Monthly Archives: March 2010
German film offers answers to Gore climate concerns
Reuters: Al Gore raised some alarming questions about climate change in his Oscar-winning 2006 film "An Inconvenient Truth" that a German filmmaker has now tried to provide some answers for in a new documentary. Carl Fechner’s "The Fourth Revolution – Energy Autonomy" is an attempt to show how the world could be getting all [...]
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Solar power lights up Bangladesh central bank
Reuters: Bangladesh’s central bank has switched over to solar-powered lighting, in a move to encourage green energy in a country drastically short of electricity, bank officials said. The bank has spent around 13.5 million taka ($195,000) on a solar power plant that will generate 8 KW of electricity a day. "It is not [...]
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Lovelock: Humans Can’t Fix Global Warming
redOrbit: A scientist and environmentalist who gained notoriety for proposing that the Earth behaved like an organism now claims that mankind isn’t smart enough to deal with global climate change. British researcher James Lovelock–the man who four decades ago formulated the Gaia hypothesis, which asserts that the living and nonliving systems of the Earth [...]
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China spends big to counter severe weather caused by climate change
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Guardian: China will tomorrow start ramping up preparations for typhoons, dust storms and other extreme weather disasters as part of a 10-year plan to predict and prevent the worst impacts of climate change. Improved warning systems, new emergency drills and bolstered infrastructure will form the backbone of the new regulations, which [...]
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Climate: 75 countries set carbon emission targets for 2020 – UN
Agence France-Presse: Seventy-five countries accounting for more than 80 percent of greenhouse gases from energy use have filed pledges to cut or limit carbon emissions by 2020, the UN climate convention said Wednesday. The promises, made under the Copenhagen Accord, are only a step towards wider action to tackle global warming, the UN Framework [...]
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UK ‘Climategate’ inquiry largely clears scientists
Associated Press: The first of several British investigations into the e-mails leaked from one of the world’s leading climate research centers has largely vindicated the scientists involved. The House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee said Wednesday that they’d seen no evidence to support charges that the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit [...]
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Water poverty a vital issue for Egypt
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;National: A conference on environmental security in the Arab world opens in Alexandria today, just days after an Egyptian minister warned that his country has fallen below the water poverty line and amid a government campaign to educate citizens on the economical use of water. The conference, titled Scarce Water, Rising [...]
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United States: MID says ‘yes’ to wood for power
Modesto Bee: A plant that would turn orchard wood into electricity won initial support Tuesday from the Modesto Irrigation District board. Directors voted 5-0 to launch the state-required environmental study of the plant, which would be built in the Beard Industrial District in southeast Modesto. The plant would burn wood removed from nut [...]
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U.K. Backs Extending Kyoto Pact to Spur Climate Talks
Bloomberg: The U.K. government backed maintaining limits for carbon emissions beyond 2012 under the Kyoto Protocol when the current targets expire, an effort to spur global negotiations aimed at limiting climate change. Britain is prepared to agree to new goals under Kyoto so long as legally-binding limits are also imposed on countries including China [...]
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United Kingdom: Climate researchers ’secrecy’ criticised – but MPs say science remains intact
Guardian: MPs today strongly criticised the University of East Anglia for not tackling a "culture of withholding information" among the climate change scientists whose private emails caused a furore after being leaked online in November. The parliamentary science and technology select committee was scathing about the "standard practice" among the climate science community of [...]
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United Kingdom: Climate change scandal: MPs exonerate professor
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Independent (UK): Professor Phil Jones, the climate scientist at the centre of the scandal over the leak of sensitive emails from a university computer, has been largely exonerated by a powerful cross-party committee of MPs who said his scientific reputation remains intact. There was no evidence that Professor Jones, head of [...]
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Coal fuels much of internet ‘data cloud’, warns Greenpeace
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Independent (UK): The digital photos, shared videos, tweets and Facebook chatter that make up our online lives may appear to have no physical form, but they contribute to some very real environmental damage, the campaign group Greenpeace warns. The vast amount of digital data that we upload and access via social [...]
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Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;New York Times: The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday. The proposal — a compromise that [...]
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Obama Proposes Massive Offshore Drilling Expansion
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;National Public Radio: President Obama is expected to lift a decades-old ban on oil and gas drilling along much of the U.S. Atlantic coast and northern Alaska as part of an effort to reduce foreign imports and win support for an energy and climate bill. The changes would allow drilling on [...]
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Seen that? – American Oil Dependency