09/Jul 2008 | Gene therapy research in developing world raises ethical red flags: experts | Early stage gene therapy clinical trials are recruiting patients from the developing world, providing medically deprived populations access to interventions that show promise but have largely unknown ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8 an ornate debacle | In the end the G8 meeting in Hokkaido became an ornate, hugely expensive debacle a lucid display of how far apart the developed and developing countries are on climate change. To sum up: the Group o... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | .As CCDI, Lagos govt partner in climate change | An ideal urban setting. Photo: Dachi MaduakoCommunity Conservation and Development Initiative (CCDI), a Non Government Organisation (NGO) went into partnership with the Lagos State government last wee... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Williams: Russert took the call | We are into the second wave of media coverage of the death of NBC s Tim Russert , featuring stories that are one step away from the actual memorial service and the mainstream press memorials . Some of... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G-8 leaders ink climate change deal | Wednesday, but failed to convince big emerging economies that rich countries were doing enough. Climate deal fails to convince emerging nations Toyako, Japan: Group of Eight (G8) leaders patched toge... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Garnaut's diabolical tax problem | Ross Garnaut's ''diabolical problem'' will consume debate for some time to come. That the fine line can be trod, however, between needless destruction of wealth and the transformation to a sustainable... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Robert Weissman: The G8: Humanitarian Failure and Making the World Safe for Corporate Power | G8 meetings as a meaningless talkfest. On the other hand, when the political leaders of the most powerful countries get together and issue joint statements, it may be worth looking at what these plan... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | GOP Convention Planners Want Bush Gone | Sen. John McCain 's plans are gradually unfolding for the Republican National Convention in September as he tries to walk a tightrope between conflicting demands. First is the question of how to give... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Headline: 'Global Warming Causing California Glacier to Grow' | From the " You've Got To Be Kidding Me " department: " Global Warming Causing California Glacier to Grow, Scientists Say ." What? Hasn't Nobel Laureate Al Gore and every climate alarmist in the media ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Plovers back on a crowded Revere Beach | By Beth Daley, Globe Staff It used to be that piping plovers and people didn't mix. After the tiny shorebird was listed as threatened in 1986 under the Federal Endangered Species Act, beaches along th... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Flights to Europe to cost more as airlines face carbon tax | European Parliament yesterday adopted a compromise agreement with the European Council on including aviation in . EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS MEPs on Tuesday (8 July) approved a plan to include airlines i... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Climate Change Shell Game at the G-8 Summit | 3 Opinion: Don't be fooled by the glowing language and self-congratulatory air wafting like a bad smell from the G-8 statements on Climate Change. Bush and Stephen Harper, climate change obstructionis... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | What is NEPA For Today? The Sonar Case Part 3 | Like many of our disruptions of the Earth, high energy active sonar has enabled us to do seemingly miraculous things like locate and track a very distant (quiet) submarine. The trouble is always wha... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | EU emissions trading for aviation sector | A new deal approved by the European Parliament today will bring the aviation sector within the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) from 2012 but the agreement has already drawn criticism from envi... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | 481) | Stagnant Fronts. (Note: One of the modeled expectations related to Climate Change relates to an increase in f... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Thanks Caoimhin! | Opinion: Don't be fooled by the glowing language and self-congratulatory air wafting like a bad smell from the G-8 statements on Climate Change. Bush and Stephen Harper, climate change obstructionists... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The G8 Summit concluded in Japan Wednesday with pledges to fight food, oil and climate crises | 18:07The G8 Summit concluded in Japan Wednesday with pledges to fight food, oil and climate crises. On the third and final day of the summit, the G8 and eight developing countries issued a statement ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Victoria's power supply 'under threat' | Page 1 of 2 | Single Page View . A NATIONAL emissions trading scheme would threaten Victoria's power supply and the future of the state's coal-fired power stations, the State Government has warned. In... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Model Predicts How Intense Storms Will Get In The Future | 14:50 CDT A new mathematical model indicates that dust devils, water spouts, tornadoes, hurricanes and cyclones are all born of the same mechanism and will intensify as climate change warms the Earth'... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | CA for regional move to fight poverty | Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed has put emphasis on the necessity of large-scale regional cooperation to ensure better life for people through poverty alleviation in the Bimstec region. We must assess... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8 Summit pledges to fight food, oil, and climate crises | RTTNews) - The G8 Summit concluded in Japan Wednesday with pledges to fight food, oil and climate crises. On the third and final day of the summit, the G8 and eight developing countries issued a state... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | T. Boone Pickens has a plan to develop wind power as a way of boosting renewable energy production and decreasing our dependence on foreign oil. To re | T. Boone Pickens has a plan to develop wind power as a way of boosting renewable energy production and decreasing our dependence on foreign oil. To reduce oil demand, he suggests building cars that ru... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Jaeger, DiCaprio Unveil Time to Care | 7/9/2008 12:38:00 PMLuxury Swiss watch company Jaeger-LeCoultre in partnership with actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio has created its "Time to Care" program, to benefit the Leonardo DiCaprio Fund ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Summer Arctic Sea Ice Expected To Be Among Lowest On Record | ScienceDaily (July 9, 2008) The ice cover in the Arctic Ocean at the end of summer 2008 will lie, with almost 100 per cent probability, below that of the year 2005 -- the year with the second lowest... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | 180) | It's long been known that El Ni o variability affects the global mean temperature anomalies. 1998 was so warm in part because of the big El Ni o event over the winter of 1997-1998 which directly warme... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | 476) | I always find it interesting as to why some stories get traction in the mainstream media and why some don't. In online science discussions, the fate of this years summer sea ice has been the focus of ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Costly climate | Manzian (as in Jim Manzi) climate policy skepticism stems in part from a fairly simple idea: The cost of legislation is unlikely to be justified given likely savings from averted warming effects. In o... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Bronx Residents Sue Over Smelly Sewage | Residents of a polluted neighborhood sued the city and a waste recycling company Wednesday, saying that putrid odors emanating from two nearby sewage facilities are ruining their lives. Residents in t... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Is Pollution Slowing Global Warming? | Wait, now pollution is preventing global warming? That s the conclusion of a recent study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , which says rising temperatures seen in Europe over the last few ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Local Government Responsible for 1% of Statewide GHG | California Land Use, Environmental & Real Estate Lawyer & Attorney : Abbott & Kindermann Law Firm : Sacramento, CA . Home > Climate Change > Local Government Responsible for 1% of Statewide GHG Emiss... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Dick Cheney didn t get memo on shifting from denial to delay | The Center for American Progress Action Fund emails out a great daily report ( sign up here ). Today s subject is Dick Cheney s one. In this case, he censored the testimony on the health threat pose... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Developing economies don t back G-8 climate goal | TOYAKO, Japan - A joint gathering of major developed and developing nations on Wednesday agreed that climate change was one of the great global challenges of our time and pledged to back a United Na... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Daschle and wife head to Arctic to see climate change effect first hand | Former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle and his wife, Linda, are headed for the Arctic today as part of a National Geographic excursion aimed at studying the impacts of climate change. The tour also inc... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Bush lauds G-8 leaders for climate work, trade issues | From left to right, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula sa Silva, South African President Thabo Mvuyelwa Mlbeki, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao s... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Alberta unveils $4 billion climate plan | CALGARY, ALBERTA Vowing not to let others determine Alberta's future, Premier Ed Stelmach committed on $4-billion from this year's expected budget surplus to fight climate change including setting u... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Canada: G8 Climate Communique a Failure of Leadership | Canada: G8 Climate Communique a Failure of Leadership 09 July 2008 The Climate Action Network-R seau action climat Canada expressed its dismay at the communiqu on climate change released by G8 leader... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Canada: Alberta surges ahead with climate change action plan | 2 billion invested in carbon capture and storage; $2 billion in public transit The Alberta government is surging ahead on its climate change action plan with two new funds totaling $4 billion to reduc... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Challenge Filed to BP Permit for Refinery Expansion | Wednesday against BP's construction permit for its northwest Indiana refinery. District Court in Hammond on Wednesday, the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a federal challenge to construction p... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8 summit ends with no commitment on climate change | Jim Young/ReutersU. Bush walks with Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the Group of Eight Summit in Toyako, on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, July 9, 2008. TOYAKO, Japan - The Group of Eight summi... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Democracies are better at fighting genocide than UN | Opinion. Kelley: Little argument over the true merits of debate. WASHINGTON The Fourth of July reminded us not only to celebrate our democracy, but also to assess the most serious challenges to it. ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Cleaner Skies Equals More Global Warming | Cleaner skies explain surprise rate of warming" from New Scientist reports that by cleaning up the pollution of our skies - we have increased global warming - with the decrease in aerosol providing ha... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Emissions scheme 'threatens' coal power | Victoria's power supply and it's brown coal-fired power stations would be threatened by a national emissions trading scheme, the Victorian government has warned. The expected introduction of a trading... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | (G8 Swells have) eight-course dinner before food crisis talks | Gordon Brown and his fellow world leaders have sparked outrage after it was disclosed they enjoyed a six-course lunch followed by an eight-course dinner at the G8 summit where the global food crisis t... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Environmental Policy Expert to Illinois: Investing in Smart Grids = Greener Economy | Hendricks Says Adding Smarter Technology to Obsolete Grid Will Benefit Environment and Create Business Opportunities CHICAGO, July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- How can Illinoisans curb global wa... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Environmentalists Sue BP in Federal Court | InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has filed a lawsuit in Hammond against BP's new Whiting plant air permit for violations of the Clean Air Act. Our partners... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Green Money | Photograph by Felipe Buitrago Sky's The Limit: Tom McCalmont's REGrid Power now offers a financing program that allows homeowners to get into solar power without a huge upfront expense. IT USED to be... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The 'G' in G-8 Stands for Greedy | This week's G-8 leaders' meeting at Lake Toya may have set a record as the most expensive and futile conference in human history. The get-together in one of the most beautiful parts of northern Japan ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Environmentalists sue to stop refinery expansion on lake | SOUTH BEND, Ind. - An environmental group filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking a federal judge to halt BP's $3.8 billion expansion of its Whiting refinery, saying the company needs to obtain a more string... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Official Reports & News on Australian Crisis | This is simply unbelievable. Unless radical action is taken quickly, this means " the eventual destruction of sites including the Great Barrier Reef --- and the nation's food bowl ---" . A plague of... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | BP Whiting s air permit challenged | The Natural Resources Defense Council filed an appeal today against BP Whiting s plant modernization project air permit in federal court in Hammond. The NRDC argues that BP and the Indiana Department ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Last exit for the Holocene era | Damn! I think we just passed the last exit for the Holocene! I m sorry, honey, I wasn t looking. What s the next exit? It s a long way ahead. (Ragged chorus from the back seat) Are we there yet,... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Offshore oil reserves beckoning anew | Every year for nearly three decades, Congress has considered whether to allow more oil drilling in coastal waters, including those off San Diego County. And every year, it has maintained a ban on expa... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | As hurricane season looms, the Gulf is closer than ever | HOUMA -- Every year, the land seeps into the Gulf in bits and pieces. But when a major storm hits, the coastal wetlands and ridges of land that act as barriers between the populated regions of Terrebo... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Turn Smog Into Money | On a hot and hazy summer day, it's hard to see a silver lining in global pollution. But a new exchange-traded investment, the iPath Global Carbon ETN . (NYSE: GRN ), is designed to let investors bene... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | China, India snub world on targets | Page 1 of 3 | Single Page View . CHINA, India and other major developing nations have rejected a push by the world's richest countries for them to commit to firm targets on cutting greenhouse gas emis... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | China, India oppose 2050 emissions cut goal France | Home. TOYAKO, Japan - China and India are not ready to sign up to a goal set by the Group of Eight industrial nations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 50 percent by 2050, a French presidenti... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | TVA-N.C. suit over emissions goes to trial Monday | TVA is set to go to trial Monday in Asheville, N., to defend charges by the state of North Carolina that emissions from TVA s coal-fired power plants are fouling the Tar Heel state s air. The lawsuit,... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8 Summit has not delivered enough leadership on climate change-UNEP | The top UN official dealing with the environment says the Group of 8 industrialized countries has not shown enough leadership on climate change. Head of the UN Environment Programme Achim Steiner says... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Tilo Reber | It's long been known that El Ni o variability affects the global mean temperature anomalies. 1998 was so warm in part because of the big El Ni o event over the winter of 1997-1998 which directly warme... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | 94) | The title here should strike a familiar theme for most readers. Climate forcings do not just include CO2 (other greenhouse gases, aerosols, land use, the sun, the orbit and volcanoes all contribute), ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Sen. Barbara Boxer: White House Cover Up of Global Warming Dangers Must End Now | India . Now, thanks to a very brave former EPA official, Jason Burnett, we know that the administration's efforts have been about covering up the real threats of . air pollution to disease to food a... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | "Global Warming as Mass Neurosis" | About CRC. The Wall Street Journal carried a wonderful op-ed by Bret Stephens called Global Warming as Mass Neurosis earlier this week. It begins: Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the mass h... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8 Summit Leaders Wish: Painful 50% Emissions Reduction | ABOUT CEI. CEI Commends Insurance Reform Hearings June 10, 2008 Senate Poised to Debate Lieberman-Warner Energy-Rationing Bill May 30, 2008., July 8, 2008 Leaders of the G8 Summit indicated today they... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Zwei Millionen Euro F rderung f r Berliner Hirnforscher | Das Bundesministerium f r Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) unterst tzt das Bernstein Zentrum f r Computational Neuroscience Berlin (BCCN Berlin) mit weiteren zwei Millionen Euro. Die F rdermittel dienen ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Carbon Capture and Storage A False Solution | Global Warming | Tagged Global Warming Too late to be of use, much too expensive, ineffective, and unsafe. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is intended to reduce the impact of burning fossil fuels by ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Redesigning Urban Transport | Sustainability | Tagged Sustainability The world s cities are facing unprecedented problems. In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Partnership will cut energy costs | Wednesday, 9th July 2008 Thurrock and Dartford councils have joined together as part of a scheme to reduce their energy consumption and the amount of greenhouse gas emissions they produce. The two cou... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8 looks back on modest but measurable results | Alan Wheatley, China Economics Editor - Analysis TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - If this year's G8 summit achieved anything, it was to reinforce two truisms: the problems of the age, such as global warming... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | BP sued in federal court | HAMMOND | Environmentalists are taking another swing at BP s new Whiting plant air permit, this time by suing the company in federal court. The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a suit Wednesday... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Developing nations balk at G8 targets on greenhouse gas emissions | Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh walk for a G8 outreach working session in Toyako, Japan. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, HO) . RUSUT... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Will Israel Attack Iran Before the End of Bush's Term? | Maybe. According to this intelligent analysis from Robert D. Kaplan over at The Atlantic , the odds of an attack are better if Obama is elected, but neither Obama nor McCain will be die hard supporter... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Alberta To Put $4B Into GHG Reduction | The provincial government of Alberta, Canada announced that it would put CAD$4 billion into two funds aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The funds will be split equally between a fund t... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Fortinet-SPAM] Why obstacles to a deal on climate are mountainous | Something has changed in the debate on man-made climate change: the US is engaged. But its engagement or at least the engagement of President George W. Bush is neither enthusiastic nor uncondition... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The IPCC, Scientific Ad |