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Other NewsEditorialsGoing green vs. going broke.Will cutting carbon kill jobs in California? Republicans say California can't afford its global warming law. But the real question should be: Can we afford not to cut pollution? Los Angeles Times 11 Mar Climate of fear.The integrity of climate research has taken a very public battering in recent months. Scientists must now emphasize the science, while acknowledging that they are in a street fight. Nature 11 Mar In climate change hot seat: Van Schalkwyk may be able to make a difference.Does Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk have what it takes to bring together a deeply divided world long enough to agree to a legally binding global climate accord in two short years? Johannesburg Business Day 11 Mar Obama's energy 'deal'.President Obama used his January State of the Union speech to promise "a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants" and "new offshore areas for oil and gas development." Judging by its recent decisions, we'd say his Cabinet hasn't received the memo. Wall Street Journal 11 Mar The electorate will decide climate law.Cap-and-trade legislation has failed to advance, and in what some see as an effort to get it moving, the Environmental Protection Agency has threatened to act against stationary sources of pollution itself. Charleston Daily Mail 10 Mar AB32 plays on economic fears.Petitions are being circulated for a November ballot initiative that would undercut California's landmark legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Please, don't sign their petitions. San Francisco Chronicle 10 Mar Go slow on push to cut 'footprint.'Even if you concede the contention that climate change is being caused by humans ---- and that debate will continue ---- we could eliminate our carbon output entirely yet have a minimal effect on the world's climate. San Diego North County Times 07 Mar Hyperbole erodes credibility.After the Copenhagen shambles, IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri's alleged conflicts of interest and the fabricated propaganda of the University of East Anglia emails, proponents of climate change action need to rebuild credibility. Sydney Australian 07 Mar OpinionOnly a carbon tax and nuclear power can save us.What the world needs is a nation that will set an example, stop pandering to special interests, do what is necessary for the people and the rest of the life on the planet. Is it possible that Australia could provide that example, that moral leadership? Sydney Australian 11 Mar The new world order.Cleo Paskal, a London-based journalist and a scholar at the think tank Chatham House, presents a fascinating geopolitical chessboard, on which the United States and the European Union face off against China and Russia as climate change takes hold. Nature 11 Mar Climate change "quagmire."That it should be left to a politician from a developing country to make that point - while his counterparts in the West push for Rube Goldberg solutions to a "crisis" that may not even exist - goes far toward explaining the state of the climate debate today. Wall Street Journal 11 Mar The odd couple.The phrase "strange bedfellows" doesn't even begin to describe the relationship between Sen. Kerry and T. Boone Pickens. But earlier this month reporters were surprised by the revelation that the two had formed an alliance of sorts to push an energy bill through the Senate this year. Newsweek 10 Mar Why I'm staying in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership.Today, Washington is having the wrong energy and climate debate, and the future of the U.S. economy may be the biggest casualty. Houston Chronicle 10 Mar Budget time offers a glimpse into the future, but how far?Many Canadians have shown that they are willing to take action in their own lives to reduce their environmental impact. Now we must let our government know that we expect them to move forward with the times as well. Georgia Straight 10 Mar The trouble with trusting complex science.There is one question that no one who denies manmade climate change wants to answer: What would it take to persuade you? In most cases the answer seems to be nothing. London Guardian 09 Mar Too long the villain, nuclear industry needs to put some energy into PR.There are genuine concerns about the safety of nuclear power but, even allowing for the Chernobyl disaster, it has killed fewer people and led to fewer illnesses than other substantial baseload power generation systems. Melbourne Age 09 Mar |
Review of U.N. climate panel won't re-examine errors.An outside review of a U.N. climate panel after flaws were uncovered in its most recent report on climate change will not recheck that report's conclusions and will instead focus on improving procedures for the future, officials said Wednesday. Washington Post 11 Mar China says climate change is a fact.A deputy director of China's most powerful economic ministry has come out swinging against climate change denial. Senior Chinese government figures have described the view that climate change is not man-made as an "extreme" stance which is out of step with mainstream thought. Radio Australia 11 Mar US governors ask Congress to stop EPA greenhouse-gas rules.Governors of 18 U.S. states on Wednesday urged Congress to stop "harmful" Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions, saying the agency isn't equipped to deal with "the very real potential for economic harm." Dow Jones Newswires 11 Mar Obama-Graham partnership emerges in climate debate.It's rare when a conservative Republican in Congress heaps praise on President Barack Obama, especially in regards to fighting global warming, but Senator Lindsey Graham did just that on Wednesday. Reuters 11 Mar Questions about research slow efforts to tackle climate change.Michael Mann's life's work - the effort to stop global warming - has been under siege since last fall. That's when Mann, a Penn State professor, suddenly found himself in the middle of the so-called "climategate" scandal. USA Today 11 Mar "Integrity abuses" charged in initiative to suspend California climate law.A bitter split broke into the open Wednesday among backers of the controversial November ballot initiative to suspend California's 2006 first-in-the-nation global warming law. Los Angeles Times 11 Mar World's top scientists to review climate panel.At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world’s most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations’ Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel. Associated Press 11 Mar UN launches independent review of climate panel.The United Nations on Thursday launched an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which has come under much criticism in the recent months. Press Trust of India 11 Mar UN launches review of criticized climate panel.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that a group of national science academies would review U.N. climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors. Reuters 11 Mar Climate panel details its review plan.The United Nations detailed its plans for an outside review of its beleaguered panel on climate change, amid political reverberations as critics and advocates each jockeyed to use the announcement to their advantage. Wall Street Journal 11 Mar Criticism of climate change science heats up.The United Nations has ordered an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change amid a growing backlash over mistakes found in its Nobel Prize-winning report on the science behind global warming. PBS NewsHour 11 Mar Independent body to review UN's climate panel.UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will undergo an independent review by 15 international scientific academies in a bid to restore trust after errors surfaced in a key panel report. Agence France-Presse 11 Mar UN requests independent review of it's climate panel.The United Nations has asked a leading international scientific organization to review the work of the U.N. climate change panel after critics accused the body of misrepresenting data to make the case that global warming is more serious than it is. Voice of America 11 Mar United Nations review of how world assesses risk of climate change.The head of the United Nations has announced a review of how the world examines the risk of global warming following a series of scandals around the science of climate change. London Daily Telegraph 11 Mar UN brings in top scientists to review IPCC report.The UN called in the world's top scientists today to review a report by its climate body, four months after public confidence in the science of global warming was shaken by the discovery of a mistake about the melting rates of Himalayan glaciers. London Guardian 11 Mar Scientists to review climate body.UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world's science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. BBC 11 Mar Sarkozy calls for UN reform, blasts Copenhagen summit.French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday demanded reforms of the United Nations and urged negotiations under a small group of countries to accelerate efforts to fight climate change. Agence France-Presse 11 Mar Panel will review U.N. climate work.A group of top scientists from around the world will review the research and management practices of the UN climate change panel so that it can try to avoid the kinds of errors that have brought its work into question in recent months, officials said Wednesday. New York Times 11 Mar US urged to set lead example in global climate change battle.The United States, as the world's largest developed nation, should exert more efforts to tackle climate change, Xie Zhenhua, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, said in Beijing yesterday. Xinhua News Agency 11 Mar US urged to step up climate bid.China wants the United States to take more radical steps in tackling global warming, though the Obama administration has done a better job than previous governments, the nation's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday. China Daily 11 Mar China, India join Copenhagen treaty.China and India aligned Tuesday with the Copenhagen Accord that combats climate change, joining almost all other major greenhouse gas emitters in endorsing the non-binding pact. Beijing Global Times 11 Mar U.S. oil industry braces for carbon rules.As oil and natural gas prices settle into an equilibrium for now, a new variable is emerging as the most worrisome for Big Oil: the cost of carbon. Reuters 11 Mar U.S. governors urge Congress to stop EPA carbon rules.A group of mostly Republican U.S. governors today urged federal lawmakers to stop the Obama administration from regulating greenhouse gases under an existing law. Bloomberg News 11 Mar South Carolina lawmakers make energy efficiency pitch.Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) joined Reps. Jim Clyburn and John Spratt (D) Wednesday in introducing bipartisan legislation to provide $4.9 billion in federal loans for rural power consumers to make their homes and businesses more energy efficient. McClatchy Newspapers 11 Mar Obama, key senators make their pitch for climate and energy bill.Closed-door talks extended to both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday as President Obama, key senators and industry officials searched for an elusive agreement on comprehensive energy and climate change legislation. Greenwire 11 Mar Begich, Murkowski polar opposites on EPA.Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has become the face of an all-out assault on the Environmental Protection Agency, but she won't be joined in that fight by her Democratic counterpart from Alaska, Sen. Mark Begich. Anchorage Daily News 11 Mar California utility regulators not quite ready for fuel cells.While Google, Wal-Mart and other corporations have embraced fuel cells, California regulators have turned down requests from the state’s two biggest utilities to install the technology. New York Times 11 Mar Commonwealth Challenge addresses pollution and poverty.Free air sealing for basements or attics is one of the benefits of participating in Commonwealth Challenge’s campaign to retrofit homes and address poverty and climate change throughout Massachusetts. Boston Bay State Banner 11 Mar |