Green turns to gold in global warming battle | Reuters | 01.05.07 | News
LONDON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - A green goldrush is under way in the hunt for low carbon technologies to beat global warming.
Billions of dollars are involved, from trading in rights to emit greenhouse gases to funds supporting green technologies and backers of big projects like wind and solar farms. The stakes are high -- the planet's climate.
Barely a year ago it was mainly specialist carbon funds and hedge funds, some of which take on high risks in hope of big returns, that were prepared to bet on technologies to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.
Now the big money players are muscling in.
"This year the blue chip investors are moving in -- the big banks and the pension funds with a lot of money," Anthony Hobley of green investment fund Climate Change Capital told Reuters... Read Full Story | reuters.com
Weather Is Not Climate | ABC | 01.05.07 | News
Cooler Weather and Fewer Hurricanes Do Not Lessen Global Warming Trends, Say Scientists
"Choosing shorts or long underwear on a particular day is about weather; the ratio of shorts to long underwear in the drawer is about climate."
— Charles Wohlforth, "The Whale and the Supercomputer"
You probably noticed there were fewer Atlantic hurricanes this year. Melting Arctic sea ice came extremely close to but didn't break the record minimum of summer 2005. And today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, announced two months of cooler-than-average temperatures across the United States.
So what happened to global warming?... Read Full Story | abcnews.go.com
Nations wrangle on global warming | Reuters | 01.05.07 | News
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Rich and poor nations wrangled on Thursday about how to widen a fight against global warming beyond 2012 to salvage U.N. talks on combating what many delegates call one of the biggest threats to life on the planet.
About 70 environment ministers at the November 6-17 meeting have agreed steps to help Africa and other poor nations cope with feared impacts such as drought and floods. But they are deeply divided on how to extend the Kyoto Protocol for curbing warming.
"Sometimes it's not easy to solve problems among the three parties in government (in Germany)," German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said. "Here you have 189 (nations) and it's difficult to find solutions." .. . Read Full Story | reuters.com
Doerr, McNealy offer tech solutions to global warming | C-NET News | 01.05.07 | Article
PALO ALTO, Calif.--If scientific predictions are correct, Silicon Valley could be underwater within a half a century. Green tech may be the life raft.
That was the caution and promise offered at an executive panel Wednesday here at the TechNet Innovation Summit hosted by Stanford University. Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy, Bloom Energy Chief Executive K.R. Sridhar and tech investment guru John Doerr spoke about the dangers of global warming and potential remedies to the problem.
For Doerr, much can be solved if the U.S. government takes the lead. "Our country needs a new energy policy," he said.
Ready with advice, Doerr outlined a four-point policy that he believes President Bush should adopt, come January. That policy includes a mandatory goal for all organizations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 25 percent by 2010; the adoption of renewable sources of energy like solar and wind... Read Full Story | news.com.com
Scientists eye pollution solution for global warming | CBC | 01.05.07 | Article
Controlled pollution of the atmosphere could be a way to fight global warming, researchers say.
Nobel prize winner Paul Crutzen from Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry raised the idea in a recent article in Climatic Change, which he wrote to try to get governments to take action on the problem.
He suggested introducing sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere using balloons or big guns. Sulphur dioxide reflects the sun's rays, which would help reduce the heating of the Earth.
The idea was picked up by U.S. government climatologist Tom Wigley, who wrote that Crutzen's idea would work... Read Full Story | cbc.ca
The invented debate of global warming | The Minnesota Daily | 12.06.06 | News
Many still believe that global warming is concern advanced by environmentalists. The concept of global warming is nothing new, but many in this country still believe there are two reasonable sides to this issue. One side believes that global warming - or "climate change" as they prefer it - is a naturally-occurring phenomenon. Fluctuations in the Earth's temperature have happened since the Middle Ages and these changes eventually correct themselves, so there's little cause for alarm. The other side believes that human activities such as burning fossil fuels have contributed to the documented rise in temperature... Read Full Story | mndaily.com
