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Hard times for global
warming biz
OTTAWA -
A dramatic reduction in Canadian media coverage of climate change
science issues is the result of the Harper government introducing new
rules in 2007 to control interviews by Environment Canada scientists
with journalists, says a newly released federal document. (CanWest)
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Arctic winds blamed
Dying Climate Project folded
No new cash for climate foundation
McGunity's ill wind blows across Canada
Climate change 'exaggerated' in UK government adverts
New health risk
Dr
Nina Pierpont, a top New York paediatrician, has been studying the
effects of living near wind turbines in the UK, US, Canada, Ireland and
Italy for more than five years. She has identified a new health risk -
wind turbine syndrome (WTS)
- causing a wide range of problems ranging from internal pulsation,
quivering, nervousness, fear, chest tightness and tachycardia -
increased heart rate. (Daily Mail) MORE:
Wind farms in Canada
Shutting down rural hockey arenas
MONTREAL - Pushed to
the fiscal brink by rising electricity costs and the price of a new
roof, a small Quebec village mulled whether to shutter a local temple -
the indoor hockey rink.
(CP)
Fat people cause global warming
LONDON - The researchers from the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine say overweight people cause excess
greenhouse gas emissions because they eat more than thin people
and are more likely to travel by car. (CTV) MORE:
1970s lifestyle 'protects planet'
What Suzuki didn't tell you
EPA find greenhouse gases pose a danger to health
Cost 'twice as much as predicted'
Blair
to earn millions as climate change adviser
Low energy lightbulbs
LONDON -
Hundreds of millions of
old-fashioned low energy lightbulbs have been mailed to British families
that often cannot use them, official documents show. (Telegraph
UK) PREVIOUS:
Power giants free energy saving lightbulbs dodge
Lights to go out on inefficient bulbs
Power companies tackle poverty
'Unjustified price differences'
Satellite crashes
Orbiting
Carbon Observatory (OCO),
the
centrepiece satellite of
NASA’s $280M climate-change mission crashed into the sea near
Antarctica today after a launch failure, delivering a blow to the
agency's attempts to understand global warming. (Times online)
MORE:
Launch mishap ends OCO mission
Global warming satellite falls to Earth
Orbiting Carbon
Observatory
Never mind the panic headlines
BOULDER - A glitch in satellite
sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea
ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a
California - size area, the US National Snow and Ice Data Center
said. (Bloomberg)
After 2 summers of clear sailing ice choking NW
Passage
How many lobbyists does it take to change a light
bulb?
WASHINGTON - Had
Thomas Edison employed the same business strategy as his
21st-Century heirs at General Electric, he would have lobbied
Congress to outlaw the candle in 1879 when he perfected and patented
the light bulb. He surely could have masked his self-interested
lobbying in some public interest claim, such as fire prevention or
the need for wax conservation. Today, the mask is
environmentalism. (Examiner)
Ellesmere Island loses ice shelf
One of Canada's
five remaining Arctic ice shelves - the 4,500-year-old, 50-sq.-km.
Markham Ice Shelf - has broken completely away from Ellesmere Island and
drifted into the Arctic Ocean. (CanWest)
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Major
ice-shelf loss for Canada
Ellesmere Ice Shelf breaks up (1947) Ward
Hunt Ice Shelf (2003) Ayles
Ice Shelf (2005)
Ice shelf collapse (2001)
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Carbon Tax bummer
CALGARY - A team of
University of Calgary researchers say they have built a simple machine
that can capture carbon dioxide right out of the air, and that could
operate anywhere on the planet. (Calgary Herald) MORE:
Scientist cracks carbon capture conundrum
Eco-hypocrites |
Skeptics have it wrong
OTTAWA -
In a memorandum, prepared for Environment Minister Jim Prentice prior to
his participation at the Copenhagen conference last December,
Ian Shugart, the top-ranking official at Environment Canada said a
controversy surrounding stolen e-mails from a climate-research centre in
the UK does not call into question the reliability of the science.
(CanWest)
MORE:
GIGO France
to hold debate over the 'mafia-like system'
Another climate bummer
'Moral licensing'
According to the results of a University of Toronto
study, participants who assigned more social value to 'green' shopping
were more likely to cheat and steal in subsequent tests than those with
less stringent shopping habits. (Ottawa Citizen)
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Do
as we say, not as we do
WASHINGTON - The
World Bank
is spending
billions of pounds subsidizing new coal-fired power stations in
developing countries despite claiming that burning fossil fuels exposes
the poor to catastrophic climate change. (Times online) REPORT:
World development report 2009
Don't exhale
WASHINGTON - The
EPA
is expected in the next few weeks to declare that carbon dioxide and
five other greenhouse gases are pollutants, a move that would require
the federal government to regulate them - even without legislation. But
some skeptics say regulating carbon dioxide, a byproduct of burning
fossil fuels, may be a difficult task, especially since people emit
carbon dioxide with every breath. (Fox)
Africa seeks climate change cash
Ministers from 10
African countries are meeting in Ethiopia to try to agree a common
position on climate change, months before a crucial UN meeting. They
are expected to renew demands for billions of dollars in compensation
for Africa because of damage caused by global warming. (BBC) RELATED:
'Africa is not poor, it is just poorly
managed'
India unveils cap & trade market
NEW DELHI - India has
approved in principle new trading plans centred on energy efficiency as
part of efforts to shift to a greener economy to fight climate change,
opening up a potential market worth more than $15B by 2015. (Reuters)
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Trees advance
Rush to green
CALGARY -
Alberta Energy released the
panel's final report on carbon capture, which stresses billions more
public dollars are needed before the technology can pay for itself.
(Calgary Herald)
Emissions of power firms exceed UK
BEIJING - Greenhouse
gas emissions from the three biggest Chinese power firms in 2008 were
higher than those of the entire UK, activist group Greenpeace said on
Tuesday in a report that called for an environmental tax on coal.
(Reuters)
REPORT:
Ranking China's power companies
BC's coal exports clash with carbon tax
China warms to BC coal
BC coal mining
Cleanup funding benefits energy giants
SACRAMENTO -
Environmentalists and former lawmakers who pushed to
establish the fund, which motorists pay into whenever they buy gasoline
in California, say they never intended it for large energy companies
with the means to repair environmental damage from their own operations.
(LA Times)
Global
warming hypothesis
Albert Einstein once said, “No amount of experimentation can ever prove
me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” Einstein’s words
express a foundational principle of science intoned by the logician,
Karl Popper:
Falsifiability.
(Watts up with
that?)
Global warming word games
Perhaps the climate models are wrong
When they
were first deployed in 2003, the Argos were hailed for their ability
to collect information on ocean conditions more precisely, at more
places and greater depths and in more conditions than ever before.
So why are some scientists now beginning to question the buoys'
findings? Because in five years, the little blighters have failed
to detect any global warming. (National Post)
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Argo Buoy Movement
Argo floats
Canadian tracked
float data
Canada best to escape
climate change
Canada is the best country to
move to if you want to escape the dangers of climate change.
(Telegraph UK) MORE:
Maplecroft: Climate Change Risk Report
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