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Betting on Climate Change: Corporations Stand to Make or Lose Billions
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20.4.2010 |
Wired Top Stories |
| Is the planet really warming up? Just ask the corporations that stand to win or lose billions. While politicians dither, savvy corporations are finding ways to make a buck on global warming.
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What links the banking crisis and the volcano? | George Monbiot
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20.4.2010 |
Guardian: Environment |
| We rely globally on over-complex, over-strained systems. Act now, or wait for the much more brutal corrective of nature
Man proposes; nature disposes. We are seldom more vulnerable than when we feel insulated. The miracle of modern flight protected us from gravity, atmosphere, culture, geography. It made everywhere feel local, interchangeable. Nature interjects , and we encounter – tragically for many – the reality of thousands of miles of separation. We discover that we have not escaped from the physical world after all.
Complex, connected societies are more resilient than simple ones – up to a point. During the east African droughts of the early 1990s, I saw at first hand what anthropologists and economists have long predicted: those ... |
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Earth Day, Labor, and Me
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19.4.2010 |
Commondreams.org Views |
| by Joe Uehlein The approach of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22
provides us an opportunity to reflect on the "long, strange trip" shared
by the environmental movement and the labor movement over four decades
here on Spaceship Earth. A billion people participate in Earth Day events, making it the
largest secular civic event in the world. But when it was founded in
1970, according to Earth Day's first national coordinator Denis Hayes,
"Without the UAW, the first Earth Day would have likely flopped!" read more |
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Scientists call for research on climate link to geological hazards
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19.4.2010 |
Guardian: Environment |
| Experts say suggestions that climate change could trigger more volcanoes and earthquakes are speculative, but there is enough evidence to take the threat seriously
Scientists today called for wide-ranging research into whether more volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis could be triggered by rising global temperatures under global warming.
Significant warming of the atmosphere in the distant past can be linked to changes in geological activity, they say. Suggestions that climate change predicted for coming decades could bring similar changes remain speculative, but the scientists say there is enough evidence to take the threat seriously. Some experts have already linked current levels of global warming to rockfalls and landslides ... |
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Lies, damned lies, and statistics, and how they relate to climate change research (or, mathematics as a language with many dialects)
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15.4.2010 |
The Moderate Voice |
| Although other issues have become the focus of the manufactured tempests of both new and old media, that does not mean that there is no fallout from previous hyperbolic storms. The Dot Earth Blog at NYTimes.com has a post on the report from a committee of experts recommended by the Royal Society inquiring into the [...] |
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Drumbeat: April 13, 2010
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13.4.2010 |
The Oil Drum |
| 2010 IEA Response System for Oil Supply Emergencies
Although the oil delivery system has changed dramatically since the oil shocks of the 1970s, there is still a high risk of a supply disruption which could have great economic consequences for IEA member countries.
Capacity constraints, both in production and refining, have increased the potential of supply falling short of demand. Given this delicate balance of supply and demand, even a disruption of relatively small volume can have a significant impact on the market. Global demand growth exacerbates market tightness, further re-enforcing the need for investment in capacity expansion
Uncertain investment climates in some producer countries, often described as an aspect of “resource ... |
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Peruvian glacier split triggers deadly tsunami
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13.4.2010 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| Chunk of ice the size of four football pitches falls from Hualcan glacier into Andean lake, resulting in at least one death
A massive ice block broke from a glacier and crashed into a lake in the Peruvian Andes, unleashing a 23-metre tsunami and sending muddy torrents through nearby towns, killing at least one person.
The chunk of ice, estimated at the size of four football pitches, detached from the Hualcan glacier near Carhuaz, about 200 miles north of the capital, Lima, on Sunday. It plunged into a lagoon known as lake 513, triggering a tsunami that breached 23 metre (75ft) high levees and damaged Carhuaz and other villages, according to authorities.
The Indeci civil defence institute said 50 homes and a water processing plant serving ... |
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Drumbeat: April 13, 2010
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13.4.2010 |
The Oil Drum |
| Change needed for Gulf to win its power struggle
Over the next seven years, GCC electricity generation must expand by more than 50 per cent to satisfy consumers. Power cuts struck Sharjah and Kuwait last summer. Electricity demand is in danger of running ahead of supply.
So far, the solutions have concentrated on the supply side. With the exception of Qatar, all countries in the region are increasingly short of natural gas, once the default fuel for power generation. So we have plans for oil-fired power in Saudi Arabia, nuclear and solar here and coal in Oman.
But simply adding more supply is not the answer. GCC electricity needs to be radically rethought. State-owned utilities, often slow-moving and conservative, will struggle to meet this ... |
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TV weathercasters divided on global warming
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13.4.2010 |
San Jose Mercury News: Local News |
| More than half believe phenomenon exists, but some say it's a 'scam.' |
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Drumbeat: April 9, 2010
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9.4.2010 |
The Oil Drum |
| UK: Record gas prices may be election issue
"With the election campaign now in full swing, Britain's hard-pressed motorists will be keen to hear what the political parties have to say about the escalating petrol prices," Adrian Tink, motoring strategist for driver-support service RAC told the Press Association.
"This is a key issue for Britain's 32 million motorists, who are watching their bank accounts drained every time they fill up."
Oil prices rose above $86 a barrel Friday on a weaker dollar and after robust U.S. retail sales in March pointed to growing consumer demand in the world's biggest energy market.
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- The price of crude-oil futures has jumped more than 70% in the past year and that's left quite a few ... |
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Drumbeat: April 9, 2010
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9.4.2010 |
NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed |
| UK: Record gas prices may be election issue
"With the election campaign now in full swing, Britain's hard-pressed motorists will be keen to hear what the political parties have to say about the escalating petrol prices," Adrian Tink, motoring strategist for driver-support service RAC told the Press Association.
"This is a key issue for Britain's 32 million motorists, who are watching their bank accounts drained every time they fill up."
Oil prices rose above $86 a barrel Friday on a weaker dollar and after robust U.S. retail sales in March pointed to growing consumer demand in the world's biggest energy market.
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- The price of crude-oil futures has jumped more than 70% in the past year and that's left quite a few ... |
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Sophie Prize 2010
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8.4.2010 |
Daily Kos |
| The Sophie Prize is an annual international environment and development award established in 1997 by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder and his wife Siri Dannevig. It was named after Gaarder's novel Sophie's World . I'm pleased to say this year's Sophie Prize goes to ...:
The Sophie Prize 2010 is awarded to American climate scientist Dr. James E. Hansen. He receives the award for his clear communication of the threat posed by climate change and for his genuine commitment to future generations.
Researchers that have warned against climate change have for many years had to endure great personal costs in the US. Still James Hansen has chosen to warn us against the threat of human-induced climate change. He is an example to follow. Hansen is ... |
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Oil spill sends a warning
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8.4.2010 |
Boston Globe: Opinion |
| Oil spill sends a warning |
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Drumbeat: April 7, 2010
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7.4.2010 |
The Oil Drum |
| The Peak Oil Crisis: Countdown at the Guri
Now, if you are wondering why a falling water level in the Venezuelan highlands should be if interest to Americans, the answer is easy. Despite years of political tensions between the Chavez government and Washington, the U.S. is still importing some 800,000 barrels a day of crude from Venezuela. Should these imports go away, it is likely to come suddenly - shipping oil from Venezuela to Louisiana only takes two days -- we are going to see an instantaneous jump in gasoline prices. Given that the U.S. is at the top of President Chavez's least favorite countries list, it does not take much imagination to figure out who would be shut off first if exports have to be curtailed.
Are We Heading for a Decade ... |
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Green Groups Fight to Keep EPA's Power Over Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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7.4.2010 |
Common Dreams: Headlines |
| by Anne C. Mulkern Environmental activists this week are stepping up a battle to
protect U.S. EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions,
staging demonstrations and lobbying lawmakers at their local offices.
Carrying signs with slogans like "Fight Climate Change Now" and "We
Can't Wait for Climate Action," members of the coalition 1Sky already
have rallied outside the regional offices of 10 senators and seven
House members. They plan to visit at least three more senators' offices
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Study: Northeast seeing more, fiercer rainstorms
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6.4.2010 |
Boston Globe: Rhode Island |
| Study: Northeast seeing more, fiercer rainstorms |
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Q&A: Biodiversity
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6.4.2010 |
Guardian: Environment |
| How is biodiversity threatened and what is done to protect it?
What is biodiversity?
What are the benefits of biodiversity?
In two words: ecosystem services. Research has shown that diverse ecosystems are better at supplying amenities like food and clean water, and at recovering from shocks like hurricanes.
Biodiversity also means options. From medicines to technologies inspired by plants and animals, the natural world is a vast repository of potentially helpful information. This goes for food too. At the moment, humans eat about two dozen species of the thousands available. In the face of new diseases, pests, and weather patterns, cultivating a diverse portfolio of crops is the best way to ensure food security .
Is it ... |
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Study: Global warming could explain why Northeast is seeing more, and fiercer, rainstorms
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6.4.2010 |
Star Tribune: Science & Technology |
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Study: Northeast seeing more, fiercer rainstorms
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6.4.2010 |
AP National |
| BOSTON (AP) -- The Northeast is seeing more frequent "extreme precipitation events" in line with global warming predictions, a study shows, including storms like the recent fierce rains whose floodwaters swallowed neighborhoods and businesses across New England.... |
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Study: Northeast seeing more, fiercer rainstorms
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6.4.2010 |
Boston Globe: Connecticut |
| Study: Northeast seeing more, fiercer rainstorms |
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