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admin /7 December, 2008
From Elizabeth Rosenthal in the New York Times
Just as the world seemed poised to combat global warming more aggressively, the economic slump and plunging prices of coal and oil are upending plans to wean businesses and consumers from fossil fuel.
From Italy to China, the threat to jobs, profits and government tax revenues posed by the financial crisis has cast doubt on commitments to cap emissions or phase out polluting factories.
Automakers, especially Detroit’s Big Three, face collapsing sales, threatening their plans to invest heavily in more fuel-efficient cars. And with gas prices now around $2 a gallon in the United States, struggling consumers may be less inclined than they once were to trade in their gas-guzzling models in any case.
admin /7 December, 2008
From Renewable Energy World
After the euphoria for winning federal tax incentives as part of an economic bailout package in October, the financial free fall has begun. Not only does the global and U.S. financial situation provide economic challenges, a series of other related problems are also becoming more apparent.
First, as the world enters a global economic recession, demand for energy, including liquid transportation fuels, natural gas and electricity, has dropped way down. Recent figures for electricity demand, for instance, show that some regional U.S. demand reductions are near 9 percent. Dropping energy prices tampers desires for clean energy options.
admin /7 December, 2008
the Pelarmis on The Generator
Despite daunting challenges, technology to harness the power of the waves and tides is now being deployed around the world – from Portugal to South Korea to New York’s East River. These projects, just beginning to produce electricity, are on the cutting edge of renewable energy’s latest frontier: hydrodynamic power. By Jon R. Luoma, from Yale Environment 360, part of the Guardian Environment Network
Way back in Napoleonic Paris, a Monsieur Girard had a novel idea about energy: power from the sea. In 1799, Girard obtained a patent for a machine he and his son had designed to mechanically capture the energy in ocean waves. Wave power could be used, they figured, to run pumps and sawmills and the like.
admin /7 December, 2008
by Wei Jianhua & Zhang Zhan, Xinhua – China View POZNAN, Poland, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) — Delegates from some 190 countries continued to focus on a shared vision on fighting climate change and adaptation to its adverse effects on Friday, but differences remained largely unresolved between developed and developing nations. Countries were still wrangling over Continue Reading →
admin /7 December, 2008
Climate talks in Poland this week have been characterised by a widely different agendas and a failure to reach agreement on the hard targets necessary to halt emissions and reverse global warming. This debate is taking place in the Polish city of Poznan against protests by thousands of young people from across Europe. Promoters of Continue Reading →
admin /7 December, 2008
it is futile for governments to plan for life under a global four degree temperature rise, author Oliver Tickell wrote in the Guardian last week, because it would lead to mass extinctions and sea level rises in excess of 70 metres. His comments were made in response to a prediction made last week by one of Britain’s chief scientific advisors, Bob Watson. Watson argued that the EU target of no more than two degrees warming was almost certain to be unattainable and that governments needed to begin planning for a much warmer world. He nominated a four degree rise as a realistic expectation given current progress on climate talks.Tickell is the author of Kyoto 2 and advocates that governments should agree to a global per capita cap now, and auction permits to raise the funds to invest in low carbon infrastructure. He believes that we must reach agreement or die.
