Climate & Environment Review: October 31, 2006

Climate & Environment Review
October 31, 2006

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At 2 TV Stations in Maine, What Al Gore’s Movie Says Isn’t News
Michael Palmer, the general manager of television stations WVII and WFVX, ABC and Fox affiliates in Bangor, has told his joint staff of nine men and women that when “Bar Harbor is underwater, then we can do global warming stories.”... >>Read More<<

Global Warming vs. Intifada for EU
This might have dropped below the radar, but Al Qaida and its allies are literally battling the Crusaders every day in Europe. And so far, Europe isn't doing so well... >>Read More<<

Changing Climate on Climate
President Bush has two more years to do something about climate change. Will he waste them, too?... >>Read More<<

And Now a Word From Our Critics
Balance is an important conceit of American journalism. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, previously partisan newspapers edged toward respectability and larger profits by telling "both sides of
the story" and that convention carried over into broadcast journalism. It's a constraint that still chafes at working journalists with Something To Say... >>Read More<<

EUROPE'S KYOTO FIASCO DEEPENS - EU FALLING FAR SHORT OF CLIMATE TARGETS
The European Union, self-styled global champion in the battle against climate change, is falling woefully short of its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and will need to take radical measures to achieve them, new projections have shown... >>Read More<<

THE IMPACT OF THE LITTLE ICE AGE ON MENTALITIES
On 3 August 1562 a thunderstorm hit central Europe. At noon the heaven darkened as if it were night and a severe storm began, destroying roofs and windows... >>Read More<<

GREEN CAMPAIGNERS MAY DRIVE TOP COMPANIES OUT OF LONDON
Green campaigners are calling for firms that float on the London Stock Exchange to be forced to reveal their carbon emissions, as the government prepares to publish a hard-hitting report on the devastating cost of failing to tackle climate change... >>Read More<<

Action Alert: Southeast Asia's Burning Rainforests and Peatland Threaten World's Climate
Let Kyoto protocol delegates know you demand immediate action to stop rainforest fires and peatland agricultural conversion... >>Read More<<

Airlines Could Quit EU Over CO2 Rules
LONDON — Airlines could relocate out of the European Union if the European Commission decides to include aviation emissions in Europe's carbon emissions trading scheme, the European Regions Airline Association warned Tuesday... >>Read More<<

Climate change: US economist's grim warning to Blair's Cabinet
Global warming could cost the world's economies up to 20 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP) if urgent action is not taken to stop floods, storms and natural catastrophes... >>Read More<<

An Inconvenient Comparison: Should Oregon Trust Europe’s Model of CO2 Trading?
Oregon’s carbon dioxide emissions are already so low that voluntarily participating in a multi-state carbon-trading venture would only be a costly scheme with dubious environmental and economic benefits.
Concerns over global warming have fueled interest in carbon trading programs in many regions of the developed world... >>Read More<<

BRITISH BUSINESS WELCOMES STERN REPORT, ASKS FOR FREE LUNCH
Business groups today welcomed a report calling for a low-carbon economy but warned that companies must not foot climate change through green taxes. David Frost, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "Business has a leading role to play in tackling the impact of climate change and the signs are that many are accepting that responsibility. It is crucial however that business and the government continue to work together and the temptation to regulate and tax is resisted... >>Read More<<

Climate an economic time bomb
CLIMATE change could push the world into the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s, with many countries facing economic ruin, a comprehensive British report on the effects of global warming will warn next week... >>Read More<<

DIALOG
Sound science & common sense: the recent Doctors for Disaster Preparedness conference refuted politically driven science and provided commonsense ways to deal with both real and imagined threats... >>Read More<<