April 2009
Climate chaos predicted by CO2 study →
Science Editor Steve Connor @ The Independent ~ Climate chaos predicted by CO2 study: World will have exceeded 2050 safe carbon emissions limit by 2020, scientists say
The world will overshoot its long-term target on greenhouse gas emissions within two decades. A study has found that the average global temperature will rise above the threshold that could cause dangerous climate change during...
WatchObama’s First 100 Days: Dipity (via Treehugger)
US Wants Mandatory Cuts In GHGs Across Globe: AP →
Huffington Post ~ US Wants Mandatory Cuts In Greenhouse Gases Across The Globe In Major Environmental Policy Shift: AP
UNITED NATIONS — The Obama administration, in a major environmental policy shift, is preparing to ask 195 nations that ratified the U.N. ozone treaty to enact mandatory reductions in hydrofluorocarbons, according to U.S. officials and documents obtained by The Associated Press....
'Safe' climate means 'no to coal' →
Environment correspondent Richard Black @ BBC ~ ‘Safe’ climate means ‘no to coal’
About three-quarters of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must be left unused if society is to avoid dangerous climate change, scientists warn.
More than 100 nations support the goal of keeping temperature rise below 2C.
But the scientists say that without major curbs on fossil fuel...
Canada's GHG emissions soared to new high in 200 →
Environment reporter Martin Mittelstaedt @ Globe and Mail ~ Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions soared to new high in 2007: At 26% above 1990 levels, emissions in violation of Kyoto Protocol pledge; rates far worse than in United States
The growth of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada soared at the fastest pace on record in 2007 to reach a new high, indicating the difficulties the country faces in...
Obama Administration Seeks Reversal of Mountaintop... →
Juliet Eilperin @ Washington Post ~ Obama Administration Seeks Reversal of Mountaintop Mining Rule
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar declared today that a Bush administration regulation allowing mining companies to dump their waste near rivers and stream is “legally defective,” and he instructed the Justice Department to ask the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to vacate...
Arctic CO2 levels growing at an 'unprecedented... →
John Vidal in Ny Alesund, Svalbard @ Guardian ~ Arctic CO2 levels growing at an ‘unprecedented rate’, say scientists: Figures from a measuring station in northern Norway show that CO2 levels are increasing by 2-3 parts per million every year
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached a record high, according to the latest figures released by an internationally...
The Truth about Climate Change: John Theodore... →
John Theodore Houghton @ Guardian ~ The truth about climate change: Vested interests have tried to spread misinformation about global warming, but scientific evidence shows urgent action is needed
Many people ask how sure we are about the science of climate change. The most definitive examination of the scientific evidence is to be found in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
Why Spy on Peaceful Protesters? Matilda Gifford →
Matilda Gifford @ Guardian ~ Why spy on peaceful protesters? By exposing the police surveillance of Plane Stupid, we can spark a debate about whose interests this really serves
Three weeks ago I decided to record my interactions with the police. It seemed like the most obvious and sensible thing to do as I was beginning to understand their sinister tactics. Indeed, fellow members of Plane Stupid...
Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate →
Andrew C. Revkin @ New Yourk Times ~ Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate
For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming.
“The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not...
Pc 'eager to hit G20 protesters' →
BBC: Pc ‘eager to hit G20 protesters’
A police officer is being investigated after allegedly writing on a website that he was keen to “bash some long haired hippys” at the G20 protest.
Pc Rob Ward apparently put the note on Facebook on the evening of 1 April, the first day of City of London protests.
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: “The matter has been recorded...
WatchMark Schapiro, editorial director of the Center for Investigative Reporting and author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power, recently participated in Current: Green’s Earth Day question series. In this video, Mark addresses the following question:
Here’s my Earth Day burning question. How bad are the chemicals that are found in things like...
“But just as we’ve led the global economy in developing new sources of energy,...”
– President Obama on Clean Energy
WatchBuy a Prius, Get Laid: Ben Hoffman @ Current
WatchBack in Black: Lewis Black - Kids’ Earth Day @ The Daily Show
