Monthly Archives: June 2007
A new war on the planet?
Green Left: During the last year the global warming debate has reached a turning point. Due to the media hype surrounding Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, followed by a new assessment by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the climate sceptics have suffered a major defeat. Suddenly the media and [...]
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Live Earth Seeks Carbon Emissions Cut of 90 Percent by 2050
Environment News Service: Nine days to go before Live Earth – the global day of music to combat the climate crisis – and everyone on Earth is being asked to take their own personal actions to keep the planet cool. Live Earth is asking everyone to support a 90 percent reduction in emissions of the [...]
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The time to solve global warming is now
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The weather looked awful when I peeked out of the airplane window last week: Torrential rain, lightning and wind gusts that seemed to lift the Boeing 757 off the ground. But none of that was as striking as the announcement that the flight was canceled. Nearly every passenger seemed to know that once [...]
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Satellite snaps first images of mysterious glowing clouds
New Scientist: A new satellite has captured its first views of enigmatic glowing clouds whose proliferation may be linked to climate change. NASA launched the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite on 25 April on a mission to investigate "night-shining" or noctilucent clouds. These clouds float 80 kilometres above the ground and [...]
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Global warming will increase world death rate
New Scientist: The increase in extremely hot summers predicted by climate change models will lead to a higher death toll that will not be offset by fewer deaths during warmer winters, say researchers. "The increase in mortality when you have one extra cold snap is 1.59%, but the increase in mortality for an additional [...]
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Indonesia wants deforestation in new climate deal
Antara: Indonesia is pushing to include deforestation in any agreement on combatting global warming during December’s U.N.-led climate talks in Bali, the environment minister said on Friday. The conference on the resort island is expected to initiate talks on clinching a new deal by 2009 to fight global warming. The existing pact, the [...]
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Agriculture NGO group attacks biofuels
United Press International: Spanish agriculture group said the push for biofuels is causing more environmental and social damage than previously thought. Grains, a non-governmental organization focused on agricultural biodiversity cited recent warnings from the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization that some biofuels produce hardly any carbon savings at all, the BBC said [...]
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EU Plans How to Deal With Climate Change
Associated Press: Water shortages, flash floods and blazing summers are among the hardships Europe may be facing as its climate heats up in coming years, a European Union paper warned Friday. In outlining the various scenarious climate change could bring, the EU paper also laid out actions governments can take to minimize the effects. [...]
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Charity attacks rush for biofuels
BBC: A furious attack on the drive to grow more biofuels has been launched by a charity supporting poor farmers in developing countries. The charity – called Grain – says their research shows the rush for biofuels is causing much more environmental and social damage than previously realised. Biofuels from crops [...]
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Extreme weather wakes US up to climate change
Independent (UK): US public opinion is rapidly waking up to the threat posed by global warming, despite the best efforts of the Bush Administration and much of industry to deny the problem. There has been a double-digit increase in the proportion of Americans who say environmental problems are a major global threat – [...]
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Global warning predictions coming true
Malaysian Sun: This year will probably be an indication of what is in store from global warming. Experts believe the floods in England, heatwave in Europe and storms and floods in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India may herald worse disruptions. Phil Jones, whose organisation provides data to the UN International Meteorological Organisation [...]
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2007 seen as second warmest year as climate shifts
Reuters: This year is on track to be the second warmest since records began in the 1860s and floods in Pakistan or a heatwave in Greece may herald worse disruptions in store from global warming, experts said on Friday. "2007 is looking as though it will be the second warmest behind 1998," said Phil [...]
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2006 a boom year for investment in renewable energy
Edie: Factors such as concerns over climate, high oil prices and government help are listed as some of the top reasons driving capital into renewable energy from $80 billion in 2005 to the record $100 billion in 2006. Most popularly, investment money is being poured into renewable energy sources like wind, solar power [...]
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Treaty Amended to Allow Carbon Burial Off Europe
Reuters: European nations have amended a maritime treaty to permit burial of greenhouse gases beneath the north-east Atlantic as part of a long-term assault on global warming, Norway said on Thursday. Governments changed the so-called 1992 OSPAR Convention at a meeting in Ostend, Belgium, so that a ban on "dumping" at sea will [...]
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Climate vandals prepare a do-nothing APEC