Archive for November 15th, 2009
My initial post, “Wind Integration: Incremental Emissions from Back-Up Generation Cycling: (Part I: A Framework and Calculator),” provided an overview of a fossil fuel and CO2 emissions
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A new paper examines the potential of a REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) mechanism to provoke ecological damage and/or promote ecological cobenefits. Such
President Obama needs to encourage China to play an even stronger international role but also curb some of its darker instincts.
President Obama’s ambitions are limited by a Congress that is unwilling to move as far or as fast as he would like.
Reaching a climate change solution in the face of powerful opposing forces from consumers to corporations will ultimately be a matter of political will.
Much Toodaloo About Climate McCarthyismThe Climate Concern Troll Twins have declared war on Joe Romm, finger painting him as the Climate Joe McCarthy. Romm is not everyone’s cup of tea, but
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We must make the invisible visible. We must make the vastness perceptible. We must make the alien familiar. We must make the implausible plausible. We have no other choice.
Jonathan Watts reports from Inner Mongolia on a project that could clean up the planet’s fastest growing source of greenhouse emissions – or make them far, far worse Jonathan Watts Shehani
Tags: China, climate change, Energy, Environment, Guardian, guardian.co.uk, Mining, World news
Duncan Clark, Guardian environment writer and author of The Rough Guide to Green Living, tells us about his top 10 eco myths. (1:25) In the newsjam we look at Britain’s renewable energy
Tags: Breast cancer, Breast-conserving surgery (lumpectomy), Carbon emissions, Carbon offsetting, climate change, Copenhagen climate change conference 2009, Editorial, Environment, Guardian, guardian.co.uk, Kyoto protocol, Medical research, Religion, Renewable energy, science, Technology
President Barack Obama joined other leaders of the Asia-Pacific nations yesterday in accepting that a long-planned summit in Copenhagen next month on climate change will be unable to forge a new
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Can the world reach a new deal to combat climate change without the world’s richest country, the world’s sole superpower? Such is the question looming over the Copenhagen climate
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Guest post by Larry Fields The last Ice Age razed all of the coniferous forests in Finland. After the ice sheet retreated, trees from elsewhere–like the Scots Pine–gradually colonized the
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The European Union will fail to hit its target for deriving 20 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020 unless the rate of investment in the industry increases sharply, according to a
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Barack Obama, the US president, said that next month’s summit in Copenhagen would not produce a legally binding agreement to tackle global warming, so what have his comments done to any hope
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Bernama: Despite adverse publicity on palm oil, the commodity has proven its efficiency as a fuel to supply heat to nearly 35,000 German homes. A combined heat and power plant operated by
Washington Post: Hoping to lower expectations for next month’s U.N.-sponsored talks in Copenhagen, leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit endorsed the proposal by Danish
Time Magazine: Unfortunately, the study’s findings couldn’t be further from the truth. The authors’ recalculation had less to do with a reduction in deforestation than with an
Tags: Climate Ark, deforestation Copenhagen cllimate | Worldwide/General |
CNN: President Obama and leaders from the rest of the world’s top economic powers acknowledged Sunday that there’s no hope of a major breakthrough over climate change by year’s
Tags: Climate Ark, climate deal Copenhagen delayed | Worldwide/General |
Independent (UK): Low-lying and impoverished Asian coastal cities such as Dhaka, Manila and Jakarta are vulnerable to "brutal" damage from climate change without global action,
Tags: Climate Ark, climate cities face disaster | Worldwide/General |
Independent (UK): The Dutch government is to become the first country in Europe to introduce a green tax to replace annual road tax on cars. Drivers will have to pay per kilometer driven in a bid
Independent (UK): President Barack Obama joined other leaders of the Asia-Pacific nations yesterday in accepting that a long-planned summit in Copenhagen next month on climate change will be unable
Tags: Climate Ark, Copenhagen deal two step | Worldwide/General |
Guardian: Barack Obama acknowledged todaythat time had run out to secure a legally binding climate deal at the Copenhagen summit in December and threw his support behind plans to delay a formal
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Mongabay: In a move that some observers say could provide a path forward on a future climate agreement that includes emissions cuts in developing countries, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Tags: Climate Ark, emissions growth restrain | South/Central America/Caribbean | Brazil
Guardian: Barack Obama’s admission that next month’s crucial climate talks in Copenhagen will not provide a legally binding treaty is the best thing – and the worst thing –
Tags: Climate Ark, Copenhagen politics Senate | North America | United States
Guardian: Jonathan Watts reports from Ordos, Inner Mongolia, on a project that could eventually clean up the planet’s fastest growing source of greenhouse gases Link to this video The
Tags: Climate Ark, coal industry | East/South-East Asia | China
Inter Press Service: On the Danish island of Samsø, a model of energy self-sufficiency, even cow’s milk helps reduce emissions of climate changing gases. Samsø has an area of 114 square
Tags: Climate Ark, energy self-reliance island | Europe | Denmark
Agence France-Presse: The leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations will be conspicuous by their absence as more than 60 heads of state and government gather in Rome this week for a UN summit
Tags: Climate Ark, hunger starvation lack political support | Worldwide/General |
Let’s tune in again. Our MPs are bringing big ideas back | Jackie Ashley
Just when we’d given up on politics, the likes of Cameron and Miliband start having real debates of vision and importance It’s been a long, general, grouchy complaint: politicians
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