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EU nations get cold feet over climate change fund
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/07/uk-eu-climate-idUKBRE8460U020120507
Reuters: EU nations have yet to come up with a plan on how to fill a multi-billion euro fund to help tackle climate change, even as the region's executive body hosts talks with countries likely to bear the brunt of extreme weather. The European Union recommitted to providing 7.2 billion euros (5.8 billion pounds) for the fund over 2010-12, according to draft conclusions seen by Reuters ahead of a meeting of EU finance ministers next week. But after that, how much cash will flow is unclear as the text,...
Tue, 8 May 12
Norway opens major facility to test carbon capture
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/07/us-norway-carboncapture-idUSBRE8460SE20120507?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29
Reuters: Norway on Monday launched the world's largest facility of its kind to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS), the so-far commercially unproven technology that would allow greenhouse gases from power plants to be buried safely underground. A 5.8 million Norwegian crown ($1.00 billion) government-funded centre will test two post-combustion carbon capture technologies that could be extended to industrial-scale use if shown to be cost-effective and safe. "Today we are opening the world's largest...
Tue, 8 May 12
Heartland Institute's digital billboards make bombastic comparisons
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0507/Heartland-Institute-s-digital-billboards-make-bombastic-comparisons
LiveScience: Update, 5:23 p.m Eastern Time: In a statement by Heartland president Joseph Bast, the organization announced that it will be taking down the Unabomber billboard after only 24 hours. Bast wrote that the billboard was an "experiment" meant to "turn the tables" on climate-change advocates. "We know that our billboard angered and disappointed many of Heartland’s friends and supporters, but we hope they understand what we were trying to do with this experiment," Bast wrote. "We do not apologize for...
Tue, 8 May 12
Poll Says America Ready for Hard Choice on Fossil Fuels, Climate
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2012/05/07/poll-says-america-ready-for-hard-choice-on-fossil-fuels-climate
U.S. News and World Report: A majority of Americans from both political parties are ready for the "grand bargain"--an increase in taxes on old energy sources (oil, coal, and natural gas) in return for a reduction in income tax rates across the board. In short, they're ready for a new national climate and energy policy to emerge. They're also ready to support new, cutting edge energy technologies. And they recognize that climate change is starting to affect extreme weather events--in fact, 82 percent said they were personally...
Tue, 8 May 12
Sceptics' ad compares climate change believers to terrorists
http://www.smh.com.au/world/sceptics-ad-compares-climate-change-believers-to-terrorists-20120507-1y9e4.html
Sydney Morning Herald: IT IS either a brilliantly antagonistic marketing ploy or a remarkable misjudgment. One of the world's most prominent climate sceptic organisations is facing widespread condemnation for a planned advertising campaign likening climate change believers to mass murderers and tyrants. But the Heartland Institute says the billboard in Chicago brought an extra 10,000 people to a website promoting a coming climate sceptic conference - despite being pulled within 24 hours. The institute's digital...
Tue, 8 May 12
Gaseous emissions from dinosaurs may have warmed prehistoric Earth
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120507102324.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29
ScienceDaily: Sauropod dinosaurs could in principle have produced enough of the greenhouse gas methane to warm the climate many millions of years ago, at a time when Earth was warm and wet. That's according to calculations reported in the May 8th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The hulking sauropods, distinctive for their enormous size and unusually long necks, were widespread about 150 million years ago. As in cows, methane-producing microbes aided the sauropods' digestion by fermenting...
Tue, 8 May 12
Asia to overtake Europe as global solar power grows - EPIA
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/07/us-solar-energy-idUSBRE8460Q620120507?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29
Reuters: The world's solar power generating capacity will grow by between 200 and 400 percent over the next five years, with Asia and other emerging markets overtaking leadership from Europe, a European industry association said on Monday. "Europe has dominated the global PV (photovoltaic) market for years but the rest of the world clearly has the biggest potential for growth," the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) said in its market outlook until 2016. The fastest PV capacity growth...
Tue, 8 May 12
Most water companies not required to cut leaks before 2015 despite drought
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/07/water-companies-cut-leaks-2015-drought
Guardian: More than half of water companies will not be required to reduce their leakages by a single drop before 2015, despite the worst drought in 25 years. Data obtained by the Guardian from the regulator Ofwat also shows the entire water industry will cut leaks by only 1.5% in that time. Every day, 3.4bn litres of water leaks from the system, almost a quarter of the entire supply. After two years of low rainfall, drought has been declared across southern and central England, with no end in sight for...
Tue, 8 May 12
Hybrid bears offer glimpse of warmer Arctic's future
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/news/6573443/story.html
Edmonton Journal: University of Alberta scientist Andrew Derocher was in the High Arctic in late April getting a rare, first-hand glimpse of what the future of the Arctic might look like right around the time 3,000 researchers, policy-makers and indigenous leaders gathered in Montreal at the International Polar Year 2012 conference to try to imagine the same thing. Derocher was on the sea ice catching and tagging polar bears off the coast of Victoria Island when Inuvialuit hunter Pat Epakohak hunted and killed...
Tue, 8 May 12
Trumka says labor wants Keystone built, believes green issues can be resolved
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/225657-trumka-labor-wants-keystone-pipeline-green-issues-can-be-resolved
The Hill: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is backing construction of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline in comments that downplay divisions among unions in the labor federation over the controversial project. “They are not divided on the pipeline itself,” Trumka said in a C-SPAN interview when asked about differences among unions over Keystone. “They are divided on how the pipeline is done.” “I think we are all unanimous by saying we should build the pipeline, but we have to do it consistent with all...