http://gasoline.fuelspace.com Gas Savings Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:00:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This sticky blog entry is at the top of page because it is a free reciprocal link exchange. This link exchange operates by recording the referrer document from an incoming link. That means any website that links to our homepage automatically gets a link back from the gasoline.fuelspace.com homepage. (Please, ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/07/23/free-instant-link-exchange/ window.document.getElementById('post-7932').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';Age: THERE are moments in history when fateful choices are made. The decision on whether to take strong action to mitigate human-induced climate change is one such moment. Is it possible to secure effective international action to reduce the risks of dangerous climate change to acceptable ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/australia-no-time-to-lose-on-climate-change/ Financial Times: Australia should target a 10 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2020, the country’s leading adviser on climate change said on Friday, calling the minimum 25 per cent level agreed at a global climate change conference last December in Bali "not immediately feasible". Australia’s carbon dioxide ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/australia-urged-to-aim-for-10-emissions-cut/ Reuters: America’s pain at the gasoline pump has been years in the making, but there will be a big push in Congress next week, when lawmakers return from summer break, to fix the problem by expanding offshore oil drilling. Gasoline prices, down sharply since July, remain high by historical ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/us-congress-faces-big-offshore-drilling-push/ West Australian: Climate change adviser Ross Garnaut has recommended a modest plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions that will push up power prices by 40 per cent and petrol by 5¢ a litre by 2020 but which he concedes will not be enough to save Ningaloo Reef from the ravages ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/australia-garnaut-opts-for-modest-greenhouse-gas-targets/ Bendigo Advertiser: CLIMATE change interest groups have given Ross Garnaut’s latest report into global warming a resounding thumbs down. Organisations seeking more dramatic cuts in Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions claim recommendations in the environmental blueprint fall well short of what is needed. Professor Garnaut has recommended an emissions reduction ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/australia-report-on-climate-is-a-hot-topic/ Guardian: The disclosure of the profits comes as Gordon Brown has been pressuring power companies to help cash-strapped consumers. Photograph: Murdo Macleod Rising energy prices are on course to net the government a windfall of over £1bn thanks to a little-known scheme designed to promote the development of renewable ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/united-kingdom-revealed-browns-1bn-power-windfall/ Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Leading global warming scientists say the 21 remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees mountains in Europe will melt by the year 2050. The researchers say high mountains are particularly sensitive to climate change and there has been a steady increase in temperature since 1890. Their calculations ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/spain-scientists-warn-pyrenees-will-melt-by-2050/ Seattle Times: Original post by miscellaneous http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/dry-cleaning-is-getting-greener-but-some-efforts-are-spotty/ Associated Press: Americans love tearing down buildings. We rip up our homes to the studs, scrape them down to their foundations and are riveted by the ultimate demolitions: imploding skyscrapers. It’s all part of a cultural need to make way for the new and improved. But the construction and ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/preserving-buildings-is-greener-than-building-them/ Asian News International: A new research has indicated that climate change is depriving coral reefs across the globe of the building materials used to make their shells. The daily life of corals is a constant battle against erosion. The reef builders patch up holes in their shells, left by ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/climate-change-could-stop-corals-fixing-themselves/ BBC: In Spain, the country with more land under vines than any other, it is harvest time for wine growers. Ten years ago, most wineries would start gathering in their grapes during September. However, climate change has caused the temperature to rise and now grape varieties are ripening up ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/spanish-wine-makers-fight-climate-change/ Ecumenical News International: Unusual weather conditions that led to a blanket of hail resembling snow falling on the Nyahururu area in central Kenya are the result of the plunder and pollution of the planet, says a Kenyan theologian and ecologist. "As a consequence of human-induced rapid climate change there ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/freak-hailstorm-in-tropical-kenya-a-foretaste-of-climate-change-says-ecologist-and-theologian/ Indo-Asian News Service: Scientists have proposed a new framework to gauge the effect of aerosols more accurately on precipitation in climate models. Man-made aerosols are tiny particles suspended in the air - from such sources as transportation, industry, agriculture and urban land use - not only posing serious health ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/role-of-aerosols-in-climate-change-under-fresh-scrutiny/ Duluth News Tribune: Everyone, it seems, is jumping on the sustainability bandwagon. Politicians are engaging in the debate about long-term energy acquisition and locally produced goods while cameras are snapping pictures of them standing in front of wind turbines. Groups promoting renewable energy and locally harvested foods are popping up ... http://gasoline.fuelspace.com/2008/09/05/sustainability-is-not-a-sprint-but-a-marathon/