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A convenient untruth
Posted: August 2nd, 2007, 7:00am CEST
ICritics are pouncing on Arctic Tale’s family-friendly narration and story-telling but its filmmakers aren’t apologizing. They say it’s necessary to send the global-warming message to children BY GUY DIXON n the lore of wildlife cinematographers a walrus herd in the wild evokes all kinds of horror stories even one warning that a walrus can slice off a man’s head with its tusk and suck out his brain in seconds. But when a herd of walruses ...
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Homemade ads build buzz at a bargain rate
Posted: June 21st, 2007, 7:00am CEST
What many marketers have found however is that getting what youwantmay not be as easy or as cheap as it sounds — even if you don’t go allout like Frito-Lay and buy Super Bowl time which sold for up to $2.6 million per 30-second slot toshowoff yourwinners. Frito-Lay’s first surprise was an onslaught of entries. It expected a few hundred; it got more than 1 000. It also had to field a stream of questions from ...
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Misc
Posted: June 1st, 2007, 7:00am CEST
WASHINGTON — Pressed by the Europeans President Bush agreed yesterday to hold his first globalwarming talks aimed at getting the U.S. and other industrial nations to cut carbon emissions. “By the end of next year America and other nations will set a long-term global goal for reducing greenhouse gases ” Bush said. Critics were not enthusiastic since the global-warming proposal came days after Bush rejected a tougher plan offered by Germany. “This is a slap in ...
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Reaction lukewarm to Bush on emissions
Posted: June 1st, 2007, 7:00am CEST
WASHINGTON — President Bush’s call for international meetings on greenhouse gas emissions has sharpened next week’s debate at the Group of Eight summit of industrialized nations on globalwarming. Bush proposed Thursday that countries producing themost greenhousegasesmeet and developastrategy to reduce emissions by the end of 2008. He also urged other nations to spend more money on new technologies for “cleanenergy.” “The world is on the verge of great breakthroughs that will help us become better ...
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Misc
Posted: June 1st, 2007, 7:00am CEST
PAGE A12 President Bush with first lady Laura Bush addressed the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign at the Ronald Reagan Building ahead of next week’s Group of Eight summit which will focus on climate change. In what was seen as an encouraging step Mr. Bush introduced his own global-warming plan. CLIMATE A series of talks by David R. Stokes Sundays in June at 9:00 & 10:45 a.m. www.fairoakschurch.org / FRIDAY JUNE 1 2007 4601 We s ...
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Do like DuPont does
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
Experts consider energy efficiency — if homeowners and industry leaders alike commit to belt-tightening — a cost-saving and effective way to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions that fuel globalwarming. The DuPont company for example has saved $3 billion since 1991 by reducing its energy use says spokeswoman Stephanie Jacobson. “It wasn’t one big sexy thing ” she says. “We’ve gone plant-by-plant and process-byprocess.” That has included doing some of the same things that individual homeowners can ...
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Climate study reverses stormprediction
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
study finds that global warming also will stir up ocean winds disrupting the starting conditions for Atlantic hurricanes. In effect winds “could act to inhibit the intensification of tropical cyclones as they traverse from the (mid-Atlantic) to the Caribbean and North America ” conclude study authors Gabriel Vecchi of the National Atmospheric & OceanicAdministration and BrianSoden of theUniversity of Miami. But hurricane researcher Tom Knutson alsoof NOAA cautions that though higher seatemperatures which spur hurricanes almost ...
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Carmakers aim diesels at U.S. market
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
WASHINGTON—Nissanplans tosell a diesel-power version of its Maxima sedan in the USA in 2010 joining a small but rapidlygrowing parade of diesel sellers. And Volkswagensays that for the first time it is developingdiesels specificallyfor the U.S.market andwill sell them in the USA first insteadof starting inEurope. Together those signal a new willingness by automakers to offer fuel-saving diesels in what has been considered an anti-dieselmarket. “It’s a sort of bet you’re making that (fuel-economy) regulations ...
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Continued from 1A
Posted: April 19th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
to Fortune whose recent “green” issues includedhints about how to get green—or invest in companies that are. America’s move toward going green also can be seen in the ad campaigns and store aisles of the nation’s largest retailers. Wal-Mart the world’s largest buyer of organic cotton aims this year to sell 100 million compact fluorescent bulbs which last longer and use far less energy than regular bulbs. The fluorescent bulbs typically cost five toseven times ...
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U.N. Security Council tackles climate change
Posted: April 18th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
The United Nations Security Council opened debate Tuesday on the impact of climate change overruling objections that globalwarming is not an issue of international security. “Whatmakeswars start?Fights over water. Changing patterns of rainfall. Fights over food production land use ” British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said. The twomajor groups of developing countries the Non-Aligned Movement and the Group of 77 said climate changeand energyare issues for the General Assembly where all 192 U.N. members are represented ...
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Court ruling on greenhouse gases boosts ‘cap and trade’
Posted: April 16th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
By Patrice Hill THE WASHINGTON TIMES A recent Supreme Court decision validating efforts to regulate greenhouse gases adds force to proposals in Congress to limit emissions from power plants and factories while allowing them to buy and sell the right to release gases into the atmosphere. Such a “cap and trade” system has been established in Europe to help businesses comply with the Kyoto Protocol globalwarming treaty. Though the Europeans are the first to attempt ...
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Critics call trading ‘disastrous’
Posted: April 16th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
Critics of carbon trading dismiss the recent uptick in interest in carbon trading as “rentseeking” by businesses hoping to profit from inherently carbon-free activities such as farming much of which would occur whether or not they got paid for lowering carbon emissions. “President Eisenhower warned us in 1960 to be concerned about the military-industrial complex. [Today] we ought to be concerned about the newfound eco-industrial complex ” said Steve Milloy of the Free Enterprise Action Fund ...
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Misc
Posted: April 16th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
NATION CARBON From page A1 eastern states recently enacted laws limiting carbon emissions and moving toward a trading system. Maryland in June is scheduled to join a trading system being set up by seven Northeastern states. As more states move toward action some of the targeted businesses have called for federal regulation rather than face multiple state systems of carbon regulation. Some companies have come to view regulation of carbon as inevitable because most other ...
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Teaching through stories
Posted: April 12th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
AmericanIndianstoryteller DebraMorningstar displays Indianartifacts at La Casita Elementary in Clovis N.M.Morningstar teaches kids using stories about people living inharmony. The advance of global warming could mean longer beach seasons on the JerseyShore—andashorter lifespan for its beachfront houses Ondeadline:What others are reporting Globalwarming—friend or foeof ‘Shore’? Cultureof harmony:
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Inside Bay Area - Big-vehicle 'guzzler' fee proposed
Posted: April 12th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
Why? It's the first time California has considered penalizing consumers to limit global warming rather than just providing incentives such as solar power rebates or special access to the carpool lane for hybrid vehicles. "If we are going to effectively fight globalwarming we are going to have to find a way to get the cleaner cars on the road and the dirtier cars off the road " said Assemblyman Ira Ruskin D-Los Altos.
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Times writer to discuss climate change
Posted: April 12th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
In a free talk Saturday at the Newburgh Free Library Andrew C. Revkin award-winning environmental writer for The New York Times will help sort through the climate science and offer his observations from nearly 20 years covering the issue for magazines books and The Times.
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Misc
Posted: April 11th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
Adrawing of planet HD209458b whose clouds appear to contain steam whichsuggestswater vapor in the atmosphere. Promotes fight against globalwarming. About 150light-years away:Crow: Immune system ‘reset’ vs. diabetes States create standard algebra test Steamobserved around extrasolar planet Crow’s college tour winds up on EarthDay www.usatoday.com A better ESA Alfred Vidal-Madjar NASA Alicia Foley withher husband Tom says her family helps keepher mind off her diagnosis. Family comes first: They live the words ‘in sickness and in health’ ...
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Inside Bay Area - Big-vehicle 'guzzler' fee proposed
Posted: April 11th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
Why? It's the first time California has considered penalizing consumers to limit global warming rather than just providing incentives such as solar power rebates or special access to the carpool lane for hybrid vehicles. "If we are going to effectively fight globalwarming we are going to have to find a way to get the cleaner cars on the road and the dirtier cars off the road " said Assemblyman Ira Ruskin D-Los Altos.
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Big-vehicle 'guzzler' fee proposed Proceeds would directly fund rebates for fuel-efficient cars By Paul Rogers MEDIANEWS STAFF Article Launched
Posted: April 11th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
And drivers who buy more fuel-efficient cars like the Toyota Prius or Ford Focus would receive rebates of up to $2 500 straight from the gas-guzzlers' pockets. That's the provocative proposal from a Silicon Valley legislator whose "Clean Car Discount" bill is gaining momentum sending car dealers into a tizzy and sparking passions among motorists.
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Big-vehicle 'guzzler' fee proposed Proceeds would directly fund rebates for fuel-efficient cars By Paul Rogers MEDIANEWS STAFF Article Last Upd
Posted: April 11th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
Article Last Updated:04/11/2007 02:50:08 AM PDT Call it the Robin Hood approach to global warming. California drivers who buy new Hummers Ford Expeditions and other big vehicles that emit high levels of greenhouse gases would pay a fee of up to $2 500.
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Big-vehicle 'guzzler' fee proposed
Posted: April 11th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
Proceeds would directly fund rebates for fuel-efficient cars Article Last Updated:04/11/2007 03:11:25 AM PDT Call it the Robin Hood approach to global warming. California drivers who buy new Hummers Ford Expeditions and other big vehicles that emit high levels of greenhouse gases would pay a fee of up to $2 500.
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Visitors know what is good for them
Posted: April 10th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
VER the last ten years there has been a rebirth of the British beach especially in the Westcountry. Here we have seen the benefit of South West Water’s Clean Sweep programme which cleaned up not just our bathing waters but also our reputation. This has beenmatched by exciting new investments in high-quality beach cafés restaurants and many exciting new activities on our beaches from surfing schools “zap cats” and kite surfing to “coasteering” to name ...
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Gasoline at $6 vs. warming?
Posted: April 9th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
t’s hard to say which is scarier — apocalyptic global warming scenarios or the economic impact of some of the proposals designed to prevent them. A recent European Environment Agency (EEA) study reported greenhouse-gas emissions from motor vehicles continue rising due to increased driving despite heavy fuel taxes that boost prices there above $6 per gallon. Even with gas prices more than twofold that in the U.S. Europe falls short of its globalwarming goals. If ...
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Commentary
Posted: April 9th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
and driving-related carbon emissions are on the rise. Why? Joel Schwartz of the American Enterprise Institute believes that “despite the costs of owning and operating an automobile people choose automobiles the world over because no other form of transportation comes anywhere close to providing comparable speed flexibility privacy and convenience.” Even at $6 per gallon many Europeans — whose per capita incomes are lower than those in the U.S. — are willing to cut back ...
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Storm expert: Gore’s an ‘alarmist’
Posted: April 8th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
A top hurricane forecaster has called Al Gore “a gross alarmist” for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming. “He’s one of these guys that preaches the end-of-the-world type of things. I think he’s doing a great disservice and he Forecaster says global warming isn’t to blame for surge in hurricanes NEW ORLEANS — By Cain Burdeau Associated Press ––––––– ––––––– doesn’t know what he’s talking about ” Dr. William Gray said Friday in an interview ...
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Kennedy’s is most popular vote on high court
Posted: April 8th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
WASHINGTON — Justice Anthony Kennedy has become the object of his colleagues’ attention on a Supreme Court with four reliably conservative votes and four dependably liberal. Six cases before the Supreme Court this term have come down to 5-4 votes. Kennedy alone was in the majority every time. Two cases last week — including one the court turned down — highlighted his pivotal role in shaping just about any matter of consequence before the justices. ...
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GEOFF MEADE
Posted: April 7th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
nations – those least to blame for global warming – are the most vulnerable to its consequences and the least able to adapt. One of Britain’s leading climate scientists Martin Parry co-chairman of the IPCC working group said scientists were not merely “arm-waving” – the report contained empirical measurable data of globalwarming’s impact on animals plants and water. He said everywhere from the Arctic to sub-Saharan Africa and the Asian deltas were at risk from ...
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Letters Nuclear energy not answer to warming
Posted: April 6th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
USA TODAY’s article “Some rethinking nuke opposition” might suggest to some readers that the position of the Natural Resources Defense Council toward nuclear power has changed in response to global warming pollution but our view remains the same (News March 23). Because it is a source of low-carbon electricity in a number of countries including the USA nuclearpower cannot be ignored. But acknowledging this reality and society’s obligation tomanage nuclear power responsibly is a far ...
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The Christian Science Monitor Launches Global Warming Website
Posted: April 5th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
BOSTON April 5 /CNW/ Responding to the growing public interest in global warming The Christian Science Monitor has launched a new long-term initiative to focus greater coverage on the causes and effects of global warming and its impact on climate change. This coverage will appear both in the Monitor's daily newspaper and online at http://www.csmonitor.com/globalwarming/. The Monitor intends to be a key source for all wishing to better understand global warming and will offer ...
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Misc
Posted: March 29th, 2007, 7:00am CEST
chief Jeff Fager. “He takes on the big stories and he takes you there. HetakesyoutoIraq. Hetakes you to where the globe is warming the most which is Antarctica.” On Sunday (7 p.m. ET/PT) Pelley reports on changing conditions in Antarctica a trip that stemmed fromastory on globalwarming Pel60 Minutes Minutes continues to have a loyal following as the nation’s top-rated newsmagazine. And it breaks news as evidenced by the headlines Couric made after Sunday’s controversial interview ...