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Cities dim lights for environment - BBC News Cities around the world, starting with Sydney, switch off the lights for an hour to highlight climate change. See also: Earth Hour saved at least 5 per cent power: organisers - The West Australian	30th March 2008
Four nations in race to be first to go carbon neutral - Independent It's the race for the greenest of the laurels, the contest for the ultimate ecological accolade. Four countries are competing to be the first of the world's 195 nations to go entirely carbon neutral.	30th March 2008
Air Capture - RealClimate Guest Commentary by Frank Zeman [This is one of an occasional series on the science of mitigation/adaptation/geo-engineering that we hope to continue. Since this isn't our core expertise, we'd especially appreciate balanced contributions from other scientists.] One of the central challenges of controlling anthropogenic climate change is developing technologies that deal with emissions from small, dispersed sources such as automobiles and residential houses. Capturing these emissions is more difficult as they are too small to support infrastructure, such as pipelines, and may be mobile, as with cars. For these reasons, proposed solutions, such as switching to using hydrogen or electricity as a fuel, rely on the carbon-free generation of electricity or hydrogen.	30th March 2008
The Clean Energy Scam - Time Magazine Ethanol increases global warming, destroys forests and inflates food prices. So why are we subsidizing it?	30th March 2008
Control oil and control the world - Guardian Unlimited Comment is free: John Gray: New superpowers are competing for diminishing resources as Britain becomes a bit-player. The outcome could be deadly	30th March 2008
A response to Romm on peak oil Dave Cohen, Energy Bulletin. It's high-time for climate activists to wake up and smell the coffee on peak oil. Peak oil problems are immediate and inimical to our ability to solve all the other problems we have - including climate.	30th March 2008
The new global menace: food inflation - The Globe and Mail Staple prices have doubled, fanning social, political unrest	30th March 2008
Time runs out for islanders on global warming's front line - Guardian Unlimited Rising sea levels threaten to flood the Ganges delta, leading to an environmental disaster	30th March 2008
Austrian glaciers shrink the most in five years Austria's glaciers retreated more than 22 metres (24 yards) on average last year, in the biggest shrinking for five years, the country's Alpine Club said Saturday.	30th March 2008
New building rules 'will raise carbon emissions' - Guardian Unlimited More than eight million tonnes of carbon will be released by homes built over the next eight years	30th March 2008
Carbon tariff on China possible to curb pollution - Toronto Star Countries such as Canada and the United States may start imposing a "carbon tariff" on goods from China and other developing countries which have become the biggest contributors to global greenhouse-gas emissions, CIBC World Markets said Thursday.	29th March 2008
Cities dim lights for environment - BBC News Cities around the world, starting with Sydney, are set to switch off the lights for an hour to highlight climate change. See also: Is one hour long enough? - CNews	29th March 2008
EXPERTS SOUND ALARM ON FUTURE AVAILABILITY OF RICE - The Manila Times LOS BAÑOS: It is the staple food of half of humanity but only a handful of countries have large rice surpluses, leaving even some of the biggest producers scrambling to grow enough to feed their own people.	29th March 2008
Rosie Boycott: Only a radical change of diet can halt looming food crises - Guardian Unlimited Rosie Boycott: Costs are high now, but rising oil prices will bring enormous problems for a world with appetites that it simply can't sustain	29th March 2008
NOAA: Ocean acidity threatening Pacific Ocean fisheries - Alaska Journal of Commerce KODIAK Ñ A federal fisheries scientist says a major threat to fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean in this century is coming from ocean acidity due to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the ocean.	29th March 2008
Gore's Message To Climate Change Skeptics - CBS News Al Gore tells 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl those who doubt humans cause global warming, including Vice President Dick Cheney, are like those who doubt the moon landing or who once believed the world is flat. Sunday, March 30, 7 p.m. ET/PT.	29th March 2008
The lesser-spotted butterfly - Independent The lesser-spotted butterflyIndependent, UK. With the losses greater in south-east England, Butterfly Conservation says that suggests the problem may be linked to climate change, because climate ...	29th March 2008
Climate change affecting trees, streams in the West - San Diego Union-Tribune SALT LAKE CITY – Around the same time the American West started heating up five years ago, Colorado started losing its lodgepole pine forests to a beetle infestation.	29th March 2008
Fossil Fool's Day 2008 only days away!! - It's Getting Hot In Here Fossil Fool's Day 2008 only days away!!It's Getting Hot In Here, DC. We have had enough of coal companies that destroy communities, poison our air, and spew global warming pollution. We are sick of oil and car companies ...	29th March 2008
US environment agency signals go-slow approach on global warming rules - International Herald Tribune The U.S. government made clear on Thursday it will not be rushed into deciding whether to regulate emissions linked to global warming, as the Supreme Court directed nearly a year ago. "Time is not on our side when it comes to avoiding dangerous climate change. This letter makes it clear that Mr. Johnson and the Bush administration are not on our side, either," Boxer, a Democrat, said in a statement.	29th March 2008
Asia Must Reverse Massive Deforestation Trend : UN - Planet Ark NEW DELHI - Parts of Asia are losing more than 28,000 square kilometres (10,800 square miles) of forest every year, a trend that must to be reversed immediately to fight climate change, a United Nations report said on Thursday.	29th March 2008
100,000 Wells Needed to Store US Carbon Emissions Even if carbon capture storage technology was not a myth on par with flying cars, the reality is that in order to store the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gas produced by the United States, "100,800 new wells would be needed by 2030 in America if Washington commits to meeting the Kyoto Protocol emission requirement and keeping total carbon emissions at 2005 levels."H/T to our friends at SolveClimate.com. carbon capture and sequestration global warming greenhouse gas emissions	29th March 2008
Lawyers challenge company 'carbon neutral' claims - ABC via Yahoo!7 News As we edge towards Earth Hour at 8pm AEDT on Saturday night, a group of lawyers have raised questions about carbon offset programs.	29th March 2008
Will capitalism survive climate change? - Bangkok Post Will capitalism survive climate change?Bangkok Post, Thailand. Thus, for the South, the implications of an effective global response to global warming include not just the inclusion of some countries in a regime of ...	29th March 2008
Britain seeks loophole in EU green energy targets - Guardian Unlimited Government wants its clean power projects abroad to count towards the UK's quota	29th March 2008
Government Insider Document Shows Critical Importance of DSCOVR Climate Satellite A fresh document recently provided to DeSmog Blog by inside sources shows the critical importance of the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) to the US government.  Several universities and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) commissioned the study to evaluate how this unique spacecraft could provide benefits to earth monitoring and space weather prediction.  The document is available for viewing here, and favorably compares DSCOVR's capabilities with the stated science priorities of NOAA.  The conclusion: the spacecraft would be a boon to monitoring our rapidly warming planet and tracking dangerous solar flares.  NOAA's primary interest in DSCOVR is predicting “space weather”.	29th March 2008
Ice shelf collapse video	27th March 2008
Russian, Canadian Winter Days Much Milder - UK Study - Planet Ark OSLO - The coldest winter days in Russia and Canada have become up to 4 Celsius (7 Fahrenheit) milder since the 1950s in an extreme sign of climate change, the British Meteorological Office said on Wednesday.	27th March 2008
Australian industry dying on the vines - Toronto Star MELBOURNE–Australian grape growers reckon they are the canary in the coal mine of global warming, as a long drought forces winemakers to rethink the styles of wine they can produce and the regions they can grow in.	27th March 2008
Western Canadian Pine Beetle Infestation Spreads - Planet Ark VANCOUVER, British Columbia - About half of the marketable pine trees in West Coast Canadian province of British Columbia have been ravaged by a nearly decade-long beetle infestation, according to new government statistics.	27th March 2008
How much will it cost to fix the climate? The numbers vary. - The Christian Science Monitor Even when experts look at the same data, they can come to vastly different conclusions. Robert Repetto, an economics professor at Yale University, recently created a website reviewing 25 of the leading economic models that predict the impacts of cutting greenhouse gases. His conclusion: Strong economic growth would continue even under worst-case assumptions.	27th March 2008
Million acres of Guyanese rainforest to be saved in groundbreaking deal - Independent A deal has been agreed that will place a financial value on rainforests - paying, for the first time, for their upkeep as "utilities" that provide vital services such as rainfall generation, carbon storage and climate regulation.	27th March 2008
New approach to measuring carbon in forests - PhysOrg CSIRO is collaborating in a NASA-funded project, using a CSIRO-designed instrument, to help develop new methods of measuring forest carbon stores on a large scale.	27th March 2008
Climate change threatens Amazonian small farmers - PhysOrg A six-year study of Amazonian small farmers and their responses to climate change shows the farmers are vulnerable to natural catastrophes and risky land use practices, say Indiana University Bloomington anthropologists Eduardo Brondizio and Emilio Moran.	27th March 2008
The man making 'wind bags' - BBC News An engineer receives funding for the experimental storage of energy as compressed air in undersea containers.	27th March 2008
Indian minister attacks biofuels - BBC News The Indian finance minister says it is "outrageous" that developed countries are turning crops into biofuels.	27th March 2008
Is the World Making Progress on Fighting Global Warming? - AlterNet Climate negotiations in Bali moved the world just a bit back from the brink. But the next two years will be critical.	27th March 2008
Antarctic shelf 'hangs by thread' - BBC News A huge chunk of ice is starting to break away from Antarctica in what scientists believe is further evidence of global warming.	26th March 2008
US experts will stage climate war game - United Press International U.S. foreign affairs and military experts will stage a war game this summer to study and highlight the national security threats posed by global warming.	26th March 2008
Millions at risk from warmer world - Sydney Morning Herald Rising seas and water shortages will displace about 125 million people living along the coasts of India and Bangladesh by the turn of the century, Greenpeace said.	26th March 2008
On Carbon, Tax and Don't Spend - New York Times Carbon tax discussions always seem to devolve into gleeful suggestions for ways to spend the revenue, but policymakers must be prevented from turning the tax into a cash cow.	26th March 2008
Bambi and Nemo are 'unsung heroes of the green lobby' - Guardian Unlimited Disney films played radical role, says Cambridge professor	26th March 2008
Organic Crops Impressively Productive When Compared With Conventionally Grown Crops - Science Daily Can organic cropping systems be as productive as conventional systems? The answer is an unqualified, “Yes” for alfalfa or wheat and a qualified “Yes most of the time” for corn and soybeans according to research reported by scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and agricultural consulting firm AGSTAT in the March-April 2008 issue of Agronomy Journal. [Why is this about global warming? Because it doesn't need petroleum derived fertilizer.]	26th March 2008
For Carbon Emissions, a Goal of Less Than Zero - New York Times For Carbon Emissions, a Goal of Less Than ZeroNew York Times, United States. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that an 80 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions was necessary to avoid the worst ...	26th March 2008
Quiet revolution - Guardian Jaime Lerner's 'urban revolution' successfully transformed a congested, grimy, crime-ridden city into a world-renowned model of green living and social innovation. London can do it too, he tells Tom Phillips.	26th March 2008
Ice shrinks in Arctic sea - International Herald Tribune Winter sea ice around a Norwegian Arctic island has thinned to less than one metre (3 feet) since the 1960s, according to a study on Tuesday of a region that may be more attractive to oil firms because of climate change. The Norwegian Polar Institute said ice around Hopen island southeast of the Svalbard archipelago had become more than 40 cms (16 inches) thinner in the past 40 years, in what it called the first long-term study of ice thickness in the Barents Sea.	26th March 2008
New Parasite Discovered; Infects Waterfowl, Other Species - PhysOrg.com The findings were just reported in the International Journal for Parasitology, and raise concerns not only about the new parasite but about others that may become more widespread, cause more health problems or possibly even move into new species as a result of global warming and climate change.	26th March 2008
Pine beetle infestation impacting salmon runs - Canada.com If the heat of climate change weren't enough of a danger to Pacific salmon, scientists are cataloging how the effects of the global-warming-aided mountain pine beetle infestation are adding to salmon's woes. Because the enormous pine forests are dead or dying, the tree boughs don't intercept snow and rain, or shade the forest floor to slow the spring snow-melt. The result is bigger snow packs, more rapid snow melts leading to flash flooding and higher peak stream flows that erode streams. Then rapid runoffs mean more summer droughts, combined with higher summer water temperatures, the report notes.	26th March 2008
Our Suicide Mission with Coal - Alternet Coal produces more carbon emissions than other energy sources, yet we burn more of it each year.	26th March 2008
Why don't kids walk to school anymore? - PhysOrg Maybe when we were their age, we walked five miles to school, rain or shine. So why don't most children today walk or bike to school? It's not necessarily because they're spoiled, lazy or over scheduled. According to a University of Michigan researcher, concerns about safety are the main reason that less than 13 percent of U.S. children walked or biked to school in 2004, compared to more than 50 percent who did so in 1969.	26th March 2008
Tony the climate tiger: Roaring success? - BBC News Does the world need Tony Blair as a climate change envoy? In the Green Room this week, Saleemul Huq argues that he shows few signs of understanding the impacts that climate change is already having on the developing world.	25th March 2008
Geothermal energy can cut energy use, greenhouse gases - Daily Local News LONDON GROVE - While you are sitting around waiting for a fuel cell car to be developed for the mass market, there is one technology available right now that can cut energy use and greenhouse gases dramatically.	25th March 2008
Deep thought - Mar 24 Staff, Energy Bulletin. Despoiled Nauru - poster child for "The Party's Over" What does climate change do to our heads?	25th March 2008
New Limits to Growth - Wall Street Journal Blogs Now and then across the centuries, powerful voices have warned that human activity would overwhelm the earth's resources. The Cassandras always proved wrong. Each time, there were new resources to discover, new technologies to propel growth. Today the old fears are back.	25th March 2008
Air Force out to launch coal venture - Arkansas Democrat Gazette The US Air Force wants to build at Malmstrom in central Montana the first piece of what it hopes will be a nationwide network of facilities that would convert domestic coal into cleanerburning synthetic fuel.	25th March 2008
Gulf Stream Leaves Its Signature Seven Miles High - Science Daily - press release The Gulf Stream’s impact on climate is well known, keeping Iceland and Scotland comfortable in winter compared to the deep-freeze of Labrador at the same latitude. That cyclones tend to spawn over the Gulf Stream has also been known for some time. A new study reveals that the Gulf Stream anchors a precipitation band with upward motions and cloud formations that can reach 7 miles high and penetrate the upper troposphere. The discovery, announced by a Japan–US team of scientists, shows that the Gulf Stream has a pathway by which to directly affect weather and climate patterns over the whole Northern Hemisphere, and perhaps even world wide.	25th March 2008
Government is listening to polluters - Toronto Star Canada: The climate crisis, according to Canada's former environment commissioner, requires "massive scale-up of effort" by the federal government. The response by the Conservative government: fire the environment commissioner. Global warming is caused by burning fossil fuels – primarily oil, gas and coal. The federal government's plan is designed to encourage the expansion of production of these fossil fuels. It does very little to actually help industry or individuals reduce the use of fossil fuels.	25th March 2008
Climate change seen as last nail in coffin for native fauna - The Age SOME of Australia's most vulnerable native animals could die out as climate change take its toll on their already fragile existence.	25th March 2008
MoD blocking new wind farms - The Independent Defence chiefs were accused today of prolonging Britain's reliance on fossil fuels as it emerged they have sought to block dozens of new wind farms. The Ministry of Defence has submitted planning objections to 44 of the schemes over concerns they interfere with radars and obscure the vision of low-flying aircraft.	25th March 2008
Joseph Romm: Stunning Climate Double-Talk From McCain Campaign - HuffingtonPost We've heard climate double talk from McCain on "mandates" and "dependence on foreign energy sources." Now, in a stunning interview with E&E News (subs. req'd), the McCain campaign seriously undermines its claim that the Arizona Senator could successfully take on the global warming threat. As the reporter put it, "the Arizona senator's presidential campaign is trying to differentiate itself from its Democratic rivals by rejecting calls for additional climate-themed restrictions." This, however, is a potentially fatal difference.	25th March 2008
Insects take a bigger bite out of plants in a higher CO2 world - EurekAlert! Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising at an alarming rate, and new research indicates that soybean plant defenses go down as CO2 goes up. Elevated CO2 impairs a key component of the plant’s defenses against leaf-eating insects, according to the report.	25th March 2008
Australian wine industry feels heat from climate change - Reuters Australian grape growers reckon they are the canary in the coalmine of global warming, as a long drought forces winemakers to rethink the styles of wine they can produce and the regions they can grow in.	25th March 2008
Nicholas Stern: One global crisis after another - Guardian Unlimited The man who alerted the world to climate change is back, now with sharp words about banks. By John Crace	25th March 2008
BRAZIL: Growing Foreign Appetite for Land - IPS RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 24 (IPS) - It is a question of "national sovereignty, not xenophobia," said the president of Brazil's land reform agency, INCRA, explaining the need to regulate foreign land ownership in Brazil.	25th March 2008
Black carbon pollution emerges as major player in global warming - PhysOrg Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates, according to scientists in an upcoming review article in the journal Nature Geoscience. [Phew! - just when we thought that global warming was the fault of rich nations...]	24th March 2008
The Security Council must act preemptively - on climate change - The Christian Science Monitor This global threat requires a war-room mentality. A concerted international strategy, on a par with the seriousness and scope of an UN Security Council resolution, is what's needed to counter this climate crisis. Under Article 39 of the UN Charter, the Security Council maintains the right to identify threats to international peace and security and to devise means to counter these threats. The potential impact of that on climate change is substantial: the Security Council's toolbox includes the capacity to cap greenhouse-gas emissions on every country and sanction those who fail to comply. Both a carbon tax, as well as a carbon-trading scheme, could incentivize countries to reduce emissions below even capped levels.	24th March 2008
Call for delay to biofuels policy - BBC News The UK's chief environment scientist has called for a delay to a policy demanding inclusion of biofuels into fuel at pumps across the UK. Professor Robert Watson said ministers should await the results of their inquiry into biofuels' sustainability.	24th March 2008
Major food source threatened by climate change - New Scientist Rice yields will be hit hard by predicted changes in climate, with the potential to cause widespread food shortages	24th March 2008
Dr Wieslaw Maslowski predicted a 2013 Ice Free Summer Arctic five years ago - now he says that may have been too conservative - Beyond Zero Emissions Transcription of podcast interview	24th March 2008
Investment is key in climate change battle - Financial Times Until recently, it was remarkably difficult for ordinary investors to put their own money behind the fight against global warming. Mutual funds, most people's investment vehicle of choice, offered few options. That has changed thanks to government legislation and a new awareness among many of the world's investment professionals that climate change is an opportunity, not a threat. In a little more than two years, we estimate retail investors all over the world have pumped around $66bn (£33bn, €42bn) into more than 200 newly launched mutual funds and exchange traded funds investing in companies that help to mitigate or adapt to climate change.	24th March 2008

Climate change 'is accelerating' - Guardian Unlimited The growth of developing economies in Africa, Asia and South America has accelerated global warming, study says	23rd March 2008
A global threat multiplier - Energy Bulletin Paul Rogers, openDemocracy. A European Union study on the problems of global climate change contained the sobering assessment that a failure to take radical action now to address global warming would create the likelihood of severe conflict over resources in the decades ahead.	23rd March 2008
Inside the political attack on Dr. James Hansen and the truth of global warming - Democracy Now Transcript of interview between Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space, NASA’s premiere climate research center, and adjunct professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University and Mark Bowen, author of Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming.	23rd March 2008
We've been here before, and it wasn't pretty the first time - Globe and Mail Book review: THE GREAT WARMING: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations By Brian Fagan Medieval warm period: But during the great warming, Europeans chopped down their ancient forests to grow more meat, honey and flour. When the Little Ice Age came, along with the Black Death, Rinderpest and other climate-driven surprises, Europe lost a third of its population. There simply was no mantle for misfortune. The Maya: The elites, who considered themselves divinely infallible, had no real sense of tragedy, and that's just when the climate served up a super drought. In the face of hunger and thirst, ordinary people abandoned their rulers, who squatted alone on blood-stained pyramids.	23rd March 2008
Livingstone fury at green plans veto - Guardian Unlimited London's Mayor claims civil servants blocked his energy proposals for the capital because they put the interests of big business first	23rd March 2008
U.S. Environmental Groups Divided on “Clean Coal” - Environmental News Network At a Senate press conference held last week to urge national action on climate change policy, 16 major U.S. environmental organizations shared the stage in solidarity. But while it appears the nation's green groups are united in the fight against global warming, they remain divided on which technologies would best create a carbon-free economy. This division may cause major roadblocks as Congress prepares to debate several climate change policies that could lead to sweeping changes.	23rd March 2008
Fight climate change by turning roof green - International Herald Tribune To help fight climate change, countries in Europe and North America are installing "green" roofs covered in vegetation and collecting rainwater for household use.	23rd March 2008
Sebelius Vetoes Energy Bill - Forbes Kansas, USA: Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoed a bill Friday that would allow two coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas and strip some power from the regulator who has blocked them. See also: Poof! 132 coal plants disappear - Gristmill	23rd March 2008
Sea levels rising too fast for Thames Barrier - The Independent A fear that sea levels will rise far faster than predicted this century has led to a revision of the plan to protect London from a devastating flood caused by the sort of storm surge in the North Sea that resulted in the closure of the Thames Barrier yesterday.	23rd March 2008
Noah's Ark for salmon - Salt Lake Tribune As global warming bears down on our Western rivers and watersheds, it threatens one of the great symbols of Western abundance: wild salmon. With each passing year, their numbers have dropped precipitously. This decline is believed to be in part the result of warming temperatures in streams and rivers.	23rd March 2008
Severe drought threatens wheat and rapeseed production - China Daily Wheat and rapeseed production in north China are under threat from severe drought.	23rd March 2008
How food miles myth hurts the planet - Guardian Unlimited Science environment: Robin McKie and Caroline Davies report on how the concept of food miles became oversimplified [Let's re-simplify it then... Eating Local Strengthens Commmunity]	23rd March 2008
Nuclear plans attract fresh fire - BBC News A rumoured Anglo-French nuclear reactor initiative is the wrong plan for Britain, anti-nuclear group warns.	23rd March 2008
Global warming scientists eagerly await first Nenana ice cracks - Times Online It may not be the world's most exciting spectator sport, but watching the ice melt in Alaska has become an unmissable rite of spring for two very different but related groups - gamblers and climatologists.	23rd March 2008
The Hansen - et al. ultimatum - GristMill Here is the draft [PDF] of the long-awaited defense of why we need an ultimate target of 350 ppm for atmospheric carbon dioxide, by NASA's James Hansen et al., titled "Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?" (Yes, they know we're already at 385 ppm and rising 2 ppm a year.) The paper does suffer from one analytical weakness that makes it a tad less dire than it appears -- and some people believe the core element of this analysis is wrong (see very end of post), although I don't.	21st March 2008
More Dirt on the DSCOVR Climate Satellite - DeSmogBlog Fresh documents have trickled out of the US government about the fate of the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). DeSmog Blog has been researching an investigative series on this mothballed climate change spacecraft designed to monitor the energy budget of the planet from the unique vantage of 1 million miles away.   NASA strangely cancelled the project after spending over $100 million building it. Prominent members of the scientific community were outraged at the decision.  You can view their laundry list of letters here.   Another US government agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), requested that NASA transfer the mission to them.	21st March 2008
Cutting greenhouse emissions will double GDP - The Australian Achieving cuts of 70-90 per cent would be manageable over 40 years and likely to be in Australia's interest	21st March 2008
EU 'committed' to stiff CO2 cuts - BBC News Europe is still committed to ambitious cuts in CO2 emissions, the EU environment chief tells the BBC.	21st March 2008
Bat 'die-off' raises alarms - Times Herald-Record US: Unprecedented "die-off" of thousands of cave-dwelling bats across the Northeast - climate change has kept bats flying during fall, winter and spring periods when insects are in short supply or almost nonexistent.	21st March 2008
Melting glaciers will trigger food shortages - New Scientist The glaciers that feed Asia's mightiest rivers are disappearing, and with them irrigation water that feeds millions	21st March 2008
Carbon Offset Schemes "Confusing" - Planet Ark LONDON - Carbon offsetting Web sites are inconsistent and confusing, with costs varying by up to 540 percent, according to a report.	21st March 2008
Fish key to reef climate survival - BBC News As climate change and pollution threaten coral reefs, fish may be vital to their survival, scientists say. Australian scientists found that some fish act as "lawnmowers", keeping coral free of kelp and unwanted algae.	21st March 2008
Starbucks sows carbon farmers - CNN Money Ever heard of 'ecosystem services'? It's one of the most exciting concepts kicking around the corporate-environmental world these days.	21st March 2008
The seeds of aridity: Crops for a parched world - International Herald Tribune Scientists, companies and governments are pursuing thousands of projects to lessen water demand, but they face a race against time.	21st March 2008
Europeans Concerned About Climate Change - Angus Reid (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - People in all European Union (EU) countries express concern over climate change, according to the Eurobarometer conducted by TNS Opinion Social. 57 per cent of respondents in the 27 nations list the phenomenon as their top environmental worry.	21st March 2008
Warming scenario sees flooded airport - The Washington Times The Bush administration has set aside its skepticism about global warming to begin planning for the possibility that...	21st March 2008
Deep thought - Energy Bulletin Study: it's better to give than receive What we can expect as nature changes The United States of too much information (thinking about risk)	21st March 2008
Back to 1988 on CO2, Says NASA's Hansen - New York Times James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist and eight co-authors have drafted a fresh paper arguing that the world has already shot past a safe eventual atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, which they say would be around 350 parts per million, a level passed 20 years ago.	20th March 2008
What we can afford - Grsitmill US: The money we've spent on the five-year Iraq War could have shifted the entire world to renewables	20th March 2008
Water: A long dry summer - Nature In parts of the world already facing unreliable food supplies, an uncertain climate adds to the future stress for soils, plants and people. Quirin Schiermeier reports on water strategies for a drier world. See also: Climate Change Deepening World Water Crisis - IPS A thirsty planet looks for solutions to water shortage - Physorg	20th March 2008
Icy start, but 2008 may be in top 10 warmest years - Environmental News Network OSLO (Reuters) - After the coldest start to a year in more than a decade, spring will bring relief to the northern hemisphere from Thursday. Bucking the trend of global warming, the start of 2008 saw icy weather around the world from China to Greece. But despite its chilly start, 2008 is expected to end up among the top 10 warmest years since records began in the 1860s.	20th March 2008
Dams: Deep trouble - Independent Are vast dams around the world masking the full extent of sea-level rises?	20th March 2008
Israel suffers worst drought in decade - AP via Yahoo! News Israel is suffering its worst drought in a decade and will have to stop pumping from one of its main sources of drinking water, the Sea of Galilee, by the end of the summer, an official said Wednesday.	20th March 2008
How the blurring of the seasons is a harbinger of climate calamity - Independent Spring, which officially starts today, is starting to dissolve as a distinct season as climate change takes hold. See also: Spring keeps coming earlier for birds, bees, trees, and sneezes because of global warming - Seattle Times	20th March 2008
The man who wants to turn China green - BBC News A profile of millionaire Chinese businessman Zhang Yue, who wants the country to be more environmentally friendly.	20th March 2008
Reducing carbon emissions could help -- not harm -- US economy A national policy to cut carbon emissions by as much as 40 percent over the next 20 years could still result in increased economic growth, according to an interactive website that reviews 25 of the leading economic models used to predict the economic impacts of reducing emissions.	20th March 2008
HSBC commits £100m to renewables - Guardian Unlimited Science environment: Renewable energy projects in public sector get more than £100m of new funding from HSBC	20th March 2008
The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat - NPR Thousands of robots deployed across the ocean have sent back an unexpected message: The seas have stopped warming. The results don't mean that climate change isn't happening, but they are causing scientists to rethink their climate models.	20th March 2008
Warming will overheat air cons - ScienceAlert Office air conditioning systems face collapse under the pressure of global warming unless steps are taken now to reduce both the internal and external heat affecting buildings, a QUT engineering researcher says.	20th March 2008
Take that, delayers - this means you, Pielke! - Gristmill By Joseph RommThe deniers/delayer-1000s cite recent U.K. Hadley Center data to promote their "climate is cooling" disinformation. Even Roger Pielke, Jr. is peddling this nonsense with his recent inanely titled post, "Update on Falsification of Climate Predictions." Falsification? Give me a break! According to the Hadley Center, the eight warmest years in the global temperature record of 150 are, in order, 1998, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2007. Those are also the eight warmest years in the NASA record in a different order, starting with 2005, then 2007 tied with 1998. Where the heck is the cooling trend?	20th March 2008
Arctic losing long-term ice cover - BBC News Despite colder conditions, the Arctic is losing a lot of its old, stable ice, according to satellite data.	19th March 2008
Shell wants to produce five times more oil from tar sands - Guardian Unlimited Shell gears up for huge expansion of its carbon-intensive tar sands operation as it struggles to replace conventional reserves	19th March 2008
See-saw to power African schools - BBC News A young inventor has created a see-saw which converts the energy used during child's play into electricity.	19th March 2008
Climate Change: The World's Biggest Security Threat - AlterNet Unchecked climate change could spark instability in energy-producing states and lead to the collapse of fragile states around the world.	19th March 2008
Envisat makes first ever observation of regionally elevated CO2 from manmade emissions - SpaceRef Using data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard ESA's Envisat environmental satellite, scientists have for the first time detected regionally elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide.	19th March 2008
Chinese biofuel 'could endanger biodiversity' - SciDev.net [BEIJING] Using China's forests and 'idle land' to produce biofuels could pose a threat to biodiversity, warned experts at an international meeting.	19th March 2008
Battery-powered car on the cards for BMW in bid to cut emissions - Guardian Unlimited BMW may launch all-electric car as part of strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions	19th March 2008
China's pollution nightmare is now everyone's pollution nightmare - The Christian Science Monitor The environmental disaster springs largely from its emulation of the American way of life - so let's set a better example.	19th March 2008
Canadians in fog over causes of global warming: poll. - Canada.com Four of five Canadians say they understand what is causing global warming but a majority does not seem to know that scientific research blames greenhouse gas pollution from industrial facilities and other human activity for causing the problem, a poll has revealed. Meantime, despite gloomy media reports and warnings about a recession, the environment remains the No. 1 priority of Canadians ahead of both jobs and the economy, according to the survey commissioned by a public relations firm and a non-profit group set up to educate people in Canada about global warming.	19th March 2008
CO2 emissions from US power plants jump 2.9% in '07 - Reliable Plant Magazine A poor progress report on efforts to rein in greenhouse gases: Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from U.S. power plants climbed 2.9 percent in 2007, the biggest single-year increase since 1998.	19th March 2008
Investors warm to water as shortages mount - MSN Money As liquidity is drained from credit and money markets and pours into oil and gold, another asset class that could offer long-term returns to the discerning investor is water. Water shortages are on the rise -- stemming from soaring demand, growing populations, rising living standards and changing diets. A lack of supply is compounded by pollution and climate change.	19th March 2008
Livingstone urges Porsche to drop congestion charge challenge - Guardian Unlimited The row between Porsche and the mayor of London intensified last night when Ken Livingstone called on the luxury car manufacturer to abandon its legal challenge to a new £25 polluters' charge, claiming it did not have the support of Londoners	18th March 2008
Consensus for Kyoto successor falls short - UPI The Group of 20 environment and energy ministers meeting in Japan fell short of a consensus on a framework to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol successor.	18th March 2008
New car emissions down 13% since 1997 - Guardian Unlimited Average CO2 emissions from new cars in Britain have fallen by more than 13% since 1997, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders	18th March 2008
Peak Oil Review -- March 17th, 2008 Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA. An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring: -Production and prices -Climate change -Have we reached the breaking point? -Energy briefs. "According to calculations by Deutsche Bank, every penny increase in gasoline prices costs the US economy $1 billion per year. Numbers like this will devour most of the stimulus package passed by Congress. "	18th March 2008
From Green Luddite to Techspressive: The ideology of consumer technology When people line up to buy a new iPhone, what is it that they are really buying? A fascinating new paper in the April issue of the Journal of Consumer Research outlines the four main ideologies governing our consumption of technology, revealing that conceptions of technological use introduced hundreds of years ago still influence our adoption of new products and services today.	18th March 2008
Coal reemerges as important raw material in chemical manufacturing industry - PhysOrg With oil prices hovering around $100 per barrel, coal is reemerging as a key raw material in the manufacture of the basic chemical materials used to make plastics, fertilizers, and hundreds of other products, according to an article scheduled for the March 17 issue of Chemical Engineering News, ACS` weekly news magazine.	18th March 2008
Carbon capture is turning out to be just another great green scam - Guardian Unlimited Cleaner technology is possible, but Labour plans to introduce it so slowly that any benefits will be lost in higher coal output	18th March 2008
Government 'missing its own carbon targets' - Guardian Unlimited Government in danger of losing credibility because more than half of its departments are failing to reach emissions targets set for the country	18th March 2008
Outrage over airlines' empty 'ghost flights' for flying empty planes Airlines that run empty "ghost flights", needlessly pumping hundreds of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, should face heavy fines, environmentalists have demanded.	18th March 2008
Clouded by doubts about Kyoto - Financial Times The trade in greenhouse gases was worth about €40bn (£30.6bn) last year and is expected to increase to €63bn next year, says Point Carbon, the market analysts.	17th March 2008
Climate change and cyber attacks among security threats - Guardian Unlimited Gordon Brown set to reveal long-delayed national security strategy this week	17th March 2008
Carry on polluting - Guardian Unlimited Leader: Ministers cannot claim to take climate change seriously - and then trivialise the measurement of progress	17th March 2008
Small respite in Australia's drought and heat wave - BBC News The longest heat wave of any Australian capital city looks set to ease in Adelaide over the coming days, after 15 consecutive days of temperatures above 35C (95F). Temperatures hit 40.5C (105F) in Adelaide at the end of last week, with the heat wave surpassing the record set in Perth in 1988.	17th March 2008
Venus Unveiled - RealClimate Something over a week ago I had the pleasure of making my way up to the little ski resort of La Thuile in the Val D'Aosta to learn about the latest results from the Venus Express mission. (You can imagine it was a tough decision to go to La Thuile and hear real scientists talking about Venus when I could have instead been listening to luminaries such as Mark Morano drone on at Heartland Institute pseudoscience bash. ) My own connection with the Venus Express meeting came about through some work I've been doing on habitability of the newly discovered "Super Earth" extrasolar planets like Gliese 581c.	17th March 2008
Ozone Case Shows Bush Meddling In Science-Watchdogs - Planet Ark WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush's decision to intervene in setting air pollution standards is part of a longstanding administration pattern of meddling in environmental science, watchdog groups said on Friday.	17th March 2008
A forest of change - Boston Globe Trees are responding to warming temperatures in New England much faster than scientists had expected.	17th March 2008
Lobbyists regroup as government delays release of GHG regulations - Hill Times Canada: Lobby groups reacted with disappointment last week when the government delayed the release of its draft regulations on greenhouse gas emissions, with environmentalists saying the regulations are not a priority for the government and industry lobbyists saying they need regulatory certainty.	17th March 2008
If We Want to Survive the Climate Crisis We Must Change Either we build real community -- with mass transit and local food -- or we will go down clinging to the wreckage of our privatized society.	16th March 2008
Countdown to climate chaos - Guardian Unlimited Climate experts warn of damaging effects of disappearing glaciers See also: Glaciers melt 'at fastest rate in past 5,000 years'	16th March 2008
Faster climate change fears - Adelaidenow SOUTH Australians are being warned to brace for harsher and more regular heatwaves amid fears climate change may be occurring faster than forecast. Meteorologists and researchers say timeframes calculated by organisations such as the CSIRO for climate change impacts of higher temperatures, falling rainfall and rising sea levels are now conservative at best. And they warn the normal four seasons will blur as temperatures increase and summer stretches well into the autumn months.	16th March 2008
Global warming is taking a toll on streams - The Daily American Pennsylvania is predicted to lose 50 percent of its trout habitat in the coming decades. Other states such as North Carolina and Virginia could lose up to 90 percent of habitat. Even warmwater species are being impacted by climate alterations. The ongoing concern of the disappearance of and disease infested smallmouth bass in the Susquehanna River watershed is now being seen as result of heavy rains during the spring spawning season that have almost wiped out entire year classes of fish. Then followed by a long dry summer that escalates water temperature further stressing those fish that survive.	16th March 2008
Old king coal digs in for the future - Guardian Unlimited UK: Thoresby has a £55m new lease of life, but other pits are also recruiting again	16th March 2008
Labour's carbon claims too low - Times Online Britain's greenhouse gas emissions are 12% higher than claimed by Labour, according to an investigation by the National Audit Office. The report could undermine Gordon Brown's claims to be creating a low-carbon economy.	16th March 2008
Want to Buy Some Pollution? - New York Times The auction of greenhouse gas emissions permits could provide the foundation for a federal-state partnership to revolutionize energy use.	16th March 2008
Blair wants 'climate revolution' - BBC News Ex-prime minister Tony Blair has called for "global environment revolution" during a trip to Japan.	16th March 2008
Gordon Brown's plea: Lord, let me save the planet, but not yet - Times Online UK: The dilemmas and trade-offs of environmental policy are, admittedly, highly complex. The political pitfalls of changing our tax system are obvious. But as the man who commissioned the Stern report, Brown gained great credit. By ducking on delivering, he hands the green card to his enemies.	16th March 2008

Carbon Prices, Not Quotas - Forbes Worried about climate change but don't like carbon taxes? Consider the messy or even impossible alternatives.	15th March 2008
Analysis: Reality check for EU - BBC News EU leaders are upbeat on the bloc's response to the climate change and financial turmoil challenges, says the BBC's Paul Kirby. See also:Concessions to Merkel threaten climate plan - Guardian Unlimited Europe's chances of spearheading a global post-Kyoto climate change accord were jeopardised yesterday when Germany secured pledges that several of its heavy industries could be protected from international competition and exempted from the EU's plan to combat global warming.	15th March 2008
EU gives US airlines green ultimatum - Guardian Unlimited US airlines must pay for carbon emissions or face curb on flights to EU, commissioner warns	15th March 2008
Obama and Clinton plan to cool it - Salon.com Earth, that is. Our energy expert cracks open the Democratic candidates' proposals on global warming -- and is impressed.	15th March 2008
INTERVIEW-Antarctic glacier melted more quickly last year - AlertNet A glacier used as a benchmark to measure global warming's impact on the Antarctic Peninsula melted more than usual in the past year, according to an Argentine glacier researcher. For more than 20 years, Pedro Skvarca has studied the Devil's Bay glacier on Vega Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, a part of Antarctica that is warming five times faster than the average in the rest of the world.	15th March 2008
Uganda: 1.5 Million People Face Starvation Due to Foods, Drought - AllAfrica.com Some 1.5 million people are in need of food aid in parts of the country hit by last year's floods and now experiencing drought since January.	15th March 2008
GE CEO Says US Moving Too Slowly On Clean Energy - Planet Ark GOLETA - The United States is in danger of falling behind other nations in reducing greenhouse gas emissions if both the federal government and companies do not move quickly to support sources of clean energy, General Electric Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt said on Wednesday.	15th March 2008
Canada Pleads Technicality on Kyoto Non-Compliance - DeSmogBlog Like a criminal who beats the rap because police lost a piece of evidence, the Canadian government is trying to dodge responsibility for failing to meet its Kyoto commitments by clinging to a technicality.Defending itself against Federal Court suit brought by Friends of the Earth, the Canadian government argued this week that Kyoto targets "are not legally binding as they have not been adopted as an amendment to the Kyoto Protocol by agreement of all Parties." A rough translation might be:  George Bush isn't playing fair; why should we?The answer, to that hypothetical question at least, is that Canada promised that it would meet its Kyoto obligations.	15th March 2008
Killing the electric car again: Part II Take action and express your opinion to California regulators Part I described the background leading up to the March 27 California Air Resources Board meeting that will decide the fate of zero emissions vehicles (ZEVs) in a dozen or more states. Because the 1970 Clean Air Act allows only two sets of regulations in the U.S. -- the EPA's, and California's (which must be stricter than the EPA's) -- California may be regulating for your state, even if you don't live in California. Roughly a dozen states routinely adopt California's stricter standards -- and sometimes as many as 18 -- and collectively these states can represent as much as half of the U.S.	15th March 2008
Australia's food bowl lies empty - BBC After America, Australia is normally the second largest exporter of grain, and in a good year it would hope to harvest about 25 million tonnes. But the country remains in the grip of the worst drought in a century, which is why the 2006 crop yielded only 9.8m tonnes. Last year saw one of the best starts to a growing season for years, but dry weather in recent weeks has forced the Australian government to slash its crop forecasts by 30%.	14th March 2008
Killing the electric car, again: Part I The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- If you've seen the movie Who Killed the Electric Car? (which is ranked No. 8 on Netflix in documentary rentals), then you know the EV story up to 2003. What you might not know is that it looks like one of the players in the movie, the California Air Resources Board, is up to no good again. In killing Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) the first time, they put off progress on this front for a decade. Now they are preparing, at their March 27 meeting, to kill BEVs a second time and probably waste another decade. See also: Killing the electric car again: Part II	14th March 2008
"It's An Ill Wind" -- Well Not All That Ill! - DeSmogBlog Powerful winter storms sweeping across Europe have boosted wind power, oversupplying the wholesale market for electricity and driving down prices by some 12 percent since Friday. Even though road, rail and ship travel has been disrupted and insurers facing claims from damage brought by high winds, operators of wind turbines have been able to generate and sell more supply of the renewable energy into the power network.	14th March 2008
Sea Level Increase Is Kept Down by Reservoirs, Masking Ice Melt - Bloomberg.com March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Man-made reservoirs have cut sea- level gains by 30 millimeters (1.2 inches), masking the true extent of the contribution from melting ice, scientists said.	14th March 2008
EU threatens to punish climate deal rebels - The Times America and China face trade protection measures from Europe if they fail to join a global climate deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol, EU leaders will caution at their summit in Brussels today. Nations that refuse to curb greenhouse gases will be told that they face “appropriate measures” — code for trade sanctions — if they try to gain a competitive advantage by continuing to allow cheap, high-pollution production.	14th March 2008
Why Dealing With Climate Change Won't Bankrupt Us - U.S. News & World Report Expect more tussles over climate cost-benefit analysis ahead, says Daniel Weiss, director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress. He argues that most cost-benefit studies of global warming solutions will overestimate the costs and underestimate the benefits, because they are incapable of seeing the dynamic technological progress that inevitably will occur in the future. "These studies base their cost assumptions on existing technologies and practices, which means that they do not account for the vast potential for innovation once binding reductions and deadlines are set," he says.	14th March 2008
All close together now - Gristmill "This craziness is not sustainable," concludes The New York Times op-ed columnist Bob Herbert, and he's talking about the economy, not the environment. He continues: Without an educated and empowered work force, without sustained investment in the infrastructure and technologies that foster long-term employment, and without a system of taxation that can actually pay for the services provided by government, the American dream as we know it will expire. And without petroleum. Oil is shooting over $100 per barrel, caused ultimately by a looming decline in global supply, and exacerbated by rising demand in China and India, foolish policies such as the occupation of Iraq, and repressive regimes such as in Nigeria.	14th March 2008
US House Panel Chairman Threatens Legal Battle For EPA CO2 Drafts - Nasdaq WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The chairman of the U.S. House panel on climate change Thursday vowed to use all of the committee's legal powers to obtain U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents that show carbon dioxide endangers public welfare.	14th March 2008
EU's move on emissions targets - Financial Times European Union leaders, seeking to set the pace for the world, plan to announce on Friday that they will convert their bold promises to fight global warming into law within 12 months. See also: Barroso warns EU leaders against backing off emissions cuts - International Herald Tribune	14th March 2008
Manufacturers Oppose Climate-Change Bill - AP via Yahoo! Finance Manufacturers on Thursday went on the offensive against mandatory reductions in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, unveiling a study projecting $631 billion in costs by 2020 if Congress institutes a reduction program.	14th March 2008
'It has to be politically doable' - Guardian Unlimited Tony Blair spoke to the Guardian about his fears of a deadlock in international climate change talks yesterday as he headed to Japan, China and India to set out his plans to publish a report over the next year that could form the basis for what he described as a proper global deal to combat the biggest threat facing the world	14th March 2008
Going off-grid - The Ecologist No water? No electricity? Most of us would say ‘No way’. But, says Nick Rosen, you can gain a freewheeling sense of self-sufficiency by living more al fresco	14th March 2008
Blind date with disaster - Guardian Unlimited We are constantly warned by scientists that our planet is in big trouble, so why can't we change direction? David Suzuki, one of the world's leading ecologists, on how humans have lost the vital skill of foresight	13th March 2008
Tinkering or tackling? The 'green' measures - The Independent In what had been widely trailed as a "green" budget, Alistair Darling focused on cutting carbon emissions from homes, businesses and transport. See also: The green reaction: 'a missed opportunity' - Guardian Unlimited A paler shade of green - Guardian Unlimited	13th March 2008
Peru Bets On Desalination To Ensure Water Supplies - Planet Ark LIMA - Peru plans to start desalinating water from the Pacific Ocean to make up for declining supplies from fast-melting glaciers affected by climate change, President Alan Garcia said on Tuesday.	13th March 2008
Fun with numbers - Gristmill If we want to create jobs, why aren't we spending on mass transit? ● Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on defense: 8,555 ● Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on health care: 10,779 ● Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on education: 17,687 ● Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on mass transit: 19,795 (via Yes! magazine)	13th March 2008
Atlantic's Gulf Stream has huge influence on atmosphere - France24 The conveyor belt of Atlantic warm water known as the Gulf Stream massively influences the lower layers of the atmosphere, a finding that could shed light on a poorly-understood aspect of global warming, scientists report.	13th March 2008
Climate refugees in political pass-the-parcel - Reuters The islanders of Tuvalu could lose their homes and much of their land in the coming decades. But the world has yet to figure out how it will deal with them, and millions of others, who may be displaced by climate change. "It's a game of political pass-the-parcel," said Andrew Simms, policy director at British think-tank New Economics Foundation. "No one wants to be left holding the problem of climate refugees."	13th March 2008
Early spring thaw could affect your groceries - MSNBC NASA scientists have recorded an earlier regional thawing trend across northern high latitudes, advancing almost one day a year, since 1988. This trend, a likely result of global warming, leads to a longer growing season and supplies more time to harvest, which on the surface can be seen as positive. Some new studies, though, warn that this situation could actually increase the effects of climate change in the long term. Why? Early thaw has the potential to alter the cycle of atmospheric carbon dioxide intake and release. A longer growing season promotes more carbon uptake, which is then stored in seasonally frozen and permafrost soils. But when permafrost soils thaw and dry out, higher temperatures in the fall promote release of the stored carbon back into the atmosphere. This process is projected to increase over time at an accelerated rate, sending carbon dioxide levels soaring and further warming the planet.	13th March 2008
Nation told it must aim to be carbon neutral - The Age A LEADING authority on climate change says Australia's greenhouse gas reduction targets are inadequate, and all industrialised countries should be aiming to become carbon neutral. Bill Hare, a lead author on the latest report (2007) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says industrialised countries need to cut emissions by 85% to 95% of 1990 levels by 2050, a far more substantial reduction than the 60% promised by the Federal Government.	13th March 2008
World warned on high food costs - BBC The UN secretary general tells the BBC he is "deeply concerned" about the sharp rise in global food prices. See also: Grain traders buzz as prices soar - BBC News Grain prices are pushed higher by a combination of soaring global demand from new consumers and failed crops restricting their supply.	12th March 2008
Indians Gather to Save the Planet - PhysOrg (AP) -- North American Indians assembled in the shadow of ancient Mayan pyramids Monday discussed how their tradition wisdom could help save the planet, and were told that even indigenous cultures have struggled with environmental abuse.	12th March 2008
Media enable denier spin, part three - GristMill They Aren't Skeptical: Their Minds Are Made Up What name can we possibly use for the people who are working feverishly to convince the public to ignore the broad scientific understanding of global warming and delay taking serious action, action needed to avert a very grim fate for our children, their children, and so on? I suspect future generations will call them "climate destroyers" or worse, since if we actually (continue to) listen to them, that pretty much ensures carbon-dioxide concentrations will hit catastrophic levels -- 700 to 1000 -- this century, as explained in part two. But what should we call these people in the meantime, while we still have time to ignore them and save the climate?	12th March 2008
Deep thought - Energy Bulletin Cassandra's curse: how "The Limits to Growth" was demonized Alex Steffen: Zero, now Jeff Vail: Rhizome at the community level	12th March 2008
Stelmach draws a line in the - oilsands - CNews Alberta won't be pressured by the federal government into accepting unreasonable deadlines for reducing greenhouse gases, Premier Ed Stelmach said yesterday. See also: Oil Group to Press Canada to Postpone New Greenhouse-Gas Rules - Bloomberg.com	12th March 2008