Monthly Archives: September 2007
Can politicians solve climate change?
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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Survey shows links between local foods, climate change, food safety
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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Thailand: Poll: Thais now concerned with global warming
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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Endangered coral becomes climate warning system
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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Australia: Crops fail as farmers prepare for the worst
Herald Sun: WHO would have thought that the sight of blue skies in spring could be so depressing? But the sunshine that has bathed Victoria for the past month is the cause of a calamity descending on farming lands north of the Divide that is difficult to fully comprehend. Many farming communities [...]
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Australia: Drought puts town’s survival at risk
Australian: A town that was once the heart of a thriving agricultural district is today a shadow of its former self: the water is gone and so are most of the people. Terowie grew up on the margins of viability in a heartbreak reach of rural Australia, straddling the railway and Goyder’s Line, [...]
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Europe doubts climate plan without teeth
Sydney Morning Herald: THE US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, has tried to assuage European and green group concerns the US is trying to hijack the United Nations process for developing a new global deal on climate change. "I want to stress that the United States takes climate change very seriously," Dr Rice said [...]
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The Earth is out of time
Age: ANOTHER week on a changing planet. Australian farmers struggling through the worst drought on record are offered $150,000 by Canberra to walk off their land. Federal police chief Mick Keelty declares climate change – not terrorism – as the greatest threat to national security (a position doused down yesterday to an "equal" threat). Scientists [...]
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Australia: Climate ’shift’ no cause for panic: Howard
Sydney Morning Herald: THE Prime Minister, John Howard, said yesterday he believed the continuing drought was an example of "climate shift", not climate change. "We are seeing what the experts call a climate shift and I do think we should keep our heads about it. I don’t think we should write off farming," Mr [...]
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Australia: Higher dole for farmers defended
Australian: FARMERS and graziers can earn almost 13 times more than pensioners and the unemployed before they start to lose the dole. While out-of-work Australians can earn just $31 before their payout is reduced, the Howard Government’s new drought assistance package allows farmers to earn nearly $400 a week before it starts to taper [...]
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Australia: Greens say mill a CO2 monster
Canberra Times: The controversial Gunns pulp mill in northern Tasmania would produce more than 10million tonnes of greenhouse gas a year an amount equal to 2 per cent of Australia’s current total emissions, Greens Senator Christine Milne said. "This is an enormous contribution to climate change at a time when Australia should be looking [...]
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Bush’s voluntary targets for emissions fail to win support
Independent (UK): Defiant as ever, President Bush remained isolated on global warming when he refused to accept the need for specific limits on emissions from the world’s biggest polluting nations. Mr Bush instead called on the world’s largest producers of CO2 to set a voluntary goal for reducing the gasses that are causing [...]
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‘Climate fight must not slow growth’
Times of India: US president George Bush warned on Friday that the fight against climate change must not impede economic growth in a closely-watched speech to the world’s 16 biggest greenhouse-gas polluters. "Our guiding principle is clear. We must lead the world to produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions and we must do it [...]
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Eight-fold increase in African floods
Irish Examiner: The rising number of catastrophes has left 1.5 million people across Africa facing hunger, hardship and homelessness. Their plight was a direct result of climate change, said Irish Red Cross chairman David Andrews. "We need support from people in Ireland to pay for urgently-needed goods such as tents and clean water, as [...]
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Australia: Targets to put wind up electricity