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http://news.yahoo.com/cleaner-cooking-solar-power-help-solve-
The U.N. has declared 2012 the "year of sustainable energy for all," including the more than one billion people who have no electricity.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-02/01/content_14514014.htm
Chinese officials and analysts have categorically dismissed a Japanese media report which said the country is "casting menacing eyes on" the Arctic. As a major country in the Northern Hemisphere, China is greatly influenced by climate and environmental changes in the North Pole, they stressed.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://coloradoindependent.com/111250/climate-change-skepticism-rising
Climate change skepticism is creeping into classrooms even as advocacy groups try to broaden their reach using new-school X Games athletes to spread the message to high schools students.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2012/01/nas
A new NASA study tries to lay to rest the skepticism about climate change, especially vocal this year on the GOP presidential campaign trail.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9049652/One-in-six-home
The Public Accounts Committee estimate that already five million homes are in danger of flooding at a cost of £1.1 billion a year. But despite the need to build new barriers and help households prepare for the worst, the Department for the Environment (Defra) are cutting funds for flood defence.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Pace%20warming%20quicker%20t
An analysis of 62 years of Environment Canada weather data by the University of Victoria's Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium has found that B.C.'s temperature has been warming by about 0.25 C per decade.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2012/02/01/304921_news.html
Large sections of the Bellarine Peninsula, including areas around Point Lonsdale and Barwon Heads, are at risk of being inundated by rising sea waters from climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericagies/2012/01/31/better-fores
A study published in Nature Climate Change this week measured both the biomass of different types of tropical forests and the emissions lost via deforestation, providing more accurate data than was previously available, according to lead author Alessandro Baccini.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/wire-news/us-congress-to-oppose-eu
The U.S. Congress will formally express its opposition to a European law aimed at reducing pollution from jetliners, a thorny diplomatic issue that has threatened to escalate transatlantic trade tensions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/57686-nova-scotia-mp-working
Halifax MP Megan Leslie is wondering how much influence climate change deniers have with the federal government after Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver repeatedly refused to answer if he believes in global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/japan-losing-hope-for-its-pricey-
Japan’s long and expensive pursuit of a super-efficient nuclear reactor — a model once touted as the key to its energy future — now teeters on the brink of failure amid new government concerns about its runaway costs.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/rinehart-appoints-climate-chan
Gina Rinehart, one of Australia's richest women and an opponent of the government's carbon tax, has appointed controversial climate change sceptic Professor Ian Plimer to the board of several key family companies.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0131-hance_wsj_climateoped.html
The Wall Street Journal is under scrutiny for publishing an op-ed attacking climate science last Friday, while turning down another op-ed explaining climate change and signed by 255 researchers with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which was eventually published in the journal Science.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/billion-338231-state-project.ht
In a brazen denial of the obvious, Gov. Jerry Brown now insists the proposed California high-speed rail can be built for much less than its own business plan stipulates, and wants to use anti-global-warming carbon taxes to underwrite the proposal, whose price tag has nearly tripled in the three years since voters approved it.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Declining%20fisheries%20will
The warning signs of a growing crisis are clear: the Atlantic bluefin tuna spawning population, estimated at just 40 per cent of its peak in 1974, is now a “species of concern,” along with its cousin, the Pacific bluefin. In British Columbia, ling cod have nearly disappeared.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/02/01/2007334/when-did-climate-cha
What happened to “climate change” and “global warming”?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/02/industry-influence
Half of the 16 scientists who penned a controversial Wall Street Journal opinion piece proclaiming there is "no need to panic" about global warming have ties to either the oil and gas industry or groups dedicated to debunking climate science, a DailyClimate.org investigation has found.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/business/energy-environment/
Insurance commissioners in California, New York and Washington State will require that companies disclose how they intend to respond to the risks their businesses and customers face from increasingly severe storms and wildfires, rising sea levels and other consequences of climate change, California’s commissioner said Wednesday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012
There is a fundamental contradication of the goverment's position on flood defences: it states that the risk of flooding is going up, thanks to climate change, but also accepts that spending on defences is going down.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/01/coal-usa-idUSL5E8D11
New US limits on mercury and other toxic pollution from coal power plants may prove a back door to carbon emissions cuts and show that environmental controls with more visible, easily understood benefits win more support.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/02/climate-science-exper
The extreme drought gripping Texas and the rest of the Southwest is likely to intensify, according to a panel of climate experts from Columbia University.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328491.800-big-trees-in-tro
New research suggests that tropical forests could shrink over time, triggering a positive feedback that could destabilize the climate. As older trees die, forests would release some of their stored carbon into the atmosphere, prompting a vicious cycle of further warming, forest shrinkage and carbon emissions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/01/wall-street-jou
The Wall Street Journal has received a dressing down from a large group of leading scientists for promoting retrograde and out-of-date views on climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120201/green-buildings-architect
Architecture 2030, a building sector research and advocacy group, issued a report last week asserting that the greening of the U.S. building sector is on track to deliver far more energy savings than government officials predicted only a handful of years ago, with important implications for the country's energy and climate picture.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/6356285/Action-plan-f
Government departments are considering New Zealand's options in light of the "real risk" of an extended delay in agreement on a new international climate change regime.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/01/community-green
Community-owned green energy projects present the best chance of converting the UK to a low-carbon economy and should receive more government support, civil society groups representing 12 million people said on Wednesday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/fears-over-money-to-ma
A report by Public Accounts Committee said the costs of flood damage currently stand at around £1.1 billion a year, and are likely to rise with climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/economy/article285
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Thursday said there appeared to be a “lack of collective global will” to solve the problem of climate change, which could not be fought individually.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20120202/NEWS/120209982
Azaleas are budding and daffodils can be found in full bloom along rural roads around West Alabama. Is that proof of global warming? Hardly, but that doesn’t mean evidence of sustained, rapid climate change isn’t mounting.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/global-338432-warming-energy.ht
The Earth's temperature hasn't increased significantly in about 15 years. Yet governments around the world used the threatened overheating as an excuse to regulate, tax and subsidize in order to curb greenhouse gases.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/cut-emissions-boost-he
Doctors know that, as well as mitigating climate change, reducing greenhouse-gas emissions directly helps the public's health and so would reduce health care costs across Europe - to the tune of €30 billion a year. As policymakers look for ways out of our current financial troubles, they should take note.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/in-climate-fight-tracking-th
The last few days have seen frenzied volleys in the fight over climate science and policy. Most of the authors in both camps are scientists. It will be economic pressures, not scientific findings, that largely determine what the world’s nations do, or don’t do, to limit the flow of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from fuel burning.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/blog/2012/feb/01/nuclear-power-c
I personally feel there is too much idealism in the argument that we can completely do without nuclear energy. But perhaps the Germanys of this world will prove me wrong?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204740904577193
Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field and on published, peer-reviewed work. The Journal failed to do its homework.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/cheap-natural-gas-jumb
For the past three years, promoters of shale gas and environmentalists opposed to coal-fired power plants have hailed the sudden abundance of U.S. natural gas as a bridge to a renewable-energy future.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-stimulus-revived-the-el
One success the Obama administration can duly claim is the rebirth of the electric-car industry in the United States. The question is: Will it last?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/the-major-character-flaw-of-socie
Let’s face it, human beings are not very good at dealing with distant, relatively uncertain threats. By the time some of the worst consequences of climate change clearly manifest themselves as near-term challenges, it will be too late to stop them.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/poor-minority-residents-fac
Poor, urban and minority residents are most at risk for health problems linked to climate change, according to a new California Department of Public Health analysis of Los Angeles and Fresno counties.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/drought-may-cause-unprecedented-sh
A day of reckoning looms for the state’s rice growers, who pump millions into Southeast Texas each year and account for 5 percent of America’s rice. Come March 1, if there is not enough water in reservoirs along the Lower Colorado River, managers will take the unprecedented step of withholding water from agriculture.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/evidence-for-jellyfish-invas
Over the last decade, reports of proliferating jellyfish have multiplied, as have fears that they are overrunning the world’s oceans. In a new study, however, researchers argue that there simply isn’t enough long-term data to conclude that global jellyfish numbers are on the rise.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/02/us-climate-weather-i
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. But weather forecasters, many of whom see climate change as a natural, cyclical phenomenon, are split over whether they have a responsibility to educate viewers on the link between human activity and the change in the Earth's climates.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=corals-more-threatened-b
A warming ocean is encouraging the growth of coral in the far Southern Hemisphere, according to new research published in Science – suggesting that temperature changes play a bigger role, at least in the near term, in the fate of corals than any ocean acidification.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/mysteries_of_killer_whales_unco
Two of the world’s leading experts on the world’s top marine predator are now in Antarctica, tagging and photographing killer whales. Climate change and other human impacts, such as overfishing and the accumulation of toxic chemicals, are rapidly altering the whales’ habitats and their prey.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0201-hance_interview_bioticpump.ht
First published in 2007 by two Russian physicists, Victor Gorshkov and Anastassia Makarieva, the still little-known biotic pump theory postulates that forests are the driving force behind precipitation over land masses.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Canada%20must%20decisively%2
Canada is failing badly at protecting its rich marine biodiversity from the looming threat of climate change, an expert-panel report for the Royal Society of Canada concluded Thursday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2012/02/02/repo
Climate change in Birmingham could lead to illness caused by inner-city heatwaves and disruption to the Midlands transport network with massive costs to businesses, according to a new detailed study. But there could also be advantages for the region.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/climate-change-okay-
Climate change is wreaking havoc on coral reefs, heating and acidifying the waters in which they live. But some corals are actually benefiting from a warming world, according to a new study.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/338135/description/Some
Corals on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have fallen on hard times recently. But on the opposite side of the continent, their West Coast brethren have been living the good life for at least a century, a new study finds. Global warming may be helping these creatures out – at least for now.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/study-finds-coral-r
A government-run research body has found in an extensive study of corals spanning more than 1000km of Australia's coastline that the past 110 years of ocean warming have been good for their growth.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/02/03/3421674.htm
As coral growth rates decline around the world due to increases in temperature and atmospheric CO2, some reefs off the coast of Western Australia are trending in the opposite direction, a new study has found.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/groundhog-day-in-a-year-without-a
While winter temperatures have been increasing, on average, due to global warming, the mild winter this year is likely mainly due to natural climate variability, including a La Niña event in the Pacific Ocean and the orientation of the upper air jet stream.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0201-hance_andes_unprotected.html
According to a new study, time is running out for 226 endemic species, as Andean ecosystems are undergoing incredible strain. A combination of climate change and habitat destruction may be pushing many species into ever-shrinking pockets of habitat until they literally have no-where to go.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://blogs.courier-journal.com/watchdogearth/2012/02/02/global-warming
Some religious leaders are hoping that the Earth does have a prayer when it comes to climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.yahoo.com/indian-pm-says-lack-collective-climate-
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday that "a lack of collective will" was hampering efforts to forge a common global front against the threat of climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-03/eu-climate-chief-seeks-
European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said countries meeting at a conference in June should pledge to double the share of renewable energy they use by 2030 and give all citizens access to sustainable power.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/carbon-caught-
Fewer than four years ago, former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich sat on a couch with then Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "We don't always see eye to eye, do we Newt?" said Pelosi. "No, but we do agree our country must take action to address climate change," responded Gingrich.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/environment/developmental-issues/indias
France today said India's stand on climate change will be a significant factor to arrive at an agreement in the future and stressed the need to understand specific conditions of countries involved in the issue.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/01/glacier-thief-a
Climate change sceptics have acquired a new explanation for why glaciers are retreating: it's not global warming, it's theft. Police in Chile have arrested a man on suspicion of stealing five tonnes of ice from the Jorge Montt glacier in the Patagonia region to sell as designer ice cubes in bars and restaurants.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/03/fossil-fuels-sl
Pointing out the similarities (and differences) between slavery and the use of fossil fuels can help us engage with climate change in a new way.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/us/activists-fight-green-pro
Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things like expanding public transportation routes and preserving open space as part of a United Nations-led conspiracy to deny property rights and herd citizens toward cities.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/us/texas-drought-forces-town
Spicewood Beach is one of the first four subdivisions, made up of about 1,100 people, in drought-stricken Burnet County to run so low on water that it had to be hauled in by truck.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/science-behind-the-big-fre
A loss of sea ice could be a cause of the bitter winds that have swept across the UK in the past week, weather experts say.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=china-greenhouse-gas-emi
By 2015, China will emit nearly 50 percent more greenhouse gases than the United States, a top Chinese energy researcher said yesterday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/03/us-india-eu-airlines
The European Union is willing to consider whether India's efforts to reduce carbon emissions could qualify for waivers under an EU law that charges airlines for polluting, the 27-nation bloc's climate chief said on Friday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/EU_climate_chief_sees_unpleasan
EU climate chief Connie Hedegaard acknowledged Friday that "difficult and unpleasant" negotiations lay ahead with countries like India and China to agree a global framework to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/business/global/looking-forw
As the world potentially sinks deeper into recession and issues of climate change are felt even in the smallest of Fiji’s outer islands, going back to canoeing traditions of the past could prove a financial way forward.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/x1087083170/New-USDA-map-shows-Hol
An updated map released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that the Holland area in Michigan doesn’t get as cold in the winter as Grand Rapids does. The Holland area wasn’t the only one classified slightly warmer, based on the new data.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.dailypress.com/news/gloucester-county/dp-nws-sea-level
With its low-lying military bases and waterfront houses, Hampton Roads is more vulnerable to sea-level rise than most of the United States.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/coral-part-ii-is-the-cold-or
More frequent extreme weather events, both hot and cold, are predicted to freeze and fry coral in coming decades.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/warming-seas-and-corals-a-ne
In research conducted off western Australia, scientists found that coral growth in that region had accelerated through the 20th century as ocean temperatures warmed. The effect was most pronounced at higher latitudes where the ocean tends to be colder — a strong indication that the warming caused by human release of carbon dioxide is benefiting corals in that region.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.independent.com/news/2012/feb/03/global-experts-questio
Recent media reports have created a perception that the world’s oceans are experiencing increases in jellyfish due to human activities such as global warming and overharvesting of fish.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/139483/island-nations-want-climate-chan
Small island nations, whose very existence is threatened by the rising sea levels brought about by global warming, are seeking to take the issue of climate change before the International Court of Justice.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.chieftain.com/hickenlooper-talks-energy-water-pension
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper espoused several strong positions, including global warming and revolutionary vehicle fuel this week during a speech to a Southern Colorado advocacy group.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Monitoring%20plan%20would%20bo
Despite "high-profile" concerns raised about water contamination, human health and threats to ecosystems, internal federal documents suggest the real reason governments are stepping up monitoring efforts on the oilsands sector is to boost the industry's sagging reputation.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/rare-february-blizzard-rages-in-d
While snow in Colorado isn't unusual, it's rare for Denver and eastern Colorado to get a storm of this magnitude during February. Most of Denver's snow comes during the fall and spring, and this storm may break records for the biggest February snowstorm.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096277/How-green-zealots-
The real deniers are those ideological greens who refuse to look at hard evidence and won’t accept that their well-intentioned schemes to make our world a better place are in fact making it uglier, poorer and less free.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://journalstar.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/commu
Though the 2010 census reported a stagnant population growth in Nebraska, a state relatively unaffected by the recession, a statewide transition to capitalize on wind energy potential could revolutionize and reinvigorate the Nebraska economy to one fit for the world of tomorrow.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://motherjones.com/environment/2012/02/obama-avoiding-clim
In his State of the Union address on January 24, President Obama largely avoided the topic of climate change. But there are several reasons that Obama won't be able to avoid talking about climate change for too long – and well he shouldn't.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-solar-desert-20120205,
Industrial-scale solar development is well underway in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. The federal government has furnished more public property to this cause than it has for oil and gas exploration over the last decade — 21 million acres, more than the area of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties put together.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203711104577201
The worst drought on record in various parts of Mexico has destroyed millions of acres of cropland and left millions of livestock without food, leading to fears about potential food shortages at a time when U.S. states like Texas are also suffering unusually dry weather.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h3TaXs_xlQ
The UN Environment Programme is emerging as a hot issue in preparations for June's Rio conference, styled as a once-in-a-generation chance to restore a sick planet to good health.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/ssssscotland-here-we-c
Grass snakes from England are colonising Scotland as climate warms.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/x123147680/Report-Power-plants-pol
Power plants throughout eastern Massachusetts are the largest industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change in the state, according to new data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_why-jog-falls-have-bee
Prabhakar Bhat is part of a government team studying the nature of forests in the Malenaad. They found that the tropical rainforest is rapidly changing character, due to "changing rain patterns and systematic degradation," according to Bhat.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theeagle.com/local/CS-reins-in-green-efforts--694841
College Station City Council opted to go green in 2008. But last week, after four years, the city toned down those ambitions. It removed the word "leader" from its policy statement and added a note about fiscal responsibility.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20120205/NEWS01/202050303/Seeds
For more than four decades, Lin-I-Farms has sold its share of dusty millers, a plant known to grow only from May to September. But in recent years, farm owner Linda Shockley has noticed that they have started surviving year-round.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/carbon-tax-o
A carbon price alone will not be enough for Australia to meet its target of a dramatic cut in greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, an analysis by the Grattan Institute has found.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.baycitizen.org/environment/story/car-deal-criticized-h
When California’s air regulators approved new car-pollution rules to cut down on smog and global warming, they included a provision that critics described as a loophole that could substantially reduce the number of electric vehicles sold in the state in coming years.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/scots_told_insulate_yo
Scots who do not insulate their homes should be forced to pay higher council tax or face increased stamp duty on their property, according to a leading figure in the sector.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/
Some residents of Quincy, MA are concerned that a planned Moon Island turbine would mar the view from their homes. But city officials point out that the turbine would be more than a mile away from the nearest residence.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/04/chris-huhne-green-
The challenge facing the new Liberal Democrat energy secretary, Ed Davey, has been laid bare by the revelation that 101 Tory MPs are demanding drastic cuts to the £400m-a-year government subsidies for wind farms.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/nuclear-waste-plan-aba
A multi-million pound project that would have led to radioactive waste being buried along the North Ayrshire coastline has been abandoned in the face of protests by local residents and environmentalists.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/jellyfish-still-the-same--i
A new study has found claims of a jellyfish plague are scientifically unsubstantiated. Carlos Duarte, of the University of Western Australia, said researchers had assembled a database of more than 500,000 records of jellyfish abundance dating back more than 200 years.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/global-113504-warming-energy.h
The Earth's temperature hasn't increased significantly in about 15 years, which wouldn't be big news except global warming extremists had predicted temperatures would soar during that time because of manmade greenhouse-gas emissions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.asianage.com/books/world-risk-without-climate-justic
Deep diplomatic despondency seems to characterize our time, and we need books that are brutally honest about what is at risk. Such a book is Praful Bidwai’s The Politics of Climate Change and the Global Crisis. The book asks how India will combine the task of fighting poverty with promoting global justice.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120205/A_O
Most scientists who have studied conditions in the Delta inform us that a multitude of changes have occurred in the past 50 to 100 years that have contributed to the decline in the Delta, and they must all be addressed.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/02/climate-public-opi
Economics and political cues dictate climate change concern for a public that has a remarkably short attention span on the topic, researchers find. Extreme weather and science-based education efforts have 'only a minor effect.'Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nctimes.com/business/china-bars-its-airlines-from-p
China announced Monday it will prohibit its airlines from paying European Union charges on carbon emissions, ratcheting up a global dispute over the cost of combatting climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/293370/20120206/flooding-effec
Increased flooding, most recently in Queensland and northern NSW, could pump more contaminants into groundwater, rivers, oceans, the food supply and atmosphere as bigger storms overwhelm landfills designed for a different era, scientists warn.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/giants-of-the-new-zealand-fo
New Zealand scientists using the rings on kauri trees to look at climate patterns are tipping global warming to bring more big weather extremes in the coming years.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096797/Wind-farms-actuall
They have long been championed as a way to combat global warming by creating clean energy. But wind farms can actually alter the climate according to a new study by a group of American scientists.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=107
More floods, droughts and extreme weather events associated with the El Nino and La Nina cycles can be expected in New Zealand in a warming world, Auckland researchers predict.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/02/06/global-warming-usgs-to-asses
Scientists are just in the early stages of understanding the implications for ecosystems in the region. A new multidisciplinary study by the U.S. Geological Survey may help understand how dynamic ecosystems and their wildlife communities will respond to rapid change in the Arctic.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/06/us-china-eu-emission
The Chinese government said on Monday it has barred the country's airlines from joining a European Union scheme to charge for carbon emissions from flights into and out of Europe and prohibit airlines from charging customers extra because of the EU plan.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.yahoo.com/china-bans-airlines-paying-eu-carbon-ch
China said Monday it has banned its airlines from complying with an EU scheme to impose charges on carbon emissions opposed by more than two dozen countries including India, Russia and the United States.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2012/02/britain-and-envir
From a distance it must be hard to feel excitement at the news of the resignation of Britain's energy and climate change secretary. But this domestic hiccup matters to anyone with an interest in the fate of climate change targets agreed by EU countries back in 2007.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petergleick/2012/02/05/global-war
The climate drives the weather. People care about the weather – what happens day to day – our weather can bring us joy or misery. It is time to care about the climate as well, because our decisions and actions today will reverberate in our weather for centuries to come.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/300424/Leo-McKinstry
The big freeze has not just caused major disruption across the country. It has also exposed the hollowness of fashionable green rhetoric about global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/06/bank-of-england
The depth of the financial system's exposure to high carbon and environmentally unsustainable investments could be a systemic risk that threatens economic security.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2096916/Chris-Huhnes-exi
Under Mr Huhne’s stewardship, Britain has been saddled with the most fanatical deep green energy policy in the world. Those who have been horrified by this lunacy are pinning their hopes on Mr Huhne’s successor, fellow Lib Dem Ed Davey.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/russians-drill-
Russian scientists have drilled into the vast, dark and never- before-touched Lake Vostok 2.2 miles below the surface of Antarctica, the state-run Russian news agency RIA Novosti said Monday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204662204577198
Any geek can tell you that battery life hasn't kept up with gadget innovations. But not to worry: Inventors are figuring out how to turn geeks into batteries.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/02/06/8098/another-green-energy-co
Fisker Automotive, maker of exotic electric sports cars being built with help from a $529 million federal loan, has announced layoffs at its Delaware plant as it tries to persuade the Department of Energy to continue backing it with public money.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/07/uk-emissions-ro
The dramatic fall in greenouse gas emissions caused by the recession has proved to be a blip, with UK emissions rising 3.1% in 2010 as the economy recovered. The UK's emissions have been falling over the past decade as energy generation has switched to less carbon-intensive gas power, but this is the first time emissions have risen since a modest rise in 2003.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/07/labour-accuses-
Labour has accused the chancellor of the exchequer of "actively revelling in contempt for environmental protection", in the latest broadside in the row over green policies that has consumed the coalition since the resignation of Chris Huhne on Friday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/02/20122785611372
Mohamed Nasheed, the president of Maldives who resigned Feb. 7, was best known as a passionate advocate of climate change, going as far as holding the world's first underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the cause.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/06/rio-20-gdp-conn
The world must use a landmark environmental summit this year to change forever the current damaging model of economic growth, Europe's climate chief has warned, or face future crises as severe as the one currently enveloping the eurozone.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.thebusinessjournal.com/news/energy-and-environment/722-study-m
The California Department of Public Health has released a study finding that heat events, flooding and wildfires — events associated with anticipated future climate change — will impact Fresno County's minorities the greatest.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/article2866584.ec
Bangalore, which was once known for its salubrious climate, is getting hotter by the day because of the rise in global and local pollution levels, according to J. Srinivasan, Chairman of the Divecha Centre for Climate Change, and Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/06/offshore-wind-t
British industries from boat-building to concrete, and electric cabling to gearbox manufacturing are in the line-up to benefit from the construction of thousands of offshore wind turbines, if new plans go ahead.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.winghamchronicle.com.au/news/local/news/general/whiddon-goes-gr
Wingham Whiddon Group has a hand in a more sustainable future after going green and reducing its carbon footprint through a range of improvements made at the facility. In fact, its improvements have been so successful it encourages other businesses to consider doing the same.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/climate-conversations/wh
Most aid workers know it doesn't make sense to build a house or install a water pump in a spot that's flooded every year, nor to get farmers to switch to crops that will make them more money now but yield less as temperatures rise. Yet there's no guarantee those types of mistakes still aren't being made.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/02/big-coal-attacks-pe
We've documented the long-term effort to malign Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann here rather extensively. Now a coal-backed group is running a smear campaign targeting an upcoming speaking event Mann is holding on campus.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nature.com/news/marine-ecology-attack-of-the-blobs
Jellyfish will bloom as ocean health declines, warn biologists. Are they already taking over?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/02/sea-rising-island-nat
If the globe keeps warming and the seas keep rising, the country of Palau could be wiped off the map. So the Pacific island is teaming up with other small island nations to fight the threat of climate change -- in court.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-07/carbon-capture-projects
Dispute over who pays for geological disasters is threatening to derail efforts to combat global warming and put out of reach the $25 billion governments have offered in grants to facilities that would siphon away CO2 from industrial polluters.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/feb/06/artificial
Dimming the sun by engineering the effects of an artificial volcano is a feasible and potentially cost-effective option to reduce temperatures on Earth, the first major study of the practicality of planetary-scale solar radiation management concludes.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/big-wind-farms-alte
Wind farms are intended to help combat global warming, yet they can themselves alter the climate, say scientists.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.tehrantimes.com/science/95230-what-amount-of-global-war
A growing body of research is showing that humans are likely causing more than 100% of global warming: without our influences on the climate, the planet would actually be cooling slightly.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204369404577206
China on Monday said it prohibited its airlines from paying for carbon emissions under the European Union's new system to limit greenhouse emissions, in an escalation of Beijing's opposition to the plan.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0206-ryking_intreview_blynn.html
Along with Bill McKibben and a small cadre of passionate environmental activists, Kelly Blynn co-founded the climate activism group "350." The group has been hard at work to stop the Keystone XL pipeline.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://coloradoindependent.com/111924/santorum-and-gingrich-dismiss-cl
A day before Colorado Republicans voice presidential preferences at the caucuses, Rick Santorum dismissed climate change as “a hoax” and advocated an energy plan heavy on fossil fuels.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/06/nick-clegg-wind-po
Nick Clegg has led a fightback against concerted attacks by Conservative MPs on government subsidies to support wind power.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/subsidy_cuts_could_pul
Community scale green energy projects could be put out of business by Scottish Government plans to slash subsidy support for onshore wind and hydro schemes, the SNP has been warned.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/07/ed-davey-opport
A new energy secretary for the UK means a new chance for Prime Minister David Cameron to mend fences with the coalition and reaffirm his commitment to making "the greenest government ever."Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.postcrescent.com/usatoday/article/38519275?odyssey=mod%7
A scientific report issued by Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration predicts that the Louisiana coast could see about 3 feet of sea level rise along the already low and vulnerable Louisiana coast by 2100 — a prediction that leaves this Cajun coast drowning and under siege from storm surge for decades to come.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/politics-may-be-real-clim
Climate change impacts may turn out to be a catalyst for worsening conflict. If so, keeping an eye on local politics and the quality of governance could be as important in heading off climate crises as breeding drought-resistant crops or protecting forests, climate security experts said at a recent meeting in London.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/trouble_in_maldives_
The president of the Maldives resigned yesterday in what one aide described as a coup d’etat. President Mohamed Nasheed has been credited with bringing democracy to the archipelago and raising awareness of the impact of global warming, at one point holding a cabinet meeting subsea, in scuba gear.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120206/labor-unions-keystone-xl-
The labor movement traditionally allows unions with the most at stake on a project - in Keystone's case, the building trades - to take the lead. Keystone XL has disrupted this familiar pattern.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://coloradoindependent.com/112151/colorado-gov-hickenloopers-clima
The governor’s stance on climate change continues to retreat like so many of the world’s glaciers.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/auditors-report-on-
Just months before the carbon tax is introduced, an auditor's report has found more than one in six major polluters has made "significant errors" when reporting its greenhouse emissions and energy use to the government.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Green%20groups%20slam%20lobby%
A powerful Canadian oil and gas industry group has been systematically lobbying European embassies in recent months against proposed climate change legislation that discourages high-polluting transportation fuels such as crude oil from the oilsands sector, environmental groups said Tuesday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Quebecers%20tough%20environm
A new poll suggests people don't recognize impact their actions have on climate.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/californias_clean_car_rules_hel
With the passage of strict new auto emission and air pollution standards, California has again demonstrated its role as an environmental pacesetter. Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, explains how her state is helping drive a clean-car revolution.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/global-warming-climate-scien
Record warmth, extreme snowfall, January tornadoes? Are we "doping" our atmosphere?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/225524/global-warming-could-kil
Scientists have warned that global warming could destroy some of the world's smallest and slimiest creatures.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/baguio/feature/2012/02/07/bamboo-urban-
Aside from its natural charm in Asian-themed gardens, bamboo has benefits to both humans and the environment, says Philippine Bamboo Foundation President Edgar Manda: For every hectare planted, it can sequester around 12 tons of carbon dioxide each year.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/Latest-studies-throw-ligh
If experts are to be believed, the better understanding of structure and reactivity of radical-molecule complexes can provide deep insight into various atmospheric phenomenons, including ozone depletion (global warming), acid rain and climate changes.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/british-gree
There was a significant increase in UK greenhouse gases in 2010 for the first time in several years, Government figures confirmed yesterday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/02/08/global-warming-politics-over
The science of climate change may be based on a widespread consensus, but that is not reflected by the political realities in Washington, where the issue has polarized Democrats and Republicans along party lines.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=popular-opinion-on-clima
Public opinion on climate change is likely to remain divided as long as politicians send mixed messages on the issue.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.realaspen.com/article/1039/On-the-campaign-trail-Sant
A day before Colorado Republicans voice presidential preferences at the caucuses, Rick Santorum dismissed climate change as “a hoax” and advocated an energy plan heavy on fossil fuels.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/08/D
Will Travis, 16-year executive director of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission delighted in pushing his job beyond the narrow confines of BCDC's enabling language — more recently plunging into the complex issue of sea-level rise.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20120208/NEWS03/120207027/McKib
With Vermont still working to recover from Tropical Storm Irene’s torrential rains and flooding, environmental activist and writer Bill McKibben went before a panel of state lawmakers on Tuesday to say the storm was at least partly the product of climate change and a likely harbinger of a troubled future.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120208/local/Water-pump
A 400-metre stretch of the scenic valley near the chapel of St Catherine was drenched in black oil after a leak from an old 45-gallon drum at the Ballut Blocks quarry yard, which the police initially asserted was “accidental”.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204136404577206
The charges for Europe's carbon permit scheme won't come due until next year, so there's still time for Europe to see reason. Alternatively, Europe can help spark a global trade war nobody can afford over a tax nobody needs in furtherance of an anticarbon nirvana that never will come to pass.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nature.com/news/finding-the-true-value-of-us-clima
National science efforts are rarely short of ambition and grandiose promises. Focusing on energy, health, global warming or whatever, they all argue that their research will make the world a better place.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/a-fresh-take-on-chaotic-weat
The crazy weather continues. Are we, just possibly, reaching the point where people can look out their back doors and know they are seeing climate change in action?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120208/OPINION01/202080316/10
It didn't take long. A scant seven months after the Obama administration proposed a 54 miles-per-gallon fuel economy average for cars and light trucks sold in the U.S. by 2025, the state of California has countered with an even more draconian set of mandates for the auto companies.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/business/energy-environment/
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 4-to-1 on Thursday to grant a license to build two reactors at a nuclear plant in Georgia — a milestone for an industry whose long-hoped-for renaissance has been smaller and later than anticipated.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/business/energy-environment/
For the first time in over three decades, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to decide to grant a license to build a nuclear reactor — a milestone for an industry whose long-hoped-for renaissance is smaller and later than anticipated.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2012/0208/Ice-caps-not-shri
Mountain glaciers and ice caps around the globe collectively lost 148 billion tons of ice a year, according to new satellite measurements. The rate is 30 percent lower than scientists thought.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204652904577195
An energy boom is revving up the U.S. economy. New drilling techniques to tap oil and gas in shale rocks far underground has helped add about 158,500 new oil and gas jobs over the past five years. Though the energy boom looks like a road to prosperity, it may be a bumpy one.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/09/windfarm-worlds
The new energy secretary, Lib Dem MP Ed Davey, will face down the growing army of renewable power critics inside the coalition by making his first major outing a visit to a wind project.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/03/features/the-c
Due to a confluence of factors the clean-tech bubble has burst, leaving the U.S. with a traditional energy infrastructure that is still overwhelmingly reliant on fossil fuels. The fallout has hit almost every niche in the clean-tech sector, but none more dramatically than solar.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/08/uk-carbon-aviation-i
British Airways, Qantas and other airlines are calling on governments to find a swift resolution to a political dispute over the European Union's carbon scheme, because the deadlock may create competitive distortions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/feb/08/higher-household-ener
Two out of three householders will pay higher energy bills at the end of the decade despite government reassurances that the average home will fork out less as a result of costly energy and climate policies.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/climate-change-a-growing-risk-for
Water supplies are sensitive to a lot of different factors, including extreme weather and an evolving climate. As global temperatures rise, regional changes could have a growing impact on access to clean water.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120209/A_N
The California city has a tentative plan to combat climate change, more than three years after reaching a legal settlement with the Sierra Club and then-Attorney General Jerry Brown. Whether the plan will ever be put into action is another question.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/08/glaciers-mounta
Meltwater from Asia's peaks is much less then previously estimated, but lead scientist says the loss of ice caps and glaciers around the world remains a serious concern.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/science-updates/total-ice-loss-from-03-
Melting land ice added about a half-inch to global sea levels between 2003 and 2010, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Himalayan_meltdown_not_so_fast_
Himalayan glaciers and ice caps that supply water to more than a billion people in Asia are losing mass up to 10 times less quickly than once feared, reports a study published Thursday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/from-2-satellites-the-big-pi
A new paper calculates that from 2003 to 2010, the world’s glaciers and ice caps lost about 150 billion tons of ice each year. This ice loss was responsible for an average rise of four-tenths of a millimeter in sea level every year over the eight-study period.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/billions-of-tons-of-water-
The total volume of water that has melted from all of the world's polar ice sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers over the past decade would repeatedly fill Britain's largest lake, Windemere, more than 13,000 times, according to one of the most comprehensive studies of the Earth's frozen "cryosphere".Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20120208/ARTICLES/120209589
Louisiana's coast could face up to 3 feet of sea-level rise by 2100, and the state is recommending that future levee and coastal-restoration projects take rising global waters into account.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120208/california-landmark-clean
If all goes as planned, more than a million ultra-clean cars will be zipping around California in the next decade, a 30-fold increase from today, thanks to tough new rules recently approved by state regulators.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/09/efforts-needed-reach-em
The Indonesian government’s target to cut emissions by 26 percent before 2020 under the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation scheme cannot be achieved unless the importance of forests is thoroughly understood.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120209/A_N
A new development plan rolling out this week in a series of public meeting looks inward for areas of growth in San Joaquin County, focusing on places near city centers and transportation hubs instead of sprawling into the countryside.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v482/n7384/full/482131b.
Technologies are already available to capture methane during fracking rather than venting it into the atmosphere when bringing a gas well online. As it happens, the EPA is currently considering mandatory regulations that encourage such activities. These regulations would indirectly reduce methane emissions, and the EPA must press forward.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2012/02/epa-should-s
A key ingredient in stopping the global warming juggernaut in agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency is making scientific data publicly available.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/climate-change-news-is-anyone-rea
The challenge is keeping this slowly evolving story fresh. The fourth warmest January on record won't cut it.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/feb/08/fox-news-l
Campaigners warn against mining interests buying up media after Lord Monckton calls for UK and Australia to have a 'Fox News'.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/is-climate-change-hot-again-in-ho
Two new projects have climate change themes. Let's hope they are able to show complexity without falling back on caricature. After all, at the heart of scientific discovery sits fundamental questions about how we might live together on this increasingly crowded planet without destroying it in the process.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/09/us-usa-nuclear-licen
Regulators on Thursday approved plans to build the first new nuclear power plant in the US in more than 30 years, despite objections of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman, who cited safety concerns stemming from Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/science/earth/despite-yuck-f
With climate change threatening to diminish water supplies in the fast-growing Southwest, more cities are considering the potential of reclaimed water. But will the yuck factor keep people from accepting it?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/uk-to-press-
Britain will be pressing for governments everywhere to adopt "green accounting", formally putting a value on environmental assets such as forests as much as on economic output, at a major world conference on sustainable development to be held in Brazil in June.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20120209/NEWS/120209809/1077&Pa
Ozone-forming air pollution along the Colorado Front Range is up to twice the amount that government regulators estimated, a new study finds. Oil and gas development is the main source - a finding with broad implications for the industry across the Rocky Mountain region.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-02-09/us-nuc
The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors in Georgia. The vote clears the way for officials to issue an operating license for the reactors, which could begin operating as soon as 2016 and 2017.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.yahoo.com/2c-warming-goal-now-optimistic-french-s
French scientists unveiling new estimates for global warming said on Thursday the 2C goal enshrined by the United Nations was "the most optimistic" scenario left for greenhouse-gas emissions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/loss-of-stream-gauges-threatens-ac
Global warming is increasing the frequency and severity of heavy rainfalls, making monitoring networks like stream gauges even more valuable. Yet spending cutbacks are endangering the nation's network. First in a series.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.livescience.com/18397-marine-microbes-big-implications.
The tiny microbes that fill the oceans, some of which color the surface waters green, are big players in the planet's carbon budget, both sucking up and releasing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Now, scientists are making headway in figuring out how the marine microbes will be impacted by a warming world.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/a-carbon-allowance-in-every-
Citing the failure of international climate change policy, an economist has proposed personal carbon allowances — along with shorter working hours and higher taxes — to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly and equitably.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0209-hance_congo_savannah.html
Three thousand years ago several large sections of the Congo rainforest in central Africa suddenly vanished and became savannah. Scientists have long believed the loss of the forest was due to changes in the climate.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.asp?id=49749
Members of the Tara Oceans expedition visited the UN on Thursday to explain how their work studying plankton in marine habitats around the world is helping illuminate the science of climate change and spread the word about the global challenge.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/highest-peaks-have-
Himalayan glaciers are back on the frontline of climate change controversy, with new research showing the world's greatest snowcapped peaks lost no ice at all over the past 10 years.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9071908/Melting-glacier
The Himalayas has lost no significant ice over the past decade, according to a new study, that found melting ice from glaciers is having a much smaller effect on sea levels than previously thought.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.cantonrep.com/newsnow/x2112939501/Stark-moves-into-wa
The updated US Department of Agriculture Plant Hardiness Map unveiled recently places nearly all of Ohio into a warmer zone. It's an indication our winter seasons on average are warming here – about 5 degrees compared to the 1990 map.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Experts-plan-for-climate-
It's time for the humans to start figuring out how to protect the trout, lobsters and countless other species being challenged by climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/02/10/global-warming-forces-elepha
The deep-diving elephant seals of Marion Island, in the southwestern Indian Ocean, are going to even greater depths to find prey like squid, as global warming heats up the water.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-nuclear-2
A consortium of utilities in the South won government approval Thursday to construct two new atomic energy reactors at an estimated cost of $14 billion, the strongest signal yet that the three-decade hiatus of nuclear plant construction is finally ending.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/09/news/economy/nuclear_reactor
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the construction of two new reactors at Georgia's Vogtle plant. It's the first new construction license for a reactor granted in over 30 years.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.theage.com.au/environment/new-study-dirties-coal-seam
Greenhouse gases are leaking from some US gas drilling sites at up to double the expected amounts, raising questions over the use of gas as a low-emissions fuel, according to researchers from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/business/13-local-business/19640-govt-s
Tanzania has spent only half of Norwegian REDD funds, according to the ambassador of Norway, Ms Ingunn Klepsvik. However, she added that despite the halfway expenditure, the country has performed well in terms of preparedness in absorbing REDD funds in the future.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20120209/ARTICLES/120209640/-1/
The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission Thursday voted to return a controversial draft sea-level rise policy to committee rather than approve the document and forward it to public hearing.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/296308/20120210/gillard-govern
The federal government of Australia launched on Thursday a $340-million energy programme designed to provide energy efficiency to businesses, local government and communities.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/sustainability/2012/02/09/critics-distr
Amidst rising concerns around climate change and the controversial review of the Northern Gateway pipeline, the government’s proposed changes to Environmental Assessment legislation have many critics up in arms.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/02/10/3085096/mann-details-intrica
Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann said climate change is often framed as a scientific or economic problem, but it’s also an ethical question.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/must%20part%20fight%20climat
Quebecers may be better at talking the talk about climate change than walking the walk. The government should do a better job getting out the message of the importance of individual actions in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204662204577201
A severe drought in the southern Great Plains is fueling a massive cattle drive north that is pushing beef prices higher and threatening to alter the country's production of red meat.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-solar-foxes-20120211,0
One of California's showcase solar energy projects, under construction in the desert east of Los Angeles, is being threatened by a deadly outbreak of distemper among kit foxes and the discovery of a prehistoric human settlement on the work site.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy
Chinese oil executives are growing frustrated with regulatory delays in plans for the Northern Gateway oil sands pipeline, as interest in Canadian oil and gas surges in the energy-hungry country, the head of Enbridge Inc. says.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9072886/Britain-calls-o
Every country in the world should measure ‘natural capital’ as well as GDP in order to create a global economy that values the environment as well as money, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman will say.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328515.100-ocean-current-sl
Events in the Southern Ocean conspired to make the Earth spin ever-so-slightly faster, shortening half of the days in the month by 0.1 milliseconds each. Models suggest that such shifts will happen more frequently as a result of climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science_technology/Oceans_could_run
Global warming could lead to more of the world’s oceans becoming “dead zones” – where a lack of oxygen leads to marine life dying out.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/10/glacier-data-cl
Research showing that the Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years has been met with relief and surprise – but scientists warn against jumping to simplistic conclusions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=all-hands-on-deck
Oldweather.com is one of a handful of online initiatives that marshals the general public to help scientists with cutting-edge research.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/industry-call-to-scrap-stat
Businesses, including embattled aluminum giant Alcoa, are pushing Ted Baillieu to scrap Victoria's pollution reduction target, saying it could undermine the federal carbon scheme and lead to higher costs.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/10/farmers-may-hav
Humans may have been causing climate change for much longer than we’ve been burning fossil fuels. In fact, the agrarian revolution may have started human-induced climate changes long before the industrial revolution began to sully the skies.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1324018/-/s71tjf/
The charcoal trade, referred to as “black gold” by Kampala traders, has become more profitable than the forests where trees are being indiscriminately cut down for charcoal-burning.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2012/feb/10/tenaska-official-green
U.S. Environmental Protection regulations on greenhouse gases that have earned the ire of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott are not expected to pose a problem for Tenaska's proposed "Trailblazer" coal plant, a company official said Friday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-10/environment/31045754_1_monso
Rainfall during the monsoon season will decline by as much as 26 percent in southwest India's Kerala state, according to projections by scientists with the National Aerospace Laboratories.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/10/4253170/consortium-in-south-
A handful of new projects will test whether new technology and streamlined government licensing can help the industry avoid the economic and safety disasters that have tainted its past, nuclear experts say, though critics condemned the action by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.mlive.com/business/jackson-lansing/index.ssf/2012
CMS Energy has been upfront and transparent about its plans to be more environmentally responsible, spokesman Jeff Holyfield said. The Jackson-based company is being pressed by shareholders to disclose its plans on managing climate change and air pollution risks.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/danger-below-the-surfa
An eruption of Iceland's volcanoes is overdue. Since the country was settled in the ninth century, the Katla volcano has blown its top on average once every 60 years. There has been no significant eruption since 1918. And the science of predicting eruptions needs support.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/opinion/nocera-the-politics-
Here’s the question on the table today: Can a person support the Keystone XL oil pipeline and still believe that global warming poses a serious threat? The crude oil from the tar sands of Alberta which the pipeline would transport to the Gulf of Mexico, simply will not bring about global warming apocalypse.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Political%20science%
When Lord Robert May - a distinguished British population biologist - told a journalist: "I am the president of the Royal Society, and I am telling you the debate on climate change is over," he was risking the reputation of the venerable institution he headed.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.sentinelsource.com/opinion/columnists/guest/the-future-of-
Four decades ago Norman Borlaug, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on raising crop yields worldwide, said: “I have only bought you a 40 year breathing space to stabilize your population.”Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmichaels/2012/02/10/an-uns
“Setttled science”, of course, means that we are inevitably headed toward a disastrous warming of surface temperatures as forecast by some computer models, and we therefore need an international carbon tax or cap-and-trade system, pronto.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20120211-climate-expert
While Europe suffers a brutal winter of record proportions, the weather has been so mild in the United States that you can slip out some sunny afternoons to the golf course or bike path.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/12/bittern-populat
The foghorn-like call of one of Britain's most reclusive species is being heard more and more frequently after a concerted effort to restore its wetland habitat. However, experts warn that the bird still faces severe threats posed by climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/12/summer-drought-
If engineers from the Environment Agency had not started pumping water into Snailwell's pond every day this winter, it would have disappeared weeks ago, the victim of a drought that now threatens much of England with a summer of parched landscapes, rivers reduced to trickles and possible hosepipe bans ahead.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/jontalton/2017469989_biztaltoncol1
The elephant in the Oil Patch is that more fossil-fuel use means more greenhouse gases. Climate change is real, human caused and happening faster than anticipated. It will bring costs that we can't drill out of, baby.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/IATA-ca
Global airlines called on Sunday for a deal brokered by a United Nations agency to avoid an impasse between China and the European Union spilling into a trade war.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/08/us-climate-sealevels
U.S. scientists using satellite data have established a more accurate figure of the amount of annual sea level rise from melting glaciers and ice caps which should aid studies on how quickly coastal areas may flood as global warming gathers pace.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cutting-up-rough-trum
Donald Trump has more reason than most to fear the Scottish wind. It was during a visit to his mother's grave on the Isle of Lewis that the tycoon's famous comb-over took a battering in the breeze in front of the world's media.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/17500188/article-Congre
Instead of giving up the typical Lenten sacrifices – coffee, soda and spirits – congregants of United Church of Chapel Hill went on a carbon fast several years ago.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/now_donald_trump_tilts
Donald Trump has stepped up his tirade against Alex Salmond by posting a YouTube video that berates the First Minister for his role in the proliferation of offshore wind farms.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/community_power_projec
Community-run renewable energy projects should be promoted by ministers to break the grip that the Big Six power firms have over consumers, a leading think-tank director has said.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/02/12/global-warming-bacteria-a-wi
Warming in upper layers may impact overall productivity with unknown consequences for carbon uptake and production.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article2883726.ece
An expert report by the UNSG panel was released at an international conference hosted by TERI recently. This sleek study makes no bones about asserting that the continuation of the current path of development would put people and planet alike at "greatly heightened risk."Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2012/02/12/ghana-developing-policy-fram
The Ghana government through the Ministry of Environment Science and Technology is developing a National Climate Change Policy Framework (NCCPF) to provide strategic direction and co-ordinate the national framework to address issues of climate change broadly in the country.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/feb/12/ne
A bill pending in Tennessee likewise targets "global warming" alongside "biological evolution". These and other bills aim their rhetoric at "scientific controversies" in plural, and one of the New Hampshire bills does not even bother to specify which controversies it has in mind.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.mcall.com/opinion/yourview/mc-global-warming-text
Climate change will exacerbate extreme weather events, jeopardize the U.S. food supply and drastically alter the landscapes we call home. Educating the public on the science behind these risks and their consequences is the first step to confronting and mitigating this pressing issue.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.mcall.com/opinion/yourview/mc-global-warming-text
The Saucon Valley School Board was presented with two books for approval last month, which I reviewed and found one of them, "Globalization and Diversity," to be politically motivated and factually inaccurate. I take exception to the authors' biases that mankind and capitalistic greed are destroying our planet. We as parents are responsible for shaping the minds of our children and we must ensure that a balanced perspective is given to our students.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/john-crown-our-judgeme
Even if you are sceptical about global warming, the case for reducing our dependence on carbon as an energy source is overwhelming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/california-339826-carb-greenhou
CARB would do well to stop throwing California's economy further under the bus.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/02/andes-extreme-cold
Climate change alters the environment in complex ways. The Andes, warming for decades, has seen three bitter winters that have left more than 400 dead and aid agencies scrambling. Experts see the fingerprints of global warming there, too.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2012/02/13/3428033
It looks more like squid than steak and because it lacks the fat and protein found in real cattle, does not taste like traditional beef. So why would anyone eat meat grown in a lab?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-valenti
A new mini-report from the environmental group Climate Nexus points out that climate change is poised to wreck Valentine’s Day, or at least change it significantly, by threatening chocolate production.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Urgent-funding-required-prevent-flood-c
Lincolnshire's coastline is under threat – so much so that flooding poses the second largest risk to the entire country. Now, Lincolnshire County Council is calling on the Government to pay for increased defences.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9077468/National-Trust-
The National Trust is now "deeply sceptical" of wind power, its chairman said as he launched an outspoken attack on the "public menace" of turbines destroying the countryside.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/lobby%20retreat%20urges%20feds
A taxpayer-funded pro-oil lobbying retreat, involving Canada’s European diplomats and industry, concluded that Canada’s foreign diplomats don’t have enough resources to deliver on the federal government’s aggressive lobbying strategy to promote the oilsands and fight foreign climate change policies.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-13/first-solar-to-vestas-w
Renewable energy companies are losing their allure with top executives after profits and stock prices collapsed across the industry, making it more difficult for boards to replace underperforming managers.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change-role-in-floo
The floods inundating northern NSW and Queensland are likely to have been driven in part by human-induced climate change - although the precise extent of this influence won't be known for another decade.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/alaska-glaciers-losing-46-billi
Alaska glaciers have been shedding about 46 billion tons of ice each year, making America's Arctic state the world's single biggest contributor to glacier-fed sea level rise outside of Greenland or Antarctica, say new estimates published this week in Nature.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2012/02/13/dramatic-cha
Dramatic changes to sea algae could have harmful knock-on effects for human health and the rest of the food chain, research from Welsh scientists has revealed. The changes seen in algal blooms could mean a build-up of toxins on feeder organisms.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/how-much-ice-is-vanishing-into-the
Between 2003 and 2010, about 385 billion tons of ice have vanished into the sea each year — enough, says a scientist, “to fill Lake Erie with water eight times over, or cover the entire U.S. with water to a depth of a foot and a half.”Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-future-of-chocolate
The cacao tree is under threat from pests, fungal infections, climate change, and farmers’ lack of access to fertilizers.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/energy-smart/solar-roof-pro
A new form of solar panel that warms air and water as well as generating electricity is being developed by Sydney researchers.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/07/uk-emissions-ro
The dramatic fall in the UK's greenhouse gas emissions caused by the recession has proved to be a blip, with national emissions rising 3.1% in 2010.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/epa-unveils-new-tool-for
Power plants released 72 percent of the greenhouse gases reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 2010, according to information released last month that was the first catalog of global warming pollution by facility.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/us-airshow-idUSTRE81
Global planemaker Airbus joined a chorus of concern that a European scheme to charge airlines for carbon emissions risks triggering a full-blown trade war, with implications for plane deals and even Europe's crippling sovereign debt crisis.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.naroomanewsonline.com.au/news/national/national/environment/indu
Businesses, including the embattled aluminium giant Alcoa, are pushing Ted Baillieu to scrap Victoria's pollution reduction target, saying it could undermine the federal carbon scheme and lead to higher costs.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=what-does-a-coup
The fate of an island chain's president may mean more - or even less - progress to combat climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://special.registerguard.com/web/opinion/27591784-47/nuclear-power-f
The approval by federal regulators last Thursday of plans to build the nation’s first new nuclear power plants in more than three decades is unlikely to mark the beginning of a “nuclear renaissance” once touted as inevitable by industry officials.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2012/02/greenhouse-gas-em
Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2010 for the first time in 20 years, according to a report released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Emissions, which had been declining sharply since the financial crisis began, rose by 3.1 percent. That’s disappointing and concerning by any reckoning.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/02/china-and-euro
Whether or not China imposes a ban – a grave step, which might even instigate a global trade war – the row is already hastening efforts to make the world’s airlines pay for their pollution. That is overdue.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.dailymail.com/Opinion/HoppyKercheval/201202120051
I suspect the Sierra Club might have trouble getting laid-off workers or the leaders of a community that will have trouble paying the bills for street lights to join them in the victory dance.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/12/120213-us-china-tea
Among those who have been watching carbon capture and storage closely, there's a growing belief that the best path forward is a partnership between the two nations that lead the world in both carbon emissions and coal reserves: the United States and China.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Going%20public%20next%20frontier
Climate change scientist Andrew Weaver has paid a price for bringing his research to the public. His University of Victoria office contains a Wall of Hate, filled with the "vitriolic diatribes" of people who cannot accept scientific conclusions about the link between fossil fuels and global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/us-unep-soil-idUSTRE
Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store, a United Nations' Environment Programme report said on Monday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/hurricanes/story/2012-02
Offshore hurricanes could demolish half the turbines in proposed wind farms just off the USA's coastlines, according to a study out Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-14/rudd-carbon-capture-sto
One of the world's leading clean coal experts wrote to then-prime minister Kevin Rudd warning that his multi-million dollar Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute was a mistake, an ABC investigation has confirmed.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/justingerdes/2012/02/13/cap-and-t
A candidate for president emphasizes the environment on the campaign trail. He promises to update the Clean Air Act to address a grave and growing pollution threat. He wins. The new president was George H.W. Bush, and the grave and growing threat was acid rain.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/feb/13/obama-gree
Barack Obama knew a budget proposal to end $40bn in tax breaks for the oil and gas industry would get him into an election-year fight with Republicans over his energy agenda. It's at least the fourth time the president has called for rolling back the subsidies.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2012/02/14/could-there-be-another
Perched on the shores of Central Texas’ largest reservoir, the small lakeside community doesn’t seem like the kind of place where wells suddenly fail and water needs to be shipped in by truck. Yet one persistent complaints from people in Spicewood Beach is that authorities didn’t see the danger signs sooner.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/298230/20120214/katharine-hayh
Katharine Hayhoe likes to say that admitting she's a Christian, as well as a climate scientist, is a similar to coming out of the closet.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/shark-deaths-double-as-touri
Sharks killed twice as many swimmers and surfers last year than in 2010, with the increase due largely to a growth in tourism and changing shark patterns due to global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/the-end-of-big-trees.htm
The decline of big trees foretells a different world - one where forests shrink and store less carbon, where fewer tree-dependent animals survive, where giant cathedral-like canopies and the diverse ecosystems that rely on them to live become a thing of the past.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/20120214massachus
The cap on carbon emissions established under the three-year-old regional cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gases is under review by participating states to address the oversupply of allowances that has driven down the cost and demand for those credits.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/federal%20scientists%20declare
Environment Canada is sending notices to 60 scientists and researchers that their jobs are being declared surplus. They broadly include engineers, scientists, biologists, climatologists, and chemical analysts from across the country. They work in areas such as pollution, monitoring water quality, and climate research.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/new-usda-map-puts-palm-beach-coun
A new map that tracks three decades of weather conditions has placed all of Palm Beach County in the mildest temperature zone in the continental United States except for the Florida Keys.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-14/satellites-for-climate-
Brazilian deforestation and melting polar ice caps are feeding a boom in demand in the $2.1 billion market for satellite data, images and services used to monitor the planet.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/226881/what-frogs-tell-us-plane
A team of scientists at Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve reason that analysing sound recordings of frog croaking combined with readings from climate data loggers could improve our understanding of the effect of climate change on amphibian populations, writes Atula Gupta.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www2.wjbf.com/news/2012/feb/13/interesting-reason-why
Despite all that talk of rising sea level, scientists found that last year, it actually fell, just an itsy bitsy bit, about two tenths of an inch. Why? It's just one of those freak things; more water happened to fall on land.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theecologist.org/green_green_living/food_and_drink/12446
Cocoa production is ripe with controversy. A report last year showed over 1.8 million children working in cocoa production in Ivory Coast and Ghana. These children are often involved in hazardous labour and trafficking. In addition to humanitarian concerns, the cocoa industry is also dealing with the impact of global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.livescience.com/18442-elephant-seals-dive-deeper-global
Lumbering elephant seals in Antarctica seem to be taking the heat from global warming, as scientists have found the mammals must dive to deeper than normal depths in warmer seas to snag food.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0213-hance_arctic_tippingpoints.ht
As the Arctic warms, imperiling its biodiversity and indigenous people, researchers are increasingly concerned that the region will hit climatic tipping points that could severely impact the rest of the world.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.northjersey.com/news/NJ_wont_receive_additional_federal
New Jersey won’t get any more federal cash in 2012 for weatherization, a program that creates jobs by making homes of low-income families more energy efficient. The state had too much money leftover from previous years.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/will-hurricanes-topple-u-s-w
As plans for wind farms rising out of the ocean along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts inch closer to fruition, a new study from Carnegie Mellon University suggests that hurricanes could destroy a significant number of turbines in some of these areas, even coming close to wiping them out.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0213/Fracking-study-sends-aler
A new study finds that fracking is releasing methane, a greenhouse gas, from a Colorado field at a higher rate than estimates suggested. Researchers must determine if the field is an anomaly or part of a bigger problem.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://en.mercopress.com/2012/02/13/agriculture-methods-accelera
Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store, a United Nations' Environment Programme report said on Monday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.euractiv.com/transport/airlines-set-win-carbon-credi
The European Commission has asked airlines to report on "the amount of biomass" they use so that biofuels can be accounted as "zero emission" in the greenhouse gas emissions reports they are requested to produce each year under the EU's carbon scheme for the aviation sector.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/02/14/climate-change-increas
Studies of climate change and its impact on coastal communities usually focus on rising sea level. Now, scientists from MIT and Princeton University have developed a method to examine how multiple effects of climate change – including the combination of sea-level rise and stronger hurricanes -- will affect storm surges that wash over sea walls and inundate communities, damaging buildings and infrastructure.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/leak-exposes-he
The inner workings of a libertarian thinktank working to discredit the established science on climate change have been exposed by a leak of confidential documents detailing its strategy and fundraising networks.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/query/leurig-query
Climate change will likely intensify storm surges, wildfires, drought and more, putting the insurance industry in an economic bind. Sharlene Leurig is working to find a more sustainable - and profitable - future. A Climate Query.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,815169,00
German energy giant E.on warned on Tuesday that the country's green energy revolution is at risk from delays in connecting offshore wind farms to the grid. The company said it will put two large projects on hold unless the grid operators speed up the construction of power lines.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/venture-capitalists-play-key-r
A Post analysis found $3.9 billion in federal grants and financing flowed to 21 companies backed by firms with connections to five Obama administration staffers and advisers.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/248103/scitech/science/nyc-s
Massive storm surges that statistically threaten New York City once a century could occur at intervals from three to 20 years by 2100, according to estimates by US scientists published Tuesday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/14/B
Snowfall in the Sierra Nevada has remained consistent for 130 years, with no evidence that anything has changed as a result of climate change, according to a study released Tuesday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-15/maersk-leads-shipping-i
A.P. Moeller Maersk A/S, the world’s biggest container ship owner, is leading its industry in developing biofuels made from organic waste that could cut its carbon emissions and reduce a $6 billion-a-year fuel bill.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/transcanada-hopes-for-2015-
TransCanada has pushed back the possible start up date of a controversial pipeline that would carry Canadian oil to refineries in Texas, saying that its executives continue to work with Nebraska to determine the best route that avoids Nebraska's environmentally sensitive Sandhills region.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/02/jobs_vs_e
A pair of bills that occupy the jobs vs. environment mosh pit this legislative session got early hearings Tuesday, with both sides bringing big hopes and dire projections to the match.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/opinion/obamas-pitch-on-ener
President Obama’s new budget lays down a clear and much-needed challenge to the Republican House’s large number of climate-change deniers and all of the Republican Party’s many panderers to Big Oil.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/opinion/where-the-colorado-r
By strengthening the treaty between the United States and Mexico that governs the Colorado River, we have the opportunity to revive the river and show the world, as it is suggested in Ecclesiastes, that all rivers shall run to the sea.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/14/people-displaced-
A recent UK report has shown that a focus on populations migrating away from environmental change neglects two key groups of vulnerable people: the millions who will actually migrate into areas of environmental threat, and those who will be trapped there by other challenges.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Climate%20change%20tale%20ci
Late January, I went up to the Simon Fraser University's mountaintop campus to hear a lecture by Dr. John Clague, who discussed "Danger From the Sea: Sea Level Rise in a Changing Climate".Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/natural%20strategy%20drives%20
British Columbia's recently announced natural gas and liquefied natural gas strategies represent an important evolution in our government's energy and economic priorities.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-will-lead-ne
With global efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions stalled, the United States and five other countries are launching a new program to cut other pollutants — including methane, soot and hydrofluorocarbons — that also contribute to global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Northern%20Gateway%20pipeline%20pr
Pipelines used to be boring. Once upon a time, these common crude-carrying metal tubes criss-crossing the country were little more than a planner's afterthought. Not anymore.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/heartland-insti
A libertarian thinktank devoted to discrediting climate change received funds and other support from major corporations including some publicly committed to social responsibility, leaked documents reveal.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/science/earth/in-heartland-i
Leaked documents suggest that an organization known for attacking climate science is planning a new push to undermine the teaching of global warming in public schools, the latest indication that climate change is becoming a part of the nation’s culture wars.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/16/us-drought-trees-tex
Some 5.6 million urban shade trees were killed by the record drought that baked Texas last year, the Texas Forest Service reported on Wednesday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/02/120214-artificial-glaciers
A remote Indian village is responding to global warming-induced water shortages by creating large masses of ice, or "artificial glaciers," to get through the dry spring months.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2012/02/16/three-quarte
Sea level rises of between 30-40cm in the Severn Estuary over the next 60 years could cause more than three-quarters of the estuary’s intertidal area to be lost, a new report has warned.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0215-heartland_to_sue_journalists.
The Heartland Institute, a conservative advocacy group, is threatening to sue journalists, bloggers, and activists who reported on internal documents that detail the group's fundraising efforts and lay out a new program to replace climate change education in schools with curriculum meant to instill doubt on climate science.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/scientist-de
A prominent Australian scientist has rejected as offensive any suggestion he is doing the bidding of a US climate-sceptic think tank that is paying him a monthly fee.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/heartland-insti
The free-market Heartland Institute has moved to contain the damage from explosive revelations about its efforts to discredit climate change and alter the teaching of science in schools, claiming on Wednesday it was the victim of theft and forgery.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/201202/s3432691.htm
More than 300 scientists from around the world have signed a consensus statement warning the Australian government that its proposed marine reserve in the Coral Sea has some serious shortcomings.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/
The Quincy Planning Board will continue its hearing next month on a joint Boston-Quincy proposal to build a utility-size wind turbine on Quincy’s Moon Island, after a crowd double the meeting room’s capacity forced the original hearing’s suspension last week.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/enforcement-lacking-on-en
Crimes against the environment are increasingly prevalent across Asia Pacific, fueling conflict, intensifying climate change and exacerbating the threat of natural disasters. Yet enforcement is lacking, according to the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/science/earth/us-pushes-to-c
Impatient with the slow pace of international climate change negotiations, a small group of countries led by the United States is starting a program to reduce emissions of common pollutants that contribute to rapid climate change and widespread health problems.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Emerging%20economies%20slam%
Environment Minister Peter Kent is rejecting new questions from the world's largest emerging economies about the Canadian government's sincerity and credibility on fighting climate change in light of its decision to walk away from the Kyoto Protocol.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=leaked-conservative-grou
Leaked documents from the free-market conservative organization The Heartland Institute reveal a plan to create school educational materials that contradict the established science on climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/climate_change_sceptic
Documents from an organisation known to promote climate change scepticism spell out plans to roll out a programme of infiltrating school curriculums in the United States to spread doubt among teachers about the “alarmist” science behind climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/299320/20120215/heartland-inst
The Heartland Institute has responded to the document leaks on their Web site, saying that some of the documents were stolen, at least one was fake, and some may have been altered.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/299399/20120215/rick-santorum-
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has touted himself as the staunch conservative to Republican primary voters, and when it comes to the environment his views are informed by his Christian faith, or rather his interpretation of it.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20120216/NEWS/202160345/New-DNR
The debate over global warming got hot during a legislative budget review for Delaware's Department Natural Resources and Environmental Control as climate change skeptics called for a showdown vote on plans for a new Division of Climate and Energy.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/science-updates/nj-enviros-urge-assembl
Environmentalists yesterday warned New Jersey stands to miss out on future revenue and pollution reduction if it withdraws from the Northeast region's cap-and-trade program to curb greenhouse gases.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.northjersey.com/news/environment/Report_Regional_Greenh
Environmental advocates say New Jersey’s participation in a multi-state greenhouse gas reduction program yielded $151 million in economic benefits over the past three years, including the creation of 1,700 jobs.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/ai-group-backs
Climate Change Minister Greg Combet has sweetened the terms of $1 billion in carbon tax assistance for manufacturers as Julia Gillard again faced pressure in parliament over the policy's impact on jobs.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-02-15/news/fl-coral-reef-drilling-
Marine scientists on Friday plan to begin transplanting about 100 basketball-size corals from an onshore nursery to a damaged reef off the shores of Fort Lauderdale.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/plotting-a-road-map-for-a
Last June, a high-powered group of scientists and thinkers gathered in Ontario to explore how science and technology could contribute to a more sustainable energy future and avoid the worst climate impacts. On Sunday, the results of their collective effort – the Equinox Blueprint – will be released.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120216/republican-governors-pres
The nation's Republican governors are pressing forward with policies that promote the green economy—and in some cases they have moved further than their Democratic counterparts.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,815478,00.ht
Fritz Vahrenholt and his colleague, geologist Sebastian Lüning, say the world isn't facing a climate catastrophe. The two are peddling precisely the kind of theory that generates publicity and allows both sides of the debate to profit. But it also leaves people wondering whom they should believe.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Climate%20change%20naysayers
The president of one of the world's biggest scientific organizations says the research community is being outgunned by naysayers, and that she is "scared to death" by trends that show declining public acceptance of global warming and the growing influence of science skeptics.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.discovery.com/animals/birds-climate-change-promiscuou
An unpredictable environment might explain infidelity and divorce – at least in birds.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL2E8DGEQX2012
California Governor Jerry Brown may only get a fraction of the revenue for the state budget from a greenhouse-gas emissions trading program that he expects, a budget watchdog agency said in a report on Thursday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20120217/NEWS01/202170302/Repor
Natural disasters have become big business in Maryland. Within the past year, a string of damaging and expensive natural disasters, including tornadoes, a hurricane, a tropical storm and earthquake tremors have all caused damage to the region and businesses throughout the Lower Shore.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-climate
The Heartland Institute, which celebrated the release of stolen emails from climate scientists in 2009, has now had its own documents stolen and released and is asking journalists not to divulge their contents.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0216/Heartland-s-leaked-do
Leaked internal documents from The Heartland Institute show how one organization is working to promote global warming denial.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1132853--scientists
Documents suggesting that a US think-tank plans to push for a public school curriculum questioning climate change is a worrisome sign, top scientists say.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/02/16/us-carbon-usa-idUKTR
The United States said on Thursday it will contribute $12 million to a six-country initiative to fight against climate change by low-cost programs, such as promoting clean cooking stoves.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://news.yahoo.com/us-launches-coalition-fight-climate-cha
Faulting the world for not doing enough to curb climate change, the United States on Thursday announced the formation of a coalition to cut short-lived pollutants that speed up warming and harm health.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1132249--c
Canada has joined the United States and four other countries in efforts to cut emissions of common, short-lived pollutants even as it faces questions internationally about its true commitment to fighting climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Canada%20joins%20efforts%20r
Canada is joining a United States-led coalition aimed at reducing "short-lived" climate pollutants, with the Harper government committing $3 million to kick-start global talks about the problem.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Canada%20joins%20efforts%20r
Canada is joining a United States-led coalition aimed at reducing "short-lived" climate pollutants, with the Conservative government committing $3 million to kick-start global talks about the problem.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Kent%20says%20still%20bullis
Environment Minister Peter Kent on Thursday pressed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the merits of the Keystone XL pipeline and affirmed the Harper government's belief the Obama administration's rejection of the $7-billion project had "nothing to do with the merit of the application."Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.baycitizen.org/climate-change/story/bay-area-climate-c
In the Bay Area, where climate change is expected to cause flooding, shoreline erosion, heat waves, water shortages and a spread of exotic infectious diseases, it seems as if people are drowning in plans – but with little regional coordination.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20120216_New_Jer
Taxing power plants for their carbon emissions doesn't kill jobs, it creates them, according to a report issued Wednesday by a New Jersey environmental policy group.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765551363/Alberta-minister-blam
Alberta’s finance minister said Wednesday that US politics trumped what should have been a no-brainer decision to approve a proposed oil pipeline from Alberta to Texas.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/conservationist/2012/02/conservat
If you can convince Conservation Hawks chairman Todd Tanner that he’s wasting his time, that he does not have to worry about climate change, he will present to you his most prized possession: A Beretta Silver Pigeon 12 gauge over/under that was a gift from his wife, and has been a faithful companion on many a Montana bird hunt.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21486-leaked-files-expose-hea
The tables have been well and truly turned in "deniergate", the leak of documents from a key climate-sceptic think tank based in the US.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.neurope.eu/article/wheres-beef-alternative-look-cl
The EU's 'Ruminomics' project seems to be a stop-gap rather than a real viable solution to climate change. However, at a price tag of €7.7m price tag, it seems that the Commission has dirtied its fine pair of shoes by stepping in the cow-pie.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100138037/climate-cha
There's more joy, it seems, in the climate debate about one perceived sinner who repents than over 99 who are not thought to need to do so. So both sides are quick to exult in what they see as conversions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328512.200-uncharted-waters
Most of the world's drinking water is hidden underground, and we don't have a clue what's happening to it. But as global populations grow and climate change kicks in, one thing is certain: we can no longer count on the water to be where we expect to find it.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/tiny-shrimp-leave-gi
Measured by environmental impact, a humble shrimp cocktail could be the most costly part of a typical restaurant meal, scientists said.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.livescience.com/18531-classroom-battleground-climate-ch
For years, science classrooms have been a battleground for supporters of teaching evolution versus creationism or intelligent design. Now, teachers may be once again caught in the crossfire as a new controversial topic makes its way into education: climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2012/02/oba
President Obama, who said last month that divisions in Congress are "too deep" to tackle climate change, bypassed Capitol Hill again this week with another effort to reduce climate-warming emissions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/extremes/story/2012-02-16/
Violent and deadly weather events have affected more than 240 million Americans -- about 80 percent of the nation's population -- over the past six years, says a report from an environmental advocacy group.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/unusually-hot-summers-becoming-mor
In a trend that fits with manmade global warming, a new study shows the odds of unusually warm summers have already increased in much of the United States, and will rise much more in the near future.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/17/nuclear-deal-
The deal signed by David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy sends a clear signal of both countries' commitment to a nuclear future.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/17/heartland-insti
The Heartland Institute, the libertarian thinktank whose project to undermine science lessons for schoolchildren was exposed this week, faces new scrutiny of its finances - including its donors and tax status.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/02/hu
A new study says that due to global warming, monster storms could make landfall more frequently, causing destructive storm surges every 3 to 20 years instead of once a century.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x471169389/Environmental-group-sa
A report released this week by Environment Missouri suggests climate change could make extreme weather events, such as droughts and storms, more common and possibly more severe.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.canada.com/technology/Climate%20change%20making%20
Human activities, such as oil and gas extraction, commercial trawling, and mining can worsen the effects of global warming and must be carefully managed.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Warming%20oceans%20harming%2
The warming of the world's oceans due to climate change is resulting in an expansion of low-oxygen zones, negatively affecting marine life, such as groundfish, off the British Columbia coast, according to a U.S. expert.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climate-change-increases
Apparently, humans aren't the only species whose relationships can suffer from stress. According to new research, birds living in unpredictable climates are more likely to "cheat" on their feathered partners.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/02/18/battle-over-eus-carbon-cap-f
The political war over the EU's cap-and-trade plan for airlines is set to continue next week in Moscow at an international trade conference as nongovernmental organizations urge the U.S. government not to cave in to industry pressure.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/02/17/3022353/caring-for-creation.
Charlotte churches plant gardens, add solar panels and join others trying to protect the planet.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/opinion/a-second-front-in-th
Year after year, the world’s nations gather to find ways to reduce carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, with little meaningful progress. Frustrated by this slow pace, the United States and five other countries announced this week a modest but potentially game-changing initiative to cut three other pollutants that also contribute significantly to climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/sometimes-we-must-set-
The current controversy over constructing a pipeline to bring Canadian tar sands oil to Texas for refining is political posturing which confuses the real choices before us and the rationale for them.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/leaked-docs-provi
Recently, the DesmogBlog got its hands on a trove of alleged internal fund-raising documents from the Heartland Institute. But do they actually tell us anything?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/02/17/global-warming-great
Global warming is the most widespread mass hysteria in our species’ history. The fever that these legions of warmists warn of does not grip the globe, but rather their own brains and blinkered imaginations.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.discovery.com/earth/documents-highlight-plans-to-spre
What to do when adults persist in believing that the burning of fossil fuels is causing climate change? You know, on account of that pesky overwhelming scientific evidence and stuff?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hG-rv-5cag
Wildfires, peat fires and controlled burns on farming lands kill 339,000 people worldwide each year, said a study released on Saturday that is the first to estimate a death toll for landscape fires. The research also suggested a significant link between climate and fire mortality.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/02/pollution-and-hum
The exhaust from India's brick kilns mixes with diesel emissions and other fumes to form a vast brown smog, known as an atmospheric brown cloud, which is up to 3km thick and thousands of kilometres long. Two of its main ingredient are important contributors to the greenhouse effect, and thus to climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/us/warm-winter-is-casting-a-
If the nation’s unusually warm winter has left most people pleasantly puzzled, it has meant a gloomy slowdown in the world of ice fishing, a beloved long-held tradition in states like Minnesota.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/us/politics/high-gas-prices-
Rising gasoline prices, trumpeted in foot-tall numbers on street corners across the country, are causing concern among advisers to President Obama that a budding sense of economic optimism could be undermined just as he heads into the general election.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/sunday-review/drawing-the-li
As plans for the Keystone XL pipeline faltered over the last six months, its route through a pristine aquifer in Nebraska proved to be its fatal political flaw. But, in the popular mind, the biggest concerns was the vision of a big metal pipe full of thick crude coursing under America’s pristine heartland.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/record_2_8m_fine_for_c
Energy giant ExxonMobil has been forced to pay the biggest fine for an environmental offence in British history for failing to report greenhouse gas emissions from its chemicals plant in Scotland.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/9090830
Nearly £1.5 billion has been spent tackling man-made climate change by Government department responsible for fighting poverty abroad, it can be revealed.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/332328--climate-chan
New research suggests climate change could create a boom in tropical fish species in British Columbia, but result overall in a drop of up to 35 per cent in catches in some places, due to increasing acid and decreasing oxygen in the world's oceans.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://thechronicleherald.ca/sports/64691-climate-change-could-mean-
Long Pond is the cradle of hockey. But, as we’ve seen everywhere, it might also be one of the outdoor sport’s many graves. The battle is to maintain the ice surface in the face of less reliable weather in recent years.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/gardening/gar
Gardening: surely few things could be more eco-friendly? Not so, it seems. Scientists have produced new research which suggests that, far from doing their bit to save the planet, Britain's green-fingered army may be damaging it, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Warming%20oceans%20expanding%2
Warming of the oceans under climate change is resulting in an expansion of low-oxygen zones, negatively impacting marine life such as groundfish off the BC coast.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2012/02/16/climate-action-stopping-glob
The U.S. – as well as representatives from the U.N. and several other countries – is getting behind a new initiative to reduce black carbon, methane and other "short-lived" greenhouse gases.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/tide_must_turn_on_rene
Britain could rule the waves if the government adopted a more visionary approach to developing marine renewables if the UK, according to a new report.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/plants_may_help_artificial_
An oil substitute made with “artificial leaf” technology could be powering cars, ships and planes in 30 years, according to a leading Scottish expert.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/26257/climate-smart-farming-way-to-go-s
There is a need for the Philippines to change its age-old agricultural systems to adapt to climate change, according to an expert from the Food and Agriculture Organization.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2012/02/19/attitude-change-
Talking about climate change is useless if there is no attitude change, Senator Teoffisto Guingona said in his opening address at the Mindanao Summit on Disaster Risk Reduction and Geo-hazard Awareness.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120219/OPI
As Cape Codders, we have a reputation for being more than a little complacent about fluctuations in our weather. But although the bunting might not be the proverbial canary in the coal mine, we would do well to heed its arrival.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-articl
Today, we report that a nation that made its wealth on the sea, that had the most powerful navy and built an empire with it, is failing to harness its remarkable geographical advantages to lead the world in wave and tide power.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Hume%20Fake%20skeptics%20cli
In what's being called "Denialgate," it's the Heartland Institute that's now accused of fomenting illegitimate doubt about the scientific evidence of man-made global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.thewesternstar.com/News/Local/2012-02-19/article-2899346/T
We’re not about to quit oil cold turkey. Does that mean we should continue with business as usual?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/20
Whatever your views on addressing climate change, and there are economic arguments on every side of the issue, the science isn't really that complicated (increased greenhouse gases, by and large, increase atmospheric temperatures), and at least listening to a scientist means you hear fewer campaign commercials.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2012/02/15/pipeline-politics-keystone-a
The pipeline debate has become divisive among some climate/energy analysts and advocates who are often on the same side – and it demonstrates the different ways both approach the big problems.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/david-koch-intends-to-cure-cancer
David Koch has become the face of conservative America's obsession with weakening organized labor, and for that, he believes, there have been death threats, he says. Journalists tend to describe the lanky MIT-trained chemical engineer and his brother Charles with the phrase "secretive oil billionaires."Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/19/science-scepticism-
Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and reassuring. Last week Nina Fedoroff, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), broke ranks in a spectacular manner. She confessed that she was now "scared to death."Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/338581/description/Carb
If carbon dioxide emissions don’t begin to decline soon, the complex fabric of marine ecosystems will begin fraying — and eventually unravel completely, two new studies conclude.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/building-sustainable-futu
Contrary to popular belief, humans have failed to address the earth's worsening emergencies of climate change, species' extinction and resource overconsumption not because of a lack of information, but because of a lack of imagination, social scientists and artists say.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/South%20Delta%20risk%20from%
South Delta, a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, will be vulnerable to disastrous flooding in the coming decades without wholesale adaptation to rising sea levels, scientists said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference there.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/chinas-farming-calendar-o
Chinese meteorologists say the traditional divisions in the 2,000 year old farming calendar no longer apply because they do not take climate change into account.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/carbon-price-does-not-deter
The impending carbon price has done nothing to deter investment in the coal industry, with spending on exploration surging faster than any other mineral commodity.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2012/02/20/pipeline-politics-are-the-oi
In a new study in Nature Climate Change, a pair of Canadian researchers crunch the numbers on the oil sands, and find that its potential impact on the climate - while significant - may not be as catastrophic as it seems.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120219/ARTICLES/120219489/103
As Ann Hancock labors to reduce the output of automobile exhaust and other greenhouse gases in Sonoma County, she knows some people have doubts about whether even the county's best efforts will have any impact on global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-20/greens-escalate-fight-a
The Greens are escalating their fight against the so-called "T4" coal loader proposed for Newcastle, now that plans have been scuttled for Nathan Tinkler's terminal.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/prepare-now-for-ci
Predictions that Adelaide will be hotter, drier and dustier in 50 years have been around for some time, but what are we doing to prepare? Now scientists are trying to learn from other cities experiencing similar climates.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1133884--climate-cha
The head of the Royal Canadian Navy says Canada needs to bolster its military presence in the Arctic to prepare for a boom in human and economic activity resulting largely from climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.eurasiareview.com/20022012-preparing-for-rising-sea-level
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have produced computer visualizations of rising sea levels in a low-lying coastal municipality, illustrating ways to adapt to climate change impacts such as flooding and storms surges.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.vancouversun.com/South%20Delta%20needs%20dramatic%20solu
South Delta will be vulnerable to disastrous flooding in the coming decades without wholesale adaptation to rising sea levels, warns researcher.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2012-02/20/c_131421061.htm
A group of international scientists meeting in Vancouver, Canada said archeology can play a contributing role in helping make better climate change policies, "because it investigates long sequences of social and climate change at multiple scales."Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-17059662
Wales' tallest mountain is being changed by rising temperatures, pollution and land management, a survey has revealed.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2012/02/19/global-warming-threats-ratch
Worldwide fossil fuel combustion is pushing the planet out of the Holocene epoch which ended about 12,000 years ago with the retreat of the Ice Age. The warning came from James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/02/20/global-warming-sierra-chipmu
Chipmunks in the High Sierra have taken a startling genetic hit from global warming, according to scientists, who say that climate change has shifted the species’ range upward by about 1,600 feet.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1133882--c
One of the world’s top climate scientists has calculated that emissions from Alberta’s oilsands are unlikely to make a big difference to global warming and that the real threat to the planet comes from burning coal.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=is-the-keystone-
A new analysis by scientists at the University of Victoria in British Columbia suggests burning all those proven reserves in Alberta's tar sands would release enough CO2 to warm the climate by only one-twentieth of a degree Celsius. Global warming to date is 15 times that.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/social-issues/221012/nation-targets-emi
Lowering greenhouse gas emissions related to transport is one of the priorities of the transport sector's climate change action plan. Relevant projects have included using bio-diesel in Viet Nam's railway sector and experiments using solar and wind power in conjunction with diesel generators at railway stations.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-climate-20
It's bad enough that we're doing so little to fight climate change; let's not ask teachers to lie about it too.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/q-and-a-what-can-ind
The Arctic has become the frontline for observing the effects of anthropogenic climate change, from rising ocean temperatures to shrinking sea ice cover. These changes have greatly impacted the traditional practices of indigenous Arctic communities.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/comments-analysis/companies-mus
Leaders from across the world gathered in Durban in December last year to find common ground on what is currently the most important challenge facing humanity: climate change. There is precious little time left for all nations to act.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/politics/forecast-is-for-contin
Evidence so far suggests that action on climate change is primarily responsible for Labor's parlous position. Only the deluded believe otherwise.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/top-5-faux-careers-to-avoid-discu
The very existence of man-made global warming, not to mention the array of policy choices for responding to it, are such flash points in American politics that it’s nearly impossible to raise the subject in social settings without sparking an awkward conversation.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/science/earth/activist-says-
Peter Gleick, a prominent environmental researcher, activist and blogger from California, admitted Monday night that he had deceitfully obtained and distributed confidential internal materials from the Heartland Institute, a libertarian group devoted in part to questioning the reality of global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/genemarcial/2012/02/19/u-s-defens
Not many investors are aware of it, but the U.S. defense contractors are hidden investment plays in the widening use of renewable energy. That’s because the U.S. military is way ahead in pursuing a clean energy policy that’s critical for the operation of its bases.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.globalnews.ca/force%20of%20nature/6442585028/story.ht
An unprecedented wave of severe weather that hammered national parks and historic sites left Ottawa with a $14.8 million repair bill in 2011. While such weather may be unprecedented now, some say this could be the new normal as climate change continues to rock Canada’s natural treasures.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.merredinmercury.com.au/news/national/national/general/heatwave
An extreme heat event in 2050 could kill more than 1,000 people in Brisbane within a few days unless emergency response strategies are significantly improved, according to a new report on heatwaves.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.canada.com/business/Carbon%20capture%20curtail%20e
At the American Association for the Advancement of Science convention that wrapped up Monday in Vancouver, specialists in carbon capture and storage indicated that the technology can work on a global scale to cut CO2 emissions by 25% over the next century.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/teenage-environmental-crusad
When the federal government picked 16-year-old Anna Yip for a global warming tour of Bangladesh, they picked the right girl.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2012/02/21/how-biggest-power-plan
Texas leads the nation in making and using electricity, which also makes it the nation's top polluter. But the state's biggest power plant has found a surprising use for some of that pollution: drilling for oil., The biggest power plant in Texas and second biggest fossil fuel burning plant in the nation, is planning to build one of the country's more innovative pollution control projects. It will use some of its pollution to pump oil out of the ground.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/automobiles/taking-a-spin-in
The first all-electric BMW, the ActiveE is an eerily quiet sporty coupe.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.yahoo.com/coasts-peril-plan-ahead-rising-seas-195
Scientists warn that by the end of this century, the sea level along North America's west coast will rise by about a meter due to global warming and melting arctic glaciers.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.pressherald.com/news/portland-forum-to-seek-readiness-f
Property owners, city officials, architects and researchers will gather Friday to discuss ways to save Bayside from rising sea levels, such as erecting a hurricane barrier under Tukey's Bridge to shield Back Cove from storm surges.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/21/climate-change-
The extreme Russian heatwave of 2010 was made three times more likely because of man-made climate change, according to a study led by climate scientists and number-crunched by home PC users.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/20/B
Backpacking scientists from UC Berkeley have gathered compelling evidence that the warming High Sierra climate is pushing still another animal species to seek cooler habitats amid the higher regions of Yosemite National Park.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://business.financialpost.com/2012/02/21/carbon-capture-can-curtail-c
Carbon capture and storage won’t save the world from global warming, but it can play a significant role. Scientists at a Vancouver meeting indicated that the technology can work on a global scale to cut CO2 emissions by 25 per cent over the next century.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-1710
Beluga whales are among rare species that have been recorded at, or near to, proposed sites for marine renewable energy projects, according to a report.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy
Canada’s government, which has threatened a trade war over a proposed European rule to penalize oil-sands crude in a bid to clean up transportation fuels, has a powerful new argument in its favour, as new research shows other energy sources are far more dangerous to the climate.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hit-them-with-the-hockey
Michael E. Mann set out looking for a big scientific problem and wound up at the center of a political storm over climate change. Now he tells his side of the story.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2012-02/21/content_14653548.htm
A trade war is looming over the European Union's move to impose charges on airlines based on the greenhouse gases emitted during a flight into and out of European airports.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2012/02/20/climate-expert-peter-gleick-
Last week the climate world was rocked — or at least, strongly buffeted — by the publication of memos that were allegedly from the Heartland Institute, a nonprofit research group that takes a strongly skeptical attitude toward climate science.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/international/combating-ignorance-the-u
A stark theme emerged from an annual scientific meeting in Vancouver: the world must believe in science again or it could be too late to save our planet.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/scientist-ad
A prominent scientist and author has admitted duping conservative US think tank The Heartland Institute into releasing sensitive documents about its budget and its payments to climate-change sceptics.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.nctimes.com/blogsnew/news/transportation/region-cou
To reduce emissions, a draft regional plan encourages the construction of homes near shops and transportation corridors, more energy-efficient construction and greater use of mass transit. It does not include a discussion of the economic costs tied to reducing emissions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/baguio/local-news/2012/02/21/women-s-mo
This year’s theme for women's month is "Women Weathering Climate Change," the Philippine Commission on Women announced.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/02/opinion-heartland-
Peter Gleick's misbegotten attempt to vice-squad his antagonists doesn't make the case for climate science any stronger.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/21/gleick-apology-
The outing of the researcher who exposed the Heartland Institute's efforts to discredit climate change has thrown the scientific community into tumult, with fierce debates raging on Tuesday over whether to brand his actions heroic, or misguided.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-22/german-offshore-wind-en
Germany’s offshore wind parks, being built to replace most of the nuclear reactors closing in the next decade, are headed to miss construction targets because of delays in connecting turbines to the power grid.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/21/drax-scraps-plans-
Drax, operator of Britain's largest coal-fired power station, is scrapping plans to build two biomass plants in a fresh blow to the future of renewable energy. Lack of financial help from government is blamed.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/as_arctic_sea_ice_declines_pola
Polar bears have long come ashore in Churchill, Manitoba, the self-styled ‘Polar Bear Capital of the World.’ But as summer sea ice steadily disappears in Hudson Bay, bears are being marooned on land for longer periods of time — and that is generating a lot of work for the Polar Bear Alert Team.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_UN_CLIMATE_CHIEF?S
As governments bicker over who should do what to slow the pace of global warming, the U.N.'s climate chief is increasingly looking to business leaders to show the way forward to a low-carbon future.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/02/22/global-warming-permafrost-me
As the Earth warms rapidly due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, some alpine countries have already had first-hand experience with thawing permafrost as a result of climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/falling-clouds-coul
Clouds around the world may be falling in response to rising global temperatures and having a cooling effect on global warming, according to analysis of satellite data by Auckland University scientists.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/21/B
The latest national uproar over climate change science has damaged, if not ruined, the reputation of one of the Bay Area's most prominent scholars and raised serious questions about ethics during what has become a roiling political and ideological debate.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.delta-optimist.com/news/level%20rise%20poses%20flood%20ris
Planning needs to be done now to address the future sea level rise in South Delta, say researchers that provided ominous visuals of what could unfold.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.bunburymail.com.au/news/local/news/general/drilling-begins
Drilling for a unique carbon emission storage project, the first of its kind in Western Australia, recently got underway near Harvey. The South West Hub project aims to determine whether carbon dioxide can be safely stored underground.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/fossil%20fuels%20must%20avoid%
Two Canadian climate change scientists from the University of Victoria say the public reaction to their recently published commentary has missed their key message: that all forms of fossil fuels, including the oilsands and coal, must be regulated for the world to avoid dangerous global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0221/Climategate-sequel-Sc
Climate scientist, Peter Gleick, lied to acquire - then leak to the press - documents from the Heartland Institute, an organization that argues that global warming poses no threat.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/strong-reactions-to-climate-scien
Last week’s publication of leaked documents detailing the finances and strategic planning of the Heartland Institute took an unexpected turn late Monday when a prominent climate scientist confessed to being the source of the leak. All sides of the climate debate have had something to say about the confession.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-climate-d
A noted California scientist and environmental activist has admitted that he assumed a false identity to obtain and distribute internal documents from a libertarian group that questions climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-scienti
The latest skirmish in the battle over climate science culminated in the admission by Peter Gleick, a climate scientist and author, that he assumed a fake identity to obtain documents that would expose the inner workings of a climate skeptic group.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic
The world is grappling with the adverse impact of climate change, and Uganda has not been spared.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/20/britain-environment-
Large parts of Britain are facing a drought this year after groundwater reached levels not seen for more than 35 years, which could spell restrictions for farmers and households.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/More%20fuel%20oilsands%20debate
The fact-based opinions of two leading climate experts in North America have led to wildly divergent conclusions when it comes to the oilsands, something that might leave the average Albertan scratching his or her head.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/edito
Heartland's efforts to deny the threat of climate change don't advance the interests of civilization, but they align perfectly with the financial interests of the oil, mining, transportation and energy generation industries that oppose pollution regulations and support groups like Heartland.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/02/21/editorial-oilsands-rhetoric-
When it comes to the world’s perception of the oilsands, the truth can be elusive.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/why-peter-glei
Peter Gleick violated a principle rule of the global-warming debate: Climate scientists must be better than their opponents.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/02/22/lorne-gunter-the-climate-sca
I don’t see the leak of the real Heartland documents as all that devious.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/21/heartland-insti
The Heartland Institute documents demonstrate once again how those driven by ideological dogma or vested commercial interests attempt to hide their true motives behind a facade of false controversy and uncertainty in science.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Harnessing%20oilsands%20cause%
Two Canadian scientists have concluded that the impact of burning all the economically viable proven reserve of Alberta's oilsands - all 170 billion barrels - would be negligible.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/23/eu-tar-sands-po
The European Union failed to label oil produced from tar sands as highly polluting on Thursday, with a key vote by member states ending in deadlock. The issue is seen as a key test of the EU's ability to implement its climate change policies.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/02/22/eu-may-pay-p
The U.S., the big four emerging market countries, and 21 other nations all say they will use whatever trade means necessary to retaliate against the European Union for imposing a carbon tax on airlines flying into the region.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203918304577239
It may be the middle of winter but across the Greater New York region on Wednesday, sunbathers were lying down in parks, golfers were hitting the greens and flowers were just beginning to bloom.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/large-areas-of-open-ocean-
Large regions of the open ocean are being starved of oxygen because of warmer sea temperatures according to studies showing that fish and other marine creatures are moving into narrower habitats to avoid suffocation.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://af.reuters.com/article/metalsNews/idAFL5E8DMBDI2012022
Thursday's vote at a closed-door meeting of technical experts failed to reach a qualified majority under the EU's voting system. Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said it was a victory against the tar sands lobbyists that it had not been a "no vote."Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/23/scientists-hear
The career and reputation of the scientist behind the Heartland Institute exposé was in jeopardy on Wednesday night, after his employers said they were reviewing his use of deception to obtain confidential documents.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328534.600-climate-sceptics
A conservative organisation is working to sow doubt in US classrooms on the science of climate change. Polls suggest it may not fall on deaf ears.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/encroaching-deserts-threa
Rising temperatures, reduced rainfall and excessive numbers of grazing animals are worsening desertification and drying up grasslands in western Tibet, says a Chinese geologist who has explored one of the region’s uncharted rivers.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5E8DN61E20
Eight big energy firms called on the European Union to hurry up and deliver binding 2030 green energy targets, saying the industry needed guidance beyond existing policy if ambitions to move towards a low-carbon economy are to be achieved.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/23/eu-tar-sands-vo
A fierce battle over whether the European Union will officially label oil produced from tar sands as highly polluting comes to a head on Thursday with a crucial vote. The issue is seen as a key test of the EU's ability to implement its climate change policies.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.expressandstar.com/business/city-news/2012/02/23/stern-war
Flawed economic arguments against tackling climate change are being used to slow the move to low-carbon growth, warned Lord Nicholas Stern, whose key 2006 report set out the economic case for cutting greenhouse gases. Now Stern warns that the world is heading for temperature rises of 3C or 4C.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.winnipegsun.com/2012/02/22/tough-tornado-season-predict
Climate change is indirectly related to this forecast because strong thunderstorms create conditions where tornadoes can form, and strong thunderstorms could be fueled by the warmer-than-normal surface waters of the Gulf of Mexico.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/2012/02/22/antarcticas-err
Few fish would survive a swim in Antartica’s ice-covered waters. But climate change could be more than the icefish can take.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/22/news/portland/portland-brace
Portland Mayor Michael Brennan and City Councilor David Marshall on Wednesday called for the city to plan ahead for rising sea levels and worsening storms as research group Environment Maine released its latest report on climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328534.400-europe-will-vote
Bad year for Canada's tar sands. The US rejected the Keystone XL pipeline that would have carried fuel south, and now the European Union is poised to label tar bitumen more polluting than other forms of oil. That would rule out selling it to Europe.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://chronicle.com/article/Researchers-Payments-From/13089
The scandal involving documents obtained from the Heartland Institute grew wider on Wednesday when the environmental group Greenpeace aimed financial-disclosure allegations at several university researchers who have helped cast doubt on the science of climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/02/22/n
In the field of climate science, when someone did something ethically questionable or misrepresented facts, scientist Peter Gleick was usually among the first and loudest to cry foul. Now Gleick admits he posed as a board member to get and then distribute to the media sensitive documents from a conservative think tank.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hsjXiIMQxX
The Heartland Institute scandal about stolen documents appeared to take on larger dimensions Wednesday when a lawmaker called for a Congressional hearing into whether one of the scientists named in the documents, a government employee, had improperly accepted payments from Heartland to spread the anti-climate-change message.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/02/23/latinos-emerging
Most people view immigration, education and jobs as the Latino electorate’s key issues. Environmentalists want to add climate change to the list.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/science/sifrhippus-the-first
Rising seas, killer storms, droughts, extinctions and money wasted on snowblowers are not the only things to worry about on a warming planet. There is also the shrinking issue.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328533.600-dont-cloud-young
The Heartland Institute intends to develop teaching material that would cast doubt on the scientific consensus on climate change. Its approach is sadly reminiscent of fogging tactics employed by the tobacco industry and creationists.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.timescolonist.com/business/Editorial%20Strive%20facts%20c
Global-warming skeptics will likely be all over Andrew Weaver’s research that shows burning all the oil in Alberta’s oilsands would have a negligible effect on climate change. But they should hear the whole story before they leap to erroneous conclusions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/02/how-climate-chang
Few cities are facing the serious environmental double whammy that's most likely in store for Los Angeles. Not only do scientists predict that sea level rise will increase coastal flooding, but rising temperatures could threaten the Sierra Nevada snowpack that provides about a third of L.A.'s drinking water.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.climatecentral.org/news/thin-snowpack-in-the-west-raises-a
As counter-intuitive as it may sound, less snow and thinner snowpacks may lead to more avalanches. This year's high avalanche danger across the West could foreshadow avalanche risk in years to come.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/us/politics/obama-will-try-t
Speaking to students at the University of Miami, in a swing state where gas averages $3.69 a gallon, the president offered what he called an “all-of-the-above” response, based on more domestic oil production, development of alternative energy sources and stricter fuel-efficiency standards.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/geoengineering_carbon_dioxide_r
Three startup companies led by prominent scientists are working on new technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The scientific community is skeptical, but these entrepreneurs believe the process of CO2 removal can eventually be profitable and help cool an overheating planet.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21512-oklahoma-bill-tackles-c
Earlier this week, the education committee of the Oklahoma House of Representatives approved a bill on the teaching of controversial scientific subjects such as evolution and climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21511-rain-sucks-energy-out-o
Every time it rains, a little bit of energy gets wasted. For the first time we have an estimate of the amount of energy falling raindrops pull from the air. The team behind the calculations say that the atmosphere's energy balance will drop as climate change increases rainfall, slightly weakening winds around the world.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy
The Harper government picked up key support from France and the Netherlands in blocking a proposed European Union fuels directive that would target the oil sands as a particularly emissions-intensive source of crude.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gGU7yZKNv4
The collapse of the Mayan civilization was likely due to a relatively mild drought, much like the drier conditions expected in the coming years due to climate change, scientists said Thursday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.leaderpost.com/Regina+scientist+warns+potential+megadr
Human cultures were decimated in North America by megadroughts. And paleoclimatologist Jeannine-Marie St. Jacques says there's no reason a megadrought won't hit the continent again.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/arctic-race-resources-heat
Climate change might actually be good for global commerce as Arctic ice breaks up faster than expected leading to new shipping routes, more oil and gas exploration and even tourism.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Provincial%20caribou%20polic
A study concludes saving caribou threatened by oilsands is futile and too costly.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/sized%20horses%20were%20norm%20hot
More than 50 million years ago, the Earth was a hotter place than it is today and horses the size of pet cats roamed the forests of North America, U.S. scientists said on Thursday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0223/How-global-warming-cr
An ancient global warming event shrunk the earliest horses down to the size of scrawny housecats, according to new research that could have implications for what mammals might look like in a future warming world.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://verdenews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&Art
The US Fish & Wildlife Service has changed the status of two fish species from threatened to endangered and expanded their critical habitat, stating that the need for a change in status was due to drought, anticipated effects of climate change and an expanding population of predatory non-native fish.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/usa/weekly/2012-02/24/content_14685306.
If William Latta has his way, Beijing may soon have only clear blue skies. Sitting in his corner office on the 11th floor of a high-rise building near Beijing's Sanlitun Village, Latta, the managing director of US clean coal company LP Amina, says his company is working with Chinese coal-fired plants to reduce carbon emissions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/shells-alaska-bound-oil-drillin
Lucy Lawless scaled the derrick of an Alaska-bound drillship Thursday with Greenpeace activists to protest exploratory oil drilling she believes could "devastate" the fragile Arctic environment and accelerate global warming, according to a statement from the organization.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/behind-the-controversy-an-ef
Focus on the internal documents leaked last week from the Heartland Institute has been largely lost in the wake of the revelation of the leaker’s identity: Peter Gleick, a scientist. But beyond the controversy is the fact that Heartland does not deny what the two authentic documents obtained by Dr. Gleick reveal.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/business/world-bank-spearheads-alliance
The World Bank announced on Friday a global alliance to better manage and protect the world’s oceans, which are under threat from overfishing, pollution and climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/biz/inside.asp?xfile=/data/business/201
European Union’s ‘penalising’ carbon tax will have far-reaching impact on the aviation industry in the Middle East region given the projected surge in the number of commercial aircraft from 950 at present to 2440 by the 2029, aviation experts said.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article2925255.ece
Almost a year after the city's Climate Action Plan was prepared, the Chennai Corporation will finally adopt it in its council meeting next month.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.latrobevalleyexpress.com.au/news/local/news/general/coalition-vows-
A senior Federal Opposition minister says investment into carbon capture storage would be rolled back should the Coalition win the next election.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nctimes.com/business/eu-committee-makes-no-decision
A European Union committee failed Thursday to reach a definite decision on labeling oil derived from oil sands as worse for climate change than crude oil – a proposal vigorously opposed by officials in Canada, where such oil is produced.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/no-decision-in-eu-oil-sands-de
An expert panel with the European Union on Thursday did not come to a decision on whether to reject or support a proposal on labeling petroleum extracted from oil sands as more polluting than crude oil obtained through other means.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.brandonsun.com/business/breaking-news/eu-committee-mak
The fight over a proposed European Union rule that would penalize fuel derived from Alberta's oilsands was dumped in the laps of European politicians Thursday after a technical committee failed to reach a conclusive stance.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/texas-drought-eases-but-its-too-l
Defying seasonal climate forecasts, this winter has been very good to Texas, which has been locked in the grips of one of the worst droughts in state history. But the unexpectedly generous winter storms have come too late for some farmers, since water supplies are still running low.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-0226-focus-mild-win
Such are the delights of being an arts organization this winter, when snowy events are rare footnotes to a season where streets have remained clear of ice, snow and slush and Chicagoans have enjoyed getting out to concert halls, theaters, movie houses, music clubs, museums, and restaurants.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/justingerdes/2012/02/24/how-nike-
With the U.S. average price of diesel at $4 per gallon, companies that move goods and have not planned for $5 diesel risk seeing profit margins disappear.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,817426,00.h
The rest of the world is furious at the EU's plan to impose emissions fees on airlines flying to Europe. This week, representatives of almost two dozen countries met in Moscow to sign a joint protest. Some say that a trade war may be imminent.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/lake-council-ba
The planned backdown coincides with councillors facing a major decision on a development in Marks Point that council staff have recommended to refuse because of sea level rise concerns.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/02/24/climate-change
A simulation model by Princeton researchers warns of storms "the likes of which have not been seen."Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/24/at-apple-shareholder
The conservative think tank National Center for Public Policy Research said Apple's board should investigate whether Gore had influenced the company’s decision in 2009 to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/24/196801.html
Years of talks at international climate change conferences have struggled to deliver detail on how to protect forested land, which is valued as a sink for carbon emissions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/study-predicts-a-bleak-futur
Based on the middle range of the IPCC’s projection of warming—3.5 degrees Celsius or 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the year 2100— 534 to 800 tropical land bird species could become extinct. Worldwide, of all of the 8,500 or so land bird species, as many as 600 to 900 could disappear.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nvdaily.com/news/2012/02/potential-exists-for-water
While vineyards are adapting to warmer temperatures, some parts of the Northern Shenandoah Valley are eyeing potential water shortages.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120224/ARTICLES/120229672/-1/
Florida as we know it – beaches, fresh drinking water, the Everglades – will disappear unless action is taken to curb climate change, national environmental leader Carol Browner said at a dinner Friday night.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/decapua_climate_bod
Scientists say in the ancient past, higher temperatures meant smaller mammals. They’re studying how a brief, but dramatic climate change event affected body size.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.smh.com.au/national/world-bank-calls-for-global-ef
The head of the World Bank has warned oceans are being hurt by overfishing, pollution and climate change and called on the Australian government to join a $US1.5 billion "save our seas" plan to improve fish stocks and boost the global economy.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/10811363-418/polar-bears-hel
Hudson and Aussie, the Brookfield Zoo’s charismatic polar bears, are helping the zoo plunge headfirst into the hot topic of global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/article/20120224/KAMLOOPS0101/120229840
The B.C. Liberal government’s proposed carbon tax review isn’t a death knell for the innovative way to address global warming, said a University of Victoria professor.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.timescolonist.com/health/Royal%20Society%20author%20agree
The lead author agreed to the review following criticism it was plagued with errors and overlooked environmental and health impacts of the industry's operations.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/24/forests-wildf
The combination of a predicted increase in heatwaves and the carbon stored in the world's soils is reason for alarm.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-climate
Earlier this month, the Internet lit up with a tantalizing whodunit. Someone had leaked to bloggers confidential internal fundraising and strategic documents from the Heartland Institute. The apparent goal: to discredit and embarrass those who raise doubts about the science behind climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/editorial-think-
The jarring disconnect between how politicians in Sacramento see their job, and how ordinary folks would like the state to do its job, was never more evident than last week when the county of San Diego released its draft "climate action plan."Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/jeffrey-simpson/there-is-
Canada’s bitumen resources have a problem, and neither the companies that wish to exploit bitumen or the governments trying to help them seem to understand it.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/before-investing-in-alternative
Investing in all cost-effective energy efficiency is Maine's best, and should be Maine's first, strategy to reduce high energy costs and jump-start the economy.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/Editorial%20real%20carbon%20bom
Andrew Weaver, the respected Canada research chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, and a lead author with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, recently confirmed what we’ve been saying in this space for a long time — that the demonization of Alberta’s oilsands is vastly disproportionate to its actual impact.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-peter-gleick-inciden
To some extent we [scientists] are our own worst enemies. We believe that science has a higher claim to truth-seeking than dogma or political opinion. So we take advantage of the fact that people think science is more certain than it is, to convey how clever we are and how interesting our work is.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thestar.com/business/cleanbreak/article/1136340--cl
Is Peter Gleick a heroic whistleblower or a climate scientist in disgrace?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/02/24/should-global-wa
The global-warming debate has become a war, and when people are waging war, they always lie for their cause.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/climate-risk-enters-the-c
In an effort to make communities more resilient to disasters, El Salvador’s schools and universities have begun teaching students how to deal with the risks of extreme weather and climate change. The country has been hit by three heavy rainy seasons in three years, with storms and flooding causing as many as 200 deaths.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Himalay
Climate change is altering the face of the Himalayas, devastating farming communities and making Mount Everest increasingly treacherous to climb, some of the world's top mountaineers have warned.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://magicvalley.com/news/local/when-idaho-s-unpredictable-w
From this year's dry winter to two years of late, damp spring, Idaho's fickle weather is changing when we plant and build, and how we prepare for the state's major natural disaster – wildfire.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/26/drought-push-up
Farmers in drought-stricken areas of the country are facing crucial decisions in the next few days and weeks over what to grow this year - and their plans could mean rising food prices for hard-pressed consumers this summer.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j5nPqLZLuL
Around the world, marine mammals are increasingly infected by parasites and other diseases long common in domestic animals, experts told a major science conference, adding that the diseases also increasingly threaten people who use the oceans.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2012-02/25/content_14691629.ht
The Chinese government introduced a "green credit" guideline for commercial lenders on Friday to facilitate economic restructuring in a manner that's environmentally friendly and saves energy.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ski-season-bust-20120225
With unseasonably toasty temperatures in parts of the Southland, skiers and snowboarders who would normally head for the slopes at this time of year are instead visiting the beach.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/02/25/1881700/company-plans-15-sol
The thicket of aluminum crossbars, rising shoulder-high and gleaming in the sunlight, could easily fill several football fields. In less than two months, this geometrical framework sprouting in Chatham County will be covered over by an indigo meadow of solar panels.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=223968
Bangladesh must improve its financial management to obtain a significant share of funds available globally to combat climate change impacts and ensure food security, said an eminent climatologist yesterday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0225/Obama-No-silver-bullet-fo
Staking his ground, and perhaps his reelection, on a 'green' ideology, President Obama said in his weekly Saturday address that high gas prices confirm the need for an “all-of-the-above” energy policy. Republicans push more domestic oil production.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20120226/NEWS02/702269808
While politicians argue about climate change, U.S. agriculture needs to prepare for it, experts said at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual outlook conference Friday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www2.oanow.com/news/2012/feb/25/au-researchers-link-bi
A recent study published by Auburn University researchers has linked the relatively recent decline in the population of the Rusty Blackbird with climate change.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-25/clouds-dropping-closer-
New research has found clouds are dropping closer to the Earth, with scientists measuring their height for the first time on a global basis. Experts from the University of Auckland suggest the change in cloud altitude could be the Earth's way of dealing with global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/152059/cordova-reclamation-unwise-clima
The ongoing reclamation project in Cordova town may end up a poor investment for its planners due to the global warming phenomenon, a member of the Climate Change Commission said yesterday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/features/financial-times/bse-launches-i
Climate change is one of the major present-day priorities. Business houses have begun to acknowledge the phenomenon. They are concerned about climate change, and the systemic and sector-specific risks associated with it.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203960804577244
Gripping the politics of gasoline prices, both President Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison used their weekly addresses to argue their points on energy production.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://motherjones.com/environment/2012/02/lucy-lawless-aka-xe
From 174 extremely windy feet in the air, Lawless tells how her crew of Greenpeace volunteers plans to stop the Noble Discoverer from getting to Alaska.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-fight-against-global-wa
Is the fight against global warming hopeless? It can seem so. After decades of effort, only about one-tenth of America’s energy mix comes from renewable sources that don’t produce carbon dioxide. But two policies can buy the world more time to allow carbon-free technologies to catch up.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/113669
Environmentalists do themselves no favours by indulging in over-the-top rhetoric, like Hansen’s about oilsands development leading to "game over" for Planet Earth.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/friedman-a-go
An e-mail came in the other day with a subject line that I couldn’t ignore. It read: “Should the United States join OPEC?” That I had to open. If we were smart, we would establish today a floor price for any barrel of crude oil or gallon of gasoline sold or imported into America — and tax anything below it.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/wind-power-is-worth-t
Even in liberal Maryland, it’s impossible to persuade legislators to make families pay an extra $2 a month for offshore windmills if the goal is merely to fight global warming. This is self-defeating, in the long run.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0224/Could-global-warming-
It's been long known that the Earth's rising surface temperatures portend mass extinction, prolonged droughts, extreme weather, and rising seas. Now we can add a new worry: Humanity could be transformed into a race of hobbits.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenpolitics/9105330/The-Gleick-
When the history of the decline and fall of the world’s most damaging scare comes to be written, l’affaire Gleick will only be a brief footnote. But it does suggest how desperate those who wish to keep the scare alive have become.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://blogs.redding.com/dcraig/archives/2012/02/the-heart-of-th
For twenty years climate scientists have been warning us we are on the wrong road. The wrongest of wrong roads. And yet here we are speeding down that road like we can't wait to get to the part where it ends.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.thewesternstar.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-26/article-2907
It’s about time these “merchants of doubt” were exposed. It’s time to get back to real science as practised by scientists. We must get beyond the false debate about the reality of climate change and into the real debate about what to do about it.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20120225/COLUMN/120229902/0/FRO
Aspen's leadership has been groundbreaking in working toward climate solutions. why then is the Aspen Chamber Resort Association a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has done more to undermine progress on solving climate change than any entity on the planet?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/02/winter-blues-clima
As February wanes, a Montanan escapes for a ski on a rare snowy day and considers how we could lose winter as we know it – and what that would mean for our future.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/nyregion/amid-winter-blooms-
The Japanese camellias, which typically bloom in early spring, have displayed their rose-hued flowers since December. Honeybees, a rarity before late March, were nursing the tiny pink clusters on a Dawn viburnum. The horticulturalists in the Bronx call it the global-warming garden.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/26/2682879/tornado-season-looms
Tornado season is starting, but don't ask meteorologists how bad it will be this spring and summer. They don't know. They're having a hard enough time getting a fix on the likely path of storms expected in the next 48 hours, from the Ohio Valley to the Southeast coast.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/02/27/3439016.htm
Wine makers will have to change the way they manage their vineyards to deal with climate change, as a new report finds that grape ripening is getting earlier in many of Australia's premier wine regions due to rising temperatures and drying soils.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204778604577243
Republicans on the campaign trail have long bashed President Barack Obama's environmental regulations. This week the battle moves to the courtroom, where industry groups including chemical, energy, farming, mining, and GOP lawmakers are trying to overturn the administration's rules for reducing greenhouse gases.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/27/windfarms-axed-
The government and energy industry have quietly shelved plans for windfarms equivalent to four large traditional coal and nuclear power stations, amid growing public and political anger over the cost and sight of the turbines.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106736/Donald-Trump-funds
Donald Trump, the American property tycoon, is bankrolling a £10million fighting fund for British anti-windfarm campaigners. The move follows proposals for 11 giant turbines off the Aberdeenshire coast, which Mr Trump says will spoil the view from his golfing resort.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/27/adair-turner-wi
The head of the government's climate change advisory panel says that while there's a legitimate debate over whether turbines are a visual blight, claims that wind farms cannot reduce carbon emissions are "rubbish."Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://money.aol.co.uk/2012/02/27/carbon-taxes-to-ease-fuel-po
Billions raised from carbon taxes should be used to lift millions of households out of fuel poverty, a coalition of charities and businesses has urged.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/aid-for-winemakers-facing-c
Researchers in Australia say they have pinpointed key factors in the early ripening of grapes, providing potential answers for wine growers threatened by global warming.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/02/27/mitsubishi-motors-discloses-
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation has announced its future plans for the development of electric vehicles (EV) and hybrid vehicles to address the ever-growing concern of the massive carbon footprint left by contemporary vehicles which depend on fossil fuels as energy sources.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/usatoday/article/38671533?odyssey=mod%7
Solar energy, climate change and gas-drilling wastewater are the top legislative priorities for New York's leading environmental groups this session in Albany.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120227/appeals-court-epa-carbon-
Opponents intent on blocking EPA's "endangerment finding" and the agency's other efforts to regulate emissions of heat-trapping gases via the Clean Air Act will have their two days in court this week.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/304995/20120227/carbon-tax-uk-
Ongoing research into the "energy bill revolution" has revealed that a staggering 6.4 million homes are facing fuel poverty in the UK. Worse still, this figure is expected to rise by 40 percent, to 9.1 million, by 2016.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/27/polar-bear-cub-going-live-to
When Siku the polar bear cub was introduced to the public late last year, he quickly became an Internet sensation, with his own Web and Facebook pages.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/opinion/airlines-emissions-a
The carbon dioxide from airplanes accounts for about 3 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The European Union is now requiring airlines that fly into or out of Europe to pay a fee for these emissions. This is a smart response to an urgent problem.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stammer-s
When Rick Santorum told a partisan crowd in Columbus, Ohio, recently that President Obama's worldview was based on a "phony theology" that drives "radical environmentalists," he must have known his comments would reverberate far beyond his conservative political base.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/beyond_cap_and_trade_a_new_path
Putting a price and a binding cap on carbon is not the panacea that many thought it to be. The real road to cutting U.S. emissions, two iconoclastic environmentalists argue, is for the government to help fund the development of cleaner alternatives that are better and cheaper than gas.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/26/why-climate-cha
The idea that a changing climate can persuade the ground to shake, volcanoes to rumble and tsunamis to crash on to unsuspecting coastlines seems, at first, to be bordering on the insane.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.citizen.co.za/citizen/content/en/citizen/opinion-colu
A recent study by a team of scientists from Nasa and other agencies determined that yet another of the predictions around global warming is true: Earth’s sea levels are rising.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/crc-104665-reports-level.html
A number of recent media reports have focused on a draft policy statement from the N.C. Coastal Resources Commission for addressing sea-level rise in North Carolina. This is an important issue for our state, and as chair of the CRC I would like to clarify some of the misinformation recently published.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/why-climate-skeptics-are-winni
Too many of their opponents are intellectual thugs.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-keystone-
The Keystone XL battle isn't over. The Canadian company behind the controversial pipeline announced Monday that it would proceed immediately with a shorter version of the project south of Oklahoma — even as it seeks a new permit for the segment through the northern U.S. Opponents immediately vowed to fight on both fronts.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/natural-gas-our-new-savoir-not-so
Natural gas seems to be the perfect solution, because it’s plentiful and home-drilled, and it emits only half the CO2 that coal does. But scientists and engineers are starting to take a more serious look at natural gas, and the story turns out to be more complicated and less ideal than it originally seemed.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204653604577248
China is calling for energy-intensive industries such as steel and textile manufacturing to reduce their energy consumption more sharply compared with targets set last year, in a move intended to help cull obsolete capacity to contribute to efforts to reduce its carbon footprint.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21521-melting-sea-ice-could-t
Arctic sea ice is continuing its seemingly interminable decline, and it looks like the loss could be contributing to the recent spate of cold winters over northern Europe and North America.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-global-
Hear the sound of chewing out in our vast forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and fir, the chewing that’s already destroyed half the commercial timber in important regions like British Columbia? That’s the sound of climate change. Global warming in the form of a bark beetle.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/9107631/Investme
Billions of pounds' worth of investment in Britain's energy infrastructure is under threat amid fears the government’s commitment to wind energy has wavered, it has emerged.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=epa-greenhouse-gas-rules
U.S. limits on greenhouse gas emissions face a challenge in federal court this week from more than 100 industry groups and several U.S. states, the latest high-profile effort to halt or overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's rules.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Drivers%20greenhouse%20gases
The Quebec government may introduce tolls, increase taxes on more polluting vehicles and create more park-and-ride parking lots to help meet its ambitious goals of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/power-groups-face-huge-carbon-
Victoria's major power generators have emerged as some of the biggest carbon emitters in the country and will pay hundreds of millions of dollars under the carbon tax - costs that will largely be passed on to consumers.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20120228/NEWS01/202280324/Exper
Today, the United States has no control over its energy future, but 21st century "victory gardens" may help us gain some of it back. That was the message from a former top Pentagon official speaking at a Colorado State University forum addressing energy and national security.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/338792/title/Less_sea_i
Global warming may be responsible for the Northern Hemisphere's recent bout of severe winters. As Arctic sea ice melts, it funnels cold air toward the equator and sets the stage for snow, a new study finds.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/shrinking-ar
A dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice linked to global warming is likely to have triggered record snow dumps in the northern hemisphere in recent winters, a study has found.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/02/28/is-global-warming-killing-fo
A University of Georgia study suggests that climate at least plays a partial role in the recent tripling of heat-related deaths among football players. For the eastern U.S., morning heat index values were consistently higher in the latter half of the 30-year study period.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-28/islamic-debt-spurred-in
A body promoting development of debt sales to tackle climate change, with sponsors including National Australia Bank Ltd. and HSBC Holdings Plc, plans to spur green Islamic bond markets as the Middle East diversifies from oil.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/environment/environment_capital_co
A leading professor has said Peterborough is an example for the rest of the world when it comes to helping to save the environment. One reason is that the city is linking health, environment and transport agendas.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/guyanas-wapichan-tribe-ma
A group of Guyana’s indigenous people have unveiled a digital map of their territories as part of a project aimed at protecting 1.4 million hectares (5,400 square miles) of the country’s rainforest and preserving the community’s culture and language.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2012/02/study-cloud-heights-may-
Using a special instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite researchers measured global cloud-top heights for the first decade of this century, and found that on average they decreased by 100 to 130 feet, or about 1 percent.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/27/obama-transcana
Barack Obama helped put the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline back on track on Monday, endorsing construction on a key southern portion of the controversial project.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/environmental-pro
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., is hearing arguments today and tomrorow from groups ranging from the oil and coal industries to Texas governor Rick Perry that want to overturn environmental protection rules.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/will-the-courts-k
Congress isn’t planning to tackle climate change anytime soon, which means the Environmental Protection Agency is now the last line of defense. But could the EPA’s new rules on carbon pollution get tossed out by the courts? We’re about to find out.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/japans-energy-
Japan has become the latest major world polluter to rule out introducing a carbon price or carbon tax in the near future, as it struggles with power shortages and a rising yen caused by the euro crisis.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Environment/221440/earth-hour-campaign-
Viet Nam launched its 2012 Earth Hour campaign today, calling for every organisation, individual, family and business to take action to save energy and protect the environment. Earth Hour will take place in 135 nations and territories with the expected participation of about 1.8 billion of people on March 31.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/query/ritchie-microbiologi
Kim Ritchie, a molecular biologist at Florida's Mote Marine Laboratory, is pushing the frontiers of gene therapy, harnessing beneficial bacteria to help coral reefs weather pollution, overfishing and climate change. A Climate Query.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120227/primer-us-clean-energy-ec
Is steering large sums of federal money into America's clean energy economy worth the risk? The question is now at the forefront of national debate, and the answer often divides along party lines.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/geoengineering-you-want-crazy-weve
Since nobody’s taking serious steps to prevent global warming in the first place - let’s just face it - techno-geeks are giddy with the thought that they’ll be the ones to solve it when it happens. Here are five geoengineering projects you’ve never heard of - and probably never will again.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/counting-the-family-carbon/
Which has the lower carbon footprint — our life in the New Jersey suburbs or our life in a cabin in the woods of Maine?Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/28/windfarms-and-p
Opposition to wind power in rural Wales is said to be "total", with communities threatening peaceful direct action and at least 20 groups fighting plans for 870 of the largest turbines in Powys alone.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/9111439/Local-co
Local communities have no chance of fighting “unwanted" on-shore wind farms under the Government's planning reforms, a group of academics, politicians and celebrities warns today.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204520204577251
Judges on a U.S. appeals court appeared skeptical Tuesday of industry challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iuFR9dSxCb
World leaders who will attend the upcoming Rio conference on sustainable development must come up with a tangible compromise leading to a greener economy, visiting EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard said Tuesday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hXv72I7nx7
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that climate change is real -- the highest level in two years -- as the public trusted its own observations of rising temperatures, a poll said Tuesday.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/29/usa-epa-court-idUSL2
Heavy industry groups and states argued in a federal court on Tuesday that U.S. environmental regulators had used faulty science in determining that greenhouse gas emissions endangered human health in the latest attempt to dismantle the Obama administration's rules on the emissions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-28/epa-greenhouse-gas-rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s limits on vehicle and industrial emissions of greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide are being scrutinized by U.S. judges as a two-day court hearing began in Washington.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0228-hance_corruption_redd.html
Two conservation and community projects in Tanzania have been halted after the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) reported possible corruption. One of the projects is a pilot REDD project, a program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in tropical, developing countries.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/scientists-war
A group of leading scientists has called on independent Rob Oakeshott to abandon his bid to extend renewable energy subsidies to include electricity produced from burning native forests.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.nature.com/news/plans-stall-for-biodefence-lab-1.1
The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, is designed to provide BSL-4 containment for large-animal studies. But the lab's future is uncertain, with no new money allocated for it in the president’s proposed 2013 federal budget and fears about whether it could keep pathogens safely contained in the middle of U.S. cattle country.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://lubbockonline.com/editorials/2012-02-29/our-view-energy-e
While a green warrior and an anthropomorphic global warming skeptic might disagree on the motivation for doing so, they’d be hard-pressed to dispute the wisdom of pursuing individual energy efficiency.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120229,0,11633
Environmental advocate Peter Gleick's admission that he obtained Heartland Institute documents, including its plan to fight global warming policies, has the wrong side answering questions.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/22/why-globa
At a time when we need to clarify public confusions about the science and economics of climate change, those who discredit scientists and scientific research have muddied the waters.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120229/OPINION01/302290058/?o
Even as critics continue to denigrate nuclear power, developments are taking place that would increase its share of the nation's supply of clean energy.Posted by Simon Fox | 0 comment(s)
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