LA Times: A massive 19-square-mile ice shelf in Canada’s northern Arctic has broken away and is floating in the Arctic Ocean, the latest sign of rapid climate change in the remote region, a team of scientists said Tuesday. They said the Markham Ice Shelf — one of just five remaining ice shelves in the Arctic — split away from Ellesmere Island in early August. They also said two large chunks totaling 47 square miles had broken off the nearby Serson Ice Shelf, reducing it in size by …
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Associated Press: Nations that supply nuclear material and technology overcame fierce obstacles Saturday and approved a landmark U.S. plan to engage in atomic trade with India — a deal that reverses more than three decades of American policy. The Nuclear Suppliers Group, which governs the legal world trade in nuclear components and know-how, signed off on the deal after three days of contentious talks and some concessions to countries fearful it could set a dangerous precedent. "Today we have …
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Redding Record: Senate Bill 375, which the Legislature has passed and the governor is expected to sign, is a repackaging of familiar "smart growth" ideas: denser cities, with more ways of getting around than the automobile. The difference is the legal urgency. The state has committed itself to cutting its greenhouse gases, and one-third of those emissions come from our tailpipes. That means cities where residents don’t need a car for every single errand and outing — or where their trips can be …
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window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Florida Times-Union: The recent visit by Tropical Storm Fay reminds us that the First Coast is subject to change at any time. Nature doesn’t care where we place property boundaries or homes and may change the landscape without notice. What we view as permanent is just one frame in the story of the coastal environment. Beaches erode and rebuild in predictable ways, never when or where we wish. In this era of global climate change and rising sea levels, we should expect that natural beaches will erode. We …
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A big pet peeve of mine is the way we have gone about handling tax credits for renewable electricity. I believe renewable alternatives warrant tax credits, because we simply do not pay the “true cost” of our fossil fuel usage. For instance, regardless of your position on global warming, we certainly dump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. There is a cost - or if you don’t believe in global warming, you at least have to admit that there is a potential cost - from doing so that is not reflected in the $3.50 a gallon that we pay for gasoline. There are all sorts of additional costs. One that is of great concern to me is extending our dependence on non-renewable resources. That imposes a cost to future generations.
For these reasons, I favor giving renewable energy sources some help. While I would prefer that we do […]
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Age: GOVERNMENT climate change adviser Ross Garnaut will today argue the case for measuring greenhouse emissions on a per capita basis as he advises how much Australia should cut its atmospheric pollution by 2020. Professor Garnaut will release the first modelling of the economic impact of climate change, and give the Government recommendations on emissions cuts during a speech at the National Press Club in Canberra. "We have tried to come up with something that would set out …
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window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Mercury: CONSERVATIONISTS and the forest industry are split over what Professor Ross Garnaut’s supplementary report on climate change will mean for the Tasmania’s forests. The report, to be presented at the National Press Club in Canberra today, is expected to urge Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to increase Australia’s native forest reserves as part of the Federal Government’s response to climate change. Prof Garnaut’s draft report, released in June, did not say much about the role of …
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AAP: Economist Ross Garnaut will fuel the debate about short-term greenhouse gas targets when he releases the latest stage of his climate change report. His presentation to the National Press Club at lunch time on Friday will also provide the first glimpse of Treasury modelling on the economic impact of emissions reductions. Environmentalists are urging Prof Garnaut to back deep emissions cuts by 2020 to be part of a global effort to avoid catastrophic climate …
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Bloomberg: Australia’s climate-change adviser Ross Garnaut will today recommend the government adopts “proportionate’’ rather than aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The costs of the targets for emission cuts should be manageable and proportionate to other countries, the newspaper reported, citing an interview with Garnaut. He wouldn’t comment on speculation he will recommend a 2020 reduction target of between zero and 15 percent from 1990 emission …
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Radio Australia: Ross Garnaut is helping shape the Australian Government’s climate change policy. [ABC] The Australian Government’s climate change adviser will report on how fast he believes Australia should cut its greenhouse gas emissions. The climate economist, Professor Ross Garnaut, will release the latest instalment of his advice to the Federal Government. Friday’s report will set out Professor Garnaut’s opinion on what targets should be set to reduce carbon emissions and how …
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Times: One of David Cameron’s key climate change advisers said that direct action protests could be justified in the minds of many people to prevent ‘much larger crimes’ being committed. Zac Goldsmith, the multimillionaire environmentalist and Conservative parliamentary candidate, appeared as a defence witness in the trial of six Greenpeace activists charged with causing £30,000 of criminal damage to a power station. Five of the six scaled a 600ft (180-metre) chimney at the Kingsnorth …
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Federal Government’s climate change adviser Ross Garnaut has outlined the path he believes Australia should take in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. The latest instalment of his review of climate change options outlines a number of different scenarios. But the one he prefers would see Australia reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 10 per cent by the year 2020. On the way to that goal, he recommends an interim arrangement which would put a cost on carbon at $20 …
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window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: California’s state government is forming a "water bank" to buy water for local water agencies at risk of shortages next year should a current drought persist, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday. Schwarzenegger in June declared the most populous US state to officially be in drought and declared nine counties in its farm-rich Central Valley to be in a state of emergency because water supplies were so low after two years of below-average rainfall. California’s water …
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Reuters: Canada’s opposition Liberal Party responded to criticism of its carbon tax plan on Wednesday, ahead of a looming election call, promising a total of C$900 million (US$849 million) in tax breaks and subsidies to farmers, loggers, fishermen and truckers. The "green shift" carbon tax plan, the central election plank for the Liberals, will include tax breaks worth C$400 million for farmers and loggers who buy environmentally friendly machinery, said party leader Stephane Dion. Dion …
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