Monthly Archives: February 2008

United States: Redwood trees vs solar panels

By | Published: February 29, 2008
Associated Press: In an environmental dispute seemingly scripted for eco-friendly California, a man asked prosecutors to file charges against his neighbors because their towering redwoods blocked sunlight to his backyard solar panels. Mark Vargas shows the solar panels on his home that get blocked by his neighbors trees in Santa Clara, California. But [...]
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Only zero emissions can prevent a warmer planet

By | Published: February 29, 2008
New Scientist: Greenhouse gas emissions will have to be eliminated completely to stabilise the Earth’s climate and prevent temperatures from rising. That’s the conclusion of climatologists in the US who say that our current efforts to merely stabilise emissions will not be enough. Damon Matthews, from Concordia University in Canada, and Ken Caldeira, from [...]
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Australia: Drive for new fuel tax

By | Published: February 29, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Herald Sun: MOTORISTS will pay at least 10c extra per litre for petrol, with oil giants poised to pass on the cost of reducing greenhouse gas. Australia’s biggest petrol refiner, Caltex, yesterday called for a direct 10c carbon tax on drivers. "Every time motorists filled up at a service [...]
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Nader’s lost cause reflects the woes of green activism

By | Published: February 29, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Australian: RALPH Nader announced this week he will stand again as a third-party candidate in November’s US presidential election. Of course he is entitled to run and of course he won’t win. Based on his miserable results from his previous tilt in 2004, the 74-year-old millionaire activist may now be so [...]
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Green Job Opportunities

By | Published: February 28, 2008
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Climate Risk Disclosure Gains Momentum, Report Says

By | Published: February 28, 2008
Bloomberg: A tax on carbon dioxide or limits on heat-trapping pollution would lead more Canadian companies to disclose climate-change risks to investors, a Toronto-based law firm said. British Columbia, Canada’s third-most populous province, proposed a tax on fossil fuels to fight the effects of rising global temperatures. Carbon dioxide, the main pollutant blamed [...]
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Australia to Spend $50 Million for Murray-Darling Water

By | Published: February 28, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Environment News Service: The Australian government will spend $50 million this financial year on buying back water entitlements to rescue the Murray-Darling Basin’s rivers and wetlands. Australia’s most important agricultural area has been gripped by a decade-long drought. The Murray-Darling Basin is 3,430 kilometers long and drains one-seventh of the [...]
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Winter temperature in Finland hits record high

By | Published: February 28, 2008
Xinhua: Finland this year has recorded its highest average temperature for a winter season since 1900, the Finnish Meteorological Institute said Thursday. The average temperature in the Finnish capital Helsinki in January was 0.6 degrees Celsius, which was 4.8 degrees higher than that of the period between 1971 and 2000, said the institute. [...]
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White House Wants More Oil; Investment Not Seen

By | Published: February 28, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: The White House called for more US and global oil output to fight rising energy costs, but a top intelligence official said Wednesday that prices at $100 per barrel had yet to spur production. "We would like to not only have exporting countries increase their output but we would [...]
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US House Okay’s Bill To Tax Big Oil, Help Renewables

By | Published: February 28, 2008
Reuters: The US House of Representatives Wednesday voted to repeal $18 billion in tax breaks for big oil companies to help pay for developing renewable energy sources. The bill, which the White House has threatened to veto on grounds that it unfairly targets the oil industry, would extend tax credits for producing energy [...]
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UK clears 3 wind farms in clean energy target chase

By | Published: February 28, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: British energy minister Malcolm Wicks has given the all clear to three wind farms in England as the government tries to clear a backlog of clean energy projects and hit ambitious renewable energy targets. Two of the projects are onshore wind farms in North Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire, while the [...]
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Record-warm winter in Finland may boost crops

By | Published: February 28, 2008
Reuters: The warmest winter ever recorded in Finland may boost grain crops as the growing season is likely to be longer than usual, experts said on Thursday. The Finnish Meteorological Institute said the December-February period was the warmest since records began more than 100 years ago, with average temperatures about 5 degrees Celsius (9 [...]
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Only Austria and Denmark meet carbon deadline: EU

By | Published: February 28, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Just two countries have so far met a deadline on Thursday to allocate to their industry permits to emit carbon dioxide, the European Union’s executive Commission said, likely delaying a 2008 carbon spot market. The EU’s carbon trading scheme is the 27 nation bloc’s main strategy to fight climate change, [...]
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China: Olympians Face Tough Opponent: Pollution

By | Published: February 28, 2008
Reuters: Eat an orange. Wear a facemask. Train elsewhere and fly in at the last possible moment to compete. These are some of the strategies suggested for Olympic athletes planning to compete in Beijing, where a thick cloud of smog often blankets one of the world’s most polluted cities. "There really [...]
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Ocean cooling may solve Antarctic mystery

By | Published: February 28, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Fossil evidence of a cooling of the oceans 35 million years ago may have solved a mystery about how Antarctica froze over in one of the big climate shifts in Earth’s history, scientists said on Thursday. The fossil signs of a 2.5 Celsius (4.5 Fahrenheit) fall in ocean temperatures, enough [...]
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