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Sheep and Cow Farting Vaccine to Reduce Climate Changing Methane Emissions
2008-06-09 16:37:00 Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping heat. New Zealand scientists have developed a vaccine to cut down on livestock flatulence, which should help...
By: Green Options
Tornados, Flooding May Warn Of Climate Change
2008-06-09 00:00:00 Global Warming News : Tornados, Flooding May Warn Of Climate Change Record-keeping meteorologists at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration say this year?s tornado season is one of the deadliest in a decade and may be on pace to set a record for the most tornadoes. And flooding in the Midwest ...
Ocean Life Under Threat From Climate Change
2008-06-09 00:00:00 Global Warming News : Ocean Life Under Threat From Climate Change ?Marine ecosystems are undoubtedly under-resourced, overlooked and under threat and our collective knowledge of impacts on marine life is a mere drop in the ocean,? wrote Dr Anthony Richardson, from The University of Queensland and CSIRO, and his co-author, Dr ...
Brown Argus Butterfly Sees Positive Effects Of Climate Change
2008-06-09 00:00:00 Global Warming News : Brown Argus Butterfly Sees Positive Effects Of Climate Change Global warming is generally thought to have a negative affect on the habitats of many animals and plants. Not for the Brown Argus butterfly, however. This insect seems to be bucking the trend and expanding its numbers quicker ...
SAHEL: Sahel climate change diary - Jan Egeland
2008-06-07 17:00:00 Source: IRIN NEWS SAHEL: Sahel climate change diary - Day 1 OUAGADOUGOU, 2 June 2008 (IRIN) - There’s a very academic discussion happening in Europe right now still asking “is the climate already changing” and “is climate change noticeable today”. Here in Burkina Faso that debate is not happening, because the effects already speak for themselves. Although today ...
Setting up the climate change issue
2008-06-07 01:01:00 The Lieberman-Warner climate change bill stalled in the Senate today, after a failed cloture vote tallying just 48 votes in favor of proceeding to debate. Actually, by the time the bill went down, it had become known as the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner bill. That’s a nifty little move that comes as a perk of chairmanship of the committee ...
Snails indicate Climate change?
2008-06-05 20:18:00 Users of a busy carriageway in Germany witnessed a fuss caused by a large number of snails, which became a cause of several accidents. Some experts believe that the mass migration of these snails could have been due to climate change since snails sought a more becoming environment.
Schwarzenegger Battles Climate Change With Launch Of ?Together? Campaign
2008-06-05 17:21:00 Before there was Al Gore’s $300 million WE environmental campaign, in the UK there was the TOGETHER anti-climate change campaign. Picking up on the theme here? Those with enochlophobia should definitely steer clear. Now the TOGETHER campaign is coming state-side and Arnold Schwarzenegger is joining New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon ...
By: Ecorazzi
U.N. Climate Change Conference Gets Its Quiet On
2008-06-05 00:32:00 I wonder why the United Nations, Al Gore, and the rest of the anthropogenic global warming folks have been so quiet about their latest conference. Usually, I am pretty much up on this kind of stuff before it happens, as are a few other bloggers, but this one blew right by me The latest round of ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Climate Change Causing Forced African Migration
2008-06-04 18:35:00 With each passing year a new score of problems arise out of Earth?s changing climate. Whether you blame it on man, natural cycles or the crazy neighbor next door, the effects are unmistakable and...
By: Green Options
Invitation for Seminar: ?Action on Climate Change?
2008-06-03 20:04:00 The Oceanic Group (TOG), a non profit society with special focus on awareness building on Environment & Health issues had launched an Interactive Seminar Series (Bimonthly) on Climate Change (CC) on 4 June 2007 in collaboration with the India Habitat Centre (IHC). The 1st Annual Seminar, the sixth seminar in the series will be held on ...
By: Delhi Greens
SAHEL: Sahel climate change diary - Day 1 Burkina Faso
2008-06-03 11:34:00 Source: IRIN NEWS SAHEL: Sahel climate change diary - Day 1 OUAGADOUGOU, 2 June 2008 (IRIN) - There’s a very academic discussion happening in Europe right now still asking “is the climate already changing” and “is climate change noticeable today”. Here in Burkina Faso that debate is not happening, because the effects already speak for themselves. Although today ...
Americans Debating Climate Change
2008-06-02 20:10:00 Like this post? Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date.From the man who has sent an occupation force to another country with no feasible exit-strategy and thus its own budgetary concerns,...
By: Green Options
SAHEL: Region is ?ground zero? for climate change - Egeland
2008-06-02 16:51:00 Source: IRIN NEWS SAHEL: Region is “ground zero” for climate change - Egeland OUAGADOUGOU , 2 June 2008 (IRIN) - The Sahel region of West Africa is “ground zero” for vulnerable communities struggling to adapt to climate change, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on conflict, Jan Egeland, said on 2 June in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, ...
Mean Joe Green #12: White House Completes a Realistic Climate Change Report
2008-05-31 07:27:00 The New York Times had a brief and POOR-ly titled article on the White House’s recent (and surprisingly factual) report on climate change. The article’s title “White House: Poor...
By: Green Options
Climate of Fear: Why Worrying About Climate Change Is a Waste of (Precious)
2008-05-30 05:14:00 By worrying, you can tell yourself you care without actually having to do anything. Worrying is a replacement for taking responsibility and action, a passive substitute for doing the brave, hard things in life.
Alaska, Southwest to Feel Greatest Climate Change Pain in U.S.
2008-05-29 21:33:00 Years of legal wrangling have finally produced a long-awaited report on the current and potential effects of climate change on the U.S. And it should come as no surprise that regions already hurting...
By: Green Options
Is Exxon Backing Away From Climate Change Deniers?
2008-05-29 18:26:00 Love on the rocks? Exxon Mobil Corp. has cut funding to groups raising questions about climate change from human-generated carbon dioxide, a move taken on the eve of its annual meeting in the face of criticism that the oil giant isn’t as green as some of its rivals. Spokesman Gantt Walton confirmed Tuesday that in 2008, Exxon ...
More Climate Change
2008-05-28 16:17:00 Is this a hysteria on climate change? We keep pushing the boundaries. Now scientists are talking about massive global climate changes on Jupiter. Just what are the Jovians doing on their world? "The idea that Jupiter is undergoing global climate change was proposed in 2004 by Phil Marcus, a
Obesity Contributes to Climate Change
2008-05-28 06:30:00 Those extra pounds Americans are carrying around are causing climate change. Considering eating more food requires more agriculture production and transportation costs, obese people are contributing...
By: Green Options
The Climate Change Debate and West Virginia
2008-05-27 19:49:00 At least two groups are appealing to West Virginians through radio ads as the U.S. Senate weighs "America's Climate Security Act."The legislation seeks to "direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes. "One of the radio spots comes from AmericasPower.org, sponsored by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. The coalition includes most, though not all, of the major coal producers operating in the state.The Associated Press reports on the other group, the free-market espousing Club for Growth, running ads throughout the country regarding the bill.While both spots raise questions about the legislation, the latter group is also focusing on this year's crop of candidates. They include U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va."The proposed legislation calls for capping carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, transportation and industrial sources with a goal of reducing g...
How Radio Helps African Farmers Cope with Climate Change
2008-05-27 18:54:00 Kwabena Mensa, a small holder cocoa farmer in rural Ghana, readily testifies that the seasons have changed, and he no longer plants his crop in mid-year as he used to more than ten years ago. He has...
By: Green Options
Billions Wasted By UN On Climate Change Programs? The Hell You Say!
2008-05-27 14:18:00 You won’t believe where I found this story. The Democratic Underground. And a few of them agree with the conservative opinion that the UN is a worthless piece of garbage Billions of pounds are being wasted in paying industries in developing countries to reduce climate change emissions, according to two analyses of the UN’s carbon offsetting ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Cartoon Monday
2008-05-26 14:03:00 Happy Memorial Day! Click on the thumbnails for the full sized images.Borrowed from here, here, and here.
By: Political Realm
Breaking Heartland?s Heart
2008-05-25 21:38:00 The Heartland Institute is a not uncommon source for climate ’skepticism’, which term, by the way, I put is scare quotes as climate ’skepticism’ makes a mockery of skepticism and I find that offensive. Climate ’skepticism’ is an insult to skeptics everywhere. You see, the skeptic questions, the climate ’skeptic’ fabricates and misrepresents in an ...
Are Disaster Capitalists Seeking Profit from Climate Change?
2008-05-25 17:52:00 Remember the scene in Apocalypse Now where Marlon Brando’s character, the crazed Colonel Kurtz, tells Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) of the shock he felt upon realizing the strength of his...
By: Green Options
World Bank Aims to Raise $5.5 Billion for Climate Change Funds - Bloomberg
2008-05-25 07:53:00 World Bank Aims to Raise $5.5 Billion for Climate Change FundsBloomberg - 16 minutes agoBy Yuji Okada and Shigeru Sato May 25 (Bloomberg) -- The World Bank will raise at least $5.5 billion with the US, UK and Japan this year for climate change ...
Google Earth Gets Gordon Brown?s Clap on Climate Change Tracking Tool
2008-05-24 08:10:00 Like this post? Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date.British prime minister, Gordon Brown’s credentials as a climate change advocate seemed to get a meditated jerk last week as he went...
By: Green Options
Climate change chocolate, tastes as good as it sounds
2008-05-23 14:00:00 Anyone who is fed up with buying mass produced chocolate that has a dubious background, can now relax as there is an alternative and that is a bar of Climate Change Chocolate from Bloomsberry & Co, the chocolate is a good as chocolate gets, but you just that it’s going to be good for the environment too. Especially as each bar comes with a wrapper that has fifteen tips to help you lighten your environmental impact, which is always a good thing to have. Just in case you ever forget that we need to protect the planet. chocolate, climate, Climate Change, Eco Friendly, Environment, Fair Trade, Food, tastes, The Environment
Global Cumulative CO2 Emissions (1850-2000)
2008-05-23 09:32:00 Like this post? Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date.Yikes!
By: Green Options
Google Earth app shows effects of climate change
2008-05-20 19:40:00 Google Earth app shows effects of climate changeBritish government-led effort uses Google Earth to project temperature changes and Arctic ice loss over next 100 years. http://www.ne-ws.com/8301-11128_3-9948315-54.-html?part=rss&subj=news&-;tag=...
Google Earth showing climate change as well
2008-05-19 20:09:00 The seriousness of global warming has also reached Google's Google Earth application. The downloadable mapping application, which has been designed to offer satellite imagery of Earth, has just received two KLM layers, which canhelp users better understand how climate change will affect our planet and its people. The two layers, which are dubbed Climate Change in Our World and Climate Change in Our World, Antarctica are available for download here.Google's Earth application has been recently updated with a number of KLM layers which have been designed for various purposes. Starting with the disasters that struck Myanmar and China and ending with the history lesson, provided by the 120 maps from the Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Google Earth is trying to provide useful insight into the things that are happening all over the world. All updates require users to download the Google Earth application and the additional KLM data files.According to the official Google Earth blog, as ...
By: Techskill4all
Why Grassroots Initiatives Can't Fix Climate Change
2008-05-19 15:52:00 From Scientific American: Have you heard enough already about global warming? It's so ... last year's news! Plenty of people are "doing something" about it. Becoming carbon-neutral has gone as mainstream as Girl Scout cookies; help is on the way. Can we move on, please? Unfortun
Cartoon Monday
2008-05-19 13:19:00 Click on the thumbnails for the full sized images. Enjoy.Borrowed from here, here, and here.
By: Political Realm
Your Carbon Use - In Black Balloons [video]
2008-05-19 00:30:00 Like this post? Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date.The accumulation of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere can be a difficult concept to visualize (maybe something to do with the fact that...
By: Green Options
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, The Defining Moment for Climate Change
2008-05-17 00:42:00 by Tom Engelhardt Already climate change — in the form of a changing pattern of global rainfall — seems to be affecting the planet in significant ways. Take the massive, almost decade-long drought in Australia's wheat-growing heartland, which has been a significant factor in sending flour prices, and so bread prices, soaring globally, leading to desperation and food riots across the planet. A report from the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia makes clear that, despite recent heavy rains in the eastern Australian breadbasket, years of above normal rainfall would be needed "to remove the very long-term [water] deficits" in the region. The report then adds this ominous note: "The combination of record heat and widespread drought during the past five to 10 years over large parts of southern and eastern Australia is without historical precedent and is, at least partly, a result of climate change." Think a bit about that phrase — "without hist...
Peak oil and climate change explained to teenagers
2008-05-15 23:13:00 Here's a guy called Brian Kaller giving a talk about peak oil and CC to a large audience of teenagers. His explanations are very straightforward and explicit.Peak oilClimate changeDealing with itRelated:Running on empty (article by Brian Kaller)
By: Revolving Doors
Ex Beatle?s green car, not so green
2008-05-15 17:00:00 Sir Paul McCartney has a reputation as being very green and eco friendly, yet in his life time he must have flown thousands and thousands of miles all around the world, but we forgive him because he is now making up for it by promoting a green life style. Even the car that he drives ...
Climate change could prompt reform of irrigation rules
2008-05-15 11:00:00 Irrigation rules could be reformed to allow farmers to take advantage of climate change and abstract more water during wetter summer months.
By: FWi - All News
A Little Light on Climate Change
2008-05-14 15:27:00 Help hold back climate change by replacing incandescent lamps with LED light bulbs. That's one suggestion in the Clinton Climate Initiative. New LED bulbs are more energy efficient — by as much as 90% — than incandescent bulbs of comparable light quality. And, since cities contribute a d
Obama: Blame the Iraq War for Lack of US Climate Change Leadership
2008-05-14 15:01:00 Oh, I admit it; I’ve fallen hard for Obama. Perhaps it is his handsome face or eloquent manner of speech, or perhaps it is because he is the first viable candidate (sorry Kucinich and Nader) to...
By: Green Options
Environmental Stewardship should do more for climate change, DEFRA says
2008-05-13 19:20:00 More needs to be done to address the role Environmental Stewardship plays in combating climate change,...
By: FWi - All News
Climate change barely bothers wealthy, polluting nations: study
2008-05-13 08:25:00 Climate change barely bothers wealthy, polluting nations: studyAnother study ties cavalier attitudes about global warming to national wealth and carbon pollution. htt-p://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9-942587-54.html?part=rss&sub-j=news&tag=2547-1...
McCain on climate change
2008-05-13 08:09:00 Republican candidate McCain seems to be taking climate change seriously...clipped from www.nytimes.comPORTLAND, Ore. ? Senator John McCain sought to distance himself from President Bush on Monday as he called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to combat climate change.?I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears,? Mr. McCain said pointedly. ?I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges.? Mr. McCain, in a speech at a wind power company, also pledged to work with the European Union to diplomatically engage China and India, two of the world?s biggest polluters, if they refuse to participate in an international agreement to slow global warming. ...but his goals are too modest. His way is a middle way. The democratic candidates have more ambitious targets. They aim for 80% reductions in carbon dioxide pollution by 2050. McCain stops at 60%.
By: Revolving Doors
Mars, Europa, Titan & Climate Change - Whats The Link ?
2008-05-13 07:00:00 Techniques pioneered by the European Space Agency (ESA) for use on Mars, are set to have a very down to earth use here on planet Earth and beyond to the Icy moon Europa circling the Gas Giant Planet, Jupiter. As well as Europa, another Ice moon “Titan”, the biggest of Saturn’s Moons, is also a ...
By: Resources zone
Ad Wars: McCain Seeks The Center
2008-05-13 06:12:00 Check out our entire video library at Political Realm TV.John McCainThe McCain campaign has released another general election ad, this one to air in Oregon, a state they very much hope to put in play in November. In the ad, "A Better Way," McCain seeks to own the middle ground on the environment, decrying the extremists on both sides. The ad affords McCain a break with the policies of President Bush and the Republican Party, which will be a necessary tactic to expand his electoral options (Oregon has gone narrowly to Democrats the last two cycles). But beyond acknowledging the existence of global warming, McCain's break with his party seems relatively superficial or at least unsubstantiated. For some, the symbolism of reaching across the aisle (artificial or otherwise) may be enough, but until McCain offers more specifics, his reach may be limited.Barack ObamaMoveOn.org will begin airing a new ad supporting Obama on national cable and it local markets in the battleground states...
By: Political Realm
The Links: West Virginia's Impact
2008-05-13 05:44:00 Served fresh (almost) daily...West Virginia Polling Average: Clinton +31.8McCain vs. Obama: Obama +4.5McCain vs. Clinton: Clinton +4.8Michael Scherer offers McCain seven steps to defeat Obama.Clinton plays up West Virginia's significance.HI Sen Daniel Akaka, ME Dem Tom Allen, an HI super, and an ID super back Obama.LA Times thinks Clinton staying in the race affords Obama some cover in WV and KY.Stuart Rothenberg writes that 2008 has not been kind to pollsters.President Bush's spiritual advisor is supporting Obama.Chelsea Clinton is campaigning in Puerto Rico this week.Does Clinton want on the ticket? NY Senator Chuck Schumer is now pushing the idea.Ben Smith offers several options for Clinton to end her presidential bid.Obama is turning his focus to the general election.McCain tried to break with President Bush in an environmental speech today.Expectations are getting out of hand for Clinton in WV.The Clinton campaign acknowledged they have $20 million worth of debts.Cindy McCai...
By: Political Realm
John McCain on Climate Change Policy - TV AD - A Better Way
2008-05-13 01:27:00 TV AD - A Better WayARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain delivered the following remarks as prepared for delivery at the Vestas Training Facility, in Portland, OR: (editors note: as soon as the video for the following speech is avalable it will be posted here)Thank you all very much. I appreciate the hospitality of Vestas Wind Technology. Today is a kind of test run for the company. They've got wind technicians here, wind studies, and all these wind turbines, but there's no wind. So now I know why they asked me to come give a speech.Every day, when there are no reporters and cameras around to draw attention to it, this company and others like it are doing important work. And what we see here is just a glimpse of much bigger things to come. Wind power is one of many alternative energy sources that are changing our economy for the better. And one day they will change our economy forever.Wind is a clean and predictable source of energy, and about as renewable as anything on eart...
John McCain on Climate Change Policy - TV AD - A Better Way
2008-05-13 01:27:00 TV AD - A Better WayARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain delivered the following remarks as prepared for delivery at the Vestas Training Facility, in Portland, OR: (editors note: as soon as the video for the following speech is avalable it will be posted here)Thank you all very much. I appreciate the hospitality of Vestas Wind Technology. Today is a kind of test run for the company. They've got wind technicians here, wind studies, and all these wind turbines, but there's no wind. So now I know why they asked me to come give a speech.Every day, when there are no reporters and cameras around to draw attention to it, this company and others like it are doing important work. And what we see here is just a glimpse of much bigger things to come. Wind power is one of many alternative energy sources that are changing our economy for the better. And one day they will change our economy forever.Wind is a clean and predictable source of energy, and about as renewable as anything on eart...
Spain to help fight hunger, climate change in Africa
2008-05-12 22:57:00 Source: AlertNet NIAMEY, May 12 (Reuters) - Spain plans to help five poor African countries fight hunger and climate change under a 60 million euro ($90 million) scheme to help the continent whose people flood to Spain in their tens of thousands each year. Spanish First Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega announced the ... |
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