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Other NewsEPA pushes to reduce impacts of huge West Virginia mountaintop mine project.Charleston Gazette 27 Jan EditorialsReduce gas escapes at well sites.Natural gas is widely touted as a clean alternative to coal and other fossil fuels. But evidence that the drilling process itself releases quantities of dangerous methane gas into the atmosphere should prompt a closer look at the supposed advantages of natural gas' role in the energy supply. Stroudsberg Pocono Record 06 Feb Climate change should have effect on politics.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. Tuscaloosa News 02 Feb Climate data chills global warming alarmism.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. Orange County Register 02 Feb Taking the long view on the world's energy supplies.Now researchers are warning that energy sources we normally think of as innocuous could affect the planet's climate too. If we start to extract immense amounts of power from the wind, for instance, it will have an impact on how warmth and water move around the planet, and thus on temperatures and rainfall. New Scientist 31 Jan Chamber of Commerce crazy for climate.Far away, the citizens of Crazy conjure how consequences exist only for the-yet-unborn so what-me-worry and isn’t life grand? Far away? Naw. Straight from the land of Crazy—a vast supply of energy that we can frack into our cars and burn on up into the atmosphere. No regard for impact on climate change, none. Sacramento News and Review 26 Jan No reason to rush decision on pipeline.It will take far more than the short 60-day limit Congress irresponsibly imposed for deciding whether some version of the project can be done without inflicting unacceptable and irreversible damage to the environmnent. Philadelphia Inquirer 20 Jan Environmental disaster.President Barack Obama's decision to block the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast is a monumental blunder, one that will not only ship jobs from the United States to China, but will significantly increase air pollution while doing nothing to decrease our dependence on fossil fuels. San Diego North County Times 20 Jan A good call on the pipeline.President Obama has properly rejected, at least for now, the Keystone XL oil pipeline that would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. He rebuffed the demand of House Republicans that the controversial project be decided in haste under an election-year deadline. New York Times 19 Jan OpinionClimate consensus cracking open - or not.Is there or isn't there a scientific consensus on climate change? And does it matter? A problem is the absence of clarity over which consensus we are talking about; consensus that the Earth is warming, consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are the main reason, or consensus that it's a problem requiring urgent solution, to name but three? BBC 07 Feb Fulsome fossil fuels and the 'Peak Oil' myth.With “Peak Oil” exposed as yet another Chicken-Little fallacy, those of us who rejected the idea of CO2-caused planetary meltdown and instead embraced reduced dependence on foreign oil as a reason for widespread vehicle electrification are seemingly left with a solution, but no credible problem. Forbes 07 Feb Climate change witch hunt.I wonder if environmentalists ever stop to think how much they sound like the witch-hunters of yesteryear? This isn't the first time in history there has been a fashion for blaming long or dark or weird winters on foul individuals and their apparently problematic lifestyles. The Telegraph 07 Feb Once, men abused slaves. Now we abuse fossil fuels.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. The Guardian 03 Feb Avoiding a yo-yo future.It’s official. In mid-January, NASA reported that nine of the 10 warmest years ever recorded have occurred in the 21st century, making the past decade the warmest yet. We know why this is happening: It's us. Global warming is my fault, and yours. Vancouver Sun 03 Feb Wall Street Journal's climate change stance is suspect.The Wall Street Journal is taking a lot of heat for an op-ed published on Jan. 27 that reassures its readers that there’s no need to panic over global warming. Newark Star-Ledger 01 Feb Climate change 'heretics' rebuff carbon dangers.A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do about "global warming". Candidates should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all scientists demand that something dramatic be done to stop global warming is not true. Sydney Australian 31 Jan When the Earth refuses to warm.Global warming: Been there, done that. Forward-looking folks are adjusting their fretting machinery now to something called Cycle 25. Button up your overcoats. Ice is on the way. Washington Times 31 Jan |
Special report: Peak everything.By 2030, the global middle class is expected to grow by two-thirds. That’s 3 billion more shoppers. They'll all want access to goods, including water, wheat, coffee and oil. Is there enough for everybody? Can business satisfy demand and avoid hitting "peak everything?" Bloomberg News 07 Feb Swept from Africa to the Amazon.The story of dust is actually about the challenges of trying to figure out what is happening to the planet we inhabit. It shows how an influence on one area of the earth’s ecosystem can have outsize effects on other areas. Scientific American 07 Feb Americans gaining energy independence.The US is the closest it has been in almost 20 years to achieving energy self-sufficiency, a goal the nation has been pursuing since the 1973 Arab oil embargo triggered a recession and led to lines at gasoline stations. But the expansion in oil and natural gas production isn’t without a downside. Bloomberg News 07 Feb Britain's most wasteful cities: New thermal images show huge amounts of energy being wasted across the country.A series of thermal images have been released showing energy wastage in Britain's cities, as part of a British Gas initiative to cut power use by small and medium-sized firms. London Daily Mail 07 Feb UK emissions rose 3.1% as economy recovered in 2010.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. The Guardian 07 Feb EPA accepts industry methods for calculating warming potential of fluorinated gases.The EPA has made a preliminary decision to accept industry methods for calculating the global warming potential of seven fluorinated greenhouse gases, approval that will help manufacturers of the gases comply with the agency's broader greenhouse gas reporting rule. Bloomberg BNA 07 Feb When cooking can be deadly.Three billion people - half the globe - use an open fire to cook and heat. But there's a problem: the smoke. CNN 07 Feb Research shows human contribution to climate change.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. Tehran Times 07 Feb County landfill is area’s biggest climate polluter.The Franklin County landfill leaked 11,900 tons of methane in 2010, making it the top industrial source of climate-change gases in central Ohio, according to a first-ever federal inventory. Columbus Dispatch 06 Feb Minneapolis cuts emissions 12.8% since '06.Minneapolis has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 12.8 percent since 2006, putting the city on pace to meet longer-term goals designed to confront climate change. Minneapolis Star Tribune 06 Feb Meat trade emissions equal to half of all Britain's cars.If everyone in the UK went vegetarian or vegan it would have the same environmental benefit as talking half of all cars off the road, according to new research. London Independent 05 Feb Massachusetts greenhouse gas pollution sources described by EPA.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. Milford Daily News 05 Feb China greenhouse gas emissions set to rise well past US.By 2015, China will emit nearly 50 percent more greenhouse gases than the United States, a top Chinese energy researcher said yesterday. ClimateWire 04 Feb Alpha, Patriot announce coal production cuts.Alpha Natural Resources announced late Friday that it plans to idle several Appalachian coal mines and reduce work schedules at others, citing reduced coal demand as more electricity utilities move toward using natural gas. Charleston Gazette 04 Feb New meteorological theory argues that the world's forests are rainmakers.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. Mongabay 03 Feb Marching in near lock-step.A stunning new archive of the oxygen isotopic composition of tropical precipitation recorded in the deposits of a Peruvian cave is helping to elucidate how climate change—both past and future—in one region of the globe may drive climate changes in far-flung regions. Science 03 Feb Big trees in trouble.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. New Scientist 02 Feb Better forest data lends confidence to carbon markets.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. Forbes 01 Feb Climate change drying out forests in western Canada.Research shows northern forests in the three prairie provinces are drying up and shrinking from drought caused by climate change, while the eastern boreal forest is holding its own. A paper published Monday suggests the forests are already emitting more greenhouse gases than they absorb. Canadian Press 31 Jan The Little Ice Age explained?An all-natural version, some seven hundred years ago, of what some scientists now propose as a form of geoengineering. Climate Central 31 Jan Tropical vegetation stores more carbon than thought.The first ever "wall-to-wall" map of carbon storage of tropical vegetation in Africa, Asia and South America has shown that 21 percent more carbon is stored than was previously estimated, according to scientists from m Woods Hole, Boston University, and the University of Maryland. New Delhi Times of India 31 Jan Power paradox: Clean might not be green forever.It is clear that continuing to rely on fossil fuels will have catastrophic results, because of the dramatic warming effect of carbon dioxide. But alternative power sources will affect the climate too. New Scientist 30 Jan Japan emissions rising after atomic crisis: Report.Japanese manufacturer's greenhouse gas emissions are rising after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, hurting the country's carbon reduction goals, a report said Sunday. Agence France-Presse 30 Jan EPA rejects palm oil-based biofuels as renewable fuel.Palm-oil based bio-diesel does not meet the standard of the federal government's renewable fuels program due to high greenhouse gas emissions, and thus should not be developed, says an Environmental Protection Agency regulatory filing from Jan. 27. Epoch Times 30 Jan Industry, professors at odds on gas carbon footprint.Professors from Cornell University believe methane released by natural gas drilling activities may be worse for the environment than burning coal, but gas industry officials disagree. Wheeling Intelligencer 30 Jan U.S. energy supply and demand.Domestic production of oil, natural gas, and renewable energy in 2035 will exceed today’s levels, but coal use for electricity generation will decline, according to a study released last week by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), which is part of the Department of Energy. Chemical & Engineering News 30 Jan Mapping greenhouse gases.A new interactive tool from the Environmental Protection Agency gives the public the ability to analyze greenhouse gas emissions from more than 6,700 power plants, chemical plants, refineries, and other facilities. Chemical & Engineering News 30 Jan City cuts its greenhouse gas emissions.The City of North Vancouver's efforts to grapple with climate change are starting to pay off, achieving an 11% drop in emissions. Vancouver North Shore News 29 Jan |
