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Other NewsEditorialsThe natural gas story.If the questions about impact on water supplies can be answered satisfactorily, and we believe they can, let's use it effectively to create jobs, lessen dependence on foreign energy, cut our defense costs, change our balance-of-payments picture for the better and make our air cleaner. Houston Chronicle Climate science stung by doubt.To hear the 24-hour news establishment and conservative pundits and bloggers tell it, the concept of manmade global warming is melting under scientists' feet. But Americans should not be fooled. Nashville Tennessean OpinionTexas suing for responsible scientific conclusions.The EPA recently concluded that man-made greenhouse gas emissions — including carbon dioxide — are harmful pollutants and must be regulated. The lawsuit I filed challenging that finding does not address the disputed science surrounding global warming. Houston Chronicle Taxpayer-subsidized manure digesters stimulate factory farm pollution.At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack unveiled plans to promote manure digesters as a way to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent. Madison Capital Times |
Inspired by nature.
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What if we could solve big environmental problems simply by shifting our approach - from relying on human cleverness to mimicking nature? That is the idea behind biomimicry. High Country News Living spaces that stress less.From switching to energy-efficient light bulbs and appliances, to collecting rainwater and installing photovoltaic panels, how are experts making buildings that use less energy and generate less waste? Talk of the Nation Japan aims its home fuel cells at Europe.Following the success of a half-price subsidy for CO2-busting fuel-cell heat and energy generators for homes, Japan is now poised to shift its attention to supplying the UK and Germany with this hi-tech, next-generation energy source. BBC Runaway transport threatens targets on emissions.Greenhouse gas emissions from road traffic, air travel, ships and railways have risen to account for more than a quarter of Scotland's total. Edinburgh Scotsman U.S. firms working to lower cost of solar energy.One piece of the American effort to find a way to make solar energy cheap enough that everyone will want it is unfolding in a modest redbrick building in Toledo, once known as one of the nation's top makers of glass. McClatchy Newspapers It’s China’s world, we’re just living in it.The middle kingdom is rewriting the rules on trade, technology, currency, climate - you name it. Newsweek Anger as coal power plant bid goes ahead.Plans for a new £3 billion coal-fired power station in Scotland will be lodged tomorrow, prompting warnings of mass protests by green groups. Edinburgh Scotsman UN climate change claims on rainforests were wrong, study suggests.The United Nations' climate change panel is facing fresh criticism after new research contradicted the organisation's claims about the devastating effect climate change could have on the Amazon rainforest. London Daily Telegraph Efforts to store carbon dioxide underground face Randolph County opposition.Rumors that East Central Indiana could become an underground storage site for carbon dioxide have prompted opposition to CO2 sequestration in Randolph County. Muncie Star Press |
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What’s in a (wrong) word?Let’s not confuse real mistakes with the normal progress of science.
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No room for women.A new group overseeing financing for a United Nations climate effort has 19 members - none women.
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Evangelicals seen as key in climate debate.When it comes to energy "we all need to repent."
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Top ConsequencesUN climate change claims on rainforests were wrong, study suggests.The United Nations' climate change panel is facing fresh criticism after new research contradicted the organisation's claims about the devastating effect climate change could have on the Amazon rainforest. London Daily Telegraph Ed Miliband's adverts banned for overstating climate change.Two government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for exaggerating the potential harm. London Times Fewer, but more intense cyclones.As the level of carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, we will probably see fewer but more intense storms, a group of the world's top experts on tropical cyclones and climate change have concluded. UN IRIN Top SolutionsInspired by nature.What if we could solve big environmental problems simply by shifting our approach - from relying on human cleverness to mimicking nature? That is the idea behind biomimicry. High Country News Living spaces that stress less.From switching to energy-efficient light bulbs and appliances, to collecting rainwater and installing photovoltaic panels, how are experts making buildings that use less energy and generate less waste? Talk of the Nation Japan aims its home fuel cells at Europe.Following the success of a half-price subsidy for CO2-busting fuel-cell heat and energy generators for homes, Japan is now poised to shift its attention to supplying the UK and Germany with this hi-tech, next-generation energy source. BBC Top CausesRunaway transport threatens targets on emissions.Greenhouse gas emissions from road traffic, air travel, ships and railways have risen to account for more than a quarter of Scotland's total. Edinburgh Scotsman It’s China’s world, we’re just living in it.The middle kingdom is rewriting the rules on trade, technology, currency, climate - you name it. Newsweek Anger as coal power plant bid goes ahead.Plans for a new £3 billion coal-fired power station in Scotland will be lodged tomorrow, prompting warnings of mass protests by green groups. Edinburgh Scotsman Top PoliticsIt’s China’s world, we’re just living in it.The middle kingdom is rewriting the rules on trade, technology, currency, climate - you name it. Newsweek China rejects climate criticism.China's Premier Wen Jiabao fired back Sunday against allegations he had snubbed President Obama during climate-change negotiations last year, defending his decision to send a relatively official to a meeting on the sidelines of the Copenhagen talks. Wall Street Journal Basic climate bill still has much to cover.Even though a basic climate bill was approved by the Cabinet last week, it still does not clearly spell out key policies. Osaka Daily Yomiuri Shimbun |
From the Daily Climate NewsroomCyber bullying rises as climate data are questioned.
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The e-mails come thick and fast every time NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt appears in the press. Rude and crass e-mails. E-mails calling him a fraud, a cheat, a scumbag and much worse. more Ethanol's contrasting carbon footprints.
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The federal government last week concluded corn-based biofuels help reduce emissions; California regulators say they don't. Who's right? Oddly enough, both may be. more US loses opportunity with home energy efficiency.
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Despite EPA gains with its Energy Star program, some 99 percent of American houses remain "sick" – damp, drafty, expensive to heat and cool – and could be made at least 30 percent more energy-efficient with "highly cost-effective, tried-and-true" improvements, according to experts. more Stern: Copenhagen Accord 'best way to make progress.'
Demark Foreign Ministry
Lead U.S. climate negotiator Todd Stern said Thursday the Copenhagen Accord represents the best way forward for a binding global climate deal but that success likely rests with a smaller group of countries working outside the unwieldy, multi-national United Nations process. more Disappearing options.
Denmark Foreign Ministry
Climate policy has a tipping point. Failure to set and meet strict emissions targets over the next 40 years puts long-term goals – such as limiting planetary warming to 2ºC by 2100 – permanently out of reach, according to a study published Monday. more |