Climate & Environment Review: March 30, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
March 30, 2007

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Great minds think alike
Gore advised lawmakers to cut carbon dioxide and other warming gases 90 percent by 2050 to avoid a crisis. Doing that, he said, will require a ban on any new coal-burning power plants—a major source of industrial carbon dioxide—that lack state-of-the-art controls to capture the gases... >>Read More<<

UK'S EMISSION TARGETS SEEN AS TOUGH TASK
LONDON (Reuters) - Judging by past performance the country will struggle to meet ambitious "green" targets of slicing a third off climate warming carbon dioxide emissions within 12 years, risking international embarrassment... >>Read More<<

OPINION: WHY DID GLOBAL WARMING BECOME A MORAL MATTER?
As a scientist, I find the current strategy of the global warming crusade to be fascinating. Particularly because I am a scientist, I also find it insulting. Everyone should find it very disturbing... >>Read More<<

NEW EVIDENCE PUTS 'SNOWBALL EARTH' THEORY OUT IN THE COLD
The theory that Earth once underwent a prolonged time of extreme global freezing has been dealt a blow by new evidence that periods of warmth occurred during this so-called 'Snowball Earth' era... >>Read More<<

GERMANY'S GREEN LOGIC: ABANDON NUCLEAR, BUILD COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS
Efforts by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to put Europe at the forefront of cuts to greenhouse gases are being threatened by her own government's plan to build 26 coal-fired power stations... >>Read More<<

The Great Global Warming Swindle
Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, has met its match: a devastating documentary recently shown on British television, which has also been viewed by millions of people on the Internet... >>Read More<<

Ethanol: Too Much Hype—and Corn
Ethanol enjoys subsidies from Congress and has upped corn prices. The rush to alternative fuels has been unwisely skewed to this one industry. Pro or con?... >>Read More<<

China - A coal-dependent future?
With a rare glimpse inside one of China's working coalmines, Newsnight's science editor, Susan Watts, has been to find out if a coal-dependent future for China is inevitable... >>Read More<<

Scientists blame Hollywood for increased fears over global warming
Leading climate change experts have thrown their weight behind two scientists who hit out at the "Hollywoodisation" of global warming... >>Read More<<

OPINION: THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING LET DOWN
Richard D. North - who has himself frequently been described as a climate change sceptic and even a climate change denier - wanted Martin Durkin's contrarian The Great Global Warming Swindle to be a wonderful piece of work... >>Read More<<