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2007

Bali Conference, reports and commentary

ABC News Online
16 December
After signing the Bali deal, the US government expresses reservations
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/16/2120132.htm

15 December
US agrees to compromise
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/15/2119829.htm

Bali conference ‘delivered on agenda’
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/15/2119887.htm

14 December
Target dropped from Bali draft
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/14/2119273.htm

Flannery on the Bali compromise – targets can wait for a while.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/14/2119446.htm

Gore urges divided summit to ignore US
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/14/2118525.htm

The Advertiser
17 December
Long road ahead to a climate solution, by Penny Wong. Bali -The key decisions (p4).
Ice-cool talks in Bali but less global action (p5).
Editorial: [Bali]Lost chance to force real change (p16).

The Age
16 December
Rudd pledges to work closely with China, India and US for climate deal by 2009
http://www.theage.com.au/news/climate-watch/rudd-pledges-to-forge-climate-deal/2007/12/16/1197740090788.html

2020 targets could be met with little pain because Australia has been slack
http://www.theage.com.au/news/climate-watch/targets-could-be-met-with-little-pain-because-australia-has-beenslack/2007/12/16/1197740090800.html

Greens delight as Australia joins main game 
http://www.theage.com.au/news/climate-watch/delight-for-greens-as-australia-joins-the-main-game/2007/12/16/1197740090791.html

15 December
Bali talks end with surprise universal agreement, to launch talks for a new post Kyoto pact, to be completed by 2009.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/bali-talks-end-with-surprise-agreement/2007/12/15/1197568325116.html

Bali agreement to finance forest protection with carbon credits
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/nations-to-be-paid-to-stave-off-logging/2007/12/14/1197568264097.html

Sydney Morning Herald
16 December
A rough and risky plot for salvation by John Connor (the Climate Institute)
http://www.smh.com.au/handheld/articles/2007/12/16/1197740093025.html

BBC
14 December
Negotiators at the UN climate summit in Bali have adjourned talks, with delegates suggesting they are close to a compromise deal.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7143810.stm

Other Current Media reports

ABC News Online
16 December
Hamburg kite driven ship cuts fuel by 20%
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/16/2120021.htm

Marine census to chart Antarctic climate change
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/16/2120018.htm

14 December
US senate approves tough new fuel efficiency laws.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/14/2119601.htm

Geldoff calls for more nuke power plants for UK
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/14/2118641.htm

Barrier reef could be gone within 30 years.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/14/2118585.htm

Red cross report says warming is causing more serious natural disasters globally.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/13/2117667.htm

The Advertiser
18 December
States till at odds on Murray debate (p2)
The coming SA summer – hotter and drier than previously predicted (p5)
What it costs to cut your emissions (pp10-11)
Amazon rainforests the good and the bad news (p19)

17 December
KI fire scars will take a decade to heal (p9)
State government funding:
   $700,000 for a new Regional Sustainability Centre solar research centre in Whyalla;
   $25mn for upgrade to SA’s main power station in Whyalla (p15).

The Age
18 December
GM crops endorsed by Australian Academy of Sciences to help adaptation to climate change.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/scientists-endorse-gm-crops/2007/12/17/1197740182396.html

BBC
17 December
Rising seas 'to beat predictions'. The world's sea levels could rise twice as high (to 163cm) this century as IPCC have previously predicted (81cm), according to a study of sea level rise during the interglacial period, reported in Nature, Geoscience
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7148137.stm

13 December
2007 data confirms warming trend: This year has been one of the warmest globally since reliable records began, a preliminary analysis concludes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7142694.stm

The Guardian Weekly
14 December
UK not on Kyoto track – aviation, shipping, trade and tourism not counted in claims of emission reductions (p15)
Comment and debate: Only full decarbonisation can save the earth by George Monbiot; Capitalism alone won’t save us but it has a critical role to play by Jonathan Freedland (pp16-17).
The personal carbon counter (p35)
Fieldnotes: Uganda to plant trees to restore forest cover from 22% to 30% (p43)

New Scientist
8 December
Editorial: Germany’s solar power incentives (p3) OECD report on storm surge threat to coastal cities (p5).
Severe thunderstorms in eastern and southern US could double by 2100 ((p18)
Our solar future – on the brink of a new era in power generation as costs draw nearer to conventional electricity (pp32-37).
Do some asteroid impacts and mega eruptions cause mass extinctions while others don’t? Because they are in locations where they release carbon? (pp42-45)

Time Magazine
24 December
Global Business: Clean technology – Gambling on green. Venture capitalists look to make a fortune (and save the world) by betting billions on solutions to climate change (pp53-56).
17 December
Global Business: Technology pioneers (selected by World Economic Forum): Primafuel – techniques to rate biofuels and developing cheap biofuel from algae. LS9 – Industrial bacteria produce renewable petroleum safe for existing infrastructure. Hycrete, recyclable waterproof concrete. Skysail kite saves 35% of ship fuel. (pp45-46).

Previous Updates

ABC 7.30 Report

10 December
Rudd for Bali – implications of emissions cuts for Australia’s coal based power industry
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2114514.htm

ABC News Online

12 December

Bali delegates deadlocked on targets
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/12/2116303.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/12/2117229.htm

US stalling on interim climate targets. Rudd with a foot in both camps?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/13/2117436.htm?section=justin

Wong urges co-operation and ‘flexibility’.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/12/2117352.htm

10 December
Australia is ‘stalling Bali talks’.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/09/2113774.htm

Bob Brown, Garnaut on whether Rudd should set specific emission targets immediately.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/10/2114162.htm

UN releases Bali draft declaration
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/10/2113861.htm

Support for Bali negotiations from 13 car companies: Chief executives of BMW Group, Porsche, DAF Trucks, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Daimler, Renault, Fiat Group, Scania, Ford, Volkswagen, General Motors, Volvo and MAN signed a letter to the Financial Times.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/10/2114722.htm?section=justin

UK approves thousands of offshore windmills, aiming to power all British homes by 2020.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/10/2113854.htm

9 December
Bali delegates agree to include emissions from deforestation (mainly in developing countries) in their talks.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/09/2113567.htm

8 December
Newcastle rally calls for halt to coal exports
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/08/2113449.htm

7 December
UN Secretary General seeks new post Kyoto agreement by 2009, with binding cuts
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/07/2112849.htm

6 December
Bali Climate Declaration by the 200 climate scientists who approved the IPCC report, say world has only 10-15 years to act to achieve needed 50% emission cuts by 2050.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/06/2111913.htm

The Advertiser
11 December
Adelaide, capital of carbon monoxide: The proportion of commuters who drive (75.4%) is highest in the nation (p3); 96,000 sign climate petition presented to Wong on way to Bali (p6); Bali: We won’t pledge (or at least not yet) on green targets say US, China and Australia (p7).

10 December
Inferno – Kangaroo Island burns (pp1, 4-7).
NZ an ‘asset’ on climate change (p2)
Pre-feasibility study on new coal $3.7 coal mine and power plant project in SA far north (p22).
Nation must lead drive to aid climate refugees says von Doussa, University of Adelaide Chancellor (p23)
US to go it alone on strategy for global warming (p27)
Business: $20bn clean energy boom for Australia now Kyoto is ratified; Torrens geothermal hot rocks find is within reach of the power grid (p43).

The Age
10 December
Australian carbon trading scheme by 2010 ‘achievable’ says Garnaut.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/NATIONAL/Carbon-scheme-achievable-economist/2007/12/10/1197135331499.html

9 December
Rudd and Clark do lunch before Bali
http://www.theage.com.au/news/NATIONAL/Rudd-and-Clark-do-lunch-before-Bali/2007/12/09/1197135279179.html

8 December
Australia: from applauded new member in Bali to hedging its bets.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/hard-road-to-bali/2007/12/07/1196813021081.html

Australia says poorer countries must also make binding commitments in Bali
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/australia-talks-tough/2007/12/08/1196813087321.html

Trade ministers meet on fringes of Bali to discuss easing restrictions on climate friendly technologies.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/WORLD/Trade-ministers-to-aid-climate-talks/2007/12/08/1196813073047.html

BBC

12 December

Arctic could be ice free in summer by 2013 claims new US scientific study
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm

A greener way to recover methane from oil sands using microbes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7140983.stm

10 December
Gore climate plea to US and China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7136755.stm

Climate change goal ‘unreachable’ say two leading climate scientists from UK and Germany.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7135836.stm

Ban Ki Moon call to action.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7139676.stm

8 December
Global rallies in 50 cities (including 10,000 in London) focus on climate to pressure Bali conference.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7134060.stm

Brazil deforestation slows in year to July 2007 (for third year running) but may be rising again since.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7133957.stm

6 December

All nations need emissions goals says Britain’s trade and development minister
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7131530.stm

Rudd offers to be a bridge, on climate, between Beijing and the developed world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7130106.stm

5 December
Australia’s climate policy in from the cold
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7126249.stm

SBS
10 December
Al Gore Nobel acceptance speech calls for cuts to save civilisation
http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/co2_cuts_39necessary_for_civilisation39s_survival39_137186

ABC News Online

4 December
Murray Darling inflows close to ‘worst case scenario’.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/04/2108605.htm

3 December
Global study of 200 rivers finds those not dammed have better chance of resisting climate change.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/03/2108152.htm

Nicholas Stern advocates a further 20% Australian emissions reduction target to 80% by 2050.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/03/2107824.htm

Tropics are expanding towards the poles, exceeding worst case scenario of earlier models, says study in new journal Nature Geoscience.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/03/2107526.htm

30 November
Wong swots up for Bali climate change summit
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/30/2105919.htm

Threat to flying foxes from hotter weather
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/29/2105632.htm

29 November
Garnaut says Labor policies will boost Australia’s credibility in Bali
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/29/2105552.htm

US emissions fell (1.5%) last year – first reduction in 5 years and only second since 1990 – attributed to favourable weather and higher fuel prices
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/29/2105144.htm

28 November
Green light for hybrid taxis by NSW government
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/28/2103832.htm

Indonesia’s corals threatened by warming
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/28/2103611.htm

Thailand’s per capita emissions higher than China or India
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/28/2103334.htm

The Advertiser
30 November
Red crop-green heart. Largest glasshouse in Australia opened yesterday at Two Wells. It aims to double the Adelaide Plains production of tomatoes, with efficient use of energy and only 1/6 of the water of a conventional greenhouse (p73).

BBC News Online

3 December
To combat warming, Java requires the planting of five trees as fee for marriage licence (25 for a divorce).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7124680.stm

2 December
Research funding for plan to bury CO2 from coal fired fire stations, under sea bed in Firth of Forth estuary, Scotland.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7123936.stm

1 December
50 years of the Keeling curve which first demonstrated scientific measurements of rising CO2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7120770.stm

The Guardian Weekly
30 November
Sainsbury to ban palm oil from sources involving rainforest clearances (p16)
Weekly Review: The Lucky Country? Howard scoffed at global warming, now the crops are failing and rivers drying up (pp23-25).

New Scientist
1 December
Editorial: Post Kyoto must address all sources of emissions (p5).
Heatwave is a hell for Australia’s flying foxes (p6)
Why poisonous jellyfish love global warming (p10)
Was Venus our twin sister before it became hellishly hot as CO2 accumulated and water was all lost? (p12).
Spend now, reap rewards later – new approach to economic cost benefit analysis takes account of risk of extreme events (p14).
The bog barons: Biofuels, palm oil and the carbon catastrophe. How the draining of Indonesia’s swamp forests to supply Europe with biofuels releases many times as much carbon as it saves. Fred pearce (pp40-43).
http://www.newscientist.com

Time Magazine
3 December
Frito-Lay ‘green’ potato chips, plan to take production off the grid by 2010 (p10).
Katrina and Rita killed or severely damaged 320mn trees; Bangla Desh was better prepared for latest cat. 4 cyclone, with perhaps 10,000 dead V 140,000 in 1991 and 500,000 in 1970 (p11).
Change of Climate: US congress debating America’s cap and trade Climate Security Act and presidential candidates are sensing the new mood (p31).
Peak oil – is the beginning of the end of the oil era upon us ahead of schedule? {p66).

ABC News Online

27 November
Ratifying Kyoto will take time (ANU Law Expert).
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/27/2102601.htm?section=justin

Labor must address climate change now says rural lobby group Agforce.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/27/2102371.htm

CSIRO high hopes for new battery to store renewable energy in homes.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/27/2102123.htm

26 November
LGA (Local Government Association) latest State of the Regions report, calls for action on climate change.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/26/2101916.htm

25 November
Commonwealth leaders meeting in Uganda focus on climate change
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/25/2100443.htm

The Weekend Australian

24-25 November
Special Report - Climate Change pp1-12 includes:
From promise to action; Clean Energy Pioneers; NSW shortfalls; Policy uncertainty threatens investment; Airlines growth; Gas is transition fuel; Unified approach to emerging technologies needed; Clean coal challenges; Mandatory reporting; Markets must drive change; Geothermal viable; Uranium and gas exports can balance coal; Wind potential; Renewables viable; Tide and wave power; Nuclear rolling worldwide; Climate proofing homes; Gas transmission; Emissions trading; Cost of investment decides; European trading model; Carbon regime; Business responses; Alice solar city; PV cells growth; water cooling problem; Refugees; Hybrids; Biofuels.
Special Report – Higher Education Research Roundup:
Bracks (ANU) research on Greenhouse issues and forestry growth; Sahajwalla (UniNSW) how to use carbon from plastic packaging to replace 30% of coal used in steelmaking (p1).

BBC News Online
27 November
Homes can cut CO2 by 80% says Oxford University study
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7113165.stm

Poorest in climate front line says UN Human Development Report
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7113576.stm

26 November
UK business lobby (CBI) push for new taxes and regulations to reward climate friendly firms.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7112712.stm

24 November
Amazon forest may be more resilient to rising temperatures than expected
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7003788.stm

Commonwealth issues strong action plan, but Canada and Australian coalition’s last act  insist it be non-binding.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7110620.stm

22/20 November
Expansion plans for Heathrow airport. Lib Dems call for investment shift to rail.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7106524.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7107549.stm

The Guardian Weekly

23 November

IPCC says world ‘faces stark choices’ on climate (p8).
Australian power generation names as world’s worst polluters (p11).
Brown sets UK targets of 80% CO2 reduction by 2050 (p13)

New Scientist
24 November
Six Midwestern governors agree to cap emissions (p4); no world nuclear renaissance – fewer reactors today than 5 years ago; green China (p5).
IPCC hardens stance since February on possibility of ‘abrupt and irreversible’ ‘large scale singularities’ including collapsing ice sheets, Gulf Stream shutdown and runaway warming  (p13).
Termite lessons on converting wood to biofuel (p20).

ABC News online

20 November
CSIRO says only inedible crops, such as algae and weeds, can rescue Australia’s biofuel industry because of rising costs. These, however, are as yet undeveloped.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/20/2096172.htm?section=justin

Galapagos experiment in seeding iron, to promote CO2 consuming plankton, worries environmentalists.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/20/2095575.htm

19 November
Public transport key to climate change say Tassie Libs.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/19/2094505.htm

Liberal Debnam breaks ranks on Kyoto
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/19/2094680.htm

Greenies blockade Newcastle coal train
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/19/2094500.htm

Survey shows environment a top priority for young voters
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/19/2095173.htm

Road transport accounts for nearly 15% of our emissions but both parties promise big funding for roads.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/19/2094293.htm

Greens astounded as Flannery backs Turnbull
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/19/2094733.htm

18 November
Indonesia proposes OPEC oil for forests fund
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/18/2094199.htm

16 November
Climate change is altering El Nino patterns.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/16/2093237.htm

BBC News Online

19 November
British PM outlines climate action plan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7101075.stm

15 November
Biofuels bonanza will crash unless producers can show their crops have been produced responsibly, says UNEP chief. He contrasted the destruction of Indonesia’s peat swamps for palm oil, with what he claimed was responsible and sustainable ethanol production in Brazil and the dry land crop jatropha.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7096819.stm

Change in Average Carbon Emissions from New Cars Produced in EU 2005-2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7095296.stm

New Scientist

10 November

Back to black: Danger of global rising use of coal (p4)
China Rising: The sun king – solar power in China (pp40-42)

Sydney Morning Herald
21 November
World must slash dirty coal. One third of the $435bn projected expenditure on energy over next 15 years must be shifted into clean coal , renewables, hydro and nuclear (UN chief climate negotiator).
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/slash-dirty-coal-within-15-years/2007/11/20/1195321787897.html

Time Magazine

19 November
Carbon neutral? Companies brag but we are just learning how to check their maths (p86).

ABC News online
12 November
UN scientists meet in Spain to hammer out a 25 page summary guide for policy makers of the IPCC report. Meeting told failure to act on climate peril would be ‘criminally irresponsible’.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/12/2088616.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/12/2087741.htm

New natural gas generator nearing completion, will add 30% to Darwin’s power
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/12/2088699.htm

Ocean phytoplankton could absorb more CO2 than previously thought (report in Nature)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/12/2087741.htm

The Advertiser

November 13
The Murray-Darling Basin Commission’s Living Murray Icon Site Report for 2007, shows degradation continues and the Coorong is in serious trouble (p9)
Making your home solar powered; climate alert to energy leaders by Tim Flannery (p13)

BBC News Online

12 November
Organisers claim 150,000 in walks against warming across Australia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7089277.stm

Climate scepticism – 10 claims and responses.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/7074601.stm

11 November
UN chief’s Antarctic climate tour
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7089290.stm

9 November
BBC boat diary across Bangla Desh to track effects of climate change.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7086405.stm

8 November
Indonesian forest clearances and peat bog draining for palm oil plantations threaten a ‘climate bomb’ says Greenpeace report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7084306.stm

7 November
Global energy demands will "grow inexorably" if governments do not change their policies, warns the IEA World Energy Report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7081679.stm

6 November
UK Climate bill's 60% emission cut Gordon Brown commits the UK to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 60% before 2050 to help tackle climate change.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/uk_politics/7080580.stm

The Guardian Weekly

9 November
Climate change and fuel shortages signal global food crisis by John Vidal (p3)
[For a comment on this see our Blog page].
Gadafy sees green future for Libya tourism (pp30-31).
Deforestation and climate change are returning malaria to Peru (p41)

New Scientist

3 November
UNEP fourth GEO report shows average global footprint 21.9hectares per person but earth’s biological capacity only 15.7 hectares. (p13)

Previous update

ABC News Online
5 November
Global warming threatens Japanese rice farmers
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/05/2082261.htm

Cloncurry in Queensland (4,500 residents) first town to be powered entirely by solar, within 2 years, using 8000 mirrors reflecting onto graphite blocks
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/05/2081571.htm

2 November
Labor pledges $500m to cut greenhouse gas, including $50m for a carbon capture plant in Victoria. Howard says he will not match it.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/02/2080187.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/01/2079365.htm

Top US scientists condemn Bush nuclear waste recycling plan.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/02/2080695.htm

Is underground carbon sequestration feasible? Minerals Council V Climate Change Coalition.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/02/2080618.htm

1 November
EU biofuels could spark a land grab in Asia and Africa by agra-industrial corporations at the expense of the poor, warns Oxfam.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/01/2079403.htm

31 October
A new solar energy era may help the world’s poor
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/31/2077977.htm

BBC news online
2 November
110 US mayors meet on climate change
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7074238.stm

22 October
The Green Room Viewpoint: A fund needed to promote forest conservation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7053332.stm

New Scientist
27 October
Saved by the trees? New research indicates that forests grow more slowly and absorb less CO2 when nights are warmer (pp42-46)
Fast growing emissions are leaving IPCC behind (p14).

All Sage Journals’ Articles with mention of ‘Climate Change’ or ‘Global Warming’ in the Abstract.
July-October 2007

Coping With Global Environmental Problems: Development and First Validation of Scales. Andreas Homburg, Andreas Stolberg, and Ulrich Wagner Environment and Behavior, 11 2007; vol. 39: pp. 754 - 778.

Justice and the Environment in Nussbaum's "Capabilities Approach": Why Sustainable Ecological Capacity Is a Meta-Capability Breena Holland Political Research Quarterly, 10 2007; vol. 0: pp. 1065912907306471v1.

Using the past to constrain the future: how the palaeorecord can improve estimates of global warming. Tamsin L. Edwards, Michel Crucifix, and Sandy P. Harrison
Progress in Physical Geography, 10 2007; vol. 31: pp. 481 - 500.

Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Globalization: Contradictions of Natural Capital Fred Curtis Review of Radical Political Economics, 9 2007; vol. 39: pp. 385 - 390.

Blue intensity in Pinus sylvestris tree-rings: developing a new palaeoclimate proxy Rochelle Campbell, Danny McCarroll, Neil J. Loader, Håkan Grudd, Iain Robertson, and Risto Jalkanen The Holocene, 9 2007; vol. 17: pp. 821 - 828.

Examining the Relationship Between Physical Vulnerability and Public Perceptions of Global Climate Change in the United States Samuel D. Brody, Sammy Zahran, Arnold Vedlitz, and Himanshu Grover Environment and Behavior, 8 2007; vol. 0: pp. 0013916506298800v1.

New algorithm for generating hourly temperature values using daily maximum, minimum and average values from climate models D.H.C. Chow and Geoff J. Levermore
Building Service Engineering, 8 2007; vol. 28: pp. 237 - 248.

Century-scale Holocene processes as a source of natural selection pressure in human evolution: Holocene climate and the Human Genome Project Alison J. Smith The Holocene, 7 2007; vol. 17: pp. 689 - 695.

Sustainable Play: Toward a New Games Movement for the Digital Age Celia Pearce, Tracy Fullerton, Janine Fron, and Jacquelyn Ford Morie  Games and Culture, 7 2007; vol. 2: pp. 261 - 278.

Election Reports
ABC News Online

30 October
Rudd forced to clear up warming stance
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/30/2074420.htm

PM tight lipped on cabinet split on Kyoto
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/29/2074082.htm

29 October
Labor commits to new global warming deal
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/29/2072679.htm

Greens want to know what kind of post Kyoto deal Howard would accept
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/29/2074091.htm?section=justin

ACF backs Labor global greenhouse emissions target and water plan
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/29/2073480.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/29/2073092.htm

Rudd unveils Reef protection and water plans. Farmers supportive but Brown critical
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/29/2072924.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/29/2073892.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/28/2072504.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/29/2074047.htm?section=justin

26 October
Labor solar plan for schools
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/26/2071678.htm

The Weekend Australian

27/28 October
Howard promises, $75m on grants for renewable energy, including $5m for wave technology. Nuclear, ‘only one option’ (p6).

Other News
ABC News Online
30 October
Land clearing as damaging as emissions says Qld researcher.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/30/2075075.htm?section=justin

29 October
ACF says birds and fish are disappearing from Murray wetlands while federal government water fund gathers dust
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/29/2074053.htm

Aussies face ailing health from warming planet says new report
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/29/2072630.htm

27 October
Melbourne water storage back down to 40%
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/27/2072122.htm

26 October
Scientists silenced over SA desalination plant concerns
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/26/2070871.htm

Sarkozy unveils France’s ‘green revolution’
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/26/2070840.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/25/2069614.htm

Indonesia hosts talks ahead of Bali on post Kyoto
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/25/2069589.htm

25 October

Scientist warns Tasmania of rising bushfire threat from global warming
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/25/2070578.htm

The Advertiser
26 October
We don’t need the Murray – how recycling, better reservoirs and desalination can beat water dependence. (p31).
LED dimmer bright light for a future of even more efficient light bulbs (p35).

The Weekend Australian

27/28 October
Fallout for climate from failed Indian nuclear deal by Greg Seridan (p21).

BBC News Online

30 October
Oil price settles at record high
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7066921.stm

26 October
Bush declares major fire disaster in California as fires spark the biggest US evacuation since Katrina.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7062621.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/americas/7060490.stm

Climate threat to biodiversity. Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries could trigger a mass extinction, warn scientists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7058627.stm

The Guardian Weekly

26 October
World oil production peaked in 2006 and will now fall by 7% a year, threatening shortages and ‘risk of war’ for shrinking supplies, says German based Energy Watch Group (p7).
Britain to lodge Antarctic claim (p11)

19 October
Alberta’s dirty gold rush for oil from tar sand (pp28, 29

New Scientist

20 October
Comment and Analysis: Exaggerating the link between climate change and complex conflicts in Africa will only make matters worse (Curtis Abraham)

13 October
Editorial Global warming and disease – the bluetongue virus (p3)
Upfront: The coming third industrial revolution – nuclear power for Europe (pp4/5).
60 Seconds: Biofuels V food for India and China (IWMI); Capturing carbon directly from the air will be only way of avoiding unmanageable temperature rises of over 2 degrees; US Congress to press ahead with greenhouse caps (p5) 
Soundbites: ‘There are no easy barrels left’ (oil consultant).

Sunday Mail

28 October
Cabinet split over Kyoto leaked (pp1, 4).
Poor starve for biofuel says UN expert. Crop residues and Jatropha seeds better than corn and sugar cane.(p39)
We’d need 4 earths to sustain a world of Australians (p42)

Time Magazine

5 November
Cover story: Why California is burning. How development, climate change and drought helped contribute to a flaming mess as nearly a mission people flee (pp18-29)

29 October
Special Issue - Heroes of the Environment: Michael Gorbachev; Prince Charles; James Lovelock; Al Gore; Tim Flannery; Wangari Maathai; David Attenborough; James Hansen; Amory Lovins; Shi Zhengrong; David Suzuki and many more visionaries, activists, innovators and entrepreneurs (pp 2, 22-74).

2 October
GM’s green light – a full selection of hybrid SUV to erase memory of who killed the electric car (p40).
To fuel its boom Vietnam turns to coal (p42

Social Science Quarterly.  September 2007 Volume 88 Issue 3 Page 640-664. The Precautionary Principle in Context: U.S. and E.U. Scientists' Prescriptions for Policy in the Face of Uncertainty                                                                                        Carol L. Silva and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith     

http://www.citeulike.org/article/1445747                        
Abstract                                                                                                               Our objective is to explain how scientists interpret less-than-certain scientific findings to inform policymakers' choices on controversial science policy issues. We focus on two particularly difficult policy cases concerning global climate change and low-dose radiation protection.
Methods. Our method is to analyze data from a unique multination survey of scientists to analyze the ways their views about what is scientifically correct are translated into judgments about appropriate policy. The surveys asked scientists, randomly drawn from U.S. and E.U. subscribers to the journal Science, to indicate the "most likely" relationships between greenhouse gas emissions and average global temperatures and between radiation dose and incidence of cancer in humans. Follow-up questions asked for their judgments about appropriate policy targets for reductions in greenhouse gas emission and safety standards for radiation exposure. The data permit analysis of the relationships between scientific certainty and policy judgments in these two cases.

Results. Our results shed light on when and how scientists reach precautionary policy conclusions, demonstrating that scientists' application of precaution is dependent on context. In the case of radiation protection, greater certainty is associated with less precaution. But with respect climate change, we found the opposite relationship.

Previous Update

Election campaign
ABC News Online
23 October
Turnbull pulls back from government support for nuclear
power, if clean coal is cheaper.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/23/2066892.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/22/2066193.htm

PM pledges $10m for Adelaide desalination plant.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/22/2066824.htm

Labor advertisement to highlight climate change party
differentials. Labor would immediately ratify Kyoto, adopt
targets and increase renewable energy.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/22/2066795.htm

22 October
PM fleshes out climate change fund plan.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/22/2065970.htm

Labor supports Liberal climate fund to compensate low
income earners for rising energy prices, but says 2011 is
too far down the track
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/22/2066715.htm

18/17 October
ACF party scores out of 100, on environment: Coalition 21;
Family First 31; Labor 49; Democrats and Greens over 90.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/18/2062549.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/17/2061491.htm

The Advertiser
17 October
Nationals to target coal seats claiming Garrett threatens to
close down the industry (p9).

Other Subjects
ABC News Online
22 October
SA government announces $24mn water rebate scheme for
people who install water saving devices, including water
audits, dual flush toilets and 4 star washing machines.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/21/2065368.htm

21 October
Heat on for 38 solar car race (Darwin to Adelaide) contenders,
from 19 countries.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/21/2065194.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/20/2065059.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/19/2063949.htm

20 october
Climate change progress rests on December Bali talks: UN
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/20/2065062.htm

Reef impacts. Too late to save many corals.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/20/2064936.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/18/2062914.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/18/2062492.htm

19 October
Trevor Pearcey green building in Canberra only third in
Australia to rate 6 stars for energy and water conservation.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/19/2064223.htm

Protesters storm nuclear meeting in Sydney
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/19/2064023.htm

Conservationists to protest Kimberley gas plant.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/19/2064008.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/19/2063949.htm

Ian Dunlap, former chair Australian Coal Association and
Australian Institute of Company Directors, calls for urgent
emissions trading scheme
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/19/2063700.htm

Tasmanian highlands water crisis
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/19/2063632.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/19/2063631.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/18/2063563.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/18/2063284.htm

Sceptics to send climate change swindle film to all schools.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/18/2063553.htm

17 October
Britain stakes claim to Antarctic sea bed.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/17/2062451.htm

Clean energy: Pentagon report considers piloting a solar power
station in space to beam down energy. Large investment in
solar panels would drastically cut their price.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/17/2062368.htm

Researchers close to ocean wave power breakthrough, for
electricity generation and desalination..
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/17/2062006.htm

Australian Antarctic Division and international team with
helicopters, have collected mountain of data, about Antarctic
ice, yet to be analysed,
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/17/2061994.htm

The Advertiser
17 October
IPCC climate change forecast is based on exaggerated projections
of global economic and population growth (says statistician);
Aldinga Child Centre first to earn ‘climate neutral’ green badge (p15).
Residents used 20% more water in past financial year than in
previous 12 months (p27).
Solar Energy Lab kits for over 500 schools to be provided by
Advertiser and TAFE SA (p29)

BBC
19 October
Ships global total CO2 emissions have been rising sharply,
as trade has grown, and are double that of planes, but still
less per ton carried, finds a new report from Intertanko.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7052037.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/19/2064872.htm

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Please visit http://www.worldscinet.com/jeapm/mkt/top.shtml

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ABC News Online
16 October
Climate Change not fertiliser now blamed for Swan river
algal blooms.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/16/2060888.htm

Farmers could reap $3bn from wind power and other renewables,
and from stewardship and other offsets, says Climate Institute study.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/16/2060466.htm

15 october
NSW commitment to full renewable power for desalination?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/15/2060051.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/15/2059440.htm

Second SA desalination plant for Yorke Peninsula?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/15/2059814.htm

Experts discuss climate change impact on mozzie borne disease.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/15/2059442.htm

12 October
Battery charged bicycles take off in China.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/12/2057469.htm

11 October
Holden considering ‘4 cylinder’ engines for its V8
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/11/2057033.htm

Plan to establish Compressed Natural Gas refuelling
infrastructure throughout Tasmania.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/11/2056800.htm

SA Water news
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/16/2060709.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/16/2060511.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/16/2060436.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/13/2058905.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/10/2055947.htm

BBC
12 October
Fear of an environmental catastrophe, at China’s 4 Gorges
Dam, means at least 4 million people will be moved away.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7042660.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7013953.stm

Belfast international airport produces as much CO2 as an
African nation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7040898.stm

11 October
Gore climate change film’s ‘9 errors’ rules UK judge,
but basically well founded in the science.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7037671.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7040370.stm

Boom in US nuclear reactors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7027147.stm

10 October
UK to follow Australia’s lead in phasing out high emission
light bulbs. EU may follow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7018575.stm

The Guardian Weekly
Climate change disaster is here, now, warns UN emergency
relief chief. A record number of floods, droughts and
storms around the world this year amount together to a
‘mega disaster’. Map (p5).
Portugal prepares to launch world’s first commercial wave
farm. Portugal has renewable energy target for 2010 of 45%
but is will run out of land for wind power (pp28, 29)

New Scientist
6 October
Editorial: Scepticism yes, nonsense no. Climate change
sceptics are clutching at straws (p5).
Upfront: It’s cooler to be green with leafy walls and roofs (p6).
Bush a carbon convert? He still opposes mandatory cuts
but 68% of Americans would support mandatory cuts of
90% by 2050 (p7).
Windscale nuclear accident in 1957 now shown to have
contaminated much more of Europe than previously
admitted (p11).
Should we move species, stranded by global warming,
to new homes? (pp46-49).
Arctic future. Winning essay. (p56)

Time Magazine
Small Asian nations are rushing to pump oil (p32)
Meltdown. The polar bear is in real danger as polar ice
retreats. (pp34, 35)
Eco rebels: Sceptics shift from doubting the reality of
warming to questioning the need for expensive pre-emptive
action. (p41).

ABC News Online
9 and 5 October
Water shortages, river flows and irrigation news
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/09/2054261.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/09/2054201.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/05/2052312.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/05/2051567.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/05/2052026.htm

8 October
NSW considers adopting Japanese hybrid (electric/diesel)
trains as existing fleet comes up for replacement.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/08/2053492.htm

6 October
SA Penola pup mill strikes deal for geothermal hot rocks power
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/06/2052684.htm

5 October
A new European ice age, within a century, could send floods
of refugees to Australia, if gulf-stream fails (ANU palaeontology
study, published in Science).
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/05/2052408.htm

4 October
UN warning on climate refugees within Australia, as Aboriginal
inhabitants of remote areas flee heat and drought to the cities.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/04/2050480.htm

Australia lags China on climate change action, which should
have begun a decade ago, says ANU scientist Dr. Pearman, at
Greenhouse 2007 conference in Sydney.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/04/2051342.htm

3 October
Chief scientist calls for bio-sequestration by planting forests
across large parts of Northern Australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/03/2050005.htm

Leaders of many faiths pressure government on emissions.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/03/2049362.htm

On the Tasmanian Pulp Mill
9 October
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/09/2054731.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/09/2054663.htm
8 October
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/08/2054136.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/08/2053933.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/08/2053383.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/08/2053152.htm
7 October
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/07/2053033.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/07/2052976.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/07/2052956.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/07/2052903.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/07/2052886.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/07/2052821.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/07/2052778.htm
6 October
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/06/2052668.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/06/2052642.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/06/2052641.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/06/2052529.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/05/2052426.htm
5 October
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/05/2052281.htm

BBC
Ice melt raises Arctic tension. Canada warns it will stop
patrols in open NW passage.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7033498.stm

Guardian Weekly
5 October
Hurricane Felix, at speeds of 260km/h, left6 1.5m hectares
of forest in rotting heaps in Nicaragua (p3).
Beijing admits dangers of Three Gorges Dam (p6).
Bush’s climate change spinner can’t bamboozle the
concerned majority (p9).
Editorial: Bush’s climate polluters’ summit – talking lots,
settling little (p20)
Greenland is now fit for broccoli growers (p22).

28 September
Ecuador asks West to pay them $350m a year to not
pump oil in the Amazon (p43).

New Scientist
29 September
Upfront: Lovelock saving Gaia (p4).
Squeeze the Breeze, getting more electricity from
wind power (pp44-47).

15 September
Ocean fertilisation to create plankton blooms as
cheap method to offset carbon? (pp42-45).

Time Magazine
October 1
Cover story: Who owns the Arctic? As global warming
shrinks the ice to record lows, the global battle heats
up - Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia, US, in contest
for resources and control of new route from Europe
to Asia (pp20-27).
US Eco-educators create little green classrooms (pp33-34).

ABC News
1 October
Adelaide has had driest September in 20 years, with above
average temperatures, but more rain is on the way.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/01/2047450.htm

29 September
Bob Brown slams Bush proposal for voluntary CO2 cuts
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/29/2047031.htm

120,000 NSW workers have switched to public transport to
save carbon emissions.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/29/2047007.htm

28 September
Turnbull on carbon targets.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/28/2046765.htm

Coalition would push ahead with nuclear energy generation.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/28/2046420.htm

Nelson, Howard and Keelty debate whether climate change or
terrorism is biggest security threat facing Australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/28/2046340.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/28/2045948.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/28/2046048.htm

Do traditional owners really support nuclear dump?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/28/2045933.htm

27 September
Stars join Clinton campaign to save the world
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/27/2045263.htm

Warming threatens Queensland’s tropical birds
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/27/2044910.htm

Top scientific bodies link climate change to bushfire dangers
rising 300% by 2050..
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/26/2044282.htm

BBC News Online
1 October
An influential UK government advisory body endorses plans
for a tidal barrage across the Severn estuary.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7021835.stm

30 September
Hunger lurks as African floods recede
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7020064.stm

28/29 September
Bush provokes debate and fury, seeking ‘flexible CO2 targets’
which ‘will not harm economic growth’.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7019346.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7019415.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7018247.stm

28 September
Irish Climate Research and Analysis unit predicts a wetter
climate rain over the next 50 years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7019346.stm

Brazil city of Sao Paolo sells $18mn of carbon credits (achieved
by cutting methane emissions from its rubbish dump) to Fortis
group, allowing it to emit 800,000 tonnes of CO2.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7015171.stm

25 September
BBC survey of 22,000 people in 21 countries found an
average of nearly 80% believe climate change is caused
by human activity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7010522.stm

Guardian Weekly
September 28
Sold down the river – Congo forests sold to foreign loggers (pp25-27).
Arctic thaw opens route (p31).

Supplement: Climate Change, Challenging Business.
The message is beginning to get across to business (p1).
Offsetting, controversial but potentially vital (p2)
Carbon labelling and certification (p3).
Potential for biofuels from Jatropa seeds on marginal
land in developing countries (p5).
London plans for anaerobic digestion of its food waste.

New Scientist
22 September
Editorial: The Montreal ozone treaty is a positive political
paradigm (despite mistakes). Credible international treaties,
complete with funding, can elicit new clean technologies (p3).
This week: Wetter world is a result of greenhouse warming,
a new multi model study finds (p16).

Planet Ark
Australia's PM Goes Green, Opponents See Red
September 25
Howard has pledged new "clean energy" targets: by 2020, John
Howard said, 15 percent of Australia's energy would come from
"clean" sources including solar, wind, nuclear or clean coal,
reversing his coalition government's previous reluctance to lift
its renewable energy target from 2 percent.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/44484/story.htm

News.com
Carbon trading part of energy target
September 24
NEW mandatory renewable energy targets will work in conjunction
with a proposed carbon trading scheme to ensure emission reduction
targets are achievable, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.
Mr Turnbull said a problem with targets was that it was easy for
politicians to set big targets and gain cheap headlines with no idea
how to get there.
Full story here.

Impose a green tax, says study
September 24
AUSTRALIANS should be taxed according to a study conducted
by researchers from the University of Melbourne and the CSIRO.
Study found consumers “actively” interested in green energy but
didn’t want to pay more for it.
Full story here.

Gore maintains pressure on PM over Kyoto
September 19
AL Gore still criticise Howard for not signing the Kyoto agreement.
Gore again referred to Australia and the US today as the Bonnie
and Clyde of the climate crisis.
Full story here.

ABC
7.30 Report
24 September
Government backflips on clean energy targets, announcing
new goal of 15% by 2020.
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2041503.htm

ABC
News Online
21 September
Fears for wedge tailed eagles at wind farm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/21/2040323.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/21/2040433.htm

Parties target farmers. Minister rejects loan plan for drought
affected farmers
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/21/2040312.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/21/2039586.htm

Costello calls for widespread desalination as Murray-Darling
Basin Commission report finds water storage levels at record
lows. Some crops could be permanently lost
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/21/2039438.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/21/2039223.htm

BBC News Online
21 September
Protecting Paradise: Ecuador seeks compensation to refrain
from exploiting oil reserves beneath the Yasuni biosphere reserve.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7000345.stm

20 September
Arctic seabed 'belongs to Russia'
An Arctic expedition proves that a vast underwater mountain
range is a part of Russia, officials say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/europe/7005483.stm

19 September
Evidence of positive feedback loop: An ancient bog (uncovered
by the Channel Tunnel rail link) reveals the major role of methane
release, in the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum when
temperatures rose suddenly, the fastest in earth’s history.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7003668.stm

14 September
Bush advisor, US chief scientist says warming is 90% man made
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6994760.stm

New Scientist
21 September
Climate change is killing US forests Sierra Nevada pines are
dying slowly from water stress.
Full story here.

18 September
California lawsuit against car companies for climate change
rejected by court.
Full story here.

New smart roofs can keep you cool. They soak up the sun’s
energy and release it back into the sky at night.
Full story here

16 September
Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders gathered
on a ship in the Arctic to pray for the planet, showing a growing
consensus between religions on the seriousness of global warming.
Full story here

12 September
A relatively simple modification to existing petrol engines can
substantially save fuel.
Full story here.

Snippets for September here.

Planet Ark
Nobel Peace Prize Could Go to Climate Campaigner
NORWAY: September 19, 2007
OSLO - The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize could go to a climate
campaigner such as ex-US Vice-President Al Gore or Inuit
activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, reinforcing a view that global
warming is a threat to world security, experts say.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/44400/story.htm

Cost, Safety Fears Threaten Climate Change Remedy
UK: September 19, 2007
LONDON - Cost overruns and legal and safety uncertainties
could stall a new technology seen vital in the fight against
climate change, and which works by burying underground
the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/44404/story.htm

Germany Won't Harm Solar Sector With Cuts
GERMANY: September 7, 2007
BERLIN - Germany will cut support to solar energy
under its renewable energy law from 2009, but the cuts
will be too