Monthly Archives: January 2007
US companies lag on climate risk disclosure
Reuters: Corporate America lags the largest global companies in disclosing climate change risks to investors, a report showed on Wednesday. Only 47 percent of the largest U.S. companies listed in the S&P 500 fully answered a survey on climate risks sent to the companies last year by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), according to [...]
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Lehman warns business, investors on climate change
Reuters: Corporations and their investors should be aware that policymakers’ response to climate change could suddenly and dramatically shift the economic landscape, a Lehman Brothers report said late on Wednesday. "There are (climate change) impacts on weather and storms and things but they’re fairly small so far… but you can get the effects right [...]
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Some Cool to Hot Term, ‘Carbon Neutral’
Associated Press: It’s a trend that counts Leonardo DiCaprio, London cabs and Al Gore among its followers: Making life "carbon neutral" through tree-planting and other environmentally friendly efforts to curb emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. The theme is a hot one as scientists in Paris this week prepare to issue a major report on global [...]
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So much damage done, climate change impact will last millennium UN
Canadian Press: A new report says humans have already caused so much damage to the atmosphere the effects of global warming will last for more than a millennium. A draft of the much-anticipated report, obtained by the Globe and Mail, says evidence the world is heating up is ‘’unequivocal.’’ The draft, by the [...]
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Canada: Kyoto letter controversy: Attacking Harper with his own words is old hat
Canadian Press: Stephen Harper’s history of outspoken, hard-edged statements provided plenty of campaign grist for his political opponents in the last two federal elections. Now, as the Conservative prime minister attempts to move his minority government to the centre on the hot-button environment file, his ideological past is once again being resurrected. In [...]
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Bush accused of censorship
Courier-Mail: US CLIMATE scientists have accused the White House of deliberately censoring their research and politically pressuring them into downplaying the threat of global warming. Two private groups representing government scientists made the explosive claims of interference by the Bush Administration during a Congressional hearing yesterday. A survey of 279 American climate scientists [...]
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Canada’s PM blasted over old anti-Kyoto comments
Reuters: Opposition legislators attacked Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday after it emerged that he had once described the Kyoto global warming protocol as "a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations". Harper, who says Canada cannot meet its Kyoto commitments to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, made the comments in [...]
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California mulls ban on incandescent light bulbs
San Jose Mercury News: It may soon be lights out for the traditional light bulb in California. Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, D-Van Nuys, is proposing that the Golden State become the first to ban sales of incandescent light bulbs, by 2012. In their place, Californians could purchase more energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps. Those are the [...]
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US government meddles in climate science: report
DPA: US President George W. Bush’s administration has systematically pressed climate researchers to play down the threat of global warming, watchdog groups have said. A survey of 308 scientists at agencies with US government funding found that 46 percent felt or experienced pressure to remove words like ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ from their [...]
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Australia: Major parties must address climate change causes: Brown
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Australian Greens say it is farcical for the Federal Government and the Opposition to express concern about water shortages while supporting policies that promote climate change. Greens leader Bob Brown says the water crisis and warnings about the future of the Great Barrier Reef are indications of the severity of [...]
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Apocalypse never? Science could yet save the day
Independent (UK): Scientists are thinking the unthinkable. What can be done to save the planet from global warming if political measures fail? If governments cannot agree on the necessary cuts in carbon-dioxide emissions, can engineering projects such as giant mirrors in space save the world? This week, more than 2,000 of the world’s [...]
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Two of the Biggest Changes in Climate News
ABC News: Scientists gathered from around the world will deliver the verdict on Friday morning in Paris on what the damage is — how we’ve already permanently altered the planet. The news will be heavy — hard to take. The exact wording of the report won’t be final until the 9:30 a.m. [...]
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Australia: Report: Sydney heat deaths to soar
Reuters: Climate change in Sydney will cause a significant rise in heat-related deaths of people over 65 years of age by 2050, as Australia’s biggest city suffers more heat waves, bushfires and floods, a new environment report says. The report by Australia’s premier scientific body, the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), forecast [...]
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Chirac tells US to join climate protocol or face taxes