended to deceive and distort. Two were scientists associated with industry-funded think tanks. They described global warming as a "mass delusion" among the scientific community, sowing confusion by misrepresenting the ice core data that connects carbon dioxide and temperature over glacial cycles, and claiming that "global warming stopped in 1998" -- an anomalously warm year. They even recommended burning as much fossil fuel as possible to prevent another ice age.
Unfortunately, the format does not allow for direct debate. Some senators defended the integrity of the scientific community, including Barbara Boxer, who will become chair of the committee in January. But amid the collegiality and decorum that is the tradition in the Senate, no one stood up and called this hearing what it was: a gathering of liars and charlatans, sponsored by those industries who want to protect their profits. -Daniel P. Schrag,
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17th December 2006 |
One world, one problem - Mercury News
"In the past two or three years, however, something new and different has begun to happen: A consensus is emerging that one fight, and one fight only, looms at the center of our environmental efforts. That's the battle against global warming, which has begun to serve as the organizing principle for green America." - Bill McKibben
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17th December 2006 |
Automakers nix global warming suit - Canoe
USA, California: The six largest U.S. and Japanese automakers asked a U.S. federal judge to toss out a lawsuit by California that accuses them of harming human health and the environment by producing vehicles that contribute to global warming.
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17th December 2006 |
10 years to live: Orang-utan faces extinction in the wild - The Independent
The great ape's habitat is rapidly being destroyed - by the rush to produce an environmentally friendly fuel
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17th December 2006 |
Dion’s election could signal tipping point for green issues - Chronicle Herald
WILL THIS MONTH, December 2006, be noted by future historians as the moment that Canada finally became seriously committed to action on the environment — specifically on energy, air quality and global warming?
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17th December 2006 |
Sydney 'first to run out of water' - news.com.au
Australia: SYDNEY'S dwindling water supplies could be limited to drinking only within three years, a Canadian expert has warned.
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17th December 2006 |
Charles urges action on climate - BBC News
Climate change is the "biggest threat to mankind", the Prince of Wales has said in an article.
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17th December 2006 |
Deep Thoughts - Sierra Club
Notes from the Sierra Club on near-term action agenda on climate change.
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17th December 2006 |
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Overconfidence leads to bias in climate change estimations - PhysOrg.Com
Just as overconfidence in a teenager may lead to unwise acts, overconfidence in projections of climate change may lead to inappropriate actions on the parts of governments, industries and individuals, according to an international team of climate researchers
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16th December 2006 |
Polar bear populations on the decline - WWF
The number of polar bear populations in decline has increased from one in 2001 to five in 2006, WWF warned today. There are only 19 polar bear populations in the world, so this decline represents more then a quarter of the species’ populations.
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16th December 2006 |
Penguins Offer Evidence of Global Warming - Commmon Dreams
Antarctica: The first Adelie penguin chicks of the season -- black fluffballs small enough to hold in the hand -- started hatching this month, and the simple fact that there are more of them in the south and fewer of them further north is a sign of global warming, scientists say.
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16th December 2006 |
Aerospace firms complain over green spoof adverts - The Independent
Enoughsenough hit a nerve with their very excellent campaign
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16th December 2006 |
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Gore tells scientists to be vocal - BBC News
The former US Vice President Al Gore has told scientists to speak out more on the issue of climate change.
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15th December 2006 |
Real environmental progress requires big change in government - David Suzuki
Canada: Stéphane Dion may have passed the first test in his quest to rebuild the shattered Liberal party, but earning the hearts and minds of Canadians will require more than a deft political hand; it will require bold leadership. And that means slaying Canada’s biggest dragon – our environmental deficit.
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15th December 2006 |
Sydney to go dark for greenhouse push - The Australian
Australia: Sydney will turn off its lights next year in a world-first initiative aimed at reducing greenhouse gas pollution. See also blackoutlondon
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15th December 2006 |
Why the chancellor will not become a green premier - Mark Lynas
UK: If there were any lingering doubts, they should now be dispelled. Gordon Brown will not be a green prime minister. As the Chancellor stood in parliament on 6 December and rattled off a few piecemeal environmental sops, environmentalists’ hopes that he might actually have read and understood the Stern report were dashed on the rocks of reality. Climate change may be, in Sir Nicholas’s words, “the greatest market failure the world has ever seen”, but this is a failure that Brown seems determined to compound.
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15th December 2006 |
This electric radicalism marries green politics with social justice - Guardian Unlimited
UK: David Miliband's plan for carbon allowances raises a red/green standard that the blue/green Tories can never match
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15th December 2006 |
Labour climate vision fails to take off - Guardian Unlimited
UK: When Tony Blair appointed Douglas Alexander to be transport secretary last May, he rightly told him that "transport will be critical to our long-term goal of reducing carbon emissions". Yesterday's white paper on government aviation policy suggests that the cabinet's new boy hasn't forgotten. But he hasn't felt able to do much about it either.
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15th December 2006 |
Taxing pollution touted to get industry to toe the green line - Contra Costa Times
USA: Leading authorities on climate and energy policy called Thursday for putting a price on greenhouse-gas emissions to drive new efficiencies and technologies, and one top U.S. utility executive called for an outright tax on carbon.
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15th December 2006 |
Climate change stoking bushfires - The Age
Australia: Climate change is causing longer, more aggressive bushfire seasons and must be factored into the state's firefighting plans, Victoria's Emergency Services Commissioner said yesterday.
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15th December 2006 |
Ambrose job called at risk - Calgary Sun
Canada: Rona to get the elbow? The political ground is shifting - and looking greener - as the Conservatives digest the implications of Stephane Dion's Liberal leadership victory.
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15th December 2006 |
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Sea level rise 'under-estimated' - BBC News
Current sea level rise projections could be under-estimating the impact of human-induced climate change on the world's oceans, scientists suggest.
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14th December 2006 |
2006 was Earth's sixth warmest year on record - New Scientist
2006 was the Earth's sixth warmest year on record, averaging 0.4°C above the 1961 to 1990 average, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The records extend back to 1861. And the UK charted its warmest year ever – its records go back to 1659.
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14th December 2006 |
Global warming leaves Guardian readers cold, study finds - Guardian Unlimited
A damning study from Cambridge University today exposes Guardian readers as being worse than readers of the tabloids or the even the Telegraph [heavens above!] when it comes to insulating their homes. Pensioners are likely to do better.
"There is clearly a public appetite for policy actions to address global warming, but our survey offers a clear indication that relying on self-motivated behavioural change, even (or perhaps especially) among the most earnest and best intentioned, is inadequate to the task and that stronger incentives and clear price signals will be needed to effect tangible change."
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14th December 2006 |
Asia's greenhouse gas 'to treble' - BBC News
Asia's greenhouse gas emissions will treble over the next 25 years, according to a report commissioned by the Asian Development Bank.
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14th December 2006 |
Exxon lobby group named "year's most influential" in global climate change - DeSmogBlog
The Weather Channel today announced their "2006 Hot List," which in their own words "will bring focus to the people and organization (sic) who in 2006 most influenced climate policy, science and public opinion." One would assume, based on their stated mission that their idea of a "hot list" would be chosen among the thousands of people, organizations and corporations effecting the climate change issue in a positive way. Not so, coming in at number 3 on the Weather Channel's 2006 "hot list" is none other than the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
[...and at number four we have, wait for it.... George W. Bush!]
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14th December 2006 |
Attenborough urges 'moral change' - BBC News
Television naturalist Sir David Attenborough has called for a "moral change" among energy consumers to cut waste and reduce pollution.
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14th December 2006 |
2006 sets British heat records - BBC News
Several records for temperatures in Britain have been broken during 2006.
See also: November rainfall hits new record
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14th December 2006 |
Lapland can only dream of white Christmas - The Independent
It should be a winter wonderland; instead, it's just piles of slush. British holidaymakers travelling to Lapland for a pre-Christmas holiday got a shock when they arrived in Santa's traditional home this week: no snow.
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14th December 2006 |
Roads to ruin - Guardian Unlimited
UK: A mile of new motorway costs £30m - more than twice that with private finance - and causes increased traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. Yet Labour is set on a monster road building programme. Richard Sadler reports
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14th December 2006 |
Miliband tells Brown to go green or lose next election - The Independent
UK: Labour could lose the next general election unless it raises its game on green issues, the Environment Secretary, David Miliband, will warn today.
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14th December 2006 |
Airport expansions 'to go ahead' - BBC News
The government is expected to press ahead with its airport expansion plans despite opposition from green groups.
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14th December 2006 |
Study finds oysters can take heat and heavy metals, but not both - PhysOrg.Com
Pollution is bad for the sea life and so is global warming, but aquatic organisms can be resilient. However, even organisms tough enough to survive one major onslaught may find that a double whammy is more than their molecular biology can take.
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14th December 2006 |
US scientists reject interference - BBC News
Some 10,000 US researchers have signed a statement protesting about political interference in the scientific process.
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14th December 2006 |
NOAA Ledge Global Warming Protesters Sentenced in Maryland Court
USA: Two activists who climbed onto a ledge 25 feet over the main entrance to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Silver Spring, Md. were sentenced today for their action. “Three years ago, at the age of 54, I made a conscious decision to devote as much time and energy as I could to this most crucial of issues, the future of our threatened ecosystem. On October 23rd I acted on behalf of my son, my nieces and nephews and children everywhere who need many more of us who are older and supposedly wiser to do the right thing, to speak out and take action on this fundamental issue.”
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14th December 2006 |
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The answer, my Hebridean friend, is blowing in the wind - The Times
We cannot tilt against the best renewable source. "Pessimistic the predictions may be, but right now wind energy is the only renewable show in town. Personally, I prefer a 24 per cent achievement to the alternative, which is zero."
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13th December 2006 |
Shallow fuels bring bad news - Nature
Geologists have discovered underwater deposits of hydrates — icy deposits of frozen methane gas — at far shallower depths under the ocean floor than expected. The finding suggests that, in a globally warmed world, the hydrates could melt suddenly and release their gas into the atmosphere, thus warming the planet even more.
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13th December 2006 |
Burning issues - Guardian Unlimited
Are the American media exercising caution in their coverage of the global warming story or are they guilty of dodging the issue? "If the public relations specialists of the oil and coal industries are criminals against humanity, the US press has played the role of unwitting accomplice by consistently minimising the story, if not burying it from public view altogether".
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13th December 2006 |
2006 Warmest Year in Netherlands in 300 Years - Planet Ark
Netherlands: This year is on track to be the warmest in the Netherlands since temperatures were first measured in 1706, the Dutch meteorological institute KNMI said on Tuesday, linking the record with global warming.
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13th December 2006 |
Climate change catching voter attention around world - Reuters
Mainstream parties in Germany, Britain, France, Canada, the United States and Austria believe tackling climate change is a vote winner while established Green parties in Germany and Austria are experiencing a renaissance.
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13th December 2006 |
China Wants to Slow Growth in Carbon Emissions - Planet Ark
China wants to slow its growth in carbon emissions, a top energy policy maker said on Tuesday, as the world's number two producer of greenhouse gases threatens to overtake the United States by 2009.
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13th December 2006 |
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Green Revolution Sweeping the US Construction Industry - Common Dreams
"Good for the environment and good for our business." That's the mantra of the so-called green building movement that's sweeping the nation. Among the adherents are financial institutions such as Citigroup, PNC and Bank of America; automakers such as Toyota, General Motors, Ford and Honda; and such retailers as Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's, Chipotle and Patagonia.
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13th December 2006 |
Wall Street eyes heart of darkness: global warming - Reuters
The topic of the conference was climate change and the rhetoric was sobering, haunted by scientific projections of a roasted world for our children and a looming environmental disaster of Biblical proportions. But this was no talk shop of environmental activists. It was a meeting of Wall Street investors, insurance executives, state treasurers and pension fund managers, who between them manage about $3.7 trillion in assets.
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13th December 2006 |
Pope Calls Energy Alternatives a Source of Peace - New York Times
In an annual message for peace, Pope Benedict strongly emphasized a theme rarely taken up in his nearly two years as pope: what he called the “ecology of peace,” the idea that protecting the environment and finding alternative energy sources could reduce conflict.
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13th December 2006 |
Britain set to back major aviation expansion - Reuters
Green campaigners said on Tuesday that Britain will back a major expansion of its booming aviation industry in a report this week that they say will do nothing to combat global warming.
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13th December 2006 |
Shopping for a better world? - Houston Chronicle
"The idea that you can change the world with what you buy is so appealing, especially here in the US where the government has been willing to give business free reign to externalize the costs of unsustainable practices. Sadly, it at best causes some improvements around the margins, and at worst actually counters its own stated goals."
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13th December 2006 |
Satellites used to track world's water supply - CNET
The Congo river has been losing about 21.6 millimeters in depth every year for the past three years, according to two gravity-sensitive satellites that circle Earth
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13th December 2006 |
Britons 'want incentives' to make homes green - EDIE
Most British householders would consider making their homes greener if they were given financial incentives to do so, a survey has found.
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13th December 2006 |
Tories deny owing Kyoto money despite UN figures - canoe
Canada: Environment Minister Rona Ambrose says Canada has paid all the money it owes in support of the Kyoto Protocol, but that's not what UN figures indicate.
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13th December 2006 |
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The Cost of an Overheated Planet - New York Times
USA: policy and the pursuit of national security in the cold war. In the late 1950s, American military spending reached as high as 10 percent of the gross domestic product and averaged about 4 percent, far higher than in any previous peacetime era. A Soviet nuclear attack was a danger but hardly a certainty, just as the predicted catastrophes from global warming are threats but not certainties. “The issues are similar in that you pay now so things are less risky in the future — it’s an insurance policy,” said Richard Cooper, a Harvard economist. “And in the cold war, we taxed ourselves fairly highly to mitigate that threat.”
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12th December 2006 |
IPCC author and climate change expert hits "skeptics" hard - DeSmogBlog
Canada: In a Calgary Sun column today, noted atmospheric scientist and IPCC author, Dr. Andrew Weaver, slams the so-called climate change "skeptics." "The enduring debate -- such as it is, particularly in Alberta -- over the role humans play in global warming -- is so divorced from scientific literature as to be a discourse from a distant age or orbit," says Weaver.
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12th December 2006 |
Gingerbread houses latest victim of global warming
Sweet-toothed Swedes who have spent hours constructing edible Christmas gingerbread houses are seeing their creations collapse in the Scandinavian country's unusually damp winter, suppliers said. "The damp weather spells immediate devastation for gingerbread houses. The problem is the mild winter"
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12th December 2006 |
Experts warn North Pole will be 'ice free' by 2040 - The Times
Ice is melting so fast in the Arctic that the North Pole will be in the open sea in 30 years, according to a team of leading climatologists.
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12th December 2006 |
NASA provides new perspectives on the earth's changing ice sheets - EurekAlert
It's widely documented that climate change is causing the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to shrink. Air temperatures in many parts of the polar regions have increased and waters that surround parts of the ice sheets have warmed up. What most do not know is that until just six years ago, we had no real way of measuring whether the ice sheets were shrinking or growing, or at what rate.
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12th December 2006 |
Glaciers Adding More To Global Sea Rise Than Ice Sheets, Study Says - PhysOrg.Com
Despite growing public alarm over the shrinking Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, it is small glaciers and ice caps that have been contributing the most to rising sea levels in recent years, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study
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12th December 2006 |
NFF hits out at make up of carbon emissions task force - Yahoo News
Australia: The National Farmers Federation (NFF) is angry at the make-up of Prime Minister John Howard's new task force to investigate carbon emissions trading. President David Crombie says stacking the group with mining and energy interests has hurt any real attempts to address climate change.
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12th December 2006 |
Forests can raise Earth's temperature - Cosmos
The key to using trees to offset global warming is to expand tropical rainforests south of the equator, according to research announced in the U.S. on Monday.
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12th December 2006 |
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Tories: Step Up or Give Up - Aubrey Meyer
Review of paper entitled "Don’t Give Up on Two Degrees" by UK Conservative MP Nick Hurd published by the Conservative “Quality of Life Group”.
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11th December 2006 |
Blair hails firms for climate change action plan - Guardian Unlimited
UK: Chief executives from Tesco, Starbucks, BSkyB and Marks & Spencer were invited to Downing Street today for a climate change summit with Tony Blair - "Climate change, we strongly believe, will be solved only by a combination of policy and government solutions, also by business solutions... but crucially by individual action."
[hmm.. if that means 'individual action' to elect a govenment that will instigate govenment & business solutions...otherwise, it's buck passing, and fluorescent lightbulbs just won't cut it...]
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11th December 2006 |
Miliband plans carbon trading 'credit cards' for everyone - Guardian Unlimited
UK: Every citizen would be issued with a carbon "credit card" - to be swiped every time they bought petrol, paid an energy utility bill or booked an airline ticket - under a nationwide carbon rationing scheme that could come into operation within five years, according to a feasibility study commissioned by the environment secretary, David Miliband, and published today -See also: 'We nearly threw it away. We must be more radical'
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11th December 2006 |
Birds Bask in Warmest French Autumn Since 1950 - Planet Ark
Birds are delaying their annual winter migration to Africa from France because of the unseasonally warm weather (2.9 degrees Celsius (5.2 F) above seasonal norms)
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11th December 2006 |
Labour has sped along the American highway but we would be happier taking Europe's gentler path - Guardian
Brown's belief in the US economic model of growth at any price is flawed.
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11th December 2006 |
A threat we're not ready for - The Age
"The existence of climate change is no longer in dispute, even if the detail is still ambiguous. But the Government prevaricates as though there's all the time in the world. The problem is the world has almost run out of time. Unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced drastically, and quickly, climate change could be irreversible in as little as a decade. Many consequences will materialise this century, even if strong action is taken soon, because current greenhouse gas levels will take decades to ease."
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11th December 2006 |
Means of distribution - Gristmill
Herman Daly was one of the first economists to truly grapple with the consequences of industrial expansion -- eventually coming to see a steady state as the inevitable end-point of human population and economic growth. The limited nature of the earth's resources require that we eventually get to zero population growth and zero growth in industrial output. - "The stationary state would make fewer demands on our environmental resources, but much greater demands on our moral resources."
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11th December 2006 |
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Biofuel Skeptic Extraordinaire - Grist
Any worthy idea can withstand and even be improved by naysayers; scolds and skeptics play the useful role of pointing out obvious flaws. The biofuels industry has no more persistent, articulate, and scathing critic than David Pimentel, professor emeritus of entomology at Cornell University.
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10th December 2006 |
Six Ways That Changing Your Life Can Prevent Global Warming - AlterNet
American society isn't doing much about global warming -- are we waiting for Al Gore? Here are six things we can do to prevent it.
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10th December 2006 |
Business View: Brown knocks airlines off their 'green' course - The Independent
UK: Chancellor's tax on travel is an act of sabotage on political colleagues
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10th December 2006 |
Don't crank the heating up, darling - we need the carbon for our holiday - Guardian Unlimited
Terry Slavin looks forward to the day when every single one of us will have to do our bit for the planet - by budgeting for our emissions
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10th December 2006 |
Gore in bid to 'freeze' carbon emissions - The Age
Former US Vice President Al Gore says he will start a grassroots political movement next month to seek a "freeze" on carbon emissions that scientists say are to blame for global warming.
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10th December 2006 |
Global warming threatens Scotland's last wilderness - Guardian Unlimited
Scotland: As snow disappears from the Cairngorms, rare birds and flowers - as well as the skiing industry - are at risk, reports science editor Robin McKie
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10th December 2006 |
Antarctica works as living global warming laboratory - Reuters
MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica - For scientists at this ice-encircled outpost, global warming is not a matter of debate. It is a simple fact and crucial research questions center on what its consequences will be.
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10th December 2006 |
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Beyond words - Guardian Unlimited
UK: As words echo, they can start to ring hollow. It is only weeks since the Stern report on climate change was lauded by the prime minister as "a wake-up call to every country in the world". Gordon Brown, too, agreed with the call for "prompt and strong action". With David Cameron also scrambling to lead the unison choir singing out for something to be done, it appeared, for a moment, as if the political climate might be changing so that the real climate would not have to...
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9th December 2006 |
The times, and the climate, are a-changin' - Toronto Star
Thomas Berry - "As we look up at the starry sky at night, and as, in the morning, we see the landscape revealed as the sun dawns over the Earth — these experiences reveal ... a profound world that cannot be bought with money, cannot be manufactured ... cannot be listed on the stock market ... cannot be sent by email." Such experiences, for Berry, speak to our souls, and as we replace these experiences with computer games and virtual realities, as well as polluted landscapes, it diminishes our spirit.
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9th December 2006 |
Risk perception and global warming - Huffington Post
"We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones."
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9th December 2006 |
Bright Green Efficiency - TomPaine.com
It's long been axiomatic that energy efficiency is the awkward stepchild of renewables—that is, that it's sexier to install cutting-edge renewable-energy technologies like solar panels than to engage in more prosaic (and less visible) measures to get more value out of each BTU or barrel.
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9th December 2006 |
Olympic skiers play it cool with Suzuki - David Suzuki Foundation
Canada: Two of Canada’s leading winter athletes are fighting global warming by joining the David Suzuki Foundation to "play it cool".
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9th December 2006 |
Australia braces for fiery weekend - CNN
Australia: With temperatures nearing 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) bushfires threatened dozens of hamlets in Australia's southeast . Authorities closed schools and braced for a horror weekend of soaring temperatures and gusting winds.
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9th December 2006 |
Court Appearance Tuesday for Two Activists Arrested on NOAA Ledge
USA: On Tuesday the activists will find out if they will have to spend time in jail or pay a heavy fine for calling attention to the urgent crisis of global warming and the need for truth-telling about it by our government.
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9th December 2006 |
Stern's departure highlights climate confusion - Green Business News
UK: "It will be frustrating to many business leaders that they have to take the lead in reducing carbon emissions without a strong tax and legislative framework to help them on the way. But those that do take action are likely to improve their standing with the growing number of potential customers who disagree wholeheartedly with the Chancellor's business as usual attitude."
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9th December 2006 |
In the rice paddies of Sri Lanka, a new enemy: salt - Guardian Unlimited
Sri Lanka: Practical Action is backing seed trials to help farmers hit hard by climate change
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Carbon emissions up one-quarter since 1990 - AlertNet
Global carbon emissions rose nearly 3 percent in 2005, up more than a quarter from 1990 levels despite many governments' pledges of cuts to fight global warming, a scientist who provides data for the U.S. Department of Energy said.
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8th December 2006 |
Greenhouse gas emissions set to rise as new sources for transport fuel are used - PhysOrg.Com
The use of low-quality sources of petroleum, such as tar sands, will dramatically raise global greenhouse gas emissions according to a new study. Emissions will be 30%-70% greater than those from conventional petrol
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8th December 2006 |
Climate worry over December daffs - BBC News
UK: Daffodils have caused a stir at a tourist attraction by making an unseasonably early appearance.
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8th December 2006 |
Strike It Richard - Grist
Richard Branson chats about hyping ethanol and slashing airplane emissions.
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8th December 2006 |
Ancient climate change may portend toasty future - PhysOrg.Com
Scientists have found that the Earth’s global warming, 55 million years ago, may have resulted from the climate’s high sensitivity to a long-term release of carbon. This finding contradicts the position held by many climate-change skeptics that the Earth system is resilient to such emissions.
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8th December 2006 |
Greenpeace calls for 'joined up' energy and foreign policy - Guardian Unlimited
UK: A new "joined up" energy and foreign policy based on reducing oil dependence and abandoning plans to renew the Trident nuclear missile system would offer Britain a brighter and more secure future, Greenpeace argues in a report.
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8th December 2006 |
Inhofe’s last stand - RealClimate
USA: Gavin Schmidt reports on the last Senate hearing on climate change chaired by denier Sen. James Inhofe.
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8th December 2006 |
Less talk, more action needed on climate change - CBC News
Canada: When it comes to dealing with climate change, the North does not have the luxury of time, Nunavut's climate change co-ordinator told a workshop in Iqaluit Wednesday.
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8th December 2006 |
Climate change author quits Treasury after Brown freezes him out - The Times
UK: The author of the Government’s report on climate change is to quit the Treasury after friends said that he was frozen out of Gordon Brown’s inner circle.
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8th December 2006 |
Solar panels in churches called for by bishop - The Times
A senior Church of England bishop condemned modern society’s “autistic” way of life yesterday which he said was wrecking the planet’s environment. He called on churches and other places of worship to reduce global warming by installing solar panels on their rooftops.
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8th December 2006 |
Poll Tells of Pollution Concerns - RedOrbit
USA: Most Texans oppose Gov. Rick Perry's efforts to fast-track construction of coal-fired power plants without first addressing the health and environmental concerns associated with them, according to the results of a statewide poll sponsored by an advocacy group.
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8th December 2006 |
CSU, Boulder Startup Working To Turn Algae Into Fuel - TheDenverChannel.com
USA: A startup in Boulder is working with Colorado State University engineers on technology that starts with algae and ends up with eco-friendly fuel. The main ingredients for the process are sun and carbon dioxide, something that is readily available from coal-burning power plants and ethanol plants.
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8th December 2006 |
"Clean" Coal Seen in 5-10 Years, but Costs High - Planet Ark
"Clean" coal-fired power plants that bury greenhouse gases will be up and running in 5-10 years but will be money-losers unless governments impose tougher policies for fighting global warming, experts said on Thursday
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8th December 2006 |
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Exxon spends millions to cast doubt on warming - The Independent
The world's largest energy company is still spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund European organisations that seek to cast doubt on the scientific consensus on global warming and undermine support for legislation to curb emission of greenhouse gases.
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7th December 2006 |
Can Canada Liberals win election on green issues - AlertNet
Canadian voters look set to face stark choices in a federal election likely next year, as tax-cutting Conservatives face off against a new-look Liberal Party that will put the environment at the top of its agenda.
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7th December 2006 |
Onward climate soldiers, marching as to war - Toronto Star
What if we took the war-climate change analogy seriously? Can the prospect of "Earth burning" bring out the same qualities of nobility, heroism and self-sacrifice that war has?
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7th December 2006 |
Warming oceans produce less phytoplankton - New Scientist
As the Earth’s oceans warm, the masses of tiny plants growing at their surface is declining, say US researchers. Their results show that the productivity of global oceans is tightly linked to climate change and has been steadily decreased between 1999 and 2004.
The Independent has a better headline: Climate change is killing the oceans' microscopic 'lungs', but NASA has nicer pictures.
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7th December 2006 |
Bangladesh is paying a cruel price for the west's excesses - Guardian Unlimited
While the west puzzles over ways to curb future climate change, in the developing world the present climate change is being felt already, and there is nothing abstract about it. Every year an estimated 150,000 people die as a result of global warming - mainly through natural disasters, disease and malnutrition - and the toll is rising exponentially. There is much talk, but little is done.
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7th December 2006 |
Mars fined for breaching rules on carbon trading - The Independent
UK: The food giant Mars was fined yesterday by the Environment Agency for breaches of European carbon trading rules, introduced to combat global warming.
See also: Steel firm's £564,000 carbon fine
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7th December 2006 |
'Green' tax plans fail to impress - BBC News
UK: Environmental taxes announced by Chancellor Gordon Brown have failed to impress opposition parties, businesses and green campaigners.
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7th December 2006 |
Fortune in fat - Aftenposten
Bonkers loony article of the week:
A Norwegian businessman wants to make biofuel from the human fat removed from liposuction patients
"Maybe we should urge people to eat more so we can create more raw material for fuel,"says Lauri Venøy
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7th December 2006 |
Rising water levels in S.F. will stress city's drains - The Sacramento Bee
USA: Global warming is usually thought of as something that will adversely affect humans decades down the road. But rising water levels in the San Francisco Bay, a consequence of higher global temperatures, are beginning to cause problems for San Francisco's combined storm drain-sewer system -- difficulties that will cost millions of dollars to correct.
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7th December 2006 |
Sales of 4x4s slump as costs and changing attitudes bite - The Independent
UK: The "Chelsea Tractor", once the vehicle of choice for Footballers' Wives and parents taking their children to school, has suffered a sharp drop in popularity.
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7th December 2006 |
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Brown unveils 'green' tax plans - BBC News
UK: Gordon Brown ended the freeze on petrol duty, doubled air passenger duty and announced a series of other measures to combat climate change today as he laid out what is expected to be his final Pre-Budget Report as Chancellor. Green groups accused the chancellor of just "fiddling around the edges" instead of taking the "heroic" actions needed to halt the global threat of climate change.
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6th December 2006 |
All power to you - The Age
Australia: Can you go without electricity for two days? Liz Minchin meets three friends who plan to try - and who dare you to join them
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6th December 2006 |
Arctic ice field could melt by 2080 - PhysOrg.Com
The Arctic Ocean's ice field could melt entirely by 2080 due to global warming, a group of European scientists meeting in the northern Germany city of Bremen announced on Tuesday.
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6th December 2006 |
Firms face compulsory carbon quotas - Guardian Unlimited
Many of the UK's big businesses - including supermarkets, banks, universities, hotel chains, hospitals and government departments - would be forced to sign up to a carbon-trading scheme under proposals being drafted by ministers.
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6th December 2006 |
Return of the free marketeers - Guardian Unlimited
UK: Ten years ago, planning policy was turned on its head when a Conservative environment secretary effectively outlawed a retail free-for-all that had seen huge, US-style shopping complexes sprouting on the edge of English cities and in the countryside. But the government is now calling for a rethink.
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6th December 2006 |
Carbon Trust launches new UK carbon footprint
UK: The Carbon Trust today launched a new way of presenting the UK’s total carbon footprint based upon an analysis of the products and services that consumers use in their daily lives. The footprint was launched through a national newspaper advertising campaign and breaks down the UK’s 648 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions into eleven high level consumer needs, ranging from clothing and footwear to commuting and food.
See also: Study links leisure to 20 pct carbon emissions
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6th December 2006 |
America’s Breadbasket Moves to Canada? - The Lede
'“A map . . . shows the belly of North America’s wheat bounty shifting to Canada by 2050.” What the map DOESN’T show is that the new wheat belt (a.k.a. the Canadian Shield) is a glaciated wilderness from which virtually all of the top soil was scraped in the last ice age. Ditto most of Siberia. If that’s where our daily bread is supposed to come from in the year 2050, we’d better lean to eat lichen and moss.'
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6th December 2006 |
Lose-lose: the penalties of acting alone stall collective effort on climate change - WBCSD
According to some of the world's leading scientists, climate change poses a bigger threat to future prosperity than wars or terrorism. Yet governments remain reluctant to address this threat because any country acting alone to curb its greenhouse gas emissions, without similar commitments by other governments, risks damaging the competitiveness of its industries.
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6th December 2006 |
Alps Are Warmest in 1,300 Years - RedOrbit
Europe's Alpine region is going through its warmest period in 1,300 years, the head of an extensive climate study said Tuesday.
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6th December 2006 |
Southern Ocean Could Slow Global Warming - PhysOrg.Com
The Southern Ocean may slow the rate of global warming by absorbing significantly more heat and carbon dioxide than previously thought, according to new research.
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6th December 2006 |
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Don't fall for David Cameron - Johann Hari
UK: After a year in charge of the Conservative Party, it’s time to ask – how much of Cameron’s radical remaking of Tory rhetoric over the past year has been Bush-speak?
[..granted this isn't directly about climate change, but important nevertheless especially in the light of his so-called 'green credentials']
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5th December 2006 |
CND's anti-Trident climate campaign - icWales
UK: Campaigners and MPs will meet to discuss how the Government could fund new ways of tackling climate change by scrapping Britain's nuclear weapons programme.
See website: CND No Trident Replacement. See also: Could scrapping Trident save the planet?
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5th December 2006 |
I'm all for putting more vehicles on our roads. As long as they're coaches - Guardian Unlimited
A better organised, more attractive network could get people around faster, save tonnes of carbon - and cost almost nothing - George Monbiot
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5th December 2006 |
Europe's warmest autumn in 500 years - Nature
Do you still have roses in bloom in your English garden? Then you might not be surprised to hear that Europe is experiencing the warmest autumn since Columbus first sailed to America.
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5th December 2006 |
Climate change unites religions - The Age
AUSTRALIA'S religious leaders have united to demand stronger action on climate change, with at least one major Christian lobby group urging churchgoers to compare the parties' environmental policies before voting at the next federal election.
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5th December 2006 |
Africa Is Burning - TomPaine.com
The effects of the Great Warming are not fairly shared. Fourteen percent of the world's population lives in the 57 countries on the African continent. However, because the majority of Africans live with little to no access to electricity and personal transport usage is among the world’s lowest, Africans contribute only 3 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
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5th December 2006 |
Shell CEO berates America for spurning Kyoto - Globe & Mail
The chief executive for Shell berated Washington on Monday for spurning the United Nation's Kyoto agreement on global warming, saying U.S. backing for a global regulatory framework would create incentives for oil companies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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5th December 2006 |
Eager for an election, leader puts Kyoto front and centre - Globe & Mail
Canada: The Kyoto Protocol on global warming will be a central issue in the next election campaign following the election of Stéphane Dion as Liberal Leader.
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5th December 2006 |
Al Gore: Funny guy - GristMill
"Do you know if President Bush has seen the movie yet?"
" Well, he claimed that would not see it. That's why I wrote the book. He's a reader."
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5th December 2006 |
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Supreme Court Oral Argument in Global Warming Case Reveals What's Wrong with the Standing Doctrine - Findlaw
USA: Roughly half of last week's oral argument focused not on whether the EPA violated its legal duty in failing to promulgate regulations, but instead on whether Massachusetts and other states have legal standing to seek judicial review of the EPA's inaction,. A decision dismissing the case on standing grounds is a real possibility.
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4th December 2006 |
Global meet on climate change begins Thursday - New Kerala
New Delhi, India: Amid growing fears about global warming, a two-day international conference on climate change and its adverse consequences on the development of countries like India will be held here beginning Thursday.
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4th December 2006 |
The latest news on propaganda - Guardian Unlimited
The US is being bombarded by video news releases - fake TV packages that are actually stealth marketing.
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4th December 2006 |
The politics of food - Davis Enterprise
Ten calories of fossil fuel are now required to produce every one calorie of food. By eating over-processed food and lots of meat, each person adds 4 tons of carbon to the atmosphere every year.
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4th December 2006 |
Search for crops that can survive global warming - Guardian Unlimited
An unprecedented effort to protect the world's food supplies from the ravages of climate change will be launched today by an international consortium of scientists. The move marks a growing recognition that serious changes in weather patterns are inevitable over the coming decades, and that society must begin to adapt.
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4th December 2006 |
Greener, cleaner ... and competitive? - CS Monitor
Renewables could supply one-quarter of US energy by 2025, with no harm to economy, a study says.
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4th December 2006 |
Our planet must discover a new way forward - The Independent
IN the Brazilian Amazon, a hopeful newinitiative to protect the rainforest contrasting with the distinct lack of action in the UK. The Environmental Audit Committee warned over the weekend that, despite commissioning the Stern report, the UK Treasury has not been heeding recent warnings on climate change.See also: Saving the rainforest: At last, action on the Amazon
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4th December 2006 |
Britain's Autumn Was Warmest on Record - Planet Ark
Britain has experienced its warmest autumn on record, with average temperature across the United Kingdom beating the peak set in 2001, Britain's meteorological office said on Friday.
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4th December 2006 |
Firm offers to pay for pupils to see Gore film - The Scotsman
EVERY schoolchild in Scotland is to be offered the chance to see former US vice-president Al Gore's film about the dangers of global warming under a scheme by energy company ScottishPower.
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4th December 2006 |
Youth poll offers contradictions - BBC News
Hooray for the 15-17 year-olds of the US, Egypt, India and the UK who said they were prepared to reduce their standards of living to lessen the impact of global warming.
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4th December 2006 |
U.S. sued over environmental reporting - UPI
A coalition of U.S. environmental groups has sued the Bush administration for refusing to produce an overdue, federally mandated national climate-change report.
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4th December 2006 |
GM Contemplates the Living, Breathing Hummer - Planet Ark
Bonkers loony article of the week: "In the corporate imagination of General Motors Corp., Hummer could be transformed from the SUV that environmentalists love to hate to an algae-infused, oxygen-exuding buggy that would open up like a flower." [?!]
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4th December 2006 |
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Environmental warrior to challenge Harper for Canada's top job - Yahoo News
Canada: A former environment minister beat the odds to win the leadership of Canada's opposition Liberals, expected to challenge Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives in an election next year.
However - Quebec separatists, Tories and NDP have trouble hiding joy at Dion victory
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3rd December 2006 |
Big Oil Has Big Bucks for Image War - DeSmogBlog
USA: The American Petroleum Institute (API) is planning a $100-million "image and education effort" to counteract the change in policy direction that the fossil industry (sorry, fossil fuel industry) acticipates from the new Democratically dominated Congress.
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3rd December 2006 |
It's hot - but climate research is being cut - Guardian Unlimited
As Britain heads for its hottest year for two centuries, the Met Office global warming centre is having its budget slashed
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3rd December 2006 |
Charles to launch green project - Guardian Unlimited
UK: The Prince of Wales will focus his passion for a green revolution on big business next week. Charles wants industry leaders to better assess, and eventually reverse, the damage they and their products are doing to the environment.
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3rd December 2006 |
Flowers in Alps, bears can't sleep as winter waits - AlertNet
Austria: Flowers are blooming on the slopes of Alpine ski resorts and bears are having trouble hibernating in Siberia amid a late start to winter that may be a portent of global warming. Rare December pollen is troubling asthma sufferers as far north as Scandinavia and sales of winter clothing are down. From Ottawa to Moscow, temperatures have been way above average at the start of the winter in the northern hemisphere -- with exceptions including a rare snowstorm in Dallas, Texas.
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3rd December 2006 |
MPs urge 'climate change' budget - BBC News
UK: MPs are urging Gordon Brown to put climate change at the heart of his pre-Budget report next week.
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3rd December 2006 |
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Tipping Point - Times of India
China: This spring, the State Environmental Protection Administration produced the country's first official estimate of GDP adjusted downward for environmental losses. According to these calculations, it would cost $84 billion to clean up the pollution produced in 2004, or 3 per cent of GDP for that year. But more realistic estimates put environmental damage at 8-13 per cent of China's GDP growth each year, which means that China has lost almost everything it has gained since the late 1970s due to pollution.
"China is dangerously near a crisis point. The country's enormous environmental debt will have to be paid, one way or another. China must exercise the foresight needed to begin paying this debt now, when it is manageable, rather than allowing it to accumulate and, ultimately, threaten to bankrupt us all."
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2nd December 2006 |
A Blame Game China Needs to Stop - Washington Post
Last month the International Energy Agency announced that China would probably surpass the United States as the world's largest contributor of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by 2009, more than a full decade earlier than anticipated. This forecast could spur China to adopt tough new energy and environmental standards, but it probably won't.
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2nd December 2006 |
Eco-catastrophe: The Cairngorms - The Independent
UK: Winter is coming again to Britain's largest National Park. But life in the Cairngorms is changing with alarming speed. Rising temperatures are having dramatic effects on flora and fauna. So is this spectacular region facing its greatest eco-catastrophe since the Ice Age? Peter Marren reports
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2nd December 2006 |
Hydropower: a greenhouse gas culprit? - SciDev.Net
Hydropower plants have long been a byword for clean energy. But researchers warn that tropical reservoirs might release more greenhouse gases than fossil-fuel power stations.
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2nd December 2006 |
A Dream Blown Away - Washington Post
Climate Change Already Has a Chilling Effect on Where Americans Can Build Their Homes
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2nd December 2006 |
Cameron climate policy 'too soft' - BBC News
UK: Tory leader David Cameron is being pressed to adopt tougher targets to deal with climate change, the BBC has learned.
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2nd December 2006 |
Data hosting heads north as climate hots up - Sunday Herald
Peak summer temperatures in London are now 2C higher on average than they were 30 years ago, driving server-hosting business out of the city to cooler climes in Scotland. Data centres in the southeast of England are finding that the cost of keeping server rooms cool has soared as the average temperature and electricity prices rise. Servers are also becoming more powerful and generate more heat.
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2nd December 2006 |
Global warming to drive winters out of Bangkok - People's Daily
Bangkok would have little chance of experiencing a cool season in the next four decades as the capital's temperature continues to rise due to an "urban heat island" and global warming, experts said.
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2nd December 2006 |
US Democrats mull climate change - BBC News
The issue of climate change and global warming hardly registered on the political radar in the United States during the recent Congressional elections.
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2nd December 2006 |
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Heavy rainstorms more frequent in Indian monsoon - New Scientist
Heavy rainstorms have become a more common feature of the Indian monsoon over the past 50 years, according to new research. At the same time, moderate rainfall has become rarer.
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1st December 2006 |
Elder's death blamed on changing climate - CBC News
Canada: Fort Simpson residents say the drowning of well-known elder James Isaiah on Tuesday is likely related to the strange snow and ice conditions this year.
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1st December 2006 |
Skip the toilet, save the planet, says airline - Guardian Unlimited
Chinese Southern Airlines hopes to reduce costs with the new policy because it estimates that a single flush at 30,000 feet uses a litre of fuel, the Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. "The energy used in one flush is enough for an economical car to run at least 10km," pilot Liu Zhiyuan was quoted as saying.
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1st December 2006 |
Forests keep active in old age - Nature
Old-growth forests can keep on squirreling away carbon from the atmosphere long after they have reached maturity, a study suggests. The discovery runs counter to the theory that established forests, although valuable stores of carbon, will not help to alleviate the greenhouse effect because they are already 'full' of carbon.
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1st December 2006 |
Revkin rockin' - GristMill
Worldchanging has a great interview with Andy Revkin, science/environment report for The New York Times.
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1st December 2006 |
Bush v. Gore's Movie - TomPaine.com
USA: After yesterday's oral arguments, it's still unclear whether the 12 states—and environmental advocates who are rooting for them—will prevail in their bid to get the Supreme Court to force the federal government to classify C02 emissions as pollutants and therefore subject to regulation. "The justices are perhaps deciding, after all," wrote Slate's Dahlia Lithwick, "the most urgent scientific question facing the planet: They are deciding Bush v. Gore's Movie."
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1st December 2006 |
Government spends £1bn to go green - The Times
The British Government is planning to spend £1 billion replacing 78,000 ministerial and civil service vehicles under a programme to cut costs and reduce carbon emissions from its fleet by 15 per cent.
[..er, but what about the emissions that are caused by manufacturing 78,000 vehicles?]
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1st December 2006 |
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US threatens legal action over carbon emissions proposals - Guardian Unlimited
The EU is heading for a legal showdown with the US and Asia over plans by the European commission to bring all international flights to and from Europe into its carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS), its main weapon for fighting climate change.
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30th November 2006 |
Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars - UN
Cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases, as measured in CO2 equivalent, than transportation, and smarter production methods, including improved animal diets to reduce enteric fermentation and consequent methane emissions, are urgently needed, according to a new United Nations report released today.
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30th November 2006 |
Cold Likely Not Halting Canada Pine Beetle Spread - Planet Ark
Canada: The Arctic front that has locked Western Canada in an early winter deep-freeze, has apparently not been harsh enough to kill an insect infestation munching through the region's forests.
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30th November 2006 |
The End of Ingenuity - New York Times
How much energy does it take to get some energy? "...we really need to start thinking hard about how our societies — especially those that are already very rich — can maintain their social and political stability, and satisfy the aspirations of their citizens, when we can no longer count on endless economic growth."
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30th November 2006 |
Green party 'has arrived' after finishing 2nd in byelection - CBC News
Canada: Green Leader Elizabeth May sounded victorious Tuesday, saying her second-place finish in the federal byelection in London North Centre had won the party a place on Canada's political map.
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30th November 2006 |
Climate change sceptics lose vital argument - New Scientist
Marine fossils show "Little Ice Age" was a regional effect caused by slowdown in gulfstream and thus does not show up in the global "hockey stick" graph.
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30th November 2006 |
Leader: climate change - FT
"One expects an estate agent to overprice a property so there is room to be beaten down. But it is depressing to see European governments do the same with their carbon emission quotas. The European Commission is therefore right to accept no nonsense, and insist on lower targets, because the credibility of carbon trading is now at stake."
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30th November 2006 |
Leading article: The battleground broadens - The Independent
"Legal action is establishing itself as another outlet for pressure on our governments to act. In a country as litigious as America, this is no small consideration."
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30th November 2006 |
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Climate 'altering UK marine life' - BBC News
The biodiversity and productivity of seas around the UK could already be suffering the consequences of climate change, a report has concluded.
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29th November 2006 |
Scientist predicts Britain will triumph over global warming - The Times
The days of empire may be gone but global warming will make Britain the centre of the civilised world once again, according to James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia theory, which views the world as a self-sustaining organic system.
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29th November 2006 |
Grain drain - Guardian Unlimited
The world is increasingly turning to ethanol made from corn to power its cars. A good thing you might think, except when it means making a choice between providing green fuel and food. Lester R Brown investigates
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29th November 2006 |
Human waste used to create green fuel - Guardian Unlimited
A Canadian company is creating an alternative green fuel from a new source of energy that was under our noses all along - human sewage.
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29th November 2006 |
Climate Lawsuits May Surge if Humans Blamed - Planet Ark
A 2007 UN report with stronger evidence that humans are causing global warming is likely to spur more lawsuits around the world such as a case to be heard by the US Supreme Court on Wednesday, a legal expert said.
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29th November 2006 |
Remember the date: it's decision day on Earth - The Times
Today one the most important decisions about the planet’s future for years to come will be made. José Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, will announce the caps on emissions that it will impose on its member states from 2008 to 2012. Around the world, from California to Australia, from New York to Japan, politicians, businesses and opinion formers are watching to see whether we Europeans have the conviction to make the system that prices carbon and punishes polluters work properly.
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29th November 2006 |
Massive ice shelf 'may collapse without warning' - New Zealand Herald
The Ross Ice Shelf, a massive piece of ice the size of France, could break off without warning causing a dramatic rise in sea levels, warn New Zealand scientists working in Antarctica.
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29th November 2006 |
FACTBOX-U.S. climate change lawsuit part of wider trend - AlertNet
An environmental case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday is the latest in a growing number of legal disputes linked to climate change around the world.
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29th November 2006 |
You can't conduct an orchestra with an invisible hand - Gristmill
You can't conduct an orchestra with an invisible hand: The problem with carbon taxes
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29th November 2006 |
Ambrose slammed for snubbing environment committee - again - CBC News
For the second time this month, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has cancelled an appearance at a parliamentary committee on global warming, leaving critics to suggest the government is in disarray on the issue.
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29th November 2006 |
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Gaia scientist Lovelock predicts planetary wipeout - Alertnet
The earth has a fever that could boost temperatures by 8 degrees Celsius making large parts of the surface uninhabitable and threatening billions of peoples' lives. "Almost all of the systems that have been looked at are in positive feedback ... and soon those effects will be larger than any of the effects of carbon dioxide emissions from industry and so on around the world," - James Lovelock
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28th November 2006 |
Carbon emissions show sharp rise - BBC News
The rise in humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide has accelerated sharply, according to a new analysis. The Global Carbon Project says that emissions were rising by less than 1% annually up to the year 2000, but are now rising at 2.5% per year.
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28th November 2006 |
Science a la Joe Camel - Washington Post
USA: An offer of 50,000 free DVDs to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) for educators to use in their classrooms is turned down. Could it be because one of their supporters is Exxon?
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28th November 2006 |
China Takes Over Carbon Market - IPS
China stands to benefit from the booming global greenhouse gas market. Foreign investors are flocking to pay Chinese energy companies and factories to reduce pollution instead of spending far more to cut emissions at home.
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28th November 2006 |
Earthshakers: the top 100 green campaigners of all time - Guardian Unlimited
To help celebrate its tenth anniversary, a panel of experts listed its 100 greatest eco-heroes of all time. And it does mean all time: St Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) is there, as is Siddartha Gautama Buddha, who died in 483BC.
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28th November 2006 |
Wildlife warning as autumn temperatures hit new high - Guardian Unlimited
Environment campaigners today issued new warnings about the impact of climate change on Britain's wildlife as figures showed this autumn is almost certain to be the warmest on record.
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28th November 2006 |
Nuclear report may lead to carbon tax - The Age
Australia: Finance Minister Nick Minchin says the government will consider a carbon tax on industry if other countries introduce carbon pricing as part of a global agreement to cut emissions.
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28th November 2006 |
Should we care about global warming? - The Hindu
India: The argument against putting pressure on India and China is that they were not responsible for the problem, so they should not be forced to slow down. While 15 years ago this argument had some validity, today we need to re-examine it.
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28th November 2006 |
Global Warming Student Speakout - Top 50 Ideas - Google
Google recently partnered with Global SchoolNet to invite teachers and students to use Google Docs & Spreadsheets collaborative software in a project to brainstorm strategies for combating global warming. Children of all ages from more than 80 schools around the world participated, and on November 27th we took out a full-page ad in USA Today to put their ideas in the spotlight.
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28th November 2006 |
Al Gore Interview: "It Is Not Too Late to Stop This Crisis" - National Geographic
It's been six months since the surprise hit movie and book An Inconvenient Truth transformed Al Gore from the man who, as he puts it, "used to be the next President of the United States" to global warming's arch enemy. Now, as the DVD hits holiday shelves, the former U.S. Vice President tells National Geographic News podcast correspondent Patty Kim whether he'll run for President in 2008, how you can fight climate change, whether he practices what he preaches, and yes, whether he'll grow back the beard.
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28th November 2006 |
Millions of jelly creatures land - BBC News
UK: Millions of small dead jellyfish-like creatures have been blown ashore on to a Carmarthenshire beach. Experts say there is debate that climate change is sending them further north than they used to go
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28th November 2006 |
Could Global Warming Be Crushing Blow to Crocodiles? - PhysOrg.Com
With global temperatures generally on the rise, crocodiles may have a harder time finding mates. For crocodiles, gender is not determined genetically, but rather by embryo temperature during incubation, notes Earthwatch-supported scientist Dr. Alison Leslie, of South Africa’s University of Stellenbosch.
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28th November 2006 |
EU Frowns on German CO2 Plans for New Factories - Planet Ark
Germany's plan to give new industrial plants built between 2008 and 2012 unlimited rights to emit carbon dioxide (CO2) contradicts the European Union's emissions trading scheme, the EU executive said on Monday.
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28th November 2006 |
And For the Rest of the Century’s Weather…. - Newsweek
A new study predicts some wet and wild climate changes in the decades ahead.
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28th November 2006 |
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Council set to reject Stansted expansion - Guardian Unlimited
UK: The dangers of climate change will be used this week as a reason to ditch a plan to double passenger numbers at London Stansted airport, the home of Ryanair.
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27th November 2006 |
Canada could be hurt by Kyoto retreat - CBC
Canada's repudiation of its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol could harm its economy in coming years, warns the head of the United Nations Environment Program.
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27th November 2006 |
Spain To Cut 16 Percent Of CO2 Rights In New Plan - Planet Ark
Spain said on Friday it would cut 16 percent off industry's greenhouse gas emissions quotas from 2008-12 in the second phase of the European Union's carbon trading scheme, in line with guidance given in July.
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27th November 2006 |
Greenhouse emission rate doubles - Sydney Morning Herald
Global efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions have had little impact with the rate of emissions more than doubling since the 1990s.
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27th November 2006 |
Greens tip two upper house wins - The Age
Australia: GREG Barber, the Greens candidate likely to become the first elected to State Parliament, wasted no time yesterday saying he would introduce a bill to tackle Victoria's greenhouse gas emissions in a reshaped parliament.
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27th November 2006 |
Climate Change Clues in Sky - PhysOrg.Com
Scientists are peering into the clouds near the top of the world, trying to solve a mystery and learn something new about global warming. The mystery is the droplets of water in the clouds. With the North Pole just 685 miles away, they should be frozen, yet more of them are liquid than anyone expected. See also: The sky IS falling - RealClimate
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27th November 2006 |
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British coast faces 2ft rise in sea levels - The Times
BRITAIN’S coasts and oceans are being changed for ever by rising sea levels, bigger waves and stronger storms, a government report will warn this week.
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26th November 2006 |
Europe accepts its role as the green pioneer of the world - Guardian Unlimited
The EU will not put the challenge of tackling global warming in the 'too difficult' pile, says European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, who will tomorrow present UK bosses with his arguments for vital groundbreaking action
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26th November 2006 |
On the Move to Outrun Climate Change - Washington Post
As the Bush administration debates much of the world about what to do about global warming, butterflies and ski-lift operators, polar bears and hydroelectric planners are on the move.
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26th November 2006 |
Labor Party says Australian state election win signals voters concern about climate change - IHT
Australia: Australia's center-left Labor Party affirmed its hold over state politics this weekend with a historic third-term victory they say was a referendum on Prime Minister John Howard's climate change policies.
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26th November 2006 |
The Past a Warning for the Future - IPS
A prolonged drought in East Africa in the 1890s not only killed tens of thousands of the native Maasai people, it also reshaped the ecological and political landscape -- this according to new research published in the current issue of the 'African Journal of Ecology'.
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26th November 2006 |
Climate in the Court - Washington Post
ON WEDNESDAY, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in what could prove to be one of the most fateful environmental cases in a generation -- or not, depending on what the justices do with it. Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency is a challenge by states and environmental groups to the Bush administration's refusal to regulate greenhouse gases as pollution.
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26th November 2006 |
Why cut emissions if India's are on the up? - Guardian Unlimited
India: The subcontinent's boom has raised environmental alarms. But it could prove a wake-up call for the west, says Lucy Siegle
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26th November 2006 |
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Brown refuses to tax passengers off planes - Guardian Unlimited
UK: Always hobbled by 'political viability', Gordon Brown will adopt a softly-softly approach to taxes on air travel in next month's pre-budget report as the government seeks to fulfil its ambitious pledges on tackling climate change without a confrontation with popular cut-price carriers.
See also: Brown 'to target 4x4s and flights'
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25th November 2006 |
Energy Firms Come to Terms With Climate Change - Washington Post
USA: While the political debate over global warming continues, top executives at many of the nation's largest energy companies have accepted the scientific consensus about climate change and see federal regulation to cut greenhouse gas emissions as inevitable.
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25th November 2006 |
Visiting Brit writer rips Canadians for contributing to climate change - Vancouver Courier
"I think if I were a Canadian I would be insulted by some of the things this government has been saying. Because it's been speaking as if the Canadian people are stupid. It's been treating them like imbeciles. For a start we have Rona Ambrose say we are making the Kyoto protocol obligations, but not its targets. Well the only obligation of the Kyoto protocols are the targets!" -George Monbiot
See also: Ottawa planning more cuts to climate-change programs and Report confirms Tory's green goals unreachable
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25th November 2006 |
George Monbiot brings doom then hope to Vancouver - The Republic
Canada: George Monbiot brings doom then hope to Vancouver, but like Robert Fisk and Noam Chomsky who came to Vancouver before him, he does hold out one hope for the future: us '
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25th November 2006 |
Met Office predicts hottest Autumn for 300 years - This Is London
Forecasters claim that temperatures for the combined period of September, October and November have not been as high since 1731.
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25th November 2006 |
Global warming fuels fungal toad-killer - New Scientist
The first evidence in Europe of a species decline from a disease linked to climate change has been shown, researchers say.
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25th November 2006 |
Hot Supreme Court Battle Brewing - ABC
The Supreme Court is set to enter the debate on global warming for the first time next week when 12 states and several environmental groups argue that the Bush administration should regulate the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from new motor vehicles.
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25th November 2006 |
The personal carbon trading system - The Republic
Canada: The personal carbon trading system - It’s the best idea for lowering the national rate of greenhouse gas emissions
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25th November 2006 |
German environment minister: more cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions needed - IHT
Germany's environment minister proposed Friday deeper cuts to the nation's carbon dioxide emissions as part of efforts to combat global warming.
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25th November 2006 |
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Brown attacked as revenue from green taxes falls to its lowest level - The Independent
Doubt was cast on Gordon Brown's green credentials yesterday after figures showed that environmental taxes had fallen to their lowest level as a share of government revenue for at least 18 years. Environmental campaigners said the figures showed the Government needed to follow up its tough talk about the Stern report on climate change with action.
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24th November 2006 |
US "will miss" window to tackle climate change - Environmental Finance
US senator Jeff Bingaman has warned that the US will not be able to take sufficient action to curb its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the timeframe scientists say is necessary.
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24th November 2006 |
Ask the experts: Averting climate change - FT
Fly less, pay more: what are individuals really prepared to do to prevent climate change, and how effective are these measures? A panel of experts answer questions.
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24th November 2006 |
Secret plan to impose EU-wide carbon limit - The Independent
Europe should set a new, unilateral, target for cutting CO2 emissions, agree legally binding plans to boost renewable energy and bring cars into its carbon trading scheme, according to a European Commission document.
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24th November 2006 |
Blind to the clean-and-green fallacies - The Age
The fallacy of protecting the economy at the expense of the environment: "the economy exists in the environment; it is not something that is somehow separate from it."
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24th November 2006 |
Thanksgiving’s Moveable Feast - New York Times
USA: Global Warming is pushing foodcrops further north.
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24th November 2006 |
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Calif. Cities Reject Coal-Fired Power - Washington Post
USA: Southern California is gambling its future power needs on its constant sunshine, wind and the ability of engineers to effectively harness those and other alternative energy sources. Officials in Pasadena, Anaheim and several other large cities notified the Intermountain Power Agency this week that they would not be renewing their contracts for cheap, coal-fired power.
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23rd November 2006 |
The paralysis of creation - Guardian Unlimited
In the face of global warming, we must thaw our imaginations to stage and map the future
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23rd November 2006 |
Defense Agency Aims For Supercomputers That Can Predict Climate Change - Information Week
The U.S. Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency has tapped IBM and Cray Inc. to build the next generation of supercomputers that could be used to accurately predict changes in earth's climate, model entire biological systems, and perform other tasks that are beyond current, state-of-the-art machines. [...is someone in the US establishment taking global warming seriously after all?]
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23rd November 2006 |
Hong Kong 'climate change threat' - BBC News
A leading Hong Kong think-tank has released the first study examining the likely impact of climate change on Hong Kong and the Pearl River delta.
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23rd November 2006 |
Climate: the market’s Achilles heel - Down To Earth
International Co-operation essential to stop global warming: "Ultimately, climate change is the true globaliser. It forces our world to come together not just to make short-term profits for some, but long-term economic and ecological benefits for all. Let us continue to discuss how this can be done. "
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Biofuels: Turning petroleum addicts into alcoholics? - EurActiv
The Environmental Law Institute in Washington warns against the US championing ethanol as an alternative fuel. It says that subsidies under the US Clean Air Act have made ethanol production immensely profitable in the US even though it is more costly and performs worse than gasoline. Moreover, it says subsidisation in the US has “distorted the market for renewable fuels”.
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23rd November 2006 |
In Antarctica's Dry Valleys, worms offer clues to alarming changes in ecosystem - IHT
Soils hold more carbon than trees and the atmosphere combined. "...the amount of carbon dioxide released by soil invertebrates and microbes is greater than 10 times the annual carbon emissions from fossil fuels." - yet scientists know little about the way organisms in the soil who recycle carbon will be affected by climate change.
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23rd November 2006 |
End Big Oil Aid To Africa - TomPaine.com
Climate change is “the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen,” and it will have massive costs for the global economy. Some of the underlying reasons for this market failure are the perverse incentives and signals created by subsidies to the oil industry. The time has come to end oil aid and focus instead on promoting renewables and energy efficiency.
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23rd November 2006 |
Give us non-polluting energy — starting now - The Times
Fusion won't save us but that doesn't mean governments shouldn't commit more money to energy research.
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23rd November 2006 |
Climate Shock! The Untold Truth About Global Warming. - Infoshop News
As an independent Australian researcher and scientist I have recently turned my attention to investigating and bringing out the truth about Global Warming. What I found shocked me. Climate change is happening now and there is no escaping it.
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23rd November 2006 |
Beck gives thumbs down to penguin movie Happy Feet "an animated version of An Inconvenient Truth" - MediaMatters
Take your kids to see "Happy Feet".
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23rd November 2006 |
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The Thirteenth Tipping Point - Mother Jones
"In 2004, JOHN SCHELLNHUBER, distinguished science adviser at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the United Kingdom, identified 12 global-warming tipping points, any one of which, if triggered, will likely initiate sudden, catastrophic changes across the planet. Odds are you've never heard of most of these tipping points, even though your entire genetic legacy—your children, your grandchildren, and beyond—may survive or not depending on their status. Why is this? Is it likely that 12 asteroids on known collision courses with earth would garner such meager attention?"
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22nd November 2006 |
Silence from US as clock ticks loud over Kyoto - Kyoto2
Already people are drawing up their ideas of what Kyoto 2 might look like...
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22nd November 2006 |
Blair goes online to talk green - BBC News
The debate the government promised on the climate bill has begun - online: A conversation between Tony Blair and the Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper about the government's climate change bill has been posted on the environmental group's website.
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22nd November 2006 |
Barroso: EU Must be Tougher on CO2 Emissions - Planet Ark
The European Commission must take a tougher approach to limiting the emission of gases like carbon dioxide blamed for climate change, Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Union executive, said on Tuesday.
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22nd November 2006 |
Peter Bradford: Nuclear not the answer - The Australian
Australia's power push won't stop global warming
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22nd November 2006 |
NASA scientist wins WWF conservation medal - WWF
Renowned climate scientist Dr James Hansen is this year’s recipient of the Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal, awarded annually by WWF for outstanding service to the environment.
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22nd November 2006 |
'World Must Share Blame for Industrial Pollution' - IPS
Repeatedly cited for pollution, China has launched a counter-attack saying it is mainly because the country has been the world's workshop in the past twenty years, producing and exporting goods for a multitude of nations, while keeping the waste and ecological degradation for itself.
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22nd November 2006 |
World Has Under Decade to Act on Climate Crisis - Planet Ark
The world has less than a decade to take decisive action in the battle to beat global warming or risk irreversible change that will tip the planet towards catastrophe, a leading US climate scientist said on Tuesday.
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22nd November 2006 |
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Will Forests Adapt to a Warmer World? -IPS
Deforestation remains the greatest current threat to the world's forests, claiming 10 to 15 million hectares of tree-covered areas every year, but climate change may represent a bigger challenge in the long term, scientists say.
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21st November 2006 |
Scheme to cut 'carbon footprint' - BBC News
A scheme designed to help companies measure the total amount of carbon emissions from their goods and services has been launched by the Carbon Trust. The "cradle-to-grave" initiative will provide businesses with a profile of products' pollution, from the sourcing of raw materials through to disposal.
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21st November 2006 |
Avery and Singer: Unstoppable hot air - RealClimate
Excellent point / counterpoint argument tool for use discussions with sceptics.
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21st November 2006 |
Maasai leader disimisses Climate Change conference in Nairobi - Kenya London News
A Kenyan Maasai leader, Sharon Looremeta fronting the environmental group ‘Practical Action’, has dismissed the conference participants and diplomats negotiating over what to do about global warming in Nairobi at the Climate Change Forum, calling them ‘Climate change tourists’. ‘You come here to look at some climate impacts and some poor people suffering, and then climb on your airplanes and head home.’
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21st November 2006 |
2007 Crucial in Global Warming Battle - Planet Ark
Next year will be crucial if political inertia is not to have a potentially catastrophic effect on efforts to battle global warming, British Environment Minister David Miliband said on Monday.
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21st November 2006 |
Warming Shift May Make Warming A hill Priority - Tom Toles
Cartoon
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21st November 2006 |
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Global Warming on Trial - WSJ
USA: Can GHG's be reduced by 'public nuisance legislation'? Critics of public nuisance suits accuse plaintiffs of improperly using the courts to push through regulatory or legislative change. Supporters argue that the courts are the right vehicle through which to vindicate past allegedly harmful behavior.
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20th November 2006 |
Scrap the income tax - and start taxing SUVs - Augusta Free Press
Taxes can be a powerful incentive to make people change their behavior. For example, high taxes on cigarettes in certain areas have helped smokers cut back, while mortgage-tax breaks have helped generations of middle-income families afford their first house. So you have to wonder why America still taxes so many things that are good for us while giving us a duty-free pass to inflict long-term damage on the economy and the environment.
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20th November 2006 |
Runaway Climate Change: A Frightening Lack Of Leadership - Cuntercurrents
Why the prospect if irreversible runaway climate change is real, how it might happen and what we should be doing right now to prevent it.
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20th November 2006 |
Nobel Laureates Back Case Pushing Bush to Act on Global Warming - Bloomberg
Environmentalists concerned about global warming want the U.S. Supreme Court to turn up the heat on President George W. Bush.
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20th November 2006 |
Over 1,500 Young Evangelicals Take On Global Warming Issue - Christian Today
College students representing more than 1,500 young evangelicals from 41 US states have presented a statement urging government and religious leaders to take definitive action against global warming.
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20th November 2006 |
Europeans ready to save the world on the cheap - FT
The Harris Interactive poll of European attitudes illustrates a fundamental truth about energy policy: it is easier to see what the problem is than to do anything about it.
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20th November 2006 |
Slow talks could leave climate deal in 'tatters'
A new global agreement to tackle climate change may be scuppered by cumbersome international bodies and a lack of political will, David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, fears.
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20th November 2006 |
Christmas lunch will fly 84,000 miles to your table - The Times
How far will your Christmas dinner have travelled this year before it touches down on your plate? It could, if you are not careful, be nearly four times round the world.
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20th November 2006 |
Washington Rejects Senators' Calls on Climate Caps - Planet Ark
George W. Bush's administration on Friday rejected calls by top US Democratic senators to cap greenhouse gas emissions, saying the president's policies were working better than those of many other industrialised nations.
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20th November 2006 |
A Cool Calculus of Global Warming - Project Syndicate
"We have but one planet, and should treasure it. Global warming is a risk that we simply cannot afford to ignore anymore." - Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank, Joseph E. Stiglitz
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20th November 2006 |
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Tiny Tuvalu packs a powerful punch - Sydney Morning Herald
Imagine the world knew global warming was about to destroy 43 nations - " but not which 43", Enele Sopoaga, Tuvalu's UN ambassador, told the summit on Friday. If that were the case, "we suggest that all parties would be striving for big reductions in greenhouse gases".
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19th November 2006 |
Ought of Africa: A report from the U.N. climate conference - Gristmill
Gary Braasch reports from the latest U.N. climate-change convention in Nairobi, Kenya. Braasch has been photographing and reporting on climate change since 1999. His forthcoming book, Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World, will be published by the University of California Press next year.
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19th November 2006 |
'Smart' homes to eat their rubbish - Guardian Unlimited
A new generation of 'smart' buildings, which can consume their own rubbish and power themselves, is needed to help Britain withstand the shock of global warming, the government's chief scientist will warn in a call for an end to a culture of waste.
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19th November 2006 |
China backs down on global tax - Courier Mail
Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China, revealed at the G20 meeting in Melbourne yesterday that China's position had changed. Mr Zhou said China now backed a pricing mechanism for carbon dioxide to be included in the global energy pricing regime. China's stance was supported by France, which has lobbied for a carbon tax. Carbon dioxide emissions should be factored into the cost of energy, Mr Zhou said.
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19th November 2006 |
UN climate pact unlikely until after Bush - Reuters
This week's U.N. climate talks kept a plan for fighting global warming on track for expansion beyond 2012, but breakthroughs look unlikely before U.S. President George W. Bush steps down, experts said on Saturday.
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19th November 2006 |
Clean Air Act treats Canadians like 'idiots,' says author Monbiot - CBC News
George Monbiot goes Canada to 'help the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper comprehend the enormity of the problem.'
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19th November 2006 |
G-20 Chiefs Discuss Climate Change - Businessweek
Finance chiefs from 20 of the world's most powerful economies added climate change to their list of issues at an annual gathering that ended Sunday, expressing concern about the problem but conceding there is division on how to deal with it.
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19th November 2006 |
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Nairobi climate talks end in deal - BBC News
The UN climate talks in Nairobi have ended with agreement reached on all outstanding matters.
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18th November 2006 |
World will end in 2 to 3 generations, 72 per cent of British Columbians fear - Vancouver Sun
Canada: Nearly three-quarters of British Columbians believe life as we know it will end in another two or three generations unless drastic and immediate action is taken to curb global warming, according to the results of an exclusive Vancouver Sun poll.
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18th November 2006 |
A disturbing idea: how many more butterfly days before Christmas? - The Times
Seeing a butterfly in November provokes a feeling of 'ely'.
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18th November 2006 |
Failure of Political Will at Climate Talks, says Tearfund - Christian Today
The failure to produce either a plan to agree a global target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions or an adequate timetable to reach agreement on cuts at the UN conference in Nairobi demonstrates a "failure of political will," says Tearfund.
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18th November 2006 |
Little progress at climate summit - Guardian Unlimited
Environmental campaigners expressed anger last night after a UN climate change conference in Nairobi seemed to be about to end without major breakthroughs.
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18th November 2006 |
Blair: Who says I'm not green? - The Independent
Britain is seeking international agreement on a global target for stabilisation of greenhouse gases, which would halt the progress of global warming, Tony Blair has told The Independent.
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18th November 2006 |
On a mission to the stars - Guardian Unlimited
'Finally, someone as shallow as me': so thought comedian Larry David when he first met his wife Laurie. So how did she reinvent herself as America's foremost ecological campaigner? Ed Pilkington finds out.
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18th November 2006 |
Polar Bears Go Hungry as Icy Habitat Melts Away - IPS
The iconic animal of the frozen north, the polar bear, is starving to death because climate change is melting the Arctic Ocean sea ice.
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18th November 2006 |
U.S. seen adopting EU-style carbon trade in future - Reuters
Although it will never join the Kyoto agreement to curb global warming, the United States is likely to adopt a carbon trading system like the European Union's in future, a seminar in Madrid heard on Friday.
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18th November 2006 |
Global delinquency - Rutland Herald
One of the most important changes that may result from the shift in power in Congress may be the new focus that Congress will be able to give to the problem of global warming.
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18th November 2006 |
Time for a new vision of global co-operation - The Age
Sixty years ago, far-sighted statesmen rebuilt the world economy out of the ruins of war. As they put in place the new international economic order, they demonstrated by their actions that international co-operation was the best way to solve the economic challenges of the postwar world."At the same time, we must find global solutions to climate change."
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18th November 2006 |
Global warming too arcane for currency players - Reuters
Global warming is likely to impact economies and currencies but in ways that few can foresee given the phenomenon has not happened before in recent history.
[How to get (or stay) rich as our planet frizzles]
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18th November 2006 |
Inhofe: Don’t Worry About Global Warming Because ‘God’s Still Up There’ - Think Progress
In an interview with Fox and Friends this morning, outgoing Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works James Inhofe (R-OK) argued that the current wave of unprecedented warming is due to “natural changes.” “God’s still up there,” Inhofe said, and to the extent there is warming going on, it is “due to the sun.”
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18th November 2006 |
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Ministers agree Kyoto climate review plan-Germany - AlertNet
Environment ministers at U.N. climate talks agreed on Friday to a review, ending in 2008, of the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol for fighting global warming, in a big step towards breaking deadlock at the meeting, a minister said.
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17th November 2006 |
Stern seeks international united front - The Age
In his only Australian interview from Nairobi, Sir Nicholas Stern politely urges John Howard to embrace Kyoto. James Button reports.
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17th November 2006 |
The Trillion-Dollar Question - Grist
What's the real cost of climate change, and where do all those numbers come from?
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17th November 2006 |
Climate threat to mobile species - BBC News
Some of the world's most spectacular migratory animals will be severely affected by climate change, according to a new United Nations report.
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17th November 2006 |
New EU states flouting green spending rules - Guardian Unlimited
The EU's new members from eastern and central Europe are flouting guidelines by spending a "paltry" amount of their funds from Brussels on climate-friendly schemes, according to a report.
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17th November 2006 |
Turn up the heat - Guardian Unlimited
Leader: "Climate change has already led to lots of talk. Now it may be starting produce action as well. The Queen's speech included plans to legislate against rising carbon emissions, Britain's response to what the UN secretary general described this week as "an all-encompassing threat" to the world. In the Commons, all the main parties say they back legislation. So there will be a law. But what it says, and so what it might achieve, remains an open question."
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17th November 2006 |
Global warming: Tibet's lofty glaciers melt away - The Independent
Research by scientists shows that the ice fields on the roof of the world are disappearing faster than anyone thought. By Clifford Coonan
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17th November 2006 |
More than a billion cars to hit the road - Nature
An economic assessment predicts that the number of private cars on the world's roads will skyrocket from today's figure of just over 600 million to between 1.4 and 2.7 billion by 2050, doubling or quadrupling their carbon dioxide emissions.
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17th November 2006 |
FACTBOX - Agreements at UN Climate Talks - Planet Ark
Following are details of agreements reached so far at a Nov. 6-17 UN conference in Nairobi to find ways to step up the fight against global warming beyond 2012, the end of the first period of the UN's Kyoto Protocol:
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17th November 2006 |
Climate Change Is as Serious as WMD - Common Dreams
UN chief Kofi Annan demanded that world leaders give climate change the same priority as they did to wars and to curbing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
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17th November 2006 |
Belgian housewife addresses climate conference - Expatica
At the UN climate change conference in Nairobi Flemish housewife Margaretha Guidone addressed the participating member states. Unknown to the Belgian public until a few weeks ago, Margaretha Guidone became an instant celebrity in Flanders when she managed to persuade the entire Belgian government to go and see Al Gore's documentary on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth".
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17th November 2006 |
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THE DENIAL MACHINE - CBC Fifth Estate
The Denial Machine investigates the roots of the campaign to negate the science and the threat of global warming. It tracks the activities of a group of scientists, some of whom previously consulted for for Big Tobacco, and who are now receiving donations from major coal and oil companies.
Click here to see the whole programme.
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16th November 2006 |
Independent body will monitor cuts but annual climate change targets ruled out - Guardian Unlimited
A long-term commitment to reduce the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 60% by 2050 will be made legally binding, the government confirmed.
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16th November 2006 |
A global stand-off on climate change - Globe & Mail
University of Toronto law professor and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law, Jutta Brunnee, gives globeandmail.com a tour of the Kyoto playing field
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16th November 2006 |
Sea canyons braced for climate change - New Scientist
As global warming increases sea surface temperatures, it could cause major decreases in dense water formation. This could significantly reduce the frequency and intensity of seasonal currents, with huge knock-on effects for the deep-sea ecosystems that depend on them.
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16th November 2006 |
France's Royal Says Nuclear Share Should be Lowered - Planet Ark
France's socialist presidential hopeful Segolene Royal on Wednesday said the high share of nuclear power in the French electricity mix should be gradually lowered to allow a place for more renewable energy.
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16th November 2006 |
American fury at plan to charge £27 green tax on long flights - The Times
Airline passengers would pay up to £27 extra for a return ticket to cover the environmental damage caused by their flights, under European Commission proposals to address climate change.
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16th November 2006 |
Less polar bear cubs surviving in Alaska - Contra Costa Times
Far fewer polar bears cubs are surviving off Alaska's northern coast, a federal government report released Wednesday has concluded.
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16th November 2006 |
How Green Is Your MP? - Rough Guides
UK: The full text of replies from 318 MPs, sent in response to the questions from Rough Guides. The questions were: 1 How important a concern is climate change? 2 What can Britain do to make a difference? 3 What steps do you plan to take (or have you taken), in your constituency, and as an individual?
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16th November 2006 |
No 10 gets ready to resist rebellion over 'toothless' pollution controls - The Times
Downing Street has made an early attempt to face down a backbench rebellion over its flagship Bill on climate change.
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16th November 2006 |
Climate Witnesses - WWF
Real people who have been affected by climate change.
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16th November 2006 |
The truth? 'Nuclear is not the answer' - The Age
Nuclear energy is not the panacea for tackling global warming, says one of the world's most celebrated climate change campaigners, former US vice-president Al Gore.
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16th November 2006 |
Partisan Ambrose speech falls flat at UN Kyoto meeting - Montreal Gazette
''The minister really said nothing new, nothing that changes her government's position that it's not even going to try to meet our Kyoto obligation. She started talking more about Kyoto, but when she's pushed it's clear that she has no intention of actually trying to meet the target.''
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16th November 2006 |
Green thinking: Australia's climate change shame - New Statesman
"If you own land or property anywhere outside the wetter tropical north or cooler Tasmania, get ready to sell it now - preferably to a climate-change denier."
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16th November 2006 |
Charles puts staff on bikes in bid to become 'green prince' - This Is London
Prince Charles has told some of his staff to use bicycles in the fight against global warming. He is even prepared to travel to London by commuter train from a station near Highgrove.
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16th November 2006 |
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Fueling a climate breakthrough - IHT
"If schemes for pricing carbon, and thereby presenting consumers with the true cost of the energy they consume, can be established worldwide, then the process of real change could at last be triggered. Clever juggling of the taxes, although not an overall increase in the tax burden, may be part of the new policy mix. Whatever the methods consumers everywhere would start to pay the full and true cost of fuel and make their decisions accordingly. Without real economic incentives to save energy and invest in cleaner alternatives, long-term hopes for climate change could easily be undermined."
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15th November 2006 |
Climate change blamed for India's monsoon misery - Nature
Monsoon rains in Asia are behaving ever more strangely, often with catastrophic effects, an Indian official has told climate experts at the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) meeting in Beijing
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15th November 2006 |
Climate bill sets carbon target - BBC News
A climate change bill will make the government's long-term goal of a 60% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 a legally binding target.
See also: Why Government insists longer time frame is better - The Independent.
and Labour aims high on CO2 reduction to avoid backbench revolt - Guardian Unlimited
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15th November 2006 |
Annan chides inaction on climate - BBC News
UN chief Kofi Annan has criticised a "frightening lack of leadership" in tackling global warming, at a major UN climate summit in Nairobi.
See also:Annan: Cheaper to Cut Emissions Now - CBS News
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15th November 2006 |
Why the next Congress will be 'greener,' but only by a few shades - CS Monitor
Fiscal restraints and newly elected moderates make radical changes in environmental policy unlikely, activists predict.
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15th November 2006 |
Carbon Neutral: Oxford Word of the Year - OUP
Being carbon neutral involves calculating your total climate-damaging carbon emissions, reducing them where possible, and then balancing your remaining emissions, often by purchasing a carbon offset: paying to plant new trees or investing in “green” technologies such as solar and wind power.
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15th November 2006 |
Small electricity device could cut power consumption in homes - Guardian Unlimited
New smart meters show how many kilowatts of power are being used at any time and work out from that the estimated daily and monthly cost to the household. If the householder turns off a piece of electrical equipment, the meter adjusts the readings so it is possible to calculate exactly how much it costs, for example, to keep a television on standby.
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15th November 2006 |
Big boost to US renewable energy could cost nothing - New Scientist
Switching a large fraction of US energy to renewable sources by 2025 could involve no increase in cost, says an independent US think thank, as long as current price trends hold firm.
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15th November 2006 |
Trading spaces in the sky - Guardian Unlimited
In the light of the recent Stern report, can carbon offsetting really work? Terry Slavin on the controversial business fix to 'save the planet' - and whether western companies are exploiting the developing world
See also: Kyoto Deal on HFC Funding Delayed to 2007 - Planet Ark
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15th November 2006 |
Greens sue Bush administration over global warming report - The Examiner
Environmentalists sued the Bush administration Tuesday for failing to produce a report on global warming's impact on the country's environment, economy and public health.
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15th November 2006 |
It heats. It powers. Is it the future of home energy? - CS Monitor
Residential 'micro-combined-heat-and-power' units are efficient furnaces that create electricity.
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15th November 2006 |
Global warming triggers North Sea temperature rise - PhysOrg.Com
The North Sea's water temperature rose to a record average of 2.4 degrees Celsius in October compared to the same period between 1963-1993 in the latest climate-change spinoff, a new German study found.
[See Mum, I told you it was warmer...]
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15th November 2006 |
Saving Space: Latitude’s not Enough - PhysOrg.Com
According to a recent study in Ecological Monographs, predicting the impact of climate change on organisms is much more complicated than simply looking at species northern and southern range limits.
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15th November 2006 |
People are bonkers - Two examples of the kind of wrong-headedness humans are famous for:
12,000-mile scampi trip condemned - BBC News
Plans to send Scottish seafood on a 12,000-mile trip to Thailand to be peeled before being sold in the UK have been condemned by environmentalists.
Space mirrors could create Earth-like haven on Mars - New Scientist
Mirrors in orbit around Mars could create Earth-like conditions on a small patch of the planet's surface, according to a NASA-funded study.
[...er, how about maintaining an Earth-like haven on EARTH!] -
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15th November 2006 |
Best of the blogs from the Nairobi climate change conference - Climate Change Action
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15th November 2006 |
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It's time to turn up the heat - George Monbiot
'My fear is not that people will stop talking about climate change. My fear is that they will talk us to Kingdom Come.'
Go to this new website about George Monbiot's new book 'Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning'.
Read an extract here. In fact I beg you to please read this extract.
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14th November 2006 |
US climate change efforts 'vital' - BBC News
UK Environment Secretary David Miliband has said it is "absolutely vital" that the US is at the centre of global efforts to overcome climate change.
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14th November 2006 |
Scientists Urge Collaborative Action To Address Effects Of Global Environmental Change - Science Daily
Immediate, collaborative action by governments is necessary to ensure sustainable development in the face of unprecedented global environmental change, according to a statement released by hundreds of scientists attending the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) Open Science Conference on Global Environmental Change: Regional Challenges in Beijing.
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14th November 2006 |
Young People Turn Their Backs on Relationships in Favour of Saving the Planet - Earth Times
UK: More 11-14 year olds are concerned about recycling and climate change than boy/ girlfriends and homework
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14th November 2006 |
Climate change has birds out on a limb - WWF
A new report released today by WWF finds a clear and escalating pattern of climate change impacts on bird species around the world, suggesting a trend towards a major bird extinction from global warming.
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14th November 2006 |
Greenhouse emissions drop by 16% - BBC News
Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 16% since 1990, according to new figures.
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14th November 2006 |
Global warming isolates Canadians in far north - CNN
Aboriginal communities in Ontario's far north are becoming increasingly isolated as rising temperatures melt their winter route to the outside world and impede their access to supplies.
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14th November 2006 |
Chemicals Trapped Between Treaties Undermine Progress on Climate - WBCSD
Environmentalists attending the climate treaty negotiations in Nairobi have called for an immediate freeze in the production of a rapidly increasing greenhouse gas in countries that are receiving billions of dollars under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism to mitigate it effects.
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14th November 2006 |
Environmentalists See Boon in US Congress Power Shift - Planet Ark
US environmentalists see a bonanza for green issues like sustainable energy and the push to mitigate global warming coming with the shift in Congress toward eco-friendly Democrats.
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14th November 2006 |
This is a dazzling debunking of climate change science. It is also wildly wrong - Guardian Unlimited
Deniers are cock-a-hoop at an aristocrat's claims that global warming is a UN hoax. But the physics is bafflingly bad
See also Cuckoo Science - RealClimate
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14th November 2006 |
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Water harvesting touted as cheap, simple response to climate change - The Nation
Africa: A new report cites water harvesting [collecting rainwater] as a key, simple and cheap way for Africa to adapt to climate change and end water problems.
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13th November 2006 |
Sweden tops climate change efforts, U.S. near bottom, environmentalists say - USA Today
Sweden, the United Kingdom and Denmark are doing the most to protect against climate change, but their efforts are not nearly enough, according to a report released Monday by environmental groups.
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13th November 2006 |
Oilsands tapping Canada's freshwater supply dry - Ottawa Citizen
Canada: A study released on Monday by two environmental groups warns that booming expansion of Alberta’s tar sands is putting Canadian freshwater reserves in danger.
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13th November 2006 |
Report to Offer Climate Change Evidence - Forbes
A long-awaited report by an international scientific network will offer much stronger evidence of how man is changing Earth's climate, and should prompt balky governments into action against global warming, the group's chief scientist said Monday.
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13th November 2006 |
France to push coal, carbon taxes in support of Kyoto protocol - Forbes
The French government came out fighting against industrial pollution, saying it would establish a domestic coal tax and push with European partners for a carbon tax on industrial goods from countries that ignore the Kyoto Protocol.
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13th November 2006 |
Ambrose faces pro-Kyoto shadow group at climate talks - Globe & Mail
Opposition MPs and Canadian environmentalists have scheduled a news conference for today in Nairobi to declare that most Canadians continue to support the Kyoto Protocol.
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13th November 2006 |
Canada's waters threatened, report says - Globe & Mail
Canada has some of the world's most extensive water resources, but a new report released today warns that even a modest amount of global warming will reduce flows in the Great Lakes and the Athabasca River enough to crimp hydro-electricity production in Ontario and oil sands development in Alberta.
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13th November 2006 |
Trade Rules May Need Change to Curb Warming - Planet Ark
The rules of the international trade system may need to be altered to tackle climate change and ward off the economic devastation higher temperatures could bring, the European Union's trade chief said on Friday.
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13th November 2006 |
Blair faces revolt over C02 targets - The Independent
Tony Blair faces a major Commons revolt over his refusal to commit Britain to annual cuts in the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.
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13th November 2006 |
Poll delivers blow to government's climate change policy - Guardian Unlimited
UK: Government attempts to be at the forefront of the fight against climate change are undermined today by an opinion poll showing its key energy review document is deemed ineffectual, while critics say some official policies are contradictory.
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13th November 2006 |
Colorado Town Passes First US Carbon Tax - Planet Ark
Voters in a Colorado university town nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains have passed the country's first municipal carbon tax to fight global warming.
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13th November 2006 |
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African nomads to be first people wiped out by climate change - Guardian Unlimited
Kenya's herdsmen are facing extinction as global warming destroys their lands
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12th November 2006 |
Who will save the Earth? - Guardian Unlimited
George Monbiot's 'manifesto for action' is the most essential reading in a fresh crop of four books on climate change, says Robin McKie
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12th November 2006 |
News analysis: Climate Change - The Independent
In the future we may each have our own personal emissions allowance. When that happens, we will truly have entered the carbon age. Until then, this is how a world of national CO2 targets looks
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12th November 2006 |
From Mosques to Mollusks, No Haven From Rising CO2 - IPS
Three hundred and eighty parts per million. That's the current concentration of carbon dioxide going into your lungs with each breath. Our parents or grandparents' first breaths at birth contained about 290 parts per million (ppm), as it was for everyone born before them.
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12th November 2006 |
Democrats purge climate-change sceptics - The Independent
Environmentalists in the United States say they hope the removal of global-warming sceptics from powerful positions on Capitol Hill will present a new opportunity to force the Bush administration to tackle climate change.
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12th November 2006 |
Britain 'at war' on climate change - Guardian Unlimited
Britain is "at war" on climate change and Labour needs to rally the country into the sort of collective action seen during the Second World War, a former environment minister said.
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12th November 2006 |
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Warm winters 'ruin' currant crop - BBC News
No more Ribena for the kids of the future: A Herefordshire farmer is warning of a shortage of blackcurrant squash and jam claiming global warming has affected his crop. Click to watch the video.
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11th November 2006 |
Protect forests to soak up emissions, says Kew director - Guardian Unlimited
The world must pay to protect tropical rainforests from further destruction if it is to combat rising greenhouse gas emissions, Britain's most eminent plant scientist warned yesterday.
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11th November 2006 |
Melting ice turns up the heat - Sydney Morning Herald
Latest research shows the Earth's climate could change quickly, and violently, writes Fred Pearce.
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11th November 2006 |
Peatlands disappearance of concern - PhysOrg.Com
A report released Friday at a U.N. conference in Kenya indicates clearing peat lands threatens the world's ability to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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11th November 2006 |
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT . . . - Globe & Mail
Book review of "How to Stop the Planet From Burning" by our hero George Monbiot
Another book review: "Panarchy and dystopia"
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11th November 2006 |
Kicking the tires on global warming plans - Toronto Star
Canada: Cameron Smith compars the platforms of the four top candidates for the Liberal leadership on energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
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11th November 2006 |
Charest says Quebec will take Kyoto commitments to Nairobi - Globe & Mail
Canada: Premier Jean Charest says Quebec will defend its own position on the Kyoto protocol at an international conference next week in Nairobi.
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11th November 2006 |
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Carbon emissions rising faster than ever - New Scientist
Far from slowing down, global carbon dioxide emissions are rising faster than before, said a gathering of scientists in Beijing on Friday. Between 2000 and 2005, emissions grew four times faster than in the preceding 10 years, according to researchers at the Global Carbon Project, a consortium of international researchers.
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10th November 2006 |
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10th November 2006 |
Snowballing costs - Guardian Unlimited
Stern's study may underestimate the costs of climate change: there could be more weather variability, a major shift of the Gulf Stream and a flourishing of disease - Nobel Prize winning scientist Joseph Stiglitz.
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10th November 2006 |
Oceans turning acidic, posing threat to sea life, Earth's fragile food chain - Canada.com
The world's oceans are becoming more acidic, which poses a threat to sea life and Earth's fragile food chain, a climate expert said Thursday.
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10th November 2006 |
'Obscenity' of carbon trading - BBC Green Room
If we want to curb climate change, carbon trading won't do, argues Kevin Smith in the Green Room this week. From the Stern Review to Europe's Emissions Trading Scheme, he argues, the aim of reducing emissions has been perverted by neo-liberal dogma and corporate self-interest.
"Market-based mechanisms such as carbon trading are an elaborate shell-game of global creative accountancy that distracts us from the fact that there is no viable "business as usual" scenario."
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10th November 2006 |
Harper 'twiddling his thumbs' on climate change: Graham - CBC News
Canada: Interim Liberal Leader Bill Graham and Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Thursday of "twiddling his thumbs" on climate change as a majority of Canadians say their concerns about the environment continue to increase.
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10th November 2006 |
Miliband urges Bush on climate change - FT
George W. Bush should bury differences with Democrat opponents and lead a "bi-partisan" drive to put the US at the heart of a Kyoto II deal on climate change, according to David Miliband, the UK environment secretary.
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10th November 2006 |
Reef insight on global meltdown - Sydney Morning Herald
The discovery of a fossilised coral reef sitting high and dry at the southern tip of Western Australia has provided a warning that climate change is likely to cause a catastrophic melting of ice and rapid rise in sea level, scientists say.
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10th November 2006 |
Money Matters - Sierra Club Compass
"Among the biggest spenders in every campaign cycle are the oil and energy interests. In California, Big Oil spent nearly $100 million to successfully defeat prop 87, a provision that would have taxed oil companies in the state and directed the revenues to spending on alternative energy. Both Democrats and Republicans get money from the oil and gas sector, of course, but the industry heavily favors the latter. According to CRP, 83 percent of oil and gas dollars this cycle went to GOP candidates."
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10th November 2006 |
Scientists Say Millions Could Flee Rising Seas - Planet Ark
Nations must make plans to help tens of millions of "sea level refugees" if climate change continues to ravage the world's oceans, German researchers said on Thursday.
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10th November 2006 |
Extreme Weather Costs China Billions Each Year - Planet Ark
Droughts, floods and other weather disasters stunt China's economy by up to 6 percent every year, the country's chief meteorologist said on Thursday, warning of the potential costs of global warming for the Asian boom economy.
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10th November 2006 |
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Only a decade left to avoid climate change, says thinktank - Guardian Unlimited
The world has less than a decade to reverse the growth in greenhouse gas emissions if dangerous climate change is to be avoided, according to a report from a thinktank that goes further than the landmark Stern review last week. Yesterday's report from the Institute of Public Policy Research suggests Lord Stern's analysis was too conservative and governments need to move further and faster. To minimise the risk of a 2C rise - seen as the threshold for dangerous climate change - the authors say global carbon dioxide emissions would need to peak between 2010 and 2013.
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9th November 2006 |
Fears of bureaucracy, higher pump prices killed oil tax initiative - Los Angeles Times
California: Worries about pump prices and bureaucracy doomed Proposition 87, an initiative to tax California crude oil and use the revenues to develop alternatives to petroleum based fuels.
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9th November 2006 |
Cuckoo Science - RealClimate
Sleight of hand or slight of mind - Some of the mathematical tricks and fake science used to produce the wonky results so beloved of the anthropogenic warming sceptics.
[Hard sums, for sure, but could come in handy when talking to the 'natural fluctuations insolar radiation' brigade]
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9th November 2006 |
Newcastle calls for cap on coal exports - The Age
Australia: Newcastle City Council has called on the NSW government to cap coal exports through the city's port at present levels to fight climate change.
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9th November 2006 |
EU Rebuffs US Opposition to Aviation in CO2 Plan - Planet Ark
The European Commission will present a proposal by the end of this year to include all flights into and out of the European Union in its carbon trading scheme, rejecting US concerns, an official said on Wednesday.
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9th November 2006 |
Global climate efforts 'woeful'
Efforts to help developing nations adapt to the impacts of climate change have been called "woefully inadequate" by a UN-commissioned report.
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9th November 2006 |
Australia can cut carbon 'without pain' - The Age
Australia can cut its carbon emissions significantly and still maintain a high quality of living for residents, according to a scientific report.
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9th November 2006 |
Climate Change Threatens Agricultural Crisis - Planet Ark
Immediate steps are needed to avert a potential catastrophe as climate change dries up water resources in drought affected areas, hitting poor farmers, a United Nations report said on Thursday
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9th November 2006 |
Legal Opinion Finds Canada in Violation of Kyoto - DeSmogBlog
The attached legal opinion, commissioned by Friends of the Earth and conducted by international legal expert Dr. Roda Verheyen, finds Canada in current violation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (especially the Kyoto agreement), and likely in further violation of "the customary international law principle of good faith."
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9th November 2006 |
Popping the Hot Air Balloon - Monday Magazine
It's that bloke from DeSmogBlog! - our hero Jim Hoggan.
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9th November 2006 |
Kenyan Nobel prize winner launches campaign to plant 1 billion trees in 2007 - CBC News
A Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner called on people around the world to plant one billion trees in the next year, saying Wednesday the effort is a way ordinary citizens can fight global warming.
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9th November 2006 |
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Report demands ethical dimension to climate talks - New Scientist
A report launched at the Nairobi conference today complains that discussion on climate change has been dominated by science and economics, with vital ethical dimensions being left out by governments and scientists alike. There should be a new human right: everyone should be entitled to equal access to the atmosphere.
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8th November 2006 |
As Climate Changes, Can We? - Washington Post
Kofi Annan: "There is still time for all our societies to change course. We must not fear the voters or underestimate their willingness to make large investments and long-term changes. People are yearning to do what it takes to address this threat and move to a safer and sounder model of development. Growing numbers of businesses are eager to do more and await only the right incentives."
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8th November 2006 |
Stern vision 'needs new targets' - BBC News
The Stern Review's recommendations on curbing climate change need a fresh set of global emissions targets, according to a leading environmental economist. "We have collections of allocations which will simply not support meaningful action to reduce emissions".
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8th November 2006 |
On thin ice - Guardian Unlimited
Could 'wild laws' protecting all the Earth's community - including animals, plants, rivers and ecosystems - save our natural world by recognising natural communities and ecosystems as "legal persons" for the purposes of enforcing civil rights?
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8th November 2006 |
Wave-powered 'ducks' could purify seawater - New Scientist
Ocean waves could provide an energy-efficient way to desalinate seawater, say UK researchers. While conventional purification plants have high energy demands, the rocking motion of floating buoys could be used to drive a pump system for desalination.
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8th November 2006 |
The green divide - The Times
Britons exaggerate how green they are, with most mistakenly believing that they are following energy-saving practices, a Times poll shows.
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8th November 2006 |
'Greenland, Antarctica not poles apart' - IOL
Antarctica's ice could eventually start to melt because of localised warming in the far North Atlantic.
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8th November 2006 |
As environment leader, Ambrose has 'good hair' - Calgary Herald
"She might have the best hair of any (conference of parties) president, but she will be remembered as the worst COP president in the history of the climate convention." - description of Rona Ambrose, Canada's underwhelming environment minister
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8th November 2006 |
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How much CO2 emission is too much? - RealClimate
How much CO2 emissions cutting would it take to truly avoid "dangerous human interference in the climate system"?
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7th November 2006 |
Clean energy is 'cost effective' - BBC News
Using cleaner and more efficient energy not only helps the environment but also makes economic sense, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). See also: World risks 'dirty' energy future - BBC News
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7th November 2006 |
EU skeptical on cancelled climate talks - Globe & Mail
Canada: If Prime Minister Stephen Harper cancelled a summit with European leaders to avoid criticism over abandoning Canada's Kyoto commitments, he might have miscalculated, since the Europeans are making no effort to hide their displeasure.
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7th November 2006 |
China to Pass U.S. in 2009 in Emissions - IHT
China will surpass the United States in 2009, nearly a decade ahead of previous predictions, as the biggest emitter of the main gas linked to global warming, the International Energy Agency has concluded in a report to be released Tuesday.
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7th November 2006 |
Committed to Coal, and in a Hurry, Too - New York Times
USA: Even as some utility executives are joining environmentalists in seeing future controls on carbon emissions as inevitable, TXU Corporation is betting that it can beat the consensus, placing a $10 billion wager on 11 new coal power plants that will produce copious amounts of global warming gases for decades to come.
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7th November 2006 |
China Bakery Tycoon Joins Climate Change Fight - Planet Ark
Inspired to fight global warming after a visit to Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, Hong Luo has pledged a battlefund of US$1.25 million over five years to the United Nations to help save what is known as the cradle of the human race.
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7th November 2006 |
EU calls for full power cut probe - BBC News
Strange coincidence? Europe-wide blackout coincides with global climate demonstrations...
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7th November 2006 |
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It's hard to explain, Tom, why we did so little to stop global warming - Guardian Unlimited
Looking back, 40 years on, we were intoxicated with an idea of individual freedom that was little more than greedy egotism. 2046: Possible letter to future a grandson explaing how we failed to prevent the world warming.
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6th November 2006 |
Possible futures and uncovered pasts - Grist Mill
Certainty - and the quest thereof - now there's a can of worms. The excellent Coby Beck opens the lid to show us that the contents are probably not what the GW sceptics would have us believe -
"Say you are at an airport on a very important business trip and they announce there may be some trouble with the plane. The mechanic comes back and tells everybody, "I'm not totally sure what the problem is, but in my expert opinion there is only a 50/50 chance the plane won't make it." Are you telling me you would hop on, thinking "well, this is an important trip, and not only does the expert say everything may well turn out all right, but you know, experts can be wrong and he's not even sure"? I don't think so. Most of us would hightail it out of that terminal if there was even a 1% chance of going down in flames. Would you even roll those dice if your odds were one in a thousand?"
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6th November 2006 |
We'll pay to beat climate crisis: voters - Sydney Morning Herald
Almost two-thirds of Australians are prepared to pay more tax and more for essentials if it helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a Herald/ACNielsen poll.
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6th November 2006 |
Quebec says it won't be muzzled at climate conference - Canada.com
"The federal government can say what it wants, but it's not true that Quebec will stay quiet on the international stage." Quebec Environment Minister Claude Bechard
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6th November 2006 |
Africans are already facing climate change - CS Monitor
Is Darfur the first climate-change conflict? In Kenya, a UN meeting begins Monday to set new fossil-fuel emissions targets.
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6th November 2006 |
Scientific news grim for UN talks on global warming - Yahoo / AFP
An upcoming UN conference on climate change is taking place against a darkening background of scientific news, for barely a week goes by without a major study adding to a tall pile of distressing evidence.
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6th November 2006 |
Global warming is great news – for oil companies - Johann Hari
There is a remarkable untold story unfolding in one of the darkest parts of the planet, showing that Big Oil is actually banking on runaway global warming
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6th November 2006 |
Living beyond our means - Guardian Unlimited
Since the industrial revolution, the West has enjoyed wealth, health and economic growth. And if it seems to good to be true, it is: our very economic model is unsustainable
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6th November 2006 |
Anti-flying protesters target easyJet - Tiscali
Environmental activists blocked the entrance to the headquarters of the company which owns the easyJet brand today, in a protest about the effects of short-haul flights on the climate.
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6th November 2006 |
Climate change produces little shift in corporate attitudes - Guardian Unlimited
The issue of corporate responsibility has moved up the political agenda and was the subject of a high-level seminar hosted by Gordon Brown at No 11 Downing Street last week as the Guardian today reveals that FTSE 100 companies are spending less on the issue.
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6th November 2006 |
Stephen King: Climate taxes need a step change in thinking - The Independent
Many will see the tax option as simply a way for the Government to raise extra revenues. "If, though, the public can be persuaded climate change is the big challenge of our times - like Napoleon was at the end of the 18th century - maybe we're about to see another, dramatic, change in the sources of government revenue. More money left in our pockets through income tax cuts, perhaps, but much higher duties on all those nasty things that pollute our planet". Stephen King is managing director of economics at HSBC.
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6th November 2006 |
Nitrogen-based fertilizers add to global warming - Daily Yomiuri
The density of dinitrogen oxide (N2O)--a type of gas that contributes to global warming--in the air has increased drastically since the 1950s, and originates from nitrogen-based fertilizers used on farms, it was announced Sunday.
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6th November 2006 |
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What odds about Stern's Wager? - Guardian Unlimited
"...One looks around and almost despairs about the ability of our so-called leaders to solve all the obvious current problems facing the world, let alone what is threatened by global warming. As for the reaction of the British media [to the Stern Report], the immediate headlines were all about the horrors of higher 'green' taxation."
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5th November 2006 |
IoS 2060: Tsunami horror hits Britain - The Independent
This is the sort of headline we will all be reading in reality if nothing is done to prevent climate change. Yesterday 20,000 people marched in London to express their concern. Tomorrow world leaders meet in Nairobi to set new targets for cutting pollution. Here, environment editor Geoffrey Lean examines why they must go further than ever before. And we print the stories you'll hope never to read again...
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5th November 2006 |
Eco-activists aim anger at 'climate terrorist' Harper - Canada.com
Canada: As 25,000 people gathered in London to denounce Big Oil and the U.S. government for its 'sabotage' of the Kyoto protocol on climate change, protesters in Montreal Saturday set their sights on their own public enemy No. One Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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5th November 2006 |
Better Safe - Washington Post
Don't climate-change skeptics believe in insurance?
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5th November 2006 |
Climate protest goes 'mainstream' - BBC News
UK: As thousands of people joined a march and rally in London calling for action on climate change on the eve of global talks in Nairobi many were publicly adding their voice to the campaign for the first time.
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5th November 2006 |
Fleet Street hot air won't help - Guardian Unlimited
"This isn't about selling copies or topping the TV ratings; it's about saving a planet (or not) and spreading a word that resounds and moves minds. And, for once, readers and listeners need exceptional service - not service as usual."
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5th November 2006 |
Save the planet: tax the poor back onto their bicycles - The Times
"Planning must become carbon obsessed. Income taxes will not achieve this, only taxes targeted against high carbon expenditures, above all on movement. Travelling, especially flying, must be regarded as a luxury whose cost to the planet must be transferred to the individual.This concept of “re-localising” human settlement is still in the wilder realms of idealism. But like other fringe ideas it will have to move into the mainstream. There is no point in denying what this means." [good ideas - let's do it without the N-word...]
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5th November 2006 |
Peter Ainsworth: More planes. More cars. More carbon. More promises broken by government
UK: The Conservative Party has called for a climate change Bill in the face of more talk than action from the Labour party.
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5th November 2006 |
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Climate march in Sydney - Sydney Morning Herald
Australia: Thousands of people marched through central Sydney today, ignoring wet and windy weather to protest against global warming.
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4th November 2006 |
Climate campaigners urge action - BBC News
Thousands of climate change campaigners have attended a London rally as part of global protests calling for world leaders to act urgently on the issue.
See some pics here and here. Watch a video here
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4th November 2006 |
Could scrapping Trident save the planet? - Guardian Unlimited
For the same price, Britain could either renew its nuclear arsenal or tackle climate change
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4th November 2006 |
Planet saved?: Why the green movement is taking to the streets - New Statesman
UK: The government says it will tackle global warming with renewed vigour. But radical groups such as Plane Stupid tell Alice O'Keeffe that they want more than promises.
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4th November 2006 |
Appeal to Londoners to switch off - BBC News
Londoners are being urged to switch off their lights and electric gadgets to support a campaign highlighting the dangers of climate change.
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4th November 2006 |
Fisheries Minister accepts link between climate, declining stocks - Globe & Mail
Canada: Federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn reluctantly acknowledged yesterday that climate change could be hastening the depletion of fish off the coast of Newfoundland.
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4th November 2006 |
Man of the world trying to spread a climate of hope - The Times
The Stern report is the start of a modest mission to save the Earth. Our correspondents meet its author
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4th November 2006 |
Cities move to swiftly extend dirty-power contracts - Los Angeles Times
USA: Bucking a landmark California law to reduce greenhouse gases, several Southland cities are moving toward accepting a Utah utility's offer to extend for decades contracts for dirty, coal-fired power before the new law — which would ban such renewals — takes effect Jan. 1.
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4th November 2006 |
Energy watchdog doubts carbon trading will work -The Independent
The world's leading energy watchdog gave a lukewarm response to the call by the Stern Review for a global carbon trading system as the way to tackle climate change. The Independent Energy Agency said yesterday it doubted that the scheme would gain sufficient agreement by world governments to be viable.
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4th November 2006 |
PM calls off European summit - Globe & Mail
Canadian PM Stephen Harper has surprised and annoyed European Union leaders by cancelling a planned Canada-EU summit, where he was going to be criticized for abandoning this country's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
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4th November 2006 |
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The Cold War of global warming - Salon
"...there is another school of thought that holds that environmental degradation, climate change, species extinction, etc., are a consequence of market-based capitalism, rather than just strong hints that the engine powering the global economy needs a tuneup. In this perspective, global warming is the Day of Judgment for humanity's current system of self-organization and the threat of global devastation is rated as the most compelling possible rebuttal to a philosophy of unending economic growth. Seen this way, it is little wonder that conservatives fight so hard against even acknowledging that there is a problem."
[Definitely worth sitting through the advert to get to this article if you're not already a subscriber - however if you're too lazy - you can click here]
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3rd November 2006 |
A climate change on climate change - CS Monitor
Might Bush shift course and move forward on the Kyoto Protocol?
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3rd November 2006 |
Australia to Push for "New Kyoto" in Asia - Planet Ark
Australia: After repeatedly blocking domestic carbon trading, Australia said on Thursday it would now push for Asia-wide emissions trading to combat global warming as part of a planned "new-Kyoto" pact.
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3rd November 2006 |
U.N. says 2005 set record for greenhouse gases in atmosphere - International Herald Tribune
Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached a record high in 2005 and are still increasing, the U.N. weather agency said Friday.
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3rd November 2006 |
EU warns of four-year delay to carbon trading scheme - The Independent
Tony Blair's plans for aviation to be included in the EU carbon trading scheme are likely to be delayed until the end of the decade, senior EU figures said yesterday.
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3rd November 2006 |
Shadecloth could soon protect Reef - The Age
Australia: Vast areas of shadecloth could soon cover parts the Great Barrier Reef to prevent the future bleaching of coral.
[...more proof that we've gone bonkers]
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3rd November 2006 |
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Green tax take 'lower than 1997' - BBC News
Green taxes account for a lower share of the UK's total tax take than when the government came to power in 1997, according to a report.
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2nd November 2006 |
Addressing China's climate challenge - BBC News
China is on course to overtake the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.
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2nd November 2006 |
'PROPHETS' shine light of hope
UK: Last night climate activists carried out a daring night time art attack. Using powerful projection equipment the activists displayed their message onto leading London landmarks: St Pancras, Battersea power station and the Houses of Parliament. The two pieces of projected text read "How ironic to live in fear of terrorism and die of climate change" and "The ultimate terror threat is climate change". The projections were carried out by a group calling themselves The Prophets of Hope.
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2nd November 2006 |
Climate change special: State of denial - New Scientist
A bitter battle is brewing between mainstream American climate scientists and the minority who deny that human activity is causing global climate change.
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2nd November 2006 |
Censorship on global warming alleged - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Two federal agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and censor their research, a senator said Wednesday.
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2nd November 2006 |
Activists bid to close power plant - icCheshire
UK: 30 activists invaded Didcot coal-fired power plant in Oxfordshire at 5.30am. Protesters hit emergency stop buttons on conveyor belts carrying coal into the plant and attached themselves to machinery.
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2nd November 2006 |
Great Barrier Reef to be 'hosed down' - The Age
Scientists are considering a plan to make the water of the Great Barrier Reef cooler for vulnerable corals, as part of a solution to climate change.
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2nd November 2006 |
Emissions regime could feel the heat - WBCSD
EU emissions trading scheme may not deliver on it's promise unless the scheme is changed.
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2nd November 2006 |
Climate threat heats up - Los Angeles Times
A British report's numbers may be debatable, but it's clear the issue of global warming is coming to a boil. "The U.S. is not only failing to be a leader on curbing one of the world's most serious threats, it's not even a decent follower."
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Who will clean up on carbon? - The Times
The demand for new power sources will be the most disruptive force in business since the internet
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2nd November 2006 |
Maybe the prime minister should get out more - David Suzuki
Canada: Did Mr. Harper think he could so easily pull the wool over Canadians' eyes ?
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2nd November 2006 |
PM dismisses climate poll - The Age
Australia: Prime Minister John Howard has largely discounted the findings of a Newspoll critical of his government on climate change, but concedes the issue is on people's minds.
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2nd November 2006 |
Climate change guide launched as prelude to crucial Nairobi talks - The Independent
For anyone feeling impotent in the face of climate change, help is at hand, in the form of a new 16-step guide to cutting carbon emissions in your own life.
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2nd November 2006 |
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Plane speaking - Guardian Unlimited
Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, is on a mission to tackle climate change - and that includes challenging the aviation industry head on.
"I think what is happening is absolutely terrifying. When I first ran for mayor in 2000, the scientific consensus was that we would reach the climate change tipping point around the second half of the century. Depending on which scientific evidence you look at, it's down to between two and 10 years. There's no time for more studies or surveys."
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1st November 2006 |
Change clean-air bill or face Commons vote, Layton tells Tories - Globe & Mail
Canada: The NDP has threatened to try to topple the Tory government, unless Prime Minister Stephen Harper agrees to make major modifications to his climate change plan.
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1st November 2006 |
Scientists setting dollar value for ecosystem - WBCSD
A scientific model announced Wednesday will answer questions like 'what is a honeybee worth?' and measure the economic costs and benefits of ecosystems to human life, Canadian and US scientists said.
[Let's hope they get the valuation right; IMHO nature IS priceless - simply because it is beyond the power of man to recreate it]
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1st November 2006 |
How much will it cost to save the world? - Nature
The Stern Review won't be the last word on the cost of global warming. But it has upped the stakes in the debate.
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1st November 2006 |
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Stern warning from climate change economics report - Mark Lynas
"The headlines have all been optimistic - we can tackle global warming with only a 1% cost to global GDP. A rare good news story on the global warming issue, right? Wrong. The stabilisation pathway this figure refers to is 550 CO2 equivalent (about 500ppm in CO2 only), which will yield anything between three and four degrees warming. Yet, as I've argued in several recent articles, if we pass the two degrees threshold, the chances of runaway global warming impacts kicking in are dangerously high. Stern suggests that stabilising at 400 ppm CO2 only is well nigh impossible given that we will be there within less than 10 years. But what is impractical for humans may be the only thing which is practical in terms of the planetary biosphere. The report admits that 3-4 degrees would lead to the mass extinction of 50% of species alive today, yet seemingly advocates a stabilisation target that would lead to exactly this outcome. The impact on humanity - especially the poor - would also be catastrophic, a point made very clearly by Christian Aid. I highly recommend people read the report (the whole thing, not just the Executive Summary) however - it is an excellent review of the latest science, and says very clearly what impacts are likely to arrive with what degree changes. The tables on what stabilisation targets will yield what temperature increases are particularly useful. I do think that the headline figures on both economic damages and climate refugees are major under-estimates, but credit should be given for trying to quantify them at all. So unlike almost everyone else, the sheer awfulness of our current position made me feel more and more pessimistic the deeper into I got into the Stern review. Evidently the only practically possible course will extinguish half of life on Earth - and even that requires emissions cuts unlikely to be acceptable to the likes of the US and China. The business as usual scenarios, Stern tells us, take the planet into five or more degrees of warming by the end of the century - something my upcoming Six Degrees book suggests will trigger the greatest mass extinction in geological history, one that humanity will be hard-pressed itself to survive." - Mark Lynas
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31st October 2006 |
Drastic action on climate change is needed now - and here's the plan - Guardian Unlimited
UK: The government must go further, and much faster, in its response to the moral question of the 21st century. George Monbiot outlines the steps needed to prevent climate chaos.
Guardian Unlimited is on the case - More from The Guardian:
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31st October 2006 |
Uneasy being green - Guardian Unlimited
UK: Biting, sarcastic account of the discussion of the Stern report in the UK House of Commons.
See also: Hot-air production and emissions of gobbledygook reach a new high
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31st October 2006 |
A global catastrophe of our own making - The Independent
Average global temperatures have increased by less than 1C since the Industrial Revolution, but they are projected to increase by up to 5C over the coming century if carbon dioxide levels continue to rise without restraint. With each 1C rise in average global temperatures, the Stern Review portrays progressively more serious scenarios.
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31st October 2006 |
Stern figures don't add up for world's poor says Christian Aid - Christian Aid
Christian Aid broadly welcomed the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, but warned that even if its conclusions were accepted, millions of poor people would still be exposed to an unacceptably high risk of disease, drought and famine.
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31st October 2006 |
Greenhouse gas emissions rising - BBC News
The UN has released new data showing an upward trend in emission of greenhouse gases, and called for urgent action from rich countries.
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31st October 2006 |
Rasslin’ swamp gas - RealClimate
All about the greenhouse gas Methane. "We know a lot about the methane cycle, but as far as forecasting the near-term future, we have no clue. No one would build a nuclear reactor if our understanding of the underlying chemical dynamics were as fragile as this. Instead, we are taking the reins of a planetary biosphere. This is disturbing."
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31st October 2006 |
Govts 'may be sued' over climate change - The Age
Law suits against governments and companies over their roles in global warming have a good chance of success, academics say.
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31st October 2006 |
International consensus elusive on climate risk - WBCSD
Governments around the world, including the US, welcomed the findings of the Stern review on the economics of climate change yesterday. However, an international consensus behind its recommendations still appeared elusive, as few countries seemed willing to promise concrete action to curb emissions.
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31st October 2006 |
UK Stern Report Sells Climate Short, Paves Way to Global Warming Catastrophe - Rising Tide
"Faulty science, flawed policy advice should relegate new "landmark" report to trashbin of history, climate activists charge"
[seems a bit harsh considering the potential power of the Stern report to move things along politcally - HOWEVER - they are correct to remind us that 550 ppm CO2 may be well beyond the threshold for runaway climate change and that much more drastic action may be needed.]
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31st October 2006 |
Global Warming May Produce More Insects - NRDC
A U.S. study suggests global warming will likely produce significantly more insects -- akin to something one might expect to see in a Halloween thriller.
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31st October 2006 |
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The Stern Report - HM Treasury
UK: Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economics Service and Adviser to the Government on the economics of climate change and development, is 'delighted' to present his report to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Economics of Climate Change.
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30th October 2006 |
Climate change fight 'can't wait' - BBC News
The world cannot afford to wait before tackling climate change, the UK prime minister has warned.
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30th October 2006 |
Expert reaction to Stern review - BBC News
Scientists, politicians and economists have been giving their reactions to the report by Sir Nicholas Stern. "The scariest thing about the Stern report is that it may not be scary enough. If we lose the Greenland ice sheet in the next few centuries, leading to a 7 metre rise in sea level - as well we might - then Stern's £3.68 trillion will be a drop in the ocean compared to the ultimate cost of climate change."
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30th October 2006 |
Miliband draws up green tax plan - BBC News
Environment Secretary David Miliband has confirmed the government is holding discussions on tackling climate change using green taxes.
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30th October 2006 |
Changing Climate on Climate - Washington Post
President Bush has two more years to do something about climate change. Will he waste them, too?
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30th October 2006 |
Melting of Greenland's ice sheet 'is the turning point' - The Independent
The world's target for stopping global warming should be based on the point at which the melting of the great Greenland ice sheet becomes irreversible, says the Government's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King.
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30th October 2006 |
'Almost too late' to stop a global catastrophe - The Independent
The possibility of avoiding a global catastrophe is "already almost out of reach", Sir Nicholas Stern's long-awaited report on climate change will warn today. One terrifying prospect is that changes in weather patterns could drive down the output of the world's economies by an amount equivalent to up to £6 trillion a year by 2050, almost the entire output of the EU.
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30th October 2006 |
Belize Barrier Reef Suffers, Global Warming Blamed - Planet Ark
Much of the 200 miles (320 km) of Belize's coral reef has been "bleached" in the last decade and some scientists warn it is likely to die, a victim of global warming.
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30th October 2006 |
Expert reaction to Stern review - BBC News
Scientists, politicians and economists have been giving their reactions to the report by Sir Nicholas Stern. "The scariest thing about the Stern report is that it may not be scary enough. If we lose the Greenland ice sheet in the next few centuries, leading to a 7 metre rise in sea level - as well we might - then Stern's £3.68 trillion will be a drop in the ocean compared to the ultimate cost of climate change."
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30th October 2006 |
Sydney's vanishing future - Sydney Morning Herald
Australia: This is a picture of Sydney's future. Rising sea levels will submerge or threaten billions of dollars worth of property, both public and private, by 2100.
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30th October 2006 |
Rich nations' greenhouse gases up in 2004 - AlertNet
Greenhouse gas emissions by industrialised nations rose in 2004 to the highest levels since the early 1990s, and governments must do more to fight global warming, the U.N. climate change secretariat said on Monday.
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30th October 2006 |
Rich nations urged to act as continent faces food crisis - Guardian Unlimited
Climate change is already affecting many parts of Africa and will get worse if the global community does not commit itself immediately to combat that change, a campaign group coalition said yesterday.
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30th October 2006 |
UK signs Gore to sell climate case in US - Guardian Unlimited
Britain is to send the author of today's landmark review on global warming to try to win American hearts and minds to the urgent cause of cutting carbon emissions - as it emerged yesterday that the government has already signed up former US vice-president Al Gore to advise on the environment.
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30th October 2006 |
Global warming lawsuits predicted - Globe & Mail
It's only a matter of time before Canadian corporations are sued over their greenhouse emissions, experts in the investment field say.
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30th October 2006 |
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Report's stark warning on climate - BBC News
The Stern Review says that climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen. And on the basis of this intellectually rigorous and thorough report, it is hard to disagree.
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29th October 2006 |
God’s green earth - Boston Globe
What environmentalists and evangelicals have in common.
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29th October 2006 |
At last - a map to lead us out of catastrophe - Guardian Unlimited
Over the last 12 months, there has been a cultural transformation in attitudes towards climate change. Suddenly, it has become accepted that it's both happening and dangerous, that we are approaching a catastrophic tipping point and that it is disastrous that the Kyoto agreement to lower global greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5 per cent by 2012 compared with 1990 will be missed. Something must be done. The question is what.
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29th October 2006 |
Climate change draws African birds north - The Independent
Climate change is sending birds once native to Africa north, to settle in southern Spain, scientists say.
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29th October 2006 |
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Climate change 'hitting Africa' - BBC News
Climate change is already affecting people across Africa and will wipe out efforts to tackle poverty there unless urgent action is taken, a report says.
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28th October 2006 |
Climate negotiators eye 2008 elections - Boston Globe
Delegates flying to Kenya next week for a global conference on climate are watching the turn of U.S. election seasons as much as the rise in temperatures in their effort to cool planetary warming.
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28th October 2006 |
Swans deliver a climate change warning - The Independent
The disruption to the swans' migration pattern fits into an emerging pattern of fluctuating numbers of bird species and population movements blamed on climate change.
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28th October 2006 |
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Sea change: why global warming could leave Britain feeling the cold - Guardian Unlimited
Scientists have uncovered more evidence for a dramatic weakening in the vast ocean current that gives Britain its relatively balmy climate by dragging warm water northwards from the tropics. The slowdown, which climate modellers have predicted will follow global warming, has been confirmed by the most detailed study yet of ocean flow in the Atlantic. Most alarmingly, the data reveal that a part of the current, which is usually 60 times more powerful than the Amazon river, came to a temporary halt during November 2004.
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27th October 2006 |
Quebec coalition wants Ottawa to 'revive' Kyoto - CBC News
Canada: Quebec Environment Minister Claude Béchard is leading a coalition of environmentalists and industry leaders that want Ottawa to revive the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions.
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27th October 2006 |
2050 too late for climate change action: former U.S. adviser - CBC News
A former top U.S. official in the Bush administration says the world can't wait to tackle greenhouse gases until 2050, the date the Harper government wants Canada's emissions cut in half.
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27th October 2006 |
Beetle Invasion Seen Hitting Canadian Wood Quality - Planet Ark
Canada: The pine beetle infestation in British Columbia is beginning to have an impact on the quality of logs reaching sawmills, the chief executive of West Fraser Timber Co. , Canada's second largest softwood lumber producer, said Thursday.
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27th October 2006 |
Harvesting Pumpkins With a Rowboat and Other Tales of Global Warming - ABC News
USA: Lettuce in October, Peaches and Grapes That Grow in New England, It Seems Global Warming Has Hit Massachusetts.
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27th October 2006 |
Energy from deserts could supply Europe - SciDev.Net
Deserts in the Middle East and North Africa could generate vast quantities of electricity to sell to Europe, according to two German research reports.
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27th October 2006 |
UK Agency Raises Estimated Cost of Nuclear Clean-Up - Planet Ark
The agency overseeing the dismantling of old British nuclear power stations raised the estimated cost of operations, closure and clean-up to 72.3 billion pounds (US$136.2 billion) on Thursday.
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27th October 2006 |
Ocean array acts as climate alert - BBC News
Measurements from a network of monitors stretching across the Atlantic Ocean could offer an early warning of "sudden climate change", scientists have said.
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27th October 2006 |
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BLACKOUT DAY - Daily Echo
Do your bit to save the planet from global warming by foregoing your Saturday night TV on November 4 - Blackout Day.
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26th October 2006 |
Tackle climate change or face deep recession, world's leaders warned - Guardian Unlimited
Climate change could tilt the world's economy into the worst global recession in recent history, a report will warn next week.
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26th October 2006 |
War Climates - TomPaine.com
Our political systems and global politics are largely unequipped for the real challenges of today’s world. Global economic growth and rising populations are putting unprecedented stresses on the physical environment, and these stresses in turn are causing unprecedented challenges for our societies. Yet politicians are largely ignorant of these trends. Governments are not organized to meet them. And crises that are fundamentally ecological in nature are managed by outdated strategies of war and diplomacy.
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26th October 2006 |
Bee threat puts crops at risk - Sydney Morning Herald
Climate change and pesticides could seriously damage global food production and wreck farming economies by playing havoc with honey bees, Australian scientists warned yesterday.
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26th October 2006 |
Blair rules out annual targets to cut carbon emissions - The Times
UK: With the environment becoming a central political issue, the Conservative leader challenged the Prime Minister to accept his proposals for annual targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, saying that Britain’s climate change goals would not be met without them.
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26th October 2006 |
Bidding for the environment - Guardian Unlimited
Economists regularly argue that the best way to tackle climate change is to put a price tag on the environment. As it happens, in recent weeks a bidding war has broken out over the issue - not in dollars or carbon trading futures but between Britain's major political parties.
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26th October 2006 |
London plans hybrid bus fleet to cut carbon emissions - Guardian Unlimited
London's 8,000 buses are to get an environmentally-friendly overhaul in a drive to cut carbon emissions in the capital by a quarter over the next decade.
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26th October 2006 |
Blowing in the wind - Guardian Unlimited
B&Q is now selling wind turbines over the counter. But how easy are they to install? And do they work?
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26th October 2006 |
Climate change: Our green paper - The Independent
UK: Tony Blair says global warming is among the biggest threats of our age. But are his plans for a Climate Bill ambitious enough? Here, The Independent offers a more radical manifesto.
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26th October 2006 |
Supreme Court tackles global warming - CNN
Corporate America is split on whether the EPA should regulate carbon dioxide, says Fortune's Marc Gunther.
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26th October 2006 |
Australians fight fear of power crisis with giant solar site - Guardian Unlimited
Australia yesterday announced it would build one of the world's biggest solar power plants amid warnings of blackouts unless it can increase generation to meet the growing demand for air conditioners.
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26th October 2006 |
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In emissions battle, US cities vie to be 'greenest' - CS Monitor
More than 300 mayors pledge to reduce greenhouse gases.
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25th October 2006 |
When it comes to global warming, market rule poses a mortal danger - Guardian Unlimited
Gentle regulation will simply not suffice for a problem this big. Governments must act - swiftly and substantially
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25th October 2006 |
Gas-guzzler drivers face up to £450 parking fee - Guardian Unlimited
UK: Motorists who drive gas-guzzling cars are to face significant rises in parking fees under a pioneering scheme to tackle climate change. Drivers of the most polluting vehicles will be charged up to £450 a year to park outside their homes under the plan, which marks one of the first serious attempts to penalise people for behaviour that damages the environment.
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25th October 2006 |
Beckett warns that climate change will increase risk of war - The Times
Failing to tackle climate change will increase the risk of fragile states falling into civil war and chaos, Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, said yesterday.
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25th October 2006 |
Climate change 'will threaten Britain's water supply' - The Independent
Britain's water supplies, health, ecosystem, planning system and tourist industry are likely to be severely hit by climate change, a government report has warned.
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25th October 2006 |
EU 'behind' on climate change - BBC News
Emissions charges should be imposed on flights as soon as possible as part of efforts to avert "climate chaos", says UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett.
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25th October 2006 |
Global warming fuels fungal toad-killer - New Scientist
The first evidence in Europe of a species decline from a disease linked to climate change has been shown, researchers say.
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25th October 2006 |
Canadian Wind Energy Seen Adding C$1 Billion to GDP - Planet Ark
Wind energy is expected to contribute more than C$1 billion ($890 million) to Canada's gross domestic product in 2006, up from C$736 million in 2005, an industry spokesman said Tuesday.
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25th October 2006 |
Dirty power clean-up gets green light - The Age
Greenhouse gas emissions from Australia's dirtiest power station will be slashed as the Federal Government moves to sharpen its climate change credentials in the countdown to next year's election.
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25th October 2006 |
Who needs planes? - Guardian Unlimited
It has never been easier to see the world - or to destroy it. You can now fly to Hong Kong for just £75, pumping out greenhouse gases all the way. But what if you want to travel more responsibly? Can you still go the distance if you stick to trains, boats and buses? And will it cost you a fortune? In green travel special, Guardian staff head for the Med, the Middle East and Asia to find out
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25th October 2006 |
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Human footprint too big for nature - WWF
The world’s natural ecosystems are being degraded at a rate unprecedented in human history, according to a report released today by WWF, the global conservation organization. [If you can't be bothered to download the report in pdf format, you can see the gist in pictures.]
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24th October 2006 |
Two arrested at NOAA headquarters - It’s Getting Hot In Here
Two eco-heroes, Ted Glick and Paul Burman, were arrested at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration headquarters in Silver Spring. The two activists, both members of the US Climate Emergency Council were forcefully removed from the ledge which they had occupied four hours earlier in protest of the Bush Administration’s suppression of climate research at NOAA.
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24th October 2006 |
Carbon trade 'to save' rainforest - BBC News
Carbon trading can be used to protect endangered rainforests by compensating nations that avoid deforestation, the World Bank has said.
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24th October 2006 |
'Climate change threatens national security' - Independent Online
British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett will warn Europe on Tuesday to tackle climate change or risk terrorists seizing on famine, water shortages and failing energy infrastructures to threaten global security.
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24th October 2006 |
Answer to Energy Crisis? Waste Not, Want Not - IPS
Energy remains crucial to economic development in a world where over 1.6 billion people have no access to electricity. While the media and government focus has been on greener and cleaner ways to generate power through renewable sources like biofuels, wind, solar and hydrogen, experts say that major improvements in energy efficiency could dramatically reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, save money and provide the breathing space needed to improve and develop new energy sources.
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24th October 2006 |
Rare Russian CO2 Data Shows 11 Pct Rise Since 1999 - Planet Ark
Russia's greenhouse gas emissions rose by nearly 11 percent between 1999 and 2004, an official document submitted by the Russian environmental monitoring agency to the United Nations showed on Monday.
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24th October 2006 |
The European solution - The Age
Australia needs to follow Europe in implementing actions to cut GHGs, or better still, the world needs a common global tax on carbon emissions.
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24th October 2006 |
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Bill McKibben on Our Planetary Fate - TomDispatch.com
[Difficult to summarize wide ranging must-read from Bill McKibben]
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23rd October 2006 |
Amazon conservation efforts must come soon to save world's largest rainforest - Mongabay.com
Climate change could well cause most of the Amazon rainforest to disappear by the end of the century.
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23rd October 2006 |
'Fund clean energy with oil tax' - Guardian Unlimited
UK: Oil companies should be subjected to a windfall tax to fund a transition to a sustainable energy system, according to a leading charity and thinktank report published today.
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23rd October 2006 |
Sticking to 70mph limit will reduce pollution - The Times
UK: A network of motorway speed cameras, strictly enforcing the 70mph speed limit, would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by almost four million tonnes, says a recent study.
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23rd October 2006 |
Small climate of concern as US polls loom - BBC News
USA: Bush Iraq debacle pushes climate change to the back of voters concerns in forthcoming midterm elections.
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23rd October 2006 |
UK CARBON EMISSIONS STILL RISING - Friends of the Earth
UK Carbon dioxide emissions rose in the first half of 2006, and are now at their highest level since Labour came to power, Friends of the Earth analysis of new Government energy figures reveals today.
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23rd October 2006 |
Saving energy on the home front - BBC News
In environmental terms, households are responsible for about 27% of the UK's carbon emissions, and account for almost a third of the nation's total energy consumption.
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23rd October 2006 |
Browned off, sceptics turn activists - The Age
Drought afflicted farmer turns activist opening Climate Institute and running newspaper advertisements that hope to be read by 6.6 million australians.
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23rd October 2006 |
Australia launches climate plans - BBC News
The Australian government is launching a major new initiative aimed at preventing global warming by using new clean-coal technologies. Environmentalists accuse government of missing the mark and the point.
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23rd October 2006 |
Biggest wind power project is blown off course as residents fight back - Guardian Unlimited
Scheme that would provide 25% of London's power is bogged down in planning.
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23rd October 2006 |
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Cracking up: Ice turning to water, glaciers on the move - and a planet in peril - The Independent
Nothing else quite like it has happened at any time in the past 10,000 years. In just over a month an entire Antarctic ice shelf, bigger than a small country, disintegrated and disappeared, altering world atlases for ever.
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22nd October 2006 |
The green gauge - Guardian Unlimited
Energy generating dancefloors, wind-up laptop and hallowe'en horror as climate change induced pumpkin bight decimates crop.
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22nd October 2006 |
The future's a no-snow zone - Guardian Unlimited
As Scotland's snowfall is predicted to drop by up to 90 per cent, wildlife and tourism chiefs are preparing for a change of scene
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22nd October 2006 |
Power execs foresee carbon emission caps - PhysOrg.COm
When Duke Energy Corp. CEO James E. Rogers considers global warming, he sees more than a costly quagmire for the U.S. power industry; he sees grand monuments. Notre Dame in Paris, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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22nd October 2006 |
Climate Change Forces Farming Innovation - CBS News
[not aparticularly amazing article, but this bit made me sit up-'...evidence of climate change, including the migration of successful corn production north 100 miles over the past three decades.' - yikes!]
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22nd October 2006 |
It’s so warm plants think spring is here - The Times
The weather really is going haywire. Britain’s gardeners are reporting the first signs of a “phantom spring” in the midst of one of the warmest Octobers on record.
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22nd October 2006 |
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A Law to Cut Emissions? Deal With It - New York Times
USA: In August, Peter A. Darbee, chairman, chief executive and president of PG&E, owner of Pacific Gas and Electric, broke rank with his peers by supporting a measure in California that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which are widely blamed for global warming. Mr. Darbee discussed his decision and other initiatives in an interview on a recent visit to New York.
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21st October 2006 |
Energy subsidy plan for homes runs out of cash - Guardian Unlimited
UK: The government's green credentials suffered an embarrassing blow yesterday after it emerged that a system of grants for renewable energy for householders has run out of money this year.
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21st October 2006 |
Protesters stage 'die-in' to challenge climate change sceptics- The Independent
UK: Environmental campaigners will hold a "die-in" today outside the offices of a research organisation which claims science has failed to prove human activity is the cause of climate change.
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21st October 2006 |
British wildlife head north as planet warms - PhysOrg.Com
Biologists in Britain have discerned a mass migration of fauna over the past 25 years as animals try to outrun global warming by heading for cooler climes in the north.
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21st October 2006 |
Sunny Side Up - New York Times
USA: G.M. and a small but growing number of other companies and municipalities are getting solar energy from systems installed by others. Even though the installations are right on their own roofs, they buy the electricity much as they would from a utility’s grid.
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21st October 2006 |
Coal-Fired Apocalypse - SC Compass
The McClatchey report on the resurgence of coal in the US. "Read it and weep. Then dry your eyes and resolve to vote for change."
See also: Utilities making plans to return to coal power
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21st October 2006 |
Global warming predictions: a 'wild ride' of droughts, heavy rain, heat waves - CBC News
The world, especially the Mediterranean region, Brazil and the western United States, will likely suffer more extended droughts, heavy rainfalls and longer heat waves over the next century because of global warming, a new study forecasts.
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21st October 2006 |
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California to vote on new oil tax - BBC News
Hollywood celebrities, Silicon Valley tycoons and energy companies are waging a multi-million dollar campaign battle over plans for a Californian oil tax. They are fighting over Proposition 87, which proposes raising $4bn (£2.1bn) to fund alternative energy projects by taxing oil production in California.
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20th October 2006 |
Where have all the leaders gone? - BBC Greenroom
Consumer choice is not going to deliver the goods to combat climate change, argues Dr Matt Prescott. In this week's Green Room, he says the world needs strong political leadership, not just market forces, because there is no sale-or-return guarantee for the planet.
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20th October 2006 |
Greens can smell victory in the fall air - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
US Elections: "If your candidate isn't sure humans cause climate change, it's time to change candidates," - Seattle Mayor Nickels.
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20th October 2006 |
Climate water threat to millions - BBC News
Climate change threatens supplies of water for millions of people in poorer countries, warns a new report from the Christian development agency Tearfund.
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20th October 2006 |
Gravity satellites see ice loss - BBC News
Greenland is currently losing about 100 billion tonnes of ice a year.
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20th October 2006 |
France Takes a Dubiously Clean Road - IPS
France got into first gear for a clean drive this month with the opening of a bio fuel pump. But barely after the start, environmentalists are saying that the ecological balance sheet from using this green fuel may still be negative.
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20th October 2006 |
Future Weather Forecast Is a Study in Extremes - Los Angeles Times
Much of the world, including the drought-plagued American West, will face more deadly heat waves, intense rainstorms and prolonged dry spells before the end of the century, according to a new climate change study released Thursday.
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20th October 2006 |
UN Says Number of Ocean 'Dead Zones' Rising Fast - Planet Ark
The number of "dead zones" in the world's oceans may have increased by a third in just two years, threatening fish stocks and the people who depend on them, the UN Environment Programme said on Thursday.
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20th October 2006 |
New climate is cloudy for top 100 - The Age
Australia's biggest companies believe that droughts and extreme weather events brought on by climate change could hurt their business but few are doing anything about it.
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20th October 2006 |
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Turner blasts Tory 'establishment' - Globe & Mail
Canada: Tory MP may defect to Green party after being booted from the caucus because of dissension over the Tories' crap new environmental plan.
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19th October 2006 |
Will energy efficiency action plan lead to less energy use? - WBCSD
Energy experts question whether more efficiency automatically leads to less energy consumption.
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19th October 2006 |
Evangelicals Ally With Democrats on Environment - Los Angeles Times
Democratic strategists are joining forces with conservative evangelicals to promote a faith-based campaign on global warming, in an improbable alliance that could boost Democratic hopes of taking control of Congress.
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19th October 2006 |
Snow comes to Cornwall - but not the Cairngorms - The Independent
The image of Scotland's ice-capped mountains is in danger of becoming a thing of the past as rising temperatures threaten to wipe away the snow from the top of the country's highest and most rugged peaks.
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19th October 2006 |
Northwest winters will be even wetter - PhysOrg.Com
If you think Pacific Northwest winters are gray and rainy now, just wait. By the end of this century winter storms are likely to be much more pronounced, particularly west of the Cascade Range, according to new University of Washington research.
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19th October 2006 |
Seabed Microbes Munch Methane, Curb Warming - Planet Ark
Exotic microbes living around mud volcanoes on the seabed are helping to offset global warming by munching heat-trapping methane seeping from the depths, scientists said on Wednesday.
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19th October 2006 |
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Licence to pollute - Guardian Unlimited
"It is assumed in India that carbon offset projects are so environmental they do not need impact assessment. Information on projects is rarely available. Each time we have looked at claims made about these projects' benefits, we found differences between the claims and reality."
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18th October 2006 |
Green taxes on air travel 'would boost the economy' - The Times
UK: Imposing green taxes on flights would actually benefit the economy because they would encourage people to take holidays in Britain rather than spending their money abroad, according to a report by Oxford University.
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18th October 2006 |
How close is runaway climate change? - Guardian Unlimited
In an extract from his new book on global warming, Paul Brown looks at how close the planet is to irreversible damage. Have a look at some photographs from the book.
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18th October 2006 |
UN to talk on climate adaptation - BBC News
There is an "urgent need" to help developing countries adapt to impacts of climate change, UK Climate Change Minister Ian Pearson has said.
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18th October 2006 |
Paying for our sins - Guardian Unlimited
Offsetting makes us feel better, allows us to consume more to the benefit of the polluters, deflects attention away from the real and present danger that is climate change and, George Monbiot finds, does little good. "At the offices of Travelcare and the forecourts owned by BP, you can now buy complacency, political apathy and self-satisfaction. But you cannot buy the survival of the planet."
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18th October 2006 |
Spanish Weather Patterns Point to Climate Change - Planet Ark
Recent weather patterns point to climate change already having an impact in Spain and the country is likely to become hotter and more arid, a weather expert said on Monday.
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18th October 2006 |
New greenhouse gases plan needed - Boston Globe
A new plan to regulate greenhouse gases should be drawn up within 18 months to attract the investment needed to develop green energy technology, a conference of business and government leaders concluded Tuesday.
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18th October 2006 |
PM's nuclear push outrageous: Suzuki - The Canberra Times
One of the world's most prominent environmentalists has rubbished suggestions by the Prime Minister that the environmental movement must rethink its opposition to nuclear power, saying nuclear energy was costly, unreliable and vulnerable to terrorist attack.
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18th October 2006 |
Brazil tells foreigners stay out of Amazon - Reuters
Brazil on Tuesday rejected foreign proposals to buy and preserve land in the endangered Amazon, just weeks before its negotiators were due to present their own rainforest protection plan at global climate talks.
...and bizarrely Brazil Seeks Deforestation Plan Support...
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18th October 2006 |
Eco-friendly chalk building opens - BBC News
An environmentally-friendly building made of chalk extracted from the White Cliffs of Dover has opened its doors.
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18th October 2006 |
Carbon Market Needs Longer-Term Rules - Planet Ark
Developing markets in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), aimed at fighting global warming, need more long-term regulatory stability if they are to flourish, investors said on Monday.
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18th October 2006 |
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Rainforests face myriad of threats - Mongabay
The world's tropical rainforests are in trouble. Spurred by a global commodities boom and continuing poverty in some of the world's poorest regions, deforestation rates have increased since the close of the 1990s. The usual threats to forests -- agricultural conversion, wildlife poaching, uncontrolled logging, and road construction -- could soon be rivaled, and even exceeded, by climate change and rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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17th October 2006 |
World urgently needs post-Kyoto climate deal - Alertnet
The world urgently needs a long-term post-Kyoto agreement to fight global warming to provide security for investors and raise more funding, the U.N. top climate official said on Tuesday.
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17th October 2006 |
UK 'must act' on plane emissions - BBC News
Britain will not be able to meet its goals on climate change without curbing the demand for air travel, according to an Oxford University report.
See also: The PM Must Choose... Air Travel or Cuts to Greenhouse Gases and Call for air-fare price rise to cut emissions
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17th October 2006 |
Farmers in despair as the drought sears land - The Times
Australian drought: "...every four days officials record the suicide of another farmer."
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17th October 2006 |
Weather observer ready for flight - BBC News
Europe is set to launch Metop, its most sophisticated weather and climate satellite to date. Metop will provide data to improve weather and climate models.
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17th October 2006 |
Ambrose not yet briefed on science of climate change - The Hill Times
Canada: Critics question how seriously the Harper government is approaching the climate change issue after nearly nine months in power in Ottawa.
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17th October 2006 |
Global warming may be behind leap in UK infectious diseases - NZ Herald
The first deaths from infectious disease attributed to global warming have occurred in Britain, official figures suggest.
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17th October 2006 |
First Direct Evidence That Human Activity Is Linked To Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse - Science Daily
The first direct evidence linking human activity to the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves is published this week in the Journal of Climate. Scientists reveal that stronger westerly winds in the northern Antarctic Peninsula, driven principally by human-induced climate change, are responsible for the marked regional summer warming that led to the retreat and collapse of the northern Larsen Ice Shelf.
See also: Radar Opens New Window Into The Ice For Antarctic Scientists
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17th October 2006 |
The Next Wave in Clean, Green Power - IPS
Oregon's spectacular coastline could become the United States' centre for wave energy development in coming years, with plans underway to install power buoys in locations with enough potential to meet the state's future energy needs.
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17th October 2006 |
Schwarzenegger Takes Green Roadshow to New York - Planet Ark
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will go to New York on Monday to discuss his landmark law on global warming with fellow Republicans as pressure builds on US President George W. Bush to take a tougher stance on greenhouse gases.
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17th October 2006 |
Canadian drivers' club urges less driving - CNN
Canada's largest club for drivers, the Canadian Automobile Association, Monday urged its members to spend less time behind the wheel and said this would help fight climate change and boost air quality.
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17th October 2006 |
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Titanic Nipples - Huffington Post
"I had thought that I could make a difference, be up on the bridge of the Titanic, wrestling with the wheel and steering the ship away from the iceberg and then back to port. But it is too late. The door to the bridge is locked, and hammering on it makes no difference, the Captain is oblivious, and demanding more and more coal to increase the speed.
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16th October 2006 |
£75,000 to keep peat bogs soaked
UK: A £75,000 project to keep peatland areas of the North Pennines wet, will ease global warming, experts say.
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16th October 2006 |
Australia Battles Bushfires as Drought Scars Land - Planet Ark
Firefighters in four Australian states battled bushfires fanned by soaring temperatures and strong winds on Friday, as worsening drought pitched bone-dry rural Australia into recession, its riverbeds cracked and empty.
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16th October 2006 |
Trouble in the air: How Government flights pumped out 1,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide - The Independent
The inevitable head-on collision between Britain's climate change and aviation policies moves a step closer today with figures showing the total distance flown by the Government's own ministers and senior officials last year alone is equivalent to 14 return trips to the Moon.
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16th October 2006 |
Thou shalt help to save the planet, Mothers' Union tells its 3.6m flock - The Times
Leaders issue new commandments on how to fight poverty and climate change.
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16th October 2006 |
Schwarzenegger Expands Green Initiatives - CBS News
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking his green initiatives to the other side of the country. The governor was to announce an executive order Monday in New York that joins California's landmark global warming law with the Northeast's program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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16th October 2006 |
U.S. Coal Plant Boom Poses Major Ecological, Economic Questions - Los Angeles Times
A building boom that would add scores of coal-fired power plants to the nation's power grid is creating a new dilemma for politicians, environmentalists and utility companies across the United States.
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16th October 2006 |
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Climate change is expensive. Does that help? - Guardian Unlimited
Weaning the world off fossil fuels sounds like an expensive fantasy, but a major government-backed report will reveal later this month that slashing greenhouse gas emissions will be far cheaper than dealing with the devastation if global warming continues unchecked.
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15th October 2006 |
New growth climate change theory - Salon
"..any economist who wants to talk about the costs of mitigating climate change should be ethically, not to mention professionally, obligated to at least nod in the general direction of the elephant in the room: What are the economic costs of not doing anything?"
[A new way of putting a value on economic growth: accumulating knowledge rather than accumulating wealth.]
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15th October 2006 |
The excuses have dried up — we must sign the Kyoto pact - The Age
Australia: John Howard has little choice but to review his sceptical outlook as the harsh reality of global warming makes itself clear.
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15th October 2006 |
Official: this summer is the longest, hottest ever - Guardian Unlimited
UK: Figures, based on the Central England Temperature records that date back 350 years, show that the average temperature from May to September was 16.2C. This is two degrees higher than the average for this time of year. See also: Season of mists? How autumn lost its cool
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15th October 2006 |
Citing Heavenly Injunctions to Fight Earthly Warming -New York Times
"At ground level, clergy members and lay people have been working to increase awareness of global warming and to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions. Many, like Father Morris, were active for years before the issue attracted wider concern. Encounters in their own lives awakened them to global warming, they said. But their faith and the imperatives they see in their Scriptures compelled them to act, they said."
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15th October 2006 |
Leaked draft suggests gaping holes in Clean Air Act - The Province
Canada: Prime Minister Stephen Harper's plan to crack down on smog and fight climate change would weaken federal powers to regulate greenhouse gases and toxic substances such as mercury, a leaked draft of the government's Clean Air Act suggests.
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15th October 2006 |
Eco-Conscious Travel: How to Keep Flying and Stay Green - New York Times
Carbon offsets: "If it is a new project and your money is making that happen, then the argument for ‘I’ve offset my emissions’ is a legitimate one. If you’re flying jumbo jets and simply making a philanthropic contribution to something that isn’t changing behavior and isn’t resulting in new projects, it’s simply increasing someone’s profit margin.”
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15th October 2006 |
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'No benefit' in pollution plan - Toronto Star
Canada: A leaked draft of federal legislation to combat smog and climate change suggests the new law would give Ottawa no new powers and could weaken some it already has, environment critics said yesterday.
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14th October 2006 |
Alaskan lakes are drying up, signal of warming climate - Innovations Report
Shrinking Ponds Signal Warmer, Dryer Alaska; 50 Years of Images Show Dramatic Change
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14th October 2006 |
Labor would 'sign Kyoto to fight drought' - Herald Sun
Australia: Labor would tackle climate change as a long-term solution to Australia's water shortages if it wins the next election, Opposition leader Kim Beazley said
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14th October 2006 |
Hotter means drier - The Age
As the planet grows warmer, fresh water will become increasingly scarce, writes George Monbiot.
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14th October 2006 |
An Accidental Canadian Finds Her Environmental Footing - New York Times
Nice piece on Elizabeth May, Canada's new green hope.
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14th October 2006 |
Kicking the Habit - Washington Post
Can we cut off our dependence on fossil fuels by going cold turkey?
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14th October 2006 |
Fires and Worst Drought in 100 Years Wake Australia Up to the Reality of Climate Change - Red Orbit
Australia is confronting its worst drought in a century with rampant fires devastating agricultural areas, rivers drying up, crops failing, and farmers forced to sell off their livestock.
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14th October 2006 |
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Carbon Blindness - TomPaine.com
"The climate crisis we face will not be bested through the kind of thinking that got us into the problem in the first place: because, seen with any degree of rationality, the climate crisis cannot be distinguished from the overall planetary crisis of environmental degradation, massive poverty, conflict and inequity of which it is a part."
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13th October 2006 |
Row over renewable energy scheme - BBC News
UK: A renewable energy scheme is being funded by cuts from other environmental projects, it has been claimed.
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13th October 2006 |
New combatant against global warming: insurance industry - CS Monitor
The world's second-largest industry, worried about losses related to climate change, offers incentives to 'go green.'
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13th October 2006 |
Global warming fight helps economy - Boston Globe
Combating global warming won't bankrupt Britain's economy and could be worth billions for business, says an oil company-sponsored report released Thursday.
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13th October 2006 |
Warming will cost trillions, says report - Guardian Unlimited
Failure to take action to combat climate change will cause environmental catastrophe and cost the global economy $20 trillion (£10.8 trillion) a year by the end of the century, the pressure group Friends of the Earth says today.
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13th October 2006 |
Big Bogs Spurred Ancient Global Warming - Planet Ark
Massive peat bogs in Siberia and elsewhere may have helped spur global warming at the end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago.
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13th October 2006 |
Group warns mountains will lose ice caps - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Africa's two highest mountains - Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya - will lose their ice cover within 25 to 50 years if deforestation and industrial pollution are not stopped, environmentalists warned Thursday.
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13th October 2006 |
West is warming epicenter - Denver Post
The globe is warming, but the American West is really cooking - hotter and faster on average than the rest of the U.S. and the world, a leading climate researcher said at a conference Thursday.
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13th October 2006 |
Government plans climate change law - Guardian Unlimited
UK: The government signalled yesterday that it is planning legislation to tackle climate change, with a bill possibly to appear in next month's Queen's Speech, as it acknowledges the formidable political consensus emerging over the need for action.
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13th October 2006 |
Madagascar coral reefs damaged - Boston Globe
A new survey of coral reefs along Madagascar's southwestern coast found massive damage from coral bleaching caused by rising sea temperatures, researchers said Thursday.
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13th October 2006 |
GrainCorp Slashes Crop Delivery Forecasts on Drought - Bloomberg
GrainCorp Ltd., eastern Australia's biggest grain handler, slashed its forecast for grain deliveries to its storage depots by as much as 78 percent on drought.
Also: Drought forces revision of USDA wheat forecast
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13th October 2006 |
EU Warns 8 States Over Late CO2 Emissions Plans - Planet Ark
The European Commission started legal action against eight European Union states on Thursday for failing to submit plans that allocate how much carbon dioxide (CO2) their industries may emit in 2008-2012.
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13th October 2006 |
Supposing ... We invent some decoy doomsday scenarios - Guardian Unlimited
A little story about media distraction. [Where GW comes in the list of real and fake news is left up to you to judge.]
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13th October 2006 |
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Climate change law being planned - BBC News
A climate change bill, which could see regular targets put in place to cut UK carbon dioxide emissions, is being considered by the government.
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12th October 2006 |
Salt water turning up in irrigation Problem linked to climate change - Richmond Review
Canada: A fresh problem in Richmond and Delta may be the newest manifestation of global warming in this region. Some farmers there are beginning to detect salt water from the ocean intruding into the irrigation water they draw from the Fraser River.
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12th October 2006 |
Ice sculpture of Blair unveiled - BBC News
A 4ft ice sculpture of Prime Minister Tony Blair's head has been unveiled by environmental activists. Their message to Mr Blair is that as his premiership melts away, he still has a chance to make a lasting impact on climate change.
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12th October 2006 |
Global warming turning Evangelicals green with worry - Huntingdon Beach Independent
Bill Moyers, who with producer and director Tom Casciato conceived and wrote "Is God Green?," has called the debate "a new holy war" that could change the future of both American politics and the Earth.
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12th October 2006 |
Harper out of step on global warming - Times Colonist
Canada: Conservative's announcement long on rhetoric, short on greenhouse gas, air quality action.
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12th October 2006 |
Don't be fooled: advanced and rational societies can commit environmental suicide - Johann Hari
The way our economy is structured actually encourages environmental destruction
[...so it's a rerun - so read it again!]
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12th October 2006 |
Post-Kyoto Climate Talks May Last to 2010 - Planet Ark
Talks on extending a UN-led fight against global warming beyond 2012 may last until 2010 to allow a wider US role after President George W. Bush steps down, a UN expert said on Wednesday.
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12th October 2006 |
Turtle finds sanctuary after global warming sends him the wrong way - The Times
Global warming is believed to have encouraged turtles to drift further north from their migratory route from South America to the Mediterranean
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12th October 2006 |
Ocean life makes waves - David Suzuki
"To say that everything is connected to everything else has become a cliché, but it’s true – especially in nature."
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12th October 2006 |
Imagine Earth without people - New Scientist
Imagine that all the people on Earth - all 6.5 billion of us and counting - could be spirited away tomorrow, transported to a re-education camp in a far-off galaxy. Left once more to its own devices, Nature would begin to reclaim the planet, as fields and pastures reverted to prairies and forest, the air and water cleansed themselves of pollutants, and roads and cities crumbled back to dust.
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12th October 2006 |
Fires, drought 'due to global warming' - News.com.au
Drought and bushfires ravaging Australia are the devastating outcomes of global warming, the Australian Greens said.
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12th October 2006 |
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Water for millions at risk as glaciers melt away - Guardian Unlimited
The world's glaciers and ice caps are now in terminal decline because of global warming, scientists have discovered. A survey has revealed that the rate of melting across the world has sharply accelerated in recent years, placing even previously stable glaciers in jeopardy. The loss of glaciers in South America and Asia will threaten the water supplies of millions of people within a few decades, the experts warn.
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11th October 2006 |
Closer to the brink - Guardian Unlimited
Two decades ago, Paul Brown began reporting on the dangers of climate change and was almost disciplined for his actions. Now his new book on the issue shows how much - and how little - the world has moved on
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11th October 2006 |
Harper’s “hot-air” approach not enough: activists - Montreal Gazette
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new green plan is a “hot-air” approach that would continue to accelerate the devastating effects of global warming by giving major industry polluters an easy ride, leading Canadian environmentalists said Tuesday.
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11th October 2006 |
Protecting Londoners as the capital warms up - eGov
More trees, 'green roofs' and 'cool pavements' are all on the agenda for the capital as a new report draws attention to the higher temperatures in London compared to the surrounding counties.
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11th October 2006 |
The Energy Diet - The Green Guide
How to lose weight from your carbon footprint.
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11th October 2006 |
Climate change, challenge to rice cultivation - The Hindu
Asian rice production could decline by an average 4 per cent.
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11th October 2006 |
Warmer weather 'sign of climate change' - ABC News
A leading climate scientist says the forecast hot weather this week could soon be the norm rather than the exception in South Australia.
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11th October 2006 |
Global Warming Seen Pushing up Insurance Costs - Planet Ark
Global warming will push up insurance premiums in high-risk areas like coastal Florida and other hurricane-prone parts of the United States, an insurance company official said on Tuesday.
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11th October 2006 |
Home Wind Turbines Turn Fashionable in Britain - Planet Ark
A mere breath of a breeze disturbs the quiet of autumn in south London and the wind turbine on the gable of Donnachadh McCarthy's home turns lazily.
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11th October 2006 |
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Believers preach gospel of green - Los Angeles Times
In Hollywood, the white knight in the fight against global warming is Al Gore, whose film, "An Inconvenient Truth," was received with great media hoopla when it arrived in theaters earlier this year. But in much of the rest of America, the man spearheading the battle against catastrophic climate change is someone you'd never see at the Ivy, hobnobbing with the Bush-hating, abortion-allowing, carbon footprint calculating nabobs of Hollywood elitism.
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10th October 2006 |
The freshwater boom is over. Our rivers are starting to run dry - Guardian Unlimited
We can avert global thirst - but it means cutting carbon emissions by 60%. Sounds ridiculous? Consider the alternative.
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10th October 2006 |
Green groups forecast hot air from feds - Montreal Gazette
Canada: With Prime Minister Stephen Harper poised to launch a new offensive to rebrand his government as "green" today, environmental groups are warning the Conservatives that immediate action is the only solution.
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10th October 2006 |
Drought pushes wheat to 10-year high - FT
US wheat futures struck a fresh 10-year high on Tuesday on fears of a further decline in the Australian wheat production due to the drought in much of the country’s grain-growing region.
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10th October 2006 |
Bush Pushes Environment Moves, but Still Draws Ire - Planet Ark
He's set up the world's largest protected marine reserve, raised air pollution standards and pledged to end damaging fishing, but US President George W. Bush still draws environmentalists' ire for his stance on global warming.
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10th October 2006 |
Weather sparks fire alerts - The Times
YOU may like warmer weather and melting ice caps — but firefighters are not impressed by global warming.
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10th October 2006 |
Generating Power From Kites - Wired
Researchers in Italy have high hopes for a new wind-power generator that resembles a backyard drying rack on steroids. Despite its appearance, the Kite Wind Generator, or KiteGen for short, could produce as much energy as a nuclear power plant. [!?]
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10th October 2006 |
Remember Erin Brockovich? - Sify
"The glaciers are receding (as the Gomukh glacier, the origin of Ganga), and ecologists and scientists have been crying hoarse that your river systems will dry out if the glaciers burn out, that this is perverse, this manufactured disaster. George Bush might not agree and the US might refuse to sign the Kyoto Protocol, but the freak accident is becoming a ritualistic cliche across the globe. Indeed, global warming is a dark irony in this neo-liberal theatre of the absurd where profit sharks call the shots while we breathe the air we breathe."
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10th October 2006 |
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World Hits Annual Sustainable Resource "Overshoot" - Planet Ark
Ecological Debt Day or Overshoot Day, measures the point at which the consumption of resources exceeds the ability of the planet to replace them -- and it gets earlier every year.
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9th October 2006 |
'Green' electricity views sought - BBC News
Plans to get 20% of UK electricity from renewable sources by 2020 are to be put out to consultation by Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling.
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9th October 2006 |
Living on the edge - Guardian Unlimited
Britain's coastline has remained more or less intact since the end of the last ice age. But as sea levels rise, erosion is accelerating and more than a million homes are now under threat. Is the only solution for us to abandon the shore?
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9th October 2006 |
Climate inaction 'hindering' bid to end poverty - The Age
Australia is undermining its own efforts to fight poverty across the Asia-Pacific region by failing to take serious action on climate change, according to reports being released today by a coalition of aid, church and environment groups.
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9th October 2006 |
Conservative 'strategy of delay' on climate change, critics say - Hill Times
Canada: Conservatives to engage in broad consultations before releasing their climate change plan, which won't happen before the next election, critics say.
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9th October 2006 |
We’ll go green: just give us the incentive - The Times
"The best way to make people conserve energy is to show they can make money out of doing so."
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9th October 2006 |
EU states accused over 'permits to pollute' system - The Times
The future of Europe’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) hangs in the balance as officials in Brussels prepare to do battle this month with member states to uphold the credibility of a market in permits to pollute. The market stands accused of generating billions of euros in windfall profits for utilities at the expense of consumers.
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9th October 2006 |
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Saving the Creation - GristMill
The vast majority of green voters are Christian. Apparently, there just are not enough of them. One must also keep in mind that environmental issues have not historically split along party lines. Before their assimilation by the religious right, the Republican Party used to be the environmental party
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8th October 2006 |
Focus: The new Swampy - The Sunday Times
Green campaigners have a new champion. Ten years after Swampy’s retirement, a former teen pin-up is emerging as a leading radical – and he does not like planes. The aviation industry; its relentless expansion, its assumption that such growth is good for society and the rampant consumerism it encourages, say the protesters, are all a metaphor for the attitudes that have brought the world to the edge of a global warming disaster — a disaster they are determined to stop.
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8th October 2006 |
Angry parents say air protest girls were held in solitary for 36 hours - Guardian Unlimited
Police have been widely criticised over the arrest of 25 protesters involved in the 'Plane Stupid' campaign targeting the aviation industry's contribution to the pollution causing climate change.
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8th October 2006 |
Raise the Gasoline Tax? Funny, It Doesn’t Sound Republican - New York Times
"...there is an emerging consensus among economists — right and left — that the nation would be better off, geopolitically and economically, if Americans used less gasoline."
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8th October 2006 |
Greenwash - Daily Telegraph
Companies are lining up to boast new environmental credentials, but which are real and which are little more than hot air themselves? Robert Watts reports .
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8th October 2006 |
The Weather Channel Launches One Degree; Dedicated to Global Warming - News Blaze
Web Destination Provides In-Depth Exploration and Dialogue Surrounding the Impact of Climate Change.[www.weather.com/onedegree]
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8th October 2006 |
Rising Sea, Ebbing Refuge - Red Orbit
In a report released Thursday, the Defenders of Wildlife, an environmental advocacy group, named the northeastern North Carolina refuge as one of the 10 most vulnerable refuges in the United States to the effects of global warming.
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8th October 2006 |
How you can save the rainforest - Sunday Times
UK: Former Labour minister Frank Field explains his new scheme to let ordinary members of the public ‘buy’ parts of the rainforests to protect them.
[...worthy idea but some of the claims on the website (www.coolearth.org) that saving the rainforest is the only way of cutting emissions seem a bit over-the-top]
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8th October 2006 |
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When it's time to speak out - Nature
By confronting ExxonMobil, the Royal Society is not being a censor of science but an advocate for it.
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7th October 2006 |
Alaskans Feel the Heat of Global Warming - The Earth Institute
A new study shows that four out of five Alaskans believe global warming is happening and is a serious threat to the state.
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7th October 2006 |
Worms under stress - PhysOrg.Com
Species respond far more dynamically to disturbances in their environment than we think. This is the conclusion of Dutch researcher Olga Alda Alvarez following her research into the stress response of nematodes, tiny worms that occur in large numbers in the soil. The outcomes of this study are important for further research into the consequences of climate change and pollution on the stability of the ecosystem.
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7th October 2006 |
Can planting trees really give you a clear carbon conscience? - Guardian Unlimited
Land Rover, British Gas and Coldplay are all doing it, but experts warn that the benefits of carbon offsetting may be overstated
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7th October 2006 |
Californians rush in where Washington fears to tread - FT
The progressive politics that drive the Golden State are beginning to take on an international dimension, leaving some businesses leaders and Washington policy-makers uneasy.
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7th October 2006 |
Strong Winds Trigger Increases In Ozone Destroying Gases In Upper Stratosphere - Science Daily
Because NOx destroys ozone, which heats up the stratosphere by absorbing ultraviolet radiation, the naturally occurring gases could trigger atmospheric changes that could have unanticipated climate consequences.
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7th October 2006 |
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Clampdown on air travel 'a must' for Britain to meet climate target - Guardian Unlimited
Calculations by researchers at the prestigious Tyndall Centre for Climate Change in Manchester reveal the number of flights will have to be frozen at today's levels or lower to avoid warming that could trigger catastrophic damage to ecosystems.
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6th October 2006 |
Investors make rare appeal for a clear policy on emissions - Guardian Unlimited
City fund managers are to lobby the government for clarity on emission targets after 2012, claiming the uncertainty surrounding international policy in the future is hampering investment decisions.
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6th October 2006 |
Canada Says Won't Rush to Set Emissions Targets - Planet Ark
Although Canada cannot meet its obligations for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases under the Kyoto protocol, the government will not rush to set new targets of its own, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose said on Thursday.
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6th October 2006 |
Western Warming Warning - Los Angeles Times
USA: Climate change will worsen droughts, wildfires and die-offs in the region, a report says.
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6th October 2006 |
Office workers who leave computers on all night 'add to global warming' - The Independent
Don't just switch off the television, switch off the computer too. Office workers who leave two million computers on every night are speeding up climate change, according to new research.
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6th October 2006 |
Water prices sky-high as farmers battle to survive drought - The Age
Farmers across Australia's most productive crop growing land are receiving huge cuts to their irrigation allocations, with some farmers facing the prospect of having no water at all. Water trader Tom Rooney, of Waterfind, said demand was so great that the price of "permanent water on the Murray rose 10 to 20 per cent in two weeks".
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6th October 2006 |
Green home wish 'not granted' - BBC News
UK: Lecturer Nedira Yakir of Exeter remortgaged her house to free up some equity to turn it into a dream home - by trying to make it as environmentally friendly as possible.
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6th October 2006 |
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Mixed outcomes at climate talks - BBC News
Climate talks between the world's top 20 polluters have ended with an unusual level of agreement on the urgent need to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.
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5th October 2006 |
Inuit feel the effects of global warming - Globe & Mail
The arctic is changing so rapidly that Nunavut elders can no longer tell what ice is safe, and new birds and insects are making their way into the region.
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5th October 2006 |
Ambrose takes heat over climate-change plan - Globe & Mail
Canada: Ms. Ambrose came under fire during a Commons committee meeting Thursday where opposition MPs accused her of losing the trust of Canadians by ignoring their wishes for the federal government to honour the international climate-change agreement.
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5th October 2006 |
Canada faces gas emissions dilemma - PhysOrg.Com
The Canadian government has a perplexing problem: how to deal with environmentally polluting emissions from its highly profitable Alberta oil fields.
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5th October 2006 |
US Northeast Could Warm Drastically by 2100 - Planet Ark
For those who love New England's mild summer weather, scientists have some advice: enjoy it while you can.
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5th October 2006 |
Get Ready for Freak Weather, World's Polluters Told - Planet Ark
The world's top polluting nations were told on Wednesday to prepare for decades of weather turmoil, even if they act now to curb emissions and pursue green energy sources.
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5th October 2006 |
Canada Legislators Urge Ottawa to Stick to Kyoto - Planet Ark
Canadian legislators tentatively urged the Conservative government on Wednesday to stick to emissions targets laid out by the Kyoto protocol on global warming -- targets that Ottawa says cannot be met.
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5th October 2006 |
Continued Warming Of The Arctic Ocean - Science Daily
Several days ago, the 'Maria S Merian' returned from her second Arctic expedition with data confirming trends of Arctic warming.
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5th October 2006 |
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Study warns of stark costs of failing to counter climate change as leaders meet - Guardian Unlimited
UK: Gordon Brown is about to publish a ground-breaking study which will warn the world that it faces paying multi-trillion pound economic costs if it does not move urgently to act on climate change.
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4th October 2006 |
Climate change threat 'daunting' - BBC News
One of the world's most prominent business leaders has expressed his fears over the "daunting" challenge of preventing dangerous climate change.
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4th October 2006 |
The century of drought - The Independent
One third of the planet will be desert by the year 2100, say climate experts in the most dire warning yet of the effects of global warming.
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4th October 2006 |
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks As Temperatures Rise - Science Daily
While cool August temperatures prevented sea ice in the Arctic from reaching its lowest summer extent on record, 2006 continued a pattern of sharp annual decreases due to rising temperatures probably caused by greenhouse warming, according to University of Colorado at Boulder researchers.
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4th October 2006 |
Environment Commissioner takes feds to task - CNews
Recently, Canada's Environment Commissioner released a report detailing the successes and failures of federal environment programs, especially those dealing with global warming.
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4th October 2006 |
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Science and Action on Climate Change Diverging - Planet Ark
The gap between what countries are doing to address climate change and what scientists say they should be doing is widening, Britain's Environment Minister David Miliband, said on Friday.
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3rd October 2006 |
Website maps out greener way to work - BBC News
"Websites such as walkit.com help people plan how to get from A to B on foot, highlighting that walking is a real alternative for those shorter journeys."
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3rd October 2006 |
Cutting emissions without an economic slow-down - SciDev.Net
An international accountancy firm has outlined how to sustain the rapid economic growth of emerging economies without having serious effects on the climate.
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3rd October 2006 |
New pests likely to follow pine beetle infestation - Globe & Mail
The mountain pine beetle infestation that has devastated B.C. forests is likely to be followed by other new pests taking advantage of rising average temperatures, the president the Forest Products Association of Canada said.
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3rd October 2006 |
Climate Report Seen Setting Out Scary Scenarios - Planet Ark
Climate campaigners said on Tuesday they expected a British government report on the global costs of climate change to make it clear that major concerted action was needed now.
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3rd October 2006 |
Demise of the world's most famous iceberg - Nature
Swell from Alaskan storm breaks up megaberg at opposite end of the globe.
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3rd October 2006 |
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Canberra, take note: climate change is what terrifies us - Sydney Morning Herald
This year's Lowy Institute poll reveals Australian concern over global warming to be the big "sleeper" issue of national affairs, a problem that worries Australians more than Islamic fundamentalism.
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2nd October 2006 |
Canadians eye lead in global carbon trading - Globe & Mail
A simple, cost-effective market solution to Canada's greenhouse gas emissions is ready to roll but will need liquidity to grease the wheels, a group of about 100 brokers, hedge fund managers, traders and analysts was told last week.
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2nd October 2006 |
Climate change takes toll on Bearing Sea - Daily India.com
Scientists suspect global warming in having a major negative impact on the Bering Sea, where much of the fish consumed the United States is caught.
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2nd October 2006 |
Changing climate 'a threat to Australia's stability' - The Age
Climate change will destabilise the Asia-Pacific region, exacerbate food, water and energy shortages and threaten Australia's security, a Lowy Institute research paper says.
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2nd October 2006 |
Alaskan storm cracks giant iceberg to pieces in faraway Antarctica - PhysOrg.Com
Oceanographers have known since the early 1960s that ocean swells can travel half way around the world. But the new study, funded by the National Science Foundation, raises the possibility that an increase in storms driven by climate change could affect far-flung parts of the globe.
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2nd October 2006 |
Group pushing towns to adopt global warming initiatives - Boston Globe
A bipartisan coalition of environmental groups and individuals hopes to get communities around the state to support national efforts to halt global warming, with an eye toward making climate change an issue in the 2008 presidential primaries for both parties.
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2nd October 2006 |
Top 20 polluters gather in Mexico - BBC News
Ministers from the world's top 20 polluting nations are gathering in Mexico for talks on climate change.
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2nd October 2006 |
Warning over climate 'time bomb' - BBC News
Prof James Curran said greenhouse gas released from moorlands could make climate change irreversible.
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2nd October 2006 |
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Warm water surging into Arctic Ocean - People & Planet
Surges of warm water from the North Atlantic Ocean are flowing into the Arctic Ocean and could accelerate the melting of Arctic sea ice, according to scientists at the International Arctic Research Center.
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1st October 2006 |
Miliband promotes plan to buy rainforests - Daily Telegraph
Ministers are proposing an extraordinary scheme to tackle climate change in which the Amazon rainforest would be turned into an international trust and its trees sold to individuals and groups.
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1st October 2006 |
Fleet Street's sins of emission - Guardian Unlimited
UK: Global warming and the media - how green is your local rag or your broadcaster? -and does it do to shout out the warnings of a warming world while running advertisments for low cost air travel?
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1st October 2006 |
B.C. pine beetle outbreak just a taste of climate impact: forestry official - Globe & Mail
Canada: The mountain pine beetle infestation that has devastated B.C. forests is likely to be followed by other new pests taking advantage of rising average temperatures, says the president the Forest Products Association of Canada.
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1st October 2006 |
Local Governments Get Serious About the Environment - Los Angeles Times
In the absence of serious national action, state and local governments and the private sector are taking the initiative in confronting the interlocked problems of global warming and energy conservation.
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1st October 2006 |
Get ready for holidays in hell as Earth warms - Independent Online
Gloomy predictions of extreme heat and the destruction of some of the world's top holiday destinations were made this week in a report assessing the impact of the dangers of mass tourism and climate change.
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1st October 2006 |
Canadians want answers from the federal government on climate change - Office of the Auditor General of Canada
Canadians are raising the issues of climate change and air quality in environmental petitions, said Johanne Gélinas, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, in her annual Report tabled today in the House of Commons.
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1st October 2006 |
Vegetarianism an Effective Tool Against Climate Change - AnimalConcerns.Org
Global warming poses one of the most serious threats to the global environment ever faced in human history. Yet by focusing entirely on carbon dioxide emissions, major environmental organizations have failed to account for published data showing that other gases are the main culprits behind the global warming we see today. As a result, they are neglecting what might be the most effective strategy for reducing global warming in our lifetimes: advocating a vegetarian diet.
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1st October 2006 |
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Change or die - Guardian Unlimited
George Monbiot argues that there's still time to save the world in his solidly researched manifesto for change, Heat. We must act now, says PD Smith
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30th September 2006 |
Green players raise the generation game - Guardian Unlimited
Switching to a renewable source used to come at a price, but the cost of easing your conscience and helping the planet is falling. Miles Brignall and Kim Chakanetsa report.
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30th September 2006 |
Greenland Ice Sheet Still Losing Mass - Science Daily
Data gathered by a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth show Greenland continued to lose ice mass at a significant rate through April 2006, and that the rate of loss is accelerating, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.
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30th September 2006 |
Climate change may drive lemurs to extinction
Climate change will condemn the already endangered lemurs of Madagascar to extinction, a study shows.
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30th September 2006 |
Industry due for tough love on emissions, Ambrose says - Globe & Mail
Canada: Conservative Environment Minister Rona Ambrose vowed yesterday to get tough with oil producers and auto makers when the government introduces its plan to deal with smog and climate change this fall. Activists worry minister's plan will allow greenhouse gases to increase, just slower.
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30th September 2006 |
UN secretary-general: Climate change about more than environment - UN
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks introducing Al Gore’s lecture, “An Inconvenient Truth”, in New York, 28 September
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30th September 2006 |
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Cost of saving the planet: a year's growth - Guardian Unlimited
The world would have to give up only one year's economic growth over the next four decades to reduce carbon emissions sufficiently to stave off the threat of global warming, a report says today.
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29th September 2006 |
Tories mum as environment report calls for push on global warming - Globe & Mail
Canada: The Conservative government was on the defensive yesterday and key ministers were out of town as the much-anticipated report from the Auditor-General's environment commissioner called for a "massive scale-up of efforts" to combat global warming.
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29th September 2006 |
Summer heatwaves may get much worse - The Independent
Climate change could send heatwave temperatures in the South-East of England soaring as high as 46C (114.8F) by the end of the century, the Met Office has warned.
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29th September 2006 |
Clean Air, Murky Precedent - New York Times
"No matter what happens, the end message will surely be that there’s no real substitute for concerted national action. Simply put, though California deserves praise for attacking the climate problem head on, it may be trying to do too much on its own."
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29th September 2006 |
Science and action on climate change diverging - AlertNet
The gap between what countries are doing to address climate change and what scientists say they should be doing is widening, Britain's Environment Minister David Miliband, said on Friday.
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29th September 2006 |
U.S. on track with greenhouse goals, but too easy? - Monsters & Critics
Washington is sticking to goals for curbing greenhouse gases under a yardstick shunned by most of its allies as too easy.
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29th September 2006 |
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CNN Fact Checks Inhofe’s Diatribe Against Global Warming Science - Think Progress
Repeating his claim that global warming is a hoax, Inhofe said, "The American people know…when they are being used and when they are being duped by the hysterical left." This morning, CNN hit back with a segment documenting that virtually everything Inhofe said was flatly contradicted by the facts. Watch it!
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28th September 2006 |
'Terrifying' climate change threatens coast - The Australian
A new "terrifying" climate change report shows temperature change predictions for the state's coast have already grown by 0.3C in just three years.
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28th September 2006 |
Climate change effort rated 'slow' - Toronto Star
Canada: The federal government has stumbled badly in its efforts to combat climate change, according to a summary of a report to be released today by the auditor general's office.
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28th September 2006 |
'One degree and we're done for' - New Scientist
"Further global warming of 1 °C defines a critical threshold. Beyond that we will likely see changes that make Earth a different planet than the one we know." - Jim Hansen.
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28th September 2006 |
Heed This Warning - Washington Post
The problem of climate change has become a crisis that no responsible politician can ignore.
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28th September 2006 |
Methane emissions on the rise - Nature
Industrial greenhouse-gas increase has been masked by natural declines.
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28th September 2006 |
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Branson call for greener airlines - BBC News
The global aviation industry must work together to tackle climate change, Sir Richard Branson has said.
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27th September 2006 |
Miliband tells UK to wake up over climate change - Guardian Unlimited
People are not concerned enough about the threat of climate change, the environment secretary said today, as he warned that the UK was in danger of "sleepwalking towards catastrophe" over the issue.
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27th September 2006 |
Schwarzenegger discusses climate change - Boston Globe
California's landmark effort to set a cap on greenhouse gas emissions is just one step in a long-term strategy by the nation's most populous state to combat global climate change, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in an interview.
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27th September 2006 |
Government accused of blocking hurricane report - CNN
The Bush administration has blocked the release of a report that suggests global warming is contributing to the frequency and strength of hurricanes, the journal Nature reported Tuesday.
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27th September 2006 |
Prof tracks energy treaties - Daily Camera
Energy treaty database, to be unveiled today, called 'invaluable' by U.S. senator.
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27th September 2006 |
Livingstone: environment will dominate next election - Guardian Unlimited
UK: Ken Livingstone today told Labour conference delegates that the environment would dominate the next round of mayoral and general elections.
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27th September 2006 |
Forests Worth Far More Alive Than Dead - IPS
Boreal forests provide 250 billion dollars a year in ecosystem services like reducing atmospheric carbon and water filtration, but which have gone unacknowledged by governments and industry, experts say.
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27th September 2006 |
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NASA Study Finds World Warmth Edging Ancient Levels - NASA
A new study by NASA scientists finds that the world's temperature is reaching a level that has not been seen in thousands of years.
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26th September 2006 |
Reducing Levels Of Nitrous Oxide From Soil To Lessen Impact Of Global Warming - Science Daily
Abertay University is supporting the University of Plymouth in a £1 million project which could reduce the impact of global warming by decreasing the levels of nitrous oxide -- 'laughing gas' -- produced by the earth's soil.
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26th September 2006 |
Pundits who contest climate change should tell us who is paying them - Guardian Unlimited
Covert lobbying, in the UK as well as the US, has severely set back efforts to combat the world's biggest problem
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26th September 2006 |
Yale to Train Corporate Directors on Climate Change - WBCSD
Yale University, along with two other U.S. organizations, has announced a unique collaborative effort to educate hundreds of independent corporate board members about the potential liabilities and strategic business opportunities that global climate change can create for companies.
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26th September 2006 |
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Carbon Capture, Water Filtration, Other Boreal Forest Ecoservices Worth Estimated $250 Billion/year - Science Daily
It's time to create a comprehensive accounting system for natural capital to recognize the full value of ecosystem services provided by boreal forests, an ecological economist will urge delegates to Canada's 10th National Forest Congress Sept. 25-27.
[... if you can't see the obvious truth that the environment is priceless, the next best thing is to set 'realistic' value...]
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25th September 2006 |
Expecting real cold? Not this winter - Globe & Mail
Environment Canada is predicting a milder than normal winter in the months ahead, but considering the weather patterns of the last 10 years, it should come as no surprise.
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25th September 2006 |
Global warming report hopes to "cure" addiction to oil - Canada.com
A landmark climate change report coming early next year will reveal such a strong link between global warming and fossil fuels that the world will have to end its addiction to oil, says a leading Canadian climate researcher.
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25th September 2006 |
'Office of Climate Change' to be set up, reporting to Defra - Public Technology.Net
UK: The new Office of Climate Change (OCC) will work across Government to provide a shared resource for analysis and development of climate change policy and strategy, Defra Environment Secretary David Miliband has said.
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25th September 2006 |
CO2 targets 'should be binding' - BBC News
Binding targets to reduce CO2 emissions should be included in regional planning rules, campaigners are to say in a "mock" climate change policy statement.
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25th September 2006 |
Let's Sue 'Em - EV World
Electric Drive Transportation Experts Weigh In on the California AG's Carmaker Lawsuit.
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25th September 2006 |
Climate Change Tops British Agenda in Speech to UN - Planet Ark
Britain's foreign secretary warned at the United Nations on Friday that climate change was a growing threat to international security and the world economy, saying the next 10 years would be crucial.
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25th September 2006 |
Evangelical Christian Lobbyist Pushes Environment - Planet Ark
With his pin-stripe suit and media-ready manner, the Rev. Richard Cizik looks like a typical Washington lobbyist, but his is a mission with a difference: persuading evangelical Christians to care about global warming.
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25th September 2006 |
Business has to do more to tackle climate change - Guardian Unlimited
We can solve humanity's biggest problem - but only if corporations work together with individuals and governments.
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25th September 2006 |
Scientists Set Sights on 'Green' Chemistry - IPS
A green chemical revolution is underway that promises to be environmentally sustainable and profitable while reducing the risks of industrial disasters like the Bhopal, India gas leak in 1984.
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25th September 2006 |
A reality check on plug-in hybrids - CS Monitor
Vehicles that draw power from the electricity grid offer uneven benefits, a new study finds.
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25th September 2006 |
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Cooling Sun brings relief to sweltering Earth - Guardian Unlimited
Help in battle against global warming as scientists claim that our nearest star is about to go into a period of reduced activity
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24th September 2006 |
Leicester scientist watch mother nature breathing in - PhysOrg.com
Earth Observation Scientists at the University of Leicester have been able to measure from space for the first time signals showing the amount of carbon dioxide taken up by plants, in a project hailed by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) as one of its top achievements of the year.
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24th September 2006 |
The green house of the future - The Independent
Branson and the greenerati can afford to go green. And so, soon, could you. Geoffrey Lean on Labour's eco-build revolution
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24th September 2006 |
Tiny krill have scientists stirred up - Times Colonist
Do shrimp-like creatures have effect on global warming?
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24th September 2006 |
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Ice the size of Texas melts in one year - New Scientist
Maybe this is Earth's way of telling President George W. Bush that global warming cannot be ignored: in just one year, the perennial sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean has shrunk by nearly three-quarters of a million square kilometres, an area comparable to that of Bush's home state of Texas.
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23rd September 2006 |
A coral can't change its alga - New Scientist
Corals could suffer from the effects of global warming even more than we thought.
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23rd September 2006 |
World Heritage sites threatened - CNN
World Heritage sites such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef or Kathmandu in Nepal could be taken off the tourism map by 2020 due to the effects of climate change and too many visitors, a think tank said on Friday.
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23rd September 2006 |
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UK Spent Billions Keeping Cool this Summer - Planet Ark
The long, hot summer was not without cost this year as overheated Britons spent an estimated 5 billion pounds trying to keep cool, according to a survey on Thursday.
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22nd September 2006 |
Biofuels: Green energy or grim reaper? - BBC News
Biofuels could end up damaging the natural world rather than saving it from global warming, argues Jeff McNeely in the Green Room. Better policies, better science and genetic modification, he says, can all contribute to a greener biofuels revolution.
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22nd September 2006 |
Beckett to warn UN on climate change - Guardian Unlimited
All countries must take their share of responsibility for tackling climate change or suffer its consequences, the foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, will warn the UN general assembly today.
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22nd September 2006 |
Schwarzenegger, Bloomberg Team on Climate Change - Planet Ark
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg agreed on Thursday to work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions because the Republicans said they cannot wait for the Bush administration to take action on climate change.
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22nd September 2006 |
Lowering emissions: California dreaming? - The Independent
In an ambitious move, the US state is suing six car manufacturers over exhaust emissions that add to global warming. But what are the alternatives to the internal combustion engine? And will they catch on? Motoring editor Sean O'Grady reports
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22nd September 2006 |
Ottawa gets tough on emissions - Globe & Mail
Auto makers face mandatory standards under Conservative environmental plan
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22nd September 2006 |
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The threat is from those who accept climate change, not those who deny it - Guardian Unlimited
If the biosphere is ruined it will be done by people who know that emissions must be cut - but refuse to alter the way they live
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21st September 2006 |
Climate change remains top priority - BBC News
In this second of two articles arguing for and against radical spending on climate change, Green MEP Caroline Lucas responds to a piece by Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, published on Wednesday 20 September.
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21st September 2006 |
State sues car firms on climate - BBC News
The state of California is suing six carmakers for costs associated with their cars' greenhouse gas emissions.
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21st September 2006 |
Diary: 100 Days Carbon Clean-up - BBC News
"During the past 100 days we have found ways to reduce our annual emissions by the volume of carbon that would fill our office building. We have calculated total annual savings of just over 6.5 tonnes CO2."
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21st September 2006 |
Wind Power key to fight Climate Change - Greenpeace
One third of the world's electricity can be supplied by wind; 113 billion tonnes of CO2 saved by 2050, says industry report
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21st September 2006 |
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Sea levels are rising faster than predicted, warns Antarctic Survey - The Independent
The global sea level rise caused by climate change, severely threatening many of the world's coastal and low-lying areas from Bangladesh to East Anglia, is proceeding faster than UN scientists predicted only five years ago, Professor Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, said yesterday.
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20th September 2006 |
Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial - Guardian Unlimited
Britain's leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change.
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20th September 2006 |
Growth in Amazon Cropland May Impact Climate and Deforestation Patterns - NASA
Scientists using NASA satellite data have found that clearing for mechanized cropland has recently become a significant force in Brazilian Amazon deforestation. This change in land use may alter the region's climate and the land's ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
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20th September 2006 |
Climate change makes fish migrate - Independent
A warm-water Atlantic triple fin fish has, for the first time, been caught off the coast of Britain, in another sign of species migrating north as global temperatures rise, experts said on Tuesday.
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20th September 2006 |
Schwarzenegger Guru Says CO2 Plan Starts at Border -Planet Ark
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's environmental adviser said his mission to change federal policy on global warming by getting vast regions of the United States to regulate greenhouse gas emissions will start with states on the Mexican border.
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20th September 2006 |
Climate survey shunned - The Age
Some of the world's top companies did not respond to a survey about how they were dealing with climate change issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) said this week.
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20th September 2006 |
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Breathing space - BBC News
UK: Parks without grass? It sounds absurd, but in the future climate change is likely to transform our urban green spaces. Think pine trees and wind turbines.
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19th September 2006 |
Poisonous exotic fish caught off Cornwall - The Times
A rare but potentially fatal pufferfish has been caught off the coast of Cornwall.
[..interesting: 'expert' rules out global warming without providing his own better hypothesis...]
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19th September 2006 |
A Call for Domestic Renewable Energy - Washington Post
America's energy economy is changing. Tough challenges -- from global warming to sustained high oil prices -- will be addressed in coming years, either through proactive policies and investment in clean technology, or through neglect, wishful thinking and ad hoc decisions that leave our economy and our planet less well off. Either way, change is coming.
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19th September 2006 |
England's warming 'not natural' - BBC News
Temperatures in central England are about 1°C higher than in the 1950s, and humanity's greenhouse gas emissions are the reason, a new study shows.
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19th September 2006 |
Gore: Global Warming an Immediate Crisis - Guardian Unlimited
Former Vice President Al Gore on Monday called for immediate action to stop global warming, calling the phenomenon a ''climate crisis'' that demands attention from American leaders.
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19th September 2006 |
'New climate' detected as Britain grows ever hotter - The Independent
England has become a full degree Celsius warmer since the Beatles started playing - and human activity is the cause, according to research released yesterday.
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19th September 2006 |
Halliburton to save the world after practicing in Iraq - Huffington Post
"So, rumors that the White House is preparing to make an announcement on global warming eh? Be cynical, be very very cynical."
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19th September 2006 |
Halliburton to save the world after practicing in Iraq - Huffington Post
"So, rumors that the White House is preparing to make an announcement on global warming eh? Be cynical, be very very cynical."
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19th September 2006 |
Fiddling While the Planet Burns - Scientific American
Will the Wall Street Journal's editorial writers accept a challenge to learn the truth about the science of global climate change?
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19th September 2006 |
100% of Scottish power 'green' by 2050, pledge Lib Dems - The Scotsman
* Lib Dems say that 100% of Scotland's energy could be green by 2050 * The pledge will exceed the Executive's plan of 40% by 2020 * Critics express doubt and criticise current performance on environment.
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19th September 2006 |
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Face facts: it's not just a movie - Sydney Morning Herald
"If we are facing a tipping point in 10 years, then there is even less time available. George Bush will be in office for another two years. John Howard [Aussie PM], a model of greenhouse inertia, is running for re-election. He needs to see An Inconvenient Truth.
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18th September 2006 |
Investors bet on rising costs for scarce water - Reuters
Investors who have seen energy prices rocket due to scarce supplies are starting to wager that forecasted shortages will cause the value of water to skyrocket, offering big gains to companies active in the sector.
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18th September 2006 |
Sir Menzies steps up green push - BBC News
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell has hailed his "green" tax proposals as the "most radical ever from any major UK political party".
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18th September 2006 |
Critics call World Bank energy scheme misguided - AlertNet
A World Bank scheme to bring electricity to the world's poor is short-sighted and won't curb climate change or help the people it's aimed at, environmental groups said on Sunday.
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18th September 2006 |
Polar Bears Drown, Islands Appear in Arctic Thaw - Planet Ark
Polar bears are drowning and receding Arctic glaciers have uncovered previously unknown islands in a drastic 2006 summer thaw widely blamed on global warming.
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18th September 2006 |
Investors urged to back climate change awareness with action - Guardian Unlimited
There has been a major increase in the number of top institutional investors waking up to the financial risks of climate change for the businesses in which they own shares, a report out today shows.
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18th September 2006 |
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Farmland could soon feel warming effects - Inside Bay Area
USA: California's agricultural lands have largely escaped the effects of global warming, but the honeymoon may soon be over.
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17th September 2006 |
Bush 'prepares emissions U-turn' - The Independent
USA: After years of trying to sabotage agreements to tackle climate change President Bush is drawing up plans to control emissions of carbon dioxide and rapidly boost the use of renewable energy sources.
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17th September 2006 |
No more green posturing - the planet can't wait - Guardian Unlimited
Climate change sceptics, once a thriving species, will soon be extinct.
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17th September 2006 |
Beach bomb risk from high tides - BBC News
Climate change is bringing an increasing risk of wartime munitions being washed up on Northumberland beaches, council officials are warning.
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17th September 2006 |
Flora, fauna altered by global warming - Inside Bay Area
USA - California: Scientists say fire danger is increasing, state's animals and plants changing habitats
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17th September 2006 |
The Good News About Oil Prices Is the Bad News - New York Times
Anything that reinforces the role of fossil fuels — particularly oil — as the industrial world’s primary energy source is bad, not good. Anything that prolongs the life of the internal combustion engine is a negative, not a positive. Anything that makes it cheaper to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is cause for mourning rather than celebration.
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17th September 2006 |
Inconvenient truths (for Al Gore and the rest of the planet) - The Independent
The truth behind Gore's extraordinary documentary about the perils of global warming is that he might have become President had he campaigned in office. Geoffrey Lean traces the conversion of one man, his country and a reluctant world.
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17th September 2006 |
Campbell stands firm on Kyoto refusal - The Age
Australia: Environment Minister Ian Campbell stood firm on Australia's long standing refusal to sign onto the Kyoto. [new focus on technology transfer blah blah... innovative technology blah blah...].
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17th September 2006 |
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Hunger kills guillemots - Guardian Unlimited
Hundreds of guillemots - diving birds that feed on shoals of small fish - have been found starved to death along the shorelines of Northern Ireland and the west of Scotland. "Our best guess is that their food sources have moved further north due to global climate change."
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16th September 2006 |
Nitrous oxide - no laughing matter for forests - New Scientist
Climate change could cause forests in Europe to spew out more and more nitrous oxide, aka laughing gas, a potent contributor to global warming.
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16th September 2006 |
Firm makes mark on the climate - The Independent
Shoppers will be able to take account of climate when deciding what to buy with the launch of a new mark. Manufacturers who go "carbon neutral" can apply for their labels to feature the Penguin Approved logo, which carries the assurance: "No Global Warming".
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16th September 2006 |
California, Taking Big Gamble, Tries to Curb Greenhouse Gases - New York Times
California’s decision to impose stringent demands on suppliers even outside its borders, broadened by the Legislature on Aug. 31 and awaiting the governor’s signature, is but one example of the state’s wide-ranging effort to remake its energy future.
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16th September 2006 |
Swiss push for polluter tax - Independent Online
Switzerland on Friday pushed for an international tax on greenhouse gases to help poor countries cope with droughts, floods and storms caused by global warming.
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16th September 2006 |
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When it comes to climate change, I'll take a small bet that Pascal was right - The Times
Unless the sceptics are really, really certain that we’re all going to be OK, we must act now.
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15th September 2006 |
Urgent call on carbon emissions - BBC News
UK: A report by the Tyndall Centre said a UK government target of a 60% cut in emissions by 2050 is insufficient and needs to be 70% by 2030.
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15th September 2006 |
Massive surge in disappearance of Arctic sea ice sparks global warning - The Independent
Arctic meltdown is speeding up... sea ice is vanishing faster than ever before... polar bears face extinction... and America's top climate scientist warns we only have a decade to save the planet .
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15th September 2006 |
From Alaska to Australia, the world is changing in front of us - The Independent
Reports of environmental change worldwide caused by global warming.
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15th September 2006 |
Al Gore: A matter of convenience - BBC News
Al Gore's climate film may not change what Americans think on climate change; but that doesn't matter, argues Philip Clapp in the Green Room, because Americans are already concerned - and politicians are following the public's lead.
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15th September 2006 |
US to cut funds for two renewable energy sources - CS Monitor
Geothermal and hydropower are mature enough for private enterprise to take the lead, the government says.
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15th September 2006 |
Solar alchemy turns fumes back into fuels - New Scientist
"Researchers chemically reduced CO2 to produce eight and nine-carbon hydrocarbons using a catalyst of particles of platinum and palladium confined in carbon nanotubes. These hydrocarbons can be made into petrol and diesel."
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15th September 2006 |
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Rich nations have 'climate duty' - BBC News
Rich nations must do far more to help poor countries cope with the consequences of climate change, an influential report is expected to say.
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14th September 2006 |
Slow Retreat of Sea Ice Lengthens Arctic Polar Bear's Fast - NASA
Scientists from NASA and the Canadian Wildlife Service are now reporting that the slow reduction in sea ice is forcing Arctic polar bears to fast for longer and longer periods, posing danger to their survival.
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14th September 2006 |
Arctic Sea Ice Hitting Major Lows in Wintertime - NASA
The Arctic winter wonderland, known for its icy waterways and white snowy scenery, is experiencing record low sea ice in the last two years. In a new NASA study, scientists have used satellite observations to observe unusually warm wintertime temperatures in the region and a resulting decline in the length of the Arctic ice season.
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14th September 2006 |
NASA Sees Rapid Changes in Arctic Sea Ice - NASA
NASA data show that Arctic perennial sea ice, which normally survives the summer melt season and remains year-round, shrunk abruptly by 14 percent between 2004 and 2005. According to researchers, the loss of perennial ice in the East Arctic Ocean was even higher, nearing 50 percent during that time as some of the ice moved from the East Arctic to the West.
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14th September 2006 |
NASA Sees Rapid Changes in Arctic Sea Ice - NASA
NASA data show that Arctic perennial sea ice, which normally survives the summer melt season and remains year-round, shrunk abruptly by 14 percent between 2004 and 2005. According to researchers, the loss of perennial ice in the East Arctic Ocean was even higher, nearing 50 percent during that time as some of the ice moved from the East Arctic to the West.
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14th September 2006 |
'Clinics' put climate change at heart of political agenda - The Independent
It is increasingly recognised as the greatest threat humanity has faced - so how come climate change is not at the top of every political party's agenda?
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14th September 2006 |
Environmental damage highlighted by Google Earth - New Scientist
Rampant forest destruction, retreating glaciers and explosive urban growth have been highlighted by a partnership between the United Nations and internet search giant Google.
Google again:Philanthropy Google’s Way - New York Times
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14th September 2006 |
Changes In Solar Brightness Too Weak To Explain Global Warming - Space Daily
Changes in the Sun's brightness over the past millennium have had only a small effect on Earth's climate, according to a review of existing results and new calculations performed by researchers in the United States, Switzerland, and Germany.
See also: The trouble with sunspots - RealClimate
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14th September 2006 |
Climate fears for Bangladesh's future - BBC News
Bangladesh: Climate modellers forecast that as the world warms, the monsoon rains in the region will concentrate into a shorter period, causing a cruel combination of more extreme floods and longer periods of drought.
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14th September 2006 |
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Most corals unable to adapt to warming oceans - New Scientist
Three-quarters of the world’s coral reefs may lack the ability to cope with climate change, despite previous optimistic predictions, according to a new review of coral research.
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13th September 2006 |
An inconvenient truth: beware the politician in fleece clothing - Guardian Unlimited
Al Gore's film delivers a stunning lesson on global warming. It should also alert Britons to the danger of voting on personality
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13th September 2006 |
Summer was second-warmest on record, says Environment Canada - Ottawa Citizen
Yes, it was hot. Environment Canada says the summer of 2006 was the second-warmest since national record-keeping began in 1948.
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13th September 2006 |
Drax goes back to belching carbon to boost profits - Guardian Unlimited
Drax power station, the biggest producer of greenhouse gases in the country, has reduced the amount of biomass fuel it has been burning by 90% since April, despite soaring profits.
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13th September 2006 |
Inconvenient youth - Daily Camera
Since 1976, there has been a clear decline in conservation behavior among 18-year-olds over the past 27 years — although we are not yet sure whether these attitudes follow youths into adulthood. This decline, interestingly, is coupled with a rise in materialistic values.
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13th September 2006 |
Got green fingers? Then get ready for a grove of olives and a camomile lawn - The Times
The lush green foliage of the quintessentially English garden will give way to Mediterranean blues, silvers and greys in a decade, it was predicted yesterday.
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13th September 2006 |
Mass. governor resolves not to rejoin CO2 pact - Washington Post
USA: Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will not rejoin a regional pact to regulate greenhouse gases despite the urging of the state's congressional delegation, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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13th September 2006 |
Threat from climate change must be fought globally - Chronicle Herald
Despite all the talk by the Harper government and environmentally irresponsible lobbies like the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce advocating a "made-in-Canada" approach to climate change, only a global approach will do the job.
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13th September 2006 |
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The Economist is optimistic, but Pielke Jr. isn't - GristMill
Gristmill looks at two related articles about stabilising emissions and stabilising atmosperic concentrations of CO2.
One from the economist [link below] and one from Prometheus.
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12th September 2006 |
The heat is on - The Economist
The uncertainty surrounding climate change argues for action, not inaction. America should lead the way.
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12th September 2006 |
Humans 'causing stronger storms' - BBC News
Increases in hurricane intensity are down to humanity's greenhouse gas emissions, according to new analysis.
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12th September 2006 |
Updating Prescriptions for Avoiding Worldwide Catastrophe - New York Times
Lovelock on 'sustainable retreat' and nuclear power.
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12th September 2006 |
Fresh fears on global warming - BBC News Video
Global warming may be occurring at a far faster rate than current predictions would suggest, according to new research. [RealPlayer required]
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12th September 2006 |
Complacency or catastrophe, warns Gore - The Age
Former US Vice-President Al Gore says climate change is the most serious threat to humans. Ever.
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12th September 2006 |
Leaders commit to set new emission targets - Globe & Mail
European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to set new carbon dioxide emissions targets that go beyond those now set for 2012 under the UN's Kyoto Protocol.
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12th September 2006 |
Climate change warning for a nation of gardeners - Guardian Unlimited
The quintessential English garden and lawn are "under threat" from climate change, a government minister warned today.
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12th September 2006 |
Inconvenient truth can prove lucrative - The Times
AL GORE, the “recovering politician”, has turned a stump speech into a Powerpoint presentation into a feature film. Climate change, he warns in his alarming documentary, is An Inconvenient Truth. The business world is coming to see it as a lucrative one.
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12th September 2006 |
Interview with John Stauber - DeSmogBlog
SmogBlog audio interview with John Stauber, founder of the non-profit Center for Media & Democracy (the group behind both SourceWatch and PRWatch.
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12th September 2006 |
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How cities are preparing for global warming & peak oil - Energy Bulletin
[Follow the link for a whole slew of interesting articles on global warming and peak oil]
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11th September 2006 |
Soaring energy costs make solar power a bright idea - Guardian Unlimited
With the hefty rises in electricity and gas prices over the past year, the lining is that solar power, for most of us, is now a realistic, cost-effective option.
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11th September 2006 |
Destructive insects on rise in Alaska - Boston Globe
Alaska: Warmer winters kill fewer insects. Longer, warmer summers let insects complete a life cycle and reproduce in one year instead of two, the forest ecologist said.
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11th September 2006 |
Ottawa reneges on Liberal pledge to help poor countries cut greenhouse gases - CBC
The federal Conservatives are cancelling a $1.5 million pledge by the previous Liberal government to help developing countries cut greenhouse emissions under the rules of the Kyoto Protocol.
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11th September 2006 |
Take him to task: Gore challenges PM on climate - Sydney Morning Herald
Australia: CLIMATE change is a bigger threat to world security than terrorism and the world's industrial countries must cut their greenhouse gas pollution before they can demand developing nations take action, says the former US vice-president, Al Gore
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11th September 2006 |
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Global warming film unites preachers and politics - Washington Post
USA: Coming soon to a movie screen near you: prayers, politics and a feature-length film, united in an effort to mobilize religious groups around global warming concerns in time for the U.S. midterm election.
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10th September 2006 |
Global warming could worsen terror attacks - Augusta Free Press
"The double-whammy of environmental degradation from global warming in poor nations with fragile ecologies combined with a heavy-handed military response from U.S. client governments to any civil unrest is sure to create more young men angry at America - more Mohammad Attas and Khalid Sheik Mohammads."
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10th September 2006 |
Protectionist backlash 'will derail world economy' - Guardian Unlimited
Global carbon taxes, wealth redistribution ... radical social solutions are globalisation's last chance, Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz tells Heather Stewart. "...Europe, he suggests, should charge the States with subsidising its firms by failing to control their emissions, and demand the right to impose punitive tariffs on American goods."
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10th September 2006 |
The compact-fluorescent parable - Daily Camera
With simple acts, we can become much less fuelish: "My view is that both global warming and peak oil can be usefully viewed as predictable consequences of unchecked growth in the use of non-renewable energy. However, it is possible to believe in any of these three powerful forces (exponential growth, global warming, or peak oil) independently of the others and reach the same conclusion: we are in deep trouble and must change our wasteful ways now."
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10th September 2006 |
Stingray sightings rise in warmer British seas - The Times
Marine experts have reported an increase in the number of stingrays off the British Isles as climate change warms the Atlantic water.
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10th September 2006 |
Climatologist Kelly Redmond on climate changes in the Western U.S. - GristMill
"The best guide I know to the climatological consensus is soft-spoken Kelly Redmond, who helps lead the influential and wide-ranging Western Regional Climate Center."[Interview follows]
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10th September 2006 |
Start planning now for warmer planet - Toronto Star
The potential for an acceleration of the warming of the planet, as suggested by this research, clearly is a signal that there is a need for an accelerated worldwide policy response that goes well beyond the Kyoto accord on climate control.
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10th September 2006 |
Minister warns of 'desert gardens' - The Times
Gardeners should grub up their roses and rhododendrons and replace them with yuccas and lavenders in preparation for the hot, dry summers that climate change will bring to Britain, Ian Pearson, the environment minister, will warn this week, write Jonathan Milne and Jonathan Leake.
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10th September 2006 |
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World must wake up to the dangers of biofuels, head of Kew Gardens warns - The Independent
Extensive production of biofuel crops, such as oil palms, could destroy remaining areas of rainforest and bring about a new cycle of worldwide intensive agriculture involving vast applications of artificial fertilisers and pesticides, and requiring enormous water resources, said Professor Crane, who as the head of Kew Gardens is the world's leading plant scientist.
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9th September 2006 |
Global warming threatens Arctic whales - Nunatsiaq News
Global warming could cause diseases to flourish in the Arctic’s whale populations, causing dramatic die-offs, warns a researcher with the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
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9th September 2006 |
Young activists to battle Ottawa on climate change - CNews
A group of young activists, drinking free-trade coffee and eating organic fruit, is gathering in Toronto this weekend in an effort to inject their voice into what governments should do to address climate change.
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9th September 2006 |
Warmer seas attract young turtles to UK - The Independent
Young leatherback turtles have been spotted off the British coast this summer, reflecting a possible rise in sea temperatures, according to conservationists.
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9th September 2006 |
International expert says mountains underrated as sources of drinking water - Globe & Mail
Canadians need to see their mountain ranges as more than recreational areas and safeguard them as a key water resource, an international water expert said Friday.
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9th September 2006 |
The world in hot water - Boston Globe
"If the United States, the world leader in producing the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, ever takes serious action on climate change, it will be in part because Californians have learned the lesson that Jake Gittes, the Jack Nicholson character in "Chinatown," learned about corruption in Los Angeles: It's all about water.
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9th September 2006 |
Biggest threat is climate change, says new survey - The Scotsman
UK: Global warming and climate change are the biggest threats facing the world, a new poll has found.
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9th September 2006 |
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World Needs Far Tougher Action on Warming - Planet Ark
Industrial countries will have to make swingeing cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to slow global warming, perhaps of up to 80 percent by 2050 as suggested by some nations, the UN's top climate official said on Thursday.
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8th September 2006 |
World's most wanted: climate change - BBC News
Human-induced climate change must be treated as an immediate threat to national security and prosperity, says John Ashton, the UK's climate change envoy. He argues that we must secure a stable climate whatever the cost, as failure to do so will cost far more.
See also: Solve climate 'whatever it costs'
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8th September 2006 |
Global Warming Taking Earth Back to Dinosaur Era - Planet Ark
Global warming over the coming century could mean a return of temperatures last seen in the age of the dinosaur and lead to the extinction of up to half of all species, a scientist said on Thursday.
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8th September 2006 |
Of phony petitions and attacks on science - GristMill
The following is a guest essay by John Tirman, Executive Director of MIT's Center for International Studies. "Recently I have encountered the counterattack on climate-change science, and it is a sobering experience..."
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8th September 2006 |
British species migrate northward - BBC News
Right across Britain, animals are on the march, moving northwards and going to higher ground as the climate warms, experts have told a major conference.
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8th September 2006 |
Pollution Bill Aimed at California - Washington Post
A bill to crank up penalties for the nation's most polluted air regions (both in California) was introduced Thursday in the Senate by Congress' biggest skeptic of global warming.
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8th September 2006 |
Hurricane Gordon can help cool the globe - The Times
UK: Hopefully chancellor (and probably next PM) Gordon Brown can do his bit for global warming by tweaking legislation to make it more expensive to wreck the planet.
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8th September 2006 |
Canada Plans to Boost Environment, Ignore Kyoto - Planet Ark
The Canadian government, under fire for dismissing the Kyoto protocol as unworkable, will next month unveil an environmental package that focuses on improving air quality, but says little about global warming, officials and activists say.
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8th September 2006 |
World's Leading Photographers Weigh In On Climate Change With Exhibit at UN Headquarters - PR Newswire
A photographic exhibition highlighting the urgent need to combat climate change at the local, national and global levels opens today at the United Nations Main Gallery. NorthSouthEastWest chronicles the impact of climate change in communities from all parts of the globe, as seen through the lenses of ten of the world's top photographers.
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8th September 2006 |
Caribou numbers on steep decline - Chronicle Herald
Latest survey ominous news for aboriginals who depend on herds - Some have suggested climate change may be a factor.
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8th September 2006 |
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Eco-fatalism is for wimps - The Times
Ignore the pessimists: we can do a heck of a lot to curb the catastrophic effects of climate change.
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7th September 2006 |
Methane bubbles climate trouble - BBC News
Thawing Siberian bogs are releasing more of the greenhouse gas methane than previously believed, according to new scientific research.
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7th September 2006 |
Climate change threatens species - The Age
Climate change threatens to push hundreds of Australian animal species into extinction, the World Wildlife Foundation says.
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7th September 2006 |
What else may change with climate - CS Monitor
There's more to global warming than temperature changes and rising seas. Scientists are also finding many subtle side effects.
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7th September 2006 |
Two billion homes could be free from escalating electricity costs - Greenpeace
could realistically be powered by solar energy by 2025, according to a joint report launched today by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association and Greenpeace.
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7th September 2006 |
Solar energy: : Silicon Valley sunrise - Nature
Sunlight is a ubiquitous form of energy, but not as yet an economic one. In the first of two features, Oliver Morton looks at how interest in photovoltaic research is heating up in California's Silicon Valley.
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7th September 2006 |
Europe's glaciers in retreat - BBC News
Shrinking glaciers are causing tonnes of rock to break loose from one of Switzerland's most famous mountains, the Eiger, and crash into the valley below.
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7th September 2006 |
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Gore: Adaptation to Global Warming Counterproductive - Planet Ark
"We have to solve it (global warming) and there are some people who urge adaptation instead of prevention, and that formulation must be rejected."
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6th September 2006 |
Poll finds Canadians more worried than ever about environmental issues - Chronicle Herald
Climate change has jumped dramatically on the scale of Canadians’ worries over the last year and most people want the government to meet Kyoto targets, according to an environmental poll.
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6th September 2006 |
Inconvenient truth that can't be ignored - Sydney Morning Herald
When the film about climate change featuring Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, was shown in Parliament House in Canberra on Monday night, even the enviro-sceptics and climate change flat-earthers were shocked.
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6th September 2006 |
Gore Predicts Shift in Bush Climate Policy - Planet Ark
Former US Vice President Al Gore predicted on Tuesday that President George W. Bush would shift to do more to fight global warming, under Republican pressure from California to New York.
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6th September 2006 |
The Global Famine of 1877 and 1899 - The Globalist
Climate change — whether due to cyclical weather patterns or more drastic environmental effects — has changed the course of human history many times. In "The Winds of Change," author Eugene Linden describes how the British government dealt with two severe droughts in India in the late 19th century
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6th September 2006 |
Spain's Searing Drought Drains Water Supplies - Planet Ark
Spain's searing drought has sapped water reserves to record lows for the time of year, threatening supplies to the populous southern regions of Alicante and Murcia, official data showed on Tuesday.
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6th September 2006 |
Warm lake hints at climate danger - BBC News
Record high temperatures in Windermere indicate that climate change may be fuelling a decline in the UK's water quality, say experts.
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6th September 2006 |
Harper government policies scare young environmentalists into action - Edmonton Journal
Canada: A combination of rollbacks on climate change programs and a lack of commitment to the Kyoto accord have prompted a summit in Toronto among young environmentalists.
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6th September 2006 |
Texas set to build new coal-fired power plants - GristMill
Everyone is justifiably excited about the good news out of California, but a much more representative microcosm of the climate debate can be found in the state of Texas.
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6th September 2006 |
The Burning Season - Sierra Club Compass
As Martin Kaste reports on NPR, the fire season normally winds down in September. Not this year. A combination of drought and other factors, including considerable die-off of trees due to bark beetle-infestation, is contributing to a prolonged fire season in the West that shows no end in sight.
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6th September 2006 |
Lowered Global Warming Forecasts? Not So Fast - Scientific American
When science news reporters take their cues from other news reporters rather than from the scientific literature itself, problems often result.
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