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21/5/2013
Billionaire
climate activist Tom Steyer, who’s increasingly throwing his weight around in
politics, said approving the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline would create political hurdles for President Obama’s second-term agenda and cost him the support ...
19/5/2013
Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push the industry back to the brink of a trade war over the European Union's emissions trading ...
16/5/2013
The Arctic Council added China and five other countries as official observers yesterday, expanding the focus of the organization and underscoring the complicated
politics created by newly open waters in the north because of
climate ...
15/5/2013
China is one of a number of countries that has gained permanent observer status on the Arctic Council.
At a meeting in Sweden, the eight members of the Council accepted India, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
However ...
13/5/2013
"THIS IS THE CHURCH taking direct action and showing that it's not willing to profit from destroying the Earth."
That's what Justin Whelan, Paddington Uniting Church mission development manager, had to say after the church's NSW and ACT ...
13/5/2013
The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes.
But as the US and Russia signed an unprecedented accord on Wednesday in search of a ...
12/5/2013
If
climate change features prominently in the federal election campaign, it will almost certainly be driven by the Coalition. Under Tony Abbott, the Coalition has long smelled blood in the water on
climate change and in particular the carbon ...
10/5/2013
President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency is in jeopardy after Republicans formed a united front Thursday to deny her a vote in committee.
Democrats erupted in frustration at the GOP “obstructionism” ...
10/5/2013
The biggest backers of the Democratic causes urged Barack Obama on Friday to take historic action on
climate change by rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline.
In a letter seen by the Guardian, 150 high-profile figures, who between them ...
10/5/2013
350 is a popular number among people concerned about
climate change. That is because 350 parts per million (ppm) of carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere is the level that, in the words of James Hansen, a prominent
climate scientist, is needed “to ...
10/5/2013
Michael Levi is my favorite energy wonk -- and not just because we both had to endure waiting for hours in the cold outside the 2009 United Nations
climate-change conference in Copenhagen. (Though he got in first.)
Levi, the senior ...
9/5/2013
World leaders must "act now" to protect the rainforests or risk the Earth becoming a dying patient, the Prince of Wales has warned.
In a speech to ministers and tropical forest scientists, he said his work on
climate change could be ...
9/5/2013
The Lois Lane trail meanders along the high dunes that protect this little beach town. It makes it easy for walkers along the sand and gravel path to forget just how close to the ocean they really are -- were it not for the swooshing sound of ...
7/5/2013
Many
climate change polls suggest a clear enough overall trend: Majorities of Americans believe global warming is real and the federal government should act.
But that fact can offer little help for some policymakers trying to gauge ...
6/5/2013
State of the Union addresses are wearying rituals, in which stitched-together lists of never-gonna-happen goals are woven into idealistic catchphrases, analyzed as rhetoric by an unqualified panel of poetry-critic-for-a-night political reporters, ...
5/5/2013
On the opening morning of the inaugural National Adaptation Forum, I was eating breakfast at a stand-up table in the exhibition hall when a mustachioed man of middle age plopped his cherry Danish next to my pile of conference literature, a mess ...
1/5/2013
The dramatic fall in Europe’s carbon price in April led to claims emissions trading had failed as a model for addressing
climate change. While the low EU price is problematic for the EU and Australia (by virtue of our linkage with the EU), carbon ...
1/5/2013
If you weren’t familiar with the term “speculative bubble” before the U.S. economy imploded in 2008, you probably were after the crash. It quickly became part of our everyday lexicon as the government began to bail out many of the institutions ...
1/5/2013
General Motors called on Barack Obama and Congress to work together on
climate change on Wednesday, saying the effort would be good for business.
GM, which makes the plug-in Chevy Volt, was the first of the big three car makers to sign ...
29/4/2013
President Obama helped the National Academy of Sciences celebrate its 150th year of service to the country by giving a speech at the group`s annual meeting today. There were some pretty nice laugh lines, including:
[P]art of what’s made ...
29/4/2013
Last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg came to Columbia University to help launch the university's new Center on Global Energy Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs. Mayor Bloomberg struck an important theme that is ...
28/4/2013
At Spring Creek Mine, a broad black seam of coal, reaching depths of 80 feet, runs like a subterranean river through arid, sagebrush-covered hills.
This is a world-class seam formed from the remnants of ferns, grasses and other plants ...
28/4/2013
Federal officials are stepping up efforts to make the case for the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington D.C., but some experts warn that the frequent public visits could be doing more harm than good.
Between federal Cabinet ministers and ...
28/4/2013
John Kraus has a new Toyota Prius V hybrid wagon that he's very fond of. He's also got a new Virginia tax on it that he's none too happy about.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, signed a new law last month that lowers the gas ...
27/4/2013
An all-party committee of federal politicians interested in learning about
climate change science is continuing to meet behind the scenes on Parliament Hill, with discreet participation from a few backbench Conservative MPs.
The ...