Global Warming
6/24/2008 | Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Presidential Issues
Former UN sec-gen Annan calls for 'climate justice'
Breitbart.com
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Tuesday called for 'climate justice', saying that it was polluters who should pay for the effects of climate change, and not the poorest and most vulnerable. He said funding should be made available to help disadvantaged communities adapt to the effects of global warming as he urged for the international community to focus on adaptation measures. "We must have climate justice. As an international community, we must recognise that the polluter must pay and not the poor and vulnerable," said Annan at the first high-level meeting of his new humanitarian forum.
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Scientists From Around the Globe Join ABC News in a Forum on Surviving the Century
ABC News
Are we living in the last century of our civilization? Is it possible that all of our technology, knowledge and wealth cannot save us from ourselves? Could our society actually be heading towards collapse? According to many of the world's top scientists, the answer is yes, unless we take action now. This September, in Earth 2100, a dramatic ABC News 2-hour broadcast, the greatest minds across the globe will join together in a countdown to the year 2100 to tell us what we must do to survive the next century … And what may happen if we don't.
6/9/2008 | Oil and Gas, Global Warming
BP chief Tony Hayward says lack of investment to blame for oil spike
The Telegraph
BP chief executive Tony Hayward has played down the prospect that the surge in oil may unwind anytime soon as the industry's lack of investment in production capacity catches up with it. BP chief executive Tony Hayward was speaking in Kuala Lumpur "Producers are being hampered by 25 years of low investments, because of low prices," Mr Hayward told the Asia Oil and Gas Conference in Kuala Lumpur today. "The result is a supply chain being stretched to breaking point." Crude oil surged on Friday to a record $139.12 a barrel in New York, although it had eased off to trade at $137 early on Monday. Fears about the ability of the oil industry to quickly tap new reserves come on top of existing forecasts that the world will exhaust its oil supplies in the next half century.
5/12/2008 | Character and Ethics, Environmental Issues, Gender Issues, Global Warming, Human Sexuality, Pro-Family
Wanna help planet? 'Let's all just die!'
World Net Daily
"May we live long and die out" is the unofficial motto of a movement that seeks to improve the Earth's ecosystem by ensuring that the human species does not survive. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, or VHEMT, consists of volunteers who have made active life decisions to remain childless for the benefit of the Earth, thereby preventing the extinction of millions of species of plants and animals.
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Global Carbon Tax Urged at UN Climate Conference
epw.senate.gov
BALI, Indonesia – A global tax on carbon dioxide emissions was urged to help save the Earth from catastrophic man-made global warming at the United Nations climate conference. A panel of UN participants on Thursday urged the adoption of a tax that would represent “a global burden sharing system, fair, with solidarity, and legally binding to all nations.” “Finally someone will pay for these [climate related] costs,” Othmar Schwank, a global tax advocate, told Inhofe EPW Press Blog following the panel discussion titled “A Global CO2 Tax.” Schwank is a consultant with the Switzerland based Mauch Consulting firm Schwank said at least “$10-$40 billion dollars per year” could be generated by the tax, and wealthy nations like the U.S. would bear the biggest burden based on the “polluters pay principle.” The U.S. and other wealthy nations need to “contribute significantly more to this global fund,” Schwank explained. He also added, “It is very essential to tax coal.”
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Historic vote on global warming
Baltimore Sun
U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday is expected to debate amendments to a bill proposed by Sens. Lieberman of Connecticut and Warner of Virginia that would create a "cap and trade" system designed to cut total U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions. These systems require industries to pay fees when they emit carbon dioxide or other greenhouses gases above a set limit, with the money going to reward cleaner businesses. Europe tried a pollution credit trading system to curb carbon dioxide emissions after it passed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, and power companies worked the system to make billions in profits. Electricity customers paid higher bills, thinking they were contributing to a cooler planet. But their money just went into the pockets of the electric companies, which didn't end up actually cutting down on their carbon dioxide emissions. Republicans on the committee are unlikely to vote in favor of the bill's current requirements. Voinovich said: 'I have significant reservations about the bill. I have recently heard the concerns of a variety of constituents, including both industry and labor representatives, who are especially concerned that the bill presents an overly aggressive first phase of emissions reductions that will hit well before we can reasonably expect commercially available technologies to deal with the problem.'
11/14/2007 | Environmental Issues, Global Warming
Report: N. America oversaturated in CO2
USA Today
North America's ability to absorb global-warming gases created by the USA, Canada and Mexico is smaller than some experts thought and likely to shrink further, a federal climate study said Tuesday. The report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, the Bush administration's climate research arm, estimated the continent produces three to four times more carbon dioxide than its forests, croplands, wetlands and coastal waters can soak up. The rest adds to the warming. North America emits 27% of the carbon dioxide — the most plentiful of man-made greenhouse gases and the byproduct of burning fossil fuels — released worldwide. The USA creates 85% of North America's total and is the world's largest emitter, though China is forecast to exceed that soon, according to the International Energy Agency.
6/19/2007 | Environmental Issues, Global Warming
Green Concerns Over the Energy Bill
Time
Environmental groups are anxiously watching three votes this week that could significantly water down the energy bill currently before the Senate. The outcome of the votes will determine whether or not the environmental community supports the legislation drafted by Senate Democrats.
6/18/2007 | Global Warming, Terrorism
Climate change behind Darfur killing: UN's Ban
Breitbart.com
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday. "The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change," Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column. UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures disrupted monsoons. "This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming," the South Korean diplomat wrote.
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World leaders to work out details of climate plan
USA Today
ROSTOCK, Germany — President Bush's plan to have countries that are major polluters develop their own global warming strategies gets a full hearing today, as other Group of Eight leaders push for caps on greenhouse-gas emissions. Bush's national security and environmental advisers said Wednesday that the leaders of the nation's richest countries and Russia were headed toward a broad agreement on limiting emissions. German Chancellor and G-8 hostess Angela Merkel said, "There are (a) few areas here and there we will continue to work on." Merkel, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and others are lobbying for specific caps on greenhouse-gas emissions, which occur when fuels such as gasoline and coal are burned. Bush has long favored voluntary caps each nation can develop on its own. He's also calling for meetings of the top 15 polluting countries.
6/6/2007 | Environmental Issues, Global Warming
From Turkey Waste, a New Fuel and a New Environmental Fight
New York Times
BENSON, Minn. — For anyone curious about what thousands of tons of turkey litter looks like, piled high into an indoor olfactory-assaulting mountain of manure, this old railroad stop on the extreme edge of alternative energy production is the place to be.
6/4/2007 | Environmental Issues, Global Warming
Bush Climate Plan: Amid Nays, Some Maybes
New York Times
President Bush’s shift last week toward cutting worldwide emissions linked to global warming was greeted with widespread skepticism. But mixed in with the doubts was a substantial dose of support, albeit conditional.
6/1/2007 | Environmental Issues, Global Warming
Bush Proposes Goal to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 31 — President Bush, fending off international accusations that he was ignoring climate change, proposed for the first time on Thursday to set “a long-term global goal” for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and he called on other high-polluting nations to join the United States in negotiations aimed at reaching an agreement by the end of next year.
5/16/2007 | Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Governmental Control
At Climate Summit, Cities Urged To Lead
CBS News
(AP) Mayors from around the world declared at a climate summit Tuesday hosted by former President Bill Clinton and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg that cities must take the lead in the campaign to reverse global warming and cannot wait for their countries to enact national policies. “It is in cities that the battle to tackle climate change will be won or lost,” London Mayor Ken Livingstone said.
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Climate Meeting Opens on Post-Kyoto Pact
ABC News
More than 1,000 diplomats have begun working on a new accord to control greenhouse gases, with developing countries calling for more money and expertise to help them fight the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming. The 166 countries and organizations on Monday opened a two-week meeting of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, where they are to negotiate key elements of a treaty to succeed the 10-year-old Kyoto Protocol, which set binding targets on industrial countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases believed to cause global warming.
5/7/2007 | Environmental Issues, Global Warming
Weekend storms signal deadly year
USA Today
The weekend blitz of tornadoes in Kansas and the Plains puts 2007 on track to be one of the busiest and deadliest tornado years in a decade, severe-storms meteorologists said Sunday. "Even if the year stopped right now, it would be the deadliest year we've had since 1999," said Greg Forbes, severe-weather expert for The Weather Channel.
5/4/2007 | Environmental Issues, Global Warming
Deal reached on climate change report
CNN.com
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- International delegates reached an agreement early Friday on the best ways to combat climate change despite efforts by China to water down language on cutting destructive greenhouse gas emissions. The closed-door debate over everything from nuclear power to the cost of cleaner energy ran into the early morning hours with quibbling over wording. But consensus was eventually reached on a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N. network of 2,000 scientists and delegates from more than 120 nations. "It's all done," said Peter Lukey, a member of the South Africa delegation. "Everything we wanted to see was there and more. The message is: We have to do something now."
4/30/2007 | Global Warming, Environmental Issues
EU Demands Cows Alter Diets To Reduce Global Warming Emissions
The Sun UK
BARMY Euro MPs are demanding new laws to stop cows and sheep PARPING. Their call came after the UN said livestock emissions were a bigger threat to the planet than transport. The MEPs have asked the European Commission to “look again at the livestock question in direct connection with global warming”. The official EU declaration demands changes to animals’ diets, to capture gas emissions and recycle manure.
4/26/2007 | Environmental Issues, Global Warming
Film On Global Warming Is Challenged
Yahoo.com
LONDON (AP) -- A group of British climate scientists is demanding changes to a skeptical documentary about global warming, saying there are grave errors in the program billed as a response to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."
4/24/2007 | Global Warming
Lack of late snow raises risk of fires
USA Today
DENVER — Unexpected dryness and near-record warmth in March have melted much of the West's mountain snows early, worsening the potential for wildfires and extending the region's drought, federal water agencies reported Monday. Late-season snow in March and April is a critical addition to the West's winter snowpack. Gradual meltoff in late spring and summer supplies water to most of the region.