NewsRack: flenvcenter/Air-and-Climate_Independent

Deep-sea volcanoes play key climate role - Climate Change News - ENN

dotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdot — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

A vast network of under-sea volcanoes pumping out nutrient-rich water in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in soaking up large amounts of carbon dioxide, acting as a brake on climate change, scientists say. A group of Australian and French scientists have shown for the first time that the volcanoes are a major source of iron that single-celled plants called phytoplankton need to bloom and in the process soak up CO2, the main greenhouse gas.

What’s Next for Climate Change? - NewWest.Net Politics

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Domestic and international efforts to reduce CO2 emissions are dead in the water. Many will think this is bad news. I don’t. Here’s why. Policies such as the Kyoto Protocol and U.S. cap-and-trade legislation focus solely on reducing CO2 emissions. But these are symbolic acts, mere posturing, while doing little or nothing to achieve their stated goals. Stubborn reliance on this approach is now the main barrier to an effective climate policy.

What's Next for Climate Change? - NewWest.Net All Headlines

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Domestic and international efforts to reduce CO2 emissions are dead in the water. Many will think this is bad news. I don't. Here's why. Policies such as the Kyoto Protocol and U.S. cap-and-trade legislation focus solely on reducing CO2 emissions. But these are symbolic acts, mere posturing, while doing little or nothing to achieve their stated goals. Stubborn reliance on this approach is now the main barrier to an effective climate policy.

Most Power Plants Still Spewing Toxic Mercury, Report Says - Common Dreams: Headlines

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

by Renee Schoof

WASHINGTON - Many of America's coal-fired power plants lack widely available pollution controls for the highly toxic metal mercury, and mercury emissions recently increased at more than half of the country's 50 largest mercury-emitting power plants, according to a report Wednesday.

The nonpartisan Environmental Integrity Project reported that five of the 10 plants with the highest amount of mercury emitted are in Texas. Plants in Georgia, Missouri, Alabama, Pennsylvania and Michigan also are in the top 10.

Big Oil's Slow Road to Sustainability - Energy & Climate | Greenbiz.com

Todd Cort — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Last week, we released the sustainability rankings of the world's largest oil and gas companies. Despite the skepticism of whether the industry can ever be green, there are plenty of reasons to rank their sustainability efforts.

Salt and Smog - Climate Change News - ENN

dotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdot — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Salt and Smog

William Bradley: The Mitt & Meg Show: "Taking Care of Business" - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

William Bradley — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Billionaire Meg Whitman, the seeming political cipher who would be governor of California, is purchasing endless amounts of unanswered advertising. It's propelled her into a...

Obama's Regulatory Czar Deliberately Stalling Toxic Coal Waste Regulation - Truthout - All Articles

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

It may be unsettling to some that the man most responsible for overseeing coal ash regulation within the Obama administration has a track record of siding with polluters instead of the people most affected by toxic waste.

His name is Cass Sunstein

Simple Tools for Effective Climate Reporting - Energy & Climate | Greenbiz.com

Ryan Schuchard — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Until now, companies have lacked direction on how to report on climate policy engagement. This primer covers what companies are reporting today, what we recommend companies focus on going forward, and how companies can approach reporting on climate policy engagement.

Outdoor Industry Leaders Call on Congress to Make Investing in Public Lands and Protecting Natural Resources a Priority in Climate Legislation - Commondreams.org Newswire

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 17, 2010

National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA)

Seventy-five outdoor businesses, the Outdoor Industry Association, Outdoor Alliance and the National Parks Conservation Association have signed on to a letter calling on Congress to protect public lands from climate change impacts. The letter, which will be delivered to Congressional offices this week, is below. Healthy lands and waters help generate $730 billion in economic activity in the United States, which generates $88 billion in state and federal tax revenue.

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Most Africans Blame Themselves for Climate Change, Poll Finds - TreeHugger

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
Most Africans Blame Themselves for Climate Change, Poll Finds

If it does matter where CO2 is released, cities are in trouble - Grist Magazine

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
There’s some fascinating new research about “CO2 domes,” invisible clouds of carbon pollution that hover above urban areas. Bradford Plumer at The New Republic does a great job setting the context : Does it matter where carbon dioxide is emitted? From a climate perspective, at least, the standard answer has always been, “Not really.” Carbon dioxide mixes pretty evenly and uniformly throughout the atmosphere, so that the heat-trapping gases coming out of a factory in China have the same effect on global temperatures, pound for pound, as the greenhouse gases emitted by, say, cars in Delaware. (This is in contrast to a number of other air pollutants, whose effects are often localized—sulfur dioxide only causes ...

Frances Beinecke: Climate Change Is a Scientific Reality, Not a Political Debate - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Frances Beinecke — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
Climate denials have reached a fever pitch in the past few weeks. Anti-science screeds have littered the pages of the major newspapers and dominated talk...

Climate Change and Habitat Loss Posing Great Threat to Europe's Small Creatures - Common Dreams: Headlines

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

by Frank McDonald
THE LATEST European Red List, commissioned by the EU and released yesterday, shows that habitat loss and climate change are having a serious impact on Europe’s butterflies, beetles and dragonflies.
Nine per cent of butterflies, 11 per cent of beetles – which depend on decaying wood and are essential for recycling nutrients in the soil – and 14 per cent of dragonflies are threatened with extinction in Europe.
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Study Highlights Forest Protected Areas as a Critical Strategy for Slowing Climate Change - Commondreams.org Newswire

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 16, 2010 World Wildlife Fund A new study involving scientists from 13 different organizations, universities and research institutions states that forest protection offers one of the most effective, practical, and immediate strategies to combat climate change. The study, "Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change," was published in PLoS Biology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, and makes specific recommendations for incorporating protected areas into overall strategies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses from deforestation and degradation (nicknamed REDD). read ...

Eugene Robinson | Katrina’s Toxic Legacy Lives - Truthout - All Articles

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Washington - The Obama administration is making a big health care mistake. I'm not talking about the final push for comprehensive reform legislation, which is righteous and necessary. I mean the sale of more than 100,000 contaminated trailers and mobile homes -- a move that could make people sick.
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James Hansen's climate reckoning - rabble.ca - News for the rest of us

alex — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

In 2009, just before the Copenhagen conference, some scientists working on climate change models at the University of East Anglia were exposed for proposing that some data should be concealed. The chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was then widely criticized for predicting the precise year that Himalayan glaciers will disappear without any peer-reviewed evidence.
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Climate Skepticism Grows as Emissions Fall - Energy & Climate | Greenbiz.com

ClimateBiz Staff — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

A Gallup poll published last week found that overall, more Americans feel the media exaggerates the seriousness of climate change today than they did two years ago. At the same time, the EPA estimates greenhouse gas emissions dropped 3 percent in 2008.

Nikolas Kozloff: Falklands Dispute: Argentine Sovereignty Won't Solve the Problem - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Nikolas Kozloff — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
For the sake of the marine environment and the Magellanic penguin, Britain and Argentina need to ratchet back oil development on the Falkland Islands, not promote further exploration.

Suzy Shuster: British Watchdog Group Rebukes Government for Climate Change Nursery Rhyme Advertisements - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Suzy Shuster — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
In light of the British government's crackdown on exaggerated global warming claims, I did some "research" into some other subversive children's rhymes that might surprise you.

Deep-sea volcanoes play key climate role - Environmental News Network

dotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdot — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
A vast network of under-sea volcanoes pumping out nutrient-rich water in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in soaking up large amounts of carbon dioxide, acting as a brake on climate change, scientists say. A group of Australian and French scientists have shown for the first time that the volcanoes are a major source of iron that single-celled plants called phytoplankton need to bloom and in the process soak up CO2, the main greenhouse gas.

US EPA to regulate Green House gas emissions from cars - Climate Change News - ENN

dotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdotdot — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
US EPA to regulate Green House gas emissions from cars

Climate Change Isn't Just About Energy; It's About National Priorities - Truthout - All Articles

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Alaska Natives are in danger and need to be relocated due to warming Arctic weather, but the US government is dragging its feet.

Polls show conservatives on average are much more likely to doubt the existence of anthropogenic, or human-influenced, climate changes, a stance that usually means opposition to regulatory action on greenhouse gas emissions.

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Why politics and climate change science do not mix - rabble.ca - News for the rest of us

Daniel Tseghay — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
With climate change becoming an increasingly recognized – and feared – phenomenon, it"s remarkable just how indifferent, even contemptuous, the Canadian Conservative government appears to be of it. The government has recently made the decision to withhold further funding for the research organization, Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science, making this its last year in operation. read ...

The 1,000 Day Siege of Gaza - Common Dreams: Views

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

by Ann Wright
This week marked 1,000 days of an Israeli and international siege on Gaza - 1,000 days of an open air prison where "inmates," the civilian Palestinian population of 1.5 million, cannot leave or enter at will - by land, sea or air, the tiny area known as the Gaza Strip.
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