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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