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22/5/2013
Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed him for his charm and political skill as marshal of her vision of a 'green revolution' in Europe's biggest power market. A year on, Peter Altmaier finds himself spurned by many environmentalists, disdained by ...
21/3/2013
Covering a global industry like automotive is air travel dependent.
I won't go into the awful details, but my annual
carbon footprint is alarming. British Airways estimates in-flight
carbon dioxide emission of a 10th of a kilogram per ...
19/3/2013
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) today announced the release of the Transportation Energy Futures (TEF) study, an assessment of avenues to reach deep
cuts in ...
13/3/2013
The Bagpipe, a woody knoll in northern Hesse, can only be recommended to hikers with reservations. This here is lumberjack country. Broad, clear-cut lanes crisscross the area. The tracks of heavy vehicles can be seen in the snow. And there is a ...
9/3/2013
On a
personal level, most of us would go to extraordinary lengths to steer our children and grandchildren away from physical or economic peril. Yet look at the mess we're leaving them with public policies that can only be described as selfish and ...
28/1/2013
A former congressman says he has the solution to the world`s
carbon emissions problem. And he`s a Republican.
With climate change back on lawmakers` radar after President Barack Obama`s second inaugural address, former Rep. Bob Inglis is ...
25/1/2013
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) pledged yesterday to make climate change a top priority as secretary of State as he sailed through a mostly genial confirmation hearing before the committee he still chairs.
Testifying before his Senate Foreign ...
19/1/2013
Signaling China's ambition to be the world's leader in solar energy, Beijing officials announced in January that the country had installed an impressive seven gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2012 and would add an additional ten gigawatts ...
24/12/2012
As this wild year comes to an end, we return to the season of gifts. Here’s the gift you’re not going to get soon: any conventional version of Paradise. You know, the place where nothing much happens and nothing is demanded of you. The gifts ...
18/12/2012
This week the sane among us will scoff at those hoarding candles and food for another apocalypse that fails to materialize. We’ll laugh at the accounts of people readying their bunkers and at store shelves being wiped clean. We know that the ...
2/12/2012
Eighteen months ago, an American named Gus Speth, described by Time as the "ultimate insider" for his string of public and academic appointments, was arrested in Washington DC at a protest against the Keystone XL pipeline, which will carry ...
25/11/2012
The right of some rich countries to keep using "hot air"
carbon permits could hamper progress at UN climate talks starting on Monday in Qatar.
With the Kyoto Protocol running out at the end of the year, several countries want to carry ...
17/11/2012
Perhaps smarting from getting a zero percent return on investment from the $36.7 million spent bashing Barack Obama, the Koch Brothers' Super PAC Americans For Prosperity has narrowed its focus on a new enemy: a tax on
carbon emissions. On ...
14/10/2012
"I think I missed the part where they discussed the Arctic melting," the environmentalist and author Bill McKibben recently quipped.
A tireless spokesman for a planet in rapid and, as he sees it, dangerous flux, McKibben had taken to his ...
5/10/2012
Australia's enormous coal deposits long seemed like an unmitigated gift in an expansive land of sweltering summers. On the planet's driest inhabited continent, fossil fuel delivered cheap, reliable electricity through both extreme heat and ...
8/7/2012
Nature`s Edge Notebook #31
Observation, Analysis, Reflection, New Questions
Interview with Climate Scientist Michael Mann, author of "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars"
Conducted by Bill Blakemore in New York`s ...
8/4/2012
MORE than 500,000 South Australians will receive tax
cuts and an extra 44,000 low-paid workers will not have to lodge returns as the Government tries to fight the
carbonx tax backlash.
In another sweetener, one-off cash bonuses for ...
28/2/2012
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that climate change is real -- the highest level in two years -- as the public trusted its own observations of rising temperatures, a poll said Tuesday.
The growing acceptance of global warming ...
6/2/2012
A small group of leading climate scientists, financially supported by billionaires including Bill Gates, are lobbying governments and international bodies to back experiments into manipulating the climate on a global scale to avoid catastrophic ...
4/12/2011
The world's ministers and their mandarins gather in their thousands this weekend to hammer out a plan for the small matter of saving the planet. Yet few of us appear to have noticed.Despite apocalyptic warnings about temperatures reaching ...
16/11/2011
China, the world's biggest
carbon emitter, could nudge the United States into more action on climate change, rescuing the latest round of global talks and improving its international reputation.
Expectations remain extremely low that a ...
8/11/2011
Australia passed landmark laws on Tuesday to impose a price on
carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade and injecting new impetus into December's global climate talks in South Africa.
Tuesday's vote in the ...
7/11/2011
Australia's parliament has passed landmark laws to impose a price on
carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade, giving fresh impetus to December's global climate talks in South Africa.
The scheme's impact will ...
15/10/2011
IN 2008, both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president, Barack Obama and John McCain, warned about man-made global warming and supported legislation to curb emissions. After he was elected, President Obama promised “a new chapter in ...
12/10/2011
The Australian government scored a victory in its battle to introduce a
carbon tax after measures to combat climate change cleared the lower house of parliament by a tiny margin.
Carbon traders and climate activists around the world ...