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ABC News Online
Emissions Trading:
Carbon trading could discourage plantation logging and expand logging of native forests instead
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/04/2354909.htm
Wong still open to emissions trading alternatives
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/01/2352458.htm
Emissions trading to hit community sector hard
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/01/2351460.htm?section=justin
Government to talk emissions with big players
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/29/2349661.htm
ABC News Online
Other:
September 4
Global warming will force Dutch to spend over $2bnpa for the next century to strengthen dykes
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/04/2354978.htm
September 2
Energy production threatened by limited water due to climate change
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/02/2353273.htm
September 1
Water shortages risk of harsher bushfires and longer fire seasons
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/01/2351448.htm?section=justin
August 31
Light rail option for Canberra to be reconsidered
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/31/2351109.htm
August 28
Arctic ice cap melting faster than ever
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/28/2349041.htm
BBC
September 3
Warming boosts strongest storms. As temperatures rise globally, strong storms in the tropics are getting stronger, scientists show.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7596643.stm
Canada's Arctic ice shelves have lost a colossal area this year, scientists report, with one 50 sq km shelf breaking off completely.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7595441.stm
September 2
Hurricane Gustav has caused "major damage" across the US Gulf state of Louisiana.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/americas/7593055.stm
Previous Updates:
ABC News Online .
August 28.
Xenophon maiden speech places Murray at top of his agenda.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/28/2348615.htm?section=justin
August 27.
Opinion: emissions cuts – showing the world it can be done. Post a comment.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/27/2347975.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/26/2346335.htm
August 25.
US military analyst warns of climate change wars.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/25/2345829.htm
Hydrogen cars from nine automakers cross the US but find few refuelling stations
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/25/2345419.htm
August 24
Mining company QER seeks government meeting over shale oil ban
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/24/2344876.htm
August 23
Weir planned for Finnis river
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/23/2344337.htm
Nelson says Victoria is stealing Murray water
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/23/2344472.htm
August 22
August 21
Wong repeats need for central body for Murray
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/21/2342880.htm
Swan open to talks with business on emissions trading
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/22/2343391.htm
Emissions trading subsidy: Not enough for Business (BCA)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/21/2342691.htm
The Advertiser .
August 23
2000 gigalitres needed to flush salt build up in Murray’s lower lakes (p31).
August 22
Fuel economy not climate drives car buyers, survey finds (p23)
The Weekend Australian
August 23-24
Ford cuts threaten a further 2000 jobs (p4); BCA and ACCI at odds over emissions assistance proposals (p6); Editorial: Climate Response must protect jobs, growth (p16);
Inquirer: Unsettled corporate front on climate and emissions (p17); No magic pudding for greedy polluters (p18).
The Australian online
August 23
Storm warning for Rudd on emissions
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24225936-12250,00.htm
August 22
BCA says carbon plan is a ‘company killer’ .
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24221756-11949,00.htm
More Greenland ice lost to warming . http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24226942-11949,00.html
BBC online .
August 26
Canadian researchers find wind farms a danger to bats (rather than birds)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7581990.stm
The Guardian Weekly .
August 22
BP plans field of gas rigs across wild zone on US-Canada border (p3)
Polly Toynbee attacks UK rejection of carbon ‘rations’. What’s the delay in personal, tradeable carbon credits? (p24)
Oil and gas exploration projects threaten Amazon; rain floods predicted to increase with global warming (p31)
WA Today
August 2
Who is behind the Climate Change deniers?
http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/who-is-behind-climate-change-deniers-20080802-3ou6.html
ABC news online
August 19
Emisssions target demands nuclear energy: MacFarlane
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/19/2340574.htm
Wong stands by 20% renewables by 2020 target, currently under discussion
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/19/2339968.htm
August 18
Migratory birds are ‘canary in mine’ for coastal climate change: Birds Australia tells federal hearing
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/18/2338894.htm
August 17
2000 experts meet in Sweden to discuss world water supplies
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/17/2338002.htm
August 15
Murray Darling outrage on water diversions on the Paroo river
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/15/2336253.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/15/2336025.htm
Irrigators criticise Rudd’s water buy back scheme
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/15/2336234.htm
The Advertiser
August 15
Rudd, at a public forum in Halletts Cove, promised more money for water buy backs and desalination and an independent water audit of the Murray Darling basin (pp 4,5)
Weekend Australian
August 16-17
The Bracks Review on car tarrifs and subsidies (pp1, 6, 17, 18, 25).
The Murray, crisis and buy back of water (p8)
BBC
August 20
French birds are moving northwards in response to climate change, but not fast enough.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7571229.stm
August 15
Climate change is altering UK birds’ habits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7561497.stm
Club of Rome - Desertec
July, August 2008
Trans Mediterranean Renewable Energy and CSP News. News of projects for solar energy from mirrors in the Saharatp://www.desertec.org/
http://www.concentratingsolarpower.info/
http://www.phiggins.myzen.co.uk/CSP/Home_Page.html
The Guardian Weekly
August 15-21
Big dry empties famous Australian lakes (p6)
100 arrested in UK in week of protest over plan for new coal-fired plant (p13
Climate change and housing. Special 8 page supplement:
Saving the world begins with efficiency at home (pp1,2).
Young builders shape the zero-carbon home (p3)
Fuel prices put brakes on US suburbs (p4).
Suntech’s Shi Zhengrong hopes to rebalance China’s energy with photo-voltaics p7).
Recycling in Japan (p8).
Just 100 months left to save the earth - a Green New Deal, proposed by the New Economics Foundation, to forestall irreversible tipping points (pp28-29)
http://www.onehundredmonths.org.uk
New Scientist
August 16
Cover story: Climate Change: The next 10 years. Short and long term models and predictions are well developed. We know least about how the climate will change in the medium term and the ocean fluctuations that mainly affect them (pp26-30). To read the full text click HERE
Can we grow enough clean renewable jet biofuel to feed our long haul habit? (pp34-37) To read the full text click HERE
August 9
US government’s Climate Change Science Program reports that climate models do effectively simulate impact of human activity on climate (p7).
Climate maps predict how habitat zones will shift or vanish (pp8,9).
New approach measures glacier ice loss in Greenland better (p16).
China is expanding renewables and shutting down small coal power stations (p18).
Affordable storage of solar power by new process for splitting water, and using hydrogen (p23)
Sunday Mail
Plenty of water in private storages, up river interstate, while lower lakes die writes State Opposition River Murray spokesman (p82)
Time Magazine
August 18
Solar power – new financing is helping US home owners instal roof top solar panels (p52)
ABC 7.30 Report
August 5
Scientists warn fossil fuels may increase ocean acidity
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2008/s2325212.htm
ABC News Online
August 14
Greens want an end to all logging of native forests
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/14/2334799.htm
August 12
Lower lakes survey finds greater diversity and number of birds.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/12/2332983.htm
August 11
Solar rebate means test enquiry told applications are up. Queensland government pulls out.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/11/2331899.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/11/2330961.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/11/2330527.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/02/2322243.htm
August 7
Caltex warning: carbon trading scheme could close down Australian refineries
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/07/2327987.htm
Greens say energy generators must be stopped from increasing profits via emissions trading
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/07/2326868.htm
August 6
Alaska files lawsuit against listing polar bears as threatened
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/06/2325418.htm
August 5
Coal’s future is safe but what about the climate: Protests and alternatives
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/05/2324886.htm
Victorian tribunal rules rising sea levels and increasing storms make some coastal land unsuitable for housing development
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/05/2324468.htm
August 4
Massive wind farm proposed for Queensland
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/04/2322930.htm
August 2
Record heat forces closure of Canadian Arctic park
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/02/2322340.htm
Brazil launches rainforest protection fund
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/02/2322295.htm
World needs Australia’s platinum to build hydrogen cars
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/31/2320064.htm
NSW government wants Sydney to be carbon trading hub
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/31/2319801.htm
The Weekend Australian
August 9-10
PM told to rethink gas plan. LNG projects at risk from emissions trading scheme (p1).
Lakes crisis deepens. Rains not reaching Murray system. Once mighty Darling stops flowing (p5).
Has global warming halted in recent years? The arguments on both sides (p25)
BBC
August 12
Elephant seals helping scientists study temperature and salinity changes in the Southern Ocean.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7550199.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/12/2332594.htm
August 1
The UK is deluded in its claim to be cutting greenhouse gases. When transport and imports are included these have been rising in line with economic growth, according to two reports.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7536421.stm
August 7
Climate change: Prepare for global temperature rise of 4C, warns top scientist Defra's chief adviser says we need strategy to adapt to potential catastrophic increase
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/06/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange
Crikey.com
August 7
Time for Wong to come clean on the Coorong
http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20080807-Time-for-Wong-to-come-clean-on-the-Coorong.html
The Guardian Weekly
August 8
Three gorges of the sky: Coal still reigns supreme but wind energy is booming in China, as a serious part of energy policy (pp28,29),
August 1
Spills hit French hopes for global renaissance in nuclear power (p3).
British Medical Association Journal calls for fewer children to save the planet (p14)
Synthetic enzymes for biofuels – can they offer a long term alternative? (p27)
Sunday Mail
August 10
Crisis of Murray and the dying lower lakes: Four pages and editorial (16-18 and 38)
ABC
Very dilute limestone from Nullarbor could improve sea absorption of CO2
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/29/2317384.htm
July 28
Forestry Tasmania looking at projects for new plantations for solid wood projects on currently degraded land
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/28/2317011.htm
New plastic recycling plant for Brisbane
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/28/2316625.htm
Rice farmers moving into cane and cattle high rainfall areas
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/28/2316628.htm
July 27
A million trees planted on national tree day
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/27/2315665.htm
July 25
SE Qld dams reach 40%, restrictions eased
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/25/2314761.htm
Mount Alexander Shire (Victoria) starts education campaign aiming to reach 30% emissions cut by 2010
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/25/2314543.htm
Rudd assures coal power industry of emissions scheme support
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/25/2314440.htm
AgResearch Now. Journal of New Zealand’s agricultural research institute .
March 2008
Facing the Climate Change Challenge. Includes articles on calculating greenhouse emissions from cultivation and animal husbandry and on research into mitigation, including the promise of a vaccine to reduce methane emissions from livestock.
http://www.agresearch.co.nz/publications/now/agrnowMar08.pdf
Weekend Australian .
July 26-27
Guaging animal emissions ‘too hard’; Railways ‘lose in carbon scheme’; Rudd vows to help
power industry cope with shake-up (p12)
Editorial: Hair shirted activists have long term ideological agendas in targeting beef emissions (p18).
The coalition’s climate of cynicism; Rudd will have a few billion dollars (from selling emissions permits), to smooth the introduction of the emissions trading scheme (p20).
Greenhouse plans are ignoring the advantages of rail over road transport (p27)
BBC .
July 28
Barack Obama is coming under increasing pressure to change his support for grain based biofuel ethanol.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7529015.stm
July 24
Arctic 'has 90bn barrels of oil': US Geological Survey.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/business/7523118.stm
Green groups accuse the UK government of trying to sabotage Europe’s rules on renewable energy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/uk/7522667.stm
Hewlett Packard's nanotech lab plans to build a central nervous system for the Earth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/technology/7520706.stm
Guardian Weekly
July 11
G8 sets goal of 50% cut in greenhouse gases (p1, 2)
Australian climate change report reads like a disaster novel. Scientists conclude drought will become the norm for the dry continent (p3
Americans and autos: the Romance wanes (p7)
June 27
Climate change and technology special: Clean coal and white roof tops. Telecoms. Giant Portuguese solar farm. German MP chair of World Council for Renewable Energy. Underwater CO2 storage. Forest protection fund for Congo.
New Scientist .
July 19
Early melt for mountain snow (p16)
Climate change dehydration would increase kidney stones (p17)
Geothermal hot rocks could supply the world with affordable green power. Geodynamics shows the way in the Cooper Basin (pp24, 25)
July 12
Nuclear site on brink of catastrophic leaks; fallow fields are less affected by climate change; ice melt wave may threaten north Atlantic coast before Pacific islands (p6)
Giant rubber snake produces wave power (p25)
Time Magazine .
July 14
Global Business: China wants clean energy; Japan has it to sell. Why necessity is trumping animosity in the global warming fight. Japan uses an eighth as much energy as China (and half as much as the US) to generate a dollar of GDP (pp49-51).
The Kyoto protocol won’t save the planet. A more robust and inclusive plan is needed – fast (pp52-53).
ABC, news online.
July 23
Protesters blockade coal exploration site in NSW
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/21/2309266.htm
Geological Society calls for $30mn government funding for post graduate research on climate
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/21/2308980.htm
Victorian government encouraging more geothermal exploration
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/23/2311671.htm
July 20
Large geothermal hot rocks find in NW Queensland
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/20/2308803.htm
Yet another government report reaffirms Murray-Darling crisis
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/20/2308851.htm
July 18
Tasmanian government keen for more renewable energy projects
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/18/2308176.htm
Opinion: Focus on technology to bring China on board by Jeffrey Sachs
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/18/2307726.htm
Commercial carbon capture will work but is at least a decade away: Loy Yang power CEO
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/18/2307884.htm
Britain admits it will miss 2010 emissions target
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/18/2307331.htm
July 16
Microalgae can absorb CO2 emissions from power plants and then be used as feedstock for biofuels .
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/16/2305435.htm
July 15
Arctic research team evacuates as ice floe melts
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/15/2303869.htm
July 14
Sceptic Pell now backs pope’s call to make climate change the theme of his visit
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/14/2303151.htm
Berlusconi wants nuclear power threat to bring down oil prices
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/14/2302873.htm
All Australian freight transport emissions (road, rail, air, shipping) predicted to double by 2020, with air travel highest emitter and rail lowest.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/14/2302486.htm
Make Poverty History calls for new immigration quotas for climate change refugees
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/14/2302737.htm
July 13
Make Poverty History urges more climate change action
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/13/2302306.htm
Newcastle coal protest
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/13/2302429.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/13/2302400.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/13/2302351.htm
July 12
Brisbane Swanbank power station protest by Greenpeace
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/12/2302081.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/12/2302081.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/12/2301994.htm
US delays any action on emissions
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/12/2302014.htm
Wilkins ice shelf at risk of breaking from Antarctica
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/12/2301885.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/11/2301297.htm
July 10
Arctic fever: Russia races to stake claim
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/10/2299647.htm
Texas oil billionaire pushes for switch to alternative energy
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/09/2298560.htm
BBC News Online.
July 22
The UK government should set a deadline for coal power stations to "clean up" or close, a parliamentary committee says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7518311.stm
July 21
A controversial sceptical Channel 4 film ‘the Great Global Warming Swindle’ broke Ofcom rules on impartiality and fairness, the regulator says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7517509.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/21/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange
July 11
A third of the world's reef-building coral species are facing extinction, the first global assessment shows.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7498502.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/11/2300686.htm
ABC News Online.
July 4
Plasma TVs accelerate global warming.
July 3
Bush hopes for G8 solution to climate change, that does not hinder economic growth and that includes India and China.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/03/2292942.htm?section=justin
Households to pay higher energy cost warns president of the Business Council, because ‘we won’t foot the bill’.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/03/2292930.htm?section=justin
Police arrest Greenpeace protesters at coal power station near Newcastle
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/03/2293102.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/03/2292839.htm
Government discussion paper on different ways to achieve 2020 renewable energy target (RET) [see Government page].
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/03/2292813.htm
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23957485-29277,00.html
July 2
Asia urged to increase investment in geothermal power. Volcanic Indonesia and Philippines, in particular, have huge potential but economies of scale yet to come.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/02/2292669.htm
Britons lead the pack towards cycling cities. Cycling in London is up 90% since 2000.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/02/2291709.htm
After Garnaut the big questions remain unanswered. Tipping points have already been crossed. The canary is dead, we must get out of the coal mine, by David Spratt.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/02/2291574.htm
July 1
Survey finds business unprepared for emissions trading
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/01/2290937.htm
June 28
Ice free North Pole this summer is possible
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/28/2288618.htm
June 27
ACCC to crack down on bogus carbon offsets
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/27/2288218.htm
The Australian.
July 3
Business to back emissions trading plan
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23960552-5013404,00.html
Weekend Australian.
June 28/29
Cabinet split on carbon strategy (p1, 6); AWU secretary’s nuclear proposal debunked by senior union colleagues; Australia’s latest greenhouse accounts show drastic action will be needed to meet targets; teenagers split on nuclear power (p6).
Arctic without ice a better than even chance this year (p11)
Special 8 page Report on Sustainable Investments: includes articles on positive and negative screening; budget impact; cost of emissions control; Australia leader on UN protocol; ‘climate change’ new byword; investors’ need to know; guilt free super; combining green, ethical and profitable; building efficiency; drought, fire and water investments; recycling; GreenFuel algae bioreactors; sun power still elusive? Carbon schemes and ‘carbon speak’; wind hurdles; ‘alternative’ goes mainstream; companies and emission trading; ethical growth; E-waste; nappy waste; aluminium recycling; recycling investment; Sims- scrap metal recycler; recycling paper and plastic but not packaging.
BBC News Online.
July 2
The US state of Georgia blocks construction of a new coal power plant based on concerns over carbon emissions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7485936.stm
June 27
Climate change has resulted in many plant species moving an average of 29 metres uphill every decade, a study finds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7477279.stm
Thousands of wind turbines could be built across the UK as part of a £100bn plan to boost renewable energy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/uk_politics/7474592.stm
Guardian Weekly.
June 27
Paris to provide 4000 electric cars that can be picked up and dropped off anywhere (p2)
Britain plans 100bn pounds revolution to generate 1/3 of its electricity from renewables by 2020, creating 160,000 jobs (p14).
Eleven British towns to be made centres of cycling, with dedicated cycleways and rental networks (p16)
New Scientist.
July 2
Global cooperation index for countries on climate change.
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14244-which-countries-would-you-pick-for-your-climate-team.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news6_head_dn14244
Air travel in the tropics is worse for climate
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19826623.300-air-travel-in-the-tropics-is-worse-for-climate.html
GM drought resistant wheat beats Australia’s heat
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19826623.500-droughtresistant-wheat-beats-australian-heat.html
Caterpillar drive harvests power from the sea
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19926631.600-caterpillar-drive-harvests-power-from-the-sea.html
June 28
Editorial: High oil prices are an opportunity for change
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19826623.200-editorial-high-oil-prices-are-an-opportunity-for-change.html
Oil, the final warning.
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19826621.500-oil-the-final-warning.html
Comment: Kicking the oil habit
June 21
How safe is Nevada nuclear dump? (p16).
Plan B Growing biofuels without starving the poor. The bets are on ethanol from biowaste (pp28-29).
Will the lush forests, that covered Antarctica 34 million years ago, return? (pp32-36).
Time Magazine.
July 7
Solar Power’s new style with thin-film cells as now hottest part of an expanding market (pp42-43)
ABC.
June 26
US report on security implications of global warming.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/26/2286174.htm
CSIRO finds millions of new skilled jobs will be created by carbon trading and by new industries to tackle climate change.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/26/2286129.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/25/2285449.htm
Oxfam blames biofuels for food prices.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/25/2285446.htm
June 25
Carbon sinks bill seriously flawed.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/25/2284822.htm
June 24
Scientists say COAG must act on water.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/24/2284434.htm
June 22
Are greenhouse emissions under reported?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2006/06/22/1668848.htm
June 21
Moves for international recognition of climate change as a threat to world heritage sites.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/21/2281633.htm
ANU Centre for Solar Energy Systems has won $1.2m government contract to develop solar power for use by army in remote areas
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/21/2281625.htm
June 20
French/US sea level tracking satellite, launched from California
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/20/2281559.htm
Australia will lose home grown car innovations as Government accused of hypocrisy for axing Commerce Ready small business innovation grants.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/20/2281107.htm
.ACCC to investigate green marketing claims of big business.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/20/2280890.htm
Australian company tells Copenhagen conference ocean seeding, to remove CO2, is viable and experiments should proceed
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/20/2280502.htm
June 19
Arctic melt speeding up, threatening migratory whales.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/19/2280294.htm
The Weekend Australian.
June 21
Petrol myths: Family spending less of its income on petrol today than a decade ago (p4).
US flood victims caught unprepared [again] (p15).
Letters to the editor about saving fuel (p18).
Career One: Environmental engineering attracting young recruits (p2).
BBC.
June 24
Carbon standard 'to renew trust' A certificate scheme that shows which firms have made genuine carbon cuts is launched by the UK's Carbon Trust.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7469083.stm
June 20
Chiefs of 99 businesses (including Alcoa, British Airways, Deutche Bank, Petrobras, Shell and Vattenfill) have handed a climate action plan to G8 leaders, asking for emission targets and global carbon trading.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7464517.stm
Guardian Weekly.
June 20.
German coalition split on nuclear phase out (p12).
There’s no escape from meltdown: At best we will limit global warming to 2.9C. Mark Lynas (author of Six Degrees).
June 13.
Fuel price protests across Europe (p4)
World food summit fails to agree on biofuels (p7)
Brazil’s sugar cane growers deny climate damage: they claim only 1% of its arable land is used for ethanol production and the Amazon is too wet for sugar cane (p8).
.Micro wind and solar on UK buildings could generate same as five nuclear power stations (p15)
Billionaire talking to Indian Tata about investing in $10bn environment fund; GM to sell Hummer and closes four SUV assembly plants (p17).
The small farmer is the planet’s best hope. George Monbiot (p24).
The human price of rice in the Phlippines (pp25-27)
Life after the Oil Crash.
.Peak oil breaking news
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
Sunday Mail.
June 22.
How the Hybrid car will rule our roads for at least the next two decades (pp24, 25).
Time Magazine
June 16.
Three percent more Americans used rail and bus in first quarter of 2008 (p11)
ABC News Online.
June 18
Murray Darling should be declared a national emergency: Opposition.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/18/2278836.htm?section=justin
Australian researchers identify drought tolerant wheat lines.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/18/2278801.htm?section=justin
UNHCR Refugee Agency says climate change has been fuelling conflict and increased refugee flows in Darfur.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/18/2278553.htm
June 17
A study in Nature says past mass extinctions were largely driven by shifting ocean levels.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/17/2277863.htm
NZ follows Australia in ditching energy wasting light bulbs
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/17/2277312.htm
G8 July meeting ‘not a forum’ for mid term emission goals says Fukuda.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/17/2277858.htm
June 16
Mark Lynas' Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, has won the Royal Society prize for popular science. It explains how Earth will change for every degree rise in temperature - from droughts to mass extinctions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7457317.stm
New hydrogen engine no quick fix.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/16/2275853.htm
June 14
ACF gives qualified support to development of massive onshore gas field in WA.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/14/2274748.htm.
June 13.
Australia and Indonesia sign forest carbon reduction partnership.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/13/2274324.htm
June 12
Australian made electric car a reality
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/06/12/2272539.htm
The Advertiser.
June 12
D’oh! What a feeling. The federal government’s support for the Toyota hybrid has met mixed reactions. (p19).
BBC News Online.
June 18.
UK Household gas and electricity bills could rise by up to 40% this winter, far more than predicted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/business/7461635.stm
President Bush asks the US Congress to end a ban on offshore and Arctic reserve oil drilling, as fuel prices rise up the political agenda.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/americas/7460767.stm
June 17
Plans to use high resolution cameras in space to monitor deforestation in the Congo Basin are unveiled in a $212m joint UK Norway plan, which will also fund local projects.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7459472.stm
June 16
Oil prices hit a record $139.89 a barrel in trade in New York, despite a Saudi pledge to increase output.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/business/7457157.stm
June 12
The UK government invites communities to host a nuclear waste site and invites firms to build new reactors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7450479.stm
The proposed Severn Barrage is not financially viable and energy could be produced more cheaply with other green technologies, a report says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/wales/7448973.stm
New Scientist.
June 14
Oil reserves under-estimated (p4)
Ocean seeding produces dangerous toxins (p7)
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19826603.700-ocean-seeding-fails-the-acid-test.html
Ancient N American droughts were triggered by changes in sea surface temperatures (p15)
Fuel prices make dangerous nuclear powered ships attractive for US navy (p24)
Global food crisis (pp 28-33).
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19826601.600-what-price-more-food.html
ABC News Online.
Kilimanjaro could be snow free by 2020: UN report.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/11/2270737.htm
June 10
Science academies of G8 plus 5 (India, China, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa) call for halving of global emissions by 2050, for timetable, funding and plan for carbon capture and storage and for shift to a low carbon society.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/10/2270138.htm
Motoring magazine doubts hybrid low emissions claims for open road.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/10/2269766.htm
Rain fails to top up Queensland dams enough (40%) to ease restrictions.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/10/2269537.htm
June 9
Rudd hails Kyoto city’s ‘hope for the future’ in tackling climate change.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/09/2269469.htm
Japan’s PM announces plan to cut emissions by 60-80% by 2050.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/09/2269404.htm
More rain needed in WA to top up dams.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/09/2269382.htm
CSIRO calls for more government investment in public transport as lifestyles change.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/09/2269139.htm
June 8
Opposition renews attack on solar rebates cuts.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/08/2268434.htm
CSIRO says IPCC underestimated impact of climate change on oceans because it is underresearched.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/06/2266959.htm
Kiribati president says his country may be already doomed.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/06/2266607.htm
June 5
Top end and Kakadu under threat from more rain, fires, cyclones and disease.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/05/2266420.htm
The Age.
June 5
Garnaut pessimistic about beating climate change. Only hopeful sign is rising oil prices.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/climate-change-will-probably-beat-us-garnaut-20080605-2m8l.html
The Weekend Australian.
June 7-8
Want more green cars? Cut taxes and tariffs! Pressure is building on government to review mandatory renewable energy targets (pp1,4).
Rudd urges car industry to adapt to climate change, as Holden moves to axe over 500 jobs, by ceasing production of 4 cylinder engines by end of next year.
Rain fall has farmers singing but little on Murray Darling basin and dam levels remain low (p11).
UN summit on food crisis, in Rome, pledged $6.5bn to halve hunger by 2015 and help poor countries develop their agriculture. Estimates of effect of biofuels on food prices ranged from 3% to 30% (p16).
IEA warns governments and industry need to spend $47tr (1.1% of global GDP) to halve emissions by 2050 (p17).
Editorial: Green car dream for Australia a blind alley (p18).
Dry future well ahead of schedule. Many farmers and southern rivers ill served by autumn rains, which are dried up by warming before they reach them (p28).
BBC News Online.
June 9
Tens of thousands of Spanish lorry drivers are on strike to protest against the soaring price of diesel.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/europe/7443257.stm
June 5
Evidence of serious flaws in the multi-billion dollar global carbon credit market’s Clean Development Mechanism, is uncovered by the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/business/7436263.stm.
The Guardian.
June 6
World’s biggest solar farm, at centre of Portugal’s ambitious energy plan, with world’s biggest wind farm and first commercial wave farm.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/06/renewableenergy
The Guardian Weekly.
June 6
Arctic states (Denmark, Norway, US, Russia, Canada) ‘use sea law to grab minerals’ (p11)
Can earth be altered to tackle global warming? Are geoengineers over optimistic? (pp28-29)
Airline bankruptcies mount. Is this the end for budget travel? Global warming threatens drought and fires to US South West (p41).
May 30
Is there oil beneath the Mediterranean? (p32).
ABC news online
3 June
Coal industry proposal: Coal, converted into diesel, within four years, could ‘solve’ fuel crisis for indefinite future, and be economically viable if petrol reaches $100 per barrel.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/03/2263839.htm
1 June
Tasmanian premier Bartlett released more details of plans to cut carbon emissions.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/01/2261624.htm
31 May
Greens want stop coal mining extension under Sydney water catchment
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/31/2261249.htm
Company scraps plans for one of its large wind farms near Queanbean. Residents claim victory.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/31/2261219.htm
30 May
Piping water from the top end is not viable.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/30/2260554.htm
GeoDynamics finds promising geothermal potential in Upper Hunter Valley, well located near power lines.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/30/2260176.htm
29 May
Solar energy breakthrough, with titanium oxide crystals, by University of Queensland researchers. Cheap solar power could be commercially viable within 10 years.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/29/2258722.htm
28 May
Global warming to shorten ski season says CSIRO.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/28/2257656.htm
BBC News Online
30 May
Fuel protests triggered by rising oil prices spread to more countries across Europe, with strikes by fishermen.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/europe/7426971.stm
26 May
New EU states want more favourable recalculation of emissions base date.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7426356.stm
Ethanol biofuel from sugar cane: WWF supports Brazil claim it does not adversely affect food production or rainforests, but calls for strict regulation in future.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7420770.stm
Guardian Weekly
23 May
800mn pounds, offered by Britain to help poorest countries adapt to climate change, revealed to be an interest bearing loan, not a grant (p15)
Climate change is already affecting global ecosystems. An report in Nature, analyses accounts of changing populations or behaviour by 28,800 animal and plant species, and 829 accounts of environmental effects, including surging rivers, retreating glaciers and shifting forests. Ninety five percent of the reported changes were consistent with rising temperatures. ( p31).
New Scientist
31 May
Palm plantations ousting forests in Malaysia and Indonesia (pp6,7).
Blocking sun won’t reset climate (p19).
Silicone valley investors planning to make clean energy the next big thing. Green technology will be ‘bigger than the internet’ (pp34-38).
24 May
Genetically modified Biofuel from cellulose (p5).
Trillions of tonnes of carbon and methane, locked away underground and in clathrates beneath the oceans, could be released (p8)
Future Atlantic hurricanes: Fewer? Stronger? Elsewhere? (p9)
Alpine snow in decline since 1980s (p18).
New cheaper filter to separate CO2 for sequestration (p26).
Bring on the solar revolution: Interview with German MP Hermann Scheer (pp44-45).
17 May
Climate change hampers bird migration; study finds Indian biogas digesters economical and healthier for rural families (p6).
CO2 now 387 parts per million, highest in 60,000 years (p7)
Analysis of nearly 30,000 studies shows climate change is already altering earth biology (p10)
Limestone increases carbon absorption capacity of oceans (p16)
There would be warnings a decade before any Gulf Stream slow down (p18).
Developing high flying kites - efficient and reliable energy generators (pp38-41).
Time Magazine
9 June
How to prepare to survive a disaster (pp3641
Jeffrey Sachs (Nobel prize winning economist) says ‘we need a power surge’ by establishing National Institutes of Sustainable Technology, with a tenfold increase of annual energy research budget to $30bn (p48).
2 June
Bad Science causing a bubble (p32)
Alberta's tar sands poised to increase production to Saudi levels (pp49-52)
Tankers take drinking water to drought stricken Barcelona (p6).
Previous updates:
ABC News Online
23 May
Productivity Commission calls on government to scrap renewables subsidies when carbon trading comes in 2010
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/23/2253292.htm
Commonwealth Government buys back 35bn litres for Murray Darling basin
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/23/2253405.htm
CSIRO charts rainfall decline in SE Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/23/2253652.htm
New red gums sprouting in dried up wetland
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/23/2253467.htm
22 May
State of Alaska to sue to remove polar bears from endangered list
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/22/2252655.htm
21 May
Clean coal from dirty garbage
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/21/2251403.htm
20 May
Westpac and AGL set benchmarks for Australian carbon trading
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/20/2250392.htm
19 May
Flannery proposes ‘global dimming’ by pumping sulphur into the sky
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/19/2249568.htm
17 May
Exploration for geothermal energy, near population centres, may begin next year in WA.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/17/2247909.htm
16 May
Latin American countries increasingly concerned about climate change
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/16/2247466.htm
Australia’s ecological footprint among biggest in world in latest index.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/16/2246766.htm
15 May
Evidence collated from over 30,000 studies shows world wide impact of climate change, but lack of Australian
research leaves gaps.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/15/2246085.htm
14 May
Budget did not do enough on emissions
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/14/2244875.htm
BBC
23 May
Rising methane emissions from wetlands near the Arctic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7408808.stm
Canadian researcher find vast new cracks in Arctic ice shelves – a key indicator of climate change.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7417123.stm
22 May
Oil prices surge through $135 a barrel as weekly US oil stocks figures show an unexpected fall.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/business/7414093.stm
21 May
Governments are urged to protect oceans and the sea floor at a UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7413537.stm
19 May
Laser heats up the fusion future The world's most powerful laser is used to heat matter to 10 million Celsius - hotter than the surface of the Sun.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7407963.stm
Climate change is "significantly amplifying" the threats facing the world's bird species.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7409034.stm
ABC News Online
15 May
US lists polar bears as ‘threatened’ but will not let this influence global warming policies.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/15/2245077.htm
13 May
Geodynamics hopes geothermal hot rocks will power Innamincka by end of the year.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/13/2243855.htm
Solar power rebates to be means tested.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/13/2243710.htm
Wind power to fuel Sydney’s desalination plant.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/13/2243677.htm
Construction begins in Alice Springs on Solar Technology Demonstration Centre, for training, education and research.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/13/2243350.htm
Clinton & Obama woo voters in Virginia and Kentucky mining states by talking up ‘clean coal’.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/13/2242786.htm
12 May
GG tells Future Summit solar energy is Australia’s best prospect
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/12/2242025.htm
9 May
Australian Antarctic Divison to study impact of climate change on krill.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/09/2240682.htm
Murray Darling Commission pessimistic about water prospects.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/09/2240021.htm
The Australian
14 May
Australia should use money from resources boom to fund nuclear fusion power research. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23691902-11949,00.html
29 April
Warming trend not reversed. 2007 was cooler because of rapid change from El Nino to La Nina. This was still the
warmest Nina year.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23612876-7583,00.html
BBC News Online
9 May
Some birds in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7390109.stm
Carbon Environment Daily
30 April
Report and papers from 2008 CANA (Climate Action Network Australia) Conference: ‘Transforming Australia
into a climate change leader’ held in Sydney 28, 29 April.
http://www.cedaily.com.au/nav?id=36499&no=1431819271&stream=1#e
www.cana.net.au
ABC
Catalyst
1 May
Fire, flood and acid mud. The crisis of the Murray
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/murraydarling/
Reserve Bank board member says government ‘policy vacuum’ on
climate change is inhibiting long term investment decisions
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/07/2238305.htm
5 May
Greenpeace to give treasurer 30,000 signatures petition, to switch investment from Carbon
Capture & Storage ‘scam’ to renewable energy.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/05/2234991.htm
Carbon trading scheme will not be effective, if too many exemptions are granted, warns Energy Supply Association.
Exemptions are being sought by paper, steel, dairy, mining, cement, petrol and plastics industries.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/03/2234456.htm
BBC News online
6 May
Burma's death toll has risen to more than 22,000 after a cyclone hit the country on Saturday, state media say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7385662.stm
ABC 7.30 Report
30 April
UN holds emergency summit in Berne on global food shortage crisis
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2231748.htm
ABC News Online
30 April
Giant floating wind turbines may join Norway’s offshore oil rigs
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/30/2231011.htm
29 April
Wong unveils $13bn water scheme
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/29/2230170.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/29/2229747.htm
Opinion: Should we move to pumping and exporting natural gas?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/29/2229864.htm
Most at risk: Sydney’s climate change hotspots
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/29/2229801.htm
28 April
Coalition warms to solar power
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/28/2229667.htm
Queensland scraps ‘too expensive’ plan to pipe water south.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/28/2228931.htm
25 April
Biofuel: Conservationists ridicule wood waste power stations
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/25/2227680.htm
24 April
Make a stand for good science against sceptics and trolls says Barry Brook of Adelaide university. Followed by over
100 lively comments.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/24/2226189.htm
New ice age claim by sceptics
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/24/2225980.htm
UN recognises Australia’s claim to areas rich in oil, gas and other resources on edge of continental shelf
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/24/2225987.htm
NZ Mt Cook glacier could be gone within 20 years. Current retreat of 200m a year is accelerating
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/24/2226285.htm?section=justin
Brazil launches new sugar cane biofuel
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/24/2226120.htm?section=justin
23 April
UN launches ‘international climate index’ to make governments more accountable.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/23/2224782.htm
21 April
Paul McCartney urges vegetarianism to fight climate change: Globally cattle rearing generates more greenhouse
gasses than transport.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/21/2223451.htm
18 April
Climate change behind unrest and hunger says Sarkozy
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/18/2221495.htm
BBC News Online
30 April
The CO2 costs of mining uranium 'will climb'. The case for nuclear power as an alternative, low carbon source
of energy is
challenged in a new Australian report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7371645.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/30/2231769.htm
Warming will affect poor children says UNICEF report
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7372137.stm
25 April
Sun-blocking sulphate particles to cool the planet could deplete ozone
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7365793.stm
24 April
Levels of the greenhouse gas methane appear to be rising again after years of stability.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7364679.stm
23 April
European and Japanese leaders call for quick cuts in carbon emissions with major private sector funding.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7362802.stm
Guardian Weekly
18 April
Oil tycoon makes down payment on first of 2700 turbines, in $10bn plan for world’s biggest wind farm, in Texas (p8).
Head of IPCC blames rich world for failing to set clear example to developing countries (p8).
US congress blocks proposed congestion charge. ‘What hope for more action on emissions? (p9)
Harvard Law and Policy Review,
Vol 2/1 2008,
‘Fast, Clean and Cheap: Cutting Global Warming’s Gordian Knot’, by Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus,
Jeff Navin, Teryn Norris and Aden Van Noppen, pp93-118.
http://www.hlpronline.com/Shellenberger_HLPR.pdf
IFPRI
23 April
Rising food prices, causes, consequences, options
http://www.ifpri.org/themes/foodprices/foodprices.asap
New Scientist
26 April
Is the Arctic helping to warm the world? Heat from the Arctic Ocean escapes more readily into the atmosphere when
its ice
cap is smaller and thinner (p12).
Rising nations face ‘back door’ emissions limits, through binding global industry standards (p15)
More evidence links living near nuclear plants to childhood leukaemia (p18).
Two letters on carbon capture and storage (p20).
Review by Fred Pierce of 5 new books on climate change, by Lester Brown; William Calvin; Robert Kunzig and Wallace
Broecker; Brian Clegg ( pp48-49) .
19 April
Editorial: Carbon trading salvation or gimmick? (p3)
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19826523.300-editorial-can-carbon-capitalism-save-the-world.html
‘Flammable ice’ could be mined for fuel (p4)
Can carbon capitalism trading CO2 credits really save the planet? (pp38-41) For full article click HERE
Letters: Capturing carbon (p16)
Time Magazine
28 April
Special Issue: How to win the war on global warming, includes articles on ‘how America can lead the way to a
greener world (pp31-40); the Japanese way (p41); lessons from Germany (pp44-46); climate in the US presidential
race ( pp48-49); Ban Ki-Moon on why a greener planet would be a more peaceful one (p50).
Some themes of the week:
Agriculture, biofuels and food costs
Carbon capture and storage
Nuclear power
Other subjects
Agriculture, biofuels and food costs
ABC News online
15 April
Biofuel production is ‘a crime against humanity’ because of its influence on food prices (UN official)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/14/2216826.htm
BBC
15 April
Global food system must change says new UN and World Bank study.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7347239.stm
11 April
Rice prices will continue to rise as production cannot keep up with demand, a research body says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/business/7341978.stm
IFPRI Newsletter
Joachim von Braun , ‘Rising Food Prices: What Should Be Done?’ Examines the impact of recent sharp increases in food
prices on the food and nutrition situation of poor people in developing countries and recommends policy responses.
http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/bp/bp001.asp
Discussion at Blog World Hunger? http://www.ifpriblog.org .
New Scientist
5 April
IAAST, scientists debate sustainable farming – why Syngenta walked out (pp16-18) To read full articles with the two
opposing
views click HERE1 and HERE2
29 March
Reforestation of desert by village farmers in Niger (pp42, 43).
For full article click HERE3
Time Magazine
21 April
Cover story: The clean energy scam. Hyped as eco-friendly, ethanol increases global warming, destroys forests and inflates
food prices. So why are we subsidizing it? (pp32-37)
Carbon capture and storage
ABC
11 April
Australia and China agree to conduct a feasibility study on building world’s biggest solar city in NE China and on cooperation
for carbon capture. Mixed reactions from environmental groups.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/11/2214659.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/11/2214283.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/11/2213793.htm
The Advertiser
11 April
Rudd and Wong in China agree a) a new partnership to fund a $20mn Australia-China joint coordinating group to develop
‘clean coal’ technology and b) to meet regularly to discuss progress towards a post Kyoto global agreement (pp1, 12).
New Scientist
5 April
Hanson presses Australia to lead on carbon capture and avoid any new coal power plants until capture technology is ready
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19826503.400-australia-pressed-to-take-lead-on-carbon-capture.html
Nuclear power
ABC
10 April
New safety and disposal questions raised over more efficient nuclear fuels
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/10/2213297.htm?site=science&topic=health
BBC
11 April
Decommissioning Scotland’s fast reactor research site will take decades and cost billions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7322253.stm
New Scientist
12 April
New safety and disposal questions raised over more efficient nuclear fuels (pp8,9)
To read full article click HERE
Other subjects
ABC News online
15 April
Electric car breakthrough claimed. Super-conduction at room temperature would allow rapid recharging.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/15/2217049.htm
15 April
New Climate Institute report shows large majorities of Australians ready to act on climate.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/14/2216494.htm
10 April
Government to review aviation emission cuts
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/10/2213601.htm
The Advertiser
11 April
Woodside CEO on why a carbon tax would harm Australia (p19)
Current Sociology
2008 56/3
Constance Lever-Tracy, ‘Global Warming and Sociology’, pp 445-466
Steven R. Brechin, ‘Ostriches and Change: A Response to “Global Warming and Sociology” ' pp 467-474.
Terry Leahy ‘Discussion of “Global Warming and Sociology” ‘, pp 475-484.
Constance Lever-Tracy, ‘Reply’ pp 485-491.
http://csi.sagepub.com/content/vol56/issue3
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
March 2008
Carolyn Fischer, Richard G. Newell ‘Environmental and technology policies for climate mitigation’ 142-162.
Erin T. Mansur, Robert Mendelsohn, Wendy Morrison, ‘Climate change adaptation: A study of fuel choice
and consumption in the US energy sector’ pp 175-193
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