Risk Assessments
I spend a lot of time playing “What if?” We all do this. I do this when I am driving - “What if that car at the next intersection pulls out in front of me?” - when I am working - “What if that high pressure line ruptures?” - and at home - “What […]

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New York Times: So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement. But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to […]

China Daily: The United States set the bar too low and offered the world a poor example when it passed its climate change bill on Friday, according to a senior Chinese climate change official. Li Gao, a division director with the Climate Change Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said the US […]

Inter Press Service: Governments and interest groups around the world followed the U.S. House of Representatives’ vote Friday on the first U.S. policy to limit the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. They were especially interested in Europe, where a system similar to the bill’s cap-and-trade scheme already exists and where EU countries agreed last December to […]

ScienceDaily: Particulate pollution thought to be holding climate change in check by reflecting sunlight instead enhances warming when combined with airborne soot, a new study has found. Like a black car on a bright summer day, soot absorbs solar energy. Recent atmospheric models have ranked soot, also called black carbon, second only to carbon […]

Carbon Positive: The New Zealand government has announced a national consultation programme on the setting of a mid-term target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change minister Nick Smith says the Government will hold community and business forums in nine centres starting on July 6, before announcing New Zealand’s 2020 greenhouse gas emissions target […]

China Post: Power consumed by Taiwan’s existing and new buildings could be reduced by 30 percent by implementing technologies currently available at very little cost, according to a new report released by the European Chamber of Commerce Taipei (ECCT). The special report titled "Energy Saving Measures for Taiwan’s Built Environment: Technologies and strategies to […]

Toronto Star: Imagine a dairy cow so small that you cannot see it. Now imagine when you milk the cow you get oil, not that white stuff we drink. Now imagine there are trillions of these oil-secreting cows and they replicate every 24 hours or less. As strange as it might sound, a scientist […]

Various: The province has abruptly pulled the plug on new nuclear reactors at Darlington, blaming a bid "many billions" too high from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. and putting pressure on Ottawa to bankroll any revived deal. Energy Minister George Smitherman zapped his own much-touted $20 billion scheme to expand Darlington as aging nuclear […]

Globe and Mail: Alberta’s oil sands producers and their U.S. refiners face sharply higher costs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under legislation approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and championed by U.S. President Barack Obama. The American Clean Energy and Security Act, if passed by the U.S. Senate, could also result in new […]

Real Climate: Some parts of the blogosphere, headed up by Competitive Enterprise Institute, an industry-funded lobby group ("CO2: They call it pollution, we call it life!"), are all a-twitter over an apparently "suppressed" document that supposedly undermines the EPA Endangerment finding about human emissions of carbon dioxide and a basket of other greenhouse gases. Well […]

Business Green: Canadian geothermal firm Magma Energy last week announced that it is set to raise around C$100m after pricing its Initial Public Offering (IPO) of pricing of 66,667,000 common shares at C$1.50 per common share. Initial indications are that the IPO, which is scheduled to close on July 7, is oversubscribed and the […]

redOrbit: Dow Chemicals announced on Monday plans to join Algenol Biofuels in a project to use algae and carbon dioxide to produce ethanol fuel. The location of the facility will Dow’s Freeport, Texas site. The collaborative project will use Algenol’s technology that uses carbon dioxide and saltwater, supplied to algae in photobioreactors, to […]

Guardian: China faces an increase in weather disasters which will threaten crops and economic growth, the country’s most senior forecaster has warned. He Lifu, of the National Meteorological Centre, told the China Daily newspaper that events such as droughts, floods and storms had become more frequent and severe since the 1990s and the trend […]