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Arctic ice seen shrinking to smallest size recorded
May 12, 2008
Daily Yomiuri: Ice sheets in the Arctic Ocean could shrink this summer to the smallest area on record since satellite observation of the sheets began in 1978, according to researchers. Researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency made the prediction based on their analysis of satellite images. JAXA's satellite observations from September last year showed that the area covered by ice sheets in the Arctic Ocean had withered to the smallest on record. Arctic ice is gradually shrinking ...
'Oil Shockwave' scenario: How the US might deal with a terrorist strike
May 12, 2008
Christian Science Monitor: News flash: Terrorists sink an oil tanker, blocking the vital Bosporus Strait. Oil rockets to $160 a barrel and gasoline to $5 a gallon in the United States. What can keep the globe's biggest oil-guzzling economy from running dry? Hunched in a war room, top officials are thrashing out the nation's options beneath illuminated screens depicting diving stock and energy markets. In minutes they must tell the president how to help the nation survive what some call the worst "oil shock ...
Japan: Govt to seek 'up to 80%' emissions cut by 2050
May 12, 2008
Daily Yomiuri: In its measures against global warming, which are expected to be unveiled in June, the government may call for a 60-percent to 80-percent cut in domestic greenhouse gas emissions from current levels by 2050, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Sunday. Four Cabinet ministers, including Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura and Environment Minister Ichiro Kamoshita, are among those discussing the issue. They will start coordinating opinions over the measure this week, although Prime ...
Australia: Greens split on clean coal
May 12, 2008
Australian: LAST month, a group of 25 environmental activists staged an impromptu demonstration outside the Sydney offices of yet another global organisation. But this time it wasn't a multinational mining or oil company that was the target, but the environment group WWF. They were protesting against WWF's decision to partner with the coal industry, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and the environment think tank the Climate Institute in working to accelerate the development of ...
Australia: NSW power play stirs up a giant of global warming
May 12, 2008
Age: SOONER or later, some anti-privatisation activist will start doing background checks on China Huaneng Group, which is at the front of the queue to bid for $15 billion in NSW power assets. They'll see that Sydney might soon be powered by the world's biggest corporate contributor to global warming. What's more, according to the company's own glossy hand-outs, Huaneng is "a red company that strives to serve the socialist economy with Chinese characteristics". It is a polluting, ...
Why pump prices need to stay high
May 12, 2008
Christian Science Monitor: Driving less? More than two-thirds of car owners already are. It's a natural reflex to $50-$70 tank fill-ups. But US drivers may also know it's time to pay a price to curb global warming. That may be one reason they reject the campaign stunt of urging a holiday for the federal gas tax. US politicians can't have it both ways. Most seek the type of solutions for climate change that would raise energy costs, yet they are now trying to prevent the very kind of high pump prices that help ...
Australia: Climate policy to hurt agriculture in short term
May 12, 2008
Age: THE Federal Government's climate change policy will have a much bigger initial impact on agriculture than climate change itself. That was a key message delivered to a farming and climate change conference by Mick Keogh, executive director of the Australian Farm Institute. Agribusiness Gippsland organised the conference in Warragul. Mr Keogh said the introduction of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2010 would be "a significant challenge in the short to medium ...
Australia: Goward urges planned climate change strategy
May 12, 2008
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The New South Wales Opposition's spokeswoman for environment and climate change and the Member for Goulburn, Pru Goward, says the Federal Government needs to implement a planned strategy to deal with the effects of climate change, rather than throwing cash at the problem. The Federal Government has announced it is looking to allocate more than $2 billion towards fighting climate change when it hands down its first Federal Budget tomorrow night. Ms Goward says the Government's ...
Civilization's last chance
May 11, 2008
LA Times: Even for Americans -- who are constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start -- even for us, the world looks a little terminal right now. It's not just the economy: We've gone through swoons before. It's that gas at $4 a gallon means we're running out, at least of the cheap stuff that built our sprawling society. It's that when we try to turn ...
Climate change key to future food crisis
May 11, 2008
Economic Times: Is this a price blip? No. A food shortage? Not that either. Farmers across the world produced a record 2.3 billion tonnes of grain in 2007, up 4% on the previous year. Since 1961, the world's cereal output has tripled, while the population has doubled. Stocks are at their lowest level in 30 years, it's true, but the bottomline is that there is enough food produced in the world to feed the population. Yet the price of wheat has gone up by 130% over the last year. Rice has doubled in ...
