Climate & Environment Weekly (1st edition): January 12, 2006

Climate & Environment Weekly
January 12, 2006

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Whole Foods Commits to Wind Energy
Natural-food grocer Whole Foods Market Inc. said Tuesday it will rely on wind energy for all of its electricity needs, making it the largest corporate user of renewable energy in the United States... >>Read More<<

U.S. SAYS INDUSTRY KEY TO SIX NATION CLIMATE PACT
SYDNEY, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The United States hopes a meeting of some of the world's biggest polluting nations and industries in Sydney from Wednesday will agree a "common strategy" to reduce global warming by identifying industry-specific energy reforms... >>Read More<<

Global warming a damp squib - Hot or cold
HEAT, bushfires. Just another Australian summer, some hotter, some wetter, some cooler, some drier. As per usual, the northern hemisphere freezes and the blame game is in overdrive. At the 2005 UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal, Greenpeace's Steven Guilbeault stated: "Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter, that's what we're dealing with."... >>Read More<<

Environment Inc.
Today, on the 31st anniversary of Earth Day, the environmental movement is at a crossroads. No one can deny its many successes in preserving precious natural resources, but they have come with a price. In fact, some say the environmental movement is fighting for its very soul... >>Read More<<

REALITY CHECK - BIG FREEZE LEAVES TRAIL OF DEATHS ACROSS ASIA
INDIA'S capital New Delhi recorded its lowest temperature for 70 years yesterday as unusually cold weather continued to cause havoc across Asia... >>Read More<<

The Top 10 Junk Science Claims of 2005
It’s that time of year again when we at JunkScience.com reflect on all the dubious achievements and irresponsible claims made by the junk science community throughout the year... >>Read More<<

2006: Cheaper at the Pump?
2005 was a very expensive year for gasoline. And thanks to Washington, 2006 could be even worse... >>Read More<<

Declining populations
DURING the second half of the 20th century, the global population explosion was the big demographic bogey. Robert McNamara, president of the World Bank in the 1970s, compared the threat of unmanageable population pressures with the danger of nuclear war... >>Read More<<

DEBATE SHIFTS FROM KYOTO TO VOLUNTARY MEASURES
A US-led partnership to combat global warming through cleaner energy technologies is the latest sign that the debate is shifting away from caps on emissions of greenhouse gases and toward voluntary measures, experts said yesterday... >>Read More<<

Dog days for Dr Hwang
The Korean cloning scandal
Yet more humiliation for Hwang Woo-suk. Last month, Dr Hwang was found to have made up claims, published in 2005, that he had cloned 11 people and derived lines of stem cells from the resulting embryos... >>Read More<<

Greenpeace co-founder praises global warming
Global warming and nuclear energy are good and the way to save forests is to use more wood.
That was the message delivered to a biotechnology industry gathering yesterday in Waikiki... >>Read More<<

Greying Japan
JAPAN'S population is in decline. As of last October 1st, the government announced last week, giving the results of its latest five-yearly census, Japan's 127m-odd population was 19,000 fewer than a year earlier... >>Read More<<

“The Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe”
Does Russia’s confrontation with its European neighbors over gas exports signal a new cold war? During the early nineteen-eighties, the Reagan administration lobbied strongly against its NATO allies in Europe becoming dependent on gas supplied by the Soviet Union from its vast Siberian fields... >>Read More<<

Windy Publicity Stunt
You’re the CEO of a large publicly traded company. Among the biggest costs at your nearly 200 retail stores, bakeries, and distribution centers is your annual electric bill... >>Read More<<

Salmon sabotage feared
The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) has asked Norway's salmon industry to be vigilant to the threat of sabotage from militant environmentalists after several facilities have been damaged... >>Read More<<