Monthly Archives: August 2007

The Week in Energy – September 7, 2007

By | Published: August 31, 2007
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Note: This will be my last time to post in this format. Others have commented, and I agree, that this is a bit unwieldly. Besides that, it is taking me more time to link up and format these stories… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other [...]
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Record rains for British summer

By | Published: August 31, 2007
BBC: This summer appears to have been the wettest since rainfall records began in 1914, according to provisional data from the UK Meteorological Office. Britain had 358.5mm of rain, just beating the 1956 record of 358.4mm. The main reason for the high rainfall has been the unusually southerly position of the [...]
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Between Hungry People and Climate Change, Soils Need Help

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Environment News Service: To meet the needs of a rapidly growing human population, more food must be produced over the coming 50 years than in the last 10,000 years combined, scientists say. But land degradation and desertification are undercutting the soil’s ability to produce more food, causing an environmental crisis that affects one-third of all [...]
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RI finalizing plans to form `forestry eight` forum on global warming

By | Published: August 31, 2007
Antara: The Indonesian government is finalizing plans to establish a forum of counntries possessing rain forests (dubbed "Forestry Eight") in an effort to cope with the global warming problem, a spokesmna said. "Indonesia, as the initiator of the Forestry Eight will hold a meeting on September 27 in conjunction with the United Nations annual [...]
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EU pledges help as Greece damps down forest fires

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Reuters: Planes dropped water on smoldering forest fires in Greece on Friday and the European Union promised cash to help the country recover from more than a week of destructive blazes that killed 63 people. Firefighters were tackling fires on two main fronts, and help began to arrive for the thousands made homeless, while [...]
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UN climate talks in Vienna end with broad pledges, wobbly language

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Agence France-Presse: Parties to the UN’s Kyoto Protocol wound up troubled talks here Friday with broad pledges but weak language to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) still said they were generally satisfied with the outcome of the week-long talks, which were organised by the United Nations [...]
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Simple steps could help African farmers cope with climate change, experts say

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Associated: Climate change could worsen Africa’s struggle to feed itself, but even simple steps – a cistern to catch rainwater, a solar panel, or hardier seeds for crops – could help the continent’s subsistence farms, experts said Friday. About 250 experts, donors and officials were meeting in Oslo this week for [...]
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Climate change breakthroughs unlikely at APEC, but meeting could shape future agreements

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Associated Press: Breakthroughs on greenhouse gas reductions are unlikely at next week’s summit of Asia-Pacific leaders, environmentalist and diplomats said, though high-level discussions could shape future climate change agreements. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum is expected to call for major polluters to make "measurable and verifiable contributions to meeting shared global [...]
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Climate change and N. America farms to be studied

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Iowa State University researchers will join a study of climate change to produce mid-century projections by late next year of the likely regional effects on North American farms from global warming. "There is no question now that the climate is changing on a global scale," said Gene Takle, an Iowa [...]
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NASA: Global warming to cause more severe storms in USA

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Associated Press: As the world warms, the USA will face more severe thunderstorms with deadly lightning, damaging hail and the potential for tornadoes, a trailblazing study by NASA scientists suggests. While other research has warned of broad weather changes on a large scale, like more extreme hurricanes and droughts, the new study [...]
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Germany: Merkel makes new proposal on climate change as she revisits site of Kyoto conference

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Associated Press: German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposed making per capita emissions of greenhouse gases the basis for future climate change negotiations Friday, a suggestion aimed at persuading developing countries to join efforts to reduce global warming. Merkel made the proposal in a speech at the conference center in Kyoto where, as [...]
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Canada wind industry grows amid opposition storm

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Canada’s fledgling wind power industry, late off the global starting blocks, has stumbled on growing local resistance to the idea of massive turbines dotting the country’s relatively unmarked landscape. Although polls show widespread support for the renewable energy source, a growing number of companies say that support quickly fades among [...]
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Industrial nations agree step to new climate pact

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Industrial nations agreed on Friday to consider stiff 2020 goals for cutting greenhouse gases in a small step towards a new long-term pact to fight climate change. About 1,000 delegates at the Aug 27-31 U.N. talks set greenhouse gas emissions cuts of between 25 and 40 percent below 1990 levels [...]
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Developed Countries Should Cut Emissions 40% by 2020

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Bloomberg: Industrialized nations need to curb emissions by at least 25 percent and as much as 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels to stabilize the world’s climate, according to conclusions at a United Nations meeting in Vienna. Nations that set targets under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol could accept stricter [...]
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Billions Up in Flames as Oil Firms Burn Gas

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Inter Press Service: Energy producers waste about 40 billion dollars every year by burning off gas released at oil fields, says a new study commissioned by the World Bank. The practice, known as flaring, also hastens climate change by spewing some 400 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, says [...]
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