Monthly Archives: May 2008
United Kingdom: Thousands expected at ‘carnival’ to fight Heathrow expansion
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 [...]
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Could US scientist’s ‘CO2 catcher’ help to slow warming?
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 [...]
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National Wind Projects
I recently received a press release from National Wind, a developer of wind farms. I usually ignore press releases, but I thought this was topical enough to investigate. Further, I haven’t written anything on wind in a long time. So, I replied and asked if they could give me some details of some of the [...]
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Five Myths About the Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Legislation
On June 2, the United States Senate will begin debate on America’s Climate Security Act (S. 2191), sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA). The Lieberman-Warner bill (LW) would restrict energy use to combat global warming.
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Burning food: why oil is the real villain in the food crisis
Guardian: The rising cost of foods is widely being blamed on the use of grains for biofuels, and the case for the prosecution is simply made. About 100m tonnes of maize from this year’s US crop will be diverted into ethanol refineries, an increase of a third on 2007’s figure. This means one in 20 [...]
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Britain announces help for fuel poor as prices boom
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: The British government set out on Friday extra measures to help the poor and boost energy efficiency in the face of rocketing fuel prices. Booming oil and energy prices are adding to the headaches for Prime Minister Gordon Brown whose future is under threat due to a faltering economy, a [...]
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Report Sees Decade of High Food Prices
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;New York Times: Agriculture Secretary Edward T. Schafer is preparing to walk into a buzzsaw of criticism over American biofuels policy when he meets with world leaders to discuss the global food crisis next week. Mr. Schafer took the offensive at a press conference on Thursday that discussed the food summit, [...]
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Climate Enters Debate Over Nuclear Power
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;New York Times: After part of a cooling tower collapsed last August at Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, the company that runs it blamed rotting wooden timbers that it had failed to inspect properly. The uproar that followed rekindled environmental groups’ hopes of shutting down the aging plant. The proposed closing, [...]
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US climate report fuels fears of drought
Reuters: The Bush administration has released a climate change assessment – four years late and pushed forward by a court order – that says human-induced global warming will likely lead to problems like droughts in the US West and stronger hurricanes. President George W Bush’s stance on the issue has evolved from denying climate [...]
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Australia: Gunns mill ‘may never be built’
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A timber industry analyst says he is not sure Gunns’ $2 billion pulp mill will ever be built because of delays in securing finance. The ANZ announced yesterday it would not fund the mill, and analyst Robert Eastment believes financial reasons are behind the bank’s decision to walk away from the [...]
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Pressure leads to release of climate report
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;New York Times: The Bush administration, bowing to a court order, has released a fresh summary of federal and independent research pointing to large, and mainly harmful, impacts in the United States from human-caused global warming. The report, released Thursday, is online at climatescience.gov. Most of the findings are not new. [...]
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Canada: Montreal carbon gases exchange up and running
Agence France-Presse: Montreal’s stock exchange on Friday officially launched the Montreal Climate Exchange, the country’s first carbon trading forum aimed at helping to cut greenhouse gases. The trading mechanism seeks to get companies which produce more emissions of greenhouse gases to buy what amounts to the rights of others that are less polluting as [...]
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United Kingdom: March Against Third Heathrow Runway
Sky News: Thousands of protesters are set to mount a huge demonstration against expansion at the UK’s biggest airport. Anger over third runway planIn what organisers hope will be the biggest-ever protest of its kind, the demonstration will be held at Heathrow airport in west London. Support for the event – being called [...]
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Canada: Harper Sees `Big Shift’ in Europe for Climate Treaty
Bloomberg: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said European leaders may compromise on a global climate treaty by scaling back demands for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to win backing from major polluters such as the U.S. and China. “They will gravitate to realistic targets,’’ Harper, 49, said in an interview in London yesterday. [...]
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Japan: Shirakami forests ‘could vanish by 2100′