Monthly Archives: February 2007
Congress Urged to Protect Children from Vehicle Deaths
Federal safety regulators and automakers refuse to act, Public Citizen charges.
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New evidence that global warming fuels stronger Atlantic hurricanes
EurekAlert: Atmospheric scientists have uncovered fresh evidence to support the hotly debated theory that global warming has contributed to the emergence of stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. The unsettling trend is confined to the Atlantic, however, and does not hold up in any of the world’s other oceans, researchers have also found. [...]
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Does bigger mean safer?
CNN: Many people see them as conspicuous consumption gone mad, the cause of climate change due to high emissions, but are Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV) and people-carriers simply getting bad press? A backlash against the hordes of these generally large and therefore highly visible vehicles on our roads — and particularly our urban centers [...]
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United Nations’ scientists join climate change chorus
New Scientist: As of now, only coal power stations that can accommodate facilities to capture and store their carbon dioxide emissions should be built, scientists advised on Tuesday. Declaring the global warming debate over, the UN-backed team urged the world’s nations on to act now to keep climate change from creating a worldwide [...]
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Panel says new fuel economy plan needed
Associated Press: A new approach is needed for setting fuel-economy standards, lawmakers said Wednesday as they considered changes amid concerns about global warming and the problems of struggling U.S. automakers. The Bush administration outlined a proposal to boost fuel economy standards before members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which will help shape [...]
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Brazil: Ants may help us adjust to global warming
Science Daily: A U.S.-led team of international biologists says some ants have adjusted to well to urban warming and may help other species adapt to such climate change. The researchers, led by Michael Angilletta of Indiana State University, note large cities can be more than 10 degrees hotter than their surroundings, with such urban [...]
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Small village in Greece illustrates the problems of coal
International Herald Tribune: Akrini is a village in northern Greece peopled by the descendants of refugees who fled their homes near the Black Sea when war broke out with Turkey early in the last century. Now the villagers want to flee again. Akrini sits just 3.5 kilometers, about two miles, from the smog-spewing towers [...]
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Canada: Group: Global Warming Effects Hunting
Associated Press: Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures. All his gear plunged into the water too, leaving him stranded for two days. He now walks _ and still hunts _ with prosthetic feet, and believes God kept him alive to [...]
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Old Data Supports Global Warming Link to Stronger Hurricanes
Live Science: Scientists have found new evidence for a link between global warming and stronger Atlantic hurricanes in old satellite data. A common criticism of research purporting a connection between these two phenomena is that it relies on a hodge-podge of satellite data of different quality and collected with different techniques over several decades. [...]
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Canada: Study puts cost of meeting Kyoto climate-change targets at $100 billion
Canadian Press: It would cost $100 billion over four years for Canada to meet its Kyoto targets under a plan by Friends of the Earth and Corporate Knights magazine, one of the first attempts to put a price tag on addressing climate change. Although the cost sounds staggering, it amounts to only $20 a [...]
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Blair backs EU renewable energy targets
Financial Times: Tony Blair will next week complete a British U-turn over green energy and support an ambitious 20 per cent mandatory target for renewable power as a share of European generation capacity. The British prime minister has overruled his industry minister and will argue at an EU summit that Europe needs binding targets [...]
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Brazil Ministry calls for national plan to confront global warming
Associated Press: Environmental officials called Wednesday for Brazil to develop a national plan to combat global warming, a day after scientists warned it could devastate the Amazon rain forest and lead to a spike in diseases like malaria and yellow fever. The plan would define possible settlement areas for refugees from coastal areas where [...]
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Scientists start polar study amid global warming
Reuters: More than 60 nations launch the broadest scientific investigation yet of the Arctic and Antarctic on Thursday to chart polar regions on the front lines of global warming. About 3,000 children will build snowmen in Oslo, top scientists will meet in Paris and researchers will gather on a polar research vessel in Cape [...]
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La Nina May Bring More Hurricanes Than Normal – NOAA
Reuters: The return of a La Nina weather pattern this year could trigger a higher-than-normal number of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, US government weather forecasters said Tuesday. "Although other scientific factors affect the frequency of hurricanes, there tends to be a greater-than-normal number of Atlantic hurricanes and fewer-than-normal number of eastern Pacific [...]
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Hybrid Sales Slow As Gas Prices Rise