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admin /15 November, 2008
In a move that signals the start of the our clean energy future, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) ruled today EPA had no valid reason for refusing to limit from new coal-fired power plants the carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming. The decision means that all new and proposed coal plants nationwide must go back and address their carbon dioxide emissions.
“Today’s decision opens the way for meaningful action to fight global warming and is a major step in bringing about a clean energy economy,” said Joanne Spalding, Sierra Club Senior Attorney who argued the case. “This is one more sign that we must begin repowering, refueling and rebuilding America.”
admin /15 November, 2008
From New Scientist
“The first line of coconut trees has disappeared” – Kiribati inhabitant
While the world dithers about tackling climate change, in some parts of the world people are running out of time. In Florida sea level rises can be worked around to some extent – condos can be put on stilts and moved away from the shoreline. But on some islands you can only move back so far before you have to start worrying about the water at your back door as well as the water in front.
Here are five islands whose inhabitants are going to need a new home soon:
admin /15 November, 2008
SMH has given a lot of publicity to climate-change sceptics recently, starting with Michael Duffy’s mischievous troll of 8 November, and continuing with the letters of 12 and 14 November.
The sceptics complain of lack of evidence yet none acknowledge that the greenhouse effect has been tried and tested for centuries.
admin /15 November, 2008
Environmentalists call on the government to adopt greenhouse targets of betwee 25 and 40% by 2020
The reasons are that:
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the world target has to be 25% and Australian emissions are the highest in the world
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Australia must show leadership if it is to be in a strong negotiating position
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this leadership will future proof Australian industry
admin /15 November, 2008
Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) through human activities have a well known impact on the Earth’s climate. What is not so well known is that the absorption of this CO2 by the oceans is causing inexorable acidification of sea water. But what impact is this phenomenon having on marine organisms and ecosystems? This is a question to which researchers have few answers as yet.
That is why the European Union has recently given its support to EPOCA, the European Project on Ocean Acidification, which will be launched in Nice (France) on 10 June 2008.
admin /15 November, 2008
From counterpunch
P urge your mind for a moment about everything you’ve heard and read in the last decade about investing on Wall Street and think about the following business model:
You take your hard earned retirement savings to a Wall Street firm and they tell you that as long as you “stay invested for the long haul” you can expect double digit annual returns. You never really know what your money is invested in because it’s pooled with other investors and comes with incomprehensible but legal looking prospectuses.
