Monthly Archives: April 2007
Carbon capture is climate best bet
Sunday Times: A WORLDWIDE program to capture greenhouse gases from power stations and factories could be humanity’s best chance of saving itself from climate change, a report will say this week. The study, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will also say that nuclear electricity generation could prove a powerful means of cutting [...]
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Australia: Solar cells wait for their day in the sun
Age: AS A solution to global warming, solar energy has everything going for it – except cost. But a new government move and little slivers of silicon invented in Australia might soon change that. Prime Minister John Howard hinted on Friday that next week’s budget could lift the rebate for Australians to install solar [...]
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How to save the planet? More nuclear power and GM crops, say climate experts
Scotsman: THE world’s leading climate-change experts will this week put themselves on a collision course with environmentalists by proposing a series of controversial measures to tackle global warming. More than 2,000 scientists will put forward a global warming action-plan to save the world from overheating, including a major expansion of nuclear power, using [...]
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Germany struggling to save last glacier
Reuters: The winds are cold at any time of the year on Germany’s highest mountain but the country’s last glacier is melting away despite Herculean efforts to counter the effects of climate change. Spreading giant anti-glare shields over the glacier each April after piling tonnes of loose snow upon it, workers at the Zugspitezebahn [...]
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Australia: Greens Senator rejects nuclear push
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Greens Senator Christine Milne has used a weekend visit to the Riverina, in southern New South Wales, to attack the Government’s and the Opposition’s stance on uranium. Senator Milne, who attended the first public event for the local climate action group, CROW, in Junee on Saturday, says the major parties have [...]
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Dutch Say Green Fuel is Good — If it’s Really Green
Reuters: So-called green fuels are fine, but under a proposed law Dutch energy generators who use them will have to show they really do not harm the environment or deprive people of food. Environment Minister Jacqueline Cramer on Friday received a report which recommended stringent criteria for the use of biomass materials, such [...]
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Investors Cheer, Greens Jeer Canada Emissions Plan
Reuters: Most Canadian energy stocks got a lift on Friday as investors and oil bosses expressed relief that Ottawa’s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions avoided absolute caps and adherence to commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. Environmentalists were angered with the C$8 billion (US$7 billion) Green Plan, released Thursday by Environment Minister John [...]
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China’s Wen Urges Curbs on Energy-Guzzlers
Reuters: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday urged a policy crackdown on energy-gorging industries that belch pollution, saying his coal-dependent nation had to rein in emissions causing global warming. Wen has made a priority of cutting growth in China’s consumption of oil, gas and coal, but frantic economic growth stymied energy efficiency goals [...]
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BP’s Browne Urges Climate Agency to Fight Warming
Reuters: BP Plc Chief Executive John Browne on Thursday called for the formation of an international climate agency to tackle global warming. Browne, in a speech at Stanford University in Silicon Valley south of San Francisco, said the climate agency should have the United States, European Union and China as lead players and [...]
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Religion Must Help Protect Planet, Conference Says
Reuters: God wants believers to be green. That’s the message emerging from a Vatican conference on climate change which was the latest sign of growing concern by religious groups around the world over the fate of the planet. Scientists, environment ministers and leaders of various religions from 20 countries sat down for [...]
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U.S. and China Object to Global Warming Report
Associated Press: The United States and China want to water down a proposed plan for fighting climate change, arguing that action to reduce greenhouse gases will be more costly and time-consuming than scientists claim. They also play down the benefits of reducing emissions, disputing recommendations by European governments that greenhouse gases be capped [...]
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United Kingdom: EasyJet slams ’snake oil sellers’ in offset market
Guardian: EasyJet has warned that the carbon offsetting market is riddled with "snake oil salesmen" determined to make excessive profits from green-minded air passengers. The low-cost airline has delayed the launch of an offsetting scheme for customers because of concerns over its cost. Instead, easyJet will go it alone by acquiring credits in UN-accredited schemes [...]
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UN Panel Meets On Climate Change
Voice of America: Scientists and other experts from 120 countries are meeting in Thailand this week to discuss ways to respond to climate change. The same group warned earlier this year that global warming poses a major threat to mankind. Ron Corben reports from Bangkok. Earlier this year, the said that humans were [...]
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Experts meet on U.N. report but time running out
Reuters: After two gloomy U.N. reports on global warming, scientists and governments began on Monday looking at how to fight climate change, with green groups saying the world has the means to cut emissions at little cost. "Science certainly provides a lot of compelling reasons for action," Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel [...]
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United Kingdom: What Do We Want? 80%! When Do We Want It? Now!