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		News Archive     25/07/2008 07:00 AM Democrats: White House must publish 'chilling' climate change document Guardian: The row over US inaction on carbon emissions reached new heights yesterday after the White House allowed Congress to look at last year's government proposal to officially deem climate change a threat to public health – a plan that aides to George Bush refused to acknowledge or read. The climate plan was finished in December by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to a supreme court ruling that required the Bush administration to state whether carbon emissions ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM Doctors' advice to Britons: have fewer children and help save the planet Guardian: British couples should consider having no more than two children to help reduce the environmental impact of the rising global population, doctors have said. An editorial in the British Medical Journal today calls on GPs to encourage the view that bigger families are as environmentally dubious as owning a patio heater or driving a gas-guzzler. Writing in the journal, John Guillebaud, professor of family planning at University College, London and Pip Hayes, a GP based in Exeter, ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM Riches in the Arctic: the new oil race Independent: The future of the Arctic will be less white wilderness, more black gold, a new report on oil reserves in the High North has signalled this week. The first-comprehensive assessment of oil and gas resources north of the Arctic Circle, carried out by American geologists, reveals that underneath the ice, the region may contain as much as a fifth of the world's undiscovered yet recoverable oil and natural gas reserves. This includes 90 billion barrels of oil, enough to supply the world for ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM France: 'It feels like a sci-fi film' - accidents tarnish nuclear dream Guardian: Sylvie Eymard's Provence farmhouse kitchen should be the picture of French rural calm. But the stockpiles of bottled water, disinfectant rinse and disposable paper plates hint at something strange. For the past two weeks, Eymard, 41, and her children, 13 and seven, have had a phobia of taps. To wash up, they go out to the yard and fill a bowl from a specially delivered plastic tank of purified water on a fork-lift tractor. They carry the water up to the bathroom to wash. Even the dog ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM California dealt setback in greenhouse-gas fight with EPA San Francisco Chronicle: A federal appeals court dealt a setback to California and environmental groups today in their battle with the Bush administration over the state's efforts to restrict vehicle emissions of gases that contribute to global warming. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco dismissed a lawsuit filed by California and 15 other states in January over the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to let the state enforce its limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new cars and ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM United Kingdom: Call to dub climate change 'a catastrophe' Scotsman: THE government should stop talking about global warming and start using the term "climate catastrophe", a leading scientist said yesterday. Dr Richard Pike, chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry, also called for a commitment to deliver a large-scale use of renewables and nuclear power, rather than encouraging "trivial solutions" such as washing clothes at low temperatures. Dr Pike said global warming conjured up a gradual, gentle process in which the real problems ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM China: Melting glacier leaves world's worst polluter with no room for doubt Guardian: Up close, the sound of global warming at the face of the Urumqi No1 Glacier is a simple, steady drip, drip, drip. Just 30 metres from the main wall, the flood of meltwater becomes so powerful that it cuts a tunnel under the floor of grey ice, leaving only a blotchy, wafer-thin crust on the surface. Compared with the collapse of ice shelves in the Antarctic, the melting of the mountains in China's far west is one of the less spectacular phenomena of global warming, but it is a more ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM Climate change: feed it and weep or lead and reap Sydney Morning Herald: Australia will reap important benefits from the carbon pollution reduction scheme. Properly, the Government has left itself considerable flexibility on several points, which will depend heavily on what other countries do. But the value of the scheme lies not in the details but in three more basic considerations. Australia can now lead economically, technologically and diplomatically in the global effort that lies ahead. A global climate control regime is on its way. It will almost ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM Energy in China: 'We call it the Three Gorges of the sky. The dam there taps water, we tap wind' Guardian: In the vast natural wind tunnel that is Dabancheng, the gales that roar between the snow-capped mountain ridges get so strong that trains have been gusted off railway tracks and lorries overturned. Such is the ferocity of the elements that police sometimes have to stop the traffic that passes through this arid, six-mile-wide plain on what was once part of the Silk Road. That used to be bad for business in Xinjiang, the most westerly region of China, which formerly depended on the ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM United Kingdom: Limit families to two children 'to combat climate change' Telegraph (UK): The world's population increases by 1.5m each week and babies born in the UK will use more greenhouse gases during their lifetime than those born in the developing world. Two doctors, writing in the British Medical Journal, suggest that doctors should talk to their patients about climate change and encourage them to think about the consequences of having a big family. Investing in contraception would help in the fight against climate change, they argue. John ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM Pickens pitches plans to shift US away from oil San Diegno Union-Tribune: Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens became one of the world's richest people by drilling for petroleum. But these days, he's spearheading a multimillion-dollar push to wean the nation from oil and onto wind power and natural gas. T. Boone Pickens Personal: Born May 22, 1928, in Holdenville, Okla. With a $3 billion net worth, Pickens is the 117th-richest person in the United States and 369th-richest in the world, according to Forbes magazine. Pickens' wife, Madeleine, ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM Smaller families 'could help the planet' InTheNews.co.uk: People should consider having fewer children in a bid to help the planet, two doctors said today. Family planning and reproductive health expert Professor John Guillebaud and Dr Pip Hayes, a GP from Exeter, argue that doctors should highlight the link between population, family planning and climate change. Writing in the British Medical Journal, they say that the biggest contribution UK couples can make to combating climate change would be to only have two children or at least ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM The next colonial scramble Independent: The news that massive deposits of oil and gas have been found in the Arctic confirms what geologists, oil companies and governments have believed for decades: that these icy wastes house vast fossil fuel resources. But the precise estimate now made by the United States Geological Survey – suggesting that the region contains about one-third of the world's undiscovered gas and about one-sixth of its undiscovered oil – is bound, at a time of high oil prices, to accelerate what could well be the ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM Australia: Climate change proves more than a challenge to the Coalition Age: EVERYONE in the Opposition needs to take a deep breath. Things could get a little sticky in the next week. Brendan Nelson, apparently inured to political pain, wants to toughen the Coalition's policy on emissions trading. In a nutshell, he would like the Opposition to shift from saying the Coalition believes Australia should start its scheme by 2012 regardless of what other countries do, to a position that links Australia's start more to when countries such as China, India and ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM EPA Chief Warned White House On Global Warming, Senator Says Hartford Courant: The head of the Environmental Protection Agency told the Bush administration in December that high levels of man-made heat-trapping gases are causing global warming and endanger the American people, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Thursday after she reviewed the EPA finding, which has not been made public. The document is important because the Supreme Court ruled last year that if the EPA administrator finds greenhouse gases endanger the public, then the government must regulate ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM Canada: Feds must prepare for climate change health effects CTV: The federal government needs to put more resources into both preparing for and preventing the health effects of changing weather, says one of the authors of an as-yet-unreleased Health Canada report on climate change. Nobel Prize-winning climate change scientist Gordon McBean told CTV's Canada AM on Friday that the federal government needs to have a co-ordinated national warning system for potentially hazardous weather patterns such as extreme hot or cold temperatures. ... read more 25/07/2008 07:00 AM Scientists search for answers from the carbon in the clouds EurekAlert: An aerosol mass spectrometer developed by chemists from Aerodyne Research Inc. and Boston College is giving scientists who study airborne particles the technology they need to examine the life cycles of atmospheric aerosols – such as soot – and their impact on issues ranging from climate change to public health. BC Chemistry Professor Paul Davidovits and Aerodyne Principal Scientist Timothy B. Onasch say their novel spectrometer allows researchers to better understand what happens to ... read more 24/07/2008 07:00 AM United States: A Mono Lake success story Los Angeles Times: There was a time when it was hard to find yellow warblers at Rush Creek. But on a recent bright and sunny morning, a yellow warbler plunged through a gap in a stream-side cottonwood forest, flying back to the nest where her chicks were hiding. Suddenly, she was stopped in midair, tangled in a mist net. Field biologist Chris McCreedy found the bird in his snare a few minutes later. "Hi there, sweetie," McCreedy said as he set to work. He untangled the bird, recorded its vitals ... read more 24/07/2008 07:00 AM Australia and climate change: Greens and the black stuff Economist: COALMINERS in New South Wales (NSW), Australia's most populous state, boast that they export enough of the black stuff to supply New Zealand, Indonesia and Singapore with all their electricity. Along with Queensland and Victoria, the state also digs up enough to provide Australia as a whole with 83% of its power. This dirty energy has turned Australia into one of the world's highest per person emitters of greenhouse gases. With more than 200 years' supply of black coal left, Australians have ... read more 24/07/2008 07:00 AM Hypermiling: Driving Tricks Stretch Miles Per Gallon LiveScience: Some days on her morning commute, Rani Cardona feels like the stars are aligned. With the green lights timed just right, and a slight tail wind at her back, her Honda Civic Hybrid can really fly. On fumes. "When you see the gauge springing up toward 100 miles per gallon and you've got your foot just perfectly situated and you hold it there, you know, it's just a great feeling," she said. "It's an indescribable feeling, like your car is almost defying the laws of ... read more News Archive     Back to Homepage
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