Independent: Ministers could avoid building nuclear reactors by encouraging families to fit solar panels and other renewable energy equipment to their homes, a startling official report concludes. The government-backed report, to be published tomorrow, says that, with changed policies, the number of British homes producing their own clean energy could multiply to one million […]

Scotsman: FOR those fearing the destruction of the earth through climate change, there is for once some good news: scientists claim to have made a major breakthrough towards developing a machine that can ’suck’ carbon dioxide from the air. If successful, the device will alleviate the environmental damage caused by billions of tonnes of […]

Associated Press: Global warming could release long-dormant stores of methane gas trapped beneath the Arctic permafrost – causing an abrupt and catastrophic climate change like one that occurred 635 million years ago that ended the last great ice age, University of California-Riverside researchers have determined. Back then, the sheets of ice that covered Earth […]

San Francisco Chronicle: — Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. - She chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and sees this bill as her chance to leave a lasting legacy. She’ll have a tough task fighting off "poison pill" amendments aimed at killing the bill. — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. - The presumptive […]

Associated Press: The possible economic cost of confronting global warming – from higher electricity bills to more expensive gasoline – is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress. The Senate will begin considering legislation Monday that would mandate a reduction in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants, […]

New York Times: For years, scientists have had a straightforward idea for taming global warming. They want to take the carbon dioxide that spews from coal-burning power plants and pump it back into the ground. Support for the idea is widespread in the United States - which vies with China as the world’s […]

San Francisco Chronicle: The Senate will decide this week whether to follow in California’s footsteps and pass legislation requiring cuts in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change. Lawmakers are to vote Monday to begin debate on a bill that could reshape the U.S. economy by requiring industry to pay to emit carbon […]

Time Magazine: It’s a truism in politics: support for environmental causes tends to be broad, but shallow. Broad, because most voters support political action to protect the Earth, and not even the most conservative of politicians want to be seen as standing against it. Shallow, because few Americans really allow environmental issues to dictate their […]

Associated Press: From higher electric bills to more expensive gasoline, the possible economic cost of tackling global warming is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress. Legislation set for Senate debate Monday would require a reduction in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants, refineries, factories and transportation. […]

Age: THE latest World Bank figures show that India has emerged as a big player in the carbon trading market, ranking as the second-largest seller of carbon credits in the global market last year. Although its share is only 6%, as compared with China’s gigantic 73%, India now has 930 carbon credit projects in […]

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As I indicated in the original post - Coping with Gas at $100 a Gallon - here are some of the comments on my thought experiment on $100 gasoline. Comments were varied, ranging from things like “thought-provoking”, “great question”, “a good exercise”, and “interesting” - to “absurd”, “silly”, and finally my personal favorite (from the […]

Guardian: It has long been the holy grail for those who believe that technology can save us from catastrophic climate change: a device that can "suck" carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, reducing the warming effect of the billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas produced each year. Now a group of US scientists […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Guardian: Ten thousand people are expected to rally today for a "carnival-style" protest at Heathrow against the proposed expansion of the world’s busiest airport. Climate change, increasing noise pollution and congestion have united middle class Londoners, environmental groups, local communities and more than 20 councils against the government-backed BAA plan for […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Yomiuri Shimbun: Vast beech forests in the Shirakami Mountains, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed natural site that straddles Akita and Aomori prefectures, could vanish by the end of this century due to global warming, according to researchers. Their report on the future impact of climate change on the nation also warned […]