Monthly Archives: September 2007

Endangered coral becomes climate warning system

By | Published: September 30, 2007
Reuters: The future is looking grim for coral reefs, home to bright tropical fish and a lure for tourists worldwide but also an early warning system for climate shift, leading coral scientist Ove Hoegh-Guldberg says. Warming seas and increased ocean acidity will devastate more than 90 percent of the world’s corals over the coming [...]
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Thailand: Poll: Thais now concerned with global warming

By | Published: September 30, 2007
Thai News Agency: Some 97.1 per cent of all respondents in a poll conducted recently by Assumption University are now worried by global warming. The poll, conducted among 2,191 people aged above 18 in Bangkok and surrounding areas and four other major cities from September 21-29, found that nearly all — 98.4 per [...]
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Survey shows links between local foods, climate change, food safety

By | Published: September 30, 2007
Hindu: A recent survey shows that American consumers are skeptical about the safety of the global food system and many believe that local foods are safer and better for their health than foods from afar. These are the views of a representative, nationwide sample of 500 consumers who participated in a web-based survey [...]
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Can politicians solve climate change?

By | Published: September 30, 2007
Guardian: Ariel Levy: If the problems of climate change are to be solved the solutions to them must involve politicians. It is only through sweeping and far-reaching change in the laws that regulate business, agriculture, transportation, and urban planning that the potential for reversing climate change can be realised. But politicians tend to respond [...]
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Australia: Targets to put wind up electricity

By | Published: September 30, 2007
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Australian: FOR more than a century, windmills have played an important part in Australian agriculture, pumping water from underground aquifers to supply homesteads and livestock in the drier parts of the country. Their simple durability has become part an enduring icon of surviving in a wide brown land. The imagery is about [...]
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Global warming to hit rice production hard

By | Published: September 30, 2007
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Commodity Online: The heat is on and will take a heavy toll on your rice bowl in the coming years. The reason: Global Warming. Global warming, which will increase the temperatures up to 4.5 degree Celsius by the end of the century, will hit rice cultivation hard by reducing production [...]
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Hollywood sending mixed messages on global warming

By | Published: September 30, 2007
Associated Press: From "green carpets" at awards shows to organic fruit served to actors on sets, Hollywood is going all out to promote itself as being environmentally hip. But is it all just show? No amount of public service announcements or celebrities driving hybrid cars can mask the fact that movie and TV [...]
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Bush struggles to stay relevant in climate debate

By | Published: September 30, 2007
Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush, hosting major polluting nations last week, sought to convince skeptics that he wants to help shape the next global deal on climate change, despite his long history of shunning such efforts. But with only 15 months left in office, his chances of becoming a major player in the [...]
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Bush’s Plea On Global Warming Falls Flat

By | Published: September 30, 2007
Associated Press: President George W. Bush’s appeal for a new fund to reduce global warming fell flat with Europeans and environmentalists who say U.N.-mandated cuts in greenhouse gases are what is needed. To show he meant business, Mr Bush designated his treasury secretary to talk to other nations about getting worldwide contributions to [...]
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Uganda: Planting the Seeds of Hope Around an Unhealthy Lake Victoria

By | Published: September 30, 2007
Monitor: John Speke, the British explorer, who arrived at Lake Victoria’s shores in 1858 after months of braving dense forests and tropical diseases in his search for the Source of the Nile would be shocked if he were to see the lake today. At the time, it is said, the lake water was as [...]
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Hundreds speak out on Dingell’s carbon-tax idea

By | Published: September 30, 2007
Detroit Free Press: The reviews are coming in for U.S. Rep. John Dingell’s carbon-tax plan. The Dearborn Democrat’s request for comments on his Web site had drawn about 700 replies as of Friday evening. On Thursday, Dingell asked for reaction to his plan to set a $50-per-ton tax on carbon emissions and a [...]
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Watershed week gives strong push in climate crisis

By | Published: September 30, 2007
Agence France-Presse:  A key week in the chronicle of climate change has delivered a powerful kick for tackling the environmental crisis, even if many fundamental problems and deep-rooted skepticism remain. Diplomats gave an upbeat assessment of the UN climate summit in New York and a two-day meeting in Washington of the world’s biggest greenhouse-gas [...]
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Don’t fragment climate talks

By | Published: September 30, 2007
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Buffalo News: President Bush and his administration have been roundly ridiculed for their "faith-based" approach to setting policy, believing as they do in giant tax cuts for the rich even when the federal deficit is exploding, and in occupying Iraq with too few troops and nothing resembling a plan. The president’s faith [...]
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United States: Solar power play

By | Published: September 30, 2007
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Herald Tribune: The Sunshine State may finally be on its way to becoming a leader in the development of solar power, thanks to a commendable campaign by Gov. Charlie Crist and Florida Power & Light. Last week, the utility’s parent company — FPL Group Inc. — announced plans to invest $2.4 [...]
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Still out in the cold

By | Published: September 30, 2007
International Herald Tribune: President George W. Bush’s two-day summit on global warming last week was not, as some of the European delegates complained privately, a total bust. Our own expectations weren’t high, but we can note several positive outcomes. The meeting brought together 17 nations – the Group of 8 industrialized countries, plus big [...]
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