Emissions Trading Scheme May Bankrupt UK Industries
A CARBON "tax" could hit the North East’s industrial heartland with companies going bust or moving abroad, a minister has signalled. Energy Minister Lord Hunt made the apparent admission as he came under pressure over the European Union emissions trading scheme in the Lords.Northumberland peer Nigel Vinson asked if ministers had assessed...
China Unsure On Global Warming
BEIJING: China's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions.Xie Zhenhua, vice-chairman of the powerful National Development and Reform Commission, also warned the United States it...
Climate Change 'Quagmire'
Climate-change Cassandras are prone to warning that unless governments take draconian action to limit carbon emissions, the world will suffer grievously and the poor will be hardest hit. Yet here in India, home to more poor people than any other country, a left-of-center government is sounding less than convinced by these prophets of doom, to...New technique shows Roman Warm Period Warmer than Present Day
A promising new technique to reconstruct past temperatures has been developed by scientists at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and Durham University, England, using the shells of bivalve mollusks. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science the scientists say that oxygen isotopes in their shells are a good proxy...Prejudging IPCC Error Review: Press 'Exaggerate' Climate Controversy
The president of the Royal Society has said press reporting of climate science exaggerates the controversies, but that it is "too much to expect" news editors to make different choices. "The press naturally highlights what is new, and that may not be the most important thing," Lord Rees told Today presenter Justin Webb. --BBC Today Programme...After Climate-Gate, U.N. Submits To Independent Review
In an apparent slap at the embattled chief of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has ordered a newly formed outside scientific panel to review its "procedures and practices" -- and more significantly, its management.The hastily assembled panel will be headed by Prof. Robbert H...
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EU Climate Policy Faces Bankruptcy
Friday, 05 March 2010
The European Union's development chief may be forced to name and shame France, Germany and Italy for not living up to their aid commitments, contributing to a roughly $17 billion funding gap this... Read more...
Friday, 05 March 2010
The European Union's development chief may be forced to name and shame France, Germany and Italy for not living up to their aid commitments, contributing to a roughly $17 billion funding gap this... Read more...
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India Okays Conditional Association With Copenhagen Accord
Tuesday, 09 March 2010
After three months of confabulation within the government, India on Tuesday allowed a conditional association of its name with the Copenhagen Accord. The accord, which had been negotiated by 29... Read more...
Tuesday, 09 March 2010
After three months of confabulation within the government, India on Tuesday allowed a conditional association of its name with the Copenhagen Accord. The accord, which had been negotiated by 29... Read more...