One hundred and thirty-five leading ocean scientists have released [ark | more] the Monaco Declaration to draw attention to the “other CO2 problem [search]”. Carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas responsible for increases in global temperature and climate change, also causes ocean acidification [search]. Oceans have buffered the climate by absorbing some 25% of human released [...]
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Conventional wisdom has it that if the leaders of the world can’t agree on a round of negotiations to liberalise world trade then there’s no chance they will agree on measures to tackle climate change. After all, a pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions will involve re-tooling vast swathes of industry and impact the way companies [...] Though a financial crisis and global recession have left many of the world’s biggest companies uncharacteristically humbled, that didn’t stop NGOs from taking shots at a few of them at the World Economic Forum. U.S. gold company Newmont Mining and Swiss utility Bernische Kraftwerke picked up a couple of pretty dubious honors from Greenpeace Switzerland and the Berne Declaration. Newmont received two awards [...] Yesterday, President Obama granted California and 13 other states a waiver to set strict vehicle emissions standards on their own. The administration is actually going to let states move forward and pass emission standards that might be even tougher than federal standards. Finally! Something resembling sense on environmental issues is coming from the administration [...] On March 2nd Power Shift 2009 protesters will gather at the Capital Power Plant in Washington for long overdue civil disobedience against coal and climate change [ark]. The plant is the source of heat and refrigeration for the entire Capitol Hill. They will walk on to the property, sit down and thereby break the law. [...] U.S. Department of Energy environmental researchers warn many effects of climate change are irreversible [ark | more\ark], and even if carbon emissions are halted, global temperatures will remain high for 1,000 years. Average global temperature increases are one small aspect of what we can expect — it is the ecosystem collapse [search] including failed crops, [...] By JOE McDONALD and CHARLES J. HANLEY, Associated Press XIAOXI, China – The hydroelectric dam, a low wall of concrete slicing across an old farming valley, is supposed to help a power company in distant Germany contribute to saving the climate — while putting lucrative “carbon credits” into the pockets of Chinese developers. Global warming may create “dead zones” in the ocean that would be devoid of fish and seafood and endure for up to two millennia, according to a study published on Sunday. |
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