Monthly Archives: February 2009
Scientists predict weakened monsoon for India by century end
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Asian News International: A new climate modeling study has indicated that the South Asian summer monsoon, which is critical to agriculture in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, could be weakened and delayed due to rising temperatures by the end of this century. The study, by a Purdue University research group, found [...]
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Climate debate has nuclear plans back on the table
Star Tribune: Fifteen years ago, the owner of the Prairie Island nuclear plant in Red Wing was in the fight of its life to continue producing electricity there. The company’s request to expand its radioactive waste storage dominated the Legislature for months. Today Xcel Energy is well on its way toward receiving a 20-year [...]
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Alaska senator offers compromise bill on ANWR oil
Reuters: A bill introduced Friday by U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska would permit oil production in the ecologically sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but only from directional wells that are drilled outside the refuge’s borders. Murkowski, a Republican who first announced her plan last week during an address to the Alaska legislature, characterized [...]
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Canada: Earth hour’s bright lead-up
Toronto Star: In exactly one month, for exactly one hour, Toronto will turn off the lights. It is a purely symbolic gesture, as easy as the flick of 5.8 million switches – the number of light bulbs Torontonians are estimated to have turned off last year. But if Earth Hour lacks a practical solution [...]
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Canada: Determined readers fight back
Calgary Herald: I’m not surprised provincial Environment Minister Rob Renner is feeling the crushing weight of mounting global disapproval over our development of the oilsands on his shoulders in the wake of a recently published article in National Geographic, illustrating the way bitumen is mined and produced in northern Alberta. After all, National Geographic [...]
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Obama’s Greenhouse Gas Gamble
New York Times: In proposing mandatory caps on the greenhouse gases linked to global warming and a system for auctioning permits to companies that emit them, President Obama is taking on a huge political and economic challenge. Business lobbies and many Republicans raised loud objections to the cap-and-trade program Mr. Obama proposed as part [...]
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California declares drought emergency
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday declared a state emergency due to drought and said he would consider mandatory water rationing in the face of nearly $3 billion in economic losses from below-normal rainfall this year. As many as 95,000 agricultural jobs will be lost, communities will be devastated and [...]
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Rare crops needed to tackle world hunger
Telegraph: Professor Stephen Hopper, director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, in London, argues that the world is currently too reliant on just a handful of key species of edible plants for food. He warned the combined threat of disease, climate change and lack of diversity in commercial crops has left the dozen [...]
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African forests reducing rate of climate change
Sunday Monitor: A team of scientists has discovered that Africa’s rainforest trees are getting bigger and storing more carbon from the atmosphere in their trunks, which has significantly reduced the rate of climate change. Trees and plants use carbon dioxide (CO2) to produce food thus ridding the earth from the harmful effects of the gas. [...]
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United States: Push for coal plants picks up momentum, but is it enough to pass?
iKansas City Star: Last year, Kansas backers of coal-burning power plants were like Sisyphus in mythology, doomed to roll a boulder up an incline again and again. Lawmakers kept passing bills to get the plants built in western Kansas, then saw Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius wield her veto pen and kick the big rock [...]
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India: Tough climate signal to West
iTelegraph: India will continue to resist pressure to accept legally-binding cuts in its emissions of earth-warming greenhouse gases (GHG) at key climate change talks later this year, the country’s chief climate change negotiator has said. "We expect a fair and equitable outcome, but the global discourse on climate change should not focus only on [...]
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More Reality Checks for Algal Biodiesel
I have to admit, when I first heard about algal biodiesel, I thought it was really an incredible concept. As time went by and I learned a bit more, reality sank in. The reality was brought on by Krassen Dimitrov’s analysis of Greenfuel Technologies and their algae claims, as well as conversations I have had [...]
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Coal and the New EPA
iTreeHugger had a piece I thought was interesting earlier this month on how the Obama Administration's EPA is likely to deal with coal.Following the EPA's stance on coal-fired power plants…
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Lexus Dealers Win Top Marks In Survey
Luxury automaker ranks highest in customer satisfaction
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U.S. gives cap and trade boost for climate treaty