Monday, June 25, 2007

Chinese Bid For Africa Could Have Substantial Trickle Down Effect

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In the case of Angola, which is the second-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan African, it now exports about 25 percent of the 2 million ba...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Too little, too late: Gore blames scientists for climate crisis

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In an extraordinary outburst aimed at America's failure to tackle global warming, Al Gore says that if scientific agreement on the clim...

Assessment of U.S. Cap-and-Trade Proposals

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---- Abstract ----- The MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis model is applied to synthetic policies that match key attributes of a ...

The Clean Energy Fund Hits a New Annual High Amid Market Pullback

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...The top performing ETF this week, the PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Fund (PBW), is the one that caught my eye. Like the OIH, the ga...

California- Drought reaches state of emergency in part of Central Valley

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From the Central Valley Business Times The governor says the situation in Kings County shows “how precarious California's water infras...

'Saudi Arabia of renewable energy' off Scotland's coast

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...In August, the world's largest tidal-current generator will be installed on Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough and, next year, S...

Norway presents 'world's most ambitious' climate change plan

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Green groups in Norway gave the new proposals a frosty welcome. Natur og Ungdom described them as "worthless", while Lars Ha...

Coal Fuels A Debate Over Obama

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...After co-sponsoring legislation earlier this year for billions of dollars in subsidies for liquefied coal, Obama more recently began qual...

Truth about Kyoto: huge profits, little carbon saved

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In case you missed it, this was one of three excellent articles Nick Davies did for The Guardian a few weeks ago. ...The CDM is one of two g...

Fidel Castro on Global Warming, Biofuels and World Hunger

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More Than Three Billion People in the World Condemned to Premature Death from Hunger and Thirst by Fidel Castro Ruz, March 29, 2007 ...Where...
Friday, June 22, 2007

"I See London, I see France"--Oops There Goes France

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Will France be caught with its plants down? "People say that nuclear power is going to solve global warming, but I think we're goin...

China: As glaciers melt and rivers dry up, coal-fired power stations multiply

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...In the last six years, the Chinese coal industry, with reserves put at more than 1 trillion tonnes, has doubled production to more than 1...

Research shows Australian weather could get worse

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“People talk about Australia being in the worst drought in 100 years,” Dr McGowan said. “But what the evidence is showing us is that in the ...

Yes, No, Carbon Tax, Yes, No, Carbon Tax, Yes, No, Carbon Tax, Yes, No, Carbon Tax

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Taxes on CO2 emissions alone won't get us where we need to go. By Daniel Sperling DANIEL SPERLING, professor and director of the Institu...

Windmills in Africa

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Here's an alternative to the UNDP, Tobin tax, Africa isn't responsible approach to development. First, one of the most disgusting st...

Tradable emissions permits are a popular, but inferior, way to tackle global warming

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"But the biggest problem, at least politically, is that carbon taxes are transparent and simple, whereas cap-and-trade systems are comp...

Weeds, corks and copper fuel green drinks debate

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Cantine Sgarzi Luigi, an Italian wine producer, launched a new range of organic wines in April, including a Pinot Grigio, Merlot, Sangiovese...

Global Science Gateway Now Open

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I'm giving away my edge, but hey, as Albert Pine said: "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world ...

$200 mil. Up For Grabs in Michigan

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Topix had seven versions(!) of this story. State panel urges incentives to boost renewable fuels industries - Detroit News Renewable fuels...

Wharton Professor bets Al Gore on Global Warming II

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James Annan (climate scientist and betting man) has some comments on Prof. Armstrong's proposal to (possibly) soon to be Dr. Gore. June ...