Monthly Archives: November 2009
Ben Lieberman on Fox Business 11/30/09
Ben Lieberman is discussing the Copenhagen climate conference and “Climate-Gate.”
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Latest attempt to question climate change is junk
Seattle Post Intelligencer: Computer hackers recently penetrated the server at the University of East Anglia in Britain, and caught academics in the Climate Research Unit in gossipy conversation about how to discredit global warming critics. Right-wing media have extracted quotes, cried "Junk Science," jazzed up a buzzword — "Climategate" — with the Rev. Sun [...]
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Climate change may weaken El Niño’s hurricane buffering effect
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Miami Herald: Despite underwater mortgages, failed Ponzi schemes and jailed politicians, the beleaguered citizenry of South Florida does have a few things to be thankful for this holiday season. The Dolphins beat the Jets, twice. Hurricane season is about to end, meekly. If only both would remain long-term trends. [...]
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Indian nuclear plant leak probed
BBC: Indian officials are investigating the leak of a radioactive substance into drinking water at an atomic power plant in the south of the country. Fifty-five workers at the Kaiga plant needed medical treatment for excessive exposure to radiation after tritium contaminated a water cooler. Officials said the leak might have been deliberate. [...]
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Paper Mill Is Reborn, Sans Fossil Fuels
Inter Press Service: A paper mill that runs without fossil fuels and has a neutral carbon footprint? That’s the goal for Flambeau River Papers in Park Falls, Wisconsin, and the company is already on its way, thanks to a switch to biomass fuel, plus a biorefinery in the works. In timber-rich Wisconsin, paper mills [...]
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Despite momentum, no smooth path to climate deal
Reuters: Commonwealth states representing a third of the world’s people said on Sunday momentum was growing towards a global climate deal, but nagging doubts remained over funding levels and degrees of commitment. Seeking to successfully tip the outcome of U.N. climate talks on Dec. 7-18 in Copenhagen, the group of more than 50 nations [...]
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Canada offers ‘minor adjustments’ to fight climate change
Canwest News Service: Canada is prepared to make only "minor adjustments" to its greenhouse-gas emission targets, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Sunday. Speaking to reporters at the end of the Commonwealth leaders’ summit, Harper said Canada will emerge from the international climate-change conference in the Danish capital Copenhagen next month with identical targets to [...]
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United Kingdom: U-turn on climate change ‘cover up’ as university says it will publish leaked email data
Daily Mail: British scientists accused of manipulating figures to strengthen the case for man-made global warming have bowed to international pressure and will publish their raw figures, it emerged today. The U-turn by the University of East Anglia follows a week of controversy over hundreds of leaked emails which appear to show global warming [...]
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Traditional Indigenous Fire Management Deployed Against Climate Change
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;redOrbit: Carbon credits bring millions for new jobs in indigenous communities; Australian project a model of opportunity, especially for Africa A landmark Australian project that mitigates the extent and severity of natural savannah blazes by deploying traditional Indigenous fire management techniques is being hailed as a model with vast global potential [...]
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United Kingdom: McCartney makes meat CO2 appeal
BBC: Cutting out meat consumption on one day a week can have a major impact on reducing CO2 emissions, Sir Paul McCartney has said. In an interview with Parliament Magazine he appealed for "people power" to make the difference in the fight against global warming. He says halving UK meat consumption would do [...]
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Emerging nations unite on climate change: China state media
Agence France-Presse: A group of developing nations has agreed a common position in a bid to pressure rich countries during crunch climate talks in Copenhagen after low-key talks in China, state media said Sunday. Representatives from China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Sudan, which currently chairs the Group of 77 developing countries, met in [...]
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Indian climate envoy resists emission targets
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Agence France-Presse: India’s chief climate change negotiator has flatly rejected taking on emission reduction targets a day after Premier Manmohan Singh said the country would commit to cuts conditionally. India, one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters, has yet to offer figures on reining in its carbon output, with just [...]
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Australian wildfire scheme said model to cut CO2
Reuters: An Australian project tapping Aborigines’ knowledge to avert devastating wildfires that stoke climate change is the world’s best example of linking indigenous peoples to carbon markets, the U.N. University said on Sunday. Other parts of the world, especially Africa, could also tap centuries-old local practices to help slow deforestation that releases heat-trapping carbon [...]
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Copenhagen Does Nothing to Stall Global Warming