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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 applied its model to the seven bills to determine how costs associated with each might affect the domestic economy. While the program does not endorse any individual bill, the analysis could lend insight into potential climate consequences and the rough effects on prices and consumers, said Henry Jacoby, co-director of the joint program and a professor of management. .	16th June 2007
Oceans expert foresees dire straits - New Haven Register Enjoy sardines and anchovies? How about jellyfish? Because that's all that may remain soon in our oceans and waterways, a renowned oceanographer said in a lively speech and "Q&A" Wednesday evening in New Haven. [most read item]	16th June 2007
Plan for city trolleybus comeback - BBC News Proposals for the UK's first trolleybus system in 35 years are unveiled in West Yorkshire.	16th June 2007
Recycling is not enough -- we need to consume less Recycling rates have risen, and the UK is on schedule to meet EU targets, but the key to dealing with our escalating waste problem lies in changing our buying habits and our attitudes to consumption, according to the authors of a new Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) publication.	16th June 2007
Thames salt water plant approved - BBC News The government gives the go-ahead for the UK's first desalination plant to be built in east London.	16th June 2007
Tsunami survivor at Munich Re warns of huge hurricane damages - International Herald Tribune Munich Re's chief scientist forecasts insured damages from the hurricane season this year exceeding the $20 billion average of the past seven years and far exceeding $250 million last year.	16th June 2007
Global warming's Keystone Kops - The Christian Science Monitor Congress may not yet reflect the political will to tackle climate change. It's hung up on old-style politics.	15th June 2007
Emissionary positions - Economist Despite the president's change of heart, carbon policy remains contentious. Ask Washington's pundits about America's future policy on global warming, and most of them will tell you that things are changing too quickly to make firm predictions. Who, after all, could have foreseen that George Bush would overcome his reluctance to stem emissions of greenhouse gases - especially under the auspices of the United Nations - and agree to both at last week's summit of rich countries in Germany? By the same token, who would have imagined that so many prominent congressmen and businessmen would be calling for fierce cuts in America's emissions? But one thing remains predictable: that despite their alleged conversion to the same cause, the president, Congress and businesses will not agree on how to advance it.	15th June 2007
From Peak Oil To Dark Age? - BusinessWeek With global oil production virtually stalled in recent years, controversial predictions that the world is fast approaching maximum petroleum output are looking a bit less controversial. At first blush, those concerned about global warming should be delighted. After all, what better way to prod the move toward carbon-free, climate-friendly alternative energy? But climate change activists have nothing to cheer about. The U.S. is completely unprepared for peak oil, as it's called, and the wrenching adjustments it would entail could easily accelerate global warming as nations turn to coal (see BusinessWeek.com, 4/19/07, "Rx for Earth: Sooner Not Later"). Moreover, regardless of the implications for climate change, peak oil represents a mortal threat to the U.S. economy. [most read item]	15th June 2007
Doffing the cap - Economist Tradable emissions permits are a popular, but inferior, way to tackle global warming	15th June 2007
Bush's bluff has been called by China - New Statesman Even for George Bush, the apostle of climate-change deniers, an out-and-out obstructionist US position is no longer tenable.	15th June 2007
Reduced Emissions Required to Avoid Dangerous Heat Stress - Newswise A study projects a 200 to 500 percent increase in the number of dangerously hot days in the Mediterranean by the end of the 21st century if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions continues. The study found France would be subjected to the largest projected increase of high-temperature extremes. A reduction in greenhouse gas emissions could reduce the dangerously hot days projected in the scenario by up to 50 percent.	15th June 2007
Crawfish is sign of climate change - East Lothian Courier Skipper of local fishing boat, the Tern, Andrew Mack, 59, found a crawfish (or crayfish) in his nets as he trawled for langoustines a couple of miles offshore from Gullane. And his son Daniel said he couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the spiny lobster as they are usually only found in warmer climates such as the Caribbean or the Mediterranean coast, and are particularly common Down Under. It is reported to be the first time this species has been caught in the Firth of Forth and only the third time on the east coast.	15th June 2007
Widespread warmth leads to the fifth warmest spring for united states - NOAA News Driest spring on record across the southeast worsens drought. The fifth warmest spring on record for the contiguous United States occurred in 2007, according to scientists at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. A severe-weather outbreak in the nation's midsection brought devastating tornadoes in early May, while a record-dry spring in the Southeast led to worsening drought conditions. Continued extreme dryness in May east of the Mississippi River and in the Far West expanded the drought area. The global land-surface temperature was the highest for the month of May, as well as for boreal spring. The combined global land- and ocean-surface temperature was fourth warmest for May, and tied with 1998 as the warmest January-May period.	15th June 2007
Common bird species in dramatic decline - The Christian Science Monitor New data show the populations of some of America's well-known birds in a tailspin, thanks to the one-two punch of habitat fragmentation and, increasingly, global warming.	15th June 2007
Arctic plants have adjusted to climate changes - International Herald Tribune Many Arctic plant species have readily adjusted to big climate changes, repeatedly re-colonizing the rugged islands of Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago through 20,000 years of warm and cool spells since the frigid peak of the last ice age, researchers say.	15th June 2007
UM experts say climate change is affecting Maine's ecosystem - Bangor Daily News Scientists and wildlife experts agree that Maine"s ecosystem is changing, and the insects, mammals and trees are giving us early warning signals that the changes are happening quickly.	15th June 2007
Morocco's '07 Growth Seen Falling Sharply on Drought - Planet Ark RABAT - Morocco's economic growth is expected to slump to 1.6 percent this year from 8.1 percent in 2006 after drought slashed cereal crops to 2.0 million tonnes from 9.3 million last year, an official body said on Thursday.	15th June 2007
Tropical diseases coming back - Vancouver Province Global warming will contribute to a more than doubling of the world's pharmaceutical market in 13 years as higher temperatures spur diseases, according to a study.	15th June 2007
Russian utility eyes 700-million-euro Kyoto windfall - Eu Business (MOSCOW ) - Russia's electricity monopoly United Energy Systems hopes to attract investment worth 700 million euros under the Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming, CEO Anatoly Chubais said on Thursday.	15th June 2007
Drug makers may profit from disease in global warming scourge A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP forecast that higher temperatures could lead to a doubling of the world pharmaceutical market in 13 years , with sales of medicines increasing to $1.3 trillion US from about $600 billion last year -- provided drug makers find innovative treatments. The New York-based accounting and consulting company, citing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the average temperature is projected to increase by 0.4 degrees Celsius during the next two decades and the increase could be greater if greenhouse-gas emissions increase. Climate change may already be playing a role in reports of malaria in countries such as Turkey and Georgia where it was eradicated, the report said.	15th June 2007
Curve manipulation: lesson 2 - RealClimate Two weeks ago, we published the first lesson in curve manipulation taught by German school teacher and would-be scientist E.G. Beck: How to make it appear as if the Medieval times were warmer than today, even if all scientific studies come to the opposite conclusion. Today we publish curve manipulation, lesson 2: How to make it appear as if 20th Century warming fits into a 1500-year cycle. This gem is again brought to us by E.G. Beck. In a recent article (in German), he published the following graph: Notice how temperature goes up and down in beautifully regular cycles since 800 B.C.?	15th June 2007
China considers spelling out own greenhouse gas goals - AlertNet China will hold down per-capita volumes of greenhouse gases causing global warming and is studying how to spell out domestic emissions goals, officials said on Thursday, seeking to stress cooperation on the issue.	15th June 2007
What's the worst that could happen? - GristMill A homecooked argument for aggressive response to global heating. [Go directly to link] [most read item]	14th June 2007
A world without oil - Independent Scientists challenge major review of global reserves and warn that supplies will start to run out in four years' time. BP's Statistical Review of World Energy, published yesterday, appears to show that the world still has enough "proven" reserves to provide 40 years of consumption at current rates. The assessment, based on officially reported figures, has once again pushed back the estimate of when the world will run dry. However, scientists led by the London-based Oil Depletion Analysis Centre, say that global production of oil is set to peak in the next four years before entering a steepening decline which will have massive consequences for the world economy and the way that we live our lives. Colin Campbell, the head of the depletion centre, said: "It's quite a simple theory and one that any beer drinker understands. The glass starts full and ends empty and the faster you drink it the quicker it's gone."	14th June 2007
Burning down the South - Creative Loafing Atlanta The wildfires that have swept through the Okefenokee this year are the largest in the lower 48 states in nearly a century. Do they portend a hotter future?	14th June 2007
Climate change brings toxic moth to England - Scientific American A species of toxic moth which has been moving steadily north from the Mediterranean because of global warming has reached England, the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew said on Wednesday. Emergency measures have been put in place to protect trees in Kew Gardens in West London, where a number of Oak Processionary Moths (Thaumetopoea processionea) have been discovered, Kew Gardens said in a statement.	14th June 2007
EU's carbon trade 'set to fail' - BBC News The EU's carbon trading scheme - deemed key to tackling climate change - will fail again, says the WWF.	14th June 2007
Global problem, global solution - Monsters and Critics.com A U.S. effort to cooperate with global partners presents the only viable way to mitigate climate change and ease national security threats, experts say. As global temperatures rise, the array of dangers facing the United States will also increase, triggered by foreign forces and natural disasters. A surge in sea levels could cause flooding in America`s coastal areas, where more than half of the population lives, and other side effects may result in international mass migrations and geopolitical turmoil. In order to lessen climate change and avoid these disasters, the United States must join forces with other countries, said William Danvers, former senior director for legislative affairs at the National Security Council.	14th June 2007
Inside IT: Smart meters turn up the heat on those with money to burn - Guardian Unlimited Will showing electricity use encourage householders to conserve energy, or is it just a gimmick?	14th June 2007
Irrational incandescence - Energy Bulletin Staff, The Economist. Some ways of cutting carbon are cheaper than others. Vattenfall, a Swedish power utility, has tried to quantify which ones would be worth undertaking at what price. The result is a testament to economic irrationality.	14th June 2007
Jammed cities eye 'pay to drive' - The Christian Science Monitor New York and other major US cities are considering fees for those driving during rush hour.	14th June 2007
Microsoft's Global Warming Challenge to Gamers Microsoft announced today a new venture that will take advantage of the massive gaming industry to help raise global warming awareness. Budding game designers will be challenged to develop a video game on the subject and the top 3 will be considered for inclusion on the XBox Live gaming network that reaches about 6 million gamers worldwide.It will be interesting to see what a global warming game will look like. Will it include holy paladins installing solar panels or shape-shifting druids protesting at G8 Summits? Or will it take a more mundane Second Life tone with players trading in Linden dollars for carbon offsets?Guess we'll see.	14th June 2007
Polluted, drought-stricken China eyes sea water BEIJING (Reuters) - China, where hundreds of millions lack regular access to drinking water due to drought and pollution, plans to build a huge sea water desalination plant south of Shanghai, state media said on Wednesday.	14th June 2007
Quality designs with renewal in mind - Guardian Unlimited More than a million South Africans have safe drinking water thanks to Playpumps - a simple invention that uses the energy generated by children playing on a roundabout to pump groundwater from boreholes.	14th June 2007
Swinging wave device to be tested - BBC News A renewable energy system built in the Highlands is to be tried out in the sea off Orkney.	14th June 2007
The power of the coal lobby Remarkable: The bill is being circulated by Senator Jeff Bingaman, Democrat of New Mexico, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee and the energy bill's lead author. Until this week, Mr. Bingaman had opposed big subsidies for coal-based fuels, saying that each new production plant would cost billions of dollars and that the economic uncertainties posed risks for taxpayers.But in what could be an effort to fend off demands from coal-state lawmakers for bigger subsidies, Mr. Bingaman's draft proposal would offer up to $10 billion in direct government loans for coal-to-liquid plants.Unfuckingbelievable.	14th June 2007
Tuvalu, we hardly knew you Possibly one of the most tragic outcomes that may result from climate change is the extinction of an entire nation's culture and homeland. As the United Nations discussed the threat that global warming poses to the security of nations, Afelee Pita, an ambassador from the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, was there to represent his country. Tuvalu may be one of the first nations whose way of life could disappear as a result of the actions (or in this case, the lack of action) of other countries. NPR is covering this story as part of their year-long Climate Connections series.	14th June 2007
Underground CO2 Storage Plant in Germany - Ag Report BRUSSELS - Jun 13/07 - SNS -- Europe has opened its first facility to test the merits of storing CO2 from power generation underground. The test CO2 storage facility is located in Ketzin, Germany.	14th June 2007
Barack Obama endorses low carbon fuel standard - Reuters via Yahoo! News Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed a federal low-carbon fuel standard patterned on California's ambitious goals.	13th June 2007
Business think-tank study says federal climate plan won't meet goals - CNews OTTAWA (CP) - One week after Prime Minister Stephen Harper told G8 leaders that Canada is playing a leadership role in cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, a study by one of Canada's leading economists concludes the Conservative plan won't cut emissions at all. Economist Mark Jaccard says no policy to curb greenhouse emissions will succeed unless it places a price on carbon emissions, either through a carbon tax or a strict economy-wide cap on carbon emissions.	13th June 2007
Corn growers seen limiting cellulosic ethanol NEW YORK (Reuters) - Growth of a new ethanol made from switchgrass and fast-growing trees could be limited by competition from corn growers, ethanol experts said.	13th June 2007
Cutting greenhouse gases: wood chips in, alcohol out California researchers plan to make biofuels in a novel way that doesn`t involve food crops or microbial fermentation. [most read item]	13th June 2007
Democrat claims feds meddling in Calif. emissions waiver request - KSBY San Luis Obispo Associated Press - June 12, 2007 2:44 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressman Henry Waxman says an executive branch official lobbied at least one House member to oppose California's greenhouse gas...	13th June 2007
Dixons calls on electronics suppliers to abolish stand-by Dixons Store Group, Europe's biggest electrical chain, is to pioneer a phase-out of energy-guzzling stand-by functions on TVs and DVD players that drain electricity and waste money.	13th June 2007
First buoy to monitor ocean acidification launched The first buoy to monitor ocean acidification has been launched in the Gulf of Alaska. Attached to the 10-foot-diameter buoy are sensors to measure climate indicators.	13th June 2007
Flash floods 'biggest climate threat to UK' - Guardian Unlimited The government's chief scientist says UK must prepare for extreme weather such as heat waves and torrential rain.	13th June 2007
G8 summit voted to let planet burn - Socialist Worker Bild, Germany's equivalent of the Sun, proclaimed the country’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, “Miss World” at the end of last week’s Group of Eight summit. It’s hard to see why she is so popular.	13th June 2007
Green group slams EU carbon-trading system - AFP via Yahoo! News Businesses in the European Union will not be forced to reduce their carbon emissions by as much as previously thought because of "short-sighted" plans for the EU's carbon trading system, environmental group WWF said on Wednesday.	13th June 2007
Lesotho: More Than 400,000 Facing Food Shortages Due to Drought - UN - AllAfrica.com A new report by two United Nations agencies says that more than 400,000 people in Lesotho face food shortages due to the country's most severe drought in 30 years.	13th June 2007
Role for coal 'continues to soar' - BBC News World energy use is becoming more carbon intensive - as the popularity of coal power continues, BP says.	13th June 2007
Scientists to Canada: clean your dirty snow TORONTO (Reuters) - Even Canada's thinly populated Arctic regions can play a role in curbing global warming, by reducing soot from dirty, old cooking stoves which are blackening snow and making it melt faster.	13th June 2007
Businesses accused of green hypocrisy - Guardian Unlimited Business money: · Oil firm says one thing and does another, says charity· Blame government, not commerce - Livingstone	12th June 2007
Carbon Capture And Storage To Combat Global Warming Examined - Science Daily While solar power and hybrid cars have become popular symbols of green technology, Stanford researchers are exploring another path for cutting emissions of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas that causes global warming. Carbon capture and storage, also called carbon sequestration, traps carbon dioxide after it is produced and injects it underground. The gas never enters the atmosphere.	12th June 2007
EIA: 15% Renewable Standard May Cut CO2 By 3 Billion Tons By 2030 - Nasdaq WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A renewable energy standard requiring 15% of all electricity generated by utilities come from renewable sources could cut carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 3 billion tons by 2030 while only marginally increasing power prices, the Energy Information Administration said Monday.	12th June 2007
Ethanol to take 30 pct of U.S. corn crop in 2012: GAO WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Almost a third of the U.S. corn crop will be used in five years to produce fuel ethanol, possibly raising animal feed costs for farmers and meat prices for consumers, a new government report warned on Monday.	12th June 2007
Faked Climate Graph Used in German Schools It's frightening how easy it is to present a computer-assisted lie,  especially if you have no conscience about faking things like climate reconstruction graphs. It's also frightening that such a piece of fakery can find its way into the school system of a G8 country.This graph was created by a German high school teacher named E.G. Beck. It's based on information that is more out of date than a Tim Patterson solar forcing graph, and is manipulated to specifically misrepresent both the scale and the recent climate curve.RealClimate has the whole story. [most read item]	12th June 2007
Livingstone lends support to Tory tax on frequent flyers - Guardian Unlimited London mayor Ken Livingstone has backed a Conservative proposal to impose carbon taxes on frequent flyer holidaymakers.	12th June 2007
New Law Makes Biofuels Obligatory in Spain in 2009 - Planet Ark MADRID - The use of at least a small amount of plant-based biofuel in all transport fuels would become compulsory in Spain from 2009 under an energy law due to be approved by Congress this week.	12th June 2007
Ofgem survey show Britons happy to pay for carbon cuts - Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Even those Britons who are sceptical about the effects of climate change and efforts to fight it are happy to pay more for their energy to help cut carbon emissions, according to a study published on Monday.	12th June 2007
Right to be suspicious - Guardian Unlimited Climate change cannot be tackled if existing injustices in global politics are overlooked	12th June 2007
Trees lose to beetles - The Star Online A once-majestic pine forest in Belize is struggling to recover from a devastating plague of beetles that scientists say was caused by climate change.	12th June 2007
Who needs environmental monitoring? - innovations report We monitor the stock market, the weather, our blood pressure. Yet environmental monitoring is often criticized as being unscientific, expensive, and wasteful. Anzeige Scientists argue that environmental monitoring is a crucial part of science in the review, “Who needs environmental monitoring"” Gary Lovett (Institute of Ecosystem Studies) and colleagues from several universities and US government offices contributed to the review.	12th June 2007
World Bank to raise $250M for avoided deforestation in tropics - Mongabay.com The World Bank will soon launch an "avoided deforestation" pilot project that will pay tropical countries for preserving their forests, reports The Wall Street Journal. The $250 million fund will reward Indonesia, Brazil, Congo and other tropical forest countries for offsetting global warming emissions.	12th June 2007
Adventures in the Smart Grid #1 - Gristmill By Patrick MazzaIt's the world's largest machine -- the interconnected network of power plants, transmission towers, substations, poles, and wires that make up the power grid. When you flip the switch you expect the juice to flow and don't have much reason to think about it, except during the occasional blackout. Power engineers and energy wonks might get passionate about the grid, but for most people it's just a background fact of life. It's time to bring the grid into the foreground, because it positions at the exact center of the world's most crucial issue, global climate change.	11th June 2007
Are you eating dinner on a piece of rainforest? LONDON (Reuters) - Love your new dining room table ... but did you ask the salesman whether it's made from chopped up rainforest trees?	11th June 2007
Chinese demand drives global deforestation NGAMBE-TIKAR, Cameroon (Reuters) - From outside, Cameroon's Ngambe-Tikar forest looks like a compact, tangled mass of healthy emerald green foliage.	11th June 2007
Chinese floods leave dozens dead - BBC News Torrential rains in southern China trigger floods and landslides, killing 66 people and leaving many homeless.	11th June 2007
Climate change causes early arrival of Caretta caretta to Alanya shores - Today's Zaman Turkey’s endangered caretta carettas [turtles] were already the subject of much attention both as a tourist attraction and a part of the country’s natural wealth, now however, they are in the news for a different reason after their arrival on Turkey’s southern sandy shores a month early; yet another result of global warming, experts say.	11th June 2007
Climate change fires up dengue - Shanghai Daily Climate change fires up dengueShanghai Daily, China. "The threat of dengue is increasing because of global warming, mosquitoes are becoming more active year by year, and their geographical reach is expanding ...	11th June 2007
Driver ticketed for using biofuel - The News & Observer Vegetable oil sticks him with $1,000 fine.	11th June 2007
First zero emission home unveiled - BBC News The first home to reach the environmental standards all new homes must reach by 2016 is unveiled.	11th June 2007
Milk price soars as drought hits dairy industry - Times Online Sunday The price of milk is soaring worldwide as a drought-stricken dairy industry struggles to meet surging demand for milk products in China and the Middle East.	11th June 2007
Taskforce to cut 'cyber warming' Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from computers will be the aim of a new government taskforce.	11th June 2007
The wrath of 2007: America's great drought - Independent America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still. [most read item]	11th June 2007
To some, high gas prices have a silver lining - The Christian Science Monitor A sprinkling of experts and consumers welcome paying extra at the pump.	11th June 2007
We still haven't found what we're looking for - Guardian Unlimited Business money: Larry Elliott: With little new aid and a lot of familiar rhetoric, the G8's promises look empty.	11th June 2007
Why is peak oil politically incorrect? Ugo Bardi, ASPO-Italia. Google “Trends" tells us that, of the two major issues that we are facing nowadays, global warming beats peak oil hands down.	11th June 2007
Switching To Biofuels Could Cost Lots of Green - Washington Post As President Bush and congressional leaders rally support for their ambitious biofuel proposals, one ingredient is often left unstated: the cost. Bush and members of Congress stress energy independence and environmental benefits of federal requirements for a massive increase in the use of biofuels in motor vehicles. But so far they have muted discussion of the prosaic details of how to pay for the subsidies and other incentives seen as crucial for meeting the new biofuels targets. If the current tax credits, grants and loan guarantees are extended, the package would cost taxpayers $140 billion more over the next 15 years. New proposals under consideration in Congress could raise that tab to $205 billion.	10th June 2007
Too broke to save the world - The Times of India When a debate is lost in a maze of statistics, it’s quite difficult to retrieve it. The bickering over climate change is trapped exactly in that stage now: How much rise in global temperatures is acceptable — two degrees or three degrees? How much money is needed to switch over to cleaner technologies — $100 billion or $1 trillion? How many Africans are going to starve to death if the heat goes on like this — 10 million or one billion? How many meetings and summits are needed before world leaders decide to do something? "Unfortunately, for governments, people are statistics".	10th June 2007
Top scientist says biofuels are scam - Times Online THE government's policy of promoting biofuels for transport will come under harsh attack this week from one of its senior science advisers. Roland Clift will tell a seminar of the Royal Academy of Engineering that the plan to promote bioethanol and biodiesel produced from plants is a "scam". Clift, professor of environmental technology at Surrey University, sits on the scientific advisory council of Defra, David Miliband's environment department. He will tell the seminar that promoting the use of biofuels is likely to increase greenhouse gas emissions. [most read item]	10th June 2007
£20bn needed to save London from floods - Guardian Unlimited The cost of protecting London and the south-east from flooding will be at least £4bn as sea levels rise and the south-east coast sinks over the next century, a report for the Environment Agency has warned.	10th June 2007
As N.E. warms, tiny pests take root - Boston Globe The woolly adelgid is turning Hemlock Hill in Boston's Arnold Arboretum into a hemlock graveyard. See also: Gypsy Moths Leaving Mark in Mid-Atlantic	10th June 2007
Spanish Beaches Invaded by Jellyfish - PhysOrg.com (AP) --What do tourists and jellyfish have in common? They both love warm water and proliferate along Spanish beaches in the summer. Scientists blame the problem in part on overfishing, which has sapped stocks of natural jellyfish predators like tuna and turtles, and of small fish that compete with jellyfish to feed on plankton. Another factor is global warming: jellyfish are drifting close to beaches more frequently as decreasing rainfall causes a drop in cooler, freshwater runoff from rivers - a natural barrier for the creatures, said Josep-Maria Gili, a marine biologist.	10th June 2007
Warming clouds national parks - Chicago Tribune Global warming is altering the identity of national parks in the West, especially the Pacific Northwest, where the iconic string of glacier-capped mountains inexorably shrinks from the horizon, park officials warn. The melting ice caps in Washington state, home to more glaciers than anywhere else in the lower 48, are providing one of the most visual accountings of global warming outside Alaska and the Arctic region, enhanced by federal officials' digital archiving last year of photos of park glaciers taken 50 years ago.	10th June 2007
At least six dead in Australia storms - PhysOrg.com Six people were confirmed dead and another two were missing on Saturday as wild storms continued to lash Australia's east coast, smashing boats, flooding roads and cutting power to 200,000 homes.	10th June 2007
Cyber warming: PCs produce same CO2 emissions as airlines - The Independent Ministers will this week embark on a campaign to curb "cyber-warming" from computers and information technology equipment that now does as much damage to the climate as aircraft emissions.	10th June 2007
EPA chief puts off emissions issue until 2008 - Contra Costa Times Administrator refuses to say if state will be able to enforce own greenhouse gas emissions standards.	10th June 2007
Is carbon offsetting the solution? - Or part of the problem? - The Observer We burn fossil fuel in the developed world - and plant much-needed trees in Africa to 'off set' our emissions. It sounds like a win-win situation. But is it?	10th June 2007
'Plus five' say they will do fair share on emissions - Financial Times Big developing countries who met the G8 yesterday are "prepared to accept commitments" on emissions, according to Angela Merkel, German chancellor and host of the G8 summit, but they remain opposed to targets for cuts such as those imposed on developedcountries under the Kyoto protocol.	10th June 2007
So is the world a better place after the G8 summit? The answer might surprise you - Independent When George Bush first met Angela Merkel, shortly after she became the Chancellor of Germany 18 months ago, he thought he had finally found a friend from "Old Europe".	10th June 2007
Switch it off! - The Observer Next week, London will follow Sydney, Paris and Hong Kong as homes and businesses turn off their lights for an hour to raise awareness of global warming.	10th June 2007
Big Three still foolish, fuelish: Gas-guzzlers could kill industry - Boston Herald U.S. automakers, on a collision course with catastrophe, are involved in behind-the-scenes machinations in Washington that could well sound the death knell for the industry. Just as they fought nearly every safety feature, including air bags, for decades, now they are pulling out all the stops in fighting proposed congressional mandates for increased gas mileage.	9th June 2007
Canadian Arctic temperatures rising at double global rate: UN - Hamilton Spectator Canadian Arctic temperatures rising at double global rate: UNHamilton Spectator, Canada. ... climate change is expected to cause a thaw across the subarctic by century's end. Such a melt would further compound global warming because permafrost, ...	9th June 2007
Climate change: 'No one is immune, no one is safe' - rediff.com In the final segment of rediff.com's interview with Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, the chairman of the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tells Nikhil Lakshman that he is optimistic that humankind will confront and overcome the dangers of global warming.	9th June 2007
EPA Delays Decision on Allowing California to Enforce Its Own Emissions Standards - RedNova WASHINGTON _ In a sharp exchange with House Democrats, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency Friday said he would not decide whether to issue regulations controlling greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles until late next year.	9th June 2007
G8 and climate change: a concession or a convenience? - Guardian Unlimited The G8 is not collectively committed to a single target. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor has failed in securing a statement that global warming needs to be kept below 2C. See also: Geldof hits out at G8 'farce' - Guardian Unlimited The G8 summit succeeded - but only in avoiding outright failure - Independent	9th June 2007
Global warming threatens Antarctic base - Houston Chronicle The Antarctic base occupied by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole on foot early last century has been included on a list of the world's 100 most endangered sites. The hut was built in 1911 at Cape Evans by Captain Scott's British Antarctic expedition. The hut is wooden but for decades was permanently frozen. With the ice melting, the timbers have become waterlogged and are rotting.	9th June 2007
Is "scary" a technical term? - ScienceBlogs This is, after all, the quintessential question bedeviling climatologists and climate change activists the world over. Along with much gnashing of teeth over the wisdom of the necessarily conservative approach of the IPCC, the bottom line seems to be that the climate science community is genuinely worried -- first about our headlong rush toward dangerous climate change, and second about how to get that message across. See also: Should the IPCC be more extreme?	9th June 2007
Ken on the offensive - Guardian Unlimited Labour's deputy leadership contenders are 'spineless' and spout 'vacuous waffle', while the US ambassador is a 'venal crook'. In short, the London mayor is in fine form.	9th June 2007
Melting glaciers of Tajikistan - Neweurasia.net Melting glaciers of TajikistanNeweurasia.net, Europe. Problem with global climate change has some other effects, like recede of glaciers. Channel 4 reports that because of the global warming the glaciers of ...	9th June 2007
Natural gas from dams - Gristmill Brazil's second largest dam has many times the GHG emissions of a natural gas plant of the same capacity -- though there is fierce argument over whether that output substantially exceeds what a natural watercourse would produce. (The emissions are due to methane from trapped organic matter in the dam.) There is now a proposal to tap that methane to run gas turbines and produce electricity, reducing the emissions many times, since CO2 from burning the methane has a much lower impact than the methane itself. It would also close to double the electrical output from the dam.	9th June 2007
Salty oceans provide early warning for climate change - PhysOrg.Com Monitoring the saltiness of the ocean water could provide an early indicator of climate change. Significant increases or decreases in salt in key areas could forewarn of climate change in 10 to 20 years time. Presenting their findings at a recent European Science Foundation (ESF) conference, scientists predicted that the waters of the southern hemisphere oceans around South Africa and New Zealand are the places to watch.	9th June 2007
Tees barrage to test tidal energy - BBC News The River Tees is being used to try out technology which could boost the development of tidal energy.	9th June 2007
A drought for the ages - USA Today Drought, a fixture in much of the West for nearly a decade, now covers more than one-third of the continental USA. And it's spreading. As summer starts, half the nation is either abnormally dry or in outright drought from prolonged lack of rain that could lead to water shortages, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a weekly index of conditions. See also: Alabama drought: 'Bad as I've seen' in 31 years of farming - USA Today Arizona drought: Trees, animals stressed - USA Today	8th June 2007
A New War on the Planet? - The Indypendent It is characteristic of the magic-bullet solutions that now pervade the media that they promise to defend our current way of life while remaining virtually cost free. Despite the fact that economists have long insisted that there is no such thing as a free lunch, we are now being told on every side - even by Gore - that where global warming is concerned there is a free lunch after all. We can have our cars, our industrial waste, our endlessly expanding commodity economy and climate stability too. Even the IPCC, in its policy proposals, tells us that climate change can be stopped on the cheap - if only the magic of technology and markets is applied. The goal is clearly to save the planet - but only if capitalism can be fully preserved at the same time. [most read item]	8th June 2007
At what cost to Africa? - Guardian Unlimited It's being spun as a victory by the G8, but today's discussions on climate change could affect Africa more than any other region.	8th June 2007
Biofuel boondoggle: US subsidy aids Europe's drivers - The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News Called "splash and dash," "touch and go," or an unfair trade practice, it features biofuels traders who exploit a US tax credit, European drivers who get cheaper diesel fuel, and American taxpayers, who are footing the bill. It also illustrates a cautionary tale of how government incentives, no matter how well-intentioned, can sometimes be subverted into windfalls for the few.	8th June 2007
California clean air standards a danger to Canadian oil industry - Canoe.ca Clean-air agreements signed by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and two Canadian provinces could dramatically slow oil production in the Alberta tar sands. Ontario and British Columbia have agreed to adhere to California's low-carbon fuel standards, which means the provinces will have to curb oil production sources that create high amounts of global-warming emissions.	8th June 2007
Cockburn"s form - RealClimate Alexander Cockburn (writing in the Nation) has become the latest contrarian-de-jour, sallying forth with some rather novel arithmetic to show that human-caused global warming is nothing to be concerned about. This would be unworthy of comment in most cases, but Cockburn stands out as one of only a few left-wing contrarians, as opposed to the more usual right-wing variety. Casual readers may have thought this is a relatively recent obsession of his (3 articles and responses over the last month), however, Cockburn has significant form* and has a fairly long history of ill-informed commentary on the subject of global warming.	8th June 2007
Congestion charge 'world's best' - BBC News The governor of New York describes London's congestion charge as the best in the world.	8th June 2007
Economic growth and climate change - GristMill The G8 wants to "decouple economic growth from energy use." Is that possible? That's the central question of out times, I guess. Walden Belloon thinks not: The only effective response to climate change is to radically reduce economic growth rates and consumption levels, particularly in the North, and in the very near future. The climate change section of the G8 declaration is a long and all-too-transparent exercise to get around this reality.	8th June 2007
Editorial: Carbon divide - Sacramento Bee Anyone who thinks that climate change is purely a partisan issue isn't paying attention. Increasingly, the national debate on global warming is breaking down between carbon states -- those that produce coal, oil and automobiles -- and those that see a future beyond fossil fuels. Republicans and Democrats are all over the map. This carbon-state split flared up in Washington this week when Rep. Rick Boucher, a Democrat from the coal state of Virginia, unveiled draft energy legislation that would prevent California and other states from enacting their own greenhouse gas laws.	8th June 2007
Environmentalist Dreams of New York Rooftop Farms - Planet Ark NEW YORK - New York is better known for tall buildings and crowded streets than farms but a group of environmentalists say Gotham's rooftops could be used to grow enough vegetables to feed the entire city and reduce dependence on far-away farms.	8th June 2007
G8 climate deal 'doesn't go far enough' - Scotsman TONY Blair last night hailed a compromise deal between the world's richest countries to slash greenhouse gases as "a major, major step forward" - but environmentalists said it was barely worth the paper it was written on, as there were no firm targets.	8th June 2007
Global warming melts Andean glaciers toward oblivion - Reuters 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. Small glaciers are scattered across the Andes and have for long been a crucial source of fresh water in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, thawing in summer months and replenishing themselves in winter. But global warming has driven them into retreat.	8th June 2007
Hello, Kitties - GristMill Things that global warming is responsible for: Melting glaciers, skinny polar bears, disappearing coastlines, and rampant kitty sex. That's right. We're seeing an increase in hot pussy action as global warming gets America's cats all hot and bothered. Climate change is expanding the kitty mating season and creating -- you guessed it -- more baby kitties. According to the group Pets Across America, there was a 30 percent increase [PDF] in the number of cats and kittens coming into some of their shelters from 2005 to 2006, while the organization saw a 7 percent increase overall.	8th June 2007
Insurance industry warns of climate disaster - Montreal Gazette International business executives who are urging the world's top heads of state to dramatically reduce the pollution that causes global warming are not going far enough, Canada's insurance industry charges. The chief executive officers of 23 large financial services companies, including the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, warned this week in a letter to G8 leaders that climate change could cost the global economy up to $1 trillion per year by 2040 if major polluters do nothing to slash greenhouse gas emissions. The letter urged leaders from the largest economies, gathered in Germany for a G8 summit, to beef up their climate-change policies and match aggressive targets set by the European Union.	8th June 2007
Is tackling climate change economically viable? - Down to Earth Conventional thinking has it that combating climate change will be a drain on the global economy. But Barclays Capital, a leading investment bank in the us, has recently said that combating climate change could actually boost the world economy and climate change mitigation activities are likely to dominate financial markets. The us has always held that global warming will have devastating impact on economic growth. Barclays arrived at its conclusion after studying the relationship between global energy market and climate change policy. According to its report, the global energy demand is projected to rise by over 50 per cent by 2030 and most of it will depend on coal. At present, about 60 per cent of total global primary energy needs are supplied by coal and oil. The report claims that without a change in policy regime, humankind's dependence on fossil fuels will continue until then. "This problem lies at the core of the climate change debate," says Tim Bond, global head of the asset allocation at Barclays Capital and author of the report. "Consequently, co2 emissions will soar," he adds. Bond's solution: reduce dependence on hydrocarbons to bring about an energy revolution. "Those who couch the climate change debate in terms of cost to growth are underestimating the impact of an energy revolution," he says. His assumption is based on the fact that all historical changes in energy supply-from dung to wood to coal to oil-have been stimulative for the economies concerned.	8th June 2007
Kneecapping California - Washington Post THERE IS a bald attempt in Congress to short-circuit California's effort to regulate tailpipe emissions -- with Democrats leading the charge. A bill from the chairman of the House energy and air quality subcommittee, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va. -- or is that D-Big Coal?), would halt recent moves by states to limit the emission of greenhouse gases that cause climate change. He insists, "This is not an attack on California." Color us unconvinced.	8th June 2007
Leader: G8 climate change - Guardian Unlimited The devil, however, is in the absence of detail. Despite Ms Merkel's best efforts, there was no agreement on even an indicative target for reduction: the US is committed only to "consider" a 50% reduction by 2050, a figure which is too small given the latest science and the need for the heaviest polluters to lead the way. Worse still, there is silence on what it is that might be cut by half. The baseline year for Kyoto is 1990; emissions have, however, risen sharply since, which is why Mr Bush sees advantage in a later date that would make any given percentage reduction compatible with more pollution. Such sleight of hand is worse than futile - it hardly needs saying that global temperatures will respond to actual emissions, not headline figures. And then there was the loaded "invitation" to India and China to do their bit, intended as a signal that the US retains the right to walk away unless these much poorer countries are prepared to share the pain. These are not quibbles but serious sticking points - any one of which could delay or even derail the progress that is so urgently required. That is why yesterday's deal is not even the beginning of the end of the quest for a global framework to tackle climate change. But world leaders did at last agree a direction of travel, which is why the deal just might prove to be the end of the beginning..	8th June 2007
Most Chinese, Indians Back Carbon Cuts - Survey - Planet Ark LONDON - Most Chinese and Indian people agree developed countries have the right to demand that emerging countries cut their carbon emissions, according to a survey by market research firm Global Market Insite.	8th June 2007
Paying for environmental damage - BBC News Firms are under pressure to pay for emitting greenhouse gases. Different models have been suggested to tackle the problem. Why the High Court in London heard a judicial review on behalf of four people who lost all or part of their pensions when their pension schemes went bust.	8th June 2007
Reuters Summit-US CEOs want leadership on carbon from Washington - AlertNet Some U.S. energy executives say Washington is merely paying lip service to growing public pressure to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Instead of railing against regulations that would ultimately add to energy costs, power and gas company executives attending the Reuters Energy Summit in New York this week called for uniform national policies, rather than a state-by-state patchwork of measures.	8th June 2007
'Spotter fleet' joins war on Spanish jellyfish With jellyfish expected to invade Spain's seas for a second year running, Spanish authorities have asked boat owners to help spot the creatures before they come too close to shore.	8th June 2007
The Big Three are on a road to nowhere - Scripps News U.S. automakers, on a collision course with catastrophe, are involved in behind-the-scenes machinations in Washington that could well sound the death knell for the industry. Just as they fought nearly every safety feature, including air bags, for decades, now they are pulling out all the stops in fighting proposed congressional mandates for increased gas mileage. The Big Three (or what remains of them) are whispering in the ears of congressional leaders that a national goal of getting an average of 35 miles per gallon anytime soon is ludicrous. They say Americans wouldn't buy cars designed to get that kind of mileage because they wouldn't like such vehicles. They say even if they wanted to do it, the technology isn't there. They say proposals to improve gas mileage by that much would drive them out of business. The fact that other manufacturers produce vehicles that are far more fuel-efficient than cars made by Detroit is kicked aside. The fact that China has already set a fuel-efficiency standard that the Bush administration suggests be discussed in the United States for 10 years from now is overlooked. The auto industry's desperate efforts to stave off new mandates from Congress for better fuel mileage came at the same time the United States was successfully negotiating a global deal to block obligatory measures to try to save the planet.	8th June 2007
The Great American Disaster - Metro Pulse It's no secret that the consumption and hyper-individualism that characterizes 21st-century American life isn't buying us happiness. And it doesn't take a former vice-president to know that it's rapidly running earth's natural resources into the ground.	8th June 2007
World reaction: G8 climate deal - BBC News Reaction from world leaders and NGOs to a deal between G8 leaders on a framework for climate change talks.	8th June 2007
G8 leaders 'agree climate deal' - BBC Leaders of the G8 nations have agreed to a compromise deal on tackling climate change, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. "We agreed... that CO2 emissions must first be stopped and then followed by substantial reductions," she said. Reports said the leaders agreed to hold talks on a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol within a UN framework. Mrs Merkel had been pushing for a 50% cut in emissions by 2050. The US had resisted calls for targets to be fixed. She said G8 leaders had agreed to consider her target, but there was no suggestion that a final agreement would include any mandatory commitment to major emissions cuts. See also: Merkel accepts defeat in bid to win US emissions pledge - Financial Times	7th June 2007
Resource Wars - Can We Survive Them? - The People's Voice Is global warming a threat to the planet? Sum it up everywhere, underscored by these most recent findings, and it spells apocalypse made worse with many governments having to rule by decree to control chaos and disorder. It means democracy, civil liberties, human rights and most essential amenities are out the window in tomorrow's world sounding more like Dante's hell on earth because today we didn't care enough to prevent it. Moreover, it's wishful thinking imagining new technologies will emerge solving everything. Nor will market-based economies where profits trump common sense. How could they ever improve in the future what they've only worsened up to now. [most read item]	7th June 2007
Quebec imposes carbon tax on energy producers to help cut greenhouse gases - CNews QUEBEC (CP) - Quebec energy companies will have to pay their share to help cut greenhouse gases as the provincial government announced Wednesday that it will introduce a carbon tax in October.	7th June 2007
Antarctic glaciers 'flow faster' - BBC Satellite data confirms glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula have picked up speed in recent years.	7th June 2007
Arctic browning thanks to global warming: UN - CTV.ca Temperatures in the Canadian Arctic have been rising at almost double the global rate, mainly because of greenhouse-gas emissions, says a United Nations panel. See also: Dirty snow may warm Arctic as much as greenhouse gases - PhysOrg	7th June 2007
Scientists change weather measures, world warms - Reuters EXETER (Reuters) - Global warming is forcing weather scientists at Britain's Met Office to change the way they compare seasonal temperatures, they said on Wednesday.	7th June 2007
Drought continues to affect south-eastern USA - BBC News Although Tropical Storm Barry dropped more than 5 inches of rain across parts of South Carolina, it was not enough to stop state water officials from upgrading the official drought status across the US state. See also: US Southwest could be heading for a megadrought	7th June 2007
Hong Kong summers hotter than 40 years ago - Reuters HONG KONG (Reuters) - Average summer temperatures in Hong Kong have risen over the past 40 years, researchers have found, blaming global warming and heat trapped by buildings.	7th June 2007
'Twice as many' species at risk - BBC The number of endangered species in Britain has almost doubled in 13 years, according to a major new study. There are now 1,149 species of plants, mammals, birds and insects, and 67 different types of habitat under threat from climate change and human activity. See also: Up to 900 species of land bird at risk by 2050	7th June 2007
Biofuels 'will push up oil price' - BBC News The Opec oil cartel chief reportedly warns that biofuel investment could push oil prices "through the roof". See also:OPEC threatens cut in investment because of biofuels - GristMill	7th June 2007
Coral reveals increased hurricanes may be the norm - New Scientist Growth rings in Caribbean corals show that the current increase in Atlantic hurricane activity is just a return to previous levels, researchers say	7th June 2007
Don't sugarcoat climate change - Los Angeles Times Calling out Bush's intransigence on emissions caps may be the best way for other G-8 countries to get the U.S. to budge on global warming.	7th June 2007
Global warming is speeding up ocean waves - New Scientist Gigantic waves, spanning hundreds of kilometres from crest to crest, are moving faster, suggests a new model	7th June 2007
Lax CO2 targets a boon for Canada oil patch: study - Reuters via Yahoo! News Canadian oil sands producers may end up making a profit by meeting the federal government's greenhouse gas emission targets as new regulations mandate lower cuts in carbon dioxide output than the industry has already pledged, a study says.	7th June 2007
MediaMatters launches Climate of Smear - DeSmogBlog Check out the newly launched "Climate of Smear: Global Warming Misinformation" section on Media Matters website. For the latest outrageous claims made by skeptic favourites such as Fox News pseudo-journalists and Glenn Beck, mediamatters.org is an excellent resource exposing content so blatantly manipulated that it would be funny if it wasn't so scary. Media Matters is a not for profit watchdog dedicated to "monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media". Distorted truths, misconstrued facts and subversive reporting perpetuated by media outlets who serve the conservative, right-wing agenda are exposed to journalists, activists and the general public by mediamatters.com's team of analysts and advisors.	7th June 2007
NASA Head Regrets Global Warming Remarks - PhysOrg.com (AP) -- The head of NASA told scientists and engineers that he regrets airing his personal views about global warming during a recent radio interview, according to a video of the meeting obtained by The Associated Press.	7th June 2007
Still waiting for conservation after all these years - David Suzuki Climate change and the Kyoto Protocol are all over the news these days. But the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro that launched the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and ultimately, the Kyoto Protocol, also gave rise to another critical international environmental treaty - the Convention on Biological Diversity. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global warming will be one of the key drivers of biodiversity loss this century. So the two iissues are intricately connected. What we need is a parallel track to conserve biodiversity running alongside our actions to reduce global warming. What we're missing right now is the political will to get us there.	7th June 2007
US loath to give up gas guzzlers A computer model suggests that it could take 20 years to convert half the US fleet to hybrid or hydrogen vehicles	7th June 2007
Energy bill would clip fight on emissions - Contra Costa Times WASHINGTON -- A dozen states, including California, would be blocked from imposing new requirements on automakers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under a draft energy bill being prepared for a vote later this month.	6th June 2007
EU Considers Auctioning 100 Pct of CO2 Permits - Planet Ark BRUSSELS - The European Commission is considering putting an obligation on industry to buy 100 percent of the permits giving them the right to emit carbon dioxide (CO2), a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.	6th June 2007
Blair and Bush: the final reckoning - Independent Tony Blair will make a final appeal to George Bush to repay his loyal support over Iraq by signing up to a firm global target to cut carbon emissions at the G8 summit in Germany starting today.	6th June 2007
May to Harper: 'Steal my ideas' on climate change - CNews OTTAWA (CP) - The Green Party is pleading with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to introduce carbon taxes that would add at least 12 cents to the cost of a litre of gasoline. Further reading: Averting Climate Catastrophe - Green Party of Canada Press Release	6th June 2007
'Chump Factor' Holding Us Back - TheTyee.ca People ready to sacrifice if they don't feel alone.	6th June 2007
Antarctic glaciers flowing faster due to rising sea levels - Forbes Hundreds of glaciers in the Antarctic peninsula are flowing faster, adding to a rise in sea levels, British experts said today, blaming global warming. In a study coincidentally released on the eve of the Group of Eight (G8) summit, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) reported a 12-pct increase in the speed of over 300 glaciers monitored by satellite between 1993 and 2003. [most read item]	6th June 2007
Warmest spring on record, says the Met Office - Guardian Unlimited UK has just experienced the warmest spring on record, with temperatures 0.2C higher than the previous record in 1945. See also: World warmer than average in year to May	6th June 2007
Drought Uncovers Artifacts in Fla. Lake (AP) -- A drought that has bared parts of the bed of Florida's largest lake has exposed human bone fragments, pottery and even boats - and archaeologists are trying to evaluate the artifacts before water levels rise again.	6th June 2007
Thunder? It's the sound of Greenland melting - Reuters AlertNet Atop Greenland's Suicide Cliff, from where old Inuit women used to hurl themselves when they felt they had become a burden to their community, a crack and a thud like thunder pierce the air. "We don't have thunder here. But I know it from movies," says Ilulissat nurse Vilhelmina Nathanielsen, who hiked with us through the melting snow. "It's the ice cracking inside the icebergs. If we're lucky we might see one break apart." It's too early in the year to see icebergs crumple regularly but the sound is a reminder. As politicians squabble over how to act on climate change, Greenland's ice cap is melting, and faster than scientists had thought possible.	6th June 2007
God berates George Bush in dramatic UK newspaper advert mystery - Ekklesia In a move which may surprise media commentators and distinguished theologians alike, God - known primarily for moving in mysterious ways - has bought a full page advertisement in The Independent newspaper to persuade erstwhile admirer President George W. Bush to take climate change more seriously.	6th June 2007
Brazil eyes ethanol as fast track to power - The Christian Science Monitor Brazil aims to double its production of ethanol in 10 years as the high price of oil and growing concerns over climate change spark a demand for biofuels.	6th June 2007
Britain pulls plug on Al's big climate change show - The Times IT WAS intended to be the symbolic gesture at a global series of rock concerts next month to alert people to climate change. Al Gore, the former US presidential candidate turned climate doomsayer, had wanted a massive switch-off of lights by television audiences, but the National Grid has vetoed the idea.	6th June 2007
Climate Change to Hit Bangladesh Food Output - Experts - Planet Ark DHAKA - Rising temperatures will hurt food production in Bangladesh, and millions of people could be displaced as the seas around the low-lying nation rise, environment experts said on Tuesday.	6th June 2007
EU, Japan agree to join forces in combating climate change - Eu Business (BERLIN ) - The European Union and Japan agreed on Tuesday to take the lead in forging a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, jointly proposing to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. ...but then again, Japan Struggles To Meet Kyoto Goals - Guardian Unlimited	6th June 2007
OPEC: Climate policies can't hurt us - Reuters AlertNet Climate change measures will not hurt big oil exporting countries, which instead will cash in on rising energy demand, said Abdullah al-Badri, secretary-general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.	6th June 2007
Study finds Ontario farmers succeed in reducing greenhouse gas emissions - CNews GUELPH, Ont. (CP) - A new study shows that through eco-friendly agriculture measures, Ontario farmers have significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions.	6th June 2007
Catastrophic warming: Is it too late? - GristMill This Daily Kos summary of a new study by Hansen et al is too well done to pass over. And do note that Hansen is trying to accentuate the positive. The original paper, by the way, is called "Dangerous human-made interference with climate: a GISS modelE study" (PDF). And it's not locked down. [most read item]	5th June 2007
Welcome to your future - Sydney Morning Herald As climate change begins to bite, the next 20 years will be crucial for the future of our planet. To mark World Environment Day, James Woodford asked 10 experts to predict what Australia's environment will be like in 2027.	5th June 2007
Carbon trade scheme 'is failing' - BBC News The EU's carbon trading plan has raised electricity prices and failed to cut greenhouse gases, the BBC is told.	5th June 2007
India set to stall efforts to curb its emissions - Financial Times India is expected this week to stall developed countries' attempts to include it in a commitment to curb greenhouse gas emissions, citing its low per-capita emissions and need for near double-digit growth to lift hundreds of millions out of poverty.	5th June 2007
Public concern over climate change jumps-survey - Reuters Public concern over climate change jumps-surveyReuters. Those least concerned often come from countries which have the fastest growing emissions of carbon dioxide, the gas widely blamed for global warming. ...	5th June 2007
Bali tourism struggling as reef declines - Adelaide Now AS it struggles to recover from the effects of two terrorist bombings, Bali's tourism industry is facing a new threat - global warming.	5th June 2007
Global Warming Threatens New Zealand "Dinosaurs" - Planet Ark WELLINGTON - It has survived ice ages, volcanic eruptions and the intrusion of humans on its South Pacific island home, but New Zealand's last survivor of the dinosaur age may become extinct due to global warming.	5th June 2007
Norwegians Strain to Remove Pesky Arctic "Palm" - Planet Ark TROMSOE, Norway - Stimulated by warming temperatures, a poisonous plant commonly called the "Tromsoe palm", has invaded Norway and threatens to damage its pristine Arctic ecosystem, its nature agency chief said on Monday.	5th June 2007
Old Adaminaby resurfaces in Australian drought - Reuters via Yahoo! News Drowned 50 years ago for progress and the promise of near limitless water, the town of Old Adaminaby has re-emerged from its sunken grave as drought ravages one of Australia's biggest lakes.	5th June 2007
Return of heron after 141 years - BBC A species of heron which has not been seen in Greater London since 1866 is spotted once again.	5th June 2007
2006: Second most extreme weather ever - Grist Magazine Global warming has long been predicted to make the weather more extreme. Wouldn't it be great if there were an official government index of extreme weather -- of heat, drought, rainfall, and hurricanes -- that would let us know if the prediction had come true? Well, such an index exists: the National Climatic Data Center's Climate Extremes Index. As the figure shows, the most extreme year by far was 1998; 2006 was the second most extreme, followed closely by 2005. The fourteen least extreme years all predate 1981. The weather is becoming more extreme, as predicted...	5th June 2007
Vanishing Himalayan glaciers threaten a billion - Reuters AlertNet Himalayan glaciers could disappear within 50 years because of climate change, having far-reaching implications for more than a billion people living in the region, experts said on Monday.	5th June 2007
Global warming brings vampire moths to Finland - Reuters HELSINKI (Reuters) - Global warming is bringing more warmer-climate creatures to Finland, including moths that feast on human blood, according to nature researchers.	5th June 2007
Bush Struggles to Regain Leadership at Summit - Inter Press Service An ever-deteriorating situation in Iraq, a hostile Democratic Congress and a changing of the guard in some key allies may all combine to bring about a more cooperative, and perhaps more subdued, President George W. Bush at the summit of the Group of Eight most industrialised nations.	5th June 2007
Energy bosses urge carbon markets - BBC News Leaders from the energy industry call for a global carbon market to help tackle climate change.	5th June 2007
Harper touts 'intensity-based' approach to climate change as world model - CNews BERLIN (CP) - Canada will not meet its Kyoto accord targets but can still be a model for the rest of the world in battling climate change, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told an international audience on Monday. [good grief...]	5th June 2007
Hundreds of bird species at risk - Guardian Unlimited · Up to 900 threatened by 2050, says global analysis· Habitat loss dwarfs effects of climate change	5th June 2007
Leading article: No sense in revisiting the politics of the past - The Independent One way or another, the best-laid plans for Group of Eight summits have a habit of going awry. And this year is no exception. While climate change, Africa and combating terrorism are on the agenda, the context is that of doom-laden headlines sounding the alarm about a new Cold War. This is because Vladimir Putin, who was on best behaviour as the host of last year's meeting in St Petersburg, has ratcheted up the rhetoric over US plans to station parts of its anti-missile defence system in central Europe.	5th June 2007
Miliband goes to US to deliver ultimatum on climate change Tensions over global warming between Downing Street and the White House will increase today with a warning by a senior British minister that the US should sign up to UN targets for reducing climate change.	5th June 2007
Nine in court over power protest - BBC News Nine people appear in court in connection with a protest at a Nottinghamshire power station.	5th June 2007
Ofgem touts star-ratings for green utilities - Guardian Unlimited A new star-rating system should be applied to "green" energy tariffs to help customers assess their green credentials, Ofgem said today. The energy regulator wants the ratings to apply to electricity deals being marketed as eco-friendly.	5th June 2007
Quick guide: Carbon footprints - BBC News What are carbon footprints and can they be reduced?	5th June 2007
U.S. Cuts Back Climate Checks From Space (AP) -- The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world the U.S. is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases.	5th June 2007
Bush's Trade Barriers to Climate Success - TruthOut Yesterday President Bush declared that he has a proposal for dealing with the climate crisis. Rockridge Institute fellow Joe Brewer responds to his speech by analyzing the narrative underlying Bush's international development agenda. What does he find? The answer, of course, is more of the same...	4th June 2007
CO2 'rising three times faster than expected' - Daily Telegraph Global emissions of carbon dioxide are increasing three times faster than scientists previously thought, with the bulk of the rise coming from developing countries, an authoritative study has found. "IPCC reports this year predicting reduced harvests, dwindling water supplies, melting glaciers and the loss of species may actually be understated." [most read item]	4th June 2007
UN warning over global ice loss - BBC News Hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by the world's declining ice and snow cover, the UN warns.	4th June 2007
Australia PM pledges climate plan - BBC Australian Prime Minister John Howard announces a new policy on climate change, pledging pollution limits.	4th June 2007
Carbon map of Britain's most toxic cities - Times Online The first carbon emissions map of Britain is released today to show which parts of the country are responsible for pumping out the most pollution.	4th June 2007
China unveils climate change plan - BBC China sets out its strategy for tackling climate change, but stresses it will not sacrifice economic growth. The 62-page report reiterated China's aim to reduce energy use by a fifth before 2010 and increase the amount of renewable energy it produces. But it also repeated Beijing's view that responsibility for climate change rests with rich westernised countries.	4th June 2007
Emissions plan hurts households, but not big polluters - Sydney Morning Herald ELECTRICITY and fuel bills will rise and the only way to avoid the sting will be to use less, under the national emissions trading system to be adopted by the Howard Government. But the biggest emitters will be compensated for their initial losses as they adapt to a scheme designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions over the long term without causing undue damage to industry or the economy.	4th June 2007
FACTBOX-Key facts on China and climate change - Reuters AlertNet China released its first national plan on climate change on Monday, setting out broad goals for tackling the effects of global warming ...	4th June 2007
Global warming report calls for immediate action - Times Online Hundreds of millions of people could suffer from hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world gets warmer, according to a major report published today on the likely economic impacts of climate change.	4th June 2007
Hurricanes more powerful than words - Guardian Unlimited Katrina blew open US minds on climate change and Bush can no longer ignore it.	4th June 2007
Indonesia world's No.3 greenhouse gas emitter-report - Reuters AlertNet Indonesia is among the world's top three greenhouse gas emitters because of deforestation, peatland degradation and forest fires, a World Bank and British government climate change report released on Monday showed. See also: Indonesia's forests threatened by logging, palm oil	4th June 2007
London March Urges G8 Action on Debt, Climate - Planet Ark LONDON - Hundreds of people clad mainly in white lined the banks of the River Thames in central London on Saturday to urge Group of Eight nations to honour their promises.	4th June 2007
More on climate change and national security - Gristmill More and more experts are saying global warming is as grave a threat to our national security (PDF) as terrorism and nuclear proliferation. Some in the media are coming to the same view. The Financial Times set up their coverage with the following scenario, pulled from a Pentagon memo: Picture Japan, suffering from flooding along its coastal cities and contamination of its fresh water supply, eyeing Russia's Sakhalin Island oil and gas reserves as an energy source ... Envision Pakistan, India and China - all armed with nuclear weapons - skirmishing at their borders over refugees, access to shared river and arable land.	4th June 2007
US House Leader Wants to Pass CO2 Bill This Year - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, said on Friday she wanted Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions this year.	4th June 2007
Another hot summer on the way: Environment Canada - CTV.ca Another hot summer on the way: Environment CanadaCTV.ca, Canada. Phillips said he is cautious about linking weather trends to climate change and global warming, but the trend over the past four decades seems to indicate a ...	3rd June 2007
Britain tells Bush to toe line on emissions - Guardian Unlimited Britain and Germany yesterday joined forces to warn President George Bush that talks on climate change must take place within a United Nations framework and not in an ad hoc process floated last week by Bush.	3rd June 2007
China experiences warmer spring - People's Daily Online China experiences warmer springPeople's Daily Online, China. ... global warming on the ecological system, natural resources and people's lives, China has announced a national action plan to respond to climate change.	3rd June 2007
Self-interest will do more to cut carbon emissions than all the low-energy light bulbs in the world - Independent Only when rising prices and supply fears force the top 10 polluters to conserve fuel will progress really be made.	3rd June 2007
Food price inflation is hard to stomach - Scotland on Sunday Food price inflation is hard to stomachScotland on Sunday, UK. Because global inflation is being exacerbated by efforts to combat climate change and global warming. Central banks are now fighting to hold back inflation ... [most read item]	3rd June 2007
How Do States Compare On Global Warming? - CBS News America is the world's leading generator of greenhouse gases, but an analysis of state-by-state carbon dioxide emissions shows that not all U.S. states are equal contributors to global warming. How does your state compare?	3rd June 2007
Most Americans Regard Global Warming as Fact - Angus Reid (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Many adults in the United States believe climate change is a reality, according to a poll by Opinion Research Corporation released by CNN. 54 per cent of respondents think global warming is a proven fact and is mostly caused by emissions from cars and industrial facilities such as power plants and factories.	3rd June 2007
New Bush Disaster Plan: Protection or Paranoia? The Bush administration is writing a new plan to maintain governmental control in the wake of an apocalyptic terrorist attack or overwhelming natural disaster, moving such doomsday planning for the first time from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to officials inside the White House. George W. Bush Dick Cheney Stephen Hadley James Carafano Gordon Johndroe Michael German Sharon Bradford Franklin	3rd June 2007
A change in the moral climate? - Guardian Unlimited Sir David Attenborough said yesterday that he detected signs of a "moral change" in the public's attitude to global warming. [most read item]	2nd June 2007
Allure of the elixir - International Herald Tribune Climate experts may turn up their noses at far-fetched fixes, but interest in projects with a science-fictional twist appears, if anything, to be growing.	2nd June 2007
BC 2050: What climate change will do to our province - Vancouver Sun - subscription BC Fuelling cars killed by climate change.	2nd June 2007
Bush's Greenhouse Gas Plan Throws Europe Off Guard - New York Times Mr. Bush's unexpected announcement Thursday that the United States would gather the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases to seek a long-term global reduction in emissions has thrown Washington's European allies, particularly Germany, off balance.	2nd June 2007
Companies forced to report high emissions - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australia has taken a step towards setting up a greenhouse emissions trading scheme, after the state and territory environment ministers agreed to a plan for mandatory reporting. The deal will see companies emitting more than 25,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases each year having to disclose those emissions from July 1 next year.	2nd June 2007
Earth's Climate Approaches Dangerous Tipping Point - Environment News Service A stern warning that global warming is nearing an irreversible tipping point was issued today by the climate scientist who the Bush administration has tried to muzzle. James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, today published a study showing that greenhouse gases emitted by human activities have brought the Earth's climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet.	2nd June 2007
Europe furious at US climate call - Financial Times Germany and the European Commission reacted angrily to President George W. Bush's apparent change of heart on climate change on Friday, setting the stage for a stormy G8 summit of rich industrialised countries next week.	2nd June 2007
No ice: woman abandons Arctic trek - Montreal Gazette And with climate change warming and thinning the polar ice cap, it seems possible that no woman -- perhaps no human ever again - will make a successful solo journey to the top of the planet. The latest woman to try, British adventurer Rosie Stancer, abandoned her quest for the record books this week after deteriorating ice conditions left her little choice but to abort the journey only 170 kilometres short of the pole.	2nd June 2007
Sustainable Developments: Climate Change Refugees - Scientific American Human-induced climate and hydrologic change is likely to make many parts of the world uninhabitable, or at least uneconomic.	2nd June 2007
Truth about Kyoto: huge profits, little carbon saved - Guardian Unlimited In autumn 2005, three journalists working for the environmental group the Centre for Science and Environment decided to investigate some of the Indian projects which were trying to break into the lucrative new business of carbon trading.	2nd June 2007
Whale forum passes on addressing global warming ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An international forum this week on the fate of the world's whales barely addressed what scientists consider one of the most serious threats to marine life: global warming.	2nd June 2007
Bush kills off hopes for G8 climate change plan - Guardian Unlimited George Bush yesterday threw international efforts to control climate change into confusion with a proposal to create a "new global framework" to curb greenhouse gas emissions as an alternative to a planned UN process. "It's not even too little too late, but a dangerous diversionary tactic. He doesn't need to start a new process. There already is one. This is meant to slow down the UN process." [most read item] Also: US climate plans meet mixed response - BBC News Bush's ecology plan savaged - BBC News Q&A: President Bush's climate goals - BBC News Will US greenhouse gas targets work? - BBC News US climate plan 'a delaying tactic' - Guardian Unlimited Bush: climate crusader or saboteur? - Greenpeace UK Opinion: A New Spin on an Old Strategy - Deutsche Welle EU's Barroso criticises Bush's climate change pledge - EUbusiness - press release As the World Warms, the White House Aspires - Washington Post Yesterday, as the temperature pushed into the 90s in the capital, global warming caused a meltdown in the Bush administration's message machine. "Will the new framework consist of binding commitments or voluntary commitments?" asked CBS News's Jim Axelrod. "In this instance, you have a long-term, aspirational goal," Connaughton answered. Aspirational goal? Like having the body you want without diet or exercise? Or getting rich without working?	1st June 2007
China says impact of climate change clearer daily - AlertNet Source: Reuters BEIJING, June 1 (Reuters) - The impact of global warming on China is clearer each day, but climate change must be tackled in a way that allows sustainable development, a top-level meeting chaired by ...	1st June 2007
Drought grips Southeast; crops in peril - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette The potential profit from corn versus cotton was huge, so, understandably, all farmers with the capability to harvest corn switched. The thing about cotton, though, is its ability to withstand drier climates. So after the less severe drought in 2006, farmers were taking an undeniable risk planting corn – so dependent on rain – this season. Now farmers here are sitting on land that might produce nothing.	1st June 2007
Drought in Florida takes its toll on Lake Okeechobee by Steph Ball - BBC News As parts of Florida continue to be hit by severe drought the water levels of Lake Okeechobee, one of the USA’s largest freshwater lakes has dropped to a record low.	1st June 2007
Harper drags his feet - Montreal Gazette - subscription While most of world is on side about global warming, Canada bucks trend.	1st June 2007
On Global Warming, ExxonMobil's CEO Channels Rumsfeld - Huffington Post When the issue of global warming and climate change came up at the meeting, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson pulled what was a pretty hilarious Don Rumsfeld impression - even though he probably didn't even realize it.	1st June 2007
UN: Climate Making Forest Fires Bigger - CBS News Climate change is making forest fires around the world bigger and more intense, increasing the threat to people and the environment and costing countries millions in damage and firefighting expenses, the United Nations said Thursday.	1st June 2007
Warmest May for eastern Australia - Sydney Morning Herald Climate change gave much of Australia's drought-stricken east coast its warmest May on record, weather experts say.	1st June 2007
NASA's trouble in the hen house, top scientist slams administrator - DeSmogBlog The big story today, which we wrote about last night was some outrageous statements made by White House appointed NASA administrator, Michael Griffin. Today, Jim Hansen, a top NASA scientist is coming back at Griffin hard in an exclusive interview with ABC News. Hansen states:"It's an incredibly arrogant and ignorant statement," Hansen told ABC News. "It indicates a complete ignorance of understanding the implications of climate change." Here's a portion of the ABC transcript:  Hansen believes Griffin's comments fly in the face of well-established scientific knowledge that hundreds of NASA scientists have contributed to. "It's unbelievable," said Hansen.	1st June 2007
Report: 75% of North Carolina suffering from drought - USA Today More than three quarters of North Carolina is now suffering from drought conditions, and several western counties are extremely dry, according to climate figures released Thursday.	1st June 2007
Solar World: Vatican installs solar panels - Monsters and Critics.com Solar World: Vatican installs solar panelsMonsters and Critics.com, UK. Earlier in May Benedict took a radical stance in favor of a worldwide automobile boycott at the Vatican Conference on Climate Change. ...	1st June 2007
Stealthy moves of the predator - Sydney Morning Herald ohn Howard has long used China to justify inaction on global warming. "This country emits 1.6 per cent of the world's global emissions," Howard told Parliament on February 6 in a typical iteration. "If we closed down everything in this country tomorrow, in nine months the emissions that were saved by the closure in Australia would be equalled by the addition to emissions by China." Guess what? China now uses Australia as an excuse to justify its inaction on global warming.	1st June 2007
Wider, but still paper thin - Grist Public opinion polls show a significant increase in the number of Americans who support strong climate action. Deeper digging shows this support is superficial, too thin to drive the rapid sociopolitical change now required. For the first time, however, a small, but measurable number of Americans -- probably no more than 3% -- identify climate change as the greatest threat. U.S. environmentalists' carefully buffered climate narrative, calculated to not frighten the majority, does not engage these ;quot;three percenters.;quot; A significant shift in U.S. public opinion on climate has been measured in recent polls.	1st June 2007
US urges G8 deal on gas emissions - BBC US President George W Bush has urged countries to agree on long-term goals for greenhouse gas emissions. [Hard to raise one's hopes that this will be anything more than window dressing given the administraion's record so far]	31st May 2007
Earth's Climate Approaching 'Tipping Point', According To NASA - Science Daily NASA and Columbia University Earth Institute research finds that human-made greenhouse gases have brought the Earth's climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet. Tipping points can occur during climate change when the climate reaches a state such that strong amplifying feedbacks are activated by only moderate additional warming.	31st May 2007
Can't We Just Wait for Climate Hell Without Subsiziding It? - DeSmogBlog Even as Congressional leaders draft legislation to reduce greenhouse gases linked to global warming, a powerful roster of Democrats and Republicans is pushing to subsidize coal as the king of alternative fuels. Prodded by intense lobbying from the coal industry, lawmakers from coal states are proposing that taxpayers guarantee billions of dollars in construction loans for coal-to-liquid production plants, guarantee minimum prices for the new fuel, and guarantee big government purchases for the next 25 years. See also: Did I say no more CTL?	31st May 2007
G8 greenhouse gas emissions rise; U.S. not worst - AlertNet Source: Reuters By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, May 31 (Reuters) - Greenhouse gas emissions by leading industrialised nations have accelerated since 2000 and several countries are performing worse ...	31st May 2007
POV: Becoming an instrument of - climate change - McGill Reporter Shelly Kath is a lawyer and a graduate of McGill faculty of Law who took Al Gore's course in presenting the issues of gllobal warming.	31st May 2007
'Warmest May on record' for parts of NSW - AAP via Yahoo!7 News Climate change is one reason many parts of NSW experienced the warmest May on record, Weatherzone says.	31st May 2007
Why giving up business trips is greener than giving up holidays - IT Week The disproportionate amount of revenue and profits that airlines generate from their relatively few business class seats means that it is these high-end passengers that are making the bigger contribution to climate change. "Despite all the publicity around Ryanair and easyJet, business travellers are still the main drivers of the airline industry with 35 to 40 percent of revenue for the mainstream carriers coming from business class," See also: Ryanair: climate campaigners hitting sales - Guardian Unlimited	31st May 2007
By the End of the Century Half of All Species Will Be Gone. Who Will Survive? - RedNova Seven in ten biologists believe that mass extinction poses a colossal threat to human existence, a more serious problem than even its contributor, global warming.	31st May 2007
Carbon labels to help shoppers save planet - Guardian Unlimited Shoppers will be able to tell how much damage their purchases do to the environment, under a government plan unveiled yesterday. Products will display labels showing the greenhouse gas emissions created by their production, transport and eventual disposal, similar to the calorie or salt content figures on food packaging.	31st May 2007
Climate Change Signal Detected In The Indian Ocean - Science Daily The signature of climate change over the past 40 years has been identified in temperatures of the Indian Ocean near Australia. “From ocean measurements and by analysing climate simulations we can see there are changes in features of the ocean that cannot be explained by natural variability,” said CSIRO oceanographer Dr Gael Alory.	31st May 2007
Exxon investors put exec pay above climate change - USA Today ExxonMobil spent much of its annual meeting Wednesday defending its environmental policy, but shareholders of the world's largest company were more concerned with executive pay and governance practices. [..er, if you didn't like their policies, why buy the shares?]	31st May 2007
Global warming is shrinking the Great Lakes - New Scientist Low water levels in North America's vast natural reservoirs are partly due to a recent drought, but also to warmer waters	31st May 2007
Stanstead Airport: We all have an interest in the outcome of this battle - The Independent The battle over Stansted airport has been rumbling on for several years now. But from yesterday it reached a new intensity. Last year, Uttlesford District Council rejected a planning application by Stansted's owner, BAA, to expand the airport's capacity. BAA appealed and now the issue will be decided by a local public inquiry. There will be no quick decision. The inquiry will run until October. But with evidence mounting that climate change is already beginning to bite, the result of this inquiry will send out a significant message about our national priorities.	31st May 2007
Rainfall records could warn of war - New Scientist Links between global change and armed strife may offer a new way of predicting regions on the edge of conflict	31st May 2007
UK's Met Office Sees Another Hot Summer - Planet Ark LONDON - This summer will probably be hotter than average in Britain and there is now a one in six chance of average temperatures reaching or exceeding levels seen in the sweltering summer of 2003, the UK's Met Office said.	31st May 2007
'Worlds great apes face disaster' - Guardian Unlimited Hunting, logging and biofuels demand are prime threats, says Leakey.	31st May 2007
Cartoon by Tom Toles	30th May 2007
Canadian government sued over Kyoto failure - Guardian Unlimited The Canadian government is facing legal action over its failure to meet its Kyoto targets on emissions.	30th May 2007
Canberra's nuclear power play against states - The Age The Federal Government is seeking legal advice on whether it can force the states to allow the construction of nuclear facilities, including power stations, inside their borders.	30th May 2007
Carbon capture technology to remain financially unviable in near-term - S&P - Sharewatch MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - Standard Poor's Ratings Services said while carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) will have an integral part in combating climate change, the technology will remain financially unviable in the near-term until technical, regulatory and legal hurdles of large-scale implementation are solved.	30th May 2007
David Horton: Home fires burning - HuffingtonPost The recognition of global warming has been as belated as the recognition that the Germans were about to invade Poland, the Japanese about to bomb Pearl Harbor. And given that failure, that dodgy intelligence about the real world, all of us now have to respond to the consequences. It doesn't mean we shouldn't persist in our demands that greenhouse gas emissions be reduced (and we should keep on promoting solar and wind energy, hybrid cars, energy conservation), but since they haven't been yet, we have to prepare for the consequences of the ignorance of foolish men and evil energy companies.	30th May 2007
David Roberts: Big Business, cap-and-trade, and carbon taxes - HuffingtonPost In Washington Monthly, Chris Hayes draws attention to the "revolt of the CEOs." Big Business is parting ways with the Republican Party, actively seeking greater government involvement in the realms of health care and climate change.	30th May 2007
Earth nears tipping point on climate change - The Christian Science Monitor A rise of 1 degree Celsius could be enough to trigger 'dangerous' warming, scientists warn.	30th May 2007
Everest ice forest melting due to global warming - Guardian Unlimited The serac forest near Mount Everest's base camp is rapidly shrinking as a result of global warming, say Greenpeace.	30th May 2007
History at risk from erosion by the sea - The Scotsman KEY coastal sites which tell the story of Scotland's ancient past are in danger of being washed away, experts warned yesterday.	30th May 2007
Nuclear greenwashing - San Francisco Bay Guardian Nuclear greenwashingSan Francisco Bay Guardian, CA. It's safe, reliable, and cost-effective. It isn't contributing to global warming — and these days even the environmentalists like it.	30th May 2007
US responsible for 44% of global warming bill-Oxfam - Mongabay.com The U.S.is responsible for 44% of the annual $50 billion needed to fight global warming said aid agency Oxfam as expectations mount that the United States will reject stiff targets and timetables for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The U.S. and other G8 nations are meeting next week in Germany to discuss climate change.	30th May 2007
Our blind faith in oil growth could bring the economy crashing down - Guardian Unlimited Britain's future prosperity has been hardwired to rising use of transport fuels, without a thought for the supply drying up. Motorised transport is a form of time travel. We mine the compressed time of other eras - the infinitesimal rain of plankton on the ocean floor, the settlement of trees in anoxic swamps - and use it to accelerate through our own. Every tank of fuel contains thousands of years of accretions. {there are some good comments too, e.g.:"The crises of diminishing energy resources and climate change can only be dealt with rationally by reversing the international division of labour. Or to put it more clearly creating a system to replace capitalism and its variants. The current shuttling of food, manufactures and raw materials (not to mention 'labour') from one end of the planet to another is utterly irrational. And everybody knows that it is. Future generations will shake their heads not at the eccentricities of fundamentalists and religious fanatics but at the widespread faith in what is called the "free market" which,like God has never been seen and in whose name the most dreadful crimes are committed."]	29th May 2007
Kunstler nails it - Gristmill James Howard Kunstler, dyspeptic critic and peak oil Paul Revere, nails the people whose approach to the twin calamities of global heating and peak oil is to spend all their time trying to cobble together the McGyver solution that saves the day, rather than trying to adapt to the new, low-energy imperative.	29th May 2007
The weirdest millennium Much research effort over the past years has gone into reconstructing the temperature history of the last millennium and beyond. The new IPCC report compiles a dozen reconstructions for the temperature of the Northern Hemisphere (including of course the original "hockey stick" reconstruction, despite opposite claims by the Wall Street Journal). Lack of data does not permit robust reconstructions for the Southern Hemisphere. Without exception, the reconstructions show that Northern Hemisphere temperatures are now higher than at any time during the past 1,000 years (Figure 1), confirming and strengthening the conclusions drawn in the previous IPCC report of 2001.	29th May 2007
'Deep Economy': ideas for a better world - The Christian Science Monitor Bill McKibben envisions a new economy more attuned to environmental harmony and human satisfaction.	29th May 2007
Practical steps to climate control - Financial Times Commitments to vast reductions in emissions decades hence are no more real than commitments to end aggressions or war.	29th May 2007
Annals of Stupidity: The Demise of Alexander Cockburn - One Thousand Reasons Annals of Stupidity: The Demise of Alexander CockburnOne Thousand Reasons, CA. There is no shortage of political pundits now wading into the discussion of global warming, despite the scientific complexity of the field. ...	29th May 2007
APEC carbon emission trading plan 'unlikely' - The West Australian It is unlikely today's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting of energy ministers in Darwin will formulate a region-wide carbon trading emissions scheme.	29th May 2007
ExxonMobil: Profits and discontent - CNNMoney.com Critics say the oil giant is arrogant and irresponsible. Fortune's Marc Gunther looks at what the company will face at its annual shareholder meeting.	29th May 2007
Alcoa promotes carbon capture technology in China - People's Daily Multinational Alcoa announced Monday that it plans to introduce a new carbon capture system to China and other countries throughout the globe.	29th May 2007
Bill urges farmers to grow energy crops - AP via Yahoo! News Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would entice farmers located near ethanol biorefineries to grow dedicated energy crops. See also: Food prices rise as more crops go into producing biofuels - The Japan Times	29th May 2007
Butterfly spotted in new places - BBC News A survey of the orange tip is going well while concerns grow for the fate of a rare moth.	29th May 2007
Church of Norway on crusade to save the planet "Thou shalt not contribute to global warming": from the local pastor to the highest ranking bishop, the Lutheran Church of Norway has pulled out all the stops in a modern-day crusade to save the planet.	29th May 2007
Companies Plan for Greenhouse Gas Limits - Washington Post Congress hasn't come up with a plan for limiting greenhouse-gas emissions, but U.S. companies are wagering billions of dollars that it will.	29th May 2007
Eye candy that's melting fast - Gristmill Once again National Geographic Magazine has managed to knock my socks off, this time with its June '07 issue. Vanishing Sea Ice is journalist and photographer Paul Nicklen's touching homage to the Arctic and its wildlife through the lens of his camera: a decade-long documentary of its accelerating demise. Big Thaw, meanwhile, zooms out to the global level to tell how ice around the world is fast receding. Global warming-induced meltage is a familiar story by now, but new studies are showing that -- due to multiple positive feedback effects -- the decline is occurring more rapidly than scientists had anticipated.	29th May 2007
Harper cool to European bid on global warming - Canada.com Harper cool to European bid on global warmingCanada.com, Canada. ... fighting climate change, explaining Canada is trying to craft a consensus to include the United States and China in a new pact to tackle global warming. ... or...Canada declines to enter G8 climate change fight - Reuters Canada or perhaps... Harper joins Europeans in anti-Bush position ahead of G8 climate battle - CNews but then again...Tory climate plan doesn't add up: environmentalists - CNews	29th May 2007
Hope fades for Nicaragua's Miskito - Guardian Unlimited Central American indigenous people are among first to suffer from climate change but least equipped to adapt .	29th May 2007
In Africa, global warming has a thin coating of dust - Toronto Star An AK-47 assault rifle costs two bulls along the Kenya-Ethiopia border. It used to cost three, but there are so many weapons on the market these days, prices have dropped.	29th May 2007
Coping with warming will cost $50 billion, G-8 must pay share' - The Times of India Developing countries need $50 billion a year to cope with climate change and G-8 countries must foot around 80% of this cost, a report published by donor agency Oxfam on the eve of the G-8 summit has said. The US should meet 44% of such costs, Japan 13% and 17 countries from EU should contribute 31% of the investment needed to cope with the problems arising out of global warming, the report specified. See also: UK 'must pay more for emissions' - BBC News and India says emissions will fall by 25 pct by 2020 - AlertNet	29th May 2007
NEPAL: Mountain communities fear melting glaciers, flooding - AlertNet Source: IRIN Pemba Sherpa looks fearfully at the huge Imjha glacier lake which lies at an altitude of nearly 6,000 metres above sea level in the Everest region of eastern Nepal. "There were glaciers all around here. They have melted very fast over the past few decades and formed this lake which has grown dangerously fast, something I witnessed as I was growing up," Pemba told IRIN, adding that he was concerned about what would happen if the lake grew out of control.	29th May 2007
Palm oil puts squeeze on Asia's endangered orangutan PALANGKARAYA, Central Kalimantan (Reuters) - Bound hand and foot, disheveled orangutans caught raiding Borneo's oil palm crops silently await their fate as a small crowd of plantation workers gather to watch.	29th May 2007
Stansted campaigners fight industry - Guardian Unlimited Environmental groups prepare to lobby a public inquiry into plans to expand airport. "At the heart of this issue is the contradiction between the government's aviation policy and its climate change policy."	29th May 2007
Suspicion over emissions taskforce - Adelaide Now THE Government's taskforce on emissions trading will protect the coal industry instead of dealing with climate change, says Australian Democrats leader Lyn Allison.	29th May 2007
US and Germany split on climate change - Financial Times The US and Germany will make one last attempt at drafting a joint position on climate change and preventing tensions over the issue spiralling into a diplomatic row ahead of the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations’ summit next week. See also: Bush Should be Open to Climate Deal - Pelosi - Planet Ark	29th May 2007
Asia Carbon Market a Matter of Time - ABN - Planet Ark BANGKOK - Asia, with its fast-growing economies and major greenhouse gas emitters, could see its own carbon trade exchange open in a few years, a senior official of Dutch bank ABN AMRO said on Friday.	28th May 2007
Britain on Brink of Big Mistake, Greenpeace Says - Planet Ark LONDON - Britain could slash its carbon emissions and secure its future energy supplies quickly and cheaply by abandoning plans to build more nuclear power plants, according to Greenpeace.	28th May 2007
British Swimmer Plans Record Cold North Pole Swim - Javno.hr A British adventurer is planning to highlight the effects of global warming by becoming the first person to swim at the North Pole.. "I can't think of a better way to show that climate change is a reality than by swimming in a place that should be totally frozen over."	28th May 2007
Environmental lobbyist demands government action - Guardian Unlimited Environmental policy is a hodge-podge of half-policies and will end up in a blind alley if the government does not rethink its response to climate change, a leading environmental campaigner will say today. In a debate at the Guardian Hay festival, Jeremy Leggett, a former Greenpeace campaigner and now chief executive of the environmental group Solar Century, will argue that last week's energy white paper does not go far enough to tackle climate change because the government has failed to stand up to conservative institutions in Britain.	28th May 2007
Former president says community key to solving world's problems - Boston Globe Former President Bill Clinton told Middlebury College graduates Sunday that building a community in the world by recognizing similarities rather than differences among all of humankind will help solve the world's problems.	28th May 2007
Germans prepare to fight U.S. on climate change - International Herald Tribune Germany and some of its partners in the Group of 8 leading industrial economies are bracing for a major conflict with the United States at a summit meeting next week, with the Bush administration expected to block a declaration on global warming, European officials said over the weekend. With few days to go before the G-8 summit meeting in the north German resort of Heiligendamm, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will lead the event, is rallying as much support as possible for a cause she has made one of her priorities since taking over the presidencies of the European Union and the G-8 in January.	28th May 2007
How Will Climate Change Affect Arctic Predators? - Science Daily Arctic fox's habitat in the Arctic tundra is in a hairline balance in an ecosystem which is vulnerable to climate change. As such, the Arctic fox and other similar predators can be used as indicators of what is occurring in the system as a whole. If the changes to our climate are great, there will be a tragedy in the Arctic in the form of a loss of the unique biological diversity.	28th May 2007
U.S. mayors face the music on global warming while Washington fiddles - CNews NEW YORK (AP) - Bold new initiatives against global warming have come out of major cities around in the world over the past few weeks - with the notable exception of Washington.	28th May 2007
Uganda Scraps Plan to Cut Rainforest for Palm Oil - Planet Ark KAMPALA - Uganda's government has scrapped plans to convert thousands of hectares of rainforest on an island in Lake Victoria into a palm oil plantation, the environment minister said on Saturday.	28th May 2007
What if climate destabilization the business plan? This Washington Post story suggests that the airline industry is not being led by dumb people who just don't get it. No, the darling of the industry, the best and the brightest, the folks heading the industry vanguard, aren't stupid. They get it. They just don't care. They believe that personal wealth will protect them and their children and grandchildren. They plan for growth, even as the planes carry fewer people, which means they plan to keep increasing both their overall greenhouse gas emissions and the per-mile traveled emissions, as well as to have more planes emitting more water vapor into the atmosphere where is serves as powerful heat trapping barrier. [most read item]	28th May 2007
Airport planning: Up in the air, with no clear path ahead - Independent Planning experts say that the Government would take into account climate change. But by making planning policy a national concern, any government which, on the one hand, recommends a massive growth in airport capacity and, on the other, a 60 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2020 (from 1990 levels), risks tying itself and its planning wise men in knots.	27th May 2007
Arctic, tropical islands team up for climate pact OSLO (Reuters) - Arctic peoples and tropical islanders will try to strengthen an unusual alliance on the front lines of global warming from Sunday by seeking ways to cope with melting ice and rising seas.	27th May 2007
Aust economists call for Kyoto action - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Seventy-five professors of economics have called on the Federal Government to stop undermining international efforts to tackle climate change and ratify the Kyoto Protocol without delay.	27th May 2007
Because we're worth it - Times Online The baby-boomers’ culture of hedonistic consumerism has left their offspring with the crumbs from their table. And 65% of them say their children’s lives will be worse than their own. But are they bothered?	27th May 2007
Canada should join leading countries against Bush's stand on Kyoto; Dion - CNews OTTAWA (CP) - Canada must stand with the world's leading countries in the fight against climate change and object the U.S. government's efforts to thwart a global action plan on carbon emissions, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said in an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Saturday.	27th May 2007
Eskimo urges airport freeze - Times Online A LEADING Eskimo politician has made a dramatic intervention in the debate over the expansion of Stansted airport ahead of the opening of a public inquiry into the project this week. Aqqaluk Lynge, president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and a former minister in the government of Greenland, will make a personal appearance at the inquiry to argue against airport expansion, saying it contributes to global warming, which has damaged the polar environment.	27th May 2007
G8 leaders fight over global agreement on climate change - Guardian Unlimited · US softens on deal to halt rising temperature · Race against time to rescue talks before summit	27th May 2007
Good stuff at WC By David RobertsTwo good posts on Worldchanging I've been meaning to call out: Jeremy Faludi makes the important point that control technologies are just as important as efficiency technologies. Control technologies allow us to control energy systems in a more fine-grained way, using only what we need -- think occupancy sensors for lighting or continuously variable transmissions for cars. Make room for this in your conceptual toolbox. Alex Steffen, meanwhile, has an essay grappling with what he sees as the widening gap between our snail-pace, "small steps" reforms on one hand and the cutting edge ideas about a sustainable future that are pouring forth from civil society on the other.	27th May 2007
Massive losses projected from bleaching of corals - Trinidad Express The bleaching of corals due to climate change may result in global economic losses of up to US$104.8 billion over the next 50 years, or 0.23 per cent of current global GDP.	27th May 2007
Sprawl clashes with warming in California - San Francisco Chronicle California's pioneering push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is colliding with one of the state's most ingrained legacies: urban sprawl. In litigation and legislation, environmentalists, lawmakers and Attorney General Jerry Brown are using a...	27th May 2007
Warming threatens Arctic glaciers Warming in Canada's far north is melting glaciers that threaten to split into massive chunks and float away, a Canadian researcher told AFP Friday, after tagging an iceberg as big as Manhattan.	27th May 2007
Why global climate models do not give a realistic description of the local climate - RealClimate Global climate statistics, such as the global mean temperature, provide good indicators as to how our global climate varies (e.g. see here). However, most people are not directly affected by global climate statistics. They care about the local climate; the temperature, rainfall and wind where they are. When you look at the impacts of a climate change or specific adaptions to a climate change, you often need to know how a global warming will affect the local climate.	27th May 2007
Worse than a prisoner's dilemma - Grist Magazine "Lose-lose: the penalties of acting alone stall collective effort on climate change" is an article the Financial Times ran a while back. While the piece gives a panoramic analysis of the international prisoner's dilemma, there are two other angles that are missing. The first is the penalties of no one acting. According to the UK's environmental minister, the economic rationale for inaction is that the first country to act risks undergoing some degree of economic hardship. This, he explains, is "the last refuge of the deniers -- the idea that it's not worth anyone doing anything unless everyone does it."	27th May 2007
US rejects all proposals on climate change - Guardian Unlimited The US has rejected any prospect of a deal on climate change at the G8 summit in Germany next month, according to a leaked document.	26th May 2007
Yet another must-read by James Hansen Sea level rise of 5 meters in one century? Even if most scientists will not say so publicly, that catastrophe is a real possibility, according to the director of NASA's Goddard Institute Of Space Studies. [most read item]	26th May 2007
Flying addicts take dim view of air taxes in poll - Guardian Unlimited Britain has become a nation addicted to flying, according to a Guardian/ICM poll out today. It shows that more than two-thirds of people have travelled by plane in the last five years and reveals widespread opposition to government action aimed at cutting the number of people who fly in order to limit climate change.	26th May 2007
G8's conflicted climate - Toronto Star The issue is this simple: If Harper is not prepared to join other leaders in urging Bush to accept an immediate and ambitious global action plan then, like Bush, he is telling the world he is willing to accept a rise in temperature this century and all the devastation that will bring.	26th May 2007
London: Eco-warriors plan massive disruption at Heathrow Airport - Infoshop News Thousands of green campaigners are planning to cause massive disruption at Heathrow airport. "Eco-warriors" say they will set up a Greenham Common-style protest camp near the perimeter fence.	26th May 2007
Bhutan eyes glacier floods as area warms - MSNBC Already, 24 of 2,674 glacial lakes are close to bursting as glaciers retreat.	26th May 2007
Glacier visit aiming to be an ice-opener - Denver Post "My main message is the Greenland ice sheets and the Arctic in general are responding to climate change," Steffen said by satellite phone this week. "And the ice loss here is even larger than we expected."	26th May 2007
Ice melting a threat to hydro plants: ISRO - Hindustan Times The glaciers in the Himalayan landscape are not only melting at a faster rate because of climate change, they also pose a threat to the hydro power plants in the region, says a study by the Indian Space Research Organsiation (ISRO)	26th May 2007
The village that was swallowed by the sea - BBC News Dr Thanawat Jarupongsakul, a scientist from Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University says that climate change has helped cause the loss of nearly 600 km of Thailand's coastline.	26th May 2007
Warm spring 'affecting wildlife' A warm spring has brought about the early arrival of some UK wildlife, the first results of this year's Springwatch survey suggest.	26th May 2007
An air-tight case for better houses - Globe and Mail Europe is creating whole new industries aimed at boosting energy efficiency and reducing the output of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. Green building codes are being adopted everywhere. Germany installs more solar power systems than any other country and pioneered the Passivhaus (passive house), which dispenses with conventional central heating and consumes minuscule amounts of energy. Thousands have been built.	26th May 2007
Big polluters must be in post-Kyoto regime: Japan - The Japan Times Japan on Friday once again called for more greenhouse gas emitting economies to be included in a post-Kyoto Protocol framework to fight global warming. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in its annual energy white paper it is imperative for countries around the world to pursue energy-saving measures and shift from fossil fuels to nuclear, natural gas and renewable sources in a joint effort to reduce carbon dioxide and other types of greenhouse gases. "The next framework must require a greater number of countries — especially major greenhouse gas emitters such as the United States and China — to substantially reduce emissions," the paper says. "It must be a framework that will be effective for solving the problem of global warming."	26th May 2007
Combating Climate Change: Farming Out Global Warming Solutions - Scientific American Changes to agricultural practice and forestry management could cut greenhouse gas emissions, buying time to develop alternative technologies	26th May 2007
Emissions fall slightly, data show - Toronto Star OTTAWA–Gloomy forecasts about Canada's efforts to halt global warming brightened yesterday with the release of new figures showing that greenhouse gas emissions dropped slightly between 2004 and 2005, the most recent period for which figures are available.	26th May 2007
Europe high-speed rail moves toward reality after first run from Germany to Paris - CNews PARIS (AP) - Sleek and swift, two trains zoomed out of Germany on Friday toward a milestone in the long held dream of a Europe-wide high-speed rail network - and pulled into Paris 35 minutes late.	26th May 2007
Experts at Kew create garden for the longer, hotter summer - Times Online The future of gardening under global warming – when summer temperatures are expected frequently to exceed 40C (105F) across Britain – was unveiled at Kew yesterday. Long hot summers combined with wetter and milder winters are expected to drive many popular plants out of flower beds, but leave room for a wide range of Mediterranean blooms.	26th May 2007
Organic move to cut food flights - BBC News The Soil Association says it is considering stripping all air-freighted food of its organic status.	26th May 2007
Bonkers article of the week [does this imply that if you meet the deadline you will survive?] The race to save Mother Earth in 8 years - CNNMoney.com We have until 2015 to reverse global warming, experts warn. Business 2.0 Magazine's Chris Taylor looks at which business opportunities will meet that deadline -- and which ones won't.	26th May 2007
A Carbon-Neutral House? - Washington Post A plan by the House to become carbon-neutral by the end of this Congress calls for dropping coal from the fuel mix burned at the Capitol Power Plant to heat and cool House buildings.	25th May 2007
Blair: US may back carbon deal The US may be willing to back an agreement on cutting carbon dioxide emissions, the prime minister says.	25th May 2007
Blame row erupts over power plant - BBC News Claims the UK Government caused the collapse of a major green energy scheme in Peterhead are denied. See also: Feel the carbon sequestration love - Gristmill	25th May 2007
Eco warriors plan massive disruption at Heathrow - Daily Mail Eco warriors plan massive disruption at HeathrowDaily Mail, UK. They intend to use it as a base to disrupt flights at the peak of the tourist season in an attempt to focus attention on climate change and global warming. ...	25th May 2007
EU crafting biofuel rules with eye on environment BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission plans new measures to ensure increased use of biofuels reduces greenhouse gas emissions, an EU official said on Thursday. 3 stipulations: must be less ghg intensive than fossil fuel, no draining wetlands, no destroying biodiversity.	25th May 2007
Glimpsing the deindustrial age The most likely trajectory of industrial society is a process of uneven economic and technological decline, a 'long descent' over several centuries lleading into a deindustrial dark age and beyond. (first of a series) [most read item]	25th May 2007
Global warming enlarging San Francisco Bay, scientists say - San Jose Mercury News In one of the most detailed looks at global warming's impact on the Bay Area, scientists Wednesday painted a grim portrait of increasing heat waves, droughts, water shortages and wildfires accompanied by more severe thunderstorms, flooding and coastal erosion.	25th May 2007
Green tariffs: what's the extra cost and where does the money go? Want to do your bit to counter climate change? You can feel powerless when it comes to energy. About two thirds of the electricity in our homes is generated by burning coal and gas in power stations, which pump out two tons of carbon dioxide per home each year.	25th May 2007
Japan unveils Son of Kyoto - The Australian TOKYO: Japan last night called for the world to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, proposing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol it hopes will win over the top offenders, the US and China.	25th May 2007
Leading article: There is still time to avoid this nuclear folly In theory there is something for everyone in the White Paper on energy that the Government unveiled yesterday. The renewables sector receives a carrot in the form of a boost to the tidal barrage scheme on the Severn estuary. The proposal for "smart" electricity meters in homes is a nod in the direction of greater energy efficiency. There is to be greater encouragement for biofuel and carbon capture technology too. But the group given real cause to celebrate yesterday is the nuclear lobby.	25th May 2007
McIntyre Unearths Fresh Climate Graph Outrage - DeSmogBlog Steve McIntyre, who with Ross McKitrick has been the author of the long-running hockey stick controversy, has replotted all of the climate reconstructions recently reported in New Scientist magazine and has discovered - well, he seems to have discovered a whole equipment bag full of hockey sticks (see illustration). Under McIntrye's careful analysis, some of the climate reconstructions don't extend back fully to 1,000 years and some peter out more recently for lack data. And all have been recalibrated to spend a bit more time above zero. But taken individually or together, they all seem to suggest exactly what the much-debated Mann hockey stick suggested, lo those many Congressional hearings ago: that we are currently enjoying (or enduring) the hottest period on earth in the last 1,000 years.	25th May 2007
Measures to cut carbon emissions are put to the test - Independent While the Government's undisguised enthusiasm for nuclear power took up most of the attention yesterday, the new Energy White Paper also contained new measures designed to bring down Britain's greenhouse gas emissions in all sectors.	25th May 2007
Merkel gloomy on G8 climate deal - Times Online Angela Merkel sounded a pessimistic note yesterday on the chances of securing a deal on climate change at the G8 summit next month, as her Environment Minister accused the US of narrow-mindedness over global warming.	25th May 2007
Noam Chomsky on ethanol By David RobertsSo darn shrill: A leading goal of US foreign policy has long been to create a global order in which US corporations have free access to markets, resources and investment opportunities. The objective is commonly called "free trade," a posture that collapses quickly on examination. It's not unlike what Britain, a predecessor in world domination, imagined during the latter part of the 19th century, when it embraced free trade, after 150 years of state intervention and violence had helped the nation achieve far greater industrial power than any rival. The United States has followed much the same pattern.	25th May 2007
Parking cheaper for smaller cars - BBC News Norwich City Council is introducing a permit parking system that will penalise people who drive large cars.	25th May 2007
Pointers to a low-carbon future - BBC News BBC News environment analyst Roger Harrabin considers the potential impact of the governments policy documents. Three over-arching policy documents this week lay out the government's vision for a competitive, resource-efficient, low-carbon economy. The La Rance tidal barrage near St Malo in Brittany Green campaigners want even greater support for renewables In the short term, that will mean a swifter streamlined planning process, a drive to capture maximum energy from stuff we throw away, more offshore renewable energy, and caps on CO2 from big commercial firms. In the medium term it possibly means more nuclear, although this is no foregone conclusion.	25th May 2007
The green house effect - Independent The Eco-House, the one which doesn't damage the planet with its profligate energy use, has just got closer.	25th May 2007
Nuclear power in the UK - Guardian Unlimited The government's position on nuclear power has evolved slowly but steadily towards its current standpoint: climate change and dwindling domestic energy resources mean there are few options but to build a new generation of nuclear plants.	24th May 2007
"Think" tank throws down gauntlet... right on its own foot - DeSmogBlog The National Center for Public Policy Research, a group well known to DeSmogBlog, issued a press release yesterday challenging Greenpeace to disclose all of its funding sources over $50,000.The release states: "Today The National Center for Public Policy Research is challenging Greenpeace and its affiliates to disclose the sources and amounts of its 2006 donations exceeding $50,000. If it does so, The National Center for Public Policy Research will do the same."The NCPPR has its knickers in a knot after being named in a Greenpeace report last week outlining ExxonMobil's funding of 41 groups that continue to spread doubt about the realities of global warming.A quick spin around the Greenpeace site and you'll find their annual reports dating back to 2002.	24th May 2007
$900 Billion of Institutional Investors Pressure Exxon Mobil on Global Warming - Earthtimes.org Two dozen leading institutional investors are pushing for the removal of Exxon Mobil board member Michael Boskin due to the company's inaction on the serious business risks from climate change.	24th May 2007
ABC board 'pushed' over climate doco - Advertiser Adelaide THE ABC was under pressure from its board to air a British documentary that challenges climate change theories. The Great Global Warming Swindle, which aired controversially on Britain's Channel 4 in March, argues changes in radiation from the sun, not human activity, is the main cause of global warming. Scientists, including some featured in the program, said it contained fabricated data and misleading statements. The documentary will be shown on the ABC in July against the advice of ABC science journalist Robyn Williams, who instructed the ABC's TV division not to buy the program, Fairfax newspaper said.	24th May 2007
Anti-Wind Provision Says NO to Clean Wind Energy and YES to Global Warming - Cape Cod Today A new effort in Washington DC poses a serious threat to wind development - both future and existing. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) has just introduced a bill (H.R. 2337) that would place enormous, wrong-headed restrictions on America's growing wind energy efforts. The Anti-Wind section of the Bill, Subtitle D, establishes onerous standards for siting, construction, monitoring, and adaptive management that must be satisfied by all wind projects to avoid, minimize, and mitigate adverse impacts on migratory birds and bats despite the fact that wind turbines cause less than 0.003% of human-cause bird mortality.	24th May 2007
BP pulls out of green power plant - BBC News Energy giant BP pulls out of the planned £500m UK carbon capture power plant at Peterhead. [most read item]	24th May 2007
California makes case for stricter emissions limits - Los Angeles Times California presented its case Tuesday for permission to impose tough new limits on greenhouse-gas emissions by cars and trucks, pressing a campaign state officials hope will set the stage for aggressive action nationwide on a major contributor to global warming.	24th May 2007
Dems in Congress: 'Green-collar jobs' will fight poverty and global warming By Van JonesHooray! Hooray! Finally! Yesterday, some House Democrats finally "connected the dots" on ways to solve two of the nation's biggest problems: failing American job security and global climate security. By addressing both issues simultaneously, these congressional leaders may re-energize the anti-poverty movement -- and transform the debate on global warming.	24th May 2007
Drought hits Aussie wheat profits - BBC News The severe drought in Australia dents profits at the country's troubled wheat exporting business.	24th May 2007
Dutch to Invest US$1 Bln to Shore Up Sea Defences - Planet Ark AMSTERDAM - After holding back the sea for 75 years, the 30 kilometre-long dike protecting much of the Netherlands from floods is due for a US$1 billion upgrade against mounting risks from rising sea levels and tsunamis.	24th May 2007
Greenhouse emissions decline - Boston Globe A mild winter, followed by a cool summer caused U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to decline last year, according to the Energy Department. The results were hailed by the White House as support for its global warming policies.	24th May 2007
Have hurricanes met their match in El Niño? As climate change whips up more severe hurricanes in the Atlantic, warming in the eastern Pacific may have a calming effect	24th May 2007
Himalayan global warming fears - BBC News Fears are growing that global warming is making Himalayan glaciers increasingly unsafe, reports the BBC's Surendra Phuyal.	24th May 2007
Households to get 'real-time' energy meters - Guardian Unlimited Household electricity meters will soon have "real-time" displays to show customers how much energy they are using, under plans set out in today's energy white paper.	24th May 2007
Howard Risks Political Climate Change as Aussies Warm to Kyoto - Bloomberg.com May 24 (Bloomberg) -- Clare Idriss was so concerned about carbon emissions generated by her wedding guests traveling across Australia in October that she bought A$350 ($283) of pollution credits to offset the greenhouse gases.	24th May 2007
Lead or Step Aside - RedNova By Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jodi Rell	24th May 2007
Peak oil and climate change By John McGrathToday the Oil Drum linked to a James Hansen released paper analyzing the impact of peak oil, peak gas, and peak coal on the likely emissions of carbon. Hansen notes that most of our emissions scenarios have thus far failed to account for whether the carbon will even be there to burn. Plenty of graphy goodness, but what I took away was this: There's just enough oil and gas left in the ground to take us up to, or maybe a bit over, the 450 parts per million of CO2 that climatologists worry about so much. This makes it imperative that we in the developed countries immediately phase out coal, the one supply of fossil carbon that can take us right over the cliff.	24th May 2007
Tell Us When It Becomes An Emergency Human activities are wiping out three animal or plant species every hour and the world must do more to slow the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs by 2010, the United Nations said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon united nations species extinction global warming climate change	24th May 2007
We believe climate is changing, but few want to pay price - Ottawa Citizen Canadians have no doubts about the existence of global warming, but they are still reluctant to make financial sacrifices or alter certain lifestyle habits to save the environment, a Finance Department report warned just prior to the 2007 federal budget release.	24th May 2007
Wildlife will feel the heat of global warming A report finds that almost a quarter of UK species will disappear due to the effects of climate change	24th May 2007
Big Dry takes toll on Australia's farmers - BBC News The BBC's Nick Bryant talks to farmers in New South Wales suffering the impact of the most severe drought in a century.	23rd May 2007
Bird threatened by climate change - BBC News A rare bird could be wiped out in Wales by climate change in 20 years, a new report for the UK government says.	23rd May 2007
California threatens to sue US govt over greenhouse gases - AFP via Yahoo! News California on Tuesday warned it would sue the US government if it blocked ambitious efforts to slash greenhouse gas-causing emissions from motor vehicles.	23rd May 2007
Cheaper solar power heads mainstream NEW YORK (Reuters) - Solar power should become a mainstream energy choice in three or four years as companies raise output of a key ingredient used in solar panels and as China emerges as a producer of them, according to a report by an environmental research group.	23rd May 2007
CO2 emissions rise outpaces worst-case scenario - Guardian Unlimited Global CO2 emissions rose faster in 2000-2004 than worst-case scenario imagined in recent UN reports. [most read item]	23rd May 2007
Future of Biofuels May Lie in Wood - Planet Ark YORK, England - Wood rather than wheat may hold the key to Europe's efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by expanding biofuels production, the head of a research body funded by the UK government told Reuters.	23rd May 2007
G8 summit is "litmus test" for U.S. on warming: U.N. - Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - A meeting of rich nations next month in Germany will be a "litmus test" of how the United States plans to help the world fight climate change, the head of the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Tuesday.	23rd May 2007
Global Warming Fight Unites Religious Bodies - The Christian Post An interfaith body of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders announced a pact to fight global warming in a statement delivered to the White House and Congress on Monday. The religious leaders, including Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, agree that humans are a major contributor to global warming based on scientific evidence.	23rd May 2007
NY yellow taxicabs 'to go green' New York's yellow cabs will all run on hybrid petrol-electric engines within five years, the city's mayor says.	23rd May 2007
One in six European mammals faces extinction risk GENEVA (Reuters) - One in six European land mammals faces the threat of extinction, mainly through habitat loss and deforestation, a leading conservation group said on Tuesday.	23rd May 2007
Plans prepare for coastal floods - BBC News Views are sought on plans to protect the north Kent coast from flooding over the next 100 years.	23rd May 2007
Scientists Concerned About Effects of Global Warming on Infectious Diseases - Earthtimes.org As the Earth's temperatures continue to rise, we can expect a significant change in infectious disease patterns around the globe. Just exactly what those changes will be remains unclear, but scientists agree they will not be for the good.	23rd May 2007
Start here - RealClimate We've often been asked to provide a one stop link for resources that people can use to get up to speed on the issue of climate change, and so here is a first cut. Unlike our other postings, we'll amend this as we discover or are pointed to new resources. Different people have different needs and so we will group resources according to the level people start at.	23rd May 2007
The small village with big energy ambitions - BBC News Ashton Hayes is aiming to become Britain's first carbon-neutral village.	23rd May 2007
Warming blamed for Costa Rica frog die-offs SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Global warming is the top suspect for the disappearance of 17 amphibian species from Costa Rican jungles, scientists said on Tuesday, warning monkey and reptile populations were also plummeting.	23rd May 2007
Wildlife faces shift as climate changes - Scotsman Climate change may actually help some rare wildlife and plants spread to new areas but other species face a threat to their survival, said a report launched by the government on Tuesday.	23rd May 2007
Climate Changing Pollution Rising—Again - Scientific American Despite worldwide concern, carbon dioxide emissions have tripled in the past few years, according to a new study. [most read item]	22nd May 2007
World CO2 output to rise 59 pct by 2030: U.S. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global emissions of the heat-trapping gas carbon dioxide will rise 59 percent from 2004 to 2030, with much of the growth coming from coal burning in developing countries, the U.S. government forecast on Monday.	22nd May 2007
Climate change threatens wild relatives of key crops - EurekAlert! Wild relatives of plants such as the potato and the peanut are at risk of extinction, threatening a valuable source of genes that are necessary to boost the ability of cultivated crops to resist pests and tolerate drought, according to a new study released today by scientists of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The culprit is climate change, the researchers said.	22nd May 2007
Climate 'threatening UK species' - BBC News Action is needed to protect British wildlife from the effects of climate change, a report says.	22nd May 2007
Early arrival of butterflies demonstrates impact of climate change ... - Independent Britain's astounding April, the warmest on record, has produced an astounding effect in the natural world, with at least 11 species of butterfly making their earliest recorded appearances this spring in what will be seen as the most remarkable demonstration yet of the effects of climate change on Britain's wildlife.	22nd May 2007
Push towards pay-as-you-go roads - BBC The UK government is pushing ahead with plans to introduce road pricing schemes in England and Wales despite a huge public campaign against them. It has published a draft Bill updating the rules for local authorities who want to set up charging trials.	22nd May 2007
Peak coal: sooner than you think - Energy Bulletin Taken together, the EWG and IFE reports deliver a shocking message. For a world already concerned about future oil supplies, uncertainties about coal undercut one of the primary strategies - turning supposedly abundant coal into a liquid fuel - that is being touted for maintaining global transport networks. The sustainability of China's economic growth, which has largely been based on a rapid surge in coal consumption, is thrown into question. And the ability of the US to maintain its coal-powered electricity grids in coming decades is also cast into doubt.	22nd May 2007
Disturbed, hungry and lost: climate change impacts on whales - WWF Whales, dolphins and porpoises are facing increasing threats from climate change, according to a new report published by WWF and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) ahead of the 59th meeting of the International Whaling Commission. The report Whales in hot water? highlights the growing impacts of climate change on cetaceans. They range from changes in sea temperature and the freshening of the seawater because of the melting of ice and increased rainfalls, to sea level rise, loss of icy polar habitats and the decline of krill populations in key areas.	22nd May 2007
Do carbon neutral declarations by big brands mean anything? - Guardian Unlimited Hardly a day goes by without the announcement of another scheme to reduce carbon emissions, but there are increasing doubts about lack of regulation in the market, writes Teena Lyons.	22nd May 2007
Schwarzenegger accuses government on warming - Reuters Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and fellow Republican Gov. Jodi Rell of Connecticut accused the U.S. government on Monday of "inaction and denial" on global warming. "It's bad enough that the federal government has yet to take the threat of global warming seriously, but it borders on malfeasance for it to block the efforts of states such as California and Connecticut that are trying to protect the public's health and welfare," the governors wrote in The Washington Post.	22nd May 2007
US candidates compete on climate - Financial Times It is not often that record high petrol prices prove helpful to American politicians. But with prices now riding at more than $3 a gallon in many parts of the country, voters are listening more attentively to how the 2008 presidential contenders will tackle global warming.	22nd May 2007
Did Smithsonian Alter Climate Change Show? - CBS News Fearing political heat from the Bush administration and Congress ? primary sources of its funding ? the Smithsonian toned down the text and graphics of a climate change exhibit to eliminate human contributions, a former director said.	22nd May 2007
Climate Change Also Drives Evolution - Inter Press Service New scientific evidence confirms that human action, such as carbon emissions causing global warming, and industrial-scale search for food, is decimating biodiversity - and, in some cases, is driving threatened species to evolve and adapt at unexpected speed to new living conditions.	22nd May 2007
Something is fresh in Denmark - The Christian Science Monitor Its use of wind power and carbon caps are cited as a global-warming model, but the example only goes so far.	22nd May 2007
Climbers Face More Risks as Alps Crumble - Planet Ark GRINDELWALD, Switzerland - Climbing sheer rock faces has never been the safest of sports, but global warming is increasing the risk factor.	22nd May 2007
US Bids to Stop G8 Pushing for Climate Deal - Planet Ark LONDON - The United States is battling to stop next month's Group of Eight summit in Germany from pushing for urgent talks on a new deal to fight global warming after the Kyoto Protocol lapses in 2012.	22nd May 2007
Cameron has ditched polar bears for the estate agents - Guardian Unlimited This is the way the world ends: every attempt to cut carbon emissions is attacked by opposition parties who can never resist the chance for a quick hit. Can democracy bear the weight of what needs to be done to stop climate change in the short time left? Or will oppositions always find some good excuse for challenging any green law with convenient reasons for not taking action this way, not here, not now? Today in the Lords the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats will again put party advantage before their professed green concerns. Yet again they and their noisy press will seek to destroy a measure to cut carbon emissions.	22nd May 2007
Vanishing habitats: The battle to save the Atlantic Forest Walking through the ancient Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia in Brazil is like taking a pilgrimage through a living version of a Gothic cathedral. Immense columns of trees surge up towards the brilliant flecks of sunlight filtering through the forest canopy high overhead - giving the visual effect of a stained-glass ceiling held by timber pillars.	22nd May 2007
Vanity Fair: The unbearable whiteness of green - Grist By Van Jones. The Eco-Elite Cannot Win By Itself. [most read item]	21st May 2007
Climate change puts nuclear energy into hot water - International Herald Tribune Nuclear power requires great amounts of cool water to keep reactors operating at safe temperatures. That is worrying if the rivers and reservoirs which many power plants rely on for water are hot or depleted because of steadily rising air temperatures. If temperatures soar above average this summer - let alone steadily increase in years to come, as many scientists predict - many nuclear plants could face a dilemma: Either cut output or break environmental rules, in either case hurting their reputation with customers and the public.	21st May 2007
Biochar turns a negative positive - Toronto Star Charcoal – it's great for barbequing hamburgers and hot dogs over a long weekend. But can it help save humanity? Pyrolysis turns material such as wood chips and crop waste into three main components: gas (methane and hydrogen), a renewable "bio-oil" that can be used as a fuel or for "green" chemical production, and a char that contains roughly 60 per cent of the carbon contained in the biomass. ...however: Charcoal agriculture: not ready for prime time - Gristmill Pre-Columbian Indians covered much of Brazil with terra preta (black earth) built up through "slash-and-char" agriculture over thousands of years. Terra preta is not just dead, well-structured soil. It hosts a complex ecology of living organisms that help maintain soil ions and PH -- one of the most amazing agricultural environments ever created. Unfortunately, it turns out we don't know how to duplicate it yet. Applying pyrolysis to biomass and then mixing it with compost turns out not produce terra preta. According to Scientific American, modern attempts increase yields at first, but they drop after three or four harvests. So while it is worth more research, terra preta is not a solution for today.	21st May 2007
Carbon trading expansion plan - Financial Times As many as 5,000 businesses and public-sector bodies would be forced to buy greenhouse gas permits under plans for a mandatory carbon-trading scheme to be proposed this week by ministers.	21st May 2007
Drought hails property boom - Perth Now THE ongoing drought will propel the newest property trend with homeowners moving in search of water, a national property researcher says.	21st May 2007
FACTBOX-Animals, plants under threat from global warming - Reuters AlertNet May 22 is the U.N.'s International Day for Biological Diversity, focused in 2007 on how global warming may drive many species of animals and plants to extinction.	21st May 2007
Former leaders find that all the world's their stage - The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News Europe's loss may be the world's gain. Two of its heavyweight statesmen are retiring from national politics, but that doesn't mean they have finished with trying to make a difference on the world stage.	21st May 2007
Global warming exaggerated, insufficient oil, natural gas and coal - Energy Bulletin The presupposition for any temperature increase is that we consume great quantities of oil, natural gas and coal. The fact that IPCC exhorts our politicians to curtail the use of fossil fuels gives the impression that the fossil resources are enormous, but there are reasons to doubt this.	21st May 2007
Hothouse Scotland - The Scotsman SCOTLAND is facing a future of landslides and flooding brought about by climate change, scientists warned yesterday, as figures revealed that temperatures last month hit a record high.	21st May 2007
How can I surf on a greener current? - Guardian Unlimited Green consumers who click on to virtual worlds and Wi-Fi shouldn't ignore the real energy they guzzle. According to a new report with the riveting title Estimating Total Power Consumption by Servers in the US and the World by Jonathan G Koomey, in 2005 it required 14 power plants, of 1,000 megawatts each, to keep the world's data centres online - the biggest centres owned by the web giants, such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. In the US, this means server farms consumed 1.2 per cent of all electricity generated. By 2010 this is set to rise by a whopping 75 per cent, thanks to a trend in energy-guzzling internet TV and video-watching.	21st May 2007
New science highlights the promise of a major climate policy initiative by forest-rich developing countries - innovations report A tropical forests and climate policy study released today in the journal Science highlights the importance of slowing deforestation in tropical countries in the global effort to avert dangerous climate change.	21st May 2007
Power now creating 'more greenhouse gas' - AAP via Yahoo!7 News Electricity production has now overtaken transport as the fastest growing emitter of greenhouse gases, a senior federal public servant says.	21st May 2007
Tim Flannery: Australia's climate guru - CNN.com Few issues are sparking the same level of international debate as global warming, but acclaimed Australian scientist and conservationist Tim Flannery is reveling in the hot topic.	21st May 2007
"If We Don't Deal with Climate Change We Condemn Hundreds of Millions of People to Death" - Democracy Now The British journalist and environmentalist discusses his new book "Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning." George Monbiot says global warming is "the great moral issue of the 21st century." [includes rush transcript]	20th May 2007
All so predictable By biodiversivist Expect the venture capitalists who started this pyramid scheme to quietly jump ship, leaving those who came in last holding the steaming bag. This article is behind the Wall Street Journal subscription wall and I can't post the whole article, though I would certainly like to. Several excerpts follow: Earlier this year, Mr. Chambliss introduced a bill calling for even greater ethanol use, though with one striking difference: The bill caps the amount of that fuel that can come from corn. Turns out Georgia's chicken farmers hate corn-based ethanol; Georgia's pork producers hate corn-based ethanol; Georgia's dairy industry hates corn-based ethanol ...	20th May 2007
'Cap and trade': another notion that's past its use-by date By Tom AthanasiouThere's been a nice, coherent-if-incipient debate on cap-and-trade on this blog lately, which I've alas been too busy to reply to. But I wanted to throw in just one small thought: it just might be time to ditch the whole notion. It conflates at least three things together, and as they are all quite different, the "trading debate" as we know it is both confusing and confused.Cap-and-grandfather: A market-based system in which existing polluters are granted the right to continue polluting, modulo some typically minor and politically negotiated reduction. This right comes in the form of ;quot;allowances;quot ...	20th May 2007
Inquiry into "misleading" carbon offset schemes - Times Online Firms that promise to help environmentally conscious consumers to "offset" their carbon emissions are under official investigation after allegations that they have overcharged customers and made misleading claims.	20th May 2007
Renewable energy: The tide turns Senior cabinet ministers are pushing for Britain to be the first nation in the world to get much of its power from the tides, as part of a massive new expansion for renewable energy. The Environment Secretary, David Miliband, Welsh Secretary Peter Hain and Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling want a giant £14bn barrage to be built across the Severn.	20th May 2007
Leading article: Go green, Mr Brown Our children and grandchildren, looking back from a much warmer world, are likely to wonder why Britain was so slow to develop renewable sources of energy. It has been endowed by nature with the greatest resources in Europe - the best winds, waves and tides, far outweighing the sun's periodic reluctance to shine. It was also in the forefront of inventing ways to harness both the wind and the waves. Yet it has long had one of the worst records for exploiting them. Though things have improved a little in recent years, the proportion of our electricity generated from renewables - just 4 per cent - remains lamentable, compared with 15 per cent in the EU as a whole.	20th May 2007
[Guardian goes pro-nuclear] Brown's vision for a nuclear Britain - Guardian Unlimited Gordon Brown is to face down sceptics in his party and give the go-ahead for a new generation of nuclear power stations, which will be built across the country.	20th May 2007
Deadlock for UN climate meeting - BBC News UN-hosted talks on climate change aimed at paving the way for the Bali climate summit in December end in deadlock.	19th May 2007
US Cooling Off to Summit - Inter Press Service The United States is evidently not interested in an international consensus on environmental policy against global warming. Nor does it appear keen on new regulations to control financial speculation.	19th May 2007
Summer crop targets threatened by lingering drought - People's Daily The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) warned Friday the lingering drought will damage the year's summer crop output, but analysts say the country's grain crop prices won't be much affected.	19th May 2007
Agency expects extreme summer drought - Los Angeles Times The forecast by federal meteorologists is bad news for firefighters, who've had a busy winter and spring. No rain is likely until fall. Federal meteorologists expect "extreme" drought conditions this summer in Southern California, offering more bad news for firefighters who are already dealing with record dry weather.	19th May 2007
Drought Increasing Food Prices - WCTV Tallahassee The price of food is rising rapidly. Economists blame it on the drought. They say it's one of the highest rate increases in more than a decade.	19th May 2007
Rain brings some relief to parched states of Australia by Susan Powell - BBC News Parts of Australia have had their heaviest rainfall in years over the last few days. A massive weather front moved steadily east over much of the drought-affected states of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria.	19th May 2007
INTERVIEW-Kyoto nations seek deeper greenhouse gas cuts - AlertNet Industrial nations in the Kyoto Protocol want deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2012 despite uncertainty over whether outsiders will join the U.N. pact, the head of a U.N. group said on Friday. Leon Charles, heading a group of government experts from Kyoto countries, also said that 166-nation talks in Bonn reaffirmed there should be a seamless transition from a first period of Kyoto ending in 2012 and new rules from 2013.	19th May 2007
PM arms his emissions bombshell - News Interactive AUSTRALIA is developing a regional carbon emissions trade scheme that would include China and the US and could form the basis of a landmark 'Sydney declaration' at this year's APEC summit.	19th May 2007
Experts cite climate change in European allergy explosion Scientists, meeting in Vienna from May 16 to 20 for the annual congress of the EuropeanAcademy for Dermatology and Venereology, said global warming has not only added to the number of allergies but also resulted in an increasing number of foreign plants moving into Europe, causing still more new allergies. Often hay fever, asthma or allergic eczemas were interconnected with skin diseases, allergy specialist Johannes Ring of Munich Technical University said. "Most allergies start with skin problems, even food allergies." In severe cases - for example heavy asthma attacks or allergic reactions to insect bites - an allergy could be fatal.	19th May 2007
Latest IPCC report calls for world social revolution, says author The report, issued May 4 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said both developed and developing countries must cut greenhouse-gas emissions and shift away from oil to non-polluting energy sources. IPCC-report author and Tufts University professor William Moomaw told The New York Times recently “we’re looking for an energy revolution that’s as comprehensive as the one that occurred at the beginning of the 20th Century.” UN U.S. IPCC Tufts University William Moomaw New York Times global warming climate change	19th May 2007
New fuel for 21st century -- aluminum pellets? CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pellets made out of aluminum and gallium can produce pure hydrogen when water is poured on them, offering a possible alternative to gasoline-powered engines, U.S. scientists say.	19th May 2007
Plants Don't Produce Greenhouse Gas, New Study Finds - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News Plants are not a significant source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to new research that casts doubt on the results of an earlier study.	19th May 2007
Generators to cash in on new emissions trading - Financial Times Power generators will make tens of billions of euros in profit from the second phase of the European Union's emissions trading scheme, according to predictions in an analysis of the market released yesterday.	19th May 2007
RMS Study Reveals That Repeat of 1927 Great Mississippi Flood Could Cost Up to $160 Billion - PR Newswire A repeat of the 1927 Great Mississippi Flood - the largest flood disaster in U.S. history - could cost up to $160 billion in economic damages if it were to recur today, according to Risk Management Solutions , the world's largest catastrophe risk analysis company. Although the extreme river flows that led to the 1927 flood are rare events, research suggests that climate change and global warming are already increasing the potential for exceptional flows on great river basins such as the Mississippi. This has an impact on how flood risk should be managed and how levees need to be maintained and strengthened.	19th May 2007
Ocean CO2 effect 'starts to fail' - BBC News One of the Earth's most important absorbers of CO2 is failing to soak up as much as of the greenhouse gas as it was expected to. This effect had been predicted by climate scientists, and is taken into account - to some extent - by climate models. But it appears to be happening 40 years ahead of schedule. See also: Rapid rise in global warming is forecast - Times Online The oceans are losing the capacity to soak up man-made carbon emissions, which is increasing the rate of global warming by up to 30 per cent, scientists said yesterday.	18th May 2007
Global April Surface Temperature Third Warmest on Record - NOAA News DESPITE RECORD COLD START, APRIL TEMPERATURE NEAR AVERAGE FOR U.S. The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for April was the third warmest on record (1.21 degrees F/0.67 degrees C above the 20th century mean). The global surface temperature for the combined January-April period was the warmest on record. Separately, the global April land-surface temperature was the warmest on record. Elevated monthly mean temperatures—more than 5 degrees F (3 degrees C) above average—covered large parts of Asia and Western Europe. The April ocean-surface temperature tied for seventh warmest in the 128-year period of record as neutral ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) conditions persisted in the equatorial Pacific..	18th May 2007
Climate and the UN: A new bid for control? - BBC News Are rich and powerful nations seeking to protect their own interests through a new UN climate initiative?	18th May 2007
Global warming is a global issue - Market Watch Every generation or so, a truly historic issue comes along and sweeps up the whole nation, dividing some of the country into angry parts, uniting other segments of the population in common cause, but leaving none untouched or unchanged. More form MarketWatch: Technology & Transformation, Energy & Industry, Financial Services, The Consumer Realm.	18th May 2007
eXXon caught with fingers crossed, new report - DeSmogBlog Despite ExxonMobil's denials, a report released today by Greenpeace's ExxonSecrets.org project, reveals that the largest oil company in the world continues to spend millions on a stealth public relations campaign aimed at discrediting global warming science. According to the report, Exxon provided $2.1 million in 2006 to 41 "think" tanks and associations that actively sow doubt about the realities of climate change. Since 1998, ExxonMobil has spent a staggering $23 million on this climate disinformation. ExxonSecret's report titled: ExxonMobil's Continued Funding of Global Warming Denial Industry (attached), will easily withstand criticism by those who want to dismiss this as a conspiracy theory.	18th May 2007
Canada-US alliance could be bad news for environment - Regina Leader-Post - subscription Prime Minister Stephen Harper is poised to join President George W. Bush in scuttling or watering down any statement on climate change from the G-8 summit in Germany next month. While European countries are pushing for their counterparts to recognize that a future climate change treaty must be designed to prevent average global temperatures from rising by more than 2 C -- a dangerous threshold identified by leading climate experts -- Canadian government officials, along with the Bush administration appear to be resisting.	18th May 2007
75% chance of Category 3-5 hurricane hitting US coastline in 2007 - Canadian Underwriter 75% chance of Category 3-5 hurricane hitting US coastline in 2007Canadian Underwriter, Canada. Researchers are hesitating to link the potentially active season to global warming or climate change, explaining that Atlantic hurricanes go through ...	18th May 2007
Can Murdoch save the planet? - Guardian Unlimited Media professional: Rupert Murdoch has promised to make his media empire carbon-neutral by 2010. Mark Lynas investigates. See also: The greening of Fox - Salon.com	18th May 2007
Should petrol supplies be limited? - BBC News A closer look at a study which says petrol supplies should be limited to help combat global warming.	18th May 2007
Climate Change Said Threatens Ghaf Tree (AP) -- Twisting out of the hot sand of the Arabian Peninsula is one of nature's toughest trees. Known for its coarse bark and green canopy that provides rare shade from the sweltering sun, the ghaf tree has been a steadfast survivor in brutal desert.	18th May 2007
Carbon tax the best route to curb greenhouse gases, economist says - The Globe and Mail Former Liberal government and the present Conservative one have rejected step as politically unpalatable	18th May 2007
The Last Temptation of Al Gore - Time Magazine Let's say you were dreaming up the perfect stealth candidate for 2008, a Democrat who could step into the presidential race when the party confronts its inevitable doubts about the front runners.	18th May 2007
Defusing the population bomb - Ottawa Citizen As humanity drives the world toward environmental catastrophe, we must learn to achieve prosperity without perpetual economic expansion	18th May 2007
Harper government sticks to environmental plan - Canada.com OTTAWA - The Harper government ignored allegations Wednesday that it is sabotaging global negotiations on a post-Kyoto climate change agreement by misleading the international community about the nature of its own plan to crack down on pollution from large industries.	18th May 2007
High tides hit low-lying Maldives - BBC News High tides flood low-lying islands in the Maldives for a second time this week, raising fears global warming is to blame.	18th May 2007
Exxon still up to no good - Grist Magazine Exxon still up to no goodGrist Magazine, WA. Moreover, recently unearthed Exxon tax forms show that the company specifically covered up grants earmarked for Global Climate Change Efforts, Activities, ...	18th May 2007
UK Carbon Emissions Up 3.6 Percent in 2006 - Planet Ark LONDON - The UK's carbon emissions rose by 8.8 million tonnes or 3.6 percent in 2006, exceeding its quota set by the European Commission and forcing companies to purchase extra allowances, the government said on Thursday.	18th May 2007
US Says No Shift in Climate Change Stance - Planet Ark BONN - The United States will fight climate change by funding clean energy technologies and will continue to reject emissions targets or cap and trade schemes, its chief climate negotiator Harlan Watson said on Thursday.	18th May 2007
Tourists go green with cars instead of planes British families have traditionally flooded airport departure lounges every summer in an attempt to escape to sunnier climes. But research published yesterday suggests the trend has taken a downturn as holidaymakers prepare to take their holidays by car, motivated by the environmental impact of flying,	18th May 2007
Big Area of Antarctica Melted, Satellite Finds - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - Vast areas of snow in Antarctica melted in 2005 when temperatures warmed up for a week in the summer in a process that may accelerate invisible melting deep beneath the surface, NASA said on Tuesday.	17th May 2007
Climate myths special - New Scientist Today New Scientist publishes a special looking at the most common climate change myths and misconceptions. I'll explain why in due course. But first, let's start at the beginning.The idea that some gases in the atmosphere trap heat was first... See also: Climate change: A guide for the perplexed [most read item]	17th May 2007
Clarion Caller - Grist An interview with renowned climate scientist James Hansen	17th May 2007
Yale looks to help China reduce greenhouse gas emissions - Boston Globe Yale University, already in China helping to reform the legal system and conducting scientific research, wants to expand its reach with projects to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions, the school's president said Wednesday. See also: Copyright Fear Hampers West's Climate Work in China - Planet Ark UN Project Cuts Carbon Emissions in Rural China - Planet Ark	17th May 2007
Permanent ice fields are resisting global warming - EurekAlert! The small ice caps of Mont Blanc and the Dôme du Goûter are not melting, or at least, not yet. This is what CNRS researchers have announced in the Journal of Geophysical Research.	17th May 2007
Top scientists urge quick G8 climate change action - Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Top scientists called on Wednesday for leaders of the world's rich nations to cease squabbling over global warming and take urgent action instead.	17th May 2007
Flaherty faces tough sell at G8 finance meeting - CNews OTTAWA (CP) - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty may have a tough sell on his hands Saturday when he explains Canada's position on climate change at the G8 meeting in Germany.	17th May 2007
Largest offshore windfarm planned - BBC News Plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm off the coast of North Devon are being unveiled.	17th May 2007
Norway Positive Toward Global Carbon Fund Idea - Planet Ark OSLO - Oil-rich Norway has welcomed an idea to set up a global carbon fund, resembling the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to manage a push to curb emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for heating the planet.	17th May 2007
The alternative to fear is not lack of emotion - Grist Magazine The failure of fear to motivate the public on climate change should not lead us to conclude that dry, emotionless presentations of facts and statistics will work. What will work is not lack of emotion but appeals to other emotions, emotions more suited to the progressive project: compassion and hope, confidence and curiosity, and above all the yearning in every human heart to create a better life for our children. [most read item]	16th May 2007
Jump in rat population in western China blamed on global warming - CNews BEIJING (AP) - An early boom in the rat population in western China has been blamed on global warming, Chinese news media reported Tuesday.	16th May 2007
China drought threatens water supply for millions - AlertNet Source: Reuters BEIJING, May 15 (Reuters) - A spring drought is intensifying across north China thanks to scarce rainfall and high temperatures, drying up reservoirs and farmland and threatening drinking water ...	16th May 2007
Ocean around Japan warming up fast -report - Reuters AlertNet Ocean around Japan warming up fast -reportReuters AlertNet, UK. The report comes at a time when the international community is struggling to take global action against climate change.	16th May 2007
California AG Brown Says Bush 'Dangerously Misguided' On Gas Mileage Rules - All American Patriots California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today criticized the Bush administration for illegally adopting “dangerously misguided” gas mileage rules. Brown, in a lawsuit backed by 11 states and several environmental organizations, said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s new mileage standards violate federal law by ignoring both the environment and our country’s growing dependence on foreign oil.	16th May 2007
World faces five year deadline for decisions on climate change: WWF - The Nation Geneva - Key decisions must be taken within five years on measures to tackle climate change if the world wants to cope with an expected doubling of energy demand over the next half century, the environmental group WWF said Tuesday.	16th May 2007
Street lighting switch off begins - BBC News Street lights in parts of Essex are to be turned off as part of a pilot scheme to cut CO2 emissions.	16th May 2007
Swedish prime minister to discuss cooperation on global warming with Bush - International Herald Tribune Just hours after a meeting at the White House Tuesday, Sweden's prime minister told a U.S. congressional panel that the Bush administration's approach to fighting global warming was insufficient. In an apparent criticism of President George W. Bush's policy, Fredrik Reinfeldt said that the world could not rely on technological innovation alone to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but must also move to curb emissions through regulation.	16th May 2007
Call to tax plasma televisions - BBC News Governments should tax "energy intensive" plasma TVs, according to a leading expert on climate change.	16th May 2007
Hansen's 1988 projections - RealClimate At Jim Hansen's now famous congressional testimony given in the hot summer of 1988, he showed GISS model projections of continued global warming assuming further increases in human produced greenhouse gases. This was one of the earliest transient climate model experiments and so rightly gets a fair bit of attention when the reliability of model projections are discussed. There have however been an awful lot of mis-statements over the years - some based on pure dishonesty, some based on simple confusion. Hansen himself (and, for full disclosure, my boss), revisited those simulations in a paper last year, where he showed a rather impressive match between the recently observed data and the model projections.	16th May 2007
Drought to reduce agriculture contribution to GDP - Nine O'Clock In the hottest year in the history of mankind, Romania may import basic agrifood products. Experts warn: drought may be followed by fire, famine, storms.	16th May 2007
G8 at odds on climate change - Financial Times Angela Merkel has admitted that Berlin and Washington remain deeply at odds on what next month's G8 rich nations' summit should decide on tackling climate change, with the German chancellor unwilling to compromise on certain targets that Washington finds unacceptable.	16th May 2007
Calif. to Change Fuel Mix by Ranking Carbon Output - Planet Ark NEW YORK - California will rank the greenhouse gas emissions of motor fuels, which could drive people to use low-carbon alternatives, an aide to the state's governor said.	16th May 2007
Vast Regions of West Antarctica Melted in Recent Past A team of NASA and university scientists has found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures. This was the first widespread Antarctic melting ever detected with NASA's QuikScat satellite and the most significant melt observed using satellites during the past three decades. Combined, the affected regions encompassed an area as big as California.	16th May 2007
New coal plants pose emissions threat - UPI U.S. efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may be offset by the construction of new coal plants by the country's rural electric cooperatives. The cooperatives plan to spend $35 billion over the next decade to build conventional coal plants which spew carbon dioxide that scientists blame for global warming, The Washington Post reports. The plants will be built with government-subsidized, low-interest loans from a program created 70 years ago to bring electricity to rural areas. Even though the Depression-era program's goal has long been accomplished, the federal government continues to make the loans, the Post says. The powerful National Rural Electric Cooperative Association deployed 3,000 members to Capitol Hill last week to push Congress to keep the program intact, arguing that loans for new coal plants are needed to keep electricity cheap and reliable in rural areas of the United States. Environmentalists argue the program removes any pressure for rural co-ops to promote energy efficiency or tap renewable sources of energy.	15th May 2007
Efforts to fight climate change face major hurdles at international conference - CNews BONN, Germany (AP) - Efforts to limit global warming must move into a new phase this year or risk a breakdown that would hurt poor countries threatened most by climate change, says the U.N.'s top climate official.	15th May 2007
Where global leadership means stalling and heel-dragging - DeSmogBlog A spokeswoman for the White House Council on Environment Quality told BBC today that, "the US continues to lead the global effort on climate change."Apparently "lead the global effort" somehow means culling language from a draft G8 summit document that would see member nations getting tough on greenhouse gas emissions. The BBC has obtained a document outlining plans for the US to, yet again, water down tough global action on climate change.While the European Union has already adopted tough emission standards aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% below 1990 levels, the US, as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gas, continues to play with words instead of showing real commitment.	15th May 2007
Global Warming May Be Spurring Allergy, Asthma - YaleGlobal Online There's growing scientific evidence that global climate change is linked to the dramatic rise in allergies and asthma in the Western world. Studies have found that a higher level of carbon dioxide turbocharges the growth of plants whose pollen triggers allergies.	15th May 2007
Drought affects 730,000 people in NW China province - China Daily LANZHOU -- A rare lasting drought has affected 730,000 people and about 300,000 hectares of crops in northwest China's Gansu Province, local sources said.	15th May 2007
Climate change map sends 12 capitals further south - Guardian Unlimited To help explain how global warming will affect many European cities, scientists redrew the map of the continent by shifting a dozen capital cities to the places that most closely resemble their predicted climates for later this century.	15th May 2007
Blair to target worst polluters - Guardian Unlimited Britain and Germany lead effort to get US, China and India to agree to carbon trading scheme	15th May 2007
Inconvenient Truth blocked by a Swindle-touting trustee The Surrey school board in British Columbia has banned students from viewing former Vice-President Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, pending approval of the video by school trustees.The cause of the latest stir over Gore's film is not Seattle's strange-but-true concerned father Frosty Hardison (a must see video) this time, but a Surrey School Board trustee named Heather Stilwell. Stilwell states: "I am not sure. I mean I see evidence. I think there is climate change, there's no question about that. Whether what Al Gore says about it is the truth, I have questions." Stilwell goes on the explain that if the documentary is aired, teachers should provide "alternative theories" on climate change.Any guesses what that "alternative theories" Stilwell speaks of?	15th May 2007
EU Says UN Too Weak On Climate Change - Spiegel Online The EU rejected the UN's draft document on sustainable development because it is not strong enough on climate protection. They're also not amused that Zimbabwe -- land of economic decay and corruption -- is heading the commission.	15th May 2007
Out and about beats fear - Sydney Morning Herald Global warming looms over today's children the way the Cold War scared their parents. Judy Friedlander looks at the effects of a very inconvenient angst.	15th May 2007
Indigenous people threatened by massive land-clearances for biofuel crops: UN - CP via Yahoo! Canada News UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Indigenous people are being pushed off their lands to make way for an expansion of biofuel crops around the world, threatening to destroy their cultures by forcing them into big cities, the head of a UN panel said Monday.	15th May 2007
Scientists Back Off Theory of a Colder Europe in a Warming World - New York Times Mainstream climatologists who have feared that global warming could have the paradoxical effect of cooling northwestern Europe or even plunging it into a small ice age have stopped worrying about that particular disaster, although it retains a vivid hold on the public imagination. Climatologists said in February it was "very unlikely" that the crucial flow of warm water to Europe known as the North Atlantic Current would stall in this century.	15th May 2007
8am: Shower. Take jug in. Save the water. Save the planet - BBC News Would you switch everything off and rely on natural light to save the planet? It's the answer for the families resorting to extreme measures to cut emissions.	14th May 2007
More on peak coal A few weeks ago I mentioned a study showing that coal reserves are not nearly as extensive as the ;quot;200-year supply;quot; invoked by coal boosters. Now Richard Heinberg brings word of another study that reaches substantially similar conclusions. The main thrust is that the quality of easily accessible coal is declining and that prices are almost certain to go up, and soon. An interesting correlate -- which hadn't really occurred to me, but makes sense -- is that rising coal prices are going to make it less likely for carbon sequestration to catch on.	14th May 2007
Part I: Planning for a Climate-Changed World - MIT Technology Review As the global picture grows grimmer, states and cities are searching for the fine-scale predictions they need to prepare for emergencies--and to keep the faucets running.	14th May 2007
The hidden cause of global warming - Independent In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. Stopping the loggers is the fastest and cheapest solution to climate change. So why are global leaders turning a blind eye to this crisis?	14th May 2007
US seeks G8 climate text changes The US tries to block sections of a draft agreement on climate change prepared for next month's G8 summit.	14th May 2007
Bird migration patterns shifting, early warning of climate change - CNews BONN, Germany (AP) - Like canaries that once warned of danger in mine shafts, migrating birds are becoming harbingers of another risk - climate change.	14th May 2007
Growers warned to be vigilant as UK wheat pests threaten crops - Food Production Daily 14/05/2007 - Wheat growers in the UK have been warned their crops are at risk from a number of destructive pests, flourishing in the current weather conditions.	14th May 2007
Technology: Rice Farmer's Take On Climate Change - Sin Chew Daily Most rice farmers currently still plant the hybrid varieties which are greedy for water and chemical fertilisers. Once we did have many different varieties of dry land rice called pari gaga but since the 1970s many of our indigenous rice varieties have become extinct. Unfortunately the available rice seeds now are of the water-guzzling varieties.	14th May 2007
Africa ill-prepared for climate change consequences - Reuters AlertNet Africa is likely to suffer some of the worst effects of climate change and is ill-prepared to cope, officials said on Monday, advocating better access for the continent to world carbon markets.	14th May 2007
California Challenges Bush Administration Low Gas Mileage Standards: Huge Impact on Global Warming Riding on Court Hearing Monday - California Progress Report On Monday, May 14th, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will consider whether the Bush administration violated the law by ignoring global warming when setting extremely low national gas-mileage standards for SUVs and pickup trucks. At issue in the lawsuit are the standards for vehicles from model years 2008-2011. Over their lifetimes, these vehicles will emit 2.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere - nearly six times the entire annual emissions of the State of California. Promptly improving fuel-economy standards is one of the single most important actions the government can take to address global warming, and this important case is an attempt to hold the Bush administration accountable for its predictable refusal to do so.	14th May 2007
Canada's water supply unknown - The Daily News The threat of global warming, bulk exports and high household water use are putting Canada's status as a water-rich nation in jeopardy, say newly released federal documents obtained by CanWest News Service. Canada possesses an estimated seven per cent of the world's renewable supply with only 0.5 per cent of the global population. But the documents, produced over the last year by the Natural Resources Department, warn Canadians face tremendous challenges in the future since the leading scientists simply do not know how long the supplies can last.	14th May 2007
Charity warns of migration crisis - BBC News The effects of climate change could make at least one billion people homeless between now and 2050, says the charity Christian Aid..	14th May 2007
Coal Still King In India And China - Forbes India's and China's problems with industrial pollution are old news, but now a report says these countries are increasing their reliance on carbon-intensive resources, making it tougher for everyone else to fight global warming. While China and India have proposed a number of initiatives and programs to combat climate change, coal-fired power generation still remains the cheapest, but dirtiest, source of energy for these countries--and the most widely used, according to the Standard & Poor's report.	14th May 2007
Dash into biofuels can be harmful, says Co-op - Guardian Unlimited A leading British investor today joins the chorus of concern about a headlong flight into biofuels as a solution for global warming by saying companies involved in the sector could jeopardise future profits by not carefully considering the long-term impact of what they are doing. Sustainability criteria must be built in to the supply chain of any green fuel project to ensure that there is no adverse effect to the surrounding environment and social structure, Co-operative Insurance (CIS), the investment arm of the Co-op, says in a report.	14th May 2007
DOT Says US Will Resist EU Aviation Emissions Plan - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will strongly resist a European proposal to make foreign airlines pay a premium for aircraft emissions, US Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said on Friday.	14th May 2007
It's Not Your Imagination: Fires Are More Common - NPR Wildfires seem to be starting earlier in the year, and they've been particularly intense lately. That's partly because the weather has been very dry in both the Southeast and Southwest. Those who study long-term weather patterns say we were due for a dry spell: The past century was unusually wet when compared to averages of the past two millennia.	14th May 2007
Money can't buy green reputation - The Age AUSTRALIA'S plan to spend almost $200 million over the next five years to combat deforestation in developing countries will do little to reduce land clearing or erase a reputation as an opponent of efforts to reverse global warming, according to Jon Barnett, a University of Melbourne researcher into the risks posed by climate change in the Asia-Pacific region. The sum is "probably a drop in the bucket of what's going to be required", Dr Barnett said. "If it was concentrated in one country like Papua New Guinea then it might have an impact on a bilateral relationship . . . But spread out over the whole of Asia over five years, it's not a lot."	14th May 2007
Africa bears the burden of climate change, though it is low emitter - International Herald Tribune Report: Global warming isn't just a matter of melting ice bergs and polar bears chasing after them. It's also Lake Chad drying up, the glaciers of Mt. Kilimanjaro disappearing, increasing extreme weather, conflict, and hungry people throughout Africa. According to a landmark effort to assess the risks of global warming, Africa, by far the lowest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, is projected to be among the regions hardest hit by environmental change.	14th May 2007
Scientists plead for protection of forests - Globe and Mail Canada will be urged today by more than 1,500 scientists from more than 50 countries to strengthen protection of the increasingly threatened boreal forest, a key component in the planet's battle with climate change. Only 10 per cent of the forest is currently protected and the spread of logging, mining and oil and gas operations into Canada's large northern forest is putting at risk the largest carbon storehouse on Earth, the scientists state in the letter obtained by The Globe and Mail. The letter will be released today.	14th May 2007
Soil-based greenhouse gases more potent than carbon dioxide for global warming - University of Melbourne Greenhouse gases are not only emitted by industry, cars or households. In addition to carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases are emitted by soils as part of the natural cycling of nutrients and decomposition. These so called non-CO2 greenhouse gases are more potent than carbon dioxide with regard to global warming, and already make up one quarter of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.	14th May 2007
Storm danger real: scientist - CNews Torrential rains brought on by global warming may increasingly overwhelm city storm sewers across Canada, a London scientist warns.	14th May 2007
Tech firms confront 'dramatic' rise in power use - Market Watch SAN FRANCISCO: In the computer data centers of America's largest corporations and Internet service providers, the heat is on -- literally. Kieran Taylor, director of product management for Web-services provider Akamai Technologies Inc., can tell you. He gets calls "every week" from frantic network managers at big companies who've either exceeded their electricity budgets for the year or run out of room for even one more server in their facilities.	14th May 2007
US presidential election: The environment at stake - Bellona Foundation The message from the current US environmental debate is that the next administration-be it Democratic or Republican-needs to take global warming seriously.	14th May 2007
US spies 'must look at global warming' - Telegraph.co.uk America's top intelligence official says the nation's spy agencies should assess the "geopolitical and security implications" of global warming.	14th May 2007
Vermont Could Clear Way for New US Emissions Rules - Planet Ark BOSTON - A Vermont judge could soon clear the way for nearly a dozen states to surmount auto industry protests and limit emissions from cars and light trucks to protect the environment, legal experts said.	14th May 2007
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Murdoch: I'm proud to be green In one of the most unexpected conversions since Saul of Tarsus hit the road to Damascus, Rupert Murdoch is turning into a green campaigner. He is making the whole of his worldwide operations carbon neutral and setting out to "educate and engage" his readers and viewers about global warming.	13th May 2007
Canadians reject Tory green plan, push Grits into narrow lead - Canada.com OTTAWA - Canadians aren't buying the Conservative government's green plan and have turned to the Liberals as their preferred party if a vote were held today, according to the latest Ipsos Reid poll.	13th May 2007
Plans for wind farm scrapped - BBC News Plans for a controversial wind farm scheme near Saddleworth Moor are scrapped.	13th May 2007
Summit into climate change opens - BBC News Government, business and consumers need to cooperate to reduce climate change, Environment Secretary David Miliband says.	13th May 2007
Class, not dismissed - Grist Magazine "Climate, Class, and Claptrap," by Garret Keizer. "This pretense of not knowing what every idiot knows has increasingly come to define our national discourse. ... It also characterizes the burgeoning acknowledgment of global warming, the willingness to grant that a crisis exists even as our key players scramble to guarantee that every systemic cause of that crisis remains intact."	13th May 2007
220 wildfires rage across Florida - Independent Florida, the US state that is most vulnerable to global warming, is belatedly joining the fight to control climate change as more than 220 wildfires - fanned by the first named storm of the season - rage across its territory.	13th May 2007
Glacial melt threatens watershed of Asian plateau - San Jose Mercury News The glaciers of the Himalayas store more ice than anywhere else on Earth except the polar regions and Alaska, and the steady flow of water from their melting icepacks fills seven of the mightiest rivers of Asia. Now, because of global warming and related changes in the monsoons and trade winds, the glaciers are retreating at a startling rate, and scientists say the ancient icepacks could nearly disappear within one or two generations.	13th May 2007
Missouri Floods Subside, May Have Been Exacerbated by Warming - Bloomberg The heavy rainfall that caused the Missouri River to rise as much as 13 feet (4 meters) above its flood stage in some areas may have been exacerbated by global warming, climatologists said. As much as 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain fell in the state in the past week, the National Weather Service said. ``Some of the extreme rains can be blamed on global warming,'' said Jeff Masters, director of meteorology for the Weather Underground Web site in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ``It's thought that as the globe continues to warm, these events will become more extreme.''	13th May 2007
European Union unhappy with UN talks on global warming - New Europe European Union officials voiced disappointment and frustration May 10 that the conference on sustainable development taking place at UN headquarters had not made progress in working out solutions to address the urgent problem of global warming.	13th May 2007
Save the Earth Sacrifice Your Returns? - Washington Post IS socially responsible investing all it's cracked up to be?	13th May 2007
Drive to Cut Emissions Creates Jobs Engine - New York Times The job market for climate change experts has evolved as governments, businesses and environmental groups create markets aimed at reducing greenhouse gases.	13th May 2007
Al Gore says Rio "Live Earth" concert will be biggest - CNews RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Al Gore said Saturday that the July "Live Earth" concert on Copacabana Beach will be the largest of the seven simultaneous shows to raise awareness about global warming and the only one that will be free.	13th May 2007
National target 50 per cent emissions reduction by 2050 - The New Zealand Herald The National Party wants a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050. Speaking to the party's Northern Region conference, John Key said National would honour the country's international obligations and would not pull out of the Kyoto Protocol.	13th May 2007
Xcel may build first U.S. plant to store emissions in ground - Denver Post Xcel Energy could break ground by 2010 on the nation's first power plant that converts coal to gas and captures carbon emissions for underground storage.	13th May 2007
Environmental alert over biofuels - BBC News The drive to switch over to biofuels could lead to rising food prices and deforestation, a report warns.	13th May 2007
US 'bid to water down warming declaration' - Guardian Unlimited Washington reported to be objecting to specific global warming targets and arguing against significant UN involvement.	12th May 2007
The Tobacco Institute's Legacy of Spin - DeSmogBlog Big Tobacco, in the form of the Tobacco Institute and The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, wrote the book on manipulative PR tactics. Go no further than this 1982 news interview with a Tobacco Institute VP. Sound familiar? Same talking points, bigger issue. We have acquired more than 20 hours of old Tobacco Institute video, so watch for more clips over the next few weeks. tobacco institute war on science global warming climate change thank you for smoking	12th May 2007
Epistemological standards, arbitrarily applied By David RobertsI wonder what would happen if the same amount of skeptical attention paid to global warming science were paid to the other disciplines that inform policymakers: economics, opinion polling, covert intelligence, diplomacy, history, ethics, etc. Do those other areas of analysis produce models and predictions free of uncertainty? Of course not. And yet we use them every day, because -- outside this bizarre cultural artifact we call the ;quot;global warming debate;quot; -- people are quite accustomed to the notion that we have to do the best we can with the best information available.	12th May 2007
Climate Change Fosters Coral-Eating Starfish - IPS At the Kushimoto marine park, 640 km southwest of the national capital, divers proudly display the coral-eating starfish they pluck away from the famed table coral formations that attract tourists for their sheer beauty. 'The ocean around Kushimoto has become one degree warmer compared to the 1970s, and this is causing the proliferation of coral-destroying starfish. Removing the animals is hard work but our divers are eager to help,'' says Keiichi Nomura, biologist at the marine park.	12th May 2007
NSW drought worsening - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Latest figures show that more than 80 per cent of New South Wales is now in drought.	12th May 2007
Exotic planting scheme stepped up - BBC News More olive and palm trees are to be planted in central London in response to the changing weather.	12th May 2007
State Closes Coal-Fired Plant That Failed to Limit Emissions - New York Times New York State is forcing the closure of a power plant whose emissions have been linked to acid rain and smog.	12th May 2007
NASA Study Suggests Extreme Summer Warming in the Future - NASA A new study by NASA scientists suggests that greenhouse-gas warming may raise average summer temperatures in the eastern United States nearly 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the 2080s. [most read item]	12th May 2007
Study shows massive CO2 burps from ocean to atmosphere at end of last ice age - PhysOrg A University of Colorado at Boulder-led research team tracing the origin of a large carbon dioxide increase in Earth's atmosphere at the end of the last ice age has detected two ancient "burps" that originated from the deepest parts of the oceans.	12th May 2007
LEDs Emerge to Fight Fluorescents - Sydney Morning Herald The light bulb, the symbol of bright ideas, doesn't look like such a great idea anymore, as lawmakers in the U.S. and abroad are talking about banning the century-old technology because of its contribution to global warming.	12th May 2007
Fuel-Efficiency Bill "Full Of Holes" - CBS News A Senate bill aimed at curbing greenhouse emissions and making automobiles more fuel-efficient sounds good on the surface, but critics charge the legislation is loaded with business-as-usual loopholes.	12th May 2007
It's Al Gore's Worst Nightmare -- Kyoto Is Dead: William Pesek - Bloomberg.com The question: Isn't the Kyoto Protocol, which we expend so much time and energy debating, already dead? A key problem with Kyoto is that its goals are a decade old. Much has changed since then, both in terms of the amount of evidence proving the effects of climate change and public awareness. If the Kyoto treaty were re-written today, its emissions-reduction targets would be much higher. The treaty already seems irrelevant relative to the heavy lifting needed to clean our air and stop ocean levels from rising. Asia's boom also thickens the plot. It's not clear those gathered in Kyoto in 1997 foresaw how rapidly the economies of China and India would rise and alter global dynamics.	12th May 2007
Fens most at risk from climate change - Cambridgeshire Times Fens most at risk from climate changeCambridgeshire Times, UK. Scientists, academics, farmers and clergy gathered at Ely Maltings to hear the Environment Agency's predictions for how global warming was likely to affect ...	12th May 2007
Easing the high cost of going green - Globe and Mail Easing the high cost of going greenGlobe and Mail, Canada. With a growing public awareness to the long term cost benefits of green modelling technology and the negative effects of global warming, Mr. Gent feels ...	12th May 2007
Vermont could clear way for new emissions rules - Reuters via Yahoo! News A Vermont judge could soon clear the way for nearly a dozen states to surmount auto industry protests and limit emissions from cars and light trucks to protect the environment, legal experts said.	12th May 2007
News: Combating Climate Change: Industrial-Strength Efforts to Eliminate Excess Emissions - Scientific American Making cement, which requires heating to 1,450 degrees Celsius a mass of limestone and other ingredients, caused the release of nearly 46 teragrams (roughly 50.7 million tons) of greenhouse gases in the U.S. in 2005, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.	12th May 2007
Surge in carbon levels shows vegetation struggling - Guardian Unlimited Increased greenhouse gas from trees, plants and soil mean world may warm up more quickly than predicted.	11th May 2007
Unchecked global warming would spawn unparalleled depression, Suzuki warns - CNews OTTAWA (CP) - One of the country's best-known scientists and environmentalists is warning that the world economy will be devastated if governments don't act quickly and decisively to curb global warming emissions.	11th May 2007
Work to begin on world's biggest solar power plant - Boston Globe South Korea plans to break ground for the world's biggest solar power plant today as it tries to diversify its power sources and use cleaner energy.	11th May 2007
Massachusetts joins 31 states to track greenhouse gas emissions - Boston Herald BOSTON - Massachusetts has joined 31 states, two Canadian provinces and an Indian tribe to create the largest multistate effort to track gases associated with global warming. The Climate Registry, a newly...	11th May 2007
Worldwide Shift to Compact Fluorescents Could Close 270 Coal-Fired Power Plants: A Guest Commentary - ENN Switching light bulbs is an easy way of realizing large immediate gains in energy efficiency. A study for the U.S. government calculated that the gasoline equivalent of the energy saved over the lifetime of one 24 watt compact fluorescent bulb is sufficient to drive a Prius from New York to San Francisco.	11th May 2007
INTERVIEW-UN climate chief says time short to find 2012 pact - AlertNet The world has a "closing window of opportunity" to agree a pact to fight global warming beyond 2012, the U.N.'s top climate change official said on Thursday. Yvo de Boer also said reports by climate experts warning of ever more droughts, floods and rising seas should be given prominence at the next talks of environment ministers in Bali, Indonesia, in December.	11th May 2007
Brace for dire floods, scientist warns - CNews The worst flood in London's history will be eclipsed as global warming causes the Thames River to breach its banks more often and severely, a scientist projects.	11th May 2007
Beckett: Climate change could lead to global conflict - Guardian Unlimited · Foreign secretary warns of battle for scarce resources· UN vote on Zimbabwe taking environment chair	11th May 2007
Eric Alterman: Hot Planet, Hot Air - HuffingtonPost It's been six and a half years of this stuff and we've still got how long to go? Yet here we go again. Our president, the leader of the free world -- the most powerful nation not only on earth, but almost certainly in the whole history of the earth -- is stubbornly, inexplicably, sullenly refusing to observe the law of the land as interpreted by the Supreme Court on an issue of critical importance to the future security and prosperity of the nation. EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson explained that the agency had no immediate plans to implement the ruling and that the decision was "complex" and "he did not want to be tied to a specific timetable." (Heard that one before?) Unfortunately, they'll probably get away with it. The genius of this administration is that there's malevolence at so many levels and in so many places simultaneously that no news organization can possibly keep up. Remember, the media can handle roughly one, maybe two master narratives at a time.	11th May 2007
Alleged document leaker describes arrest as ‘witch hunt’ - National Post Describing his arrest as a "witch hunt," the Environment Canada employee arrested by the RCMP for an alleged leak identified himself on Thursday, a day after he was escorted out of his office in handcuffs. "I have not been charged of a crime," Jeffrey Monaghan, 27, told a brief press conference on Parliament Hill. "What I can tell you is that the proposed charges against me pose a profound threat to the public interest," said Mr. Monaghan, who did not take any questions. "They are without precedent in their disproportionality, they are vengeful and they are an extension of a government-wide communications strategy pinned on secrecy, intimidation and centralization." "Our society knows the threat presented by the changing climate, global warming, and the rapidly increasing growth of industrial emissions," Mr. Monaghan ...	11th May 2007
Climate change will bring scorching summers, NASA scientists say - CBC.ca NASA scientists predict average summer temperatures in the eastern United States will rise as much as five degrees Celsius by the 2080s as a result of global warming from rising amounts of greenhouse gases. The study's climate model predicts temperatures in the region higher than those predicted by global models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which said temperatures would rise between two and 3.5 degrees C in the same region by 2100.	11th May 2007
'Floods, Fires, Tornadoes - Uncle Dick, We couldn't have it done better ourselves' See also: Katrina in Kansas. - TIME A tornado so huge it looked like Satan's wide-tip marker obliterated an entire Kansas town with winds over 200 m.p.h. Days later, when President George W. Bush arrived to dispense hugs and sympathy, he found scarcely a roof still on four walls. Not a leaf left clinging to a tree. Lumber scraps lay strewn like hay behind a boisterous hayride. Yet somehow, this scene had a familiar feeling to it. Echoes of Katrina clanged like fire bells.	11th May 2007
Rosen incorrectly labeled Gore's sea level projection "great exaggeration" - Media Matters for America During a discussion about global warming, Newsradio 850 KOA host Mike Rosen asserted on his May 8 broadcast that former Vice President Al Gore's projections of rising sea levels are "considerably higher than the consensus calls for." However, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes similar predictions about the possibility of sea levels rising 20 feet should the Antarctic ice shelf or Greenland ice sheet melt in their entirety at some point.	11th May 2007
Home green schemes face funding cut - Guardian Unlimited The UK government today slashed grants for homeowners investing in renewable energy technologies such as solar panels. By Fiona Walsh. [most read item]	10th May 2007
Climate change hits Cape fishermen - iAfrica.com South Africa: Global warming is a cold reality for unemployed West Coast fishermen, out of work because the fish they used to catch have migrated south, ...	10th May 2007
Understanding the global carbon budget -- Woods Hole Research Center expert provides insights - EurekAlert! As climate change becomes more and more a central issue in local, national, and international discussions, understanding the global carbon budget, and how it influences trends in global warming, will become increasingly crucial.	10th May 2007
Thai capital goes dark for 15 minutes - CNews BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Sections of Thailand's glittery capital went dark for 15 minutes Wednesday as part of a campaign to raise awareness about global warming.	10th May 2007
US, Russian greenhouse gas emissions up, EU's dip - AlertNet U.S. and Russian greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2005, more than cancelling out a dip in the European Union's emissions despite growing calls to limit global warming, official data shows.	10th May 2007
Atlantic's 1st named storm forms early - Houston Chronicle Atlantic's 1st named storm forms earlyHouston Chronicle, TX. But the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN-sponsored group, says global warming caused by humans has led to an increase in stronger hurricanes.	10th May 2007
Mounties arrest Environment Canada employee for alleged leak of Green Plan - CNews OTTAWA (CP) - The RCMP have arrested an employee at Environment Canada, alleging that he leaked the federal government's draft climate change legislation.	10th May 2007
Fun with correlations! We are forever being bombarded with apparently incredible correlations of various solar indices and climate. A number of them came up in the excoriable TGGWS mockumentary last month where they were mysteriously 'improved' in a number of underhand ways. But even without those improvements (which variously involved changing the axes, drawing in non-existent data, taking out data that would contradict the point etc.), the as-published correlations were superficially quite impressive. Why then are we not impressed? To give you an idea, I'm going to go through the motions of constructing a new theory of political change using techniques that have been pioneered by a small subset of solar-climate researchers (references will of course be given).	10th May 2007
Sky's the limit for India flight boom - BBC News India's aviation market is booming - worrying about the environment will come later, reports the BBC's Damian Grammaticas.	10th May 2007
Drought may take bread prices up 40 pc - Nine O'Clock BUCHAREST – Officials for employers’ associations in the bread and bakery industry expect bread prices to go up this autumn by 40 per cent, because of the drought, Antena 3 reports.	10th May 2007
Dismay over Nuclear 'Solution' to Climate Problem - OneWorld The UN's experts on climate change are facing the wrath of many environmental groups this week for embracing the notion that additional use of nuclear power could be helpful in the fight against global warming.	10th May 2007
Rupert's green turn - Sydney Morning Herald RUPERT MURDOCH has got the message, and now he wants the rest of us to get it, too. He's become a convert to concerns about global warming and climate change. He recently bought himself a hybrid car. Mr Murdoch has announced his worldwide media empire intends to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2010.	10th May 2007
Climate Change Threatens California Water Supply - Planet Ark BERKELEY, Calif. - California's tallest mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, may lose nearly all its snowpack by the end of the century, threatening a water crisis in the nation's most populous state, a leading scientist and Nobel laureate said.	10th May 2007
Coal Makes Carbon Capture Progress Urgent - Experts - Planet Ark MADRID - The power industry urgently needs clear rules and incentives to invest in carbon capture or new coal-fired plants now being built will contribute for decades to global warming, industry specialists said on Wednesday.	10th May 2007
Coal's future in doubt - Energy Bulletin Richard Heinberg, Global Public Media. A new study prepared for the European Commission Joint Research Centre reports: "the world could run out of economically recoverable (at current economic and operating conditions) reserves of coal much earlier than widely anticipated."	10th May 2007
Blitz spirit needed to face threat of climate change - Guardian Unlimited The government's climate change bill has nowhere near the vision commensurate to the scale of the threat.	9th May 2007
Flights reach record levels despite climate warnings - Guardian Unlimited Less than a week after the world's scientists warned there may be just eight years to act on greenhouse gas pollution to avoid the worst of global warming, the aviation industry has announced record increases in the number of flights worldwide.	9th May 2007
Biofuel boom 'brings famine risks' - Guardian Unlimited Food shortages and increased poverty among warnings from UN about burgeoning biofuel industry.	9th May 2007
Beck's "Climate of Fear" crashes and burns Is it scientifically valid to attribute one instance of total failure by the global warming denier campaign to an emerging long-term global trend of failures by the global warming denier campaign?  Last week's Glenn Beck denier-a-minute special on climate change "alarmism" was a complete flop. The evening ratings are out and it shows Beck dead last in total viewers in the 7pm time slot. CNN can't be too happy, considering there was a considerable amount of hype-dollars invested in this attack on science.I guess Tim Ball isn't the media darling the US think tank s have been making him out to be.H/T ...	9th May 2007
The rush to go green could end in the red - Los Angeles Times The carbon credits produced under Kyoto may fall far short amid failed projects and faulty expectations. The rush to go green suggests easy money for investors in projects that reduce carbon dioxide output. The reality is otherwise: Many carbon projects turn out to be high risk. Project failures and over-optimism among developers, together with a tendency to exaggerate in applications, mean that 40% to 50% of the carbon credits anticipated under the Kyoto protocol will never be delivered, carbon traders and analysts say.	9th May 2007
Howard backs emissions trading scheme - The Age Howard backs emissions trading schemeThe Age, Australia. Under fire for the budget's perceived lack of major global warming initiatives, Mr Howard said he was awaiting a report on emissions trading at the end of ...	9th May 2007
£200 pollution charge for lorries - BBC News Polluting lorries, buses and coaches will be charged £200 to drive into London, the mayor announces.	9th May 2007
UN warns on impacts of biofuels A UN report warns that hasty introduction of biofuels could damage livelihoods and the environment.	9th May 2007
The Overton window keeps moving Two bills floating around Congress now serve as the far side of the Overton window on climate policy. Both adopt the (relatively) stringent target of reducing CO2 emissions 80% from 1990 levels by 2050. In the House, there's Rep. Waxman's Safe Climate Act, and in the Senate, there's Sen. Sanders' (formerly Sen. Jeffords') Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act. It is a mark of how far the debate has shifted that the latter actually seems to be moving into the realm of the possible. Sen. Boxer became a co-sponsor shortly after the election, and today, the bill picked up some new co-sponsors ...	9th May 2007
These lies will end in our misery - Sydney Morning Herald Propaganda often works through fabrications so audacious that it is hard to know how to respond. This technique has been adopted by the federal Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, in his frequent claim that Australia is "leading the world" in the response to the climate crisis. To counter the view at home and abroad that Australia is a pariah in efforts to tackle global warming, the Government has campaigned relentlessly to persuade voters the opposite is the case. To succeed it must somehow undo the hold of the facts.	9th May 2007
Drought declared across South Carolina - Savannah Morning News	9th May 2007
Drought forces 2 coastal cities to clamp wells - The Palm Beach Post	9th May 2007
Strong sun burns wine grapes - Beverage Daily	9th May 2007
Eco-friendly LED lighting technology with 1000% improvement in energy efficiency Interesting advert for LED lighting	9th May 2007
Bonkers headlines from PhysOrg Solar Boat Completes Fuel-Free Voyage (AP) -- A Swiss-built solar vessel completed the first sun-powered crossing of the Atlantic Tuesday when it arrived at its final destination in New York, the group behind the project said. [... makes you wonder how Columbus got around...] 'Intelligent' cars as fuel-efficient as hybrids So-called "intelligent" cars fitted with sensors to predict traffic flows can deliver the same fuel efficiency as vaunted hybrid vehicles, according to a study published on Wednesday. [...so let's fit this technology to hybrids and get even more fuel economy...]	9th May 2007
Environmental group challenges Shell green advert - Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - An environmental group said on Tuesday it would file complaints to three European regulators about a Royal Dutch Shell advertisement that says the oil major uses waste CO2 to help grow flowers. Friends of the Earth Europe said Shell advertising that its Pernis refinery near Rotterdam pipes CO2 to nearby greenhouses is misleading because only a fraction of the CO2 emissions are used in this way.	8th May 2007
20 Years Later, Again Assigned to Fight Climate Change - New York Times Gro Harlem Brundtland is one of three special envoys with the job of prodding world leaders to act on at least one environmental front: cutting greenhouse gas emissions.	8th May 2007
Former weed may fill world's fuel tanks - The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News In an overgrown corner of Moolchand Sethia's plantation, runty and unloved, stands what could be the next revolution in the world's search for renewable fuel.	8th May 2007
You can't pollute my air - Ottawa Citizen The Canadian government's plan essentially caps the cost of emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide at $20 Cdn until 2020 (the price would rise in lockstep with economic growth) by letting heavy emitters pay that amount into a technology-development fund until 2017. That's not actually the cost of each tonne of emissions, just of each tonne over the government-determined limit, which itself is a rising target as long as the economy keeps growing -- by the end of the next decade, economic growth will likely have made the intensity-based targets meaningless.	8th May 2007
Dangerous and growing The most destructive Minnesota wildfire in ... - Pioneer Press Dangerous and growing The most destructive Minnesota wildfire in ...Pioneer Press, MN. "Personally, it's hard to argue against the idea of climate change and global warming." The last major wildfire in the region struck last year, ...	8th May 2007
Livingstone to charge older, dirtier trucks and buses £200 a day to drive in London - Guardian Unlimited A business group has warned that Ken Livingstone's low-emission zone will hit small and medium-sized firms that cannot afford newer vehicles.	8th May 2007
Climate Conference Searches for Kyoto Protocol Replacement - Deutsche Welle A UN conference on climate change opened in the German city of Bonn Monday in a bid to tie countries such as the United States and China into a new accord on greenhouse emissions that will replace the Kyoto Protocol.	8th May 2007
China's mixed messages on climate - BBC News The BBC's Dan Griffiths looks at how China is talking the talk but not living up to its promises on climate change.	8th May 2007
What's the carbon-weather looking like today? Okay, you can't check today's "carbon-weather" but you can see what it was in the past. Check out this site created by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that provides a global perspective of carbon uptake and release.The image above is the North American carbon weather on January 1, 2005. carbon weather NOAA global warming climate change [NOTE that the scale and legend changes with the date - In 2000, red represents 372 ppm, in 2005, it represents 381 ppm]	8th May 2007
Migratory birds, whales confused by warming: U.N. BONN (Reuters) - Birds, whales and other migratory creatures are suffering from global warming that puts them in the wrong place at the wrong time, a U.N. official told 166-nation climate talks on Monday.	8th May 2007
Germans stay home for eco-holiday - BBC News Germans are staying home for the holidays - swapping Mecklenberg for Majorca - in the fight against global warming.	8th May 2007
A moment with Dr. Richard Leakey - Seattle Post-Intelligencer A moment with Dr. Richard Leakey, famed paleontologist, advocate for African wildlife and now climate change crusader.	8th May 2007
Healthy coral reefs hit hard by warmer temperatures - EurekAlert! Coral disease outbreaks have struck the healthiest sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, where for the first time researchers have conclusively linked disease severity and ocean temperature. Close living quarters among coral may make it easy for infection to spread, researchers have found.	8th May 2007
Massachusetts Challenges Federal Energy Rules - Planet Ark BOSTON - Massachusetts sued the federal government Monday, accusing energy regulators of failing to tighten standards that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and eliminate the need for major new power plants.	8th May 2007
C4 accused of falsifying data in documentary on climate change - Independent C4 accused of falsifying data in documentary on climate changeIndependent, UK. The makers of a Channel 4 documentary which claimed that global warming is a swindle have been accused of fabricating data by one of the scientists who ...	8th May 2007
COMMENTARY: I’ve Seen the Glaciers Shrinking - E/The Environmental Magazine COMMENTARY: I’ve Seen the Glaciers ShrinkingE/The Environmental Magazine, CT. The scientific evidence regarding climate change, and the consequences of human-caused release of global warming pollution, is conclusive and overwhelming, ...	8th May 2007
Floods and drought: Lloyd's assesses climate change - Reuters Floods and drought: Lloyd's assesses climate changeReuters. "You don't have to be a believer in global warming to recognize the climate is changing. The industry has to get ready for the changes that are coming." ...	8th May 2007
Melting of the Greenland ice cap may have consequences for ... - EurekAlert - press release Melting of the Greenland ice cap may have consequences for ...EurekAlert (press release), DC. The magnitude of possible climate change in the future will depend to a large degree on the response of ocean circulation to global warming, ...	8th May 2007
The morality of biofuels - ScienceAlert The morality of biofuelsScienceAlert, Australia. Escalating energy costs and the growing fear of climate change have encouraged a headlong rush to renewable energy. Biofuel from biomass is emerging as a ...	8th May 2007
What to do now?: Conclusions and recommendations It is within the capacity of U.S. environmentalists to refocus our energies on a tougher, more realistic climate agenda. We have the necessary resources, skills (in alumni as well as current staff and leadership), political power, and principles of action. The things we lack -- a national structure, institutional support services, strategic planning, a dedicated environmentalist core -- could be put in place if it were a priority. Cost, it must be emphasized, is not the problem. U.S. environmentalists are spending between $100 and $150 million on climate, according to an unpublished foundation report, more than enough to launch the sort of effort presented here.	8th May 2007
Greenhouse gas curbs too weak, Albertans tell pollster - Canada.com OTTAWA - An overwhelming majority of Albertans believe the central plank in the federal government's new environmental plan isn't tough enough to deal with greenhouse gas emissions from their province's largest industry, a new poll reveals.	7th May 2007
Time Is Short - Ted Glick the IPCC reports have limitations. A New York Times article of February 3rd of this year, for example, written by Andrew Revkin and Elisabeth Rosenthal, referring to this year’s first IPCC report, explained that “other scientists have recently reported evidence that the glaciers and ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctic could flow seaward far more quickly than estimated in the past, and they have proposed that the risks to coastal areas could be much more imminent. But the climate change panel is forbidden by its charter to enter into speculation, and so could not include such possible instabilities in its assessment.” [most read item]	7th May 2007
Famous Caymans coral reefs dying, scientists say GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (Reuters) - To coral reef-driven tourism industries like those of the Cayman Islands, there could be a greater cost in ignoring climate change than fighting it.	7th May 2007
Call for household energy audits - Daily Telegraph A home energy audit could lead to the average household saving £230 a year on their energy bills and preventing a sizeable fraction of the amount of greenhouse gas emissions Britain produces each year, a report has said.	7th May 2007
Italy Declares State of Emergency over Drought - Planet Ark ROME - Italy declared a state of emergency in northern and central regions on Friday due to fears of drought following unusually warm and dry weather.	7th May 2007
How do you tell when a firm is really green? - The Christian Science Monitor A panel discussion with two experts who research companies that claim to be Earth-friendly.	7th May 2007
PREVIEW - Governments Meet on Climate: "No Excuse" For Inaction - Planet Ark OSLO - Governments meet in Bonn from Monday to seek ways to fight global warming, with the UN's top climate official warning there is "no excuse" for inaction after bleak new forecasts.	7th May 2007
US Rejects 'High Cost' Global Warming Scenarios - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - The White House rejected on Friday what it called "high cost" scenarios to tackle global warming that were spelled out in the latest report by a United Nations panel on climate change.	7th May 2007
INTERVIEW - China Calls for Access to Clean Energy Technology - Planet Ark BANGKOK - The world's rich countries must be prepared to share energy-saving technologies such as cleaner power stations with poorer nations if a bid to curb global warming is to work, a top Chinese energy official said on Friday.	7th May 2007
Consumers fear costs of greener energy - Guardian Unlimited Britain's energy consumers are prepared to meet some of the costs of curbing greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change, but are worried they may be forced to assume too large a burden.	7th May 2007
How condoms could save planet - Guardian Unlimited Having a large family should be regarded as an eco-crime, according to new report.	7th May 2007
Accept GM food, expert says - NEWS.com.au AUSTRALIANS will have to accept genetically modified (GM) food if the agriculture industry is to continue in an era of climate change, a plant genetics expert says. See also: Nanotechnology and Climate Change to Transform Worldwide Food Industry	7th May 2007
Getting Expensive - Cartoon by Tom Toles	6th May 2007
Fiddling with figures while the Earth burns - Times Online If you want to get some idea of what much of the Earth might look like in 50 years’ time then, says James Lovelock, get hold of a powerful telescope or log onto Nasa’s Mars website. That arid, empty, lifeless landscape is, he believes, how most of Earth’s equatorial lands will be looking by 2050. A few decades later and that same uninhabitable desert will have extended into Spain, Italy, Australia and much of the southern United States. Lovelock believes that the transformation is happening far too fast for humanity to tackle, especially in a world that remains committed to economic growth and whose 6.5 billion population is predicted to reach more than 9 billion by mid-century. At first sight Lovelock’s predictions seem wildly at odds with the IPCC’s reports, but in many ways the only difference is in the vividness of the language. “The progressive acidification of oceans due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide is expected to have negative impacts on marine shell-forming organisms (ie corals) and their dependent species,” said the IPCC report detailing the impacts of climate change – its careful language draining the drama from a warning that vast tracts of the ocean may turn so acidic that little life will be left in them.[most read item]	6th May 2007
Wildlife fears after low rainfall - BBC News People are asked to report any environmental incidents as fears grow for wildlife after a hot and dry spring. Fears that rivers could become toxic to fish have been voiced by the Environment Agency after a dry April.	6th May 2007
Timeline: Changeable UK weather - BBC The UK is experiencing summertime conditions in early spring - with temperatures already hitting more than 26C in the south. Here is a summary of this year's changeable weather. Record highs and observations will be updated through what the Met Office predicts could be the hottest year yet recorded.	6th May 2007
Something?s Up With the Violets - New York Times FOR many New Yorkers, familiarity with nature comes mainly in the form of extravagant salads, but for Steve Brill, extravagant salads come from his familiarity with nature. He has been living off the bounty of the city?s parks for 25 years, feasting on wild edibles and leading foraging tours twice a week.	6th May 2007
Birth of a new wedge: agrichar - terra preta Kelpie Wilson, Truthout. The first meeting of the International Agrichar Initiative convened about 100 scientists, policymakers, farmers and investors with the goal of birthing an entire new industry to produce a biofuel that goes beyond carbon neutral and is actually carbon negative. The industry could provide a "wedge" of carbon reduction amounting to a minimum of ten percent of world emissions and possibly much more.	6th May 2007
Monckton saves the day! - Guardian A favourite policy adviser of Mrs Thatcher in the Eighties, the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley is now the country's most notorious climate-change sceptic and has thrown down a challenge to Al Gore to a public debate on global warming. What does he know that we don't? Only that he has never been wrong.	6th May 2007
Highlights of the IPCC's mitigation report - Gristmill I want to highlight a few points from the IPCC’s Mitigation Report (PDF). First, even the most stringent global greenhouse gas targets can be met at a cost of a mere 0.1% of GDP per year! While the report is not explicit about when action should be taken, it does say that: In order to stabilize the concentration of GHGs in the atmosphere, emissions would need to peak and decline thereafter. The lower the stabilization level, the more quickly this peak and decline would need to occur. The Center for American Progress and I have encouraged stabilizing atmospheric CO2 concentration at 450 ppm and/or a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius over the pre-industrial era.	6th May 2007
Mediterranean nations face up to threat of climate change - AFP via Yahoo! News Global warming threatens to wreak economic havoc across the Mediterranean basin, warned scientists from 62 research institutes who have banded together to study the regional consequences of climate change and propose ways to adapt.	6th May 2007
In quotes: Climate report reaction - BBC News Reaction to the IPCC's third climate change report, which says greenhouse gases can be curbed at reasonable cost. See also: Progress On Global Warming Is Questioned - CBS News UN scientists: time is running out - Guardian Unlimited FACTBOX-U.N. findings on costs of fighting global warming - AlertNet Changes in lifestyle can slow warming, scientists say - San Francisco Chronicle Experts Warn Dire Global Warming Report Doomed to Failure - Canton Repository	5th May 2007
Leading article: Act, don't despair, on climate change It is sometimes difficult to walk the tight-rope of climate change. Focusing on the dire scientific assessments of what could happen in an overheated world can send people tumbling into a pit of despair. Yet making light of the problems caused by rising greenhouse gases can equally generate a false sense of security.	5th May 2007
$10 to save the planet The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded today that it would cost .12% of the world's domestic product to substantially reduce our collective greenhouse gas emissions. GDP of the world economy: US$60 trillion.12% of $60 trillion: $70 billionTotal population of the earth: 6.5 billionCost per person to significantly reduce heat-trapping gas worldwide: $10 a yearCost of saving the planet from droughts, famine, mass flooding, species extinction and rising sea levels: priceless.Note: I've revised the calculations here. From $110 to $10 per person.Here's the math: $60 trillion/.0012/6.5 billion = 10 (rounded figures) ipcc intergovernmental panel on climate change global warming	5th May 2007
Spinning the economic "doom and gloom" of global warming has lost credibility ThinkProgress has a great piece today outlining the Republican (and their sympathetic media) attempts to frame greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies as devastating to the US economy. The report released today by the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change focussed on potential C02 mitigation plans and the economics of implementing such plans. The authors of the summary report conclude that, "the cost of reducing CO2 emissions to a stable level will be about .12% of the annual gross domestic product." When you consider how many people currently inhabit the earth, this dollar amount is pennies compared to the potential devastation to our environment and way of life.It's not surprising, that the likes of right-wing media star Rush Limbaugh has a different take on the costs.	5th May 2007
UN report debunks Baird's Kyoto cost claim - CNews Canada: Opposition parties say a new United Nations climate change report debunks the Harper government's contention that Canada can't meet its Kyoto commitments without falling into a deep recession.	5th May 2007
Rwanda's underwater powerhouse - BBC News BBC's Adam Mynott explains how the deep waters of Lake Kivu in Rwanda hold an answer for climate change. Rotting vegetation which has been deposited for millions of years at the bottom of the lake is giving off a constant regenerating supply of methane gas.	5th May 2007
How Clean Is Your Carbon Credit? - New York Times Reports of carbon credit fraud and abuse are piling up.	5th May 2007
Court challenge to Gore film in schools - Guardian Unlimited Government plans to provide every secondary school in England with Al Gore's climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth are to be challenged in the courts. [...struggle by deniers to label the film 'politically controversial']	5th May 2007
Ban concerned about 70% rise in greenhouse gas emissions since 70s - Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said Friday he is concerned about rises in greenhouse gas emissions over the past several decades and the expected jump in future emissions.	5th May 2007
Maldives may disappear by 2100 - Gulf News This Indian Ocean island cluster is a magnet for Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise, but the Maldives may disappear within generations unless world leaders urgently combat climate change, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom warns.	5th May 2007
Website to give insight on warming - Toronto Star 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 neighbourhood 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 website will allow users to trace more than 30,000 connections between science, economics, events in history and the weather. Created by science journalist James Burke, the site aims to explain, in real-world terms, the impact of melting ice caps, rising carbon dioxide levels and warming oceans. It will allow users to see the direct effect of carbon emissions on their neighbourhood, schools, businesses and national economies.	5th May 2007
'Deal struck' at UN climate talks - BBC Experts at a major UN climate change conference in Bangkok have reached a deal on the best ways to combat global warming, delegates say. The current atmospheric concentration is about 425ppm, and many climate scientists now argue that only agreeing to keep below about 450ppm can prevent major climatic consequences. The IPCC draft says keeping concentrations at this level could cost up to 3% of GDP. "I can tell you that the probability for achieving 450ppm in anything approaching the world as it now is almost impossible," commented Professor Stephen Schneider from Stanford University in California, who helped draft the IPCC's first report this year on the science of climate change. "But a temperature rise over 2-3C leads to potential mass extinctions, serious problems with coasts, mountain glaciers disappearing, melting ice sheets... and one has to talk about stabilisation at 450-550ppm range to have a better than 20-30% chance of preventing that." More from Bangkok: World 'must act to avoid devastating global warming' - Guardian Unlimited Economics of tackling climate change - BBC News	4th May 2007
Intelligence Analysts Eye Climate Change - Guardian Unlimited Top intelligence analysts are diving into the politically sensitive issue of climate change, but some Democrats in Congress are demanding even more. The House Intelligence Committee approved a provision late Wednesday as part of a spy budget bill that would require the National Intelligence Council to produce its highest-level assessment - a National Intelligence Estimate - specifically on climate change. The bill, which the House could take up next week, calls on analysts to study the political, social, agricultural and economic risks associated with climate change over the next 30 years.	4th May 2007
Beck's global warming special dominated by industry-funded "experts," serial misinformers - Media Matters for America CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck's May 2 hour-long special, Exposed: The Climate of Fear, purported to present the "other side of the climate debate that you don't hear anywhere." Introducing the show, Beck stated: "I want you to know right up front, this is not a balanced look at global warming." Indeed, Beck relied heavily on people with energy industry ties and others espousing positions on global warming that have been soundly debunked or rejected by the overwhelming majority of scientists studying climate change.	4th May 2007
Canadians Want MP's to Uphold Kyoto Protocol - Angus Reid Global Monitor Many adults in Canada want their federal lawmakers to support Bill C-30, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. 55 per cent of respondents want their representative in the House of Commons to vote in favour of the amended legislation that seeks to force the federal government to comply with the Kyoto Protocol.	4th May 2007
Power station harnesses Sun's rays - BBC News The BBC's David Shukman reports from Europe's first commercial power station powered by the Sun.	4th May 2007
Italy declares drought emergency - CNN.com ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- Italy declared a state of emergency in northern and central regions on Friday due to fears of drought following unusually warm and dry weather.	4th May 2007
Alarm grows in European farming over drought - EARTHtimes.org Berlin - A spring drought affecting parts of Europe north of the Alps is worrying farmers, who say they need rain within the next couple of weeks or crops will fail. Helmut Born of the German Farmers Federation said this week: "We are hearing from the meteorologists that the drought area stretches from northern France through to Poland." Affected farmers say the soil is as dry as it usually is in August.	4th May 2007
Warmer streams threat to species - BBC News A 25-year study finds climate change is warming streams affecting small creatures.	4th May 2007
Rising sea levels threaten small Pacific island nations - International Herald Tribune Dire climate change predictions may seem like science fiction in many parts of the world. But in the tiny, sea-swept Pacific nation of Tuvalu, the crisis has already arrived.	4th May 2007
Arctic Leaders Blame Warming for Wolves, Suicide - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - Global warming sent marauding wolves into an Alaskan hamlet, killed Norwegian reindeer with unlikely parasites and may even spur suicide among Inuit youth, Arctic leaders said on Thursday. [most read item]	4th May 2007
Busy gardeners say it's down to global warming - Guardian Unlimited Two thirds of gardeners report earlier blooming bulbs, and over a quarter are convinced it is caused by climate change.	4th May 2007
As the Climate Changes, Bits of England's Coast Crumble - New York Times As climate change has accelerated erosion on the east coast of Britain, many scientists and politicians have decided that it no longer makes sense to defend the land. Under the policy of managed retreat, farms, nature preserves and villages are surrendered to the sea.	4th May 2007
Butterflies make early appearance The hottest April on record has meant butterflies are hatching up to two months early.	4th May 2007
Thin Soup and a Thin Story - RealClimate A firm called planktos.com is getting a lot of airplay for their bid to create a carbon offset product based on fertilizing the ocean. In certain parts of the ocean, surface waters already contain most of the ingredients for a plankton bloom; all they lack is trace amounts of iron. For each 1 atom of iron added in such a place, phytoplankton take up 50,000 atoms of carbon. What could be better? Phytoplankton biomass does not last forever, any more than tree biomass does. If you’re concerned about climate change, build a windmill. Ocean fertilization does not seem to me suitable to be the basis for a reliable financial commodity, or a practical tool for geo-engineering climate.	4th May 2007
Paradox of China's emissions - BBC News Where to count manufacturing emissions: With end-users in the West, or the producers in China?	4th May 2007
Dodd: Tax companies' CO2 emissions - USA Today Democratic presidential candidate Chris Dodd promoted his environmental agenda Thursday, calling for a tax on corporations' carbon dioxide emissions and more efforts to create fuel-efficient automobiles.	4th May 2007
Indonesia Deforestation Fastest in World - Greenpeace - Planet Ark JAKARTA - Indonesia had the fastest pace of deforestation in the world between 2000-2005, with an area of forest equivalent to 300 soccer pitches destroyed every hour, Greenpeace said on Thursday.	4th May 2007
Malaria fear as global warming increases Global warming could lead to a return of insect-borne diseases in Britain such as malaria, and increased incidence of skin cancer caused by exposure to the sun, a government report warns today.	4th May 2007
FEATURE-Bhutan to pay for others' climate sins - AlertNet High in the Himalayas, the isolated mountain kingdom of Bhutan has done more to protect its environment than almost any other country. Forests cover nearly three quarters of its land, and help to absorb the greenhouse gases others emit. Its strict conservation policies help to guard one of the world's top 10 biodiversity hotspots, often to the chagrin of its own farmers. Yet Bhutan could pay a high price for the sins of others -- global warming is a major threat to its fragile ecosystem and the livelihoods of its people. "Our farmers are paying a high price for our strict conservation policies," Agriculture Minister Sangay Ngedup told Reuters in an interview. "We are sacrificing a lot, but the world is not making a positive contribution to us."	4th May 2007
Our leaders are steering us into the abyss - The New Statesman That anyone can still deny planetary warming when faced with such conditions is a tribute to human ingenuity.	3rd May 2007
Nature's carbon 'sink' smaller than expected - The Christian Science Monitor Earth in 2100 could be up to 2.7 degrees F. hotter than previously predicted, studies say.	3rd May 2007
Wineke: Why the military is going green - Wisconsin State Journal While the rest of us are debating whether the world is really warming and arguing about whether hybrids are the cars of the future, the nation's military leaders are beginning to lay plans for what to do in case that future is more dire than we now anticipate. The reason the Pentagon is looking at global warming and the availability of alternative fuels is that, unlike politicians who rarely look past the next election, military planners have to be prepared for wars that may not be fought for decades. Generals who explain "we didn't think that would happen" don't often win high rank in the annals of military history.	3rd May 2007
Global warming blamed for Swedish beetle-infestation - International Herald Tribune Until now, the beetle has never been a big problem in Northern Europe, mainly because long and cold winters kept their numbers down. But for this year and the next, experts are predicting an explosion in the number of beetles, causing the death of up to 60 million cubic meters, or 2.1 billion cubic feet, of trees - almost two-thirds of the yearly regeneration of Sweden's forests. "This is the worst situation we've ever seen here in Sweden," said Bo Langstrom, a professor of entomology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. "Usually, the beetle only produces one brood per year here in Sweden. But last year, for the first time, it produced two."	3rd May 2007
Warmest April average temperature since records began in 1659 - Guardian Unlimited Last month was the warmest April since records began in 1659. [most read item]	3rd May 2007
Shrinking giants: The grey whales under threat from starvation They were one of the triumphs of conservation worldwide. Grey whales were hunted to the brink of extinction in the 1850s after the discovery of calving lagoons, and again in the early 1900s with the introduction of floating whaling factories. In 1937, they were given partial protection by the International Whaling Commission (IWC), and full protection 10 years later.	3rd May 2007
German Farmers Face Crop Failure as Drought Drags On - Deutsche Welle Germany experienced the driest and warmest April in more than 200 years -- good news for a frequently sun-starved population, but bad news for farmers, who may face devastating crop losses.	3rd May 2007
As drought worsens, Australian cattle scour roadsides for food - AFP via Yahoo! News As Australian farmer Philip Bell coaxed his cattle along the road, a bystander nodded toward a straggler ambling behind the rest of the herd searching for an overlooked tussock of grass.	3rd May 2007
Experts fear global warming may hit world's rice bowl - The Brunei Times Environmentalists and scientists say that as the world gets hotter, floods, droughts and rising sea levels could push Thailand's rice yields down significantly with a huge impact on rural communities.	3rd May 2007
Global carbon trading market triples to £15bn - Guardian Unlimited Many unregulated offset projects fall short, and EU scheme accounts for bulk of transactions.	3rd May 2007
Nuclear Power No Sure Cure for Climate Ills - Groups - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - Nuclear energy may not live up to its promise as the solution for global warming, according to separate reports released this week by an environmental group and an independent think tank.	3rd May 2007
China seen as a roadblock to U.N. climate report - Los Angeles Times Beijing wants the U.S. and Europe to bear most of the blame and costs for controlling global warming. China, on pace to become the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, has emerged as the major stumbling block in approving a United Nations report on how to stabilize global warming and generate the trillions of dollars needed for the endeavor.	3rd May 2007
Thinking like rats: why humans fail to act on climate change - EARTHtimes.org Many people know about the dangers of global warming, but only few act. The explanation, says Professor Andreas Ernst of the University of Kassel, has two parts. On the one hand, human beings get stubbornly comfortable in their habits. On the other, the human species is biologically programmed to act in its own best interests - and its members aren't very different from common rats on that point..	3rd May 2007
Harvesting houses for the planet - BBC Buildings are expected to feature as a crucial area for energy-saving in the UN's third report on climate change this week.	3rd May 2007
Car-Free Zones On Rise In U.S. - CBS News More U.S. cities are closing park roads to cars in favor of pedestrian and bicycle traffic. Arguments that such road closures promote family activities, more active lifestyles, and tighter-knit communities have been persuasive.	3rd May 2007
Climate experts: Tech a last resort - CNN.com BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- There's no shortage of ideas for high-tech measures to combat global warming: develop clean biofuels made of corn or palm oil, ramp up production of advanced nuclear power stations, or bury harmful carbon emissions in underground vaults.	3rd May 2007
CNN's Glenn Beck to host hour-long global warming smear-fest - Media Matters for America CNN's Glenn Beck to host hour-long global warming smear-festMedia Matters for America, DC. *A "Transcripts" review of the Nexis database for terms "show: (Glenn Beck) and global warming or climate change" yielded these results.	3rd May 2007
Fewer Valentine's roses as Norway goes 'carbon neutral' - AFP via Yahoo! News Fewer roses on a wintry Valentine's Day, less room for kids in smaller cars and costlier holidays in the tropics: life in Norway will be less glamorous but more climate-friendly as the country aims to be the world's first "carbon neutral" economy by 2050.	3rd May 2007
Our leaders just don't get it - CNews When Environment Minister Baird announced his government’s new climate change plan, I was in Toronto, getting ready to shoot some television commercials promoting energy conservation.	3rd May 2007
Plants 'not to blame' for potent greenhouse gases Previous research suggesting that plants are major emitters of methane has now been contradicted by a new study	3rd May 2007
Poor nations brake greenhouse gas rise-UN draft - AlertNet Source: Reuters By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, May 2 (Reuters) - Developing nations that are fast industrialising, such as China and India, have braked their rising greenhouse gas emissions by ...	3rd May 2007
Melting Greenland ice could raise ocean seven meters The world's oceans could rise by up to seven meters if Greenland's ice cap entirely melts because of global warming, climate scientists said Tuesday. [most read item] See also: 7m sea rise	2nd May 2007
May gets backing from Brits in comparing climate change to Second World War - CNews OTTAWA (CP) - Elizabeth May was sharply criticized Tuesday for comparing lax climate change policies to the appeasement of Nazi Germany, but the unapologetic Green party leader got some unexpected support from British royalty.	2nd May 2007
UN report chastises Tory green plan - Canada.com Criticism rained down Tuesday on Ottawa's new approach to fighting global warming, as a group of leading scientists and a draft of a new United Nations report both slammed the plan as costly and ineffective.	2nd May 2007
Canadians Doubt Baird's Climate Change Views - Angus Reid (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Many Canadian adults disagree with the conclusions of their environment minister concerning the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies.	2nd May 2007
Huge swaths of plankton planned to fight climate change - International Herald Tribune Silicon valley entrepreneurs want to cultivate phytoplankton to absorb and sequester carbon emissions, but scientists warn of risks.	2nd May 2007
Developing countries tell climate conference they need help to cope - CNews BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Developing countries say a key climate report being negotiated this week should reflect a dreadful reality: they will be hit worse by a warming world and need help to deal with it.	2nd May 2007
EnviroHealth: How to Stop the Planet From Burning We know that climate change is happening. But can it be stopped? George Monbiot's book "Heat" shows how it can.	2nd May 2007
Global Survey of Lizards Reveals Greater Abundance of Animals on Islands Than on Mainland Ecosystems Besides confirming that longstanding observation, the study signals an alarm for island populations in a rapidly warming world. It suggests that climate change may have devastating consequences for lizards and other animals that inhabit islands because their ecosystems are much more sensitive than those on the mainland to change.	2nd May 2007
Beck said Gore using "same tactic" in fight against global warming as Hitler - Media Matters for America On his radio program, Glenn Beck stated that Al Gore is using "the same tactic" in his efforts to fight global warming that Adolf Hitler used to vilify Jews in Nazi Germany, but Beck said that Gore's "goal is different. The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax. The goal is the United Nations running the world. That is the goal." [...don't worry about the UN - the WTO is already in charge...]	2nd May 2007
The first refugees of global warming - Chicago Tribune Bangladesh watches in horror as much of the nation gives way to sea Muhammad Ali, a wiry 65-year-old, has never driven a car, run an air conditioner or done much of anything that produces greenhouse gases. But on a warming planet, he is on the verge of becoming a climate refugee.	2nd May 2007
Counting On Trees: Scientists Are Creating A National Biomass And Carbon Dataset For USA - Science Daily After completing a two-year pilot phase, Woods Hole Research Center scientists are expanding the scope of the "National Biomass and Carbon Dataset" for the year 2000. NBCD2000 will be an invaluable baseline data set for the assessment of carbon stock in US forest vegetation, improving current methods of determining carbon flux between vegetation and the atmosphere. Work on the remaining mapping ...	2nd May 2007
The rich world's policy on greenhouse gas now seems clear: millions will die - Guardian Rich nations seeking to cut climate change have this in common: they lie. You won't find this statement in the draft of the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was leaked to the Guardian last week. But as soon as you understand the numbers, the words form before your eyes. The governments making genuine efforts to tackle global warming are using figures they know to be false.. A concentration of 510ppm gives us a 33% chance of preventing more than two degrees of warming. A concentration of 590ppm gives us a 10% chance. You begin to understand the scale of the challenge when you discover that the current level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (using the IPCC's formula) is 459ppm. We have already exceeded the safe level. To give ourselves a high chance of preventing dangerous climate change, we will need a programme so drastic that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere end up below the current concentrations. [most read item]	1st May 2007
My little world - and yours, too - GristMill Imagine, as a thought experiment, that everyone on the planet had the same share of the world's resources. It turns out your share is about six acres (2.5 hectares) of dry land. Now imagine if that were your whole world. How would you treat it? Thinking in small numbers It's difficult to think in extremely large numbers. Suppose, for instance, the U.S. government spends around $100 million on climate models per year. (I believe this is about right.) That sounds like a big number! Much too big, perhaps? Well, if you are an average American, it's 33 cents out of your pocket every year.	1st May 2007
Animal Extinction - the greatest threat to mankind - Independent In the final stages of dehydration the body shrinks, robbing youth from the young as the skin puckers, eyes recede into orbits, and the tongue swells and cracks. Brain cells shrivel and muscles seize. The kidneys shut down. Blood volume drops, triggering hypovolemic shock, with its attendant respiratory and cardiac failures. These combined assaults disrupt the chemical and electrical pathways of the body until all systems cascade toward death.	1st May 2007
Arctic melt faster than forecast - BBC Arctic ice is melting faster than computer models of climate calculate, according to a group of US researchers. See also: Arctic Sea Ice Forecast Trends	1st May 2007
Amphibians in losing race with environmental change Even though they had the ability to evolve and survive for hundreds of millions of years - since before the time of the dinosaurs and through many climatic regimes - the massive, worldwide decline of amphibians can best be understood by their inability to keep pace with the current rate of global change, a new study suggests.	1st May 2007
NASA Models Show Trees Can Slow Increase of Atmospheric Carbon Researchers found that on a national basis, converting marginal agricultural lands into forests has the potential to remove hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year. This conversion, known as afforestation, could be used to partially off-set carbon emissions produced by burning fossil fuels.	1st May 2007
Beijing restrictions offer case study in emissions of key atmospheric gases - EurekAlert! CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 30, 2007 -- The Chinese government's restrictions on Beijing motorists during a three-day conference last November -- widely viewed as a dress rehearsal for efforts to slash smog and airborne pollutants during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing -- succeeded in cutting the city's emissions of one important class of atmospheric gases by an impressive 40 percent.	1st May 2007
Prince's 'mayday' climate alert - BBC News Prince Charles issues a "mayday" alert over climate change, and calls for urgent action to curb emissions.	1st May 2007
UK Met Office predicts warm summer by Steph Ball - BBC News The UK Met Office has today issued its forecast for the approaching summer, predicting that it will be a warm one. Indications suggest there is at least a 70% chance that the summer temperatures will be above average, with a 1 in 8 chance that values could match the 38.5C (101F) record set in 2003.	1st May 2007
UN Panel Has Solutions for the Willing - IPS Solutions to stop global warming outlined in a new United Nations-backed report may ignite heated debates, if not actually compel governments to make choices that would impact their respective economies. The report, 'Mitigation of Climate Change', is the third in a series launched this year by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The first two -- scientific bodies of work that presented a bleak forecast -- were 'Physical Science Basis', released in February, and 'Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability', released in early April.	1st May 2007
Village swaps all its light bulbs - BBC News A village is thought to be the first in the country to swap all of its light bulbs for low-energy ones.	1st May 2007
Chinese object to climate draft - BBC News China leads objections to a major report on climate economics being discussed by the IPCC in Bangkok.	1st May 2007
U.S. Balks At New Climate Report - CBS News The United States and China want to amend a major report by U.N.-sponsored climate researchers to play down its conclusion that quick, affordable action can limit the worst effects of global warming, according to documents reviewed Monday by The Associated Press.	1st May 2007
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