Sen. Cantwell (D-WA): U.S.-China Climate Deal Likely at Obama Visit, Senate Has “50-50 chance” of Passing Climate Bill This Year
Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThe United States and China are likely to sign a new bilateral agreement to combat climate change during President Barack Obama’s visit to Beijing in November, Washington senator Maria Cantwell said on Friday. Cantwell, who is in ...
Influential U.K. Panel Outlines Possible Geo-engineering Ideas
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThe U.K.’s highly respected Royal Society has released a study outlining two major potential methods of cooling the earth if mankind fails to slow global warming by reducing CO2 emissions: removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, ...
Europe Cuts Emissions, Imposes Ban on Incandescent Bulbs
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffFor the fourth year in a row, Europe has reduced its carbon dioxide emissions, with CO2 output falling by 1.3 percent in 2008. The recession appears to be the main factor in the emissions reduction, as ...
Europe Cuts Emissions, Imposes Ban on Incandescent Bulbs
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffFor the fourth year in a row, Europe has reduced its carbon dioxide emissions, with CO2 output falling by 1.3 percent in 2008. The recession appears to be the main factor in the emissions reduction, as ...
UN: Rich Countries Will Suffer Unless They Help Poor on Climate Change
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Ashley Seager • £300bn needed by poor nations to tackle carbon emissions • Failure to give could reduce world gross product by 20% The world's rich countries need to embark on a huge transfer of funds to developing ...
Global Warming, California, and What a 1-Degree Temperature Increase Means for Wildfires
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThe scientific literature paints a hellish future if we don’t quickly reverse greenhouse gas emissions trends (see "Climate change expected to sharply increase Western wildfire burn area — as much as 175% by the 2050s"). ...
The Beauty of 10:10 Is That It’s Both Achievable and Meaningful
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Ian Katz The world's response to global warming is a classic case of all mouth and no trousers. This new initiative aims to show that we can all act now - and achieve something significant Future generations ...
Japan’s Yukio Hatoyama and Climate Change
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffGood news, potentially, for those of us who've been looking to Japan for more leadership in the lead-up to Copenhagen: today's landslide for the Democratic Party of Japan means that Yukio Hatoyama will be the next ...
Japan’s Yukio Hatoyama and Climate Change
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffGood news, potentially, for those of us who've been looking to Japan for more leadership in the lead-up to Copenhagen: today's landslide for the Democratic Party of Japan means that Yukio Hatoyama will be the next ...
Science on the Risks of Climate Engineering: Optimism About a Geoengineered Easy Way Out Should Be Tempered by Examination of Currently Observed Climate Changes
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffAs the risks of climate change and the difficulty of effectively reducing greenhouse gas emissions become increasingly obvious, potential geoengineering solutions are widely discussed. For example, in a recent report, Blackstock et al. explore the feasibility, ...
Japan’s Yukio Hatoyama and Climate Change
Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffGood news, potentially, for those of us who've been looking to Japan for more leadership in the lead-up to Copenhagen: today's landslide for the Democratic Party of Japan means that Yukio Hatoyama will be the next ...
Turning Charcoal Into Carbon Gold
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby David Adam A chocolate maker and music promoter aim to create a £1bn biochar industry, in a controversial effort to fight climate change In a patch of woodland on the outskirts of Hastings, on the English south ...
China Will Sign Global Treaty If U.S. Passes Climate Bill, E.U. Leader Says
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffMuch of the fate of the U.N. climate treaty talks now rests in the U.S. Senate, according to a leading E.U. official, who says China would “lose its last reason” not to support an international pact ...
Global Warming Is A Medical Emergency; Hellish Heatwaves To Harm Health Of Millions
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffWe’re starting to see more and more work on the health impacts of global warming (see “The Lancet’s landmark Health Commission: “Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century” and “Climate ...
Pachauri Supports Goal Limiting Atmospheric CO2 to 350 ppm
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffRajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says he supports the goal of cutting atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million, a highly ambitious target supported by many environmental ...
A Global Climate Deal Must Be Simpler, Fairer, and More Flexible Than Kyoto
Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Claus Leggewie Negotiations on emissions in the run-up to the UN climate summit show no sign of the radical change we need Limiting global warming to 2C above preindustrial levels is absolutely crucial, says the G8 ...
Australian Parliament Adopts 20 Percent Renewables Standard By 2020
Thursday, August 20th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffAustralia’s Parliament has passed a law requiring that 20 percent of the country’s electricity come from renewable sources by 2020, an increase from the current level of 8 percent. The standard, which matches the European Union’s, ...
Big Support for Senate Climate Action
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Anna Fahey Quick polling note: A new Zogby poll released last Tuesday revealed that 71 percent of likely voters support the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES--a.k.a. Waxman-Markey) passed by the US House of Representatives at ...
The most crucial missing element in U.S. media coverage of climate change: The ethical duty to reduce GHG emissions
Monday, August 17th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffDonald A. Brown Okay, maybe the most crucial missing element in US media coverage of climate change is an actual understanding of the dire nature of the issue or maybe the still unjustifiable “balance” whereby the other ...
Obama’s Science Adviser Urges Leadership On Climate
Monday, August 17th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffJohn Holdren, the president’s top science adviser, is playing a key role in shaping the Obama administration’s strategy to combat global warming. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Holdren discusses the prospects for achieving key ...