Monthly Archives: January 2007
Senate Opens Debate on Fuel Economy
Automakers nervous; only Honda supports higher MPG requirement.
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Should we harness the Saharan sun?
At the European Renewable Energy Policy conference in Brussels this week, German Environment laid down a challenge to the renewables industry to harness the enormous potential for solar power in the North Africa.
If we can send a man to the moon, then why can’t we harness the sun’s energy in the Sahara? asked Gabriel.
There was [...]
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Investors Worth Trillions Ask Companies to Disclose Climate Risk
Environment News Service: A group of institutional investors with assets of US$41 trillion under management said today it is asking 2,400 of the world’s largest companies for disclosure of information about the risks and opportunities they face due to climate change. This is the fifth such request by the investors participating in the [...]
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Australia: Sydney given ‘doomsday’ climate change warning
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The CSIRO has issued Sydney with a dire warning about the impact of climate change on its future. A report commissioned by the New South Wales Government predicts large temperature rises and a decrease in rainfall of up to 40 per cent over the next 70 years. The study forecasts [...]
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Nuclear power faces stormy seas threat
Reuters: Dozens of nuclear power reactors around the world could be threatened by rising sea levels and violent storms unless power companies spend millions on defending them from the effects of climate change. Nuclear power plants need plentiful water for cooling so are usually near the sea or on rivers. All of the UK’s [...]
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Great Plains temperature record created
United Press International: U.S. scientists have created the first historic temperature record of the North American Great Plains — an area stretching from Canada to north Texas. Baylor University geology Professor Lee Nordt, along with Professor Joseph von Fisher of Colorado State University and Larry Tieszen of the U.S. Geological Survey, produced the 12,000-year [...]
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United Kingdom: Government admits pollution target unrealistic
Guardian: The UK will struggle to hit its 2010 target for reducing carbon emissions, the environment secretary said today. While the country is on track to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by almost double its Kyoto target, David Miliband said the domestic goal of cutting CO2 emissions by 20% on 1990 levels "looked increasingly difficult [...]
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Slow Going on Global Warming Report
Associated Press: Scientists and government officials are falling far behind in their attempts to come up with an authoritative report on global warming _ but not because of major disagreements among more than 100 nations and dozens of scientists. The problem is wrangling over the wording and nuances of general language, three delegates told [...]
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France: Lights out at Eiffel Tower for climate risk
Reuters: The Eiffel Tower is to turn its famous night-time illuminations off for five minutes on Thursday to help draw attention to energy consumption and the environment on the eve of the release of a U.N. report on climate change. The 336 projectors that light up the tower at night will be switched off [...]
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EU wants cleaner fuel to combat climate change
Associated Press: The European Commission on Wednesday proposed requirements to make fuel for transport vehicles cleaner as of 2011 to cut emissions of gasses that contribute to global warming. Under the plan, fuel suppliers would have to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 1 percent as of 2011 and achieve a 10 percent overall cut [...]
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Climate change doom reports don’t stack up
Reuters: Behind the picture of a serious climate change threat, painted in a U.N. report to be published on Friday, just how fast mankind can act remains unsure. "There are so many reports," said Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency and author of one of the biggest, the IEA’s 596-page World [...]
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Australia ignoring solar power, says pioneer
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: KERRY O’BRIEN: Australia’s main energy suppliers have released a study today supporting the Federal Government’s expressed view that clean coal, if and when it is economically feasible, backed by nuclear power is the nation’s best hope for reducing future greenhouse gas emissions. The study puts solar power and other renewables down the [...]
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Government meddling claimed in climate change science
International Herald Tribune: Under its new Democratic chairman, Henry Waxman, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform took on the Bush administration’s handling of climate change science, and even the Republicans on the panel had little good to say about the administration’s actions. The subject of the hearing Tuesday was allegations of administration [...]
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EU pressures oil companies to fight climate change
Reuters: The European Commission has proposed forcing oil companies to cut greenhouse gas emissions from drilling, refining, transporting and burning fuel in new rules aimed at fighting global warming. The plan, which seeks to cut emissions from oil’s "life cycle" from the ground to a car’s exhaust by 10 percent from 2011-2020, drew criticism [...]
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Automakers Kick Off New Campaigns in Super Bowl Ads