July 23, 2008
South Africa's Van Schalkwyk paints grim picture of climate change
[Carbon-Based] AllAfrica.com, via Business Day (South Africa): The longer the delay in taking action on climate change, the greater the costs would be for everyone to minimise its effects and adapt to them, Environment and Tourism Minister Marthinus .
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Climate Change in Kansas City: A Guest Weblog By Dr. Lynwood Yarbrough
[Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News] Several years ago I began reading the literature on climate change that was appearing in Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals. I did so because I was concerned at the alarmism I was seeing in the media regarding “global warming” and the dire predictions of some in the scientific literature. I consider myself a scientific skeptic and want to be convinced by the data before I accept something as “true”
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Posted at 02:33 PM
July 21, 2008
Peak Oil
[davidkramer.DK] Take this guy Boone Pickens for example .He has made his money with investment in oil for the last 60 some years.
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Posted at 12:34 PM
Peak Oil: The End Of Ferry Services Between Japan And Taiwan?
[TreeHugger] Hikawa-Maru-Yokohama-Japan.JPG Before air travel, how on earth did people get around the globe? For a brief moment in history, there were steam ships and then diesel ferries.
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Posted at 12:32 PM
July 19, 2008
EPA report details climate change risks
[Global Warming News] Climate change will pose "substantial" threats to human health in the coming decades, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday - issuing its warnings about heat waves, hurricanes and pathogens just .
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Posted at 03:03 PM
Desperate climate change skeptics misread the news
[Millard Fillmore's Bathtub] Society, we kick off a debate concerning one of the main conclusions of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body which, together with Al Gore, recently won the Nobel Prize for its work concerning climate change research. There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.
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Posted at 03:02 PM
July 18, 2008
Review: Urban ecosystems and the North American carbon cycle
[drive-thru lies - the truth about the industry's greenwash] whole ecosystem mass and energy flow. Here, we review the state of our understanding of urban areas as whole ecosystems with regard to carbon balance, including both drivers of fossil fuel emissions and carbon cycling in urban plants .
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Posted at 03:02 PM
Global Warming may Threaten Ecosystems and Water Reserves in ...
[Forests.org: Forest Protection Portal] A new study has determined that global warming could lead to larger changes in snowmelt in the western United States than was previously thought, possibly increasing wildfire risk and creating new water management challenges for agriculture, ecosystems and urban populations.
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Posted at 03:01 PM
July 17, 2008
Eco-Button Cuts Energy Use, Makes You Glow Green Inside
[Gizmodo UK] after a few minutes of idleness is detected but, why do anything that sensible when you can buy a gadget to do it for you. Meet Eco-Button, a green USB device that, when plugged in, allows you to put the PC into eco-mode at a singe tap.
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Posted at 03:02 PM
Interview with Jason Schultz, ECO-SAFE
[Inside Sustainable Packaging] Sure, we have a certified WordPress blog plugin that lets people use the eco-safe delivery methods right from their WordPress powered blog. Also we are finishing up a FireFox extension to give users a button on their browser which will allow them to download, email, or save a PDF version of that given web page.
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Posted at 03:01 PM
July 16, 2008
Oil falls sharply as economic gloom spreads
[Peak Oil News] The darkening gloom that hangs over the U.S. economy spread to the oil markets Tuesday, sending the cost of crude tumbling $6.44 a barrel in the largest one-day plunge since 1991. In a wild day of trading, the cost of light, sweet crude oil for August delivery closed at $138.74 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Posted at 02:34 PM
Future Forecasts - The Price of Oil and Peak Oil
[Evolution Shift - Futurist Blog] The third part of this prediction has yet to be manifested. When two of the three major Presidential candidates think it is a smart idea to suspend the gasoline tax for the summer, it is clear that we have a long way to go. Congressional outrage and investigations into speculation in the petroleum futures market also shows a complete lack of wanting to face the real issue. There is no more than 5-10% of speculation in this market. The upward price is driven by the realities of Peak Oil. What politicians are facing is the huge reaction and behavioral changes brought about by $4 a gallon gasoline Pain at the pump will be manifested in the voting booth.
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Posted at 02:33 PM
July 15, 2008
Peak oil in the Commonwealth Parliament
[Riot 4 Austerity] Few people in the House will be unaware of the theory of peak oil””that there is simply not enough undiscovered oil on the planet to keep up with ever-increasing global demand and that we are therefore destined to suffer from reducing supplies and skyrocketing prices.
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Posted at 02:34 PM
Peak Oil - time to start worrying
[Alonline] These would very quickly allow most transport to move to an oil free fuel supply (air transport would need a radical rethink in order to be able to use fuel cells, but all other modes of transport could be converted relatively simply). Hydrogen fuel cells would also allow us to change the way we look at our power supplies as well, as it may be more cost effective for businesses and larger properties to move to generating their own supply via a fuel cell rather than relying on commercial supply.
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Posted at 02:33 PM
July 14, 2008
ECO DESIGN START-UPS
[Re-Creating The Existing] The 38 year old London-based designer wasn't always involved in eco-fashion. Like most students looking to make their creative mark on the world, she went down the conceptual high fashion route during her days at the prestigious Central St Martins.
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Posted at 12:33 PM
Summer eco-fashion sale at Greenloop: July 11-20
[Inhabitat] We hear the complaint frequently that eco fashion is ”˜too expensive’ - and there is definitely some merit to that claim. (Of course there is a very good reason that organic, non-sweatshop produced garments cost more than your average .
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Posted at 12:32 PM
July 12, 2008
Climate Change and Trade Unions
[Caroline Lucas MEP] This Green Party event will explore why trade unions should be concerned about climate change, as well as the role they can play in taking action. More details available soon.
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Posted at 03:02 PM
EPA Draft Report Concludes Climate Change May Significantly ...
[Green Car Congress] Air quality managers may need multi-year simulations to support the development of long-term air quality control strategies, to capture the effects of both natural meteorological variability and climate-induced changes, the EPA suggested. Air quality managers may also need to plan to extend the season over which they monitor O3 concentrations and be prepared to issue air quality alerts earlier in the spring and later into the fall.
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Posted at 03:01 PM
July 11, 2008
Climate change failure: The international finger-pointing continues
[Green Daily] In a nutshell, the G8 is saying "we're not going to risk our standard of living to fight climate change" while the rest of the world replies "once we reach your standard of living, we'll be happy to do our part." Solutions, anyone?
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Posted at 03:02 PM
World Bank Launches Site on Climate Change in the Middle East and ...
[CLIMATE-L.ORG] July 2008:The World Bank has launched a web site on climate change in the Middle East andNorth Africa region (MENA). The site contains information on ongoing andplanned World Bank activities aimed at helping MENA countries address climatechange, including a draft regional Business Strategy to Address Climate Change.
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Posted at 03:01 PM
July 10, 2008
Climate change
[Director's Blog] CBO has been doing a significant amount of analytical work on climate change, and I wrote an oped for today’s Washington Post based on much of this work. It notes that the economic cost of emission reductions will depend on the degree .
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Posted at 03:02 PM
Women and Climate Change
[UN Dispatch] There's a great piece on RH Reality Check today on the fact that while global climate change is, at long last, getting the attention it deserves, there needs to be more focus on how women are being disproportionately affected .
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