Climate & Environment Review: September 8, 2006

Climate & Environment Review
September 8, 2006

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Antartic Temperature and Sea Ice Trends over the Last Century
High latitude regions of the Earth (the Arctic and Antarctic) have been considered as bellwethers in the detection of global climate change. According to IPCC (2001)... >>Read More<<

Calif. poised to act on its own on global warming
SAN FRANCISCO — California has led the nation on many environmental issues: clean air, energy efficiency, recycling, alternative fuels. Now the Golden State is poised to grab the initiative on one mostly ignored in Washington: global warming... >>Read More<<

AN INCONVENIENT DEBATE FOR ABC NEWS
ABC news reporter Bill Blakemore inserted an outlandish and irresponsible editorial comment in an article yesterday claiming that after extensive research, ABC News was simply unable to find any debate on whether global warming is manmade or caused by natural variability. Blakemore wrote in his story titled Schwarzenator vs. Bush: (After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such debate)... >>Read More<<

Battle over oil shale's future…
Washington - It will probably be years before anyone makes any money turning Colorado's vast oil-shale reserves into oil. But Congress already is haggling over how big a share of that money taxpayers should get for oil shale on public lands... >>Read More<<

Industry starts to back rules on greenhouse gas
(08-24) 04:00 PDT Washington -- When the head of the American Public Power Association spoke last week to electric utility operators in Minnesota, he had a straightforward message: Federal regulation of greenhouse gases is coming. Get ready for it... >>Read More<<

Burning palm oil fuels climate change
[CSPP note: by our count, there are environmentalists or associated groups that have concerns/opposition for nearly every human-life sustaining fuel on or off the planet: fossil fuels, hydro power, nukes, windmills, solar and now bio-fuels (including wood). All of these should have a place in the energy mix, where useful... >>Read More<<

Global Warming Sickness: The Medicine Will Hurt More
"There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production, with serious political implications for every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now... >>Read More<<

One day we're told that something will help us live to 150, the next that it causes cancer in white mice
Is sunshine good for you? For years, scientists have warned us that to lie in the sun all day without sunscreen is more or less fatal... >>Read More<<

Oil Prices Ease as Demand, Risk Fall
[CSPP Note: Petroleum is a world-wide traded commodity, just like copper. Crude and refined product prices are driven by supply and demand market forces, not producer price fixing... >>Read More<<

California Tightens Rules on Emissions Supporters Hope Law Will Spur Federal Action
California's legislature approved the broadest restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions in the nation yesterday, marking a new stage in the accelerating drive for a more aggressive national response to global warming... >>Read More<<

Group says mines need to clean act on mercury
[CSPP Note: We have sent Judy Fahys papers conveying the science of mercury in the environment which demonstrates that what she is reporting is often either wrong or misleading, generating unnecessary alarm in her readers, particularly pregnant women... >>Read More<<

Major coal plant gets EPA green light
A major new coal-fired power plant got a final go-ahead today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's appeals board... >>Read More<<

Huntsman creates a climate panel
In a historic move for Utah, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. has set up a Blue Ribbon Advisory Council on Climate Change... >>Read More<<