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United Kingdom: Energy minister will hold summit to calm rising fears over peak oil (21.03.2010)
Guardian: Lord Hunt, the energy minister, is to meet industrialists in London tomorrow in a bid to calm mounting fears about the disruption that could follow a sudden shortage of oil supplies. In a significant policy shift, the government has agreed to undertake more work on whether the UK needs to take action to avoid the massive dislocation that could be caused by the early onset of "peak oil" – the point that marks the start of terminal decline in global oil production. Jeremy ...

Is Corporate America Our Best Hope Against Climate Change? (17.03.2010)
Time Magazine: A couple of weeks ago President Barack Obama stopped by OPOWER, a small Arlington-based energy company, to talk about green jobs and clean power. The White House doesn't schedule just any company for a Presidential visit, so you might wonder why OPOWER made the cut. The company doesn't make shiny new solar panels, or massive wind turbines; it's not brewing algae to distill into next-generation biofuel. Rather, OPOWER works with electric utilities to send out detailed notices to ...

Global cooling is bunk, draft NASA study finds (21.03.2010)
Daily Climate: Global warming has neither stopped nor slowed in the past decade, according to a draft analysis of temperature data by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. We conclude there has been no reduction in the global warming trend. - Jim Hansen et al., Goddard Institute for Space Studies The analysis, led by senior scientist Jim Hansen, attempts to debunk popular belief that the planet is cooling. It finds that global temperatures over the past decade have "continued to rise ...

Leading climate officials urge progress in battle against global warming (21.03.2010)
Agence France-Presse: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has listened to and learned from recent criticism, but the threat of global warming is real and must be tackled, the group's head said Saturday. Rajendra Pachauri, the embattled head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning panel of experts, has been criticized for endorsing climate projections based on faulty or inaccurate evidence. "There's been a lot of talking about climate change. It's an area under strict scrutiny," he acknowledged at ...

Lights out spreads across the globe (20.03.2010)
Age: THEY range from the vulnerable, such as low-lying Bangladesh, to the vast, such as the US; from the familiar - England, New Zealand - to the more obscure, such as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Many of the participants are old hands, such as Australia; some are first-timers, including Kosovo and Mongolia. What unites such a disparate group is concern about climate change. They have all signed on to participate in Earth Hour next Saturday. Now in its ...

Vincent de Rivaz says UK must change its energy landscape (20.03.2010)
Telegraph: Amid the uncertainty of Britain's emergence from recession, the pending general election and what he calls the "post-Copenhagen blues", Vincent de Rivaz is determined to be a Frenchman on a mission. "I've always been a man of action who likes to see things happening," says the 56-year-old EDF Energy chief executive. "And I'm not troubled by the fact that there's this kind of mood where people hesitate and are wondering. "You have a moment where there is flip-flop but in ...

Australia: Switch to gas-fired power reduces summer emissions (22.03.2010)
Sydney Morning Herald: GREENHOUSE gas emissions in NSW fell this summer compared with the previous year, despite higher than usual average temperatures. A report by The Climate Group released yesterday found that emissions from energy use in the state were down 5.7 per cent on the previous summer, a saving of more than 1.5 million tonnes and the equivalent of taking about 360,000 cars off the road for a year. The main reason for the decrease was a greater use of gas-generated electricity following ...

Egypt to host Dutch solar materials plant (20.03.2010)
Reuters: Egypt is to host a factory producing raw materials and gas used to generate solar energy, with 0 million of investments in total, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday. Egypt is giving priority to boosting its renewable energy output and Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin said he supports the project, according to MENA's article, which said the factory will be run by a Dutch company it did not name. The new plant is expected to produce annually 3,000 tons of ...

Organizers hope one billion will participate in Earth Hour (20.03.2010)
Canwest News Service: One billion is a big number. But that's how many people around the world organizers are hoping will turn out their lights for Earth Hour, 2010. Earth Hour is a global initiative by the World Wildlife Fund in which businesses, governments, communities and individuals are asked to turn off their lights at 8:30 p.m. local time next Saturday -- March 27 -- for one hour in an effort to take action on climate change. Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, when 2.2 million ...

Climate change, development blamed for rapidly rising number of '100-year storms' (21.03.2010)
Eagle Tribune: In their worst form, they were known as "100-year storms": catastrophes that occurred once a century and caused devastating floods. And yet, in just the past four years, three times the Merrimack Valley and Southern New Hampshire have been hard-hit by storms that once came with interludes of decades between them. The most recent deluge was last week, when residents of Andover and Lawrence were forced out of their homes as their properties became drenched and heavily damaged by ...

Climate change knocks at Kashmir's doors (21.03.2010)
DNA: The day temperatures in Srinagar hover around 22 to 26 degrees Celsius which is 11 degrees above normal in March. What has baffled the farmers and experts is the huge rainfall deficit in March that could affect the agriculture crops in Kashmir. "The temperatures are currently running between five to 10 degrees above normal. This is because the weather systems are not effective", said TK Jotshi, assistant director Metrological Center Kashmir. Met office records show there is a ...

Retired Brandeis professor brings solar power to African villages (21.03.2010)
New York Times: Where nightfall once meant only darkness in the tiny Tanzanian island of Tumbatu, now there are 200 points of light. And Majuba Mohammed, a high school teacher, is the proud owner of one of them. He is talking excitedly by cellphone about the tiny solar panel on his roof that now charges that phone, and powers the lamp that lets his family read indoors at night. "The project is very beautiful and helpful, and it goes well,`` says Mohammed. Nearly 200 solar panels like his have ...

For electric car batteries, Nissan bets on leasing (21.03.2010)
Bloomberg News: Lithium-ion batteries are the most expensive part for electric vehicles, at about ,000 a kilowatt-hour, and most such vehicles will have capacity of about 20 kilowatt-hours, according to General Motors Vice Chairman Robert Lutz. Leasing will let customers avoid the batteries` depreciating value and disposal or resale, according to Nissan, whose new Leaf is an electric car. Nissan, seeking to lead the emerging market for electric autos, said it expects most customers will lease ...

Australia: Carbon copy (21.03.2010)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ANNE KRUGER, PRESENTER: Hello, I'm Anne Kruger, welcome to the program. In a week when a couple of Australian research heavyweights got right in behind the science of global warming. The CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology say the evidence is unquestionable. Climate change is real and the link with human activity, beyond doubt. MEGAN CLARKE, CSIRO: Our scientists and organisations around the world are now about 90 per cent confident that these things are happening at the same ...

Ore. town uses geothermal energy to stay warm (20.03.2010)
Associated Press: When snow falls on this downtown of brick buildings and glass storefronts in southern Oregon, it piles up everywhere but the sidewalks. It's the first sign that this timber and ranching town is like few others. A combination of hot rocks and water like those that created Yellowstone's geysers have been tapped by the city to keep the sidewalks toasty since the early 1990s. They also heat downtown buildings, kettles at a brewhouse, and greenhouses and keep the lights on at a college ...

UNEP: Africa advised against coal power (21.03.2010)
Afrolnews: As coal power stations are demolished, due to environmental damages, in many countries, they are being offered as a "cheap energy supply" for Africa. But specialists warn this will be expensive in the long run, especially as fresh funds are available for renewable energies. Achim Steiner, leader of the UN`s Kenya-based environmental agency UNEP, at a speech in Nairobi warned governments of Kenya and other African countries not to invest in coal power plants. Kenya, like most ...

Hunt for 'rogue trader' over recycled carbon credits (21.03.2010)
Times (UK): A TINY London trading firm is at the centre of a shadowy chain of international deals involving the carbon market's first "rogue trader'. A mystery investor made a £1.8m profit last week by selling invalid carbon permits to unwitting buyers in Europe -- which caused a temporary trading freeze at two of the main carbon trading exchanges. Microdyne, a firm registered in Cyprus but based in Edgware, northwest London, confirmed this weekend that it bought and sold the permits to ...

Japan planning 14 nuclear plants: report (21.03.2010)
Agence France-Presse: Resource-poor Japan is planning to build at least 14 nuclear power plants over the next 20 years to reduce its reliance on other countries for its energy needs, a report said Sunday. The world's second biggest economy, which wants to double its provision for its fuel consumption, will make an announcement in June on whether it indends to press ahead with the plants, the Nikkei business daily said. Japan has few energy resources and relies on nuclear power from 53 plants for ...

Cruise lines hope to sink U.S.-Canada pollution plan (21.03.2010)
Reuters: Cruise companies are balking at a proposal to create a low-emissions buffer zone around the United States and Canada, saying it sets arbitrary boundaries based on faulty science that overstates the health benefits. The proposed Emissions Control Area would extend 200 nautical miles, which is 230 statute miles, around the coast of the two nations and set stringent new limits on air pollution from ocean-going ships beginning in 2015. The International Maritime Organization (IMO), ...

Feeble wind farms fail to hit full power (21.03.2010)
Times (UK): THE first detailed study of Britain's onshore wind farms suggests some treasured landscapes may have been blighted for only small gains in green energy. The analysis reveals that more than 20 wind farms produce less than a fifth of their potential maximum power output. One site, at Blyth Harbour in Northumberland, is thought to be the worst in Britain, operating at just 7.9% of its maximum capacity. Another at Chelker reservoir in North Yorkshire operates at only 8.7% of ...

Solution to a thirsty world: sea water without the salt (21.03.2010)
Times (UK): MIDDLE East government officials spent last week in Vienna, discussing oil at a meeting of Opec, the producers' cartel. In Oman, however, another dwindling resource was top of the agenda. In the coastal town of Al Khaluf, Oman's minister for water turned on a desalination plant that will provide the area with 100 cubic metres of fresh, clean water every day -- enough for 80,000 people. The plant was sold by Modern Water, a British company that claims places such as Oman will ...

First parasitic nematodes reported in biofuel crops (17.03.2010)
ScienceDaily: Researchers at the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) at the University of Illinois have discovered widespread occurrence of plant-parasitic nematodes in the first reported nematode survey of Miscanthus and switchgrass plants used for biofuels. Lead researcher Tesfamariam Mekete, a U of I post-doctoral research associate, said the team's first step was to identify potential pathogenic nematodes of these top two energy-yielding cellulosic-ethanol feedstock plants. "Nematodes are ...

Britain. A breath of foul air (21.03.2010)
Independent (UK): More than 50,000 people are dying prematurely in the UK every year, and thousands more suffer serious illness because of man-made air pollution, according to a parliamentary report published tomorrow. The UK now faces the threat of £300m in fines after it failed to meet legally binding EU targets to reduce pollution to safe levels. Air pollution is cutting life expectancy by as many as nine years in the worst-affected city areas. On average, Britons die eight months too soon because ...

United Kingdom: Budget 2010: Darling to launch £1bn green infrastructure fund (20.03.2010)
Guardian: Alistair Darling will this week announce a £1bn fund to kick-start investment in green transport and energy projects as part of a "budget for growth". With Wednesday's budget coming weeks before an expected general election, the chancellor will use his plans for the new low-carbon infrastructure scheme to contrast Labour's support for industry with the Conservatives' more hands-off philosophy. Business secretary Lord Mandelson, who has spearheaded the government's new, more ...

Global Wind-Turbine Market Will Shrink This Year, Suzlon Says (18.03.2010)
Bloomberg: The global wind-turbine market is likely to shrink this year as the financial crisis curbs energy demand in the U.S., according to Suzlon Energy Ltd., India's biggest maker of the generators. "If you look at the new-orders market from a turbine manufacturers' standpoint, that's really fallen off a cliff," Chief Operating Officer Sumant Sinha said today at a Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference in London. Global wind-power capacity rose by 38 gigawatts, or 32 percent, to 159 ...

New protections denied for polar bears, bluefin tuna (18.03.2010)
McClatchy Newspapers: A U.N. organization that regulates wildlife trade voted Thursday against bans on hunting polar bears threatened by shrinking Arctic ice and on fishing for the Atlantic bluefin tuna, a species that can grow to nearly 1,400 pounds and is prized in Japan for sushi and sashimi. The U.S. government backed both proposals at a meeting in Doha, Qatar, of the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. U.S. officials argued that polar bears shouldn't be hunted ...

Prescribed Burns in U.S. West Would Cut Carbon Footprint, Study Says (18.03.2010)
Yale Environment 360: The projected effects of prescribed burns in U.S. West used to destroy underbrush and prevent wildfires, would protect the larger trees that store carbon dioxide and help offset greenhouse gas emissions. Using satellite imagery and models that calculate carbon emissions related to wildfires from 2001 to 2008, researchers predicted that prescribed burns could reduce such emissions by 18 to 25 percent -- and as much as 60 percent in some areas. The burns would cut carbon emissions by 14 ...

Philippines: Drought drives monkeys out of forests, into streets (21.03.2010)
Philippine Daily Inquirer: LACK of food due to drought has forced monkeys to leave their sanctuaries in Barangay New Israel here and take refuge in nearby forested areas. "It all started when severe heat wilted some crops in the village including banana plants that serve as food for these animals," Darwin Paraiso, a village councilor, said. Paraiso said the monkeys started to form groups and scramble for food, particularly bananas donated by Dole-Stanfilco. The village councilor said there were ...

United Kingdom: Aberdeen university to assess electric motoring market (19.03.2010)
BBC: The potential market for electric vehicles is to be examined by experts from the University of Aberdeen. The UK is on the verge of a major push to become a leading player in the development of electric motoring. Funding from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has been awarded to the university's Centre for Transport Research to explore the way forward. Costs and potential motorist concerns about the technology will be among the issues being examined. The ...

Global warming tax: 20 cents per gallon? (18.03.2010)
Week Magazine: Best Opinion: Houston Chronicle, Washington Examiner, National Journal Big Oil gave initial "cap and trade" legislation an icy reception. Now, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have a new proposal that's being called climate change's "Hail Mary": To place a "carbon tax" on gasoline. Likely to be passed on to drivers at the pump, the tax would start at 10 cents per gallon, rising to 20 cents after 10 years – with the revenue funnelled ...

Tories plan new carbon tax to boost clean energy (20.03.2010)
Times (UK): Britain's nuclear energy industry received a boost yesterday when David Cameron pledged that a Conservative government would raise a carbon tax on coal and gas-fired power stations. Vincent de Rivaz, chief executive of EDF Energy, the French state-controlled utility that wants to build four new reactors in Britain, welcomed the plans as underpinning investment. "We have said for several years [that this] is a vital practical step towards decarbonising the UK economy in an affordable ...

Brazil: The Threat Posed by Livestock (18.03.2010)
Inter Press Service: The livestock industry has less economic clout than the oil industry, but ranchers say it has better arguments to defend itself from accusations regarding its share of responsibility for global warming. The livestock industry represents 40 percent of agricultural production worldwide and provides a livelihood and food security to one billion people. The fact that it provides a source of food perhaps goes some way towards protecting the industry from the argument that it generates too ...

United Kingdom: Regulate geoengineering before it's too late, say MPs (18.03.2010)
Ecologist: Climate manipulation must be regulated at the UN level to avoid countries taking matters into their own hands, says a committee of MPs International rules are necessary to prevent individual countries taking unilateral action to control the earth's climate say MPs. The report by the Science and Technology Committee said small-scale geoengineering testing was already underway and could be necessary if the 'Plan A' of emissions reduction fails. 'Geoengineering could affect ...

Explained: Climate sensitivity (19.03.2010)
Physorg: Climate sensitivity is the term used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to express the relationship between the human-caused emissions that add to the Earth's greenhouse effect -- carbon dioxide and a variety of other greenhouse gases -- and the temperature changes that will result from these emissions. Specifically, the term is defined as how much the average global surface temperature will increase if there is a doubling of greenhouse gases (expressed as carbon ...

Researchers Present Study on How Global Climate Change Affects Violence (19.03.2010)
Newswise: If global warming is a scientific fact, then you better be prepared for the earth to become a more violent place. That's because new Iowa State University research shows that as the earth's average temperature rises, so too does human "heat" in the form of violent tendencies. Co-authored by Craig Anderson, a Distinguished Professor of psychology and director of Iowa State's Center for the Study of Violence; and Matt DeLisi, an associate professor of sociology and director of ISU's ...

Cup Plant Is Potential New Biomass/Carbon Storage Crop (19.03.2010)
Newswise: South Dakota State University research is exploring a native perennial called cup plant as a potential new biomass crop that could also store carbon in its extensive root system and add biodiversity to biomass plantings. Researchers are exploring whether cup plant could be grown in low, moist prairies generally unfit for cropland. It would be grown and processed along with native grasses grown for biomass. "We anticipate down the road there's going to be a need and maybe even a ...

Zero Point Of Systemic Collapse (20.03.2010)
Counter Currents: Aleksandr Herzen, speaking a century ago to a group of anarchists about how to overthrow the czar, reminded his listeners that it was not their job to save a dying system but to replace it: "We think we are the doctors. We are the disease.' All resistance must recognize that the body politic and global capitalism are dead. We should stop wasting energy trying to reform or appeal to it. This does not mean the end of resistance, but it does mean very different forms of resistance. It means ...

Philippines: Drought destroys P8.4b worth of crops (20.03.2010)
Manila Standard Today: THE damage wrought by El Niño to crops amounted to P8.4 billion, Agriculture Secretary Bernie Fondevilla said Friday. Verified reports showed standing corn crops sustained most of the damage, he told reporters at the sidelines of the Agriculture Guarantee Fund Pool awarding rites at the Bureau of Soils and Water Management. The government could not yet say if the damage would go beyond P11 billion as reported earlier. "We'll see. Should the episode worsen, we can estimate the ...

Sandstorms sweep into Beijing (20.03.2010)
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Brazil: WWF hopes to find billion growing on trees (20.03.2010)
Telegraph: If the world's largest, richest environmental campaigning group, the WWF -- formerly the World Wildlife Fund -- announced that it was playing a leading role in a scheme to preserve an area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of Switzerland, many people might applaud, thinking this was just the kind of cause the WWF was set up to promote. Amazonia has long been near the top of the list of the world's environmental cconcerns, not just because it includes easily the largest and most ...

A new world?: Social media protest against Nestle may have longstanding ramifications (20.03.2010)
Mongabay: Protest could change the palm oil industry and wake the world up to the power of 'social media'. The online protest over Nestle's use of palm oil linked to deforestation in Indonesia continues unabated over the weekend. One only needed to check-in on the Nestle's Facebook fan page to see that anger and frustration over the company's palm oil sourcing policies, as well as its attempts to censor a Greenpeace video (and comments online), has sparked a social media protest that is ...

Study: Climate stress killed dinosaurs (19.03.2010)
United Press International: Severe climate change, and not a meteorite, was the main reason behind the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and other species 65 million years ago, a new study concludes. Conducted by scientists from Germany, Switzerland and the United States, the study takes into account climate, geological and paleontological data collected during several drillings near Brazos River in Texas. "We have come up with completely new data that are poised to change the interpretation of this time ...

Indonesia: Customary laws protect forest better than govt does: Study (20.03.2010)
Jakarta Post: Research shows customary laws that were implemented by a number of local communities were far more effective than government policies to preserve forest in efforts to deal with climate change. For local communities, obliging traditional laws means respecting their ancestors. Preliminary research says communities of Baduy in Banten province, Kampung Kuta people in Ciamis, West Java province and Dayak people in Kalimantan are among local communities that issue unwritten laws to ...

Sale of used carbon offsets unlikely to hit prices (19.03.2010)
Reuters: Trade in "recycled" carbon credits, which companies have already used to offset their greenhouse gas emissions, is unlikely to become widespread enough to hit prices, analysts said on Friday. Hungary last week carried out the first such sale of certified emissions reductions (CERs) which its own companies had already surrendered to offset against their emissions in the European Union's emissions trading scheme. Such CERs are not valid for re-use in Europe and the EU executive ...

States take sides in greenhouse gas 'endangerment' brawl (19.03.2010)
Greenwire: States took their places in the trenches this week as they joined the court fight either for or against U.S. EPA's "endangerment" finding for greenhouse gases. Sixteen states asked a federal appeals court this week to become parties in what has grown to be a major legal fight pitting EPA, states and environmental groups against industries, global warming skeptics and other state challengers. Petitioners in the case are asking the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District ...

Canada: Shell defends its operations in oil sands (20.03.2010)
Financial Post: Royal Dutch Shell PLC, under pressure from a small group of shareholders, has responded to critics' concerns with a report detailing its activity in Alberta's oil sands. Royal Dutch Shell PLC, under pressure from a small group of shareholders, has responded to critics' concerns with a report detailing its activity in Alberta's oil sands. Shell said it published the 17-page report because it shares many of the same environmental and economic worries expressed by the shareholders ...

Canada: Conference rejects protection for polar bears (19.03.2010)
Christian Science Monitor: A US-led plan to stop international trophy hunting of the polar bear and a flourishing trade in polar bear parts was defeated Thursday at a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha, Qatar. It was the second major defeat of the day for the US – including a sudden vote and refusal by the 175-nation CITES group to ban international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, which is a popular sushi dish worldwide, but especially in Japan. But ...

United States: Too early to judge effectiveness of fish-saving plans, scientists say (20.03.2010)
McClatchy Newspapers: Neutral scientists said Friday that it's too soon to judge the effectiveness of ambitious plans to save fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. While calling the controversial water diversions "scientifically justified," National Research Council scientists cautioned that they cannot yet be definitively evaluated. The split verdict left farmers and environmentalists alike something to seize upon in a much-anticipated report. "There is great uncertainty," acknowledged Samuel ...

Canada: Fix oilsands impacts, not just image (20.03.2010)
Calgary Herald: There are no toxic tailings lakes, dead ducks, heavy-hauler trucks or strip mines visible from space: there's none of that associated with in situ oilsands development. So, as industry tells us, in situ oilsands development is nothing to worry about, right? Not quite, according to a new report evaluating in situ oilsands' real impacts. While mining is currently the main method used to develop Alberta's oilsands, in situ techniques could eventually allow access to the 80 per cent of ...

United States: Lisa Murkowski: Climate change double agent (19.03.2010)
Mother Jones: Lisa Murkowski is the rare Republican senator who not only acknowledges that global warming exists but says she wants to do something about it. She likes to point out that her home state of Alaska is "ground zero for climate change"; about two years ago, she championed a bipartisan bill to rein in carbon emissions. In a party where Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe--who calls global warming the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people"--is the preeminent Republican voice on climate, ...

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