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EU's
carbon tax 'windfall for power companies'
BRUSSELS -
Europe's big power companies could make
profits of up to $71B from the EU's scheme to curb carbon emissions,
according to a report. Environment group WWF says the
European Union Emission Trading Scheme
(ETS), which
allocates firms a fixed number of free carbon permits, does not work.
(BBC) REPORT:
EU carbon market sets up another round of
windfall profits for dirtiest power generators
Village files suit
KIVALINA,
Alaska -
Lawyers for the Alaska Native coastal village of Kivalina, which is
being forced to relocate because of flooding caused by the changing
Arctic climate, filed suit in federal court here arguing that five
oil companies, 14 electric utilities and the country's largest coal
company were responsible for the village's woes. (IHT) MORE:
Village sues energy firms for
climate change
Supreme Court hears
Exxon Valdez case
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)
Canadian beer drinkers threaten planet
CALGARY -
Scientists have found a new threat to the planet: Canadian beer
drinkers. (Fox)
STUDY:
'Beer fridges'
present a gassy problem |
Politicians rush to back junk science, again
LONDON -
Scientists and
environmentalists have attacked a global campaign to ban plastic
bags which they say is based on flawed science and exaggerated
claims. (Times online)
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)
MORE:
Argo Buoy Movement
Argo floats
Canadian tracked
float data
'Secret' eco-town plans spark protest
LONDON -
Demonstrations against the
developments have begun two weeks before Housing Minister Caroline
Flint is due to announce the 10 locations she has chosen for the
first green communities. Questions are being asked about the
involvement of Tony Blair and his friend, Lord Leitch.. (Guardian
UK)
Sweden to consult Canada
STOCKHOLM - A
Swedish university has received $590,000 in research funds to
measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch. Cattle
release methane, a greenhouse gas believed to contribute to global
warming, when they digest food. (AP) SOLUTION:
Boffins
clean up bovine belches
Carbon tax on children
SYDNEY - Catholic Archbishop of Sydney George Pell
has criticised the Australian Medical Association for publishing a
letter in its journal advocating a tax on children.
(Australian) PREVIOUS:
Personal carbon
trading: a potential "stealth intervention" |
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Cereal prices hit poor countries UN - The rising price of cereals such as wheat and maize is a "major global concern", the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says. Poor countries could see their cereal import bill rise by more than a third. Africa as a whole is expected to see an estimated 49% increase this year. International wheat prices have risen 83% in the past 12 months. (BBC)
Beer, pizza prices signal end of cheap
food era
Wheat board revenues highest in 10 years
Spiralling grain prices drive up bakery costs
Biofuels speeding
global warming
Let them eat cake
FAO: Crop prospects and food situation Oct. 2007
UNICEF: Fewer children dying
worldwide
The new public enemy #1
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Food price inflation
Flour prices hit bread basket; and it will keep rising
Biofuels aren't green after all
Some biofuels
"produce more greenhouse gas"
EU biofuel policy is a 'mistake'
UN: Biofuels ' crime
against humanity'
Italians call for 1-day pasta strike
Biofuels: Keeping good intentions on the Right Path
Corn wars rage in Mexico
Losing land to biofuels
Climate change moral failings
Toronto blogger turns up NASA error
Global warming? Look at the numbers
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Spaced out view of controversy
climateaudit.org |
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Investment fund raises $5B
GENEVA -
The sustainable investment firm run by
Al Gore,
the former US vice-president, is about to be closed to new investors,
having raised close to its $5 billion target.
Generation Investment Management
will probably restrict inflows into its main Global Equity Fund next
month. (IHT)
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Al Gore, UN agency
win Nobel Prize
A coup for junk science
Nobel Prize controversies
Al Gore's
inconvenient judgment
9 inconvenient untruths
Gore backers lead movement without candidate |
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Globe Warming rivals Sponsorship
OTTAWA - Many years
ago, I warned Henry Hengeveld of Environment Canada (EC) that, if he
thought it was difficult to convince ministers and MPs that global
warming was due to human carbon dioxide (CO2) production, it would be
twice as difficult to change their minds once they were convinced.
After all, it would be very dangerous for a bureaucrat to go back to
those same politicians with the message that their political positions
were wrong because they were based on wrong information. (Tim Ball)
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Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP)
Climate fight must be won in developing countries: UN
The sin of emission
Harper dismisses
Kyoto compliance law
Study finds human influence on precipitation
Canada's forest don't
aid climate
Canada can't meet Kyoto targets: Harper
China, India 'vital' to climate deal
Economy, not climate,
remains China's priority |
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World has 8 years
left to save climate UN
BANGKOK - Climate experts and
representatives from 105 countries on Friday released a 24-page report
on means of mitigating the worse impacts of global warming after five
days of heated debates to reach a consensus on the document. (Indo-Asian
News Service)
Climate change 'can be tackled'
Authors and Review Editors for the WGIII AR4 |
Where did the money go?
OTTAWA - An audit of nearly $200
million in
Natural Resources Canada
funding to outside groups found significant gaps in reporting and
auditing intended to ensure the money was spent properly. (Sun
Media)
BC joins
Schwarzenegger's 'carbon credits' trading market
Hiding your light bulbs under a bushel of bull
Huge 'green' boondoggle? |
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750,000 a year killed in China
Beijing engineered the removal of nearly a third of a
World Bank report on pollution in China because of concerns that
findings on premature deaths could provoke “social unrest”. The
report, produced in co-operation with Chinese government ministries
over several years, found about 750,000 people die prematurely in
China each year, mainly from air pollution in large cities.
(Financial Times)
Ships' diesel fumes kill 60,000
Mortality from ship emissions: A global assessment |
Traffic pollution kills
China is now the world's largest producer of carbon
dioxide
China will pass US as polluter
China's pollution cuts local rain
Global warming to eclipse international
terrorism
Ethanol-blend emissions no greener than
gasoline
Global impact of Asia's pollution
Asian soot effects Canada
China to spend $14.5B
to clean up lake
China Cost of
Pollution
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Politicization of Science
A
report
shows the
Open Society Institute
funded
James Hansen
to the tune of $720,000 and carefully orchestrating his entire media
campaign. OSI, a political group which spent $74 million in 2006 to
"shape public policy," is funded by billionaire
George Soros.
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NY Times calls MoveOn ad a mistake
Putting the movies on moveon.org
The man, the mind and the money behind Moveon |
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Tories
reject green panel's advice
OTTAWA -
The Harper government on Monday rejected an advisory panel's
recommendation to implement a carbon tax while its rivals opened the
door to the idea in response to advice that the levy could lead the way
to deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from Canada. The
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy,
a panel of Canadian experts from environmental groups and the business
world, concluded Canada could achieve a 65-per-cent reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by acting as soon as possible.
(CanWest)
Carbon plan a gas
Canada
needs carbon tax
Vested interest |
Canada's Boreal
forest the Fort Knox of carbon
Do carbon credits make a difference?
Creators
of carbon credit scheme cashing in on it
Ministers ordered to assess climate cost of
all decisions
Some are going Green. Others are seeing
Green
Al Gore's $100M makeover
Toronto to go green under Clinton’s
carbon emissions plan
Death threats over
climate debate
Scientists have inconvenient news for Gore
Hot button issues brings out worst in people
How Gore's massive energy consumption saves the world
Generation Investment Management LLP
Tiny
changes have huge impact |
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David Suzuki vs. Michael
Crichton
TORONTO - Last Thursday,
environmentalist guru David Suzuki stormed out of a Toronto AM640
radio interview with host John Oakley because Oakley dared to
suggest that global warming might not be the "totally settled issue"
Suzuki insisted it was. (National Post)
Will Suzuki Foundation lose charitable status Suck it up, Suzuki
This
is a charity?
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Jail politicians who
ignore climate science
Suzuki's science inquisition
'Environmental Fascism'
Suzuki poll results
Board of directors David Suzuki
Foundation
Chairman
Mo never left the UN
Park sentenced to 5 years
Do
tempter tantrums cause global warming?
Stripped
of papers, ocean warriors to sail under Mohawk flag |
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$225M for conservation groups
TORONTO - The
federal government will spend up to $225 million to help
conservation groups fight urban sprawl by acquiring private lands
considered ecologically sensitive, Prime Minister Stephen Harper
said Wednesday. The money will be available in matching grants for
Nature Conservancy of Canada and such
groups as
Ducks Unlimited as part of a plan to
persuade landowners to donate or sell their property. (CanWest) |
Economy to take a hit
TORONTO -
Canadians households will take a hit in the pocketbook under the
Conservative government's plan to force industry to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions 18 per cent by 2010. (CP)
Emission standards will give industry three year free ride
Green plan highlights
Conservatives climate plan
Industry caught in carbon 'smokescreen'
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Bali climate talks
reach agreement
BALI,
Indonesia - World leaders overcame bitter divisions Saturday and agreed
to reach a new deal on fighting global warming by 2009, turning a corner
in mankind's race to stave off environmental disaster caused by rising
temperatures. The contentious, two-week UN climate conference on the
resort island of Bali ended with the US relenting in its opposition to a
request from developing nations for more technological help fighting
climate change. (AP)
Right to oppose Bali
proposals
Nations bicker in Bali over 'green' goods trade
Convenient $$$$ for green Gore
Green liars want to be t |