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Neutrality is cowardice - The New Statesman Future historians, assuming that there are any, will have an entertaining time looking back at how today's journalists wriggled when confronted with the great moral question of our age.	31st August 2007
Deep thought - Aug 29 - Energy Bulletin David Korten: Living wealth- better than money Rise and fall of sea levels and civilisations Albert Bartlett on population, energy and the exponential function	31st August 2007
Germany's Gabriel:Government To Further Cap CO2 Emissions Post 2012 - Nasdaq FRANKFURT -(Dow Jones)- Germany is set to further tighten its cap on carbon dioxide emissions after the 2008-2012 trading period of the European Union's Emission Trading Scheme, Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel told representatives of the financial community in Frankfurt Thursday.	31st August 2007
Global food crisis looms as fertile land stripped by climate change - Guardian Unlimited Science environment: . 'Ignorance, need and greed' depleting soil . Experts warn competition will lead to conflict. See also: Global Warming's Next Victim: Wheat - Time Magazine	31st August 2007
Ireland hotting up, says report - BBC News The Irish climate is heating up almost twice as fast as the rest of the world, a report suggests.	31st August 2007
Sockeye salmon running on empty - Abbotsford News The worst sockeye salmon run in decades is now swishing its way upstream toward the spawning beds. With less than 30 per cent of the expected number of salmon showing up in the Fraser River, it's a disaster for commercial fishermen, aboriginals and sports anglers alike. The developing pattern of poor returns in recent years is deeply disturbing. Plenty of salmon should have hatched from the previous spawn and gone out to sea. But indications point to warmer ocean water - likely due to climate change - that has resulted in less food for offshore sockeye and more predators chasing them.	31st August 2007
As you've probably already guessed, it's the wettest summer on record - The Scotsman THE summer of 2007 is set to be wettest on record, it was revealed last night.	31st August 2007
More severe U.S. storms will come with global warming, NASA researchers say - CNews WASHINGTON (AP) - As the world warms, the United States will face more severe thunderstorms with deadly lightning, damaging hail and the potential for tornadoes, a trailblazing study by NASA scientists suggests.	31st August 2007
Global warming - who pays and when? - The Christian Science Monitor The economics of climate change is driving what kind of pact nations may be willing to make.	31st August 2007
Bad Advice on Climate Change - Newsweek Bjorn Lomborg's advice on global warming ignores so much bad news that it sounds like "What, me worry?"	31st August 2007
Canada contemplates nuclear solution to quell climate change - Canada.com A series of carbon columns used in the processing of uranium are pictured at Areva Resources in McClean Lake, Sask.	31st August 2007
Steve Milloy's compact fluorescent & mercury junkscience - DeSmogBlog For someone who fights Junk Science, Steve Milloy sure likes to spread... well, the junk science. Remember the story a while ago about the lady who paid over $2000 to have the mercury cleaned up when she accidently smashed a compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL's)? If not, here's the alarmist piece Steve Milloy wrote for Fox News on the matter. According to most reports on mercury and CFL's this lady was most likely a victim of a dubious clean-up crew than she was of mercury poisoning. Energystar reports that the amount of mercury in a CFL is about 100 times less than that found in your average thermometer (pdf).Here's the Environmental Protection Agency's guidelines for cleaning up a broken CFL:What to Do if a Fluorescent Light Bulb Breaks Fluorescent light bulbs contain a very small amount of mercury sealed within ...	30th August 2007
US casts doubt on global carbon market - AFP via Yahoo! News The US delegate to a United Nations conference on climate change cast doubt Wednesday about the creation of a global carbon market to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.	30th August 2007
Climate flooding risk 'misjudged' - BBC News Climate change may carry a higher risk of flooding than was previously thought, the journal Nature reports.	30th August 2007
Is a zero-carbon Britain possible? asks Leo Hickman - Guardian Unlimited Leo Hickman considers the implications of Liberal Democrat plans to eliminate greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050.	30th August 2007
John Harris: Great global coal rush is fast track to irreversible disaster - Guardian Unlimited John Harris: The dirtiest fossil fuel of all is on the resurgent, dressed in climate-friendly garb.	30th August 2007
Vulnerable to rising seas, Singapore envisions a giant seawall - International Herald Tribune Faced with the prospect of a long, slow submersion, Singapore has reached out to the world's greatest experts on the subject of battling back the sea - the Dutch.	30th August 2007
Water experts worry biofuel will crowd out food crops - International Herald Tribune Biofuel took center stage at a weeklong conference on the world's water supply this week, with experts warning it could pose more problems than solutions in the fight against climate change.	30th August 2007
Climate Report May Have Cut Katrina Impact - Analyst - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - Hurricane Katrina might have caused less damage if the Bush administration had completed a required report of US vulnerability to global warming before the storm hit, an environmental policy analyst said on Wednesday.	30th August 2007
Reflective Mirrors Seen Raising Solar Potential - Planet Ark SDE BOKER, Israel - Reflective dishes may be the answer to make solar energy competitive with conventional sources of power, Israeli scientists say.	30th August 2007
Ireland getting hotter, wetter - Boston Globe Ireland getting hotter, wetterBoston Globe, United States. "We're putting the people where we have the least water availability, and also where climate change will further squeeze them in terms of less rainfall in ...	30th August 2007
Sir David Attenborough: Saving life on our fragile planet earth - Independent In the fifty years since his first documentary for the BBC, Sir David Attenborough has seen thousands of species on earth. Now his thoughts have turned to the impact of climate change on the natural world, Ian Burrell report	30th August 2007
The end of civilization and the extinction of humanity "Would you rather have the best excuse in the world, or would you rather have a world?"	30th August 2007
Sea to 'Engulf Guangdong' by 2050 - China Internet Information Center| Sea to 'Engulf Guangdong' by 2050China Internet Information Center|, China. The PRD area, a leading manufacturing hub will be hard hit by climate change in the coming decades, Du Raodong, a weather expert with the Guangdong ...	30th August 2007
Time to tune in to the real world - BBC News People are more interested in reality TV and the world of celebrities than the real world and the challenges it faces.	29th August 2007
George Monbiot Updates His Global Warming Book - Indymedia UK George Monbiot Updates His Global Warming BookIndymedia UK, UK. Here is a portion of George Monbiot's speech at the Camp for Climate Change in London Aug. 18, '07. He has been studying and writing about global warming ...	29th August 2007
Regional Climate Projections - RealClimate Regional Climate ProjectionsRealClimate. How does anthropogenic global warming (AGW) affect me? The answer to this question will perhaps be one of the most relevant concerns in the future, ...	29th August 2007
Theories of eco-impotence Why, with green so ubiquitous in media and culture, is it not higher up on the political agenda? Emily Gertz says it's because the green grassroots aren't involved in party politics. Matthew Yglesias points to new survey data from American Environics (PDF) which indicate that concern for the environment is broad but shallow. While everyone claims to care about environmental issues, nobody -- not even those who rate their concern the highest -- makes them a priority in the voting booth. Is it one of those two, or something else?	29th August 2007
Indonesian peatlands seen playing key climate role YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - To the average person, they are just ordinary swamps or bogs.	29th August 2007
The looming food crisis - Guardian Unlimited John Vidal reports on why food prices are rising and the developing world is facing catastrophe	29th August 2007
FEATURE-Drought catastrophe stalks Australia's food bowl - AlertNet Source: Reuters By Rob Taylor MOULAMEIN, Australia, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A thin winter green carpets Australia's southeast hills and plains, camouflaging the onset of a drought catastrophe in the nation's food bowl ...	29th August 2007
Shoppers 'face meat price rises' - BBC Consumers face a jump in meat prices as farmers pass on the cost of surging animal feed prices, a report warns.	29th August 2007
Prairie grasslands could soon fade - Montreal Gazette Prairie grasslands could soon fadeMontreal Gazette, Canada. The gases that cause global warming threaten to turn the Prairies from grasslands into an area covered by woody shrubs that cattle can't eat, ...	29th August 2007
Lib Dems urge end to petrol cars - BBC News Petrol-powered cars should be phased out within decades, say the Lib Dems, to help fight climate change.	29th August 2007
Environmentalists want more CO2 reductions - UPI A coalition of environmental groups Tuesday urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate refinery emissions of carbon dioxide.	29th August 2007
Arctic sea route now plain sailing - Guardian Unlimited The North-West Passage, once synonymous with fraught navigation, is declared largely free of ice.	29th August 2007
A DeSmogBlog exclusive investigation into NASA's DSCOVR climate station Somewhere in Maryland is a metal box containing a fully completed climate spacecraft that could save the world. NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) cost over $100 million and was designed to measure the energy budget of our warming planet. Yet the spacecraft has remained in its box for the last five years and it looks like it is not going anywhere anytime soon. NASA quietly cancelled the project altogether in January 2006 citing “competing priorities”. What happened? How could the US government possibly justify killing DSCOVR given the importance of climate change and after over 90% of the project expenses had already been incurred?	29th August 2007
Hot air - Salon.com Global warming is not as bad as it's made out to be, argues Bjørn Lomborg. But he cherry-picks evidence to manufacture a scientific and economic consensus that doesn't exist.	29th August 2007
Greenhouse gases likely drove near-record US warmth in 2006 Greenhouse gases likely accounted for over half of the widespread warmth across the continental United States in 2006, according to a new study that will be published 5 September in Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. Last year's average temperature was the second highest since recordkeeping began in 1895. The team found that it was very unlikely that the 2006 El Nino played any role, though other natural factors likely contributed to the near-record warmth.	29th August 2007
How the neoliberals stitched up the wealth of nations for themselves - Guardian Unlimited Comment is free: George Monbiot: A cabal of intellectuals and elitists hijacked the economic debate, and now we are dealing with the catastrophic effects.	28th August 2007
To cancel out the CO2 of a return flight to India, it will take one poor villager three years of pumping water by foot. - Times Online When David Cameron flew to India to open a JCB factory for a party donor, green-thinking supporters could rest assured that his visit would be carbon neutral. "We are offsetting all our emissions through Climate Care," the Tory leader wrote on his blog. "As well as planting trees, they also invest in renewable energy projects in the developing world." Somewhere in the Indian countryside, a farmer is about to repay Mr Cameron's debt to the planet. Climate Care's latest enterprise is to provide "treadle pumps" to poor rural families so they can get water on to their land without using diesel power. The pumps are worked by stepping on pedals. If a peasant treads for two hours a day, it will take at least three years to offset the CO2 from Mr Cameron's return flight to India.	28th August 2007
Indian Ocean Sees Smallest Tuna Catch in 11 Years - Planet Ark PORT LOUIS - Tuna fishermen in the Indian Ocean have landed their smallest catch for 11 years, a report and industry sources said on Monday, with possible explanations ranging from over-fishing to global warming.	28th August 2007
Villagers Eat Raw Food, Toll Rises in S.Asia Floods - Planet Ark PATNA, India - Flood victims in eastern India were eating raw wheat flour to survive as devastating monsoon flooding in South Asia continued to spread misery among millions.	28th August 2007
Extreme conditions: What's happening to our weather? Britain is just a few showers away from recording a record wet summer, at the climax of the most remarkable period of broken weather records in the country's history. All of the smashed records are to do with temperature and rainfall - the two aspects of the climate most likely to be intensified by the advent of global warming.	28th August 2007
Leading Article: The world is warming before our eyes Toasted villages, torched forests. Images of weeping relatives confronting the sight of charred bodies of failed escapees in their cars. The terrible scenes from Greece in recent days have added to suspicions voiced throughout Europe that 2007 was no ordinary summer. Statistics suggest the popular hunch was indeed correct and that 2007 really was a mad, bad summer, marked by unprecedented deluges in the north and extreme heat in the south.	28th August 2007
In pictures: 'Magnificent seven' - BBC News Climate change allows British butterflies to head further north, a study says.	28th August 2007
Beetles devour Colorado forests - Pueblo Chieftain Mountain pine beetles are obliterating a forest that stretches from British Columbia to Mexico, and in the process are creating a hazard for fire, public safety and water supply.	28th August 2007
European blood-sucker falls victim to global warming - Mongabay.com Europe's only known land leech may be on the brink of extinction due to shifts in climate, report researchers writing in the journal Naturwissenschaften. The findings are significant because they suggest that "human-induced climate change without apparent habitat destruction can lead to the extinction of populations of cold-adapted species that have a low colonization ability," according to the authors.	28th August 2007
Is climate change bringing the state more bugs? Bitten by the bug - Barre Montpelier Times Argus As state entomologist, Jon Turmel speaks with authority about bugs: "They're just so cool." But ask him about the new insects arriving with the onset of global warming and he admits they're not so hot. Turmel points to ticks spreading Lyme disease northward. Mosquitoes flying up with West Nile virus and several forms of encephalitis. Plant-eating pests such as the hemlock woolly adelgid, a tree-munching troublemaker recently discovered in the southeastern corner of the state. Scientists can report with certainty the appearance of new and more numerous insects statewide. They also note the creatures are coming as the state's average temperatures are rising as a result of global warming.	28th August 2007
Long-term increase in rainfall seen in tropics NASA scientists have detected the first signs that tropical rainfall is on the rise with the longest and most complete data record available.	28th August 2007
Climate talks start on widening Kyoto to outsiders - Reuters AlertNet Climate negotiators from more than 150 nations sought a global deal beyond 2012 on Monday to widen the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol to include outsiders such as the United States and China. "Climate change is already a harsh reality, a massive obstacle to development," Austrian Environment Minister Josef Proell told the meeting in Vienna of more than 1,000 senior officials, activists and other experts. "Climate change is a huge challenge that can only be dealt with at a global level," he said. "We do not have much time."	28th August 2007
Climate change march held in city - BBC News People march through Birmingham and a rally is held to highlight the issue of climate change.	28th August 2007
Marine experts' dolphin concern - BBC News The number of dolphins in the waters off Pembrokeshire appear to have declined, say marine experts.	27th August 2007
"Momentum building" for new climate deal: U.N - Reuters via Yahoo! News The United Nations says momentum is building for broader long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial test.	27th August 2007
After oil supplies dry up, what's Plan B? - San Francisco Chronicle After oil supplies dry up, what's Plan B?San Francisco Chronicle, USA. The United States has reacted to the threat of peak oil and gas with all the alacrity of its response to climate change. It is ignoring the looming crisis ...	27th August 2007
Merkel to tackle trade, climate - BBC News Trade and climate set to top agenda as German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to China and Japan.	27th August 2007
Sherwood's oaks face moths threat - BBC News The UK's most famous woodland, Sherwood Forest, faces the prospect of being invaded by two damaging moth species.	27th August 2007
BBC chiefs attack plans for climate change campaign - Guardian Unlimited Two of the BBC's most senior news and current affairs executives attack plans for day of programming.	27th August 2007
Obama on energy for '08 - Salon.com The Democratic contender discusses battling greenhouse gases, dealing with China and India, and restoring the EPA from years of Bush ideology.	27th August 2007
Call for second Thames barrier planned Officials are drawing up plans for a new £20bn Thames barrier to protect London from potentially catastrophic flooding, it was disclosed last night.	26th August 2007
As China rises, pollution soars - International Herald Tribune China's pollution problem, like the speed and scale of its rise as an economic power, has shattered all precedents.	26th August 2007
Goodbye beautiful Britain - Times Online Enjoy the countryside while you can. In the near future there will be no place for sentiment, no eye for beauty and no room for cows and sheep. Don't blame the farmers: the culprits are population growth, global warming and the energy gap	26th August 2007
Killing coal: A live option - Gristmill One other thing I wanted to point out from the NYT piece on Bush's new mountaintop removal mining rule: A spokesman for the National Mining Association, Luke Popovich, said that unless mine owners were allowed to dump mine waste in streams and valleys it would be impossible to operate in mountainous regions like West Virginia that hold some of the richest low-sulfur coal seams. ... Even with the best techniques and most careful reclamation, surface or underground mining will always generate mountains of dirt and rock, he said. "There's really no place to put the material except in the upper reaches of hollows," the [Interior Department] official said.	26th August 2007
Flying Blind Into Monster Storm Season - IPS Category Five Hurricane Dean is just the first of several monster storms coming this hurricane season, meteorologists predict.	26th August 2007
Extinction hot spots - Sydney Morning Herald GLOBAL warming will force more animals onto the threatened species list, and some already endangered animals will probably become extinct, environmental experts warn.	26th August 2007
In pictures: Greek forest fires - BBC News Dozens of people are killed in Greece by forest fires sweeping southern regions of the country.	26th August 2007
Wheat prices reach record level - BBC News Wheat prices surge to record levels on international markets, triggering the threat of rising bread prices.	25th August 2007
Global warming threatens Egypt's Nile Delta - USA Today Millions of Egyptians could be forced permanently from their homes, the country's ability to feed itself devastated. That's what likely awaits this already impoverished and overpopulated nation by the end of the century, if predictions about climate change hold true. The World Bank describes Egypt as particularly vulnerable to the effects of global warming, saying it faces potentially "catastrophic" consequences.	25th August 2007
Death toll mounts in Greek fires - BBC Greek emergency workers continue to find the charred bodies of people burned to death by forest fires that are raging in the south of the country.	25th August 2007
Bird by bird, the avian population is shrinking - The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News Forty-three years ago, when I reached what my grandfather imagined to be the eve of puberty, I was summoned to spend the weekend with him at his house in rural Connecticut.	25th August 2007
Truly, madly, slowly - Financial Times Opposition leaders are seen cycling to work and rhapsodising about “quality of life” as opposed to raw growth. Foreign secretaries prioritise urgent action to combat climate change. The slow movement has been pushed from the sidelines (where it was daydreaming quite happily) into the main arena.	25th August 2007
Make your own wind and solar power systems By Joseph RommSo you want some do-it-yourself climate solutions. Popular Science is the place to go. The magazine details how, for $300, you can build a vertical wind turbine (pictured below) for your home in about three days. It will generate 50 kilowatt-hours per month, which might be about 10 percent of your electricity use, depending on the size of your house and how efficient you are. You can also download plans at windstuffnow. Or maybe you want something a tad bit easier to make, something to "keep your gadgets powered even when the grid fails you." Follow these instructions, and for a mere three hours in work and $150 in parts, you'll have your very own solar charger (pictured below).	25th August 2007
Eco-village wins planning battle - BBC News An eco-settlement wins the right to stay on land in south Devon for another three years.	25th August 2007
Leading article: A mountain awaits the Climate Tsar Euphoria is not too strong a word for the feeling in the environmental community last March when the then Environment Secretary, David Miliband, unveiled the Government's Climate Change Bill. After a long campaign led by green groups such as Friends of the Earth, ministers had finally accepted the need to make legally binding the actions necessary to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.	25th August 2007
Are scientists overestimating -- or underestimating -- climate change? Part III I've argued that scientists are not overestimating climate change, and in fact are underestimating it because they are omitting crucial amplifying feedbacks from their models. In this post, I'll show how these omissions suggest the climate has a "point of no return" that severely constrains the safe level of human-generated emissions. A major 2005 study [$ub. req'd] led by NCAR climate researcher David Lawrence, found that virtually the entire top 11 feet of permafrost around the globe could disappear by the end of this century. Using the first "fully interactive climate system model" applied to study permafrost, the researchers found that if we somehow stabilize CO2 concentrations in the air at 550 ppm, permafrost would plummet from over 4 million square miles today to 1.5 million.	25th August 2007
Consumers "footing the bill" for climate change fight - Reuters.uk European power companies are making billions of euros in excess profits in the European Union's battle to beat global warming by cutting emissions of carbon gases, and consumers are paying for it, economists say. The electricity generators are given, free of charge, permits to emit millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide which are currently worth around 20 euros a tonne, but are then charging consumers as if they had been made to pay for the permits.	25th August 2007
US Military in Hunt for Bio-based Jet Fuel By Prachi Patel-Predd - IEEE Spectrum Reducing emissions is not the motivation but enabling the military to continue its activities is; either with bio-fuel or coal derived synthetic liquid fuels.	25th August 2007
Cheap home solar power on the way - BBC News Researchers say it may soon be cheap enough for most people to use solar energy to power their homes.	24th August 2007
Hot compost bugs promise greener car fuel - The Globe and Mail Companies worldwide searching for economic way to turn waste products into ethanol	24th August 2007
Saltier North Atlantic should give currents a boost - New Scientist - subscription The surface waters of the North Atlantic are getting saltier, suggests a new study of records spanning over 50 years. And this might actually be good news for the effects of climate change on global ocean currents in the short-term, say the study's researchers.	24th August 2007
Are Rains Better Than Drought? - Time Magazine It depends on where you are, but for many drought-stricken farmers, the Midwest rains are alleviating a bad summer for soybean and corn crops See also: In pictures: Deadly US floods - BBC News	24th August 2007
As an energy-saver, the clothesline makes a comeback - The Christian Science Monitor A 'Right to Dry' movement is growing, with some states introducing legislation to override clothesline bans.	24th August 2007
Deep thought - Energy Bulletin Staff, Energy Bulletin. Urgency and global warming: Interview with physicist Martin I. Hoffert Topsoil loss - causes, effects and implications Tipping points in the Earth system	24th August 2007
Fun with Wiki Scanner! American Enterprise Institute wiki revisions WikScanner strikes again! Here are some interesting edits to wikipedia entries made by someone using an IP address belonging to the oil and gas sector supported American Enterprise Institute.	24th August 2007
Avoiding a Coral Catastrophe - TIME In August, researchers at the University of North Carolina in the U.S. released the world's first comprehensive study on coral in the Indo-Pacific region, home to 75% of the world's coral reefs, focusing on waters from Japan to Australia and east to Hawaii. The outlook is grim. In recent decades, at least 600 sq. mi. (1,550 sq km) of reef have disappeared every year. "People thought the Pacific was in much better shape," says John Bruno, lead author of the study. Scientists assumed that far-flung reefs in the vast waters of the Pacific would be safely isolated from negative human impact. They were wrong. "There is no such thing as an isolated reef from the perspective of climate change," says Bruno.	24th August 2007
Problem of global warming is at heart of currant affairs - Times Online It is not only Bangladesh that is threatened by global warming. It is the British blackcurrant: warmer, wetter winters have led to a gradual deterioration in the quality of the blackcurrant crop. Without a heavy frost, blackcurrant buds do not break properly and the result is a decline both in the quantity and quality of the fruit. Climate change could make it impossible to grow two kinds of blackcurrant - Baldwin and Ben Lomond - in many parts of southern England within a decade.	24th August 2007
Are scientists overestimating -- or underestimating -- climate change? Part II By Joseph RommMy previous post debunked an article that argued scientists have seriously overestimated climate change. Now let's look at the evidence for a serious underestimation of climate change. To do that, we must understand the fatal flaw with the IPCC's over-reliance on the poorly named "equilibrium climate sensitivity" (ECS). Recall that the ECS is the "equilibrium change in global mean surface temperature following a doubling of the atmospheric (equivalent) CO2 concentration," which the IPCC's 2007 Fourth Assessment Report concluded was 2 to 4.5°C. You might think that the ECS tells you how much the planet's temperature will rise if humans emit enough CO2 to double its atmospheric concentration.	24th August 2007
A rising tide lifts all ice floes - cartoon by Tom Toles	23rd August 2007
Fossil-fuel hangover may block ice ages - New Scientist Burning fossil fuels will disrupt the atmosphere for hundreds of thousands of years, and may prevent the onset of the next ice age	23rd August 2007
Will Running Out of Fossil Fuels Spare the Planet? - EV World If we had small self-sustaining communities across the world fulfilling most basic needs locally, our dependence on fossil fuels would not be such a daunting issue.	23rd August 2007
UK 'may fail 2020 target for CO2' - BBC News Think tank Cambridge Econometrics warns government greenhouse gas targets for 2020 look likely to be broken.	23rd August 2007
Activists eye lawsuit to force Ottawa into Kyoto compliance - Canada.com Canada's biggest environmental groups are contemplating legal action against the Harper government because they believe it has violated a new law designed to ensure it complies with Canada's international climate change obligations.	23rd August 2007
US, Canadian West set joint carbon-cutting target - Canada.com Western U.S. states and Canadian provinces on Wednesday agreed to cut greenhouse emissions 15 percent by 2020 in the latest regional pact to regulate the gases, an approach opposed by U.S. President George W. Bush.	23rd August 2007
German Ministers Agree to Cut CO2 Emissions 36 Percent - Planet Ark BERLIN - Germany's economy and environment ministers have agreed that Germany should reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 36 percent by 2020 compared with the level of emissions in 1990, the environment minister said on Wednesday.	23rd August 2007
Reducing greenhouse gas will cost $200bn - Financial Times Rapidly rising greenhouse gas emissions around the world mean it will cost more than $200bn a year to return to today's level of emissions by 2030.	23rd August 2007
Climate change to strain China food supply by 2030 - The Star Online BEIJING (Reuters) - Climate change and a growing population mean China, which is already losing farmland to deserts and urban sprawl, could face a food shortfall of 100 million tonnes by 2030, a top weather official said.	23rd August 2007
Success for green travel scheme - BBC News A scheme to get commuters out of their cars and into greener modes of transport is hailed a success.	23rd August 2007
Warm March leads to U.S. prune farmers facing shortfall, launch new ad push - CNews YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) - California orchards that produce 60 per cent of the world's prunes are expected this season to yield little more than half the 2006 harvest following a hot spell of weather in mid-March.	23rd August 2007
A life of grime: Could you survive for three weeks on a dump, existing only on other people's rubbish? It would be tough, they were told ? an "eco challenge" in a secret location. They would need to pack their passports and update their jabs. Sasha Gardner, a Bournemouth-based glamour model, was expecting to visit a rainforest or pacific island. "But when we turned up, we weren't at an airport," she says, "we were in a rubbish dump in Croydon."	23rd August 2007
The Depauperate World of 2049 - Earth Meanders ... and what an equitable, just and ecologically sustainable society will look like.	22nd August 2007
Warming trends alarm farmers - Contra Costa Times FRESNO -- Steve Johnson scans the hot, translucent sky. He wants to make rain -- needs to make rain -- for the parched farms and desperate hydro companies in this California valley.	22nd August 2007
Tracking carbon through your phone - BBC News A British student has invented a way for people to track their own carbon footprint through their mobile phone.	22nd August 2007
Feds thumb nose at opposition's Kyoto bill - CTV.ca The Conservative government has thumbed its nose at the opposition's legislative attempts to force compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, republishing its own greenhouse-gas reduction plan as an official response.	22nd August 2007
£2,000 tax on gas-guzzlers ‘would soon make Britain carbon neutral' - Times Online The Liberal Democrats would raise taxes on the most polluting cars to up to £2,000 a year as part of a package of measures designed to combat global warming, The Times has learnt.	22nd August 2007
New nuclear power said too costly and risky - Reuters.uk Building more nuclear power plants is too slow, costly and risky to help the fight against climate change and energy security, a UK environmental think-tank the New Economics Foundation said on Wednesday.	22nd August 2007
Washed up man-of-war puts Cornwall on alert Potentially deadly Portuguese man-of-wars have been found washed up on a popular beach in St Ives, west Cornwall, sparking a genuine scare for holiday-makers and local residents.	22nd August 2007
Climate Change Called Security Issue Like Cold War - Planet Ark NY ALESUND, Norway - Climate change is the biggest security challenge since the Cold War but people have not woken up to the risks nor to easy solutions such as saving energy at home, experts said on Tuesday.	22nd August 2007
Judge orders White House to produce global warming reports - CBS 47 A federal judge has sided with environmentalists who sued the White House and is now ordering the Bush administration to issue two scientific reports on global warming. U.S. District Court Judge Saundra Armstrong ruled that the Bush administration had violated the Global Change Research Act of 1990 when it failed to meet deadlines for an updated research plan on global warming's potential impact on the United States.	22nd August 2007
Are scientists overestimating -- or underestimating -- climate change? Part I A study by Stephen Schwartz of Brookhaven National Lab, to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), has the deniers and doubters delighted. "Overturning the 'Consensus' in One Fell Swoop" gloats Planet Gore, which says the study "concludes that the Earth's climate is only about one-third as sensitive to carbon dioxide as the IPCC assumes" and so we "should expect about a 0.6°C additional increase in temperature between now and 2070″ [0.1°C per decade] if CO2 concentrations hit 550 parts per million, double preindustrial levels. Is this possible? Aren't we already warming up 0.2°C per decade -- a rate that is expected to rise?	22nd August 2007
Islands emerge as Arctic ice shrinks to record low - AlertNet NY ALESUND, Norway, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Previously unknown islands are appearing as Arctic summer sea ice shrinks to record lows, raising questions about whether global warming is outpacing U.N. projections, experts said. Polar bears and seals have also suffered this year on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard because the sea ice they rely on for hunts melted far earlier than normal. "Reductions of snow and ice are happening at an alarming rate," Norwegian Environment Minister Helen Bjoernoy said at a seminar of 40 scientists and politicians that began late on Monday in Ny Alesund, 1,200 km (750 miles) from the North Pole. "This acceleration may be faster than predicted" by the U.N. climate panel this year, she told reporters at the Aug. 20-22 seminar. Ny Alesund calls itself the world's most northerly permanent settlement, and is a base for Arctic research.	21st August 2007
ALP to phase out electric hot water - The Australian LABOR plans to rid Australian homes of off-peak electric hot water systems, in a move it claims will cut Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 7.5million tonnes each year.	21st August 2007
Birth of a new political movement - Guardian Unlimited George Monbiot: It was not flawless, but the Heathrow climate camp was still the most democratic and best organised protest I've witnessed. See also: Video: Building the climate camp - Guardian Unlimited Q&A: Aviation emissions - BBC News	21st August 2007
Hot Weather Impacts Animal Reproduction - PhysOrg (AP) -- The hot, dry summer is making it difficult for plants and animals at Antelope Island State Park, causing some of them not to reproduce.	21st August 2007
Wouldn't it be ironic ... - GristMill ... if we burned a bunch of oil, heated the atmosphere, melted the Arctic ice, and then had a war over who gets the oil beneath it?	21st August 2007
RFF must-read: The Stern Report got it right - GristMill I have argued previously that the landmark Stern Report got the big picture right -- strong action now to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is economically justified, since the cost of action (i.e., mitigation), perhaps 1 percent of GDP, is far less than the cost of inaction (i.e., climate change impacts), which Stern estimates as at least 5 percent of GDP and possibly as high as 20 percent. In particular, I (and others) argued that Stern's much-criticized choice of a low discount rate, 1.4 percent, was in fact justified -- see here and here for a good discussion.	21st August 2007
'The 11th Hour' focuses on possible solutions to environmental issues - San Francisco Chronicle Made in conjunction with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who serves as the film's producer and narrator, "The 11th Hour" is sometimes chilling in its implications that if human beings do not change their behavior and consumption patterns, extinction is a real possibility. Yet, the film is not completely gloomy, as it suggests steps humanity can take to reverse course, even as it warns that time is running out.	21st August 2007
Global Warning: Brutal lessons from an Antarctic summer - The Independent What can dying penguins tell us about the future of the planet? Meredith Hooper spent a 'ferocious' summer in Antarctica and discovered a living experiment going horribly wrong	20th August 2007
Outsourcing the Greenhouse - DeSmogBlog Turner's Falls, MA -- Some townspeople in Turners Falls, this 19th-century mill village on the Connecticut River celebrated when workers began tearing down a shuttered coal-fired power plant this year. First, they dismantled the towering boiler. In June, the smokestack that belched hundreds of thousands of tons of heat-trapping gases into the air came down. Last month, workers hauled away the five-story steel skeleton, leaving just a concrete silo as a reminder of this local icon of global warming. But the demolition is hardly a victory in the battle against manmade climate change. Virtually every piece of the 2,600-ton plant is being shipped to Guatemala to be rebuilt, girder by girder, to power a textile mill that sells pants, shirts, and sportswear to the United States.	20th August 2007
Leading Article: The flight from truth about climate change The scuffles that broke out yesterday between police and protestors in the vicinity of Heathrow airport had been on the cards since this particular climate-change demonstration was first mooted. From the initial - failed - effort of the British Airports Authority to slap an injunction on more than 15 protest groups to yesterday's show of strength by police, a sense of confrontation was in the air. See also: Climate protest at power station - BBC News Airport activists blockading BAA - BBC News	20th August 2007
Hillary Clinton: Coal isn't going away - Salon.com The presidential contender says we should look into "clean coal," but she can't promise she would never support "dirty" energy.	20th August 2007
Harper to back 'bogus' emissions plan - Montreal Gazette A leaked draft of next month's planned APEC leaders' declaration on the environment shows Prime Minister Stephen Harper is poised to back a "bogus" new global plan for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, charges Green Party leader Elizabeth May.	20th August 2007
Housebuilders win battle against green technologies - Guardian Unlimited · Government to drop rules promoting renewables · Planners will be unable to set environmental targets	20th August 2007
Flannery has a plan to save PNG forests - AAP via Yahoo!Xtra News Australian firms seeking carbon credits to offset greenhouse gas emissions could go online to do deals with PNG villages, scientist Tim Flannery says.	20th August 2007
Environment: Leo DiCaprio Takes Up Where Al Gore Left off in New '11th Hour' Environmental Documentary DiCaprio's 11th Hour is a powerful documentary which makes the case that our way of life is totally at odds with the sustainability of our planet. But the film needs the Hollywood star to draw a lot more publicity to it.	20th August 2007
Kristof hits a home run By David RobertsI've had my issues with NYT columnist Nic Kristof in the past, but he's knocking them out of the park on climate change. His latest hits exactly the right notes. Check it out: Concern about greenhouse gases and reliance on imported oil usually leads to a focus on the supply side of the energy equation, particularly exotic sources such as wind, solar, waves and hydrogen. ... but the low-hanging fruit on the energy front is curbing demand -- meaning more energy conservation. And it's appalling that our government isn't leading us on that. This is, as far as I'm concerned, the baseline understanding that separates those with a clue about climate change from those without one ...	20th August 2007
Two million trees felled as black pine needle blight spreads A tree species once hailed as a weapon against global warming is under threat from a fatal disease blamed on the very climate changes it was hoped it would help protect us against.	19th August 2007
The return of Swampy: Underground eco-hero joins the Heathrow protest The talking is over. The plans have been made. The mass direct action promised by the environmentalists camping near the perimeter of Heathrow airport will take place from noon today, they promised yesterday ? although nobody could rule out a maverick group going off to chain itself to something in the meantime.	19th August 2007
NSW drought hits '75 per cent of state' - Whyalla News More than three quarters of NSW is now in the grip of drought, latest figures show. The percentage of the state in drought went up last month from 69.9 per cent to 75.8 per cent.	19th August 2007
Biofuels CO2 Impact Is 9X That Of Petrol, Says World Land Trust - Addict 3D Researchers at the University of Leeds and the World Land Trust have warned that growing biofuel crops to make eco-friendly car fuel could actually be harmful to the environment.	19th August 2007
Climate demo 'action day' begins - BBC News A march begins near Heathrow airport, with minor scuffles, as climate change protesters begin a day of direct action.	19th August 2007
Green parking permits in pipeline - BBC News Drivers of environmentally friendly vehicles could get permits as part of a package of parking changes.	19th August 2007
Protesters march towards BAA's HQ - BBC News A march begins near Heathrow Airport, with minor scuffles, as climate change protesters stage a day of direct action.	19th August 2007
Turning garbage to energy has downsides: critics - CNews (CP) - Drastically reducing the amount of garbage going to landfills while creating a clean energy source in the process - it sounds like the perfect solution to the world's environmental woes.	19th August 2007
Police braced for nationwide climate protests - Guardian Unlimited Police are preparing for protests around the country today in support of a week-long demonstration at Heathrow airport.	19th August 2007
Jamaica braces for direct hit by Hurricane Dean - Guardian Unlimited With winds already hitting 150mph, Hurricane Dean could build to a monster 'Category Five' storm.	19th August 2007
Two degrees of difference: the science that backs the protest - Times Online Air travel really is in the front line of the climate change debate. But instead of tackling it we're planning new airports	19th August 2007
Legal Mechanism Needed To Check Climate Change: Pachauri - NEWSPost India There is need for a legal mechanism to fight the challenges of climate change and global warming that are threatening the environment, Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) director-general R.K. Pachauri said Sunday. Delivering the convocation address at the 15th annual convocation of the National Law School of India University here, Pachauri told the graduating students there was no effective means to address the problem of climate change on an equitable and ethically fair basis.	19th August 2007
Is Brazil's Sugar Cane Ethanol Better Than Corn-Based? - Newsweek How Brazil is transforming sugar cane into ethanol that it claims is a cleaner, cheaper and more sustainable source of fuel.	19th August 2007
Arctic sea ice at record low level and still melting: U.S. Ice Data Center - CNews WASHINGTON (AP) - There was less sea ice in the Arctic on Friday than ever before on record, and the melting is continuing, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.	18th August 2007
Inside Heathrow's protest camp: A battle to save the world - Independent If you happen to be passing through Hatton Cross this weekend, you will see a swollen army of police officers equipped with weapons and video cameras and peeved expressions. They will greet you at the entrance to the Tube stations, to the airport, and on every corner, and they will probably film your face as you walk by. They are ready and raring to use the new anti-terror laws. So you might wonder - has Osama bin Laden been spotted in the vicinity? No. A legion of environmentalists, committed to non-violent direct action, have erected an array of marquees and wind turbines and compost toilets in an empty field. As I spent this week with them, I discovered they have one purpose: to urge us to listen to the world's scientists and cut back on our greenhouse gas emissions - before we descend into climate chaos we cannot reverse and may not survive.	18th August 2007
EU biofuel policy is a 'mistake' - BBC News The EU target of ensuring 10% of fuel comes from biofuels by 2020 is "mistaken", a study says.	18th August 2007
Group asks states to list Atlantic, Pacific oceans as impaired waterways due to acidification - CNews ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A conservation organization has requested that Alaska and six other states add bodies of water to their list of impaired waterways: the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.	18th August 2007
Top suburbs costing the Earth - Sydney Morning Herald Shopping exposed as the big culprit in rising water use and greenhouse gas emissions.	18th August 2007
Attack of the baby eaters - Guardian Unlimited Comment is free: George Monbiot: Shameless exaggerations of the climate protesters' dastardly plans have left us baffled at the camp.	18th August 2007
Climate change campaigners strip naked on melting glacier - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Nearly 600 volunteers have stripped for the camera on a melting Swiss glacier high in the Alps for a publicity campaign to expose the impact of climate change.	18th August 2007
- AP Hot weather forces partial shutdown of Alabama nuclear plant - WKRN One reactor at a north Alabama nuclear plant was idle Friday and two others operated at reduced power because of the record-breaking heat wave, an outage that an industry watchdog said could be a sign of trouble for nuclear energy in a warming climate.	18th August 2007
7000-Mile Global Warming Walk Hits Half-Way Point - PR-GB.com - press release Andy Skurka is walking. Everyday, all day. In rain, snow, and scorching heat. And nothing can slow him down - not cougars, bears or snakes. Not blisters or burning muscles. Since setting out from the Grand Canyon on April 9, Skurka has covered 3,653 miles ... and he's only halfway home. Andy Skurka's "GoLite on the Planet" walk has reached the halfway point. The nearly 7,000 mile odyssey - roughly the distance from Los Angeles to Istanbul, Turkey - is an effort to provide a first-hand look at the damage global warming is having on America's National Parks and wilderness areas.	18th August 2007
APEC document 'disastrous for global warming' - ABC Online Australia: The Greens have criticised the Federal Government over a draft environmental declaration on climate change that has been leaked ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Sydney next month.	18th August 2007
Global Warming Threatens Moose, Wolves - Science Daily - press release Global warming is impacting more than the water levels in the Great Lakes. It could be the beginning of the end for the moose and wolves of Isle Royale. And if it is, a Michigan Technological University scientist places the blame squarely on the human race.	18th August 2007
NASA eyes warm sea surface temperatures for hurricanes Sea surface temperatures are one of the key ingredients for tropical cyclone formation and they were warming up in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and eastern Atlantic Ocean by the middle of August. As a result, they helped spawn Hurricane Dean in the central Atlantic, and Tropical Storm Erin in the Gulf of Mexico, both during the week of August 13.	18th August 2007
Hungary Sees Food Price Rises Due To Drought - Planet Ark BUDAPEST - Some Hungarian food products may rise in price by 10-15 percent in the autumn after spring frosts and severe drought damaged some of the country's crops, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday.	17th August 2007
Atlantic yields climate secrets - BBC News For the first time, scientists plot the course of climate-crucial Atlantic circulation over a year's variation.	17th August 2007
In pictures: Heathrow protest - BBC News Climate change campaigners have set up camp at Heathrow in protest against the airport's expansion plans.	17th August 2007
Biofuels switch a mistake, say researchers - Guardian Unlimited Increasing production of biofuels to combat climate change will release more carbon gases than fossil fuels.	17th August 2007
Three quarters of expected fish gone - The Abbotsford News The estimated number of incoming Fraser River sockeye salmon – already disturbingly low – was slashed again on Monday. The combined runs of sockeye this summer are now expected to total just 1.6 million – down 75 per cent from the 6.2 million projection before the season began.	17th August 2007
Climate change to cost Swiss US$824m annually - The Herald GENEVA. Swiss environment ministry said yesterday. The cost in today's prices is based on the impact on the economy and society of increases in storms, floods, landslides, temperature swings, drought, and the cost of measures to tackle them, the report said.	17th August 2007
Forget biofuels - burn oil and plant forests instead - New Scientist A new analysis suggests that more carbon could be offset by replanting forests and using conventional fossil fuels than can be saved by using biofuels	17th August 2007
FACTBOX - Germany Plans Energy Savings Measures - Planet Ark The German government has reached broad agreement on a number of energy savings measures as it implements a drive by Chancellor Angela Merkel to battle climate change.	17th August 2007
Protesters Arrested at Biggin Hill Airport - Planet Ark LONDON - Police arrested 11 people staging a climate protest outside Biggin Hill airport in Kent on Thursday as part of the wider campaign against the expansion of Heathrow airport.	17th August 2007
Al Gore calls for civil disobedience By Glenn HurowitzFrom The New York Times's Nicholas Kristof ($ub req'd): I ran into Al Gore at a climate/energy conference this month, and he vibrates with passion about this issue -- recognizing that we should confront mortal threats even when they don't emanate from Al Qaeda. "We are now treating the Earth's atmosphere as an open sewer," he said, and (perhaps because my teenage son was beside me) he encouraged young people to engage in peaceful protests to block major new carbon sources. "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers," Mr.	17th August 2007
Marc Gunther: Congress, Ready to Act on Climate Change - HuffingtonPost Politicians want to be reassured that the deep, wrenching and inevitable changes brought about by the radical, albeit gradual, de-carbonization of America will not wreck the economy.	17th August 2007
Climate fear for visiting birds Climate change is causing a decline in the number of some birds visiting Britain each winter, a report claims.	17th August 2007
Student's zero-carbon UK journey - BBC News A Wiltshire student sets off on a 1,000 mile journey with the aim of being totally carbon-zero.	17th August 2007
Heathrow protesters glue themselves to government building - Guardian Unlimited Around 11 protesters demonstrate at Department of Transport building in central London.	17th August 2007
Opposition Attacks Merkel Over Greenland "PR Gag" - Deutsche Welle Germany's opposition parties attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel over her visit to Greenland. They said the trip was a PR gag that took the place of real action against climate change.	17th August 2007
Scientists warn on climate tipping points - Guardian Unlimited Scientists are predicting that the loss of the massive Greenland ice sheet may now be unstoppable and lead to catastrophic sea-level rises around the world.	16th August 2007
Newly discovered underwater current may hold a key to climate change - International Herald Tribune Australian scientists have discovered a giant underwater current that is one of the last missing links of a system connecting the world's oceans and helping govern global climate.	16th August 2007
Eye on the storm: The Met Office on a mission It's a beautiful day in Devon, and the glass walls of the building sparkle against the blue sky. A curving path leads to a light, airy atrium. The building bristles with eco-credentials ? the concrete floors, under a sleek layer of slate, keep workers cool without air conditioning, while water from the pond outside is used to flush the toilets. Green, clean and light, this office feels friendly, open, transparent.	16th August 2007
U.S. taxpayers are paying to increase carbon emissions in the developing world By David RobertsOn the one hand, Bush and the Republicans say we're helpless to do anything about global warming until China and India act. On the other hand, the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corp. are funneling billions in taxpayer dollars to huge corporations (think Halliburton and Bechtel) to help them construct carbon-intensive hard infrastructure projects: According to their own reports, the two agencies approved projects in recent years that annually emitted more than 125 million metric tons of CO2 -- the equivalent of putting 31.3 million new cars on the road or increasing U.S.	16th August 2007
Earth records 7th warmest July on record - EARTHtimes.org Scientists said the month of July brought record and near-record warmth to the Western United States and was the seventh warmest July in recorded Earth history.	16th August 2007
Butterfly flits for warm weather - BBC News A butterfly from the south of Britain is been spotted near Dundee for the first time, experts reveal.	16th August 2007
Where have all the sockeye gone? - Richmond Review The estimated number of incoming Fraser River sockeye salmon-already disturbingly low-was slashed again on Monday. The combined runs of sockeye this summer are now expected to total just 1.6 million-down 75 per cent from the 6.2 million projection before the season began.	16th August 2007
Aviation greenhouse curbs may fall short: experts OSLO (Reuters) - The aviation industry may be more damaging to the environment than widely thought because aircraft not only release carbon dioxide but they also produce other harmful gases that warm the earth, experts said.	16th August 2007
Chained airport protesters arrested - Guardian Unlimited Climate change protesters chained themselves to gate at private airport in Kent.	16th August 2007
Business of Green: Fighting climate change, one lawsuit at a time - International Herald Tribune A spate of pending cases in the U.S. and Europe could set precedents for big judgments against companies that emit greenhouse gases.	15th August 2007
Almost half of population want green tax on air travel Public attitudes to flying have hardened in favour of a tax on air travel to try to curb harmful the CO2 emissions that cause global warming.	15th August 2007
Warming may change the nature of the food we eat - CNews Canadians are a well-fed bunch. We do not generally have to worry about our food supply. For most of us, it's just a matter of heading to the nearest grocery store.	15th August 2007
Climate campaigners plan 'smart clothes' protest - Guardian Unlimited Activists at the Heathrow climate camp have been told to bring smart clothing as part of a plan to disrupt the airport. See also: Heathrow Climate Campaigners Deny Hoax Bomb Claim - Planet Ark	15th August 2007
The Age Of Warming - CBS News Global warming is showing its greatest effects in Antarctica, reports Scott Pelley , where rising temperatures threaten the drinking-water supply of the future and are hurting the penguin population right now.	15th August 2007
Where there's a will, there's a way; where there's a Samuelson, there's a whine - Grist Magazine One of the consequences of lazy, defeatist mainstream discussion of climate change (see: Robert J. Samuelson) is goofballery like this piece in The New York Times. Michael Fitzgerald argues that because we don't yet have a weapon that can totally and awesomely kick global warming's ass, we should spend billions of public dollars on giganto-technologies like carbon sequestration and space-age masturbation aids like light-reflecting space particles. This is stupid. We have dozens, hundreds of ways of cutting GHG emissions available right now. We have technological tools; we have social, economic, legislative, and regulatory tools. I'd bet we could get the U.S. to zero (or trivial) emissions by the last quarter of this century, especially if we spent all those billions wisely. And we'd improve our quality of life doing it. Once we start doing it, other countries will follow.	15th August 2007
Coal diesel going down the wrong road - Greens - Scoop.co.nz Plans by Solid Energy for a ''multi-billion'' dollar lignite-based liquid fuel plant in Southland will make a joke of New Zealand's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Green Party says.	15th August 2007
Millions say it is too much effort to adopt greener lifestyle - Guardian Unlimited Millions of people across Britain think their behaviour does not contribute to climate change, a government survey suggests.	15th August 2007
Nitrogen - Aug 14 Staff, Energy Bulletin. Impact of rising natural gas prices on U.S. ammonia supply Nitrogen quietly rivaling CO2 as a global climate threat Human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle	15th August 2007
Freshwater supplies threatened in central Pacific An international team from The Australian National University, Ecowise Environmental, the Government of the Republic of Kiribati, the French agency CIRAD and the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission has been studying the impacts of natural and human-induced changes on groundwater in the central Pacific nation of Kiribati since 1996.	15th August 2007
Editorials urge us to cut emissions, but ads tell a very different story - Guardian Unlimited Comment is free: George Monbiot: Newspaper exhortations on climate change sit uncomfortably alongside promotions for budget flights and oil companies.	14th August 2007
Peak Oil is the Global Warming nightmare scenario - Carbon Climate The Peak Oil Theory refers to the production of conventional crude oil. It does not deal properly with the production of non-conventional crude oil from alternative sources like tar sands, oil shale and coal. If we reach the peak in Peak Oil before we have significantly de-carbonized our economies, then many governments around the world will ignore the implications of climate change to meet the immediate problems of a collapsing economy and the massive unemployment that will result from the rapid rise in oil prices. They will do whatever is required to increase the level of oil production needed to minimize the economic damage. We need to start switching to a low carbon economy now. We need to do this because of climate change. Having it forced on us because of Peak Oil is most likely only going to result in an even faster rise in the emissions of carbon dioxide.	14th August 2007
Carbon market encourages chopping forests - study - AlertNet The current carbon market actually encourages cutting down some of the world's biggest forests, which would unleash tonnes of climate-warming carbon into the atmosphere, a new study reported on Monday. Under the Kyoto Protocol aimed at stemming climate change, there is no profitable reason for the 10 countries and one French territory with 20 percent of Earth's intact tropical forest to maintain this resource, according to a study in the journal Public Library of Science Biology. The Kyoto treaty and other talks on global warming focus on so-called carbon credits for countries and companies that plant new trees where forests have been destroyed. Trees and other plants absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas emitted by petroleum-fueled vehicles, coal-fired power plants and humans. At this point, there is no credit for countries that keep the forests they have, the study said.	14th August 2007
INTERVIEW - Kyoto Projects Harm Ozone Layer - UN Official - Planet Ark LONDON - The biggest emissions-cutting projects under the Kyoto Protocol on global warming have directly contributed to an increase in the production of gases that destroy the ozone layer, a senior UN official says.	14th August 2007
Arctic sea ice set to hit new low - BBC News Arctic sea ice is expected to retreat to a record low by the end of this summer, scientists predict.	14th August 2007
Eco-village with a stark warning - BBC News As 250 protesters gather for a week-long protest at Heathrow Airport, the BBC News website speaks to some of those involved. See also: Heathrow protesters target Airbus - BBC News	14th August 2007
Ontario to spend nearly $80M battling climate change with 50 million trees - CNews OAKVILLE, Ont. (CP) - Ontario is setting an ambitious example for the rest of the world by committing $79 million to plant 50 million trees to fight climate change and create a greener landscape for future generations, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Monday. See also: Pre-election Liberal greening continues with $6.6M for climate-change education - CNews	14th August 2007
Environmentalists urge Brown to overhaul Britain's energy policy to meet EU targets - Guardian Unlimited Environmentalists urge overhaul of energy policy to meet EU targets.	14th August 2007
Wolfowitz 'tried to censor World Bank on climate change' - Independent The Bush administration has consistently thwarted efforts by the World Bank to include global warming in its calculations when considering whether to approve major investments in industry and infrastructure, according to documents made public through a watchdog yesterday.	14th August 2007
DiCaprio Brightens Up on Gloomy Green Outlook - Planet Ark LOS ANGELES - Tired of global warming doom and gloom? Here's something new from Hollywood's king of green, Leonardo DiCaprio: there is hope for a brighter future.	14th August 2007
Environment: Bill McKibben: Creating the World's Biggest Grassroots Movement Circle Nov. 3, 2007, on your calendar: It's the next big date in the fight to get America to finally do something about climate change.	14th August 2007
Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies Expanding forests in the Canadian Rocky Mountains are slowly isolating groups of alpine butterflies from each other, which may lead to the extinction of the colourful insects in some areas, says a new study from the University of Alberta.	14th August 2007
Fiddling the figures on renewable energy - Guardian Unlimited This is not the first time Labour has fiddled climate-change targets (Revealed: cover-up plan on energy target, August 13). Remember the target for cutting carbon dioxide by 20% by 2010 in the 1997 manifesto?	14th August 2007
Hundreds due at airport protest - BBC News Hundreds of protesters are set to join a camp near Heathrow to demonstrate against aviation expansion.	14th August 2007
Pre-election Liberal greening continues with $6.6M for climate-change education - CNews TORONTO (CP) - Ontario's governing Liberals continued to shroud themselves in shades of green Friday as they promised $6.6 million over four years for cash-starved environmental groups to educate the public about the dangers of climate change.	14th August 2007
Mosses moderate melting permafrost - Times Colonist The thawing of vast stretches of Canadian permafrost -- widely seen as a "ticking time bomb" of climate change because of its expected liberation of billions of tonnes of pent-up methane and carbon dioxide -- may be much less of a threat than previously believed, according to a new U.S. study of freshly unfrozen peatlands across Western Canada's northern frontier. Although the melting of underlying permafrost will release huge amounts of the greenhouse gases blamed for fuelling global warming, researchers who sampled three sites in boreal Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have discovered that the warmer, softer, wetter soil that results also promotes the growth of new mosses that capture and store about as much carbon from the atmosphere as the thawed ground releases.	14th August 2007
Nitrogen Overdose - Oakland Tribune Despite the countless initiatives under way to reduce CO2 levels to slow global warming, scientists warn that those efforts will prove moot unless nitrogen releases also are lowered. One nitrogen compound is especially worrisome, as it lingers in the atmosphere for a century and is 300 times as potent a heat-trapping gas as carbon dioxide.	13th August 2007
A climate of change - Guardian Unlimited Only three people in the world are in on the secret of where the second Camp for Climate Action is going to set up next week. All anyone else - including the rest of the 150-strong organising team - knows is that it will be somewhere near Heathrow airport. See also: Activists steal a march on police - Guardian Unlimited	13th August 2007
Revealed: cover-up plan on energy target - Guardian Unlimited UK: Ministers urged to lobby for get-out on EU renewable energy target.	13th August 2007
FACTBOX-Five facts on Australia's greenhouse gas emissions - AlertNet Australian Prime Minister John Howard, accused of being slow to tackle climate change, faced fresh criticism on Monday after four government lawmakers issued a report questioning the link between human activities and global warming. Here are five facts about Australia's greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, likely to be key issues in national elections tipped for November. See also: 4 Lawmakers Doubt Need to Cut Gases - PhysOrg.com Scientist says Govt must commit to emissions cuts - Australian Broadcasting Corporation	13th August 2007
Trees Won't Fix Global Warming - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News Scientists at Duke University bathed plots of North Carolina pine trees in extra carbon dioxide every day for 10 years and found that while the trees grew more tissue, only the trees that received the most water and nutrients stored enough carbon dioxide to offset the effects of global warming.	13th August 2007
Scientists Try New Ways to Predict Climate Risks - Planet Ark OSLO - Scientists are trying to improve predictions about the impact of global warming this century by pooling estimates about the risk of floods or desertification.	13th August 2007
In Defense of Carbon Offsets - GreenBiz Say what you will about carbon offsets -- they went from being a cool new idea to an object of derision in the blink of an eye -- there's no doubt that they are proliferating, as big companies and small ride the green wave.	13th August 2007
Elisa Burchett: Climate Change Greatest Market Failure Ever - UN Observer 2007-08-11 | In its first “ever” plenary session devoted exclusively to climate change, the United Nations General Assembly sought a broad political consensus for action in dealing with the potentially devastating effects of global warming, a sub category of and a step in the process toward climate change.	12th August 2007
U.S. sends mixed message on climate - Los Angeles Times {As Bush calls on developing nations to curb CO2, two federally controlled agencies are enabling them to emit more.} {} At the Group of 8 summit of world leaders in June, President Bush repeated his calls for developing nations to curb their emissions of greenhouse gases. Without their cooperation, he said, drastic measures in the United States to battle climate change would make little sense.	12th August 2007
Airport rebels take on police - Guardian Unlimited Organisers of climate protest camp recruiting observers to monitor arrests and collect evidence for court cases.	12th August 2007
Feeling the heat - Guardian Unlimited The Inuit people of Banks Island have no word to describe what we know as a robin. After all, the islanders, 500 miles inside the Arctic Circle, deep in Canada's Northwest Territories, had never seen the creatures until they suddenly turned up in numbers a few years ago.	12th August 2007
European heat waves double in length since 1880 - Mongabay.com The most accurate measures of European daily temperatures ever indicate that the length of heat waves on the continent has doubled and the frequency of extremely hot days has nearly tripled in the past century. The new data shows that many previous assessments of daily summer temperature change underestimated heat wave events in western Europe by approximately 30 percent.	12th August 2007
Investors beware: an 'eco-friendly' company may be talking greenwash - Guardian Finding out which companies are truly eco-friendly can be tricky. Many are keen to assert a 'green' agenda by peppering annual reports with buzz words such as 'environmental' and 'sustainable'. But look closer and you will find these documents often contain much useful information that can help you to assess how squeaky clean a company really is. 'Most large- and medium-sized listed companies include performance data on environmental, sustainable and social issues in their reports,' says Mark Robertson of the Ethical Investment Research Service .	12th August 2007
Endangered Planet - Washington Post	12th August 2007
After oil and gas, Sahara sunshine? - Seattle PI It's a vision that has long enticed energy planners: solar panels stretching out over vast swaths of the Sahara desert, soaking up sun to generate clean, green power. Now Algeria, aware that its oil and gas riches will one day run dry, is gearing up to tap its sunshine on an industrial scale for itself and even Europe. See also: Soaring energy costs make solar power a bright idea - Guardian	12th August 2007
In electric car stakes, it's Miles to go - N Y Times Miles Automotive will try to accomplish two feats with one car in 2008: bring an electric sedan to the market, and bring a car made in China to the U.S.	12th August 2007
Q&A: Global Fight to Protect the Ozone Layer Celebrates 20 Years - IPS Interview with Montreal Protocol chief Marco Gonzalez	12th August 2007
World's birds on death row: Race against time to save 189 species from extinction The biggest and most wide-ranging bird conservation programme the world has ever seen will be launched next week with the aim of saving every one of the planet's critically endangered species from extinction.	12th August 2007
Mary Riddell: Let the train put transport back on track - Guardian Unlimited Mary Riddell: While we castigate airports, we overlook the criminal underfunding and underuse of our railway network.	12th August 2007
Rising temperatures "will stunt rainforest growth" - Nature Global warming could cut the rate at which trees in tropical rainforests grow by as much as half, according to more than two decades' worth of data from forests in Panama and Malaysia. The effect � so far largely overlooked by climate modellers � could severely erode or even remove the ability of tropical rainforests to remove carbon dioxide from the air as they grow.	11th August 2007
Grits pledge $6.6M for climate-change education - CNews TORONTO (CP) - Ontario's governing Liberals continued to shroud themselves in shades of green Friday as they promised $6.6 million over four years for cash-starved environmental groups to educate the public about the dangers of climate change.	11th August 2007
Police to use terror laws on Heathrow climate protesters - Guardian Unlimited Armed police will use anti-terrorism powers to "deal robustly" with climate change protesters at Heathrow next week, as confrontations threaten to bring major delays to the already overstretched airport.	11th August 2007
Arctic sea ice 'lowest in recorded history': scientists Sea ice in the northern hemisphere has plunged to the lowest levels ever measured, US polar specialists said, adding they expect the record low to be "annihilated" by summer's end.	11th August 2007
China: Drought Threatens Grain Harvest - AP via Yahoo! Finance A drought that has stricken many parts of China poses a "grave threat" to grain production, state media reported Friday.	11th August 2007
McGuinty bitter after climate-change rebuff - Toronto Star Premier Dalton McGuinty is lamenting "a lost opportunity" for Canada after provincial and territorial leaders failed to back his strategy for slashing industrial greenhouse gas emissions.	11th August 2007
Public interest in global warming still high - David Suzuki Six months ago, a friend told me that public opinion and media fascination with global warming would be over in six months at most because the public is fickle and the media are obsessed with latest trends. My friend clearly forgot to inform the public and the media.	10th August 2007
Extreme Floods Hit 500 Million People a Year - UN - Planet Ark UNITED NATIONS - Homes and farmland drowned in increasingly severe floods are affecting some 500 million people a year and straining relief efforts, a senior UN official said on Thursday.	10th August 2007
Ten-year climate model unveiled - BBC News Scientists unveil a climate model offering 10-year forecasts of global warming, compared to existing long-term ones. See also: Record temperatures predicted - Guardian Unlimited Model approach to climate prediction - Nature	10th August 2007
Climate Expert James Hansen Talks About the Brooklyn Tornado - Wired News Climate Expert James Hansen Talks About the Brooklyn TornadoWired News. ... acknowledged as the godfather of global warming science, so it made sense to ask him whether climate change caused yesterday's tornado in Brooklyn. ...	10th August 2007
Moldova lost almost the half of grains crop due to drought - AgriMarket According to official data of Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Moldova, due to drought the country lost approximately the half of grains crops. Gross grains yield in Moldova in 2007 totaled 627.500 tons against 1.1 mln tons from the last estimations.	10th August 2007
Glaciers wasting away on Mexico's legendary peaks MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Glaciers that crown Mexico's tallest mountains and inspired Aztec legends of lost love and a snake god could disappear within a few decades, with scientists pointing to global warming as a cause of their demise.	10th August 2007
Hansen 1: Sea-level rise By Joseph RommHansen has posted some important thoughts about sea level rise on his website. In particular, he has shortened his "Scientific reticence and sea level rise" paper and New Scientist has published it. The key conclusion: [I]ce sheets will respond in a non-linear fashion to global warming --- and are already beginning to do so. There is enough information now, in my opinion, to make it a near certainty that business-as-usual [emissions] scenarios will lead to disastrous multi-metre sea level rise on the century time scale. This leads directly to his emissions strategy ...	10th August 2007
One of Deep Ocean's Most Turbulent Areas Has Big Impact on Climate More than a mile beneath the Atlantic`s surface, roughly halfway between New York and Portugal, seawater rushing through the narrow gullies of an underwater mountain range much as winds gust between a city`s tall buildings is generating one of the most turbulent areas ever observed in the deep ocean.	10th August 2007
Climate change and permafrost thaw alter greenhouse gas emissions in northern wetlands - PhysOrg Permafrost - the perpetually frozen foundation of the north - isn`t so permanent anymore, and scientists are scrambling to understand the pros and cons when terra firma goes soft.	10th August 2007
Bush's Climate Change Strategy - Catch me on the Way Out The US is set to engage in international climate change talks in Sept. with some of the world's highest emitters of greenhouse gasses. What could be seen as a step forward for the US is being marred by the Bush administration's abysmal climate change action track record. Bush is in favour of voluntary (versus mandatory) caps on emissions which has been one of the main reasons for distancing the US from the Kyoto Accord and while he has agreed to develop a US global warming strategy, it conveniently falls less than one month before he leaves office.  As well as refusing to sign the international treaty he has repeatedly blamed India and China, two of the highest emitters in the world, for his country's own stalled efforts.	10th August 2007
London looks at bike hire scheme - Guardian Unlimited Ken Livingstone confirms he wants a network of hire pushbikes for London.	10th August 2007
Canadian premiers air energy grid; greenhouse gas curbs asked - Boston Globe Canada's premiers are encouraging the concept of a national transmission grid to make sure Canadians benefit fully from the country's energy resources.	10th August 2007
The mosquito invasion One of the pleasures of an English summer evening is being able to sit in the garden with a bottle of rosé and a bowl of olives and listen to the swifts as they wheel screeching about the houses at sunset. Not any more. This summer a new sound is set to ruin the idyllic scene. The shoulder-hunching whine of a million mosquitoes is heading our way.	10th August 2007
Luxury brands are flaunting their green credentials but can conspicuous consumption come with a clear conscience? Can you buy luxury goods and still care about the environment? Luxury labels and green issues are both very "now" and very sexy, but they make uncomfortable bedfellows. After all, there was much scoffing at the recent Live Earth events from those who objected to being lectured on climate change by a group of jet-setting rock stars with homes around the world.	9th August 2007
Ethanol planning gets stuck in the pipeline - Financial Times As dozens of companies rush to build plants to produce government-mandated ethanol, Karl Miller, chairman and chief executive officer of MMC Energy, is staying out of the way.	9th August 2007
Nurses Warm to Climate Change Campaign - Washington Post Spurred by what they see as an increasing number of illnesses, injuries and deaths related to global warming, a growing number of public health professionals are campaigning for a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. They think of it as a form of preventive medicine: Stop carbon dioxide emissions and global warming, they say, and the risk of severe heat waves and tropical storms will diminish.	9th August 2007
Solar power - in the rain - Guardian Unlimited Travel, life and style: If only solar power wasn't so unreliable, cumbersome and expensive. David Adam visits a pioneering factory trying to overcome these problems.	9th August 2007
Ten readers' ways to cut your carbon footprint - The Independent	9th August 2007
Fraser summer fishery at risk of closing - The Globe and Mail Unexpectedly low numbers of fish in earlier runs pointing to one of the worst seasons in decades. "There's a pattern developing here that suggest a large-scale survival issue," he said. Warmer ocean waters two years ago, possibly linked to climate change, seems to have hurt the population of sockeye, he said, with those warmer oceans reducing food sources for the species and increasing the prevalence of southern predators.	9th August 2007
Warm temperatures may be causing Sierra tree deaths - Contra Costa Times Tree deaths in the Sierra Nevada have increased over the past two decades, and scientists say the trend may be linked to higher temperatures. Ecologists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Center in Three Rivers tracked the fate of more than 21,000 trees in old-growth forests of Yosemite and Sequoia national parks and found the death rates rose significantly between 1983 and 2004.	9th August 2007
Swifter decline for coral reefs - BBC Coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans are vanishing faster than had previously been thought, a study shows.	9th August 2007
Lake Fades in Two Months Because of Global Warming - ABC News Scientists are blaming global warming for the disappearance of a glacial lake.	9th August 2007
Massive slide covers entire glacier - The Globe and Mail Landslide on Yukon's Mount Steele had a minimum velocity of 252 kilometres an hour and covered the Steele glacier“Thanks to glacier melt due to global warming, mountain areas have become more susceptible to changes and stress,” he said. “This is a worldwide phenomenon taking place.”	9th August 2007
Purple Snail May Be Climate Change Casualty - NPR Scientists say a purple snail that lived on islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean may be the first species to go extinct in the modern era due to climate change. They say an unusual series of long hot summers did the snail in.	9th August 2007
What makes a good cap-and-trade system? Lots of economists and analysts on both sides of the aisle prefer a carbon tax to a cap-and-trade system, but political reality is such that the former is exceedingly unlikely and the latter has become all but inevitable. So it's time to focus on doing it well. One question that came up in the panel Q&A was this: what makes for a good cap-and-trade system? This subject is both enormously complex and enormously relevant to current politics. We need the grassroots to be engaged, pushing back against the many half-ass measures on offer, lobbying on behalf of good measures.	9th August 2007
Climate Change And Permafrost Thaw Alter Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Northern Wetlands - Science Daily Permafrost - the perpetually frozen foundation of North America - isn't so permanent anymore, and scientists are scrambling to understand the pros and cons when terra firma goes soft.	9th August 2007
Nazmul Islam Chowdhury: Consequences of western emissions in Bangladesh - Guardian Unlimited Nazmul Islam Chowdhury: Now the consequences of years of profligate western emissions are suffered in Bangladesh.	9th August 2007
The CO2 problem in 6 easy steps - RealClimate We often get requests to provide an easy-to-understand explanation for why increasing CO2 is a significant problem without relying on climate models and we are generally happy to oblige. The explanation has a number of separate steps which tend to sometimes get confused and so we will try to break it down carefully.	9th August 2007
Aid to help Asia and Africa with effects of warming - International Herald Tribune The Rockefeller Foundation says it will invest $70 million over the next five years to help Asian cities and African farmers withstand floods, droughts and other global warming hazards.	9th August 2007
Does eco-Coke help? - International Herald Tribune The International Herald Tribune is leading a global dialogue on how businesses and consumers are responding to climate change at our Business of Green blog. Here are edited entries and responses from readers.	9th August 2007
The Earth fights back - Guardian Unlimited Never mind higher temperatures, climate change has a few nastier surprises in store. Bill McGuire says we can also expect more earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis	8th August 2007
This time it's personal - Guardian Unlimited CRAGS: Will carbon allowances for individuals cut carbon emissions? Guy Shrubsole reports.	8th August 2007
Americans Chide Bush on Climate Change Efforts - Angus Reid (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Many adults in the United States are disappointed with the way their president has dealt with global warming, according to a poll by Princeton Survey Research Associates released by Newsweek. 68 per cent of respondents think the George W. Bush administration has not done enough to try to address climate change.	8th August 2007
Hot rocks in Earth's crust offer hope for clean energy, but beware of tremors - CNews BASEL, Switzerland (AP) - When tremors started cracking walls and bathroom tiles in this Swiss city on the Rhine, the engineers knew they had a problem.	8th August 2007
£25 a day to drive in London - This is Money Gas-guzzling vehicles such as 4x4s and high-powered sports cars could soon be paying up to £25 a day to drive in the London congestion charging zone, it was revealed today. London mayor Ken Livingstone said today that Transport for London (TfL) will start a consultation on Friday into higher charges for vehicles 'that make the biggest contribution to global warming'.	8th August 2007
Step Higher - Grist Magazine Step It Up 2 is coming this November -- get ready to hit the streets	8th August 2007
Spain Hauls in 8 Tonnes of Jellyfish From Beaches - Planet Ark MADRID - Spain has launched a campaign to investigate and collect a plague of jellyfish on its coastline, and so far has collected eight tonnes of them, the Environment Ministry said on Tuesday.	8th August 2007
'07 weather extremes seen as sign of what awaits us - Seattle Times A monsoon dropped 14 inches of rain in one day across many parts of South Asia this month. Germany had its wettest May on record, and April was the driest there in a century. Temperatures reached 113 degrees last month in Bulgaria and 90 degrees in Moscow in late May, shattering longtime records. The year still has almost five months to go, but it has already experienced a range of weather extremes that the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Tuesday is well outside the historical norm and is a precursor of much greater weather variability as global warming transforms the planet.	8th August 2007
Climate change ups hunger risks in poor states - FAO - Reuters India Climate change with frequent droughts and floods is likely to cut food output and increase hunger risk in developing countries, the U.N food agency said on Tuesday, adding its voice to global warming concerns.	8th August 2007
Dry conditions stressing crops - UPI Dry conditions persisted from California to the northern Rockies, stressing crops, keeping irrigation demands high and feeding into the wildfire threat.	8th August 2007
German car giants pressure EU over emissions - Daily Telegraph The European Commission is backing away from its draconian plans for curbs on car emissions, bowing to intense pressure from Berlin and the German auto industry.	8th August 2007
Africa: Continent Must Be Heard On Climate Change - AllAfrica.com Africa is the continent that will be hit hardest by climate change. Unpredictable rains and floods, prolonged droughts, subsequent crop failures and rapid desertification, among other signs of global warming, have in fact already begun to change the face of Africa.	8th August 2007
Americans See 100 MPG Cars as Biggest Fix for Global Warming - Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance Sixty-Two Percent of Americans Express Strong Interest in Purchasing 100 MPG Vehicles, According to New Survey Results by the X PRIZE Foundation See also: Automakers highlight low-CO2 vehicles - USA Today	8th August 2007
Catastrophic weather report: Extremely normal - Salon.com So, how much would you pay to put the brakes on devastating climate change? Environmental economist John Whitehead points out that over a 21-year time span, for a population of 300 million, $533 billion breaks down to $85 per person per year.	8th August 2007
New UN Website on Climate Change - DeSmogBlog The United Nations has just launched a new comprehensive website to inform on its dealings with climate change. You can learn about the IPCC, UN global warming initiatives, latest news and much more. I think it's worth noting as well, that the UN now calls the link between climate change and human activity, 'unequivocal'. Check out the site here.	8th August 2007
BAA wins injunction to stop Heathrow protest - Guardian Unlimited Airports operator succeeds in high court bid to ban direct action demonstration. See also: Because it is illegal, the climate camp is now also a protest for democracy - Guardian Unlimited Leading Article; Protest and survive: the fight to protect free speech goes on - The Independent	7th August 2007
Save cash as you save the planet - Guardian Unlimited Start the year as you mean to go on by being good to yourself, and to the environment. Miles Brignall and Rupert Jones suggest 10 green ways to keep you out of the red [#11. Don't buy the stuff you don't need. Average yearly saving £1000-5000]	7th August 2007
See what you're spewing as you speed along - PhysOrg In future drivers may only have to glance at the dashboard to see the pollution spewing out of their vehicle`s exhausts.	7th August 2007
Building on Kyoto - Energy Bulletin Clive Hamilton, New Left Review. A critical assessment of George Monbiot's scheme for a 90 per cent cut in carbon emissions. Can ambitious targets and moral exhortations bring any improvement on existing treaties?	7th August 2007
World's first carbon-free city - CNN Money It may seem strange that the emirate of Abu Dhabi, one of the planet's largest suppliers of oil, is planning to build the world's first carbon-neutral city.	7th August 2007
Fierce floods damage food crops in India - Reuters via Yahoo! News India's farm ministry said on Monday it was still assessing the impact on crops of massive monsoon floods in the country's east, but state officials said vast areas of rice and corn had been damaged.	7th August 2007
Puffin chicks 'starving to death' - BBC News A seabird on St Kilda is struggling to find enough food for its young, says the National Trust for Scotland.	7th August 2007
Scientists fight flesh-eating bug - BBC News University scientists in Hull and Kent are making advances in tackling a flesh-eating bug, on the rise due to global warming.	7th August 2007
An unflattering history of global warming skeptics - Seattle Post Intelligencer My goodness Marc Morano has gotten his knickers twisted! The spokesman for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works -- the committee that until the last election was led by Sen. Jim Inhofe, who time after time has argued against research showing human-caused global warming -- is frothing over this new article in Newsweek that tracks the history of the attack against climate change science.	7th August 2007
Experiment suggests limitations to carbon dioxide 'tree banking' - EurekAlert! SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- While 10 years of bathing North Carolina pine tree stands with extra carbon dioxide did allow the trees to grow more tissue, only those pines receiving the most water and nutrients were able to store significant amounts of carbon that could offset the effects of global warming, scientists told a national meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). On the other hand... Save the forests: they are crucial to reducing carbon dioxide - The Age	7th August 2007
Spanish Winemakers Go Cooler to Stay in the Game - NPR As the temperature – and the wine-producing competition – heats up, Spanish winemakers, Torres wine, have headed for the cooler fields of the Pyrenees Mountains to grow grapes that can withstand changes in climate and the wine industry. See also: Scientists Describe Changes Wrought by Global Warming - Vineyard Gazette	7th August 2007
Senate Climate Bill Shaves $533 Billion Off US Economy - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - A Senate bill to cut US greenhouse gas emissions would raise energy prices and also reduce American economic output by more than half a trillion dollars over two decades, according to a government report released Monday. [...sounds cheap compared to the alternative...]	7th August 2007
Gore: Polluters Manipulate Climate Info - CBS News Research aimed at disputing the scientific consensus on global warming is part of a huge public misinformation campaign funded by some of the world's largest carbon polluters, former Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday.	7th August 2007
The best clean-tech book - GristMill For years I've been looking for one book to recommend to people who want to get up to speed on what's happening in clean technology. I have finally found it: The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity, by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder. It is the only book I've seen that covers the whole gamut of the latest in clean energy -- including such cutting-edge areas as concentrating solar power and microalgae -- and isn't swept up in fads like hydrogen cars. I was a bit worried when the index didn't have an entry for either "hybrids" or "plug-in hybrids," but that is only because the index is quite lame.	7th August 2007
Newsweek Chronicles the Long, Relentless History of Climate Denialists - DeSmogBlog If you think those who have long challenged the mainstream scientific findings about global warming recognize that the game is over, think again.  The denial machine is running at full throttle -- and continuing to shape both government policy and public opinion.	6th August 2007
Swallows Return from the South 16 Days Earlier - Donga.com Migratory birds seem to be changing their migration habits because of climate changes from global warming. The Korea National Park (KNP) announced on August 5 that its survey of 82 kinds of migratory birds that depart southeastern parts of China, such as Shanghai, Fuzhou and Hong Kong in spring and that fly back to Hongdo in Tadohae National Park showed that 13, including swallows and whistle birds, had migrating periods that came 16 days earlier.	6th August 2007
Seas could rise much more than we thought - Sydney Morning Herald RISES in sea levels caused by climate change are likely to be bigger than predicted and more dangerous, but scientists are reluctant to "stick their necks out" on the issue for fear of being labelled alarmist, a leading international expert is warning. "This isn't just my concern: there's a number of scientists who were not very happy with the impression given in the summary of the report that sea-level rise projections had dropped compared to the previous report," Professor Rahmstorf told the Herald when he arrived in Sydney.	6th August 2007
Towns prepare for 'peak oil' point - BBC News BBC Radio Scotland's Investigation programme looks at the development of transition towns. See also: Why 'peak oil' may soon pique your interest - The Christian Science Monitor	6th August 2007
Blame the media for climate woes: analysis - Canada.com OTTAWA - Mainstream U.S. media are to blame for stalled international efforts to reach an agreement to fight climate change, according to a new analysis released by a media watchdog group.	6th August 2007
Danger in growth for growth's sake - The Australian CLIMATE change is exacerbated by a growing population.	6th August 2007
Europe Hotter Than Thought in Last Century - Study - Planet Ark LONDON - Western Europe has heated up more than previously thought over the past century, according to a new study that adds to evidence pointing to a future of hotter summers and longer-lasting heat waves.	6th August 2007
Global Warming Fight May Get Boost from Ozone Plan - Planet Ark OSLO - Countries can take a big and easy step this year to combat climate change by agreeing to tighten a UN treaty outlawing gases that damage the ozone layer, the UN Environment Programme said on Friday.	6th August 2007
UN Welcomes Bush Climate Plan, But Test in Outcome - Planet Ark OSLO - The United Nations welcomed a plan by US President George W. Bush for talks by major emitters about cutting greenhouse gases next month but said the test would be in the outcome.	6th August 2007
Up Close in the Arctic, Beluga Whales Under Threat - Planet Ark BOLSHOI SOLOVETSKY ISLAND - Summer doesn't last long on the edge of the Arctic circle, but on the remote Solovetsky Island on Russia's White Sea it marks the remarkable return every year of Beluga whales just metres from the shore.	6th August 2007
Disease fear over millions driven from homes by monsoon flooding - Times Online The worst monsoon floods in living memory have killed more than 1,200 people and displaced 19 million across South Asia, and are now raising fears of an outbreak of water and mosquito-borne diseases.	6th August 2007
Drought affects 7.5m people - China Economic Net While much of the country has been inundated by the worst rains of the year, widespread and prolonged drought is plaguing the northern, northeastern and southern regions.	6th August 2007
Biofuel revolution will drive up food prices - Stuff Chicken, pork and beef -anything that makes use of grain - is going to become more expensive. Keith Woodford explains.	6th August 2007
Lib Dems propose £10 green tax for domestic flights - Guardian Unlimited The Liberal Democrats said today that they would add £10 to the price of domestic flights in a bid to halt global warming.	6th August 2007
From Carbon Markets to the - Conveniently Forgotten Four Billion - GreenBiz Energy and climate are now all over the news these days.	6th August 2007
Lakes disappearing in Mexico drought - IANS via Yahoo! India News Villahermosa (Mexico), Aug 6 (IANS) The lack of rain in the southern state of Tabasco, where 25 percent of Mexico's water resources are located, has caused several lakes to begin drying up, leaving fishermen without their livelihood.	6th August 2007
Tougher carbon targets law urged - BBC News The government's proposals to tackle climate change need to be tougher and legally enforceable, say MPs and peers.	3rd August 2007
Airport injunction is 'bizarre' - BBC News BAA's request for an injunction covering a climate change protest is an "exercise in confusion and futility", a court is told.	3rd August 2007
Lib Dem air tax to boost railways - BBC News The Lib Dems want to put an extra £10 tax per ticket on internal flights to help fund railway improvements.	3rd August 2007
Ceramic Tubes Could Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Power Stations - Science Daily Greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generating stations could be cut to almost zero by controlling the combustion process with an advanced ceramic material, claim engineers.	3rd August 2007
Dems do in fact wimp out on CAFE for now - GristMill E&E Daily (subs. req'd) confirms earlier press reports: Markey [D-MA] said in a statement yesterday that he decided to pull his amendment after consulting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), even though he believed he had the votes to move the legislation. While Pelosi personally favored a CAFE standard of 35 miles per gallon, industry lobbyists said she did not whip votes on the legislation and it appeared Markey was not assured of the votes needed to pass the bill. Sad, really. This is a centerpiece of any energy or climate legislation -- and much of the heavy lifting had already been done to get Senate approval.	3rd August 2007
Economist stuff - GristMill By David RobertsTwo short articles of interest in The Economist. One describes the nascent attempts to conceive and build a network of high-voltage DC power lines across Europe, which would enable wind and solar to play the role of baseload power. The other is about compressed-air storage. This is nifty, but confusing: Meanwhile, General Compression, a small firm based in Attleboro, Massachusetts, is taking another approach. Its windmill compresses air directly. This has the advantage of eliminating two wasteful steps: the conversion of the mechanical power of a windmill into electricity and its subsequent reconversion into mechanical power in a compressor.	3rd August 2007
Green is the Colour of Money, Funds Say - Planet Ark LONDON - The fight to save the planet from climate change is attracting a glut of new funds and money-raising as investors look for companies expected to profit from global warming and climate policies.	3rd August 2007
After the floods, China battles heat and drought - AlertNet Source: Reuters BEIJING, Aug 3 (Reuters) - More than 7 million Chinese were short of drinking water on Friday as heat prolongs weeks of drought across the northeast and south, while floods remained a threat after killing more than 700 this summer, state media said.	3rd August 2007
APEC finance ministers see need to 'go beyond' Kyoto - TODAYonline The "official family photo" on the first day of the APEC 2007 Finance Ministers Meeting taking place in Coolum, in the Australian state of Queensland. APEC finance ministers Friday said that the world needed to "go beyond" the Kyoto Protocol to adequately address climate change.	3rd August 2007
UN Assembly's first climate change meeting needs extra day to finish business - CNews UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The first-ever UN General Assembly meeting on climate change needed an extra day Thursday so speakers from worried countries could discuss global warming's impact and the need for international action.	3rd August 2007
Turkey rations water as cities hit by drought - Guardian Unlimited Water shortages after record low levels of snow and rain in the winter and searing summer temperatures.	3rd August 2007
Sex, rock 'n' roll and global warming - Energy Bulletin Kelpie Wilson, Truthout. If the Live Earth concerts are to continue, they ought to evolve to serve the transformation not just away from consumer society but toward a culture where we dance and sing and find our bling in things that are healthy for us and the planet.	2nd August 2007
Van Jones: "Green Jobs Act of 2007" - HuffingtonPost There has been a lot of discussion about the Energy Package that is set to pass the U.S. House this week. But the media so far has missed one of the most interesting and innovative proposals that will be voted on: the Green Jobs Act of 2007. This ground-breaking legislation will make $120 million a year available across the country to begin training workers (and would-be workers) for jobs in the clean energy sector. When the bill becomes law, 35,000 people a year will benefit from cutting edge, vocational education in fields that could literally save the Earth..	2nd August 2007
More on thin-film solar - GristMill Technology Review has an article on thin-film solar, mostly focusing on First Solar. This stuff is very, very close to competitive with conventional solar panels and on a clear path to being competitive with traditional fossil-based electricity sources. It's an exciting time. Speaking of solar excitement: A team at the Univ. of Delaware has just broken the previous world record for solar cell efficiency. The previous record was 40.7% efficiency, held by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The UD team hit 42.8%. They're shooting for 50%. Skeptics point out that solar power has been "on the verge of a revolution" for about 30 years now, so I realize I risk mockery when I say this, but nonetheless, this time it really does seem true that ...	2nd August 2007
Environmental groups pitch a greener 20 energy plan for Ontario - CNews TORONTO (CP) - A new study suggests Ontario can cut greenhouse gases in half over the next 20 years and eliminate the use of coal at least five years sooner than planned without raising prices for consumers.	2nd August 2007
Nothing to Hear Here, UK Wind Turbine Study Shows - Planet Ark LONDON - Most British wind turbines do not make much noise as they spin around making electricity and people who complain about them should not be losing sleep, according to a study published on Wednesday.	2nd August 2007
Suicide rate rises in hot weather - BBC News Psychiatrists find more people commit suicide when the average daily temperature tops 18C.	2nd August 2007
Early springs show Siberia is warming fast - New Scientist UK. The trend is likely to be triggering more forest fires, say researchers, and to be linked to global warming.	2nd August 2007
Insurers Claim Global Warming Makes Some Regions Too Hot to Handle - Scientific American As the nation braces for an active hurricane season, private insurers jump ship, leaving federal and state governments liable for ever increasing payouts.	2nd August 2007
Hemlocks threatened by an unwelcome guest - The Christian Science Monitor Scientists are working to stop the hemlock woolly adelgid from killing trees in the Eastern US and spreading northward.	2nd August 2007
Climate change worries for bird - BBC News A rare mountain bird is to be radio tracked in an effort to better understand its declining numbers.	2nd August 2007
Global warming cited in feline 'heat' wave - National Post An explosion in Toronto's stray cat population is the latest phenomenon being blamed on global warming, joining a growing list of evils that includes increases in hay fever and seal mating as well as decreases in the supply of maple syrup and Bulgarian prostitutes.	2nd August 2007
Asia's brown clouds heat the Himalayas The haze of pollution that hangs over south Asia causes marked regional warming, in addition to global cooling	2nd August 2007
'Sunshade' for global warming could cause drought - New Scientist Pumping sulphur particles into the atmosphere to mimic the cooling effect of a large volcanic eruption has been proposed as a last-ditch solution to combating climate change – but doing so would cause problems of its own, including potentially catastrophic drought, say researchers.	2nd August 2007
Mayor attacks Heathrow injunction - BBC News London Mayor Ken Livingstone urges Heathrow Airport authorities to rethink plans to ban a climate change protest.	1st August 2007
UK Christians in long march to combat global warming - Ekklesia UK Christians in long march to combat global warmingEkklesia, UK. Both men have stressed the urgency of the climate change crisis. "People see it as a problem for the future and how it will affect their families but often ...	1st August 2007
Oregon 'Dead Zone' Likely a Result of Global Warming - Wired News A zone of oxygen-depleted water off the Oregon coast, harmful to sea life, has returned for the sixth consecutive year, and scientists say climate change is the reason.	1st August 2007
Climate Change Threatens Siberian Forests - Science Daily Catastrophic forest fire outbreaks in Siberia are happening more frequently because of climate change, new research suggests. In Central Siberia alone, fires have destroyed 38 000 square kilometers in the extreme fire year of 2003. In that year the smoke plumes were so huge that they caused air pollution as far as in the United States.	1st August 2007
EU to Use 18 Pct Cereals Crops by 2020 for Biofuel - Planet Ark BRUSSELS - Europe should by 2020 divert around 18 percent of its cereals harvests, mostly maize and soft wheat, into making biofuel to meet targets for feedstock use in transport fuels, a European Commission report said on Tuesday.	1st August 2007
U.N. climate change meeting aims at rich countries UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The first U.N. special session on climate change focused on the world's rich countries on Tuesday, as policy-makers urged long-standing polluters to shoulder much of the burden for cutting greenhouse gases.	1st August 2007
Bush admin stealthily releases US Climate Action Report - DeSmogBlog In the news industry everyone knows that the bad news always comes out on a Friday afternoon. Why? Because everyone also knows that most media has filed early and gone home for the day.Seems the Bush administration pulled this little PR trick just last week with the release of its 19-month overdue US Climate Action Report.  The report was released last Friday (July 27th) by the Department of State in the form of this media memo. The release was not mentioned in the department's daily press briefing, nor is it mentioned in the news section of the White House's Council on Environmental Quality website.	1st August 2007
Running Out Fossil Fuels: A Cause For Glee? - CounterCurrents.org John James, one of the writers for Crisis Coalition, suggests, "It may be that declining oil may save us from climate change. As you know from my Proof article, 1.5 degrees is inevitable, and in another four years -- two degrees. Were oil to decline in that time span, we may yet survive. Just as emissions are rising three times faster than a decade ago, so oil consumption is increasing."	31st July 2007
Carbon focus 'misses the point' - BBC News The focus on reducing carbon emissions has blinded us to the real problem - unsustainable lifestyles. See also: Voluntary Carbon Offset Market Report - A Missed Opportunity - eGov monitor	31st July 2007
Floods may give added urgency to Severn project - Guardian Unlimited · Energy output could equal that of two power stations · Environmentalists say plan would harm wildlife	31st July 2007
Oil, resilience and entropy - July 30 Staff, Energy Bulletin. Diesel-driven bee slums and impotent turkeys: the case for resilience Jeff Vail: Losing our balance? Kunstler: Vanishing point	31st July 2007
AutoLobby World Cup: European Union vs. United States - DeSmogBlog There are very large gaps between what the North American auto industry says it's doing about climate change and what it's actually doing about climate change. Honda professes expertise in "Environmentology." Ford Motor Company assures us that its "Easy to be green." And GM touts the "Chevy Volt" as proof of their commitment to all things envirobnmentally friendly. All this public "greening" is going on at the same time that these companies, along with pretty much every other major auto manufacturer in North America, are sponsoring lawsuits across the United States in an attempt to block stricter regulations on greenhouse gas emission standards for new vehicles. See also: U.S. vehicles rank bottom in world fuel efficiency - AlertNet	31st July 2007
Hansen's 'two plus two solution' to global warming - Grist Magazine Hansen offers his climate solution -- two important actions and two "tweaks"	31st July 2007
Upside down economics - Energy Bulletin In his collection of essays entitled Earth In Mind David Orr introduces us to one William Nordhaus, a Yale economist who has been puzzling over the economics of climate change. The question Orr asks is whether Nordhaus is puzzling over the right things and in the right way. Orr is clearly interested in Nordhaus's views because those views very much represent the way most (but certainly not all) economists think about the natural world. Back in 1990 in a one-line preface to an article by Nordhaus in The Economist entitled Greenhouse Economics: Count Before You Leap, the magazine's editors summarized Nordhaus's overall point as follows: "Careful cost-benefit analysis, not panicky eco-action, is the right answer to the risk of global warming." It's a statement that few would disagree with. Where the disagreement comes is how to tote up the costs and the benefits.	30h July 2007
Mother Earth and the Human Factor/Social Consciousness “To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing” - RAYMOND WILLIAMS Today we are focusing on the dangers for the human species and the environment – in a word, the importance to humanity at this critical time of safeguarding Mother Earth, her human offspring and the whole of life and its delicate balance. It is common ground that harming either the whole earth or the mass of humanity will bring ruination and devastation to human existence. The conclusion is that there is an urgent need to halt and reverse this destructive trend. What I wish to emphasise is that to counter the trend is to counter the striving for private enrichment and domination of human and natural resources of the world by the vested interests that totally disregard the warnings of impending disasters. It is to develop a counter trend of political and social responsibility that begins with the people...	30h July 2007
Scientists attempt to roll back emissions - Guardian Unlimited Richard Branson offered a $25m bounty to anyone who can stop global warming - but scientists say they may already have the technology.	30h July 2007
LS9 promises 'renewable petroleum' - GristMill By David RobertsPicture a liquid fuel that is derived from the same feedstocks as cellulosic ethanol (switchgrass, sugar cane, corn stover) but contains 50% more energetic content and is made via a process that uses 65% less energy. Unlike cellulosic ethanol, this fuel can be distributed via existing oil pipelines rather than gas-hogging trucks and trains, dispensed through existing gas stations rather than specialized pumps, and used in existing engines rather than modified "flex-fuel" engines. In short, it is a biofuel can be substituted directly and immediately for gas or diesel, on a gallon-for-gallon basis. Sounds pretty good, eh?	30h July 2007
CFMEU launches climate change campaign - Hastings Gazette The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has launched a million dollar ad campaign calling for Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and a 60 per cent cut in carbon emissions.	30h July 2007
More restaurants are going green by going local - The Christian Science Monitor One Los Angeles menu boasts dishes where 90 percent of the ingredients were raised within 400 miles.	30h July 2007
Tropical storms stepping up with climate change - New Scientist Major shifts in the number of North Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes are due to climate change, not cyclic events, says a new analysis	30h July 2007
Austrians Convinced of Climate Change - Angus Reid Global Monitor Most people in Austria think recent reports about global warming are accurate, according to a poll by OGM. 66 per cent of respondents believe the concerns about climate change are justified.	30h July 2007
Climate change target called too weak - Reuters.uk Draft plans to curb the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 60 percent by 2050 were too weak, an environment committee of MPs said on Monday.	30h July 2007
Is the Chevy Volt just more GM greenwashing? - GristMill By Joseph RommBack in May, I was seduced by GM's seeming sincerity in developing a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the Chevy Volt. We must always remember, however, that GM is a master greenwasher. An article in Edmunds, "Chevrolet Volt Goes to Washington To Underline GM's Anti-CAFE-Increase Argument," suggests GM is using the Volt the same way it used fuel cell cars to kill the electric car in California (as the movie explains): General Motors' North American operations chief, Troy Clarke, is meeting with legislators on Capitol Hill today, and he's bringing along the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid prototype.	30h July 2007
China sets up pollution blacklist - BBC News China's environmental regulator puts 30 companies on its first blacklist of pollution violators.	30h July 2007
Biofuels to keep global grain prices high - Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News HAMBURG, July 30 - Rising biofuels production will keep grain and oilseed prices high in the coming year, German grain trading house Toepfer International, a unit of U.S. agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland Co. , said on Monday.	30h July 2007
Cloudy Germany unlikely hotspot for solar power - Reuters BONN, Germany (Reuters) - It rains year round in Germany. Clouds cover the skies for about two-thirds of all daylight hours. Yet the country has managed to become the world's leading solar power generator.	30h July 2007
Worry about bread, not oil - Telegraph.co.uk Some people worry about peak oil. I worry more about peak grain. The real question is whether we could now be approaching a new era of misery. Even at an arithmetic rate, the United Nations expects the world's population to pass the 9 billion mark by 2050. But can world food production keep pace? Plant physiologist Lloyd T Evans has estimated that "we must reach an average yield of four tons per hectare... to support a population of 8 billion". But yields right now are, as we have seen, just three tons per hectare. And a world of eight billion people may be less than 20 years away. Meanwhile, man-made forces are conspiring to put a ceiling on food production. Global warming and the resulting climate change may well be increasing the incidence of extreme weather events as well as inflicting permanent damage on some farming regions. It is not just British crops that are suffering this year. At the same time, our effort to slow global warming by switching from fossil fuels to bio-fuels is taking large tracts of land out of food production.	29th July 2007
Warm waters deadly to Yellowstone trout - Denver Post In the Firehole River that slashes through the wild grasses and woods of Yellowstone's west side, the trout began to take notice. As the water warmed on that early July day, the levels of dissolved oxygen dropped. The fish - rainbows, with their bright crimson lateral slash, and brown trout, with their multicolored spots - began to panic. They darted up and down the river, seeking a cooling pocket. Within 48 hours, rangers and biologists would stand amid the tall grasses on the banks of one of the nation's most famous trout streams and watch in sadness as several hundred - and perhaps 1,000 - big and small trout were swept downstream, the white bellies of their corpses reflecting the sunlight. It was the largest fish kill known to biologists in the 135-year history of the park.	29th July 2007
Congestion pricing saves more than it costs - GristMill Steven Cohen is executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and director of its Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs. Jacob Victor is an intern at Columbia's Earth Institute. After overcoming numerous obstacles in Albany, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's controversial congestion-pricing plan finally appears to be slowly moving forward. Thanks to a last-minute deal between Bloomberg and the leaders of the state Assembly, it is almost certain that New York will receive a $500 million federal grant to fund the equipment and upgrade mass transit in order to begin the program.	29th July 2007
UK will be swamped by a £6bn tidal wave of costs - Guardian Unlimited Dearer food and negative equity for owners of homes at risk is on the way, writes Zoe Wood.	29th July 2007
The mystery of Lake Superior's low levels, surging temperatures - The Globe and Mail Suddenness and severity of changes in Superior worry many in the region as levels drop 30 centimetres this year with near-record surface temperatures	29th July 2007
Australia Plans Satellite System to Protect World's Forests - Voice of America Australian officials are calling for global support for a satellite monitoring system to combat illegal logging and the destruction of forests in Asia and the Pacific. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports.	29th July 2007
'Ferrari' of probes to check Earth gravity - Guardian Unlimited Scientists unveiled a new weapon in the battle against global warming last week: a 16ft torpedo-shaped probe that will swoop over the atmosphere to measure Earth's gravity with unprecedented accuracy. The Gravity and Ocean Circulation Explorer, or Goce, has been dubbed the Ferrari of space probes because of its elegant design and will be launched early next year on a Russian SS-19 missile. Scientists say its data on Earth's gravitational field will be vital in understanding how ocean currents react to the heating of our planet over the next few decades.	29th July 2007
Want to save the planet? Then grass over your roof They may look like homes out of Beatrix Potter books, but houses with grass lawns planted on the roof may be the latest weapon in the battle against global warming.	29th July 2007
Review of London's flood defences - BBC News Scotland Yard and the MI5 HQ are among vulnerable landmarks being reassessed for flood risk.	29th July 2007
Leading Article: The flight from democracy - The Independent The attempt by BAA to disrupt and undermine opposition to the expansion of Heathrow airport is a clear affront to the democratic right to peaceful protest. As we reported yesterday, the airport operator is seeking an injunction against next month's Camp for Climate Action protest at Heathrow airport. It proposes to throw out an outrageously large protective bubble around the airport that would cover not just the terminal buildings and runways, but also London Underground's Piccadilly line, which runs to Heathrow, parts of the mainline rail network and sections of the M25 and M4. See also:Battle of Heathrow: From across the political spectrum, opposition to BAA's injunction grows - Independent	28th July 2007
Climatewash - It's the all new greenwash - Greenpeace International This year has seen the science debate (artificially prolonged by dirty energy funded front groups) settled. And Live Earth helped raise awareness of the problem in many countries to an unprecedented level. But even a quick scan of the Live Earth sponsors reveals many companies who, while spending millions on appearing to be concerned about climate change, are profiting from climate changing business as usual.	28th July 2007
Poison plant could help to cure the planet - Times Online The jatropha bush seems an unlikely prize in the hunt for alternative energy, being an ugly, fast-growing and poisonous weed. Hitherto, its use to humanity has principally been as a remedy for constipation. Very soon, however, it may be powering your car.	28th July 2007
Change in jet stream brings woe - Financial Times It may be difficult for those battling fires in southern Europe and floods in the north to believe, but their woes are both caused by the same weather system.	28th July 2007
ENVIRONMENT: Tiny Tuvalu Fights for Its Literal Survival - IPS The second smallest nation on Earth hopes to turn itself into an example of sustainable development that others can emulate. But the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu and its 10,500 people may only have 50 years or less to set that example before it is swept away by rising sea levels due to climate change.	28th July 2007
California cuts diesel emissions - BBC News Tough new rules in California aim to cut emissions from diesel engines over the next two decades.	28th July 2007
US Airlines Under Pressure To Fly Greener - Washington Post Airlines and airplane makers have largely slipped under the radar in the debate over global warming. But a dispute over a European emissions-trading proposal has caught many carriers and their trade groups by surprise, spurring them to launch a public relations blitz highlighting their green bona fides, even if most of their work has been aimed at boosting their bottom lines.	28th July 2007
Drought leaves 1.93 mln people short of water in south China - China Economic Net About 1.93 million people living in four southern provinces of China are suffering from water shortages due to continuous drought, the office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said on Friday.	28th July 2007
Navajos and Environmentalists Split on Power Plant - New York Times The struggle over a proposal for a huge coal-fired power plant on a Navajo reservation is a homegrown version of the global debate on climate change.	27th July 2007
Global Wind Power Rises by 26 Pct in 2006 - Report - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - Global wind power capacity rose by nearly 26 percent last year, generating electricity equivalent to nearly 33 million passenger cars, Worldwatch Institute reported.	27th July 2007
Beetle-killed forests cited as possible climate change factor - Vancouver Sun Could B.C.'s ever-expanding sea of red-tinged forests caused by pine beetle infestation be contributing to global warming? Researchers at the University of Northern B.C. think it's possible, with one professor now leading a study on whether beetle activity -- long suspected as being caused by global warming because warmer winters can no longer contain their spread -- is creating additional warming in its own right.	27th July 2007
Hansen on 'trains of death' By Joseph Romm Still more from James Hansen's email: Ed Wilson explains that the 21st century is a "bottleneck" for species, because of extreme stresses they will experience, most of all from climate change. He foresees a potentially brighter future beyond the fossil fuel era, beyond the peak human population will occur if developing countries follow the path of the developed world to lower fertility rates. Air and water can be clean and we will learn to live with other species in a sustainable way, using renewable energy. The question he asks is how many species will survive the tremendous pressure of the 21st century bottleneck.	27th July 2007
Alaska temperature on rise - Anchorage Daily News Like the rest of the world, Alaska is heating up, according to AkPIRG, the Alaska Public Interest Research Group. Claims of global warming and its dire impacts in Alaska are not new. But AkPIRG added some fresh numbers to the discussion Thursday.	27th July 2007
Flying windmills could harness the jet stream - NewScientist.com Flying windmills tapping jet stream wind currents may sound far fetched, but groups in the US, Netherlands and Canada say such devices may soon be within reach. If successfully developed, they could harness an enormous amount of reliable, renewable energy.	27th July 2007
Can 'green chic' save the planet? - The Christian Science Monitor Ecofriendly buying choices alone can't sustain America's lifestyle, experts warn - unless 'looking green' becomes 'voting green.'	27th July 2007
What's really going on here - The New Statesman This is not a poor summer. Britain has been experiencing its worst ever climate change event. We must recognise this and our own responsibility for the emerging crisis.	27th July 2007
With organic ales and local delivery runs, micro-breweries are some of Britain's greenest businesses I am sitting in a Kent pub eating a ham sandwich with Robert Wicks. The bread is brown and organic brown, freshly baked in the landlord's oven. The meat is courtesy of a local farmer. And it's all being washed down with ale, the casks of which have been produced by Wicks at his micro-brewery just down the road. Here, at the Old Eden in Edenbridge, his ales outsell Carlsberg and Fosters.	27th July 2007
The time is now - Energy Bulletin Sharon Astyk, Casaubon's Book. I could be absolutely off base, but it seems like the combination of peak oil, financial instability and climate change is going to strike us hard, and soon. There's good reason to hedge your bets, invest a few resources and a little energy into preparation.	27th July 2007
20 coal projects canceled as global warming fears mount - Mongabay.com Coal-fired power plants are fast being shelved as environmental concerns mount, reports the Wall Street Journal.	27th July 2007
Harper's head stuck in oil sands - Toronto Star Provinces representing almost 90 per cent of Canada's population now have aggressive plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As more jurisdictions get on board, we are getting a clear picture of what stands in the way of Canada improving its environmental record nationally. Two main holdout provinces have yet to join the carbon club: Alberta and Newfoundland, whose governments have not yet prioritized a future for our children over oil profits.	27th July 2007
It's cars versus humans - Jakarta Post Farmers all over the world are very worried about the escalating issue of agrofuel. At the Nyilini World Forum for Food Sovereignty in February, La Via Campesina, along with hundreds of other organizations, stressed that the prefix 'bio' in biofuel did not guarantee that this phyto-fuel was environmentally sound. Furthermore, the term is very misleading and politically incorrect.	27th July 2007
Leadership Needed - Washington Post Higher fuel economy standards may be doomed without Nancy Pelosi's support.	27th July 2007
Isoprene emission from plants -- a volatile answer to heat stress Isoprene is a hydrocarbon volatile compound emitted in high quantities by many woody plant species, with significant impact on atmospheric chemistry. The Australian Blue Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Eastern United States are so called because of the spectral properties of the huge amounts of isoprenes emitted from the trees growing there.	27th July 2007
Renewable energy projects will devour huge amounts of land, warns researcher - Guardian Unlimited · Analyst argues wind farms and biofuels are not green · Report's look at negative aspects aims to end 'taboo'	27th July 2007
UK forecasters see more deluges in years to come LONDON (Reuters) - Rising global temperatures mean Britain is likely to face more deluges in years to come, government forecasters said on Thursday.	27th July 2007
Emissions law slammed - The Age Australia's car industry vows to fight any moves to impose compulsory greenhouse gas emissions standards for new vehicles, despite such rules already applying in the United States and China.	27th July 2007
Texas leads list of dirtiest U.S. power plants LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Texas has the most entries on a list of the dirtiest U.S. power plants, while New England and the Pacific Coast make less carbon dioxide because they have fewer coal-burning plants, an environmental group said on Thursday.	27th July 2007
Climate change escalates Darfur crisis - The Christian Science Monitor Less rainfall on the fringes of the Sahara Desert is putting more of a strain on resources than ever before.	27th July 2007
Catch-all Heathrow protest injunction could bar millions - Guardian Unlimited · Climate activists fight legal move by BAA · Met chief warns of disruption for travellers	27th July 2007
Catastrophic sea level rise: fact or fiction? - New Scientist NASA physicist James Hansen explains why he thinks a sea level rise of several metres will be a near certainty if greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing unchecked	26th July 2007
Cracks in UK's 'green' conscience - BBC News Many British consumers seem willing to adopt a 'greener' lifestyle, but are unwilling to pay the extra costs involved.	26th July 2007
Drip, drip of global warming spells change in northern Russia - Sawf News "We used to have ice on the river all year round. The warming process is speeding up," said the worried head of the state-controlled reindeer company at Kanchalan, Arkady Makhushkin. "The reindeers' health is suffering. Their meat isn't so tasty," he said, explaining that the animals had to be herded greater distances to find cooler grazing grounds in upland areas.	26th July 2007
War on Terra, Climate Criminals - MWC News Global warming driven by greenhouse gas pollution (but ultimately by greed, racism and lying) is killing our Planet. 'Science, technology, economics and reason can save the Planet - but reason is being defied by the lying of corrupt, greedy, racist, Bush-ite Climate Criminals on a path that will see horrendous Climate Genocide and indeed Terracide in relation to the biosphere. Silence kills and silence is complicity. We are obliged to protect our children and our grandchildren by countering the Bush-ite lying.'	26th July 2007
Listen to Earth, Pope says LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said the human race must listen to "the voice of the Earth" or risk destroying its very existence.	26th July 2007
Erosion may send Alaska oil wells into the ocean ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Old Alaskan oil wells could be swallowed by the ocean as rising temperatures speed up erosion of the state's Arctic coastline.	26th July 2007
Ozone has 'strong climate effect' - BBC News Ozone could be a more important driver of climate change than scientists had previously thought.	26th July 2007
U.S. Forest Service, nonprofit group to combat global warming - CNews WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service is teaming with a nonprofit foundation to allow consumers to participate in a voluntary program to “offset” their carbon dioxide emissions.	26th July 2007
A dark side to the ethanol boom? - The Christian Science Monitor A backlash to fuel made from corn is emerging among environmentalists, economists, and antipoverty activists.	26th July 2007
Enemy of the planet: The ethics of consumption Remember Just Say No? Three snappy words encapsulated the urgent advice to a whole generation at risk of being seduced by the tempting but dangerous pleasures of drugs.	26th July 2007
Juicing down for global warming - Christian Science Monitor More electric utilities need to install 'smart' meters that show real-time costs and reduce power demand.	26th July 2007
North Pole swimmer says he would not wish the experience on his worst enemy - International Herald Tribune A British swimmer who braved freezing temperatures at the North Pole to highlight the impact of climate change said he wouldn't wish the experience on his worst enemy. Lewis Gordon Pugh dived into the icy waters on July 15, swimming 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) at a water temperature of minus 1.8 Celsius (29 Fahrenheit) - all in an effort to draw attention to the effects of global warming. "I could barely breathe, fingers and toes absolutely burning," Pugh told The Associated Press Wednesday. "It's a paradox that when you're in absolutely freezing water, (you're) absolutely burning all over, and each minute I seemed to get slower and slower and slower and all I was thinking in my mind was: 'Just keep on going. Just keep on going Lewis.'"	26th July 2007
After the flood - Guardian Unlimited Dealing with the effects of heavy rain is one thing but, if recent climate change research proves correct, how will we cope with what lies ahead?	25th July 2007
Bush Administration blows hole in CO2 plan - Sydney Morning Herald A SENIOR US official says carbon emissions trading systems are unworkable, the first serious difference between the Bush Administration and the Howard Government on climate change.	25th July 2007
Report warns Quebec Inuit's way of life threatened by warming temperatures - CNews MONTREAL (CP) - A report on climate change in Quebec's north says warming temperatures are making it more dangerous for Inuit to travel and hunt. Shorter winters and thinner ice mean increased risk for Quebec's Inuit, who rely heavily on Ski-Doos to get around.	25th July 2007
Tibet is warming at twice global average - New Scientist The findings underscore the dramatic temperature increases being seen at high elevations in tropical regions, in addition to those at the poles	25th July 2007
Mobilising ‘World Opinion' - CounterCurrents.org As the ‘biggest media event in history’ filters out of the mainstream press, shortly after diverse reviews of the first United States Social Forum quieten down in the alternative newswires, a renewed air of questioning is being felt in the movement for global justice.	25th July 2007
EU: Drought Will Reduce Grain Harvest - AP via Yahoo! Finance The European Commission said Tuesday it expected this year's cereal harvest to be 1.6 percent below a five-year average -- but ahead of 2006 -- as drought and heat waves hit yields in eastern Europe and the Black Sea region.	25th July 2007
Hungary heatwave kills hundreds - BBC News Up to 500 people in Hungary have died in a heatwave in the past week, a top health official says.	25th July 2007
World Bank Fund Encourages Developing Countries to Stop Deforestation - Planet Ark SYDNEY - A planned US$250 million World Bank fund to encourage developing countries to stop deforestation in return for access to carbon credits has attracted strong international support, a senior official said on Tuesday.	25th July 2007
National Trust's 3.5m members to fight climate change - Guardian Unlimited National Trust declared that it wants to become 'the largest green movement in the world'.	25th July 2007
Our world is being driven by denial - The Japan Times As an environmental columnist, one question that repeatedly comes to mind is, "How much denial is humanly possible?" Inevitably, the answer turns out to be the same, time after time: "Boundless amounts."	25th July 2007
EPA sees little economic impact from CO2 cuts - Reuters A U.S. Senate proposal to cap and eventually reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions would stunt economic growth by no more than 1.6 percent by 2030, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found on Tuesday.	25th July 2007
Major drought in Moldova - BBC News More than three-quarters of Moldova is being affected by excessive drought, according to new figures released by the meteorology service. This is causing acute water shortages and severely threatening agriculture, especially key crops such as wheat.	25th July 2007
Toyota unveils plug-in hybrid, to test on roads TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled a "plug-in" hybrid car based on its popular Prius model on Wednesday, saying it would test the fuel-saving vehicle on public roads -- a first for the industry.	25th July 2007
The Big Debate: Should my carbon footprint be taxed? First, what is a carbon footprint?	25th July 2007
G.E. Unveils Credit Card Aimed at Relieving Carbon Footprints - New York Times G.E. will introduce a credit card that allows cardholders to forgo a 1 percent cash rebate on purchases and earmark that amount for projects that reduce greenhouse gases.	25th July 2007
Utilities seek licenses to build 33 additional nuclear reactors - UT The Daily Texan Utilities seek licenses to build 33 additional nuclear reactorsUT The Daily Texan, TX. Dan Metzger, director of Environment Texas, said moving away from such power sources is key to reducing US carbon dioxide output and slowing global warming. ...	25th July 2007
HEATHROW 3rd RUNWAY - FLYING IN THE FACE OF PUBLIC OPINION - Indymedia UK HEATHROW 3rd RUNWAY - FLYING IN THE FACE OF PUBLIC OPINIONIndymedia UK, UK. Public appreciation of climate change is awarding legitimacy to direct action groups, and the battle over Heathrow's third runway looks set to be one to ...	25th July 2007
Humans 'affect global rainfall' - BBC News Human-induced climate change has affected global rainfall patterns over the 20th Century, a study suggests.	24th July 2007
California's attack of the jumbo squid - New Scientist Ferocious, pack-feeding jumbo squid have invaded waters off California's central coast and are devouring local fish populations. Researchers say global warming and overfishing are likely to blame.	24th July 2007
In Europe's greenest city, even its power plant smells more like a sauna - Independent It doesn't look like the heart of a green revolution. The smoke stacks stick up jarringly above the line of pine trees and don't make for the most scenic view as you meander around the clear blue waters of the nearby lake. But it is this power plant that has helped the small Swedish city of Växjö (pronounced vek-shur) become arguably the greenest place in Europe. On closer observation, the only thing emerging from the chimneys is the faintest wisp of steam. And inside it smells more like a sauna than a furnace. That's because it is not oil fuelling the plant, but woodchip and other wood waste from the area's sawmills. And as well as generating electricity, it also supplies 90 per cent of this southern Swedish town with heating and hot water.	24th July 2007
George Monbiot: Ethical shopping is just another way of showing how rich you are - Guardian Unlimited George Monbiot: The middle classes congratulate themselves on going green, then carry on buying and flying.	24th July 2007
The future is solar; politics is ethanol - GristMill By David RobertsThis is (bitterly) funny: As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton climbed onto a makeshift stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds and embraced motor fuel from corn as a key to America's future, she completed a turnabout from being an ethanol opponent, a position she held only two years ago. ... Political observers view her about-face as a political necessity, saying Iowa's first-in-the-nation's caucuses -- in which residents of the country's biggest corn-producing state vote their choice for presidential nominee -- makes it politically risky to avoid kneeling at the altar of ethanol-from-corn.	24th July 2007
Alternatives to auto-mobility - GristMill By David RobertsThis op-ed from Rick Cole, city manager of Ventura, Calif., will be music to the ears of all you Gristians: The feel-good stage of California's leadership on global warming is unsustainable. Kudos to the pop stars with their calls to switch lightbulbs and unplug cellphone chargers when not in use. But we can't pretend that we will actually reduce 2020 greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels without tackling our region's embedded patterns of auto dependence and suburban sprawl. ... Halting the slide toward irreversible global climate change starts with envisioning a new and better way of life.	24th July 2007
Insurers face UK flood bill of over 2 billion pounds - Reuters LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) - Insurers face their biggest UK flood bill in 20 years, with claims set to top 2 billion pounds ($4.12 billion) after intense rain left swathes of central, northern and southern England under water.	23rd July 2007
Drought Affecting Crabs, Too - WTOP Radio Network ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Hot, dry weather isn't just hurting farmers' crops. Maryland watermen say blue crabs have become scarce in the peak midsummer period because of warmer, saltier water in parts of the Chesapeake Bay.	23rd July 2007
Oil and gas may run short by 2015, say industry experts - The Independent Humanity is approaching an unprecedented crisis when not enough oil and gas will be produced to keep industrial civilisation running, the world's top oilmen warned last week. The warning - which is being hailed as a "tipping point" on both sides of the Atlantic - marks the first time that the industry has accepted that it may soon no longer be able to meet demand for its products. In Facing the Hard Truths about Energy, it gives authoritative support to concern about impending shortages, following a similar alert by the International Energy Agency less than two weeks ago. The 420-page report, the most comprehensive study ever carried out into the industry, has been produced by the National Petroleum Council, a body of 175 authorities that reports to the US government. It includes the heads of the world's big oil companies including ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Occidental Petroleum, Shell and BP.	23rd July 2007
First Person: Identifying the problem is not the solution - Seattle Post Intelligencer Most understand the concept of global warming and accept it as a problem. Yet most people also act as if the solution lies in simply identifying the problem. Recognizing that global warming is real is a step in the right direction -- it is not a solution. The real solution to climate change lies in quick, decisive action.	23rd July 2007
The Gap Between Climate Awareness and Action - WorldChanging It seems like the world is getting downright giddy about stopping global warming. Congress has held more than 75 hearings on the topic this year, climate-friendly technologies are making it into venture capitalists' dreams and millions tuned into Live Earth, a seven-continent global warming anthem. But it turns out there's a big gap between awareness and action. Last month, three top power company execs gave investors the inside scoop on what they expect on climate change. I couldn't help but be curious if their projections and time frames for reducing greenhouse gases lined up with NASA scientist James Hansen's oft-repeated warning that we have less than 10 years to take strong action on global warming to avoid its worst consequences. But in listening to the first two execs speak, it was clear for many companies, the distance between what power companies expect and what Hansen says is needed is as wide as the Grand Canyon.	23rd July 2007
No to nukes - Los Angeles Times It's tempting to turn to nuclear plants to combat climate change, but alternatives are safer and cheaper. JAPAN SEES NUCLEAR POWER as a solution to global warming, but it's paying a price. Last week, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake caused dozens of problems at the world's biggest nuclear plant, leading to releases of radioactive elements into the air and ocean and an indefinite shutdown. Government and company officials initially downplayed the incident and stuck to the official line that the country's nuclear plants are earthquake-proof, but they gave way in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Japan has a sordid history of serious nuclear accidents or spills followed by cover-ups.	23rd July 2007
Save The Planet-Disappear - BusinessWeek The extinction of humankind is a grim topic. Yet in The World Without Us, journalist Alan Weisman invokes this ancient specter as the jumping-off point for a refreshing, and oddly hopeful, look at the fate of the environment. His central question: What would earth be like if humanity just vanished?	23rd July 2007
Water runs out in flood-hit areas - BBC News Drinking water is starting to run out and power supplies are threatened in the areas worst hit by flooding.	23rd July 2007
England under water: scientists global warming link to increased rain - Independent It's official: the heavier rainfall in Britain is being caused by climate change, a major new scientific study will reveal this week, as the country reels from summer downpours of unprecedented ferocity.	23rd July 2007
Jackie Ashley: We must face up to the flooding, not flee to the sun - Guardian Unlimited Jackie Ashley: The turbulent weather we've seen is a warning of what lies ahead for us. Only a new politics can address climate change.	23rd July 2007
Worldwide Floods Show Lessons Still Need Learning - Planet Ark LONDON - As communities around the world battle the worst floods in living memory, experts warn such events may become more frequent due to climate change and that lessons still need to be learnt to limit losses.	23rd July 2007
Floods force many to face climate change reality BRIESKOW-FINKENHEERD, Germany (Reuters) - Fisherman Peter Schneider knows the floods come each year and says they are good for business -- but few other people see any benefit as experts warn of more high water to come.	23rd July 2007
MPs support carbon offset schemes - BBC News People need to be encouraged to offset carbon emissions despite recent criticism of some schemes, say MPs.	23rd July 2007
Carbon offsetting? I haven't got a clue, said the BA booking clerk - Times Online British Airways is condemned today by MPs for a "derisory" performance in encouraging customers to mitigate the environmental damage of flights. The airline boasts that it was the first to launch a scheme letting passengers offset their carbon dioxide emissions by paying to support energy-saving schemes abroad. But it is selling only enough offsets per year to neutralise the damage caused by four return flights from London to New York by a 777 jet.	23rd July 2007
Local gov'ts 'ignoring' green model - China Daily Some local governments are investing heavily in high resources consuming sectors, ignoring the central government's decision to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) officials said yesterday.	23rd July 2007
Climate Change Threatens Latam Water Supply - Wbank - Planet Ark LONDON - Global warming is drying up mountain lakes and wetlands in the Andes and threatening water supplies to major South American cities such as La Paz, Bogota and Quito, World Bank research shows.	23rd July 2007
Spain Confirms Tax Hike for High Emission Cars - Planet Ark MADRID - Spain will raise registration tax for the most polluting cars from January 2008 and cut or eliminate tax for the cleanest vehicles, the Environment Minister said on Friday.	23rd July 2007
Changing climate on Tibetan plateau - BBC News China is one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases - some say it is already number one. But climate change is also having a huge impact in China, and nowhere more so than on the Tibetan plateau in the far west, thousands of metres above sea level.	23rd July 2007
Germany sets example in providing a harvest for the world - Guardian Unlimited Thanks to tariff guarantees, Germany has 200 times as much solar energy as Britain.	23rd July 2007
Website shows how global warming affects your life - Great Reporter A new site explores connections between science, history and economics to see how climate change affects businesses and community life... Rising temperatures in the Middle East more than 8,000 years ago directly led to the invention of money. The carbon emitted from cars and power plants in your neighborhood may be causing destructive hurricanes. These and tens of thousands of other surprising connections are being made on a new online database called K-Web, or Knowledge-Web, to be released this month. The Web site will allow users to trace more than 30,000 connections between science, economics, events in history and the weather.	23rd July 2007
The accuracy imperative - Guardian Unlimited The major broadcasters have suspended new programmes by RDF: but why has it taken them so long to notice viewers are being short-changed?	22nd July 2007
'Losing sight of Planet Earth' - BBC News The QuickScat weather and climate satellite finds itself at the centre of a stormy debate surrounding the US's ability to monitor Earth.	22nd July 2007
After the deluge, let's have action - Guardian Unlimited Anger is mounting in Britain about our inability to cope with floods. We knew they were coming. There were warnings months ago. And this may not be a one-off event, but a routine hazard as weather patterns change due to global warming. As a society, we have to start preparing properly, not with sandbags and fire engines, but with civil engineering projects, river management schemes and, above all, good leadership.	22nd July 2007
Asda palm oil ban to save rainforests - Guardian Unlimited Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.	22nd July 2007
Over-heated Med stokes tourism fears - Guardian Unlimited Tourism affected as southern Europe temperatures reach record heights.	22nd July 2007
Invasion of the jellyfish - The Independent This could be the year of the jellyfish. Mauve stinger, a species that has wreaked havoc at resorts in the past, is massing again off the Balearics and in the Mediterranean. Beaches are being closed, and swimmers from Spain to Bulgaria have been stung. Last week, 62 bathers were stung at a Costa Blanca beach in one day alone. Tourist areas are deploying a range of deterrents. At Cannes, a barrier has been placed behind which people can swim, while Spain has organised a network of spotter planes, plus a volunteer fleet of boat owners to scoop up inshore jellyfish and take them out to sea.	22nd July 2007
Meet the people behind Britain's first self-sufficient village - The Independent For a Kentish village on the outskirts of Ashford, supermarket trips could become a thing of the past if locals pull off an attempt to lease their own 800-acre farm.	22nd July 2007
Science chief: cut birthrate to save Earth - Guardian Unlimited New museum head says lower population would cut CO2 at a fraction of renewable energy cost.	22nd July 2007
Off the Los Angeles coastline, blue giants of the deep - AFP via Yahoo! News An enormous beast emerges from the depths of the Pacific, and passengers aboard a nearby tour boat are awestruck.	22nd July 2007
Inuit chief slams airport plans - BBC News Expanding Stansted airport would threaten the future of the Inuit people, an Inuit community leader says.	22nd July 2007
'Arctic Tale': A film with an agenda - Los Angeles Times The global-warming message is blended into a nature story that almost feels like a documentary. IN "Arctic Tale," a starving young polar bear swims 200 miles in open water looking for food, ultimately settling for leftover walrus on a rocky island, while a lost wee walrus floats adrift, squinting pitifully against the cold.	22nd July 2007
Tibet warming up faster than anywhere in the world - Reuters Tibet is warming up faster than anywhere else in the world, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. The average annual temperature in Tibet, the roof of the world, was rising at a speed of 0.3 degrees Celsius every 10 years, Xinhua said.	22nd July 2007
Kenya's malaria-free areas feel sting - Los Angeles Times Rising temperatures allow Africa's biggest killer to spread to the highlands, where it once was rare.	22nd July 2007
Our Marshes Are Dying - Hartford Courant The fate of Banca marsh, and of tidal wetlands around the world, may be tied to rising sea levels and global warming in intriguing ways.	22nd July 2007
Weather extremes hit southeast Europe, England Extreme weather hit Europe Saturday as the death toll from a heat wave in Romania, Austria and Bulgaria rose to 18 and hundreds faced another night of misery in flood-drenched England.	22nd July 2007
'Green crime' a new police beat - The Age AS THE world commits billions of dollars to save the world from global warming, criminals are poised to carve off their share. And increasingly they will use the internet to pull off their green scams in cyberspace. Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty told The Age "green crime" was a new frontier for law enforcement. New concepts such as carbon trading had significant potential for fraud, he said. "Carbon trading is a derivatives or futures market," Mr Keelty said. "You're actually trading in something that almost doesn't exist so the opportunity for fraud or corruption could be significant."	21st July 2007
Anglo-French push for green tax cut - Financial Times Britain and France will press European Union partners to lower VAT rates on less environmentally damaging products as part of the fight against climate change.	21st July 2007
Carbon protesters reach capital - BBC News Eighteen protesters walking 1,000 miles around the UK for Christian Aid's Cut the Carbon march, reach Edinburgh.	21st July 2007
Food prices on the rise and rise - BBC News The BBC's Nick Higham explains why shoppers are going to have to pay more for their food. See also: Families face stark choice ... pay more for food or go GM - Scotsman	21st July 2007
Greens rejoice as analyst sours on US coal - Reuters An across-the-board downgrading of U.S. coal company stocks by a Citigroup Inc. analyst is the latest victory in a fight against plans for new coal-fired power plants, environmentalists said. Citigroup analyst John Hill downgraded coal company stocks across the board in a report this week, saying that expected U.S. greenhouse gas regulations on coal, which emits more of the main heat-trapping gas carbon dioxide than any other fuel, paint a bleak outlook for the sector.	21st July 2007
Fleas are bugging pet owners more than usual - The Wichita Eagle "I don't know if it's global warming or a cyclical climate change, but I do know our winters begin later than they once did, they're overall milder, and the spring begins sooner. That means a longer flea season."	21st July 2007
Spain Government Approves EUR2.37 Billion Plan To Lower Carbon Emissions - Nasdaq MADRID -(Dow Jones)- Spain's government approved Friday a plan to spend EUR2.37 billion in a push to lower carbon dioxide emissions in the country between 2008 and 2012, focusing on the manufacturing, transport and construction sectors.	20th July 2007
Ancient Darfur lake 'is dried up' - BBC News A vast underground lake in Darfur probably dried out thousands of years ago, a geologist says.	20th July 2007
What good is green if the poor go hungry? - The Globe and Mail UN food agencies wonder whether biofuel should be struck from the planet's menu	20th July 2007
China overtakes Germany as world's No 3 carmaker - Guardian Unlimited Midday: Figures show China increased its vehicle output by 30% last year and is closing in on Japan's No 2 spot. By David Gow in Brussels.	20th July 2007
Looking into a cloudy future - Toronto Star Winter temperatures that don't dip below freezing in the Greater Toronto Area. Sound good? Hang on. Along with that, Ontario's new climate-change projections include hotter summers leading to more smog days and the spread of Lyme disease-carrying ticks, currently kept at bay by cold winters.	20th July 2007
Britain deluged by rain - Channel 4 Central and eastern parts of England and Wales are the worst hit areas, says the Met Office. Central Maidstone in Kent is now underwater. And Hull is once again battling against the heavy rainfall.	20th July 2007
Climate change could ruin fisheries: scientist - CBC Nova Scotia "Overfishing — at least theoretically, if we did the right things, which we often don't — [can] be reversed. Environmental change of the scale possible through global warming cannot,"	20th July 2007
Business of Green: Burnt out on climate? - International Herald Tribune These days, it is hard to escape messages from governments and companies urging action for the environment, but has the flurry of green exuberance really made people more committed to stopping climate change?	20th July 2007
Proof of climate change? Visit our parks - Seattle Post-Intelligencer The warming of the West: It's not healthy for trees, trout and other living creatures.	20th July 2007
U.S. Exceptionalism and Climate Change - Part II - The Globalist American exceptionalism is becoming an increasingly potent force in U.S. environmental policymaking.	20th July 2007
Bear minimum for Ontario - Toronto Sun Province launches web site to study impact of climate change. Ontario risks a future with few or no polar bears, expanded threat of disease-carrying insects and other calamities as the province's climate changes, Natural Resources Minister David Ramsay says.	20th July 2007
Drought Monitor: Abnormal Dryness Expands Across Upper Midwest - CattleNetwork.com The Southeast: Heavy showers continued to erode dryness and drought from the lower Mississippi Valley into parts of the Southeast.	20th July 2007
CSX Paid Lobbyist $40K on Climate Change - Forbes CSX Paid Lobbyist $40K on Climate ChangeForbes, NY. The firm lobbied on legislation related to global warming and railroad security issues, according to the form posted online Tuesday by the Senate's public ...	20th July 2007
Climate change sparked historical wars in China - SciDev.net Climate change sparked historical wars in ChinaSciDev.net, UK. Historically, warfare has been a way of redistributing resources in response to climate change. Wang Shaowu, from Peking University's Department of ...	20th July 2007
The US addiction to oil: The battered Hummer that symbolises a divided nation - The Independent With the sun going down on Brandywine Street and the lawn sprinklers hissing gently in the background, worried groups of neighbours are talking quietly about a shocking act of domestic terrorism that has occurred on their doorsteps.	20th July 2007
Kansas plant tests algae-to-biofuels plant - EARTHtimes.org Testing of a new coal-based algae-to-biofuels process began at the Sunflower Integrated Bioenergy Center in Kansas recently. The technology could potentially be used to produce renewable fuels from carbon dioxide, Sunflower said. .	20th July 2007
Time travellers warn Lovebox festival visitors about global warming - Reuters AlertNet Time travellers warn Lovebox festival visitors about global warmingReuters AlertNet, UK. They live in space because earth has become uninhabitable due to the effects of climate change but are hoping they will be able to convince people in 2007 ...	20th July 2007
Major New Study Confirms Significant Environmental Benefits of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles - The Auto Channel WASHINGTON--A new study offers important evidence that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles can be a significant component of the national effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the head of Edison International said today.	20th July 2007
German city pioneers use of solar energy - Contra Costa Times German city pioneers use of solar energyContra Costa Times, CA. ... solutions now," Disch said, referring to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which documented scientific evidence for global warming. ...	20th July 2007
New Atmospheric Modeling Technique May Have Major Implications for ... - Business Wire New Atmospheric Modeling Technique May Have Major Implications for ...Business Wire (press release), CA. “The importance of this advance is that all global warming and climate change predictions are based on models of the atmosphere, and in these models the ...	20th July 2007
Drought Threatens to Halve Hungary's Maize Crop - Planet Ark BUDAPEST - Hungary's maize crop may be halved due to drought and a record heat wave which is forecast to continue next week, the Hungarian Grain Growers' Association said on Thursday.	20th July 2007
Amphibian Populations Concern Scientists (AP) -- Missouri and Illinois conservationists are seeing troubling signs in amphibian populations, mirroring problems seen elsewhere in the world.	20th July 2007
Beware Melting Glaciers This Century - Study - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - Don't worry too much, for now, about rising seas caused by melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica. The big threat this century could come from small thawing glaciers, researchers reported on Thursday.	20th July 2007
Ethanol boom helps fuel global run-up in food prices - The Globe and Mail Food prices are heating up globally as soaring energy costs, wonky weather and an ethanol boom all combine to push grocery bills higher. Canadian food prices are 3.1 per cent higher than a year ago, Statistics Canada said yesterday, well ahead of last year's rate of 2.4 per cent.	19th July 2007
From Wales, a box to make biofuel from car fumes - Reuters QUEENSFERRY (Reuters) - The world's richest corporations and finest minds spend billions trying to solve the problem of carbon emissions, but three fishing buddies in North Wales believe they have cracked it. They have developed a box which they say can be fixed underneath a car in place of the exhaust to trap the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming -- including carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide -- and emit mostly water vapor. The captured gases can be processed to create a biofuel using genetically modified algae.	19th July 2007
Snowless in a warming world, ski resort in French Alps bids adieu - PR-Inside.com - Pressemitteilung Muddy slopes, slushy peaks, unused lifts this town in the French Alps is living out the nightmare of many a ski resort in a century scientists say is doomed to keep getting warmer. The city council of Abondance -its name a cruel reminder of the generous snowfall it once enjoyed - voted last month 9-6 to shut down the ski station that has been its economic raison d'etre for more than 40 years. The reason: not enough snow. Abondance is the French Alps' first ski station to fall apparent victim to global warming. It will almost certainly not be the last.	19th July 2007
Cadge-IT: Putting old gadgets to use can be easy, fun and environmentally friendly - The Independent Arm wrestling, cold beers and loud music sound like the perfect recipe for a lads' night out, and the lads in question certainly look happy. Gathered in a room in central London, they are swigging lager and chatting about upcoming holidays, plans for the weekend and discussing whether trading a first-generation BlackBerry for a mini-trampoline is a fair exchange. You see, these boys aren't down the pub chewing the fat; they're helping to save the planet, one mobile phone handset at a time, by attending a Cadge-IT swapping party.	19th July 2007
The Utopia Experiment: A radical crash course in self-sufficient living - The Independent It's June in the Highlands, just outside Inverness. The weather is only slightly short of disgusting, I've spent the last 12 hours on a night bus from London and I'm marching under the weight of a rucksack into a small farmstead that will be my home for the next month. The reason: to take part in an experiment in self-sufficient living that, if all goes to plan, will give me the tools to survive if civilisation as we know it suddenly collapses.	19th July 2007
John Howard on YouTube (thanks to the good folks at BlackOutBritain for the links The original The parodies	19th July 2007
US photographer seeks nudes for Swiss glacier shoot - International Herald Tribune ZURICH, Switzerland: Wanted: volunteers willing to take their clothes off and have their picture taken on a freezing cold Alpine glacier. The appeal by New York artist Spencer Tunick, famous for taking pictures of thousands of naked people in public settings worldwide, is intended for a photo shoot to highlight the effects of climate change on Switzerland's shrinking glaciers, environmental group Greenpeace said on its Web site Wednesday.	19th July 2007
Climate policy - July 18 - Energy Bulletin Save the Earth- buy less, United States Carbon Footprint Map, Pew's Claussen compares cap-and-trade and carbon tax approaches for emissions reduction	19th July 2007
Meat is murder on the environment - New Scientist A kilogram of beef leads to more greenhouse emissions than a 3-hour car ride.	19th July 2007
Human misery soars in step with rising carbon emissions, economic study says - DeSmogBlog The findings, based on the foundation's Happy Planet Index, show Europe's per-capita carbon footprint has risen by 70% since 1961, while life expectancy has increased by about 8% and self-reported happiness hardly at all. Iceland had the highest ratio of wellbeing to emissions, with the UK 21st out of 30 countries assessed. A recent BBC survey showed that Britons were happier in the 1950s than they are today, despite a threefold increase in wealth. A report last year rated Vanuatu as the happiest nation on Earth. "These findings question what the economy is there for," said Foundation policy director Andrew Simms.	19th July 2007
FAA Ignoring Airplanes' Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Common Dreams Climate Science Watch Paper Finds No Mention of Climate Issues in NextGen Aviation Planning and Development; Airline Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Expected to Triple in 20 Years.	19th July 2007
Hard times for Scotland's seabirds - BBC Cliffs that should be packed with thousands of breeding birds are almost empty, says RSPB Scotland. See also: Norway's Puffin chicks lack food - PhysOrg.com	18th July 2007
NYC congestion charge is blocked - BBC New York mayor Michael Bloomberg all but concedes defeat on his plan to introduce a congestion charge.	18th July 2007
Coal - July 15 - Energy Bulletin Staff, Energy Bulletin. Scientific American: Worse than gasoline Row over plan to build coal power plant CalTech prof: Hubbert's peak, the coal question, and climate change	18th July 2007
67% SAY NO TO REDUCING TRAFFIC IN SKY - thisisgloucestershire.co.uk 67% SAY NO TO REDUCING TRAFFIC IN SKYthisisgloucestershire.co.uk, UK. An Internet poll has revealed most readers are opposed to controls on air travel in the interests of preventing global warming.The Citizen poll found that ...	18th July 2007
The Big Debate: The consequences of changing seasons - The Independent Are our seasons beginning to change? And, if so, what can this mean for our glorious British countryside?	18th July 2007
UK a nation of 'armchair ecologists' - Guardian Unlimited Life style: Survey contradicts rise of ethical consumption and increasing concerns over size of carbon footprints.	18th July 2007
Emissions job will be even harder: institute - Sydney Morning Herald THE greenhouse gas cuts Australia must achieve to prevent dangerous climate change may be substantially higher than thought, with modelling to be released today suggesting it should be as much as 95 per cent by 2020.	18th July 2007
Interview with green tax swap guy - GristMill Here's an interview with Gilbert Metcalf, a Tufts University economics professor who's been circulating a carbon tax proposal (PDF) that's revenue neutral -- it uses the carbon tax revenue to reduce other taxes. It's called the "Green Tax Swap." Good stuff. Here's one good bit : SM: Rep. John Dingell said he plans to propose a carbon tax, knowing Congress and voters won't go for it. Why would your approach be different? GM: Dingell's raising the old canard that Americans won't stand for a new energy tax. What the debate over the [Bill] Clinton BTU tax taught us was that Americans won't stand for an unfocused and poorly motivated tax with lots of loopholes for special interests.	18th July 2007
MEPs signal tough line on car CO2 - BBC News The European Parliament's industry committee backs proposals to sharply cut CO2 emissions from cars.	18th July 2007
Action needed on climate change: Business group BOSTON (Reuters) - A major U.S. industry body said on Tuesday that human activity is changing the Earth's climate and urged Washington to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nationwide.	18th July 2007
GLOBAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE SECOND WARMEST ON RECORD SINCE JANUARY - NOAA News Warmer- and drier-than-average conditions dominated much of the United States during the first half of 2007, according to scientists at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The lack of precipitation led to widespread drought, which triggered an early start to the wildfire season, mounting crop losses and local drought emergencies. The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the second warmest on record for the January-June six-month period. Separately, the global January-June land-surface temperature was warmest on record, while the ocean-surface temperature was the sixth warmest in the 128-year period of record.	18th July 2007
German Luxury Cars Damaged by Climate Activists - Planet Ark BERLIN - Berlin police said on Tuesday that the tyres of some 50 luxury cars were damaged overnight by unknown assailants who left leaflets with pro-environment messages on the cars' windscreens.	18th July 2007
Take Off Your Tie to Help the Planet, Italy Says - Planet Ark ROME - Want to help fight global warming? Take off your tie, says the Italian health ministry.	18th July 2007
Derailed: Government's green promises on transport policy - Independent A green transport policy? New figures show how 30 years of failure has put Britain on the road to gridlock and pollution	18th July 2007
US energy body urges action on emissions - Financial Times The US should adopt the toughest possible fuel economy standards for motor vehicles and join a global framework for managing carbon dioxide emissions, according to a Bush administration-commissioned study of the energy industry, led by the former chairman of ExxonMobil.	18th July 2007
Losing sleep over climate change - Economist Poor countries may be more worried than rich ones	17th July 2007
Scientists explain confidence in warming signs - MSNBC From catastrophic sea level rise to jarring changes in local weather, humanity faces a potentially dangerous threat from the changes our own pollution has wrought on Earth's climate. But since nothing in science can ever be proven with 100 percent certainty, how is it that scientists can be so sure that we are the cause of global warming? Climate scientists have clearly met the burden of proof with the mounting evidence they've assembled and the strong predictive power of global warming theory, Oreskes said-- global warming is something to pay attention to. Schmidt agrees. "All of these little things just reinforce the big picture," he said. "And the big picture is very worrying." [most read item]	17th July 2007
Climate change is reshaping global politics - China Daily The birth of the world's first atomic bomb can be seen as one of the key factors influencing world politics since 1945. However, the impact of global climate change on world politics could prove more significant than the invention and possible proliferation of nuclear arms. Global warming will continue, while the complicated politics of climate change will become an issue affecting all individual lives.	17th July 2007
Australia to set up carbon-trading system - Deutsche Welle Australian Prime Minister John Howard has announced details of a planned trading scheme for greenhouse-gas emissions that is to go into effect by 2011. However, Howard said the carbon-reduction target necessary for the system's operation would not be set until next year, saying that introducing the scheme too soon could damage the economy.	17th July 2007
Raymond J. Learsy: The Energy Solution That Dare Not Speak Its Name - HuffingtonPost Quite incredibly over a span of two weeks during the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Aspen Energy Conference wherein the themes of global warming and oil dependency were discussed again and again in various forums by formidable personages of government,...	17th July 2007
Climate change plan backed - Toronto Star One of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America has been adopted unanimously by Toronto City Council.	17th July 2007
Is peat swamp worth more than palm oil plantations? - Mongabay.com Could peat swamp be worth more intact for their carbon value than palm oil plantations for their oil? Quick analysis suggests yes, though binding limits on emissions will be needed to trigger the largest ever flow of money from the industrialized world to developing countries. At stake: the bulk of the world's biodiversity.	17th July 2007
Sex sells, but at what cost? - BBC News "Sex sells", but humans' fixation with status symbols is threatening efforts to tackle climate change.	17th July 2007
Oil 'could hit $95 a barrel this year' - Guardian Unlimited Key Middle Eastern members of OPEC under pressure for immediate increase in production after Goldman Sachs warns prices could peak at $95 a barrel by the end of the year. By Larry Elliott.	17th July 2007
Study: Raising mileage standards creates jobs - GristMill A new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists finds: Increasing the average fuel economy of America's new autos to 35 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2018 would save consumers $61 billion at the gas pump and increase U.S. employment by 241,000 jobs in the year 2020, including 23,900 in the auto industry ...	17th July 2007
Swiss glacier retreats at a rapid clip - Christian Science Monitor The Aletsch glacier is expected to shrink 80 percent by 2100, according to scientists.	17th July 2007
Paris readies for Velib frenzy - BBC News The humble bicycle has been given a boost in Paris with the launch by the city council of Velib, a free bike scheme to encourage people to give up the motor in favour of pedal power.	17th July 2007
Cool as ice: Technology relies on ice to chill NYC office towers - CNews NEW YORK (AP) - As the summer swelters on, skyscrapers and apartments around the city will be cranking up the air conditioning and pushing the city's power grid to the limit. But some office towers and buildings have found a way to stay cool while keeping the AC to a minimum - by using an energy-saving system that relies on blocks of ice to pump chilly air through buildings.	17th July 2007
Alarm bells as Himalayan glaciers melt - International Herald Tribune Indian hydrologists are climbing high into the Himalayas to measure the rate at which the subcontinent's vital glaciers are receding.	17th July 2007
Drought in Western Africa Launches Migration Wave - NPR Our series, "Climate Connections," continues with a visit to a community of refugees from Cape Verde. The drought in western Africa has unleashed a wave of human migration.	17th July 2007
China swamped by 2 billion rodents - Guardian Unlimited · Field mice plague caused by worst floods in 50 years · Plans to build 24-mile wall to stop future invasions	17th July 2007
So much for green consumerism - GristMill New market research finds: 'The majority of consumers really don't care all that much about the environment. Green simply doesn't has not captured the public imagination. ... The fact is, the amount of media interest given to the environment far exceeds the amount of consumer interest.'	17th July 2007
Indonesia's forests could go up in smoke - New Scientist If severe El Niño events occur twice a decade, the islands' rainforests could be devastated by drought-induced fire.	16th July 2007
Stop buying cars, says Shenzhen mayor - FT The mayor of one of China's largest cities has issued an unusual plea to residents in an attempt to reduce mounting pollution and traffic problems - please do not buy any more cars. Xu Zongheng, mayor of Shenzhen, a metropolis of 10m people just north of Hong Kong, said car ownership was growing far faster than the city's ability to build roads and was causing heavy air pollution.	16th July 2007
UK remains 'car-dependent' nation - BBC News Die-hard drivers are refusing to ditch their cars for buses, a new report by the RAC Foundation says.	16th July 2007
2007 likely to be second warmest year: Experts - OneWorld.net With 2007 set to become the second warmest year on record since the 1860s, severe floods in Pakistan and heat waves in China and Greece may be portents of worse disruptions in store for world populations as a result of global warming.	16th July 2007
Polluters first for carbon credits - The Australian AUSTRALIA'S heaviest polluters will be given approval to immediately invest in green technologies and bank future carbon credits.	16th July 2007
Traditional architecture fuel-efficient - PhysOrg.com A study commissioned by a British architectural firm finds traditional buildings are more eco-friendly than modern ones with lots of glass.	16th July 2007
Emissions don't make Europe happy - BBC News Europe's fossil fuel use is rising, but it's not making citizens any happier, an economic report concludes.	16th July 2007
Digesting Lovelock left and right - Energy Bulletin Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights. Lovelock's main message is far more disturbing than anything he has said about nuclear energy, wind turbines or pesticides. That message is that we must put Gaia, the great climate and physical system of the Earth which sustains life, first before any other concern. [most read item]	16th July 2007
A carbon-lite life is a happier life, says economic think-tank - The Independent The idea that money can't buy happiness has long appealed to those who get their kicks from the simpler things in life. Now it seems that having a large carbon footprint is no passport to contentment either.	16th July 2007
Scientists say climate change reducing flow of rivers - China Daily Climate change linked to the contraction of wetlands at the source of the country's two longest rivers, the Yangtze and the Yellow, has reduced the volume of water flowing in them, scientists said.	16th July 2007
UK 21st in European league of carbon efficiency and well-being - Friends of the Earth New Europe-wide research using an innovative measure of carbon efficiency and real economic progress reveals that Europe is less efficient now at delivering human well-being than it was 40 years ago.	16th July 2007
Airport group hit by faster trains and green concerns - Guardian Unlimited The London-Manchester air route suffers fall in passengers, amid pressure from green groups and train companies.	16th July 2007
Leading article: Tuvalu sounds the alarm - The Independent The people of Tuvalu are on the front line of climate change, and their heroic efforts to stave off the effects can only be applauded. They are confronting a rise in the sea level that is even faster than envisaged. With it, come ever higher tides and more extensive flooding. One of the seven islands was lost after a series of cyclones in the Nineties. Within a century, the remaining six could also be submerged.	16th July 2007
What It Would Take to Put the Brakes on Global Warming - Washington Post Two Princeton professors have created a game, with multicolor wedges, to make the global warming problem look solvable. [most read item]	15th July 2007
Row over plan to build coal power plant - Guardian Unlimited decision is expected within weeks about whether Britain is to build the first coal-fired power station for more than 20 years - potentially unleashing a new generation of coal power.	15th July 2007
Meet the penguins who can save the world - The Independent Penguins may succeed where Tony Blair and other world leaders have failed - in getting George W Bush to take action on global warming.	15th July 2007
Med brewing up for a hurricane - Times Online Now scientists warn that climate change means that the Mediterranean is warming up so much it stores enough heat to trigger the formation of its own hurricanes. They say this will have important implications for the safety of resorts, residents and holidaymakers.	15th July 2007
Global warming's refugees - The Aspen Times Meet the pika - possibly the cutest of all global warming refugees. He makes his home in cool alpine rock fields known as "talus" to the scientists. Perhaps you've seen this tiny, rabbit-like critter while hiking close to timberline, probably scurrying from boulder to boulder then ducking to his safe shade below the rocks to hide from birds of prey and the hot afternoon sun. He likes it cold. He thrives in chilly climates. His metabolism is like a furnace. He never hibernates and never sheds his thick fur coat. He won't last too long even in crisp 75 degree weather. So what happens when his preferred home becomes much warmer?	15th July 2007
Learning to live with fossil fuels - Seattle Times As much as we welcome this rising tide of global-warming awareness, it is drowning out a disturbing reality: our world's likely dependence on coal, oil and gas for the next 50 years. What's more, our discussions with well-informed people show that most are unreasonably optimistic about the role alternative energy sources will play in the near term.	15th July 2007
SA Perspectives: Worse Than Gasoline - Scientific American Liquid coal would produce roughly twice the global warming emissions of gasoline.	15th July 2007
Valuing the commons - GristMill By Charles Komanoff. I wrote this piece linking NYC Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing proposal with a carbon tax, in June. I shopped it around but none of the big papers took it. Now, NY Times columnist Tom Friedman -- perhaps the second-most visible supporter of carbon taxes (after Al Gore) -- has written a column backing the Bloomberg pricing plan. ;quot;Crunch time;quot; for the plan may come as early as the next day or two. So it's time the piece saw the light of day. Every so often there arises an environmental controversy that tests the capacity of Americans to face reality.	15th July 2007
Climate Change Debate Hinges On Economics - Washington Post Here's the good news about climate change: Energy and climate experts say the world already possesses the technological know-how for trimming greenhouse gas emissions enough to slow the perilous rise in the Earth's temperatures. Here's the bad news: Because of the enormous cost of addressing global warming, the energy legislation considered by Congress so far will make barely a dent in the problem, while farther-reaching climate proposals stand a remote chance of passage.	15th July 2007
An Island That's Living Up to Its Name - Washington Post Erik the Red was lonely. Three years into his banishment -- first from Norway, then from Iceland -- for various murders, the redheaded Viking wanted company on the stark island on which he found himself. He invited some countrymen to join him in the place, which -- he assured them -- was "Green Land."	14th July 2007
Climate protest march under way - BBC News A group of walkers from around the world are setting off on what is being called Britain's longest protest march. March website.	14th July 2007
Flood risk raised as south sinking faster than predicted - The Independent Plans to defend London and the Thames Estuary against sea-level rises caused by global warming will have to be strengthened, after scientists discovered that parts of the area are subsiding nearly three times faster than previously thought.	14th July 2007
Friday roundup - RealClimate The sweet spot for climate predictability Between the difficulty of long-term weather forecasts and the impossibility of accurate predictions for economic conditions a century hence, there is a sweet spot for climate forecasts. This spot, maybe between 20 and 50 years out, is where the emissions scenarios don't matter too much (given the inertia of the system) and where the trends start to be discernible over the noise of year to year weather.	14th July 2007
Ice sheets tell a scary new story - Toronto Star Now, a team led by James Hansen, head of NASA's climate agency, has published a study that identifies what's going on at the poles, and confirms the vulnerability of the ice sheets. Its findings throw into question all the conclusions reached by the IPCC. In particular, the study says ocean levels could rise by metres this century, not centimetres as the UN panel suggested. Worse still, what's occurring in polar ice fields could flip the world into much faster and far more devastating global warming than predicted by the IPCC. [most read item]	14th July 2007
India to re-plant 6 million hectares of deforested land in global warming plan - CNews NEW DELHI (AP) - India, one of the world's biggest polluters, will plant trees on six million hectares of deforested land. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh set a November deadline to create a comprehensive roadmap for energy efficiency and sustainable development.	14th July 2007
Polar bears deserting unstable ice to give birth - New Scientist Diminishing sea ice caused by global warming is driving mother polar bears onto land to give birth, research in northern Alaska finds	14th July 2007
Put 10c a litre tax on drivers: Caltex - The Australian PETROL prices would rise by 10c a litre to cover the cost of carbon under a plan by Australia's biggest oil refiner as part of its response to the greenhouse debate. Caltex wants the Howard Government to impose a $40-a-tonne carbon fuel tax on motorists rather than make the retail fuel industry adopt a complicated emissions-trading system.	14th July 2007
Raft of flaws found in popular carbon offsetting schemes - The Independent A television documentary has uncovered flaws in a series of carbon offsetting schemes intended to make good the global warming gases emitted by flights and other polluting activities.	14th July 2007
You can go green and keep your Jacuzzi, plasma TV and air conditioning - Cjad ALMONTE, Ont. (CP) - There are no burlap shopping bags or malodorous kerosene lamps in the low-carbon lifestyle of Bill and Lorraine Kemp. Their home near Ottawa does include an outdoor Jacuzzi, a wide-screen plasma television, state-of-the-art sound system, soothing air conditioning and high-speed Internet - and the toys don't draw a single kilowatt from the provincial grid.	14th July 2007
The global warming paradox - Brisbane Times As a climate change scientist, I must thank Martin Durkin for making The Great Global Warming Swindle. Thanks, also, to the ABC for screening it last night. Both actions unwittingly make it far more likely that my colleagues and I will be better funded... ...When the notable climate change sceptic George Bush took office in the US, he quickly formed the Climate Change Research Initiative. This new initiative specifically aimed to "reduce the uncertainties of climate change science". The Bush Administration has spent nearly $US1billion on this initiative, which instead could have gone towards funding greenhouse solutions. In Europe, where governments have more readily accepted the scientific diagnosis, developing clean energy is the priority...	13th July 2007
2007 set to be 'one of warmest' - BBC News This year is set to be one of the warmest on record in Scotland, environmental campaigners say.	13th July 2007
A pale shade of green - Economist When it comes to climate change, the Democrats are proving almost as bad as George Bush. [most read item]	13th July 2007
Government kicks-off energy saving trial - Guardian Unlimited Contracts between the government and four major energy companies were signed today to kick start a two-year energy saving trial. The project, backed by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (the former Department of Trade and Industry) and managed by Ofgem , aims to reduce houshold bills as well as carbon emissions.	13th July 2007
Guyana criticizes carbon credit scheme of Kyoto Protocol - AFP via Yahoo! News Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday criticized the Kyoto Protocol on climate change for failing to allow countries like his nation with pristine unharvested forests to earn carbon credits.	13th July 2007
Half in US Say Humans Cause Global Warming - Angus Reid Global Monitor More people in the United States are convinced that climate change is caused by humans, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 50 per cent of respondents say global warming is caused primarily by human activity, up four points since December. Conversely, 34 per cent of respondents think climate change is the result of long term planetary trends.	13th July 2007
Melting ice drives polar bear mothers to land WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Melting sea ice is driving mother polar bears onto dry land to give birth in northern Alaska, U.S. Geological Survey scientists reported on Thursday.	13th July 2007
Ontario sets regulation to close coal plants by end of 2014, seeks comment - CNews TORONTO (CP) - Ontario has drafted a regulation to close all its coal-fired plants by New Year's Eve 2014. The regulation follows through on a promise made by Premier Dalton McGuinty last month that Ontario would phase out coal by 2014 and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.	13th July 2007
Scientists predict floods in New York from global warming - EARTHtimes.org New York and several coastal cities in northeast United States would suffer a huge upsurge in floods by the end of the century if temperatures continue to rise because of global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists said in a report published Thursday. New York State's 3.5-billion-dollar agricultural industry, particularly its apples, could be devastated and New York City could be hit by floods every 10 years instead of every 100 years.	13th July 2007
Shopping site burns carbon credits - Infomatics An internet shopping site is trying to drive up the price of carbon credits in an effort to cut pollution. Saving the planet while you shop has become a recurrent theme with entrepreneurs looking to cash in on the current wave of green consumerism.	13th July 2007
Tianshan Glaciers Shrinking Fast - China Scientist - Planet Ark BEIJING - Glaciers in the Tianshan mountains of Xinjiang, near China's western border, are shrinking at "alarming speeds", the Xinhua news agency said on Thursday, citing a local scientist.	13th July 2007
Warming causing gray whales to lose weight, say scientists Scientists on the US Pacific coast are increasingly observing emaciated gray whales in what they fear is a sign that global warming is wreaking havoc in the whales' Bering Sea summer feeding grounds.	13th July 2007
15-year old the latest wall in denier's echo-chamber - DeSmogBlog Google the name "Kristen Byrnes" and you'll see a lot of buzz over her recent musings about Al Gore and James Hansen. Headlines like "15-year-old outsmarts NASA's global warming alarmist," and, "Teenager takes on Global Warming Scientist" are popping up all over the smogosphere. The attention seems somewhat confounding, given that this 15 year-olds work isn't uncovering any earth-shattering news or data, or anything that hasn't been bounced around the global warming denier myth chamber a thousand times already. Check out her website here. And to the term "taking on." What exactly does that mean?	12th July 2007
A "Great Global Warming Swindle" Library - DeSmogBlog Check out this blog for a large collection of articles debunking the Great Global Warming Swindle. There is then of course my favorite story (*note: explicit language) on Swindle director, Martin Durkin, and his rather explicit email response to two British scientists. Here's the email exchange in its entirety.  great global warming swindle debunking global warming myths	12th July 2007
Automated tailgating cuts pollution An automated way of allowing cars to drive much closer to each other in heavy moving traffic, so-called platooning, could cut congestion, save fuel and cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to research published today in Inderscience's International Journal of the Environment and Pollution.	12th July 2007
Bug could herald climate change - The Nashua Telegraph Over the past half-century, a small but voracious insect called the wooly adelgid has slowly migrated up the Eastern Seaboard, destroying entire forests of hemlock trees as its population expanded. ... - By DAVID BROOKS Telegraph Staff	12th July 2007
Palm oil firms burning Indonesia forests-Greenpeace - AlertNet Source: Reuters By Adhityani Arga JAKARTA, July 12 (Reuters) - Palm oil companies are burning peat forests to clear land for plantations in Indonesia's Riau province, despite government pledges to end forest fires ...	12th July 2007
Runway plan ditched - The Comet PLANS to build a new runway at Luton Airport have been withdrawn, but campaigners are still concerned.	12th July 2007
The wind and the William By Kate SheppardA great story via Inhabit: With all the sobering news lately about global warming and war, it's important to remember all the positive things that are also going on in the world at any given time. Case in point: the story of intrepid Malawi youth William Kamkwamba who, despite having no education or training, recently engineered and built a windmill that powers his entire village. It's certainly the most inspiring story we've read this month, and we think you'll agree. After having to drop out of school due to lack of funds, William Kamkwamba from Malawi decided to learn as much as he could from books that had been donated to his primary school's library.	12th July 2007
'New thinking' needed on climate - BBC News The global climate debate needs to embrace a "new way of thinking", UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon urges. [most read item]	12th July 2007
Carbon capture: economic realities setting in - Energy Business Review Although carbon capture is increasingly being regarded as the single best technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions with little impact on the status quo, unco-ordinated government support and the low price of traded carbon leaves scant hope for its widespread implementation in the near future.	12th July 2007
Changing climate will challenge Northeast agriculture - PhysOrg Farmers will be the first to feel the heat from global warming as they grapple with new and aggressive crop pests, summer heat stress and other sobering challenges that could strain family farms to the limit, warns David Wolfe, a Cornell expert on the effects of climate change on agriculture.	12th July 2007
Dealing With Global Warming: The Latest Made-In-Canada Solution - Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) The most recent proposals by the Conservative Minority Government represent a further step in the development of its "Made in Canada" approach to dealing with climate change. It also represents a further distancing of Canada from its GHG emissions reductions commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. Pressed for action by the Canadian public, the Conservative Minority Government has chosen a less intrusive model in the form of the Proposed Plan and has released a framework for its future operations. In conclusion, Canadian policy is ever changing on the issue of climate change and it is likely to remain in flux for the foreseeable future.	12th July 2007
Edwards Wins Straw Poll on Climate Change - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News Former Senator John Edwards won MoveOn.org Political Action's poll on the climate crisis which asked, "Which candidate's position on dealing with the climate crisis do you prefer?" Of the field of eight Democratic hopefuls, Edwards received 33% of the total votes cast -- more than twice the support of the next two candidates, Rep. Kucinich and Senator Clinton, who each garnered 15.7%.	12th July 2007
Are Kyoto and WTO rules compatible? - EUActiv Policymakers should take care in selecting measures to implement the Kyoto Protocol, while keeping the relevant World Trade Organization rules in mind, argue Aaron Cosbey and Richard Tarasofsky in a report of the Chatmam House.	12th July 2007
Florida to introduce tough greenhouse gas limits - Reuters MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida, the fourth most-populous U.S. state, is expected to impose strict new air-pollution standards that aim to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050, according to draft regulations released on Wednesday.	12th July 2007
Global Warming Will Hit US Northeast Hard Unless Action Taken Now; - Common Dreams Long-term Severity Depends On Near-term Choices, Scientists Say. If heat-trapping emissions are not significantly curtailed, global warming will substantially change critical aspects of the Northeast's character and economy, according to a new report by the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA), a two-year collaboration between the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and a team of more than 50 scientists and economists. Near-term choices about energy, transportation, and land-use will largely determine the extent and severity of climate change.	12th July 2007
Polar bears send climate message - BBC News School children in Surrey learn more about climate change by following the movements of polar bears in the Arctic.	12th July 2007
Scientists detail costs of global warming on Northeast - Boston Globe Wilting heat, deadly storms, flash floods, coastal erosion, more days with unhealthy air -- those are just some of the effects of rising temperatures on the Northeast, a group of scientists reported Wednesday.	12th July 2007
Scientists paint grim climate change scenario for NY - Sun-Sentinel.com Scientists paint grim climate change scenario for NYSun-Sentinel.com, FL. The analysis offered a two contrasting visions of how climate change could affect the Northeast: one that assumes global warming emissions will continue to ...	12th July 2007
The Beginning Of The End - Moscow News The Beginning Of The EndMoscow News, Russia. For six years he ridiculed the evidence of global warming. For six years, the only issues he would admit to were flaws in the Kyoto Protocol, ...	12th July 2007
The Best Climate Change Websites - WorldChanging The Best Climate Change WebsitesWorldChanging. Ally David de Rothschild's Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook is excerpted there. They also offer the now-obligatory climate footprint calculator. ...	12th July 2007
Toronto Shifts to LED Lighting as Answer for Energy Efficiency - PR Newswire Toronto Shifts to LED Lighting as Answer for Energy EfficiencyPR Newswire (press release), NY. "Combating climate change is the issue of our time, possibly of all time and Torontonians are demanding that this city lead by example," said Toronto Mayor ...	12th July 2007
US grassroots tackle climate change - BBC News US grassroots tackle climate changeBBC News, UK. In the latest in a series on changing US attitudes to global warming, the BBC's Sam Wilson profiles three grassroots ventures in the state of California. ...	12th July 2007
'No sun link' to climate change - BBC News Research suggests that the sun's activity is not responsible for the onset of global warming.	11th July 2007
Biofuels 'cause pasta price hike' The cost of pasta in Italy is set to rise because durum wheat is increasingly being used as a bio-fuel, manufacturers say.	11th July 2007
Agency Takes First Step to Protect Emperor Penguin and 9 Others - New York Times The Fish and Wildlife Service took the first step toward declaring that 10 species of penguin need Endangered Species Act protections.	11th July 2007
China's premier urges action in energy-saving drive - AlertNet Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has urged local governments to shut polluting plants and encourage families to save energy, marking his second appeal in just three days aimed at achieving energy efficiency.	11th July 2007
CO2 hurts reef growth - University of Queensland Coral reefs are at risk of going soft, quite literally turning to mush as rising carbon dioxide levels prevent coral from forming tough skeletons, according to UQ research.	11th July 2007
Compromise Measure Aims to Limit Global Warming - New York Times Influential senators from both parties will unveil a new global warming proposal that could form the basis of a climate change compromise that has eluded Congress.	11th July 2007
Tens of millions battle floods across China BEIJING (Reuters) - Tens of millions of residents across China on Wednesday were grappling with the threat or aftermath of disastrous floods that have killed at least 131 people in the past two weeks.	11th July 2007
The cool club - Boston Globe In '60s style, college students are mobilizing to work for climate change.	11th July 2007
Win the green revolution without dropping excesses? - San Jose Mercury News CARBON OFFSETS DELAY SACRIFICES THAT BRING CHANGE	11th July 2007
Clouds that Rival Auroras Now Bigger and Brighter - Scientific American Are bigger, brighter "night shining" clouds a symptom of climate change? NASA's AIM mission aims to find out.	11th July 2007
Deniers of global warming harm us - Seattle Post-Intelligencer Deniers of global warming pose a danger to all of us. [most read item]	11th July 2007
EU parliament to call for tougher CO2 cuts for cars - EU Politix Car manufacturers should face tougher targets to curb CO2 emissions, a hearing in the European parliament will be told on Wednesday.	11th July 2007
Swiss Companies Shine in Solar Energy Boom - Planet Ark ZURICH - Swiss companies are emerging as leaders in solar energy, driving technological advances and securing a rising share of the fast-growing market, as consumers look to alternative forms of energy to fight climate change.	11th July 2007
The biofuel myths - International Herald Tribune A global moratorium on the expansion of biofuels is needed to develop regulatory structures and foster conservation and development alternatives to the transition.	11th July 2007
UK 'needs a two-child limit' - Guardian Unlimited Highest fertility rate in 26 years 'unsustainable', says thinktank.	11th July 2007
Water Officials Warned: Get Used to Drought, Says New Climate Report - NRDC Worldview The drought and dry conditions currently gripping half the country are a taste of things to come, according to a new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) assessing the effects of global warming on water supplies in the West. The researchers say that as the hotter, drier weather already afflicting the region becomes the norm, officials responsible for keeping the taps flowing will need bold measures to improve conservation and efficiency. But drastic steps can be avoided if managers begin preparing now, the report says.	11th July 2007
Who killed the Hybrid Plug-in? A sequel - DeSmogBlog For those of you haven't seen the film Who Killed the Electric Car , the premise is quite simple and by the looks of things, it's a premise that could repeat itself in the next decade or so. The film tells a story about the EV1 a fully electric, zero emissions vehicle developed by General Motors and leased to Californians in the mid-1990s. There were hundreds on the road with electric charging stations available in much of the state. The EV1 was developed in response to new legislation introduced by the State that demanded a certain percentage of new cars sold in California be zero emission vehicles.	11th July 2007
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. speech at Live Earth "Now we've all heard the oil industry and the coal industry and their indentured servants in the political process telling us that global climate stability is a luxury that we can't afford. That we have to choose now between economic prosperity on the one hand and environmental protection on the other. And that is a false choice. ..."	10th July 2007
Cleaning the trade in carbon credits - Los Angeles Times LONDON - Banks involved in carbon-credit trading have moved toward self-regulation of the market. A group of more than 10 banks — including ABN Amro, Barclays Capital, Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse Group, and Morgan Stanley — agreed on a standard for "carbon offsets" bought by companies and individuals to cancel out their contribution to climate change. The banks said they were reacting to a perceived risk to their reputations after reports of widespread problems in the market for carbon offsets. In April, the Financial Times found multiple examples of companies trading carbon offsets that carried no environmental benefits..	10th July 2007
Grassroots Coalition Launches Campaign to Expose Fox Network's Consistent Pattern of Misinformation on Global Warming - All American Patriots A grassroots coalition of environmental, religious, and activist groups launched a campaign today to expose the Fox News network's consistent pattern of spreading misinformation about global warming. As part of the campaign, the coalition is urging Home Depot -- a company that says it cares about the environment -- to stop advertising on Fox.	10th July 2007
Leading article: Local protests and a global climate emergency - The Independent Campaigners against the expansion of Britain's airports are flying high. As we report today, Manchester Airport's proposal to build a new car park on the Cheshire Green Belt has been killed off. This follows Luton Airport's announcement last week that it is abandoning its own ambitious expansion plan. Luton's Spanish owners, Abertis, cited cost as the reason. But it is also likely have had something to do with the high levels of local resistance. These twin victories will give heart to those thousands battling against the expansion of other British airports.	10th July 2007
African forest under threat from sugar cane plantation Conservationists in Uganda are fighting a last-ditch battle to stop the destruction of a forest reserve by a sugar corporation friendly with the government.	10th July 2007
Climate change reduces Queensland's bat numbers A central eastern Queensland mine has turned up bat fossils which show climate change has had a negative impact on the state`s bat population.	10th July 2007
In China, Two Billion Unanticipated Consequences of Climate Extremes People living in communities surrounding a large shallow lake have been overrun by field mice after floodwaters drove the rodents out of islands on the lake, state media reported Monday	10th July 2007
India to chart strategy on climate change - The Times of India The strategy will be on the lines of what China did before the recent G-8 where the two Asian countries were under pressure to accept a ceiling on greenhouse gas emissions.	10th July 2007
Longest ever UK protest march will focus on climate change - Ekklesia Longest ever UK protest march will focus on climate changeEkklesia, UK. Paul Brannen, head of campaigns at Christian Aid, explained: "Climate change is the most serious threat to humanity. Poor people in the least developed ...	10th July 2007
PG&E's 'ClimateSmart' offsets are anything but By Joseph RommOne reason I began posting my Rules of Carbon Offsets is a dubious program by the California utility PG&E called ClimateSmart, which is supposed to allow PG;amp;E customers to become "climate neutral." This program actually manages to violate rules zero, 1, and 2 all at once! It really makes clear why offsets are bastardized emissions reductions -- and why trees are an especially dubious offset. This picture graces the "Our Projects" page of the ClimateSmart website. The caption reads : "Photo of van Eck Forest, courtesy of Pacific Forest Trust." Well, that burns rule 1 and 2 -- no trees, and certainly not trees in a California forest comprising half your offset portfolio.	10th July 2007
The starvation of the grey whale When two anorexic creatures appeared from over the horizon in the waters of Laguna San Ignacio, off Mexico's Baja California last January, William Megill was quick to identify them.	10th July 2007
The world has two energy crises but no real answers - Financial Times How very shocking! Brendan Nelson, Australia's defence minister, has caused sharp intakes of breath by saying something that is obviously true. [most read item]	10th July 2007
Fish & Chips : Not As Cheap As Chips Any More - FT (via Campaign against Climate Change) Fish ’n’ chip prices are soaring as shortages of potatoes and mushy peas, typically served with Britain’s traditional takeaway, add to increasing food-price inflation. Pea prices are expected to increase as the UK faces a 50,000 tonne pea shortage. Crops have been damaged by rain and farmers have also had problems operating harvesting machinery on waterlogged land. The increased cost of old potatoes is also due to a shortage of supply, caused in part by a poor harvest last year, while the recent weather has exacerbated worries about the new potato crop. British bread prices may rise again after the wettest June on record, which has led to flooding in wheat fields. Gary Sharkey, chairman of the National Association of British and Irish Millers wheat committee, said: “I’ve traded wheat for 22 years and I’ve never known a market move so fast in such a short space of time.” The price for top-quality bread-making wheat has increased dramatically during the past two years, rising by 75.3 per cent to £156.50 a tonne projected for the year to July 2008. Flood damage is also putting pressure on prices of animal feed such as feed wheat and soya. That could act to force up prices of poultry, beef and pork.	9th July 2007
US leads search for climate solutions - BBC News Sam Wilson reports from San Jose, California on how the state is at the forefront of innovation in clean technology.	9th July 2007
California inspires climate revolt - BBC News California is hatching out ideas and policies that could revolutionise America's approach to climate change.	9th July 2007
Overhaul of flood defences urged - BBC News England and Wales need better flood planning to cope with the impact of climate change, experts say.	9th July 2007
IEA: World Biofuel Output To Double From 2006 To 2012 - CattleNetwork.com LONDON (Dow Jones)--The International Energy Agency Monday forecast global biofuel output will double from 2006 levels to 1.75 million barrels a day in 2012 . In its medium-term oil market report through to 2012, the agency, the energy security watchdog for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, included its second annual report on biofuels.	9th July 2007
Sugar, grains and cotton on best-buy list for commodities - International Herald Tribune Investment gains were expected to be driven by biofuel demand and rising incomes in China and India.	9th July 2007
Global warming: Lessons of history help the future - AFP via Yahoo! News From the enigma of Easter Island to the famines that struck India in the 19th century, the past is throwing up vital pointers for scientists poring over how to combat looming climate change.	9th July 2007
Making sense of Greenland's ice - RealClimate A widely publicised paper in Science last week discussed the recovery ancient DNA from the base of the Dye-3 ice core (in southern Greenland). This was an impressive technical feat and the DNA recovered may well be the oldest pure DNA ever, dating back maybe half a million years. ...	9th July 2007
Australia to build climate corridor - Reuters.uk Australia will create a wildlife corridor spanning the continent to allow animals and plants to flee the effects of global warming, scientists said on Monday. The 2,800-kilometre (1,740 mile) climate "spine", approved by state and national governments, will link the country's entire east coast, from the snow-capped Australian alps in the south to the tropical north -- the distance from London to Romania.	9th July 2007
Operation Noah Challenges Government to Slash Carbon Emissions - ChristianToday Operation Noah, the Christian environmental campaign, is calling for an end to 'DIY Global Repairs' and the slashing of UK emissions to an average of 1.2 tonnes per person by 2030. Operation Noah is also challenging Prime Minister Gordon Brown to “exercise bold leadership” and introduce a legislative framework that will “fairly and equitably” drive down the UK’s per capita carbon dioxide emissions from the current average of 9.5 tonnes per person to a more sustainable 1.2 tonnes by 2030.	9th July 2007
Renowned monk calls for balanced lives - Chicago Tribune A renowned monk occasionally called upon by the Dalai Lama to channel the Tibetan oracle told an audience Sunday that living more balanced lives would reduce greenhouse gases and reverse rising temperatures that scientists call global warming. Ngodup said Buddhist scriptures foretold global warming centuries ago. Those scriptures predicted seven suns would rise, making it difficult for certain species to survive.	9th July 2007
Tar sands - July 8 Staff, Energy Bulletin. Oil sands no quick fix as Big Oil leaves Venezuela Black gold's tarnish seen in Canada Global warming threatens alternative-oil projects Its Time For Albertans To Draw A Line In The (Tar) Sand	9th July 2007
The profitable path - The Globe and Mail As global energy consumption soars, and as greenhouse gas emissions grow, the world needs to find realistic ways to cut energy waste and to use our limited resources more wisely.	9th July 2007
Latte, but make sure you hold the carbon - Boston Globe Forbes Starbucks is tracking a new Key Performance Indicator (KPI) - its carbon footprint. Calculating the number and cutting emissions is tricky. Power consumed can come from coal as well as other less injurious sources. And do you include the cost of transporting and disposing of goods even when you don't have control over it? If you just calculate utility ...	9th July 2007
Expert says rising sea levels pose threat to rice - TODAYonline Cambodian farmers grow rice in Kampong Cham province, north of Phnom Penh, June 2007. Rising sea levels triggered by climate change pose an "ominous" threat to some of the world's most productive rice-growing areas, the International Rice Research Institute has warned.	9th July 2007
4x4 sales fall faster in London - BBC News Sales of 4x4 vehicles fall faster in London than in the rest of the UK, new figures show.	9th July 2007
Bad News Spreads Like Wildfire - LiveScience.com Bad News Spreads Like WildfireLiveScience.com, NY. ... indeed see a connection between global warming and increased wildfire activity. But you can't blame any one fire, or even one season, on climate change. ...	9th July 2007
DiCaprio Calls for Global Warming School Lessons - Hollywood.com DiCaprio Calls for Global Warming School LessonsHollywood.com. He has even made his own global warming documentary, The 11th Hour, and now wants to turn his attention to teaching children about climate change. ...	9th July 2007
Fossilized midges provide clues to future climate change - EurekAlert - press release Fossilized midges provide clues to future climate changeEurekAlert (press release), DC. Fossilised midges have helped scientists at the University of Liverpool identify two episodes of abrupt climate change that suggest the UK climate is not as ...	9th July 2007
Poop Power Prevails, and So Does Bad Breath - Green Options blog Poop Power Prevails, and So Does Bad BreathGreen Options blog, CA. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the six million tons of methane burped by cattle in the US each year is equivalent to 36 million ...
'Carbon credit cards' and 'carbon market' on agenda - The Independent A "zero carbon" Britain could be achieved by 2027 if a range of measures were brought in by a government with "strong political leadership", scientists said today. [most read item]	9th July 2007
Energy firms seek £1bn for carbon capture projects - Guardian Unlimited Government warned it needs to spend almost £1bn to experiment with carbon capture to fight global warming.	9th July 2007
EU eyes cool response to planet's heat - Financial Times The fight against climate change could soon be carried into the wardrobes of the European Commission's 11,700 male bureaucrats, as the Brussels body ponders whether to crack down on neckties during the summer months.	9th July 2007
New Jersey governor signs toughest U.S. carbon law - Reuters EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Reuters) - New Jersey became on Friday the first U.S. state to mandate sharp greenhouse gas reductions by 2050 to help fight climate change.	9th July 2007
Radical vision to halt climate change - The Herald THE UK could cut carbon emissions to zero in 20 years, but only if people accept a virtual end to air travel and stop using fuel-driven cars, a report claimed yesterday.	9th July 2007
Tuvalu more than happy with outcome of global warming mock trial - Radio New Zealand International Tuvalu more than happy with outcome of global warming mock trialRadio New Zealand International, New Zealand. The judges made eight recommendations which included giving citizens of countries most affected by climate change the right to resettlement in other Pacific ...	9th July 2007
In pictures: Live Earth concerts - BBC News A selection of images so far from the Live Earth concerts, which are being held in nine cities around the world. Live Earth: further reading: 24 hours of world music ends - Deutsche Welle Canadians stage Live Earth fringe parties in fight against climate change - CNews Gore says 'Live Earth' 1st step in raising awareness about climate change - Jam! Showbiz Live Earth splits the Sundays - BBC News Madonna leads the pack as climate change turns chic - Guardian Unlimited	8th July 2007
ABC screens program that infuriates scientists - The Age Now it's Australia's turn to see what the fuss is about when the ABC airs The Great Global Warming Swindle on Thursday. Australian climate change scientists have condemned the program, but the ABC, the only government broadcaster in the world to air the show, has defended its decision to run it. [most read item]	8th July 2007
Brown nuclear pledge prompts legal threat - Guardian Unlimited Government's energy policy appears to be in disarray again after the PM gives his unreserved support for nuclear power.	8th July 2007
Canadians take Great Lakes for granted - CNews (CP) - While a large chunk of the world grows increasingly parched and desperate for fresh water, most Canadians don't think twice about turning on the taps for a drink or shower, and having an instant, abundant supply.	8th July 2007
Climate Change Alarming, Say French - Angus Reid (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Among several environmental concerns, a large majority of people in France are mostly worried about global warming, according to a poll by Ifop released by France 2. 76 per cent of respondents consider climate change is an alarming threat.	8th July 2007
Live Earth: One big gesture for man, one giant problem for the Earth The sun was shining; the bands were good - well, some of them - and the summer had arrived at last. Tennis players fought it out at Wimbledon and cyclists raced down the Mall in the Tour de France. But as the crowd inside Wembley Stadium for the London Live Earth concert was joined by two billion viewers around the world, other things were happening yesterday too.	8th July 2007
Pay carbon costs now to save later - Toronto Star We would all like to believe there is an easy way to stop global warming, which there is not. As has been evident over the past number of years in Canada, the needed changes will not come just because we would all like them to. There is one group, however, that refuses to sidestep this fundamental issue. In a recently released report, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, an independent advisory body to the minister of the environment, says Canada must put a price on carbon if this country is serious about meeting its medium- and long-term goals for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. The round table members say Canadians will not do what has to be done as long as we act as if there is no cost to pumping carbon into the atmosphere.	8th July 2007
Pray for rain: stories from the drought bus Andi Hazelwood, Global Public Media. Australia is in the seventh year of the worst drought in the country's history. Farmers and business people, and drought bus workers, tell their stories of drought.	8th July 2007
The man making the world's worst polluter clean up its act - Guardian Unlimited He is not as well known as Al Gore or David Attenborough but among green campaigners, no one has a bigger role in tackling climate change than Ma Jun. As China's economic growth races on at breakneck speed and with more dirty, coal-burning power plants coming on line each year, the world's most populous nation will soon overtake the US as the biggest greenhouse gas emitter. Ma, 39, has emerged as the powerful voice of a budding green movement that is forcing industry and China's tightly run state to be more accountable for the long-term consequences of their rush to get rich.	8th July 2007
'This is just opening shot' - Times Online ONCE he was the nearly man of American politics, but this weekend Al Gore, Bill Clinton's former sidekick, made it clear he was back, no longer just a politician but a phenomenon: the first global green celebrity.	8th July 2007
U.S. Rejects Gas Taxes to Fight Climate Change - Angus Reid (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Most people in the United States believe global warming is a dangerous issue, but reject a proposal to increase fuel taxes as a way to curb pollution, according to a poll by Zogby Interactive released by MSN. 51 per cent of respondents consider climate change is an urgent threat, while 42 per cent disagree.	8th July 2007
Counting on Failure, Energy Chairman Floats Carbon Tax - New York Times Democrat John D. Dingell of Michigan plans to propose raising the cost of burning oil, gas and coal, in a move that could shake up the debate on global warming. [most read item]	7th July 2007
Reporters' log: Live Earth concerts - BBC News BBC correspondents report from the nine cities hosting gigs for Live Earth, which aims to raise awareness of climate change.	7th July 2007
Alpine wildlife feeling the heat - France24 Global warming is threatening to wipe out several animal and plant species in the Alps, according to a study by the World Wide Fund for Nature released on Friday. WWF expert Stegan Ziegler said the effects of global warming manifested themselves three times more strongly in the Alps than elsewhere.	7th July 2007
Farmers counting cost of flooding - BBC News Farmers across the West Midlands are starting to count the cost to crops caused by the recent floods.	7th July 2007
German chancellor reveals emissions target - EARTHtimes.org German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a plan Tuesday to reduce greenhouse emissions by up to 40 percent by 2020. While her initiative was embraced by environmentalists, it was criticized by the energy industry, the International Herald Tribune reporte...	7th July 2007
Leading article: Live Earth's great global roar must be heard above the music Some two billion people are expected to see the various Live Earth concerts around the world today, either by attending the shows or participating via television, radio or the internet. That figure, representing nearly a third of the world's population, cannot be dismissed. Some 150 live acts will kick off in Sydney and finish performing at the Giants Stadium in New Jersey, taking in Tokyo, Shanghai, Johannesburg, London, Rio de Janeiro and New York along the way. The hundreds of events taking place in the cause of Live Earth are about more than music, although that promises to be as superb as it is varied.	7th July 2007
Public Records Reveal Energy Industry-Funded European Junket Emphasized Emissions Cap & Trade Programs to Gov's Greenhouse Gas Regulators - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News An energy industry-funded European junket this spring emphasized controversial emissions trading schemes to the Schwarzenegger administration delegation responsible for implementing the state's greenhouse gas initiative, according to documents obtained under the Public Records Act.	7th July 2007
Skinny gray whales swim Pacific Coast An unusually high number of skinny gray whales are being seen from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest, it was reported Friday.	7th July 2007
Sydney kicks off Live Earth gigs - BBC News Sydney is set to be the first city to hold a Live Earth concert, a global event highlighting climate change.	7th July 2007
The world's coolest house warming - Sydney Morning Herald WILL the biggest global media event in history be enough to convince George Bush and John Howard that climate change is an urgent problem?	7th July 2007
Wettest June in almost 70 years - BBC News BBC Scotland wants your help to record unusual weather events to illustrate possible climate change.	7th July 2007
Why Did Global Warming "Tip"? - Part II - Huffington Post Why Did Global Warming "Tip"? (Part II)Huffington Post, NY. ... party leaders in dismissing climate change as an important issue. Now that's no longer a safe assumption. And finally, dealing with global warming has ...
Audio: Escape from Suburbia Ryan Young interviews Gregory Greene, director of Escape from Suburbia (20m 4,900kb)	6th July 2007
A Message From The Melting Slopes Of Everest - CounterCurrents.org Fifty-four years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to scale Everest, their sons have said the mountain is now so ravaged by climate change that they would no longer recognise it. [most read item]	6th July 2007
Be skeptical of the latest 'skeptical' UK pollster headlines A recent IpsosMori poll in the UK found that 56% of people agree that "many leading experts still question if human activity is contributing to climate change."The newspaper headline interpretations of this latest poll would lead the reader to believe that climate change, for all its media attention, is somehow not real in the minds of the British or that people are 'in denial.' Here's some of the headlines from major UK outlets that came to the exact conclusion: Public Unconvinced on ClimateVoters haven't warmed to climate change Public 'sceptical about climate change' Public 'in denial' about climate change Looking closer at the polling data available from the Ispos research, here's some headlines you won't find.Headline:Overwhelming majority believe global warming caused by humans. A recent IsposMori poll finds that 69% of people in the UK agree that "human activity has a significant impact on the climate." ... See also: We shouldn't be shocked by public apathy	6th July 2007
China Aims for Bigger Share of South Asia's Water Lifeline - YaleGlobal Online NEW DELHI - Sharpening Asian competition over energy resources, driven in part by high growth rates in gross domestic product and in part by mercantilist attempts to lock up supplies, has obscured another danger: Water shortages in much of Asia are beginning to threaten rapid economic modernization, prompting the building of upstream projects on international rivers.	6th July 2007
China needs better emissions measurements -adviser - AlertNet Source: Reuters By Laura MacInnis GENEVA, July 6 (Reuters) - China needs to improve its measurements of carbon dioxide emissions before it can agree to quantitative targets, an academic and adviser to Beijing on ...	6th July 2007
DNA discovery reveals Greenland's warm past - Guardian Unlimited Scientists have uncovered evidence that within the past million years southern Greenland was warmer and had lush forests.	6th July 2007
EU and Brazil join forces over biofuels - Guardian Unlimited The Brazilian president and EU leaders urge the creation of an international market in sustainable biofuels that would force producers to meet strict environmental, labour and social standards. By David Gow in Brussels.	6th July 2007
European car makers seek 3-yr delay in EU's CO2 emissions cuts - Sharewatch TURIN (Thomson Financial) - The European association of vehicle manufacturers, ACEA, is seeking a three year delay in the introduction of cuts in carbon dioxide emissions proposed by the European Commission, said ACEA president Sergio Marchionne.	6th July 2007
French revolution: Rentable bikes every 900 feet - The Christian Science Monitor Beginning July 15, Parisians can get one with the swipe of a card - and the first half-hour is free.	6th July 2007
French Wind Power Potential Great - Industry Group - Planet Ark PARIS - France has potential to build 12 times its current wind power capacity, to help meet EU targets to fight global warming, but red tape and fast rising costs are obstacles, its renewable energy industry group said on Thursday.	6th July 2007
Gore Slams US-Led Climate Pact as Sham - Planet Ark NEW YORK - Former US Vice President Al Gore slammed the United States and some other big polluters for forming what he called a sham global warming pact separate from the rest of the world.	6th July 2007
Harvard Begins Project to Replace Kyoto Protocol - Update3 - Bloomberg.com July 5 (Bloomberg) -- Harvard University began a two-year, $750,000 project to develop a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty aimed at reducing greenhouse gases that are warming the Earth.	6th July 2007
Live Earth fighting concert fatigue - Los Angeles Times Saturday's 7-continent, A-list event against climate change is being met with low-grade enthusiasm. Organizers' goal is to inspire. Exactly how often can you stage a once-in-a-lifetime event? That's the challenge Saturday for the organizers of Live Earth, the latest in a long line of huge concerts-for-a-cause. This time the issue is global warming - which is fitting considering the event isn't ...	6th July 2007
Put price tag on carbon emissions, Canadian report says - Environmental Data Interactive Exchange Canada needs to put a price tag on carbon emissions or face economic fallout, according to a new report from the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE).	6th July 2007
Today's Article on Christian Science: 'Live Earth': With God, no situation is hopeless - The Christian Science Monitor Prayer is a crucial factor in bringing to light needed solutions to what seem like intractable challenges.	6th July 2007
U.S. is pressured to help China curb emissions - San Francisco Chronicle Now that China has surged past the United States to become the world's leading source of greenhouse gases, pressure is growing on U.S. policymakers to cast aside longtime anti-Beijing sentiment and help China clean up its emissions-spewing coal power...	6th July 2007
Al Gore's inconvenient tax - The Christian Science Monitor What you probably won't hear at the Live Earth concert: a call for higher taxes on gasoline and fuel.	5th July 2007
Arnie's aides 'undermining green policy' - Telegraph.co.uk Arnie's aides 'undermining green policy'Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom. Both said Mr Schwarzenegger's aides were interfering with the board's enactment of aggressive climate change policies he has touted across the world. ...	5th July 2007
Bad weather damaging crops - BBC News A sustained spell of rain and lack of sunshine is causing problems for livestock and arable farms.	5th July 2007
Biofuels 'to push farm prices up' - BBC News The rapidly growing biofuel industry will push farm commodity prices higher in coming years, a study says.	5th July 2007
British crops rotting in flooded fields - UPI British vegetable farmers are reporting losses as high as 70 percent of their summer crops following recent heavy rains and flooding. Sarah Pettitt, the vice-chairwoman of the National Farmers' Union horticulture board, told The Times of London the situat	5th July 2007
Climate bill does not go far enough, say MPs - Guardian Unlimited Flagship climate change bill does not go far enough in cutting emissions, panel of MPs warns.	5th July 2007
Companies shrug off green pressure - report - Guardian Unlimited More than a quarter of British businesses say that the public debate around climate change and environmental degradation has had 'little impact' on the way they conduct their businesses up till now. By Terry Macalister.	5th July 2007
Could this be the global-warming generation? - The Christian Science Monitor Live Earth concerts in eight countries hope to inspire action. Will it work?	5th July 2007
Drought Is Sapping the Southeast, and Its Farmers - New York Times The most severe drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields. [most read item]	5th July 2007
Gadgets 'threaten energy savings' - BBC News The growing popularity of hi-tech devices threaten to undermine efforts to save energy, a report says.	5th July 2007
Governments not green enough: poll - Montreal Gazette - subscription Governments not green enough: pollMontreal Gazette (subscription), Canada. Overall, 78 per cent of the people surveyed said they believe global warming is a proven fact, while 22 per cent said they feel it is only a theory.	5th July 2007
If half the nation is in denial about the threats we face from climate change, what hope is there? - Guardian Unlimited I was more depressed by the findings of a single public opinion survey on climate change than I've been by all the pessimistic stories about how little is being done by governments and individuals to combat global warming. An Ipsos Mori poll, published this week, found that 56% of more than 2,000 adults interviewed believed that scientists were still questioning the existence of climate change. This doesn't necessarily mean that the interviewees themselves, as distinct from the scientists, were still questioning, but it's evident that individual sceptics are prone to call in aid scientists who allegedly feel as they do; and those who believe in the dangers of global warming are likely to know that the scientists agree.. See also: In denial - Guardian Unlimited Given the wealth of evidence supporting climate change, it is a failure of government that so many still fail to realise its significance.	5th July 2007
Surge of Dead Seabirds Alarms Scientists (AP) -- Hundreds of dead seabirds that washed up along the Southeast coast in recent weeks apparently starved to death, but experts don't know why.	5th July 2007
The Hague announces project to warm 4,000 houses using geothermal heating - CNews AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The Dutch city of The Hague on Wednesday announced plans to use geothermal heating - water from a hot well deep underground - to warm 4,000 households and several industrial buildings, as part of a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.	5th July 2007
Time to put a price on pollution - CNews Mention the concept of a new tax to politicians and most will run screaming out of the room to go vacuum their cars or mow their lawns - anything to avoid talking about an issue that they think could lose votes, no matter how sensible or reasonable the concept may be.	5th July 2007
Canadian Businesses Get Help Shrinking Carbon Footprint - Green Options blog A group of 13 Canadian companies and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have launched a pilot program in British Columbia (BC) to help the 370,000 small and medium-sized businesses there cut their global warming pollution.	4th July 2007
Desmog TV: time is running out Here's the latest episode of DeSmog TV. Sorry, all you Emily fans, but this one mainly uses Arctic sea ice satellite imagery courtesy of NASA. desmogtv NASA sea ice loss global warming solutions global warming video	4th July 2007
Global Warming Blamed for Vanishing Lake (AP) -- Scientists on Tuesday blamed global warming for the disappearance of a glacial lake in remote southern Chile that faded away in just two months, leaving just a crater behind.	4th July 2007
Greenpeace protests over Poland's carbon output - Reuters Greenpeace activists climbed one of Europe's biggest power plants on Tuesday to demand that Poland's government do more to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.	4th July 2007
Merkel rejects call to moderate emissions cuts BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected industry criticism of her plans to cut Germany's greenhouse gas emissions by a third by 2020 and dashed its hopes of a deal to prolong the use of nuclear power.	4th July 2007
Nuclear expansion is a pipe dream, says report - Guardian Unlimited · Hope for new era of cheap, clean power is a 'myth' · Building more stations would increase terror risk	4th July 2007
Public 'still sceptical on climate change' - Guardian Unlimited UK public remains sceptical about how much impact climate change will have on the country, poll shows. [most read item]	4th July 2007
UK's gadget-mania blamed for surge in emissions The surging boom in new technology for home entertainment, from CD players and DAB radios to flat-screen televisions, is taking up huge amounts of energy and undermining the fight against climate change, a report claims today.	4th July 2007
Stop doing the CBI's bidding, and we could be fossil fuel free in 20 years - Guardian Unlimited Prospects for renewable power are promising. But it means nothing if the public interest is drowned by corporate power .	3rd July 2007
The ethics of journalism don't work for science - Guardian Unlimited At a certain point at every dinner party these days, someone - usually male, usually emptying his wine glass a bit faster than everyone else - starts to spout on about global warming. [most read item]	3rd July 2007
Farmers launch tree-felling protest - Adelaide Now HUNDREDS of farmers have begun cutting down protected trees on their properties to protest against strict land-clearing laws designed to help Australia curb its rising greenhouse gas emissions.	3rd July 2007
Humans use or abuse quarter of all energy from plants - Guardian Unlimited July 3: Study raises doubts for future of biofuels and increases in food production.	3rd July 2007
Merkel Unveils Climate Action-Plan, Alarms Industry Over Costs - Bloomberg.com July 3 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel will unveil plans today to slash greenhouse gas emissions, a step hailed by environmental groups though criticized by industry as meaning higher energy bills.	3rd July 2007
Rain brings threat to fruit farms - BBC News A West Country fruit farmer is having his worst season for 16 years as heavy rain ruins crops.	3rd July 2007
'Scepticism' over climate claims - BBC News The public believes the effects of global warming are not as bad as some experts claim, a poll suggests.	3rd July 2007
42.27 million Chinese affected by floods, drought - China Daily BEIJING -- 42.27 million Chinese have been affected by floods and drought so far this year, the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said on Monday.	3rd July 2007
Americans Oppose Signing Kyoto Protocol - Angus Reid Global Monitor Many people in the United States would disagree with their government ratifying an international treaty seeking to reduce global pollution, according to a poll by Zogby Interactive released by UPI. 47.9 per cent of respondents think the U.S. should not sign the Kyoto Protocol.	3rd July 2007
Floods Show Threat to Farms of Climate Change - Benn - Planet Ark STONELEIGH, England - Britain's new farm minister Hilary Benn said on Monday that adapting to climate change was the key challenge for farmers as floods in England damaged and in some cases destroyed crops.	3rd July 2007
Global Warming Drying Up Ancient Arctic Ponds - National Geographic Arctic ponds that have sustained thriving ecosystems for thousands of years are completely disappearing, a new climate change study shows.	3rd July 2007
Marxists and the green challenge - Workers' Liberty Marxists and the green challengeWorkers' Liberty, UK. Most ecologists dismiss Marxism as having little to offer today's environmental concerns such as climate change. Paul Burkett is probably the foremost ...	3rd July 2007
No man is an - Urban Heat Island - RealClimate Observant readers will have noticed a renewed assault upon the meteorological station data that underpin some conclusions about recent warming trends. Curiously enough, it comes just as the IPCC AR4 report declared that the recent warming trends are "unequivocal", and when even Richard Lindzen has accepted that globe has in fact warmed over the last century ...	3rd July 2007
On your bike: Cycling soars in London - The Ecologist As the UK looks forward to the Tour de France's launch in London and Kent next weekend new figures from Transport for London show that Londoners now make an average of 480,000 journeys a day by bike, an increase of 83% since 2000.	3rd July 2007
Polly Toynbee: If Chelsea were under water, it would be taken seriously - Guardian Unlimited Polly Toynbee: There is a north-south divide in the reaction to floods; only when the rich are hit will prevention be pushed up the agenda.	3rd July 2007
Pressure mounts on Merkel to drop plans to close nuclear plants - International Herald Tribune The effort comes one day before an energy summit meeting with the German governing coalition	3rd July 2007
Shopping for carbon credits - Salon.com An environmentally conscious mom discovers carbon offsets are not always a smart buy -- especially from green-washing utility companies like PGE.	3rd July 2007
Biofuel boom jacks up price of beer - The Pantagraph AYING, Germany — Like most Germans, brewer Helmut Erdmann is all for the fight against global warming. Unless, that is, it drives up the price of his beer.	2nd July 2007
Food is flavour of the month - Guardian Unlimited Britain is not the only country suffering freak weather. In Australia, a drought has been followed by floods; the American Midwest has a chronic water shortage; southern Europe is enduring record high temperatures; bad weather has destroyed harvests in Romania, Ukraine and Canada. If dire warnings about global warming are accurate, such events could become far more prevalent. And that is one of the factors which has stimulated investors' interest in agricultural commodities - wheat, orange juice, soya beans, sugar and so on. It has been a long time coming: for almost 25 years, the price of such commodities has been falling steadily, so much so that we pay less for many basic foods than our grandparents did.	2nd July 2007
Pea crops destroyed in flooding - BBC News Farmers say much of Lincolnshire's pea crop has been destroyed or is under threat due to flooding.	2nd July 2007
Texas Begins Desalinating Sea Water (AP) -- On a one-acre site alongside a string of shrimp boats docked on the Brownsville ship channel stands a $2.2 million assembly of pipes, sheds, and humming machinery - Texas' entree into global efforts to make sea water suitable to drink.	2nd July 2007
WHO urges Asia to prepare for climate change crises KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Asian nations must prepare to tackle disasters unleashed by global warming with the same urgency they now focus on fighting disease epidemics, the World Health Organization said on Monday.	2nd July 2007
Call for a moratorium on EU agrofuel incentives - Transnational Institute Call for a moratorium on EU agrofuel incentivesTransnational Institute, Netherlands. There is strong evidence that such agrofuel production will not mitigate climate change but instead may accelerate global warming, as rainforests, ...	2nd July 2007
Carbon Offset Sector to Face a Glut of Rules - Planet Ark LONDON - A murky industry which sells carbon offsets to brand-conscious corporates and guilty consumers may soon face an unfamiliar problem: a glut of rules.	2nd July 2007
Climate deals turn up heat in Indonesia's dark peatlands - Reuters Climate deals turn up heat in Indonesia's dark peatlandsReuters. Now the dots have been joined between peatlands and the massive amounts of climate change-related carbon emissions they release when burnt or drained to ...	2nd July 2007
FACTBOX-How can carbon trading save peatlands and rainforests? - AlertNet Source: Reuters July 2 (Reuters) - The U.N. is due to report on proposed carbon-trading schemes that would make it more rewarding for countries to preserve their forests rather than cut them down. The report on " ...	2nd July 2007
FEATURE-Carbon backlash: coal divides corporations - Reuters AlertNet FEATURE-Carbon backlash: coal divides corporationsReuters AlertNet, UK. By Steve James NEW YORK, July 1 (Reuters) - US coal mining companies, which for years have been branded the bad guys of global warming, are fighting back. ...	2nd July 2007
Floods take toll on vegetable crops - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Some of Victoria's biggest vegetable crops have been wiped out by the floods.	2nd July 2007
McDonald's puts oil to green use - BBC News McDonald's is to convert all its delivery vehicles in the UK to run on biodiesel, using the firm's cooking oil.	2nd July 2007
Rich world's consumerism may cause African famines, experts warn - AFP via Yahoo! News Food production in developing countries will halve in the next 20 years unless wealthy nations lower their rate of consumption, the Stockholm Environment Institute warned at a weekend conference.	2nd July 2007
Unrealized benefits of transport electrification are within reach - Energy Bulletin Unrealized benefits of transport electrification are within reachEnergy Bulletin. ... on Climate Change (IPCC) released its 2007 report finding that greenhouse gas emissions coming from human activity are definitely causing global warming ...	2nd July 2007
Wild Weather: dispatches from an ailing planet There may be no one who has worked harder to raise awareness worldwide of the threat of climate change than Al Gore, the former US vice-president, and this Saturday he takes it to the next level with Live Earth, a series of concerts around the globe that will be watched or heard by as many as two billion people. [most read item]	2nd July 2007
Yeo calls for climate-saving 'pain' - Epolitix via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Tim Yeo has said that political parties must be ready to inflict "painful" measures on voters to tackle climate change.	2nd July 2007
Moving Beyond Kyoto - New York Times Al Gore: America should join an international treaty that cuts global warming pollution by 90 percent in developed countries and by more than half worldwide.	1st July 2007
"Species Are Moving Southwards" - Inter Press Service Interview with Leonie Joubert. For South African author Leonie Joubert, global warming is a grass roots issue -- literally. In her recently published book 'Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate', she tracks how bees, frogs and a multitude of other creatures and plants in the country are affected by climate shifts.	1st July 2007
Biofuels: The Five Myths of the Agro-fuels Transition - Center for Research on Globalization Biofuels: The Five Myths of the Agro-fuels TransitionCenter for Research on Globalization, Canada - 2 hours agoAgro-fuel champions assure us that because fuel crops are renewable, they are environmentally'"friendly, can reduce global warming, and will foster rural ...	1st July 2007
Cancel new runway plans, say Tories - Guardian Unlimited Plans for new runways at Heathrow and Stansted airports should be shelved, the Conservative party will claim later this summer - dramatically challenging Gordon Brown's green credentials.	1st July 2007
Emission regulation dropped from House bill - Seattle Times The state of Washington could lose the ability to regulate its tailpipe emissions if a key Democratic leader has his way when the House takes up a climate-change bill in September. After weeks of debate, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the House energy committee, agreed to drop a provision from the upcoming House energy bill that would have allowed automakers to circumvent states' emissions laws. But Dingell, a longtime supporter of the automobile industry, has since been clear about his intention to revive the idea when the House tackles climate-change legislation this fall.	1st July 2007
Extreme weather: Forecasters warn of more to come - The Independent It was the week the weather went crazy - not just here, but in continental Europe as well. And, inevitably, it caused fresh concern about what global warming might be doing to our climate. See also: Storms lash Texas as California experiences its driest 12 months for 130 years [most read item]	1st July 2007
Penguins' struggle is a warning to world - Chicago Tribune Adelies are early victims of a trend that could devastate coastlines.	1st July 2007
Rock to save the planet, then go and change your lightbulbs - Guardian Unlimited Mass events like the Live Earth concert raise awareness, but if we are going to combat climate change, personal action is vital.	1st July 2007
State's hitting red lights on emissions law - The Sacramento Bee If state officials have their way, new motor vehicles sold in California will come equipped with engine accessories like variable flow turbochargers and dual cam phasers, designed to reduce global warming.	1st July 2007
Why the market cannot solve the environment crisis - Green Left Weekly The good news is that Australian politicians and corporations are finally recognising that there is an environmental crisis. The bad news is that the "solutions" being promoted by the establishment define what is realistic for capitalism, so the "need" for big business to remain profitable sets the parameters of what is "possible".	1st July 2007
Buying Into the Green Movement - New York Times Critics question the notion that we can avert global warming by buying so-called earth-friendly products, from clothing and cars to homes and vacations, when the cumulative effect of our consumption remains enormous and hazardous.	30th June 2007
Cost of floods will top £1 billion - and worse weather is still to come - Evening Standard The cost of claims from the UK floods to reach £1 billion according to estimates by the Association of British Insurers, the UK industry's trade group.	30th June 2007
EU warns citizens: adapt to climate change now - Reuters EU warns citizens: adapt to climate change nowReuters. In addition to cutting greenhouse gas emissions to halt global warming, Europeans should change the way they live and work to mitigate the effects of rising ...	30th June 2007
Feds Working Against State Emissions Law - San Francisco Chronicle Transportation Department officials sought to mobilize dozens of state and federal lawmakers against California's petition for an EPA waiver to implement its greenhouse gas law, documents released Friday show. The 71 pages of Transportation Department...	30th June 2007
NASA satellite captures first view of 'night-shining' clouds A NASA satellite has captured the first occurrence this summer of mysterious iridescent polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth's surface.	30th June 2007
Smuggled alcohol used as fuel in Sweden - AP via Yahoo! News Smugglers trying to sneak alcohol into Sweden are unwittingly helping fuel the country's public transport system and reducing its greenhouse emissions.	30th June 2007
Why Exxon makes Koch Giggle As regular readers of DeSmogBlog know, ExxonMobil has been a regular target of bad ink for their continued funding of "think" tanks and industry associations that spread misinformation about the scientific evidence for human-caused global warming. However, an organization that you made not of heard of is equally guilty of such activities. The Koch (pronounced "coke") Family of Foundations is run by David and Charles Koch, sons of the founder of Koch Industries, Fred Koch. Koch Industries is the world's largest privately owned company and while it now boasts a diversified portfolio of companies, it cut its teeth in the 1940's as an oil refining company and today produces 800,000 barrels of oil per day through one of its subsidiaries.	30th June 2007
2007 seen as second warmest year as climate shifts OSLO (Reuters) - This year is on track to be the second warmest since records began in the 1860s and floods in Pakistan or a heatwave in Greece may herald worse disruptions in store from global warming, experts said on Friday.	29th June 2007
Australian grape glut dries up as drought bites - AFP via Yahoo! News A year ago, Australia was awash in wine. But thanks to the worst drought in a century, the 2007 vintage will be one of the leanest in years and the grape glut is drying up fast.	29th June 2007
First genome transplant turns one species into another - Guardian Unlimited · June 29: Craig Venter's research aimed at producing green fuel · Critics warn of terrorists creating new bioweapons	29th June 2007
One Pathway To Climate Peace - DeSmogBlog Unintentionally, we have set in motion massive systems of the planet with huge amounts of inertia that have kept it relatively hospitable to civilization for the last 10,000 years. We have reversed the carbon cycle by more than 400,000 years. We have heated the deep oceans. We have loosed a wave of violent and chaotic weather. We have altered the timing of the seasons. We are living on a very precarious margin of stability. Against that background, we are offering this set of strategies. We believe these strategies present a model of the scope and scale of action that is appropriate to the magnitude of the climate crisis.	29th June 2007
Reviewing Linda McQuaig's "Holding The Bully's Coat" - CounterCurrents.org Reviewing Linda McQuaig's "Holding The Bully's Coat"CounterCurrents.org, India. That's in spite of near-universal agreement global warming is real and threatening the planet with an Armageddon future too grim to ignore. ...	29th June 2007
Statoil, Shell scrap 'carbon capture' plans - Sharewatch OSLO (Thomson Financial) - Norwegian oil group Statoil and Britain's Shell said they are scrapping plans to use carbon dioxide (CO2) to increase oil production. {...l ooks like carbon capture & storage was always (mainly) just a way of getting more money from the government...]	29th June 2007
The promise and perils of public investment in energy By David RobertsThere's a big problem facing climate and energy advocates, one they seem to be more or less shutting their eyes to at the moment, hoping it will go away: regulations capping carbon and mandating emissions cuts are likely to raise energy prices for consumers in the short term. This is a problem because polls and surveys show fairly consistently that consumers are extremely sensitive to these prices. I think it's going to be frighteningly easy for right-wing demagogues to pull on climate legislation the same thing they did on healthcare legislation back in the early '90s: tell consumers that Democrats are going to raise their prices and leave them shivering in the dark.	29th June 2007
Weather upsets farming timetable - BBC News Some Gloucestershire farmers say recent extreme weather conditions have played havoc with their crops.	29th June 2007
China to ban ozone-depleting CFCs - Mongabay.com China has moved to ban the production of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), according to a statement from the country's environmental protection agency. The action is in accordance with the 1987 Montreal Protocol to phase out the use of ozone layer-depleting products . China, which signed the agreement in 1991, says it will end all CFC production by 2010. Some experts say policy action on ozone depleting chemicals could serve as a blueprint for future negotiations on climate change. A paper published earlier this year in PNAS argued revealed that the Montreal Protocol has helped slow the rate of global warming in addition to protecting the ozone layer .	29th June 2007
CO2 tax to put Swiss on Kyoto target - NZZ Switzerland will introduce a tax on carbon dioxide emissions from January 1, 2008 in order to meet its Kyoto objectives, the government said on Thursday.	29th June 2007
Extreme weather wakes US up to climate change - Independent US public opinion is rapidly waking up to the threat posed by global warming, despite the best efforts of the Bush Administration and much of industry to deny the problem. There has been a double-digit increase in the proportion of Americans who say environmental problems are a major global threat - from 23 per cent to 37 per cent, according to a comprehensive survey published this week by the Pew Centre in Washington. [most read item]	29th June 2007
Individuals Unite to Trim Personal Carbon Emissions - NPR Extreme carbon rationing is taking off in the United Kingdom with the formation Carbon Rationing Action Groups. Their members, known as craggers, try to cut back their personal carbon emissions by 10 percent each year. They turn off the TV and try not to fly. And, they wear sweaters instead of turning on the heat. How serious are they? Some Craggers impose fines on members who don't cut down ...	29th June 2007
Poll: Gore could steal the show - Guardian Unlimited Clinton would be biggest loser if ex-vice president ran in election.	29th June 2007
The nation-states of climate change - GristMill Ever wondered if your state's climate policy really makes a difference in the big global scheme of things? If so, here's a little map I made. For each state, the map shows a nation with equivalent greenhouse-gas emissions from energy.	29th June 2007
Völkerwanderung - Energy Bulletin The relative stability of national and cultural boundaries in recent centuries could easily become a thing of the past as industrial civilization unravels. Planning for the deindustrial future needs to keep the possibility of mass migration in mind.	29th June 2007
Water runs out for activist rower - ABC Online Steve Posselt has a problem - he's rowing the length of the Murray-Darling to highlight the need to act sustainably in the face of global warming but he's run out of water! Now carrying his kayak, the 54 year old Queenslander is expecting he'll have to walk at least half the distance of the seven month long journey.	29th June 2007
Arctic zone to melt by 2060: Study - Hindustan Times Dangerous levels of climate change could come about in just over 20 years and the earth could warm by two degrees Celsius between 2026 and 2060, a new study has revealed.	28th June 2007
Residents back eco-parking hike - BBC News People in north London vote in favour of increasing the cost of parking permits for owners of "gas guzzling" vehicles.	28th June 2007
UN issues desertification warning Desertification represents the "greatest environmental challenge of our times", the UN warns in a report.	28th June 2007
Wildlife, Crops Hit by Southeast Europe Heatwave - Environmental News Network A heatwave that has killed more than 30 people in parts of southeast Europe has hit wildlife and crops, from the humble toad in Greek lagoons to grain across the region, while fruit is ripening weeks early in Italy.	28th June 2007
Wings of change: How butterflies give vital clues to the state of the ecosystem Butterflies herald the return of spring sunshine and long summer days. There can be few more welcome visitors to the garden than a flamboyant red admiral or peacock, clinging sated to a buddleia bush or fluttering energetically over the lawn. A cloud of blues almost underfoot on a downland walk is a quintessential mid-summer sight. And these beautiful insects are also key indicators of a healthy ecosystem.	28th June 2007
Carbon Price Won't Push Power Sector Away From Coal - Planet Ark LONDON - Europe's main weapon against climate change, which makes industry buy rights to emit carbon dioxide, has not stopped power generators from using dirty coal because they can still make plenty of money from burning it.	28th June 2007
Come on, gang, let's save the world! - Guardian Unlimited Life style: A new survey suggests teenagers aren't that interested in climate change. Julie Ferry asks if campaigners can overcome this apathy. [most read item]	28th June 2007
House passes bill affirming global warming exists - Boston Globe The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, aiming to put an end to the debate over whether global warming is actually occurring, passed legislation recognizing the "reality" of climate change and providing money to work on the problem.	28th June 2007
Green Junta - innovations report A radical suggestion for creating a global infrastructure that is both sustainable and green might rely on nations working together to find a solution to a range of potentially devastating problems, according to Cardiff University's Peter Wells. Writing in the International Journal of the Environment and Sustainable Development, published today by Inderscience, Wells warns of a Green Junta that could bring about a right-wing agenda by stealth, in the name of environmentalism.	27th June 2007
Put a price on emissions now or else, report says - The Globe and Mail The slower Canada is to put a price tag on greenhouse gas emissions, the greater the damage to the economy will be, a report commissioned by Environment Canada will say today.	27th June 2007
The floods of neglect - Guardian Unlimited The drumbeat of disaster that heralds global warming quickened its tempo this week; some parts of Britain had a sixth of their annual rainfall in 12 hours - some statistic. It has all been foreseen, and for far too long.	27th June 2007
This planet ain't big enough for the 6,500,000,000 What do the following have in common: the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere, Earth's average temperature and the size of the human population? Answer: each was, for a long period of Earth's history, held in a state of equilibrium. Whether it's the burning of fossil fuels versus the rate at which plants absorb carbon, or the heat absorbed from sunshine versus the heat reflected back into space, or global birth rates versus death rates - each is governed by the difference between an inflow and an outflow, and even small imbalances can have large effects. At present, all of these three are out of balance as a result of human actions. [most read item]	27th June 2007
Climate Change Threatens North Africa Food Supply - Planet Ark CASABLANCA - Increasingly frequent droughts in North Africa will force governments to import more food, placing their economies under severe strain unless global warming is checked, a senior UN climate expert said.	27th June 2007
Flooding misery set to continue as more rain forecast across Britain Heavy rain looks set to bring more floods across Britain as emergency services battleto cope with the effects of the monsoon summer conditions.	27th June 2007
France supports cap on airlines' carbon emissions - AFP via Yahoo! News French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday he supported calls to set ceilings on carbon dioxide emissions from airlines, arguing that their ecological imprint could no longer be ignored.	27th June 2007
Get Americans to drive less by raising gas taxes - The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News As an environmentalist, I was among the first to get a hybrid car, which helped me be among the first to admit that government-imposed fuel standards – known as Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) – don't work.	27th June 2007
Paying Developing Countries Not to Burn Forests - NPR The Kyoto Protocol doesn't do anything directly about deforestation. It is aimed at factories and power plants in industrialized countries. But a new approach pays developing countries not to burn their forests -- an act responsible for a fifth of all greenhouse gases. Then, the saved carbon can be traded as a credit.	27th June 2007
Records tumble as Britain is hit by months of extremes - Guardian Unlimited June 26: Officially, the rain has been caused by a large area of low pressure meandering across Britain, and a slow moving warm front keeping the rain in the same place.	27th June 2007
Schwarzenegger Says U.S. Must Cut Emissions Before China Does - Bloomberg via Yahoo! News June 26 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. must begin to cut emissions of greenhouse gases before it can expect developing nations such as China and India to do so, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said.	27th June 2007
US Convinced of Rising Global Temperatures - Angus Reid Global Monitor US Convinced of Rising Global TemperaturesAngus Reid Global Monitor, Canada. The term global warming refers to an increase of the Earth’s average temperature. Some theories say that climate change might be the result of ...	27th June 2007
World's first floating wind farm to be built in North Sea The world's first floating wind turbine could be up and running in under two years after the German engineering giant Siemens teamed up with a Norwegian energy group yesterday to try to generate electricity in the middle of the North Sea.	27th June 2007
Greenland ice may melt much faster: U.N. scientist LONDON (Reuters) - New research shows that man-made climate change could cause the Greenland ice sheet to break up in hundreds, rather than thousands, of years, the chair of a United Nations panel of scientists said on Monday. [most read item]	26th June 2007
Armies must ready for global warming role: Britain LONDON (Reuters) - Global warming is such a threat to security that military planners must build it into their calculations, the head of Britain's armed forces said on Monday.	26th June 2007
Array of green options may offer drivers seven ways to fuel up - Guardian Unlimited Business money: Ethanol, methane or LPG? Too many fuels will put the brakes on EU emission cuts.	26th June 2007
Desert dust cuts mountain snow, may spur warming WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Desert dust blown onto Rocky Mountain peaks has cut the duration of snow-cover by a month or more, and the same thing is probably happening in the Alps and Himalayas, researchers reported on Monday.	26th June 2007
Efficiency guru says US can learn from California - Reuters Efficiency guru says US can learn from CaliforniaReuters. ... programs to boost the use of renewable power like wind and solar, strengthen the fight against global warming and climate change, Rosenfeld said. ...	26th June 2007
Environmentalists wants Eastern Canada to cut emissions - CNews BRUDENELL, P.E.I. (CP) - A coalition of environmental groups says Eastern Canadian provinces are lagging behind the New England states in controlling greenhouse gas emissions.	26th June 2007
Quebec premier says no need to wait for federal governments on climate change - CP via Yahoo! Canada News BRUDENELL, P.E.I. (CP) - Provinces and U.S. states don't have to wait for their slow-moving federal governments to take action on controlling greenhouse gas emissions, Quebec Premier Jean Charest said Monday.	26th June 2007
Tories won't dismiss Kyoto compliance law, but won't issue new plan: Baird - CNews TORONTO (CP) - Environment Minister John Baird says the Conservative government won't dismiss a newly passed law requiring Canada to respect its emissions-cutting commitments under the Kyoto Protocol.	26th June 2007
British man plans North Pole swim to draw attention to climate change - CNews (CP) - A British man is hoping to wake up politicians in Canada and around the world to the threat of climate change by completing a kilometre-long swim in open water at the North Pole.	25th June 2007
California faces 'perfect drought' - Guardian Unlimited Sprinklers and car washes may be banned as no rain forecast in south of state until September.	25th June 2007
More US commuters drive solo - The Christian Science Monitor Global-warming warnings have not dissuaded Americans from driving to work alone. In fact, their numbers have been rising.	25th June 2007
NASA: "Earth in Peril" - Several metre sea level rise this century - Beyond Zero Emissions NASA: "Earth in Peril" - Several metre sea level rise this centuryBeyond Zero Emissions, Australia. The IPCC had forecast that global warming would result in a rise of between 18 and 59 centimetres. However, Dr Jim Hansen, climatologist with NASA, ... [most read item]	25th June 2007
Bankers warm to business class-only airlines - as flyers and investors - Guardian Unlimited Business money: Goldman Sachs seeks private equity venture as specialist carriers take off in transatlantic market.	25th June 2007
Too little, too late: Gore blames scientists for climate crisis In an extraordinary outburst aimed at America's failure to tackle global warming, Al Gore says that if scientific agreement on the climate crisis had been reached sooner it would have been easier to "galvanise the public and persuade Congress to act".	24th June 2007
China's car fuel policy in disarray - FT China's plans to impose tough new auto emissions standards this year have been thrown into confusion after the main economic planning agency in Beijing said the rules should be delayed because of the poor quality of available fuel.	24th June 2007
Dwindling Fish Stocks Spell Trouble - IPS The people of Uppoor, located in the Ramanathapuram district in the southern Indian province of Tamil Nadu, may have been spared the devastation from the December 2004 tsunami. But they are grappling with the very real effects of their degraded environment, worsened by changes in sea levels due to climate change.	24th June 2007
GERMANY: Warming Climate Helps Some Species, Kills Others - IPS The weather conditions in the heart of Europe were abnormal last year -- the summer too hot, too dry, and too long, and the winter too warm. But they were excellent for some foreign species, which, benefiting from the changed weather, settled in Germany, and have become a headache -- or worse -- for farmers and just about everybody else.	24th June 2007
Going green - Sydney Morning Herald Despite forecasts of doom, Sweden's economy is thriving thanks to alternative energy sources and lowered carbon emissions, Louise Williams reports.	24th June 2007
How to kick the carbon habit - Guardian Unlimited Ideally, only one copy of this book needs to be sold: it must end up on Gordon Brown's desk, where someone can stand over him while he reads it. If, by the time he reaches the end, he has decided not to act on it, then we may as well give up.	24th June 2007
Med mobilises against invasion of the jellyfish - The Times FROM the Costa del Sol to the French Riviera, an infestation of jellyfish is forcing seaside resorts to set up defences, repel the invaders and protect the tourist industry. The Mediterranean invasion has been blamed by some on climate change. "As the water temperature rises, it allows the jellyfish to live in areas where they could never go before," said Jacqueline Goy, a jellyfish specialist at the Oceanographic Institute of Paris. Jellyfish have thrived due to a decline in the population of tuna and turtles, which prey on them, and also because of the overfishing of anchovies, which compete with jellyfish for plankton.	24th June 2007
Scientists find logging dead trees after wildfire and replanting makes next year's fire worse - CBC Logging dead trees after a wildfire and planting new ones can make future fires worse, at least for a decade or two while the young trees create a volatile source of fuel, scientists found in a study that contradicts conventional practices.	24th June 2007
The melting ice man cometh - The Observer He believes his support for Kyoto lost him the coal states of Kentucky and West Virginia - and the 2000 race for the presidency. But Hurricane Katrina and his Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, changed all that.	24th June 2007
Two Degrees From Devastation - In These Times Interview with George Monbiot. [The Faust analogy is spot on]	23rd June 2007
We have to accept that the era of cheap food is coming to an end - The Independent We are so used to our ultra-competitive supermarket sector keeping down prices that it comes as rather a shock to discover that the same item we bought a few weeks ago has become more expensive. But the shock value is beginning to wear off. Food prices are now rising at 6 per cent a year, twice as quickly as the general cost of living. And it is not just in the UK that we are witnessing this trend. In India the overall food price index is 10 per cent higher than last year. In China, prices are up 20 per cent for some staples.	23rd June 2007
Norway presents plan to become 'carbon neutral' by 2050 - International Herald Tribune The government on Friday outlined steps needed for Norway to achieve its ambitious plan to reduce net greenhouse emissions to zero by 2050.	23rd June 2007
Darfur conflict heralds era of wars triggered by climate change, UN report warns - Guardian Unlimited The conflict in Darfur has been driven by climate change and environmental degradation, which threaten to trigger a succession of new wars across Africa unless more is done to contain the damage, according to a UN report published yesterday. See also: Sudan 'must address climate ills' - BBC News	23rd June 2007
Canadian govt clashes with senate over Kyoto Protocol - AFP via Yahoo! News Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed Friday to ignore measures that would harm the economy after the Senate passed a private member's bill to force his government to meet its Kyoto Protocol duty.	23rd June 2007
Great Lakes slowly losing water - PhysOrg.com Boaters on Lake Superior said the water is so low it appears the world's largest freshwater lake is disappearing.	23rd June 2007
Saltwater Invasion - Scienceline Climate change is causing the oceans to flow further inland, putting pressure on coastal areas to adapt.	23rd June 2007
Senate votes for first rise in car fuel standard in 32 years - Guardian Unlimited Democrats in US Senate have imposed the first increase in fuel efficiency standards on car makers in almost 20 years but a package of $32bn (£16bn) of tax incentives for alternative energy supplies that would be paid for by a new tax on oil companies was blocked when it was talked out of play by a Republican filibuster. [In a country maxed out on credit, can efficiencies do anything more than leave money in pockets to be spent on other emitting purchases?]	23rd June 2007
Setback for CO2 capture proposals - BBC News Alex Salmond claims UK government delays are threatening carbon capture plans in Peterhead.	23rd June 2007
Smart meters - BBC Green Room Smart meters can help identify where energy is being wasted, but only if the devices offer meaningful information.	23rd June 2007
US climate law may linger until next president - Reuters Global warming is the focus of at least seven bills on Capitol Hill, but whether any of them will become law before President George W. Bush leaves office in 2009 is a matter of keen debate. At this point, there are no front runners -- just bills with some chance of prevailing in some form and those that are dead on arrival, industry and environmental analysts said. A comprehensive U.S. law to address the challenges of global climate change is at least two years away, the analysts said. Wall Street, however, has begun to prepare for possible changes, including a U.S. market on greenhouse gases.	23rd June 2007
Scientists Close In On Missing Carbon Sink - Science Daily Forests in the United States and other northern mid- and upper-latitude regions are playing a smaller role in offsetting global warming than previously thought, according to a study appearing in Science this week. The study, which sheds light on the so-called missing carbon sink, concludes that intact tropical forests are removing an unexpectedly high proportion of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, partially offsetting carbon entering the air through industrial emissions and deforestation.	22nd June 2007
The Secret Campaign of President Bush's Administration To Deny Global Warming - Rolling Stone It's not every day, after all, that the leading scientists from 120 nations come together and agree that the entire planet is about to go to hell. But the Bush administration has never felt bound by the reality-based nature of science - especially when it comes from international experts. So after the report became public in February, Vice President Dick Cheney took to the airwaves to offer his own, competing assessment of global warming. [most read item]	22nd June 2007
Tory government to face new Kyoto law contradicting its policy - CNews OTTAWA (CP) - The government is on the horns of a dilemma: a deal reached Thursday virtually guarantees the Senate will pass a law requiring Ottawa to respect the targets of the Kyoto Protocol - targets the government has rejected as unachievable.	22nd June 2007
No going it alone in the 21st century - Phayul Humanity's challenges are beyond the reach of the individual, writes Stephen McGrail.	22nd June 2007
Two Paths For The Planet - The Heat is Online Two Paths for the Planet: Will we rewire the world with clean energy – or descend into political chaos, social disruption and climate hell?And will Washington get with the program? american prospect two paths for the planet global warming climate change	22nd June 2007
Experts contest CO2 emmisions report - China Economic Net Officials and experts have contested a recent report that said China had for the first time overtaken the United States as the world's top producer of carbon dioxide (CO2).	22nd June 2007
Galapagos test sparks alarm - BBC A US firm plans to dump iron filings off the Galapagos coast in an experiment to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. But the plans have alarmed the US government and conservationists.	22nd June 2007
German Lawmakers in Berlin Approve Carbon Emission Auctions - Bloomberg.com June 22 (Bloomberg) -- German lawmakers approved auctions of carbon-dioxide emission permits, shrugging off complaints from industry and utilities that the measure will send power costs soaring.	22nd June 2007
Next generation biofuels to turn human waste into diesel - Guardian Unlimited Britain could meet much of its future energy demand by turning waste products such as wood, plastic bags and even human sewage into transport fuels, scientists said yesterday.	22nd June 2007
Bright idea: The bellringers who threw away their lightbulbs and started a grassroots revolution -- The Independent The first evidence that Ilam, Staffordshire, might be unlike other villages presents itself at the front door of the house that Frank and Mabel Frith have occupied for 50 years. Visible beneath the cast iron wall light (a vital asset on pitch black winter nights, here in the Manifold Valley) is an elegant, low-energy, compact fluorescent lightbulb. Once inside the Friths' neat little living room, it is clear that the bulb is not alone. Eight more reside, slightly incongruously, in two ornate, flowery ceiling lamps, with a further two in the Friths' wall lamps and yet more through into the kitchen.	22nd June 2007
Steep carbon tax could actually stimulate economy: report - National Post It was denounced by Environment Minister John Baird as "the mother of all taxes," but a new report for the federal government says a $50-per-tonne carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gas pollution would do little harm to the Canadian economy.	21st June 2007
Climate change and the fight for resources 'will set world aflame' The Independent Climate change has become a major security issue that could lead to "a world going up in flames", the United Nations' top environment official has warned. From rising sea levels in the Indian Ocean to the increasing spread of desert in Africa's Sahel region, global warming will cause new wars across the world, said Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).	21st June 2007
Exclusive global warming poll: The buck stops here If our planet is to avoid the worst effects of climate change, the biggest polluter - the US - must be part of the solution. But how do Americans feel about the solutions? Most favor government-imposed standards on energy and fuel companies to other policies designed to reduce greenhouse gases.	21st June 2007
Mileage hikes may fail without emissions cap - Detroit News Concerns about climate change and oil security have spawned a series of proposals from the president and Congress, most prominently a "cap and trade" system for greenhouse gas emissions and a tightening of fuel economy standards for cars. These proposals are on separate tracks, but they should be combined so the costs are as low as possible for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and gasoline consumption.	21st June 2007
PR 101: actions speak louder than words; ExxonMobil needs to walk the walk Last week ExxonMobil chief spokesperson, Kenneth Cohen, was in London playing a bit of PR offense for the oil giant. Cohen went after Greenpeace for their recent report outlining the funding in 2006 that Exxon provided to 41 think tanks and associations. These groups have been on the front lines of the war against the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing to humans as the cause of global warming. While Exxon now appears to be moving to the right side of the global warming issue, here's what some of the thinks tanks they continue to fund say about global warming on their websites and the amount of money they have received from Exxon since 1998.	21st June 2007
Miliband launches carbon footprint calculator - Guardian Unlimited The environment secretary, David Miliband, today unveiled an online carbon footprint calculator designed to "cut through" the confusion on climate change and allow people to work out what practical action they can take.	21st June 2007
Don't blame the weatherman - Guardian Unlimited From time to time - especially when climate change hits the headlines - scientists are accused of playing politics . Michel Jarraud, secretary general of the World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva, doesn't see it that way. "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been accused of political one-sidedness, issuing alarmist reports, or "emotionalising" science. It seems to me that there might not be an "on the other hand" to consider when you see a storm surge advancing on a crowded community in a low-lying landscape. Under such circumstances, it would also be pretty difficult to sound an alarm without being alarmist. It would be pretty difficult not to feel emotional about devastation and deaths counted in hundreds of thousands."	21st June 2007
Freak winter is Europe's warmest for 700 years - New Scientist The unusually balmy European winter of 2006-2007 has thrown nature into confusion, echoing a similar warm event in 1289	21st June 2007
London lights off for environment - BBC News London's famous Piccadilly Circus lights are to be switched off for the first time in 68 years in support of a climate change event. Lights Out London is aiming to have all non-essential illuminations turned off between 2100 BST and 2200 BST.	21st June 2007
Rising sea levels could divide and conquer Antarctic ice - New Scientist EARTH'S largest ice sheet has till now seemed well able to withstand the effects of climate change, but it may have a hidden weakness. While models predict the air over the East Antarctic ice sheet will remain chilly enough to prevent significant melting for at least a century, a new study suggests that rising sea levels - caused by melting elsewhere - could be its undoing.	21st June 2007
Terrorism Fears Surpass Global Warming in U.S. - Angus Reid (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Many adults in the United States believe political violence is more menacing than climate change, according to a poll by Opinion Dynamics released by Fox News.	21st June 2007
The cost of species gone 'missing' - The Christian Science Monitor A resilient ecosystem can better withstand global warming and will deliver what humans need, whether it's abundant tuna from the seas or fresh water tumbling down a mountainside.	21st June 2007
We must take the lead - Guardian Unlimited China will only act on climate change if we lead by example.	21st June 2007
Climate turns up heat on sea turtles - The Christian Science Monitor The ancient mariners need beach temperatures that are just right to hatch their eggs. If it's too warm, only females are born - and a species could vanish.	21st June 2007
Creating 'escape routes' for wildlife - The Christian Science Monitor Biological corridors, such as one planned from Panama to Mexico, would let species migrate to safer climates as global warming heats up their old habitats.	21st June 2007
Why amphibians matter - The Christian Science Monitor They form a key link in ecosystems worldwide. But they're dying off and global warming is a likely suspect.	21st June 2007
Challenging times for forecaster - BBC News BBC Scotland weather forecaster Heather Reid looks at how Scotland's climate has changed over her career. See also: BBC Scotland wants your help to record unusual weather events amid concerns over climate change.	21st June 2007
Kyoto Carbon Trade: Market Solution or Illusion? - Planet Ark LONDON - Carbon trading is splitting opinions: for some it uses the profit motive and the ingenuity of markets to find the cheapest way to cut greenhouse gases. For others, it's just about smoke and thin air.	21st June 2007
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Market Failure: The Back of the Invisible Hand - Democratic Underground An unyielding faith in the infallible beneficence of "the invisible hand," leads to "market absolutism" -- the doctrine that whatever government attempts, privatization and the free-market can do better. What market absolutists (unlike Smith) fail to notice, is that not all workings of "the invisible hand" are beneficial. Some unintended consequences of market activity are harmful -- "the back of the invisible hand." Economists call these "market failures."	20th June 2007
Biofuel realities impinge on early promise - Financial Times The promise of biofuels always sounded too good to be true.	20th June 2007
Bolivia expects to lose glacier within year - MSNBC CHACALTAYA, Bolivia - Global warming will melt most Andean glaciers in the next 30 years, scientists say, threatening the livelihood of millions of people who depend on them for drinking water, farming and power generation.	20th June 2007
China becomes top CO2 emitter - Guardian Unlimited China overtakes US as world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, new figures show.	20th June 2007
Climate change blamed as Superior shrinks - PhysOrg.com Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes and the world's largest freshwater reservoir, has fallen to its lowest level in 81 years, further evidence of the effect that climate change is having on the North American continent.	20th June 2007
Energy bill hurdle is set aside - The Sacramento Bee House Democrats seeking to scuttle California's tough global warming law said Monday they are willing to postpone that battle until fall in the interests of moving "consensus" energy legislation this month.	20th June 2007
Experts: Carbon offsets market needs rules - United Press International The carbon-offset industry must set up standards that customers can trust or risk being discredited, a top industry official has said. "There are credibility issues and there are cowboys around," said Jonathan Shopley, chief executive of the CarbonNeutral Company. "It is probably to be expected for an industry at this stage, but we need a set of standards and outside verification so that self-regulation can engender trust and integrity in the market."	20th June 2007
Google's drive for clean future - BBC Web giant Google is backing hybrid cars as part of its plan to make the entire firm carbon neutral by 2008.	20th June 2007
Kenya: Desertification Blamed for Rise in Temperature - AllAfrica.com Advancing desertification has resulted in the rise of temperature in the country by 3.5 degrees Celsius.	20th June 2007
Oil lobby resorts to open extortion - GristMill Senate Democrats want to pay for renewables with taxes and royalties on oil companies. This pressure is causing the oil lobby to threaten higher gasoline prices: Bill Holbrook, communications director for the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, told ABC News that there are conflicting signals about what path the nation will take coming from both President Bush and lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The president is calling for a 20 percent reduction on gasoline use while some lawmakers are pushing for more biofuels. If you process gasoline, those in the industry say that none of those developments are necessarily going to make you want to process more.	20th June 2007
Researchers Report Rising U.S. Trade May Hinder Future Global Efforts To Reduce CO2 Emissions - PollutionOnline In a June 2007 research paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, Carnegie Mellon researchers describe how the U.S. has reduced its increasing carbon emissions by importing more carbon-intensive goods from other countries	20th June 2007
Scientists say climate models are reliable - Science Daily U.S. scientists have found climate models are reliable tools that aid in better understanding the observed record of ocean warming and variability.	20th June 2007
Shopping to stop global warming? - CNNMoney.com Ranking companies like Nike and Unilever on their climate change policies is a good effort, but may not have real impact on the environment. Fortune's Marc Gunther takes a look at Climate Counts.	20th June 2007
The fragile planet: Thoughts of a green prophet - The Independent Here's a green landmark: one of the modern environment movement's early prophets, and most original thinkers, has turned 90. Barry Commoner, distinguished cellular biologist, leading eco-campaigner and one-time US presidential candidate, was among the formulators of the green movement's essential message, which we could characterise like this: there is only so much that the earth can take.	20th June 2007
Vertical farming in the big Apple - BBC News The BBC's Jeremy Cooke examines a radical proposal to build a skyscraper farm in New York.	20th June 2007
Where does our power originate? The most important and relevant research for U.S. environmentalists is being conducted by Jon Agnone, a sociologist at the University of Washington. Agnone studies sources of environmentalist power -- the first social scientist to undertake a systematic analysis. His comprehensive findings are summarized in "Amplifying Public Opinion: The Policy Impact of the U.S. Environmental Movement" (PDF), appearing in the June 2007 issue of Social Forces. Agnone compared the relative impact of public opinion, institutional advocacy, and protest on passage of federal environmental legislation between 1960-1998, using a sophisticated analytical model and data drawn from The New York Times.	20th June 2007
Yes Men Strike Oil: Civil Disobedients Make Modest Flesh-to-Fuel Proposal - Wired "Without oil, at least four billion people would starve. This spiral of trouble would make the oil infrastructure utterly useless" -- unless their bodies could be turned into fuel.	20th June 2007
The Earth today stands in imminent peril - The Independent Six scientists from some of the leading scientific institutions in the United States have issued what amounts to an unambiguous warning to the world: civilisation itself is threatened by global warming.	19th June 2007
Lobbies Stymie Action On Energy - Guardian Unlimited Three powerful lobbying forces - automakers, electric utilities and the coal industry - are confounding Democrats' efforts to forge a less-polluting energy policy.	19th June 2007
The Rising Tide of Climate Activism - AlterNet As the earth warms and politicians remain complacent, an international group gaining traction in the U.S., is fighting back.	19th June 2007
Arctic spring's 'rapid advance' - BBC News Spring in the Arctic is arriving "weeks earlier" than a decade ago, research shows.	19th June 2007
Gannet population under threat from global warming Researchers at the University of Leeds have warned that global warming is a major threat to the gannet, a species known for its stable populations and constant breeding success.	19th June 2007
More violent conflict on horizon due to climate change, he says - WorldNetDaily U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon blames the ethnic and religious violence in Darfur on global warming and insists more conflicts of this kind are coming because of climate change.	19th June 2007
Carbon cost 'not so bad' - Melbourne Herald Sun A WORST-CASE carbon trading scheme that made big polluters pay for all their emissions would not lead to a doomsday scenario, investors at a global warming forum were told yesterday.	19th June 2007
Desalination no answer to water crisis: WWF GENEVA (Reuters) - Removing salt from sea water to overcome a worldwide shortage of drinking water could end up worsening the crisis, environmental group WWF warned on Tuesday.	19th June 2007
Flex-Fuel Bait and Switch - Center For American Progress The Senate energy bill (H.R. 6) now under debate on Capitol Hill has a number of provisions to increase our nation's energy independence, lower energy costs for families, and reduce pollution that contributes to global warming. But the provision that would have the largest impact on these goals is fuel economy standards, which would eventually improve gas mileage for cars and light trucks to 35 miles per gallon by 2020.	19th June 2007
Offsetting chief warns of carbon cowboys - Guardian Unlimited The fast-growing but increasingly criticised carbon offset industry is at risk of being discredited by "cowboy" operators unless it draws up a recognisable set of standards that customers can trust, one of the most senior figures in the sector has warned.	19th June 2007
Public fears 'greenwash' from industry - Guardian Unlimited Initiatives to counter climate change will probably have limited impact because nine out of 10 consumers are sceptical about the information from companies and governments, according to a survey. By Terry Macalister.	19th June 2007
Russia's Thermal Coal Demand Seen Tripling by 2020 - Planet Ark MOSCOW - Demand for thermal coal in Russia, the world's fifth-largest coal miner, could more than triple by 2020 as the country invests billions of dollars to expand its power network, industry officials said on Monday.	19th June 2007
Why geosequestration is another distraction - Gristmill The July/August 2007 issue of World Watch magazine (produced by the Worldwatch Institute) includes a concise demolition of carbon geosequestration in the form of a letter to the editor by one Luc Gagnon, "a senior advisor on climate change for Hydro-Quebec."	19th June 2007
Ontario Joins Climate Protection Club Absolute Targets Contrast Sharply with Federal Approach - Market Wire Ontario's new membership in the provincial carbon reduction club is a welcome and important signal that tangible action on global warming must start in earnest, according to WWF-Canada. The assessment came in response to the greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets announced today by Premier Dalton McGuinty at the Shared Air Summit. Also: Liberals promise to close coal plants by 2014, reduce greenhouse gas emissions - CNews	19th June 2007
Cartoon by Tom Toles	19th June 2007
Punitive duties proposed in Germany for polluter nations - EARTHtimes.org German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel has called for punitive duties on imports from polluters if India and China do not move to slow the growth in greenhouse gas emissions. In an interview released Saturday by the news magazine Der Spiegel, he said absolute cuts in emissions could not be demanded from India and China because they needed to raise living standards. "But we can demand from them that they use the aid we offer them to disconnect economic growth from climate damage," he said. If they did not, the West could use a "border tax" on their exports as an incentive. He said the "climate duty" would hit products from nations which refused to take part in international action against climate change.	18th June 2007
Military looks at synthetic fuel for bombers and fighters - International Herald Tribune The U.S. Air Force has decided to push development of a new type of fuel to power its bombers and fighters, mixing conventional jet fuel with nonpetroleum-based fuels that could eventually end military dependence on foreign sources of oil.	18th June 2007
Carbon ranching pushes rainforest preservation in global-warming battle Carbon ranching allows multinationals to compensate for pollution by paying third-world countries to preserve rainforests. Right now, it's worth more to a logging company or a peasant to convert to stumps or soybeans than to leave the rainforest intact. With carbon ranching, a hectare of rainforest worth $200-to-$500 for crop production could increase to around $10,000 if preserved as a sponge for carbon dioxide. Carbon ranching could also nudge the developing world into the effort to reduce emissions. A coalition of 'rainforest nations' led by Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica has indicated it will participate in carbon ranching without demanding any increase in foreign aid.	18th June 2007
China hit by floods amid drought - UPI Despite a widespread drought, 128 people have drowned in floods this year in China and 24 remain missing.	18th June 2007
Controversial Oil Substitutes Sharply Increase Emissions, Devour Landscapes - All American Patriots The mounting quest for oil alternatives threatens drastic increases in heat-trapping global warming pollution and severe impacts on popular habitats across the United States and Western Canada unless clear safeguards are adopted quickly, according to a new analysis released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The warning comes as lawmakers are facing growing pressure to give huge new subsidies and other incentives to companies involved in liquid coal, oil shale and tar sands.	18th June 2007
Dreams of Europe in drought-ridden Morocco - AlertNet Source: Reuters By Tom Pfeiffer LAGFAF, Morocco, June 18 (Reuters) - When 2007 arrived and the winter rains had still not fallen, Morocco's religious leaders led anxious prayers to avert a rural catastrophe, quoting from the Koran: "And it is he who makes the rains fall after we have despaired, and spreads his grace." The months passed but clouds scudded over the kingdom's central plains without shedding their load and in the fields near the central Moroccan town of Khouribga, seeds grew into stunted crops. The harvest is almost over, and farmers gathered for the weekly market in the nearby village of Lagfaf say most of the wheat is good enough only for the animals. Only 100 kg per hectare were harvested, against 2 tonnes in a good year. The last time things were this bad was 1981, when scarcity of grain caused bread prices to soar and led to bloody riots in Casablanca.	18th June 2007
Electricity generators gain from emissions trading - Financial Times Britain's electricity generators could make windfall profits of about £1.5bn a year from the European Union's emissions trading scheme, industry estimates suggest, raising further questions about the operation of the programme intended to combat global warming.	18th June 2007
Ethanol Industry, Congress Accused of Bending Rules - CNSNews.com In a move drawing criticism from regulators, environmentalists, and rural Americans, the Environmental Protection Agency is introducing a new rule that will allow ethanol refineries to emit 150 percent more pollution than they currently do - without any penalties.	18th June 2007
Expanding deserts in China forcing farmers from fields, sending sandstorms across Pacific - PR-Inside.com Half a century after Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward" brought irrigation to the arid grasslands in this remote corner of northwest China, the government is giving up on its attempt to make a breadbasket out of what has increasingly become a stretch of scrub and sand dunes. In a problem that is pervasive in much of China, over-farming has drawn down the water table so low that desert is overtaking farmland.	18th June 2007
Global Coal Rush Raises Clean Energy Stakes - Planet Ark LONDON - A global scramble for coal has made deployment of clean energy more urgent, says Robert Socolow, a Princeton University professor known for his blueprint for a more climate-friendly energy supply.	18th June 2007
Global warming to multiply world's refugee burden - AlertNet If rising sea levels force the people of the Maldive Islands to seek new homes, who will look after them in a world already turning warier of refugees? The daunting prospect of mass population movements set off by climate change and environmental disasters poses an imminent new challenge that no one has yet figured out how to meet.	18th June 2007
Insuring global warming - The Age With more extreme weather patterns, climate change is likely to become a nightmare insurance issue.	18th June 2007
It's a bug's life as global warming hits our gardens - The Scotsman SCOTLAND'S gardens are facing potentially devastating new threats from bugs and diseases as a result of global warming, a leading Scottish expert has warned.	18th June 2007
Most Italians Support Kyoto Protocol - Angus Reid Global Monitor Most people in Italy believe the Kyoto Protocol will have some impact in reducing the pace of world pollution, according to a poll by Lorien Consulting srl. 62.5 per cent of respondents think the international agreement will be very or somewhat effective in dealing with climate change.	18th June 2007
Native American tribes speak out about climate change - Boston Globe From New Hampshire to California, Native American leaders are speaking out more forcefully about the danger of climate change. Members of six tribes recently gathered near the Baker River in New Hampshire's White Mountains for a sacred ceremony honoring "Earth Mother." Talking Hawk, a Mohawk Indian who asked to be identified by his Indian name, pointed to the river's tea-colored water as proof that the overwhelming amount of pollution humans have produced has caused changes around the globe.	18th June 2007
Norway, UK Subsea CO2 Storage Plans Gain Momentum - Planet Ark OSLO - Britain and Norway said on Friday their efforts to bury carbon dioxide emissions under the North Sea have gained momentum, although progress is hampered by rules on marine waste dumping and EU limits on state aid.	18th June 2007
Nuclear Power Can't Curb Global Warming - Report - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - Nuclear power would only curb climate change by expanding worldwide at the rate it grew from 1981 to 1990, its busiest decade, and keep up that rate for half a century, a report said on Thursday.	18th June 2007
Coming Up - World's First 'Zero-Carbon' City - IPS A city free of cars, pedestrian-friendly, powered by renewable energy and surrounded by wind and photovoltaic farms -- all in the middle of a petroleum-rich desert. [most read item]	17th June 2007
Dial-a-dying-glacier - New Scientist Ever wondered what a dying glacier would sound like? Scottish artist Katie Paterson decided to set up a phone line to Icelandic glacier Vatnajokull after experiencing a fever-induced hallucination during a previous trip to Iceland.	17th June 2007
A calculator to help save the planet - Guardian Unlimited Official website will tell us how much carbon dioxide we are each producing and how to cut it.	17th June 2007
A Sacred River Left in Peril by Global Warming - Washington Post Glacial Source of Ganges Is Receding.	17th June 2007
Biofuel plants have pollution problem - The News Journal The biofuel boom has brought environmental problems -- and the total impact isn't yet known, a Des Moines Register analysis shows. Iowa's ramped-up ethanol and biodiesel fuel production led to 394 instances over the past six years in which the plants fouled the air, water or land or violated regulations meant to protect the health of Iowans and their environment.	17th June 2007
CHINA: Food First, Not Fuel - IPS Current hikes in grain and pork prices are blamed on the same culprit -- the ethanol industry, whose explosive growth has been gobbling up a growing share of China's corn harvest traditionally preserved for food and animal feed. Having promoted the production of the environmentally-friendly gasoline additive for years, Chinese economic planners now fear the sector has grown too much and too quickly, presenting them with an uncomfortable dilemma of choosing between the country's green agenda and its national food security.	17th June 2007
Climate change behind Darfur killing: UN's Ban - AFP via Yahoo! News UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday.	17th June 2007
Debate heats up in US over coal fuel for cars - PhysOrg.com A fiery debate has been rekindled in Washington as US lawmakers mull proposed incentives to produce diesel fuel from coal.	17th June 2007
Drought drives snakes down from hills - UPI Homeowners in drought-stricken Southern California are finding unusual numbers of rattlesnakes hiding in their shrubbery or slithering across the yard.	17th June 2007
Expert View: If we're as green as we claim, the airlines will suffer - Independent Are British consumers beginning to change their buying habits as a result of concerns about climate change? A recent barrage of initiatives suggests the big retailers think so.	17th June 2007
Fla. Officials Try to Shield Coral Reefs - PhysOrg.com (AP) -- Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine. It's not sunken treasure or a Spanish galleon but rather nature's bounty: rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.	17th June 2007
Heading for Hills May Be Only Option on Fiji - NPR In the Pacific Islands, scientists and villagers alike are seeing signs of change. There's less rainfall, the ocean is reaching farther inland and storms are increasing in severity. The question for Pacific Islanders isn't how to reduce their already low greenhouse emissions, but how to adapt.	17th June 2007
It's All About Carbon, episodes 1 and 2 - NPR Animation that explains carbon and fossil fuels, as a prelude to a understanding global warming. (Found via EnergyBulletin.net)	17th June 2007
Nobel Laureate Calls for Post-Kyoto Treaty - IPS Large developing nations like China, India and Mexico should sign a new international treaty to curb climate change which must include economic penalties to clamp down on emissions of greenhouse gases, Nobel chemistry laureate Mario Molina said Wednesday.	17th June 2007
Soya king changes face of pampas - Guardian Unlimited The GM crop has saved Argentina's economy - but now threatens the survival of its forests.	17th June 2007
World switching on to a bright idea - The Age AUSTRALIA'S plan to phase out the inefficient standard light bulb by 2010 is likely to be adopted by the European and Latin American trading blocs by the end of this year.	17th June 2007
Museveni says climate change a modern attack on Africa - Khaleej Times Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Fridaycalled global warming a form of external aggression against Africa as the impact of the phenomenon is felt more acutely on the continent than elsewhere. 'Africa used to suffer outside aggression in the past, the latest form of aggression is climate change,' Museveni said after talks in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. {It is an interesting assumption that countries that suffer catastrophic climate change will just sit there and quietly perish without trying to nobble those responsible...]	16th June 2007
The geopolitics of 'energy independence' - GristMill If you think that the current governmental and corporate interest in ethanol has something to do with global warming, think again. It is dawning on the U.S. government that (1) most of the remaining supplies of oil are in unfriendly hands, and (2) that there isn't enough oil remaining to feed a constantly growing global demand. With oil production plateauing, governments can turn to three main strategies to maintain fuel supplies: (1) consume what's left of the planet by growing huge amounts of biofuels; (2) fry what's left of the atmosphere by converting coal to oil or exploiting dirty, expensive tars and oil sands; or (3) conquer the planet to forcably take whatever oil is left.	16th June 2007
The inconvenient truth about the carbon offset industry - Guardian Unlimited In the concluding part of a major investigation, Nick Davies shows how greenhouse gas credits do little or nothing to combat global warming	16th June 2007
Climate Change Affects Cod Stocks - Post Chronicle A U.S. study has linked environmental factors such as climate change to the collapse of the North Atlantic cod fishery. University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth researchers determined a recently published study of cod stocks off Canada and New England showed that after falling in the 1970s stocks increased sharply for about five years then began a steep decline again, suggesting environmental factors played a stronger role in the collapse of the cod fishery than previously thought. In the new study, Brian Rothschild and colleagues at UMass Dartmouth argue an interruption in the food chain, possibly caused by climate change, was a key factor in the cod's disappearance.	16th June 2007
Drought causes marijuana growers to change tactics - Dothan Eagle Alabama's battle against marijuana has a new ally in Mother Nature. While the drought continues to batter peanuts, cotton and other Wiregrass money crops, state and local law enforcement are watching the area's other money crop dry up with the parched earth. See also: Mosquitoes - peskier than dirty hippies: Drought keeps mosquitoes at bay - Tuscaloosa News	16th June 2007
Farmers speculate on biomass boom - BBC News Farmers are turning fields over to willow across southern Scotland to supply a new biomass power station.	16th June 2007
Forestry rift hinders Kyoto plan - Otago Daily Times New Zealand: SIX months out from the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, a spat between forest owners and the Government over climate change is seeing trees replaced by dairy cows. The Kyoto Protocol’s first commitment period starts on January 1, but a dispute over who owns the carbonsequestering rights of exotic tree plantations has, for the third successive year, seen more trees ripped out of the ground than planted. New Zealand is looking at a 38 million-tonne deficit between greenhouse gas emissions and carbon credits provided by forestry, but from 2004 to 2006, at least 22,000ha of forestry has been replaced, mostly by dairy farms; and some fear another 20,000ha of forestry has changed in the past year.	16th June 2007
Is it ethical to buy goods from China and India? - Spiked What is the right balance we can strike to address both problems of poverty and climate change in the developing world? Is it ethical to buy stuff made Is it ethical to buy stuff made there? {slightly facetious article that nonetheless touches on some truths]	16th June 2007
MIT model compares environmental, economic effects of emissions bills - PhysOrg The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change appli