Climate & Environment Weekly (1st edition): January 19, 2006

Climate & Environment Weekly
January 19, 2006

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GLOBAL WARMING - BLAME THE FORESTS
They have long been thought of as the antidote to harmful greenhouse gases, sufferers of, rather than contributors to, the effects of global warming. But in a startling discovery, scientists have realised that plants are part of the problem... >>Read More<<

Methane - A GREEN SOURCE OF SURPRISE
Living terrestrial vegetation emits large amounts of methane into the atmosphere. This unexpected finding, if confirmed, will have an impact on both greenhouse-gas accounting and research into sources of methane... >>Read More<<

METHANE EMISSIONS FROM TERRESTRIAL PLANTS UNDER AEROBIC CONDISTIONS
Methane is an important greenhouse gas and its atmospheric concentration has almost tripled since pre-industrial times1, 2. It plays a central role in atmospheric oxidation chemistry and affects stratospheric ozone and water vapour levels... >>Read More<<

Mobile phones not linked to brain cancer: new study
British researchers say they have found no evidence to support fears that mobile phones cause brain cancer.
The new study, published online on Friday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), covers mobile phone use by 966 Britons aged 18-69 who were diagnosed between 2000 and 2004 with glioma, a rare but highly malignant brain tumour... >>Read More<<

EDITORIAL - CLIMATE CHANGE MAY BE A MIRAGE, GLOBAL POVERTY IS NOT
AS delegates to the inaugural Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate conference met under crystal-clear skies in Sydney, the Australian Conservation Foundation issued a typically misleading press release... >>Read More<<

KYOTO PROTOCOL IN CHAOS AS CARBON SINKS TURN INTO GREENHOUSE GAS EMITTERS
1. The Parties included in Annex I shall, individually or jointly, ensure that their aggregate anthropogenic carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of the greenhouse gases listed in Annex A do not exceed their assigned amounts... >>Read More<<

Schweitzer wants panel to take on global warming
HELENA - Concerned with high energy costs and continued drought, Gov. Brian Schweitzer wants to form an advisory council to find ways of dealing with global warming in Montana... >>Read More<<

Asia-Pacific Partnership
Just six months old, the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate already has encountered venomous hostility from those who have spent the past 15 years lobbying for the Kyoto Protocol's "climate control" mandate... >>Read More<<

CLIMATE BATTLE MUST NOT HAMPER GROWTH - AUSTRALIAN PM HOWARD
SYDNEY (AFX) - Australian Prime Minister John Howard said it was unrealistic to expect nations to sacrifice economic growth in order to halt global climate change... >>Read More<<

Europe In Heat
Last week the European Commission gave some official guidance to member states drawing up national plans for allocating carbon dioxide emission allowances for 2008-2012 under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)... >>Read More<<

Extremist Environmentalists Indicted
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Eleven defendants have been indicted on charges including arson and destruction of an energy facility for allegedly participating in a campaign of domestic terrorism in five western states on behalf of the extremist Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) movements, the Justice Department announced today... >>Read More<<

FOREST AND PLANTATIONS IN THE KYOTO PROTOCOL
In 1997 the world's governments came to an agreement on climate action, the Kyoto Protocol. The Protocol binds industrialized nations, which ratify the protocol to reducing their emissions by an average of five per cent by 2008-2012... >>Read More<<