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Global ICT carbon emissions 'unsustainable' - Personal Computer World The global information and communications technology industry accounts for approximately two per cent of global CO2 emissions, new estimates reveal. Gartner stated that the figure, which is equivalent to that of the aviation industry, is "unsustainable".	30th April 2007
Pacific whale decline 'a mystery' - BBC News Grey whales along the Pacific coast of North America appear to be in distress, with not enough food available. [most read item]	30th April 2007
Climate summit opens in Bangkok - BBC News A major conference on what needs to be done to combat climate change opens in Thailand's capital, Bangkok.	30th April 2007
Coal? Yes, Coal - BusinessWeek Never mind global warming. Peabody Energy CEO Gregory Boyce is betting big on the dirty fuel's durability	30th April 2007
FACTBOX-Reports by the U.N. climate panel - AlertNet Source: Reuters April 30 (Reuters) - Top climate experts and government officials from around the globe began a five-day meeting in Bangkok on Monday to discuss a draft report on how to fight climate change and how ...	30th April 2007
Lean times ahead for grizzlies? - Helena Independent Record Climate change likely to affect diet of adaptable bears	30th April 2007
Oddball schemes to fix global warming get thumb's down - PhysOrg Unconventional schemes for tackling global warming by installing a giant sunshade in orbit, sowing the seas with iron and scattering sulphur into the upper atmosphere are set to be bluntly rejected by UN experts this week.	30th April 2007
Full IPCC AR4 report now available - RealClimate The complete WG1 IPCC 4th Assessment report (AR4) is now available online. It's missing the index and some supplemental data, but all should be available by May 7.	30th April 2007
Defra in storm over EU carbon scheme - FT The government department spearheading Britain's effort to reduce carbon output is driving companies and individuals towards paying under a European Union system for emissions cuts that do not take place. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has also channelled more than half of �215m paid out under a pilot UK greenhouse gas trading scheme to just four companies which spent considerably less than they received on emissions cuts.	30th April 2007
Bush Administration 'cool' to European proposal on warming - WWF At a US-European Union summit on Monday 30 April, the is rejecting language committing it to keep global warming below the recognized "danger level" of 2 degrees Celsius. Recent efforts by German Chancellor and current EU Council President Angela Merkel to secure support were rebuffed despite intense diplomatic discussions.	30th April 2007
Earth's Climate Is Seesawing, According To Climate Researchers - Science Daily During the last 10,000 years climate has been seesawing between the North and South Atlantic Oceans. As revealed by findings presented by Quaternary scientists at Lund University, Sweden, cold periods in the north have corresponded to warmth in the south and vice verse. These results imply that Europe may face a slightly cooler future than predicted by IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.	30th April 2007
The real scandal at the World Bank - Johann Hari Wolfowitz's World Bank is killing thousands of the poorest people in the world, and knowingly worsening global warming.	30th April 2007
Germany to Become World's Most Energy-Efficient Country - Deutsche Welle The German Environment Ministry this week unveiled a set of highly ambitious proposals that would lead Germany to become the world's most energy-efficient country in the coming years.	30th April 2007
The heat is on for greenhouse gas methane BANGKOK (Reuters) - Across the globe, chickens and pigs are doing their bit to curb global warming. But cows and sheep still have some catching up to do.	30th April 2007
Solar loans light up rural India - BBC News Thousands of people in rural India have used an innovative loan scheme to install solar power units, the UN says.	30th April 2007
Biofuel push will ravage habitats, say Eurocrats - drive.com.au In March EU leaders agreed to set a binding climate change target to make biofuel - energy sources made from plant material - account for 10 per cent of all Europe's transport fuels by 2020.	30th April 2007
Germany struggling to save last glacier - Sydney Morning Herald Spreading giant anti-glare shields over the glacier each April after piling tonnes of loose snow upon it, workers at the Zugspitezebahn cable car operator are fighting a losing battle to keep their glacier alive - for business and ecological reasons.	30th April 2007
UN facing a backlash on emissions action plan - Guardian Unlimited The world's leading climate change experts will this week outline highly controversial plans to save the world from global warming. Their proposals - which include a major expansion in nuclear power, the use of GM crops to boost biofuel production, and reliance on unproven technologies, including the underground storage of carbon dioxide - will put the UN's climate group on a collision course with a host of environmental groups. [most read item]	29th April 2007
Gore calls green plan a 'fraud' - Toronto Star Tory proposal 'designed to mislead' Canadians, U.S. lobbyist says See also: Investors cheer, greens jeer Canada emissions plan	29th April 2007
Pope Benedict XVI Calls for Permanent World Wide Car Boycott - Indymedia Chiapas In a stunning display of unity the world's religious leaders have come together led by Pope Benedict XVI to call for a permanent world wide Car boycott. At yesterday's Vatican Conference on Climate Change Pope Benedict XVI addressed world religious leaders, politicians and scientists. "Imagine that the air is gray and filled with poison caused by cars burning oil, gasoline. Now imagine that your political leaders are oil executives. Is this not like putting the fox in charge of the hen house? Is this not the ultimate conflict of interest? The oil executive political leaders lured by the allmighty dollar are putting their own finacial interests above the right of every person on earth to breathe air free from deadly poison." [..hard to believe this one - wishful thinking surely?]	29th April 2007
Scorched - Guardian Unlimited As the conflict in Darfur spreads across central Africa, with thousands more displaced and killed, Julian Borger in Chad investigates the origins and contradictions of what is likely to be seen as the first climate change war.	29th April 2007
Americans say global warming is a problem A new poll says nearly half of all people in the United States view global warming as a serious problem.	29th April 2007
Carbon-neutral is hip, but is it green? - International Herald Tribune The rush to go on a carbon diet, even if by proxy, is in overdrive. Charles Komanoff, an energy economist in New York, said the commercial market in climate neutrality could have even more harmful effects. It could, by suggesting there's an easy way out, blunt public support for what will really be needed in the long run, he said: a binding limit on emissions or a tax on the fuels that generate greenhouse gases. "There isn't a single American household above the poverty line that couldn't cut their CO2 at least 25 percent in six months through a straightforward series of fairly simple and terrifically cost-effective measures."	29th April 2007
Grasshoppers give clues to global warming - Vail Daily News Preliminary results seem to show climate change is having an impact. At weather stations that show a degree or two of warming, grasshoppers, which use temperature as a cue to mature, are becoming adults nearly a month earlier than they were in the late 1950s.	29th April 2007
TABLE-Top 50 countries by greenhouse gas emissions - AlertNet Source: Reuters April 29 (Reuters) - Following is a ranking of the top 50 national emitters of greenhouse gases in 2000, showing huge gaps in the world picture of emissions in recent years. Countries ...	29th April 2007
Expectations lowered for stopping global-warming - Los Angeles Daily News As scientists' warnings about global warming heat up, climate negotiators are counting down toward make-or-break talks later this year, hoping for progress on a long-term deal to sharply reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Experts are beginning to fear, however, that as time runs down the best that can be hoped for may be an extension of the relatively weak Kyoto Protocol, due to expire in 2012. The alternative is a world without any carbon-reduction rules at all.	29th April 2007
Leader: Climate change - Guardian Unlimited "I'm not a plastic bag" reads this week's must-have, a designer tote sold by the not-especially-designer Sainsbury's. All 20,000 were gone within hours, sold at a fiver each to shoppers keen to prove that they could consume as fervently as ever and yet be green too. The limits of such an approach was illustrated by reports that some of the bags were handed over in the conventional sunbed-orange carriers. Buying yet another product to demonstrate one's concern for the environment smacks of self-contradiction. The approach that many companies and consumers take, however, fits the same pattern by participating in various schemes to offset their carbon emissions.[most read item] See also: UN: we have the money and know-how to stop global warming - Guardian Unlimited	28th April 2007
Let's all go to the lobby Perhaps fearing the coming crunch of climate and energy legislation, oil giant Exxon Mobile more than doubled their reported lobbying expenditures in 2006 to $14.5 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. This blows their previous year's total of $7.14 million and next-highest-spender Chevron's $7.5 million out of the water.	28th April 2007
April weather set to break record - BBC News The UK Met Office figures indicate this month will be the warmest April in England since records began.	28th April 2007
Suzuki calls emissions strategy an embarrassment - CNews TORONTO (CP) - One of Canada's most respected environmentalists says the government's new plan to fight climate change is an embarrassment. David Suzuki says the federal strategy falls far short of expectations and proves the Conservatives are out of touch with Canadians. See also: Environment Minister Baird on the defensive one day after unveiling emissions plan	28th April 2007
EU green targets will damage rainforests - Daily Telegraph European union green fuel targets will accelerate the destruction of rainforests in South-East Asia and threaten the habitat of endangered species, such as the orang-utan.	28th April 2007
The lag between temperature and CO 2 . - Gore's got it right. - RealClimate "Doesn't the relationship between CO2 and temperature in the ice core record show that temperature drives CO2, not the other way round?" On the face of it, it sounds like a reasonable question. It is no surprise that it comes up because it is one of the most popular claims made by the global warming deniers. Of course, those who've been paying attention will recognize that Gore is not wrong at all...	28th April 2007
Croatia Ratifies Kyoto Protocol - AP via Yahoo! Finance	28th April 2007
Economists expect scant economic impact from climate plan - CNews OTTAWA (CP) - Consumers are unlikely to notice a significant rise in costs as a result of the climate plan announced this week, economists say. But they also doubt the plan will achieve the targets stated - stabilization of greenhouse gas emissions by 2012 and a 20 per cent cut by 2020.	28th April 2007
World must act soon to slow warming from emissions, report says - International Herald Tribune New efforts will be needed worldwide to stem growth in greenhouse-gas emissions linked to rising temperatures, according to a summary of a report being prepared by scientists and economists.	28th April 2007
Americans see climate threat, but reluctant to conserve: poll - AFP via Yahoo! News A strong majority of people in the United States see global warming as an imminent danger but not all are ready to make big sacrifices to slow climate change, according to a new poll Friday.	28th April 2007
China May Penalize Polluters - Time Magazine China's premier pledged Friday to phase out tax breaks and discounts on land and electricity for highly polluting industries, saying that the country's environmental situation was grim	28th April 2007
The world on the edge - Financial Times If the world's leading climate scientists are correct, by the end of this century the earth will have warmed by about 3C. The scientists, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made it clear in February in a study that took six years to write that they were as certain as it is possible to be that global warming is occurring, and is owed in large part to human actions.	28th April 2007
PM to push forward with nuclear power - Sydney Morning Herald Australia: According to The Weekend Australian, Mr Howard will promote uranium exports and "climate-friendly" nuclear power as part of a political campaign to cast himself as forward-looking and Labor as being against progress and jobs.	28th April 2007
The Spreading Epidemic - Forbes We're destroying the web of nature. Can we knit it back together?	28th April 2007
Baird's 'real' emissions plan misses Kyoto deadline by years - CBC The federal government released Thursday the specifics of its much-anticipated emissions plan, which requires most industries in Canada to reduce greenhouse gases by 18 per cent by 2010. The new plan means Canada will be at least eight years behind meeting its requirements under the Kyoto Protocol. Canada will only reach Kyoto's emissions targets between 2020 and 2025, instead of 2012 as laid out in the international plan to curb climate change.	27th April 2007
Protect God's creation: Vatican issues green message - Guardian Unlimited The Vatican yesterday added its voice to a rising chorus of warnings from churches around the world that climate change and abuse of the environment is against God's will, and that the one billion-strong Catholic church must become far greener.	27th April 2007
Can Japan Make Bush Go Green? - Time Magazine On Tuesday, Japan and the U.S. signed a landmark pact that calls for cooperative development on clean coal technology and nuclear power, including Japanese help for the first new atomic power plant in the U.S. in 30 years. Japanese media are also reporting that Abe and President George W. Bush will set a goal to cut half the world's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Tokyo hasn't confirmed the report, but Japanese officials have made it clear that the Abe intends to go green in Washington. "The Prime Minister is deeply interested in climate change," says a senior Japanese foreign ministry official. "As we finish the first phase of the Kyoto [Protocol], the world will have to grapple with climate change in one way or the other."	27th April 2007
High temperatures, and even higher anxiety, in Europe - International Herald Tribune While few Europeans are complaining about the balmy weather this season, there already are fears that droughts and electricity shortages are just around the corner. "Everywhere looks nice," she said. But "in the back of my mind there is a feeling that it's just not right." [most read item]	27th April 2007
Ocean gobbles carbon at different rates - New Scientist Automated explorers tracking plankton fall-rate in the ocean's 'twighlight zone' reveal surprise differences with implications for long-term carbon capture	27th April 2007
Volcanic eruptions, ancient global warming linked - EurekAlert! CORVALLIS, Ore. -- A team of scientists announced today confirmation of a link between massive volcanic eruptions along the east coast of Greenland and in the western British Isles about 55 million years ago and a period of global warming that raised sea surface temperatures by five degrees (Celsius) in the tropics and more than six degrees in the Arctic.	27th April 2007
Avoiding Self-Organized Extinction: Toward a Co-Evolutionary Economics of Sustainability - RedNova By Gowdy, John Key words: Biodiversity, climate change, co-evolution, collapse, generalized Darwinism, Walrasian economics, well-being, world systems analysis SUMMARY The critical problems that scientists warned about decades ago are now upon us.	26th April 2007
CO2 needs a price but taxes are the best way to set it - Financial Times The Kyoto protocol to fight climate change expires in 2012. The shape of a successor treaty is still in doubt, but one aspect seems certain: carbon trading will play a major role. A Financial Times investigation today reveals that carbon markets leave much room for unverifiable manipulation. Taxes are better, partly because they are less vulnerable to such improprieties.	26th April 2007
Leading article, Science: The seeds of a great idea All life depends on plants. This is a truism, but it is one that most of us have forgotten. In modern society we have all become so insulated from the natural world that we now make no connection whatsoever, as we tear open the plastic packaging of a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich for a rushed lunch, between the edible contents and the plant universe that is pollination and germination, photosynthesis and flowering. [most read item]	26th April 2007
INTERVIEW-Means exist to cut emissions, but is there the will? - AlertNet The tools exist to cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to meet aggressive global warming caps, but it may take more catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina to forge the political will, a top U.N. expert said. "We have a fair degree of confidence that the technologies exist. The question is: How much cost are we willing to bear?" Mohan Munasinghe, vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said in an interview on Thursday. "The push for greater mitigation will come through catastrophes and other extreme events," he said.	26th April 2007
Ice shrinks, birds migrate early in warmer Arctic - AlertNet A Norwegian glacier has shrunk on an island 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole, a usually frozen fjord is ice-free and snow bunting birds have migrated back early in possible signs of global warming.	26th April 2007
It's springtime for snifflers - New York Daily News Spring is barely in swing but New York doctors are already getting calls from allergy sufferers miserable from trees pollinating after a short, mild winter.	26th April 2007
UK vineyards helped by global warming - Sydney Morning Herald English wines, once the butt of mocking jokes by connoisseurs, enjoyed their best harvest for a decade as global warming created ideal conditions for grapes.	26th April 2007
Wave farm passes funding hurdle - BBC News	26th April 2007
Australia: 90% say climate change top issue - Courier Mail	26th April 2007
Huge 'Green' Boondoggle? - TheTyee.ca "It's a complete scam," says Dogwood Initiative executive director Will Horter. "If the purpose of the power line is to get these people off diesel, there's way better alternatives." "If the purpose is to pretend that you're doing something green while you're basically building a power line that opens the whole northern province up to oil and gas and mining and coal development and you can get away with that, then fine."	26th April 2007
Dutch consider tough biofuels criteria - Boston Globe It's the new climate change dilemma: finding alternatives for oil and gas without doing more harm than good. See also: Land needed for fuel and food	26th April 2007
Blown chances - Toronto Star Obsessed with blaming Liberals, the Conservatives, and John Baird, have lost a golden opportunity to put national interest ahead of partisan advantage.	26th April 2007
Boffin warns of bacteria's affect on global warming - Portsmouth News A VAST stockpile of unreleased carbon dioxide in the oceans could speed up global warming, a Portsmouth scientist has warned. Dr Michelle Hale is coming to the end of a five-year study of how microscopic bacteria release massive stores of carbon dioxide from the ocean into the atmosphere.	26th April 2007
India's energy dilemma: Coal-powered growth vs climatic disaster - Monsters and Critics.com New Delhi - With its economy on the fast track, India is increasingly turning to coal to fuel its tremendous growth in the coming decades - but the government is doing so at its own peril, warn the growing chorus of climatic experts.	26th April 2007
Eyes in the sky grow dim - BBC Budget cuts mean Nasa's capacity to monitor our planet is greatly diminishing, a major report has concluded.	26th April 2007
Satellites Play Vital Role In Understanding The Carbon Cycle - Science Daily The global carbon cycle plays a vital role in climate change and is of intense importance to policy makers, but significant knowledge gaps remain in our understanding of it.	26th April 2007
Schwarzenegger warns of Calif. suit against EPA LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday threatened to sue the Environmental Protection Agency if it fails to act soon on a state bid to crack down on greenhouse gas emissions from cars.	26th April 2007
First Successful Demonstration of Carbon Dioxide Air Capture Technology Achieved - PhysOrg Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture carbon from the air. The "air extraction" prototype has successfully demonstrated that indeed carbon dioxide (CO2 ) can be captured from the atmosphere. [... is this the latest new-yet-never-to-be-perfected technology whose promise will keep our fingers from the 'off' switch?]	26th April 2007
Feds plan to cut greenhouse gases by 2020 - CNews Canada's Conservative government said Wednesday it will cut greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2020 and ban inefficient incandescent lightbulbs by 2012 as part of a national environmental initiative.	26th April 2007
'08 hopefuls tout climate-change plans - The Christian Science Monitor Polls show that most Americans think global warming is a serious problem, and candidates are being pressured on their positions by interest groups.	26th April 2007
Nepal scientists decry 'frozen' glacier flood measures - SciDev.net Climate scientists in Nepal have warned that poor coordination of research and an inactive early warning system are putting Nepal's people at risk of flooding caused by melting glaciers.	26th April 2007
Opposition 'flicking' mad over green campaign - Toronto Star A campaign against climate change - launched Wednesday by Environment Minister Laurel Broten and billionaire Richard Branson - encourages youth to "FLICK OFF."	26th April 2007
Toles again
Our world is finite: Is this a problem? - Energy Bulletin We all know the world is finite. The number of atoms is finite, and these atoms combine to form a finite number of molecules. The mix of molecules may change over time, but in total, the number of molecules is also finite. We also know that growth is central to our way of life. Businesses are expected to grow. Every day new businesses are formed and new products are developed. The world population is also growing, so all this adds up to a huge utilization of resources. At some point, growth in resource utilization must collide with the fact that the world is finite. We have grown up thinking that the world is so large that limits will never be an issue. But now, we are starting to bump up against limits.	25th April 2007
Fossil Arctic animal tracks point to climate risks - Scientific American Fossils of a hippopotamus-like creature on an Arctic island show the climate was once like that of Florida, giving clues to risks from modern global warming, a scientist said. "It's a worrying scenario for future global warming." [most read item]	25th April 2007
Democrats want swifter EPA action on emissions standards - Los Angeles Times Senators criticize the agency's leader, saying he lacks a sense of urgency in confronting global warming. WASHINGTON - The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency came under fire Tuesday from congressional Democrats, who said he had failed to respond more aggressively to the Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gas emissions could be federally regulated.	25th April 2007
A serious blow - Guardian Unlimited Plans for England's first truly community-owned wind farm are under threat as commercial developers muscle in on renewables.	25th April 2007
Germany Also Faces Extreme Weather Due to Global Warming - Deutsche Welle German meteorologists say that the country must start preparing for extreme weather that could cause numerous deaths due to global warming. Germany has already heated up by 0.9 degrees Celsius in the past century.	25th April 2007
Wolfowitz deputy under fire over climate - FT One of Paul Wolfowitz's two handpicked deputies, Juan José Daboub, tried to water down references to climate change in one of the World Bank's main environmental strategy papers, the bank's chief scientist has told the Financial Times.	25th April 2007
Hurricane Spin - RealClimate While increases in wind shear could offset the impact of tropical temperatures in some - maybe even the majority - of storm seasons, one might worry about what happens during those seasons where there is anomalously low shear (e.g., a very strong La Niña event). The warm ocean will still be sitting there, waiting to produce tropical cyclones and Hurricanes--and the prospects for destructive Hurricane activity during those seasons could be especially grim.	25th April 2007
Move to block emissions 'swindle' DVD - Guardian Unlimited Climate scientists say film misleads public · Wag TV producers reject 'contemptible gag attempt'	25th April 2007
China to overtake US as polluter - Guardian Unlimited Tipping point for CO2 previously predicted 2010, now this November.	25th April 2007
Today's Article on Christian Science: God's will: life, not extinction - The Christian Science Monitor The reports on global warming call for prayer to preserve and protect the Earth.	25th April 2007
EU and US in climate change dispute - Financial Times The European Union and the US are locked in a dispute over climate change, days before a showpiece summit intended to display co-operation between the two. Diplomats say US and Eur­opean officials have yet to agree the wording for a declaration on energy security and climate change intended to accompany the Washington summit next Monday. One official said 50 per cent of the declaration still had not been agreed.	25th April 2007
More Swedes would lower living standard to help climate: poll - AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News	25th April 2007
Greenwashing Fears Raised by Berkeley-BP Initiative - The NewStandard	25th April 2007
Summer in April! German farmers pray for rain - IANS via Yahoo! India News With cherry trees and fields of rapeseed in full bloom and the ground dry and dusty, farmers in Germany are worrying about their crop. Midsummer has turned up in mid-April and it's taking its toll on farmers. Because of the hot weather in Germany, more and more farmers are resorting to southern European plants because these can endure hot temperatures and need less water.	24th April 2007
An island made by global warming - The Independent The map of Greenland will have to be redrawn. A new island has appeared off its coast, suddenly separated from the mainland by the melting of Greenland's enormous ice sheet, a development that is being seen as the most alarming sign of global warming. [most read item]	24th April 2007
Higher temperatures slow tropical tree growth - Mongabay.com Climate change may be reducing growth rates of tropical rainforest trees, a development that could have widespread impacts for biodiversity, forest productivity, and even climate change itself, according to new research published in Ecology Letters.	24th April 2007
Deep sea fish growing slower due to global warming - Mongabay.com Changes in ocean temperature have altered the growth rates of commercially harvested fish over the past century, according to a new study published in this week's early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).	24th April 2007
Arctic ice nears record low - USA Today Scientists report that the 2007 minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic could set an all-time record low due to global warming. Based on current data, researchers at the University of Colorado say there's a 33% chance this will happen. See also: Summer arctic sea-ice gone by 2040?	24th April 2007
Climate change gives rise to weather hedge - Financial Times The first Global Warming index is to be launched this week by UBS, allowing businesses most affected by the uncertainty of climate change - from ice-cream salesmen to makers of winter coats - to hedge their profits against it in a simple and transparent fashion.	24th April 2007
Mccain: Address Energy Security, Warming - Guardian Unlimited Republican presidential contender John McCain on Monday warned about U.S. reliance on foreign oil and the threat of global warming, dismissing even some in his own party who suggest climate change is a Hollywood-driven notion. The way people in this country use oil is "a serious threat to our security, our economy and the well-being of our planet," the Arizona senator said in a speech.	24th April 2007
EnviroHealth: Target Global Warming, Target Exxon There's still serious denial about the need to take immediate action on climate change. And to dismantle the architecture of this denial means taking on the key role of ExxonMobil.	24th April 2007
Easter freeze damaged state's grape, pecan crops - The Brownsville Herald Farmers still recovering from the devastating drought conditions of 2006 are now sizing up their losses from the latest weather calamity to hit Texas: freezing temperatures.	24th April 2007
EU leader: Bush climate stance flawed - BusinessWeek The Bush administration's policy on climate change is unrealistic because it doesn't do enough to encourage industry to adopt technology that can fight global warming, the European Union's ambassador to the United States said Monday.	24th April 2007
U.S. Adults Less Likely Than Europeans to Think Humans Are Contributing to the Increase in Global Temperatures	24th April 2007
EU carbon prices at 4-month highs - Budapest Business Journal	24th April 2007
Kyoto protocol targets won't be part of Tories' clean air legislation - Canada.com	24th April 2007
Australian Greens seek 30pc emissions cut - Adelaide Now	24th April 2007
Mutual fund investors urged to put heat on mutual fund companies to vote responsibly on global warming resolutions	24th April 2007
China admits climate change dangers - Times Online	24th April 2007
Carbon Gas Is Explored as a Source of Ethanol - New York Times	24th April 2007
China flags hard line on climate - The Age THE push for a global consensus on reducing greenhouse gases has been dealt a potentially serious blow, with a major report by the Chinese Government declaring that economic growth must take priority over cuts in emissions. Despite dire warnings about the effects on China of a warming planet, Beijing's first official report on climate change flatly rejects international pressure to impose emission limits on its factories and coal-generated power plants as unfair and economically perilous. See also: China's first climate change steps too small - AlertNet [pretty grim unless the WTO can circumvented and economic pressure be brought to bear in the form of extra duties or tariffs on imports]	23rd April 2007
The wrong question - GristMill Is climate change the most important global problem we face?	23rd April 2007
Mark Lynas: Six steps to hell - Guardian Unlimited Will human beings survive if the world is six degrees hotter at the end of the century? Mark Lynas finds out. [most read item]	23rd April 2007
Thousands of Quebecers march to pressure Tories to honour Kyoto - Canada.com MONTREAL (CP) - Thousands of people marched through the streets Montreal on Sunday in support of the Kyoto environmental agreement. Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe was among the protesters demanding Ottawa cut Canada's greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Kyoto protocol. See also: Copps: PM needs to stop being scared of Kyoto and Canadians ready for a carbon tax: David Suzuki	23rd April 2007
London holds the answers for NY - Guardian Unlimited New York mayor unveils plans to introduce congestion charge.	23rd April 2007
Tanzanian coffee farmers go green - BBC News A bio-gas converter that creates gas out of waste water is changing the lives of Tanzanian coffee farmers.	23rd April 2007
Climate-change law unit formed - Herald News In what could be viewed as a sign of the times, one of New Jersey's leading law firms is seeking to cash in on the growing concern about the environment by creating a unit to focus on climate-change issues.	23rd April 2007
Karl Rove Gets Thrown Under the Stop Global Warming Bus - Huffington Post "You can't speak to us like that, you work for us." Karl then quipped, "I don't work for you, I work for the American people."	23rd April 2007
UK must lead on climate - Blair - BBC News	23rd April 2007
Londoners 'must walk more' - BBC News	23rd April 2007
Global warming imperils Himalayan glaciers - Reuters	23rd April 2007
'We've got to get on with it': 101 ways you can help save Earth - Vancouver Province	23rd April 2007
Illinois To Plant 2 Million Trees - WHBF-TV Quad Cities	23rd April 2007
A US Carbon Market Could Learn From Europe - IETA - Planet Ark	23rd April 2007
Norway Faces Tough Road to Zero Emissions in 2050 - Planet Ark	23rd April 2007
Astronauts recall view before Earth Day "It was the only color we could see in the universe. ... "We're living on a tiny little dust mote in left field on a rather insignificant galaxy. And basically this is it for humans. It strikes me that it's a shame that we're squabbling over oil and borders." [most read item]	22nd April 2007
There's only one movement now - Energy Bulletin In honor of International Women's Day, the IUCN has released an extensive report detailing exactly how awful climate change is going to be for women. How bad will it be? Really, really bad. That is, women are going to disproportionately endure the consequences of climate change - the hunger, the drought, the diseases, the economic burden, the poverty, because women make up a majority of the world's poor. And, of course, women are disproportionately under-represented among those people who make climate policy decisions, and poor women even more than rich ones.	22nd April 2007
Happiness Is a Smaller Eco-Footprint - IPS Today's children will live in a new world of climate change and greatly diminished natural resources, which may give way to a nightmarish reality, or it could give birth to a happier and lighter way of living on the Earth, say environmentalists.	22nd April 2007
The 'Canaries' Under The Sound - Hartford Courant Microscopic shells shed by single-celled creatures lie deep within the estuary's sediment, and researchers believe they have a lot to tell us about climate change. Foraminifera: Elphidium excavatum ousted by Ammonia beccarii. Causes: A warming Ocean and excess nitrogen. Effects: Dramatic changes to the marine food chain.	22nd April 2007
Scientists Forecast 1 In 3 Chance Of Record Low Sea Ice In 2007 - Science Daily University of Colorado at Boulder researchers are forecasting a one in three chance that the 2007 minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic region will set an all-time record low.	22nd April 2007
Town seeks carbon neutral future - BBC News A town launches an ambitious attempt to become Scotland's first entirely carbon-neutral community.	22nd April 2007
China says global warming threatens development - AlertNet Global warming could devastate China's development, the nation's first official survey of climate change warns, while insisting economic growth must come before greenhouse gas cuts.	22nd April 2007
International Divisions Surface Over Nuclear Energy - Infoshop News Several governments are planning new investment in nuclear energy, ignoring opposition by environmental scientists who say that nuclear power is not a solution to providing carbon- free energy.	22nd April 2007
Ocean Cooling. Not. - RealClimate A lot has been made of a paper (Lyman et al, 2006) that appeared last year that claimed that the oceans had, contrary to expectation, cooled over the period 2003-2005. At the time, we (correctly) pointed out that this result was going to be hard to reconcile with continued increases in sea level rise (driven in large part by thermal expansion effects), and that there may still be issues with way that the new ARGO floats were being incorporated into the ocean measurement network. Now it seems as if there is a problem in the data and in the latest analysis, the cooling has disappeared.	22nd April 2007
American ruling could put gas guzzlers off the road - Times Online The threat of national limits on carbon dioxide emissions could kill off big macho vehicles like the Hummer and the Corvette, writes Ray Hutton	22nd April 2007
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EnviroHealth: Climate Change: Why We Can't Wait Jim Hansen gives us the five necessary steps we need to take to prevent catastrophic climate change. [most read item]	21st April 2007
An end-game scenario, supply-side policy, and defining our goal: The solution statement - GristMill A supply-side response -- imposing a cap on extractions in 2015 with 10 percent reductions at 5 year intervals until emissions are stabilized at pre-industrial levels, as shown in the accompanying chart, for example -- is the ideal climate policy.	21st April 2007
Climate action can be achieved at reasonable cost, says UN report - CNews OTTAWA (CP) - A draft UN report says it's possible to cut global greenhouse emissions in half by 2030 and stave off dangerous climate change at a cost of less than $50 a tonne.	21st April 2007
MALAWI: Small farmers hit by changes in the climate - AlertNet Source: IRIN JOHANNESBURG, 20 April 2007 (IRIN) - Small-scale farmers in Malawi are becoming aware that they are bearing the brunt of climate change, which has been adversely affecting productivity, according to a new study by an international aid agency.	21st April 2007
John Patterson examines the propaganda war waged against several campaigning films - Guardian Unlimited When film-makers take on huge corporations it is rarely a fair fight. John Patterson examines the propaganda war waged against several campaigning films, and their makers.	21st April 2007
China confronts costs and causes as rivers run dry - The Age Mr Chen has heard of global warming, but he doesn't know whether that - or the gigantic dam - is to blame for the drought and rising temperatures. What he does know is that every year Chongqing, long dubbed one of China's three "furnaces" for its searing summers, is getting warmer.	21st April 2007
EnviroHealth: Changing the Social Climate How global warming affects economic justice, the future of the progressive movement and whether your child walks to school.	21st April 2007
Gangloff Refutes Time Magazine's Tree Facts - American Forests Twice in your global warming issue (April, "Things You Can Do" and "What Now?" you maintain that planting trees in temperate zones could cause global warming. That is an unfortunate misinterpretation of the science.	21st April 2007
Be My Neighbor - New York Times Book review: Bill McKibben hopes for a localized, communitarian, small-scale world.	21st April 2007
Will Lemmings Fall Off Climate Change Cliff? - Science Daily	21st April 2007
High-altitude jet will track Asian dust plumes - New Scientist	21st April 2007
Annan: Climate Change Threat To Humanity - CBS News	21st April 2007
More States Joining Emissions Agreement - The Boston Channel	21st April 2007
Narwhals Aid in Study of Climate Change - RedNova	21st April 2007
Leading Article: A global warning from the dust bowl of Australia - Independent Australia is in the midst of a crippling drought, the country's worst on record. Many towns and cities have been forced to enact drastic water restrictions as reservoirs have run dry. Rivers have been reduced to a trickle. The drought has severely damaged the agricultural sector. Farmers are raising emaciated cattle and sheep. Cotton-lint production has plummeted. Wine grape and rice output has collapsed. Agricultural production has fallen by almost one-quarter in a year. And it is estimated that the drought has knocked three-quarters to 1 per cent off the country's growth as a whole. See also: Australian drought threatens crop catastrophe - Guardian Unlimited [most read item]	20th April 2007
Climate threat has plants quivering - BBC News A 2C (3.6F) increase in temperature may be too much for many plants species to survive, scientists warn.	20th April 2007
Expect another warm Arctic summer - Nunatsiaq News March was cold in the Arctic, but temperatures from elsewhere in the world show 2007 is on its way to becoming the hottest year in recorded history. See also: Warmer weather destroying Arctic treasures	20th April 2007
Global warming swells federal insurance risk to more than $900 billion - Canton Repository The insurer of last resort, the government faces a potential payout of at least $919 billion under a worst-case scenario of flood and crop losses due to global warming, congressional investigators say.	20th April 2007
Early sighting of basking shark - BBC News A basking shark is spotted cruising through Irish waters - two months earlier than usual. According to Dr Savidge, the sighting of the shark is extremely unusual for this time of year as there are only a few sightings in the lough each year and these are usually in the high summer months of July and August. However, in recent years there has been a rise in the number of sightings of the coast off the British Isles which is believed to be partially due to climate change as the sharks follow plankton from warmer seas.	20th April 2007
Global warming blamed for lack of icebergs - StarPhoenix Plenty of icebergs have been produced in Greenland in the last decade, but warming seas are melting them before they get to Canada, according to marine geologist Chris Woodworth-Lynas.	20th April 2007
Forest fire alert due to warm, dry weather - NZZ The Swiss environment office has put the country on alert, warning of a high risk of forest fires due to the lack of rain and unseasonably warm weather.	20th April 2007
Hop farm brother plants vineyard - BBC News Warmer weather in the South East has prompted a man to return to his family farm to plant a vineyard.	20th April 2007
Growing Number of Americans See Warming as Leading Threat - Washington Post A third of Americans say global warming ranks as the world's single largest environmental problem, double the number who gave it top ranking last year, a nationwide poll shows.	20th April 2007
Norway aims to be carbon neutral by 2050 - USA Today Norway wants to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 in the world's toughest national plan for fighting global warming, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.	20th April 2007
Indonesia minister proposes new-car ban - AFP via Yahoo! News Indonesia's environment minister defended Thursday his proposal to ban sales of new cars in a bid to slash pollution levels, amid concern from local automakers.	20th April 2007
Failure to act on environment a crime against future generations: Suzuki - CNews MONTREAL (CP) - Political and business leaders who fail to act on climate change are committing a crime against future generations and the courts may be the way to force them to change, says David Suzuki.	20th April 2007
'A small price to pay' for cap on greenhouse gas - The Age A cap on greenhouse gas emissions would cut national growth and on average cost Australia about $5 billion a year every year until 2030, research shows.	20th April 2007
Pig fat to be turned in to diesel - BBC News US oil firm ConocoPhillips, and Tyson Foods say they will produce diesel from animal fat to cut emissions.	20th April 2007
This Earth Day, a focus on Earth's warming - The Christian Science Monitor Public awareness about climate change is growing; 83 percent of Americans now call it a 'serious' problem.	20th April 2007
Global warming a gender bender for lizards - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Scientists in Canberra have evidence to suggest more species of reptiles could be threatened by global warming than first thought.	20th April 2007
Will China's poverty reduction kill the planet? - Salon.com Number of extreme poor: Down, down, down. Number of coal-fired power plants: Up, up, up.	20th April 2007
EcoWellness: Climate change and health - UPI Climate change may have already set in motion serious and drastic impacts to public health, a trend that requires swift reactions from governments to adapt, experts said Wednesday.	20th April 2007
Climate change: Why we don't believe it - The New Statesman What does Britain really think about global warming? We reveal an unreported gulf between the pronouncements of campaigners and politicians and British public opinion	19th April 2007
The chasm between our agenda and climate science: The problem statement A review of recent climate science findings finds that Jim Hansen's bright-line standard and timeframe for global action [1.0 C limit on further increase in global temperature / 475 ppm cap on atmospheric carbon with <10 years for global action] is, if anything, not conservative enough. A rash of recent reports identify major climate forcings wholly unaccounted for in IPCC models -- such as a five-fold increase in methane releases from Siberian peat bogs -- that support the view of rapid, discontinuous climate change predicted by Hansen. Energy market projections show that current climate policies will barely dent the ramp-up of fossil fuel use and emissions. [most read item]	19th April 2007
Drought in Australia by Matt Taylor - BBC News Australia's worst drought on record got tougher on Thursday when the prime minister announced there won't be enough water to allow irrigation along the country's largest river system, unless there's significant rainfall over the next month.	19th April 2007
World needs to axe greenhouse gases by 80pct: report OSLO (Reuters) - The world will have to axe greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, more deeply than planned, to have an even chance of curbing global warming in line with European Union goals, researchers said on Thursday.	19th April 2007
YEMEN-HORN OF AFRICA: Government combats wheat killer disease - AlertNet Source: IRIN SANAA, 18 April 2007 (IRIN) - Yemen's government has launched a campaign to combat a virulent and potentially devastating wheat disease after the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently warned of its spread to the Arabian Peninsular from east Africa.	19th April 2007
China creates first artificial snow in Tibet BEIJING (Reuters) - China has created artificial snow for the first time in Tibet, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday, months after experts warned of melting glaciers and drought in the Himalayan region. See also: Artificial snow harms Alpine water system [different kind of artificial]	19th April 2007
INTERVIEW-No U.S. emissions curbs without China,India - envoy - AlertNet The United States will not join an international regime curbing emissions blamed for global warming until it also applied to China and India, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union said on Wednesday. See also: China about to become biggest carbon emitter	19th April 2007
Climate reporting 'too balanced' say scientists - SciDev.net [MELBOURNE] Airing the views of climate change sceptics in the media only serves to keep controversy boiling, scientists have told the World Conference of Science Journalists in Melbourne, Australia.	19th April 2007
Boxer: Time for Bush to act on climate change - San Francisco Chronicle Sen. Barbara Boxer promised to pressure the Bush administration to adopt California-style global warming regulations, telling reporters today the Supreme Court "handed us a gift" with its recent landmark decision authorizing the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce greenhouse gasses as a pollutant.	19th April 2007
Canada Mulls Diluting Emissions Targets - Document - Planet Ark OTTAWA - As recently as last week Canadian officials mulled whether to weaken the government's commitment to cut emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, according to a leaked document.	19th April 2007
Inside IT: Think global, calculate local - Guardian Unlimited Calculating the outcomes of climate change requires a choice between regional and local models, says James Bloom.	19th April 2007
SAE panel: Many hurdles to alternative fuels - Detroit Free Press A strong movement is forming to help wean U.S. consumers off gasoline, but key challenges must be overcome for alternatives to work, a panel of experts said Wednesday at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in downtown Detroit.	19th April 2007
Singing the desalination global warming paradox blues - Salon.com Climate change could make California desperately thirsty for desalted water. But powering up the desalination plants could cause more global warming	19th April 2007
The world is dying and we're all dormant idiots - Talon Marks - subscription If the world's most powerful leaders smoked marijuana at least twice a week then the global warming problem would be well on its way to a solution. It may sound like a joke or even asinine, but it's not nearly as ridiculous as uptight, old white men continually putting money over the future of this planet. How much money do you need in an ice age? What, are the wooly mammoths going on sale? Maybe you are tired of hearing about global warming. Maybe you think it's idealistic to try and stop something that won't even immediately affect you. Maybe you're an idiot. Or maybe we just need to stop thinking in terms of maybes and start acting. The reports are out and it's clear the governments of the world are clearly lagging to save mother earth.	19th April 2007
Biologist explains changes to Alaska fisheries due to warming sea ... - Kodiak Daily Mirror As the Bering Sea warms, what Kodiak fishermen catch in the next 30 years may be different than anything in the past.	19th April 2007
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Jonathan Freedland: Global warming is a security threat to us all - Guardian Unlimited The debate on climate change at the UN top table is a sign that the big powers are at last beginning to see sense. See also: Beckett feels the heat after debate on climate.	18th April 2007
Lindzen in Newsweek - RealClimate Lindzen's piece is not a serious discussion. Instead, it is a series of strawman arguments, red-herrings and out and out errors.	18th April 2007
'Spring is new summer' - report - BBC News Hawthorns blossoming and swifts returning mean summer has come early thanks to climate change, says a report.	18th April 2007
Bangladesh: A nation in fear of drowning The once lush island of Aralia is disappearing under rising waters as flooding becomes more frequent, temperatures increase and disease kills four people a month. Shamola Begum will never forget the way her son cried in the last days of his life. Nine-year-old Masuk had always been a sickly child, but before he died he'd pleaded: "Mother, I need food." But Shamola often only had a little rice to feed him; nothing more.	18th April 2007
'Fewer leaves' behind frog demise A decline in leaf-litter in forests, not a fungal infection, could be behind the demise of frogs, a study suggests. Scientists, from Florida International University, the University of Costa Rica and San Diego State University, suggested shifts in the area's climate had led to a decline in the habitat needed to sustain the creatures.	18th April 2007
Ethanol cars may not be healthier - BBC News Ethanol vehicles may have worse effects on human health than conventional fuels, warn US scientists.	18th April 2007
Consumption made beautiful - New Scientist A picture paints a thousand word: Chris Jordan has taken the ugly truth of our planet-destroying over-consumption and produced beautiful, simple images. [most read item]	18th April 2007
'Climate Justice' Demanded in Washington - OneWorld Dubbing the battle against climate change a moral test for the United States, global anti-poverty and religious leaders called on U.S. politicians Monday to take drastic and immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to minimize the country's contributions to global warming.	18th April 2007
Commentary: Society, not science, must solve global warming - Albuquerque Tribune Al Bartlett, professor emeritus at the University of Colorado, calls it "Disney's First Law": Wishing will make it so. It's a particularly appropriate idea for Sunday, Earth Day 2007, as we confront the increasingly stark realities of global warming.	18th April 2007
Tory climate-change plan not good enough, say environmentalists - CNews Canada: A draft climate plan being considered by the federal government would weaken the long-term goal for cutting greenhouse emissions from what was announced by former environment minister Rona Ambrose last October.	18th April 2007
French plan green postal service - BBC News The French postal service, La Poste, plans to order 10,000 electric delivery vehicles to cut fuel costs.	18th April 2007
US 1990-2005 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up 16 Pct - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday US greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming increased 16 percent over a 15-year period.	18th April 2007
Global warming may spur wind shear, sap hurricanes - Reuters AlertNet Global warming could increase a climate phenomenon known as wind shear that inhibits Atlantic hurricanes, a potentially positive result of climate change, according to new research released on Tuesday.	18th April 2007
Exports: World's plants facing mass extinction - Xinhua The world's plants face mass extinction if climate change remains unchecked and more efforts are not taken to encourage plant conservation, warned experts on the second day of the Third Global Botanical Gardens Congress in Wuhan, central China on Tuesday. "About half of the earth's 400,000 plant species and 100,000 unclassified plant species will be threatened with extinction if the temperature rises by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius in the next 100 years," said Dr David Bramwell, director of Jardin Botanical Gardens in Las Palmas, Spain.	17th April 2007
David Horton: Catch 2020 - HuffingtonPost You all remember Zeno's paradox don't you? How in a race between fast Achilles and slow Tortoise Achilles can never catch up to the tortoise, because every time Achilles covers the distance between himself and the tortoise, the tortoise will have moved a bit further, and by the time Achilles reaches that point the tortoise will have moved again. And so on ad infinitum. So do we say of Zeno's Paradox 'I refute it thus' and send the Hare, powered by solar, wind, geothermal power, and with all the hindrances of poor energy efficiency stripped away, barrelling past the Tortoise in a single bound? Or do we get forced into making more and more changes while never catching up anyway?	17th April 2007
Out of Africa: diseases could hit animals and crops - The Herald Many different species are relocating their habitats in response to global warming, and diseases are doing much the same. Blue-tongue is one such disease that now poses an imminent threat to the UK. It was first described in South Africa and then spread through the tropics and sub-tropics.	17th April 2007
Butterfly may be a sign of change - BBC News The rare sighting of a migratory butterfly could be a further indicator of global warming, say conservationists. [most read item]	17th April 2007
Frogs offer new climate warning - Guardian Unlimited Amphibian and reptile numbers fall by 75% in reserve meant to save them.	17th April 2007
Catastrophic Climate change very evident for travellers to Argentina - Canadian National Newspaper Global warming is a subject that is never far from the news, and yet there are very few places on the planet where evidence of climate change can be so clearly seen as in the ice fields of the south Andies in Argentina and Chile. The Perito Moreno glacier in southern Argentina is a particularly beautiful and arguably typical example. Until recently this ancient frozen leviathan was still advancing, one of only three in the world to do so. Now, things have changed, as we discovered when we visited the area.	17th April 2007
How Ashton Hayes is inspiring other green towns and villages - Guardian Unlimited Britain's first carbon-neutral village is inspiring action groups.	17th April 2007
Green Activists Stepped It Up - TomPaine.com Green Activists Stepped It UpTomPaine.com, DC. ... people worked hard and passionately to get something going about climate change. That's what a movement is, and now there is one around global warming. ...	17th April 2007
Blog: Former Head of US Central Command on Global Warming: "We Will Pay For This One Way or Another" - Scientific American Yet another report declares that global warming is a "serious threat to America's national security." Those of you who have been paying attention won't find much that's new here, unless you find the fact that the report in question was written by six retired admirals and five retired generals to be of note. While the report cites the usual harms--flooding and rising sea levels causing mass displacement and the like, it is perhaps unique in its focus on water shortages.	17th April 2007
Security Council takes on global warming - BBC News The BBC's Paul Reynolds looks at the first debate on climate in the Security Council