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BOOKS
Warmer, Warmer
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n06/print/lanc01_.html
John Lanchester, London Review of Books, Vol. 29 No. 6 dated 22 March 2007
I don’t think I can be the only person who finds in myself a strong degree of psychological resistance to the whole subject of climate change. I just don’t want to think about it.
Six steps to hell
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2063400,00.html
http://www.marklynas.org/2007/4/23/six-steps-to-hell-summary-of-six-degrees-as-published-in-the-guardian
The Guardian, April 23, 2007
By the end of the century, the Earth could be more than 6C hotter than it is today, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
To the end of the earth
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1480669.ece
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, by Mark Lynas, is published on March 19 by HarperCollins, price £12.99.
This is our future - famous cities are submerged, a third of the world is desert, the rest struggling for food and fresh water.
Scorcher: the dirty politics of climate change
http://www.smh.com.au/news/book-reviews/
Wendy Frew, SMH, May 16, 2007
Excerpt: The assault on reason
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1622015,00.html
By Al Gore, Time, May 16, 2007
CARBON RATIONING
A Cragger's guide to CRAGs in the USA
http://local-warming.blogspot.com/2007/11/craggers-guide-to-crags-in-usa.html
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Personal Carbon Trading Makes U.S. Debut
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-29-2007/0004692338&EDATE=
RSA Introduces Innovative Idea to Fight Climate Change
10 Downing St view on personal carbon rationing
http://www.feasta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=450#450
Back to basics : Ever heard of "craggers"?
http://globalreporting.blogspot.com/2007/10/back-to-basics-6-ever-heard-of-craggers.html
18 October 2007
Local groups use peer pressure - and fines - to cut carbon emissions
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/16/business/crags.php
James Kanter, IHT, October 16, 2007
The time has come for drastic action
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/the-time-has-come-for-drastic-action/2007/10/10/1191695988164.html
Kenneth Davidson, The Age, October 11, 2007
Rationing project tests government plans to make pollution personal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/10/climatechange.politics
David Adam, The Guardian, September 10 2007
Greens issue challenge to mainstream parties on environment
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,,2169177,00.html
Hélène Mulholland, Guardian, September 14, 2007
Going cragging
http://www.abc.net.au/centralvic/stories/s2009636.htm
Terri-Anne Kingsley, ABC online, 20 August 2007
Cragging sounds more like an obscure sport than anything else - Scottish, perhaps. It isn't; CRAG actually means Carbon Rationing Action Group, and cragging is a social movement.
This time it's personal
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,,2143337,00.html
Guy Shrubsole, The Guardian, August 8, 2007
When Andy Ross takes a train journey, he does not just think about the cash he will have to spend, he also thinks about what it will cost him in carbon. That is because he's a "cragger" - a member of a Carbon Rationing Action Group (Crag), a growing network of community groups dedicated to cutting individuals' carbon emissions.
Should California Implement Personal Carbon Allowances? (PDF)
http://www.policymatters.net/issue/mazzacurati_carbon.pdf
Emilie Mazzacurati, PolicyMatters, Vol.4, No. 2 (Spring 2007), pp. 28-34
Personal carbon allowance - government response
http://fairsnape.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/personal-carbon-allowance-government-response/
Rationing project tests government plans to make pollution personal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/10/climatechange.politics
David Adam, The Guardian, September 10 2007
Plans for the world's first personal carbon trading scheme, in which people buy and sell their rights to produce pollution, are unveiled today.The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) is piloting a project later this year to test whether personal carbon trading could work on a large scale.
Greens issue challenge to mainstream parties on environment
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,,2169177,00.html
Hélène Mulholland, Guardian, September 14, 2007
The checklist of policies that Ms Lucas said were essential to combat climate change include: the introduction of personal carbon allowances to ensure emissions are shared equally between everyone in the UK; a halt to all road and airport expansion, and incentives to boost renewable electricity generation.
'Carbon credit cards' and 'carbon market' on agenda
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2747698.ece
Simon Baker, Independent, 09 July 2007
A "zero carbon" Britain could be achieved by 2027 if a range of measures were brought in by a government with "strong political leadership", scientists said today. .
Rebate to ‘help the battlers’
http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/bm/local/879731.html
By Anthony Bunn, Border Mail, 30 July 2007
Mr Thwaites also raised the idea of a personal carbon allowance which would involve a quota being put on the level of emissions an individual or household could use in a year.
How we can blitz global warming with a return to rationing
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/features?articleid=2892024
By Sarah Freeman, Yorkshire Today, 21 May 2007
The real solution to climate change could be a large helping of Blitz spirit
Carbon Rationing Action Groups
http://www.carbonrationing.org.uk
Carbon credit debate gets personal
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/carbon-credit-debate-gets-personal/
2007/04/17/1176696838699.html
Wendy Frew, April 18, 2007, Sydney Morning Herald
INDIVIDUAL carbon rationing with penalties for those who exceeded their quotas was one of a number of radical measures that might be needed to tackle climate change, according to the former NSW premier, Bob Carr.
Carbon Taxes or carbon rationing?
David Spratt, Dissent magazine, Autumn 2007
http://www.carbonequity.info/docs/carbontaxes.html
The incidence and social impact of a carbon tax is a key issue in considering how the socially regressive impact of a carbon tax might be alleviated by social policies or tax changes that re-distribute some or all of the revenue from a carbon tax.
I would turn the lights out
http://www.theecologist.co.uk/archive_detail.asp?content_id=769
Michael Meacher, The Ecologist Online, 2 January 2007
What we need to get our minds round is that we are at war: at war against climate catastrophe, presenting us with a far greater threat towards our survival than 1939.
MPs throw weight behind personal carbon allowance scheme
http://www.rsacarbonlimited.org/article.aspa?pageid=673
12 March 2007
The idea of creating a system of personal carbon allowances gained a valuable endorsement this week with a Parliamentary motion led by former Environment Minister Elliot Morley MP.
Carbon rationing: a modern morality tale
http://www.newstatesman.com/200703260026
by Peter Wilby, New Statesman, 26 March 2007
It has become clear that any practical idea of how to cut carbon emissions will meet strong public opposition.
London mayor calls for personal carbon rationing
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/news_third.cfm?NewsID=34726
Carbon credit cards?
http://www..nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-12-21/news_story3.php
by Gwynne Dyer, NowToronto, 21 December 2006
This is no lunatic proposal from the eco-radical fringe. It's on the verge of becoming British government policy, and Environment Secretary David Miliband is behind it 100 per cent.
CARBON SINKS
Surge in carbon levels shows vegetation struggling to cope
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2077118,00.html
David Adam, The Guardian, May 11, 2007
Climate change may have passed a key tipping point that could mean temperatures rising more quickly than predicted and it being harder to tackle global warming, research suggests. .
Nature's carbon 'sink' smaller than expected
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0503/p01s02-wogi.html
Peter N. Spotts, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2007
When it comes to global warming, nature's help is limited. Earth in 2100 could be up to 2.7 degrees F. hotter than previously predicted, studies say.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
'Hell is about to break loose'
Clare Peddie, Adelaide Now, 14 August 2007
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22239280-5006301,00.html
CLIMATE change is shaping up to be worse than predicted by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a CSIRO scientist says
'Climate change: The limits of consensus'
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/9/14/13511/0270
Joseph Romm, Gristmill, 14 Sep 2007
The new issue of Science has a terrific article. Its central argument is that the scientific consensus most likely underestimates future climate change impacts, especially in the crucial area of sea-level rise and carbon-cycle feedbacks.
Climate change: A guide for the perplexed
http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11462
Michael Le Page, NewScientist.com, 16 May 2007
With so much at stake, it is right that climate science is subjected to the most intense scrutiny. What does not help is for the real issues to be muddied by discredited arguments or wild theories. So for those who are not sure what to believe, here is our round-up of the 26 most common climate myths and misconceptions.
US temperatures 'could rise 5.5 degrees' by 2080
http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11824
Catherine Brahic, NewScientist, 10 May 2007
Average summer temperatures in the eastern US could soar by 5.5°C (10°F) by 2080, if human emissions continue to grow at their current rate of 2% a year, according to a new model. Leonard Druyan and colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, US, analysed past weather patterns to determine how well commonly-used climate models performed when replicating this past weather.
Earth's natural defences against climate change 'beginning to fail'
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2556466.ece
Michael McCarthy, The Independent, 18 May 2007
The earth's ability to soak up the gases causing global warming is beginning to fail because of rising temperatures, in a long-feared sign of "positive feedback," new research reveals today.
ALSO
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20071805-15893-2.html
NASA: Earth nearing climate 'tipping points'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18962055/
MSNBC.com, 3 May 2007
Small temperature increases now can have big impact, study concludes
Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted by humans have brought Earth’s climate close to "critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet," according to NASA and the findings of a new study.
Global 'sunscreen' has likely thinned, report NASA scientists
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/nsfc-gh031507.php
A new NASA study has found that an important counter-balance to the warming of our planet by greenhouse gases – sunlight blocked by dust, pollution and other aerosol particles – appears to have lost ground. e.
DEFORESTATION & DESERTIFICATION
Rising temperatures "will stunt rainforest growth"
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070806/full/070806-13.html
Published online: 10 August 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070806-13
Michael Hopkin, nature.com
Global warming could cut the rate at which trees in tropical rainforests grow by as much as half, according to more than two decades' worth of data from forests in Panama and Malaysia. The effect — so far largely overlooked by climate modellers — could severely erode or even remove the ability of tropical rainforests to remove carbon dioxide from the air as they grow.
Likely Spread of Deserts to Fertile Land Requires Quick Response
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/world/28deserts.html
Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times, June 28, 2007
Enough fertile land could turn into desert within the next generation to create an “environmental crisis of global proportions,” large-scale migrations and political instability in parts of Africa and Central Asia unless current trends are quickly stemmed
Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2539349.ece
By Daniel Howden, The Independent, 14 May 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2539349.ece
In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. Stopping the loggers is the fastest and cheapest solution to climate change.
Curbing deforestation 'key' to fighting climate change
http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=3612&language=1
Michelle Picard-Aitken, SciDev.Net, 11 May 2007
Reducing deforestation in developing countries could become a key strategy in fighting climate change, say a group of forest and climate experts.
Will climate change kill the Amazon?
http://www.physorg.com/news94310143.html
28 March 2007
One of the most profound predicted impacts of climate change was discussed in a landmark conference at Oriel College by scientists, conservationists and policymakers from Europe and North and South America.
Deforestation puts Indonesia as 3rd largest greenhouse gas emitter
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070323/kyodo/d8o23ef80.html
Saturday March 24 2007
Deforestation, which releases a significant number of carbon dioxide, has put Indonesia as the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases after the United States and China, a report released Friday said.
Amazon 'faces more deadly droughts'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6484073.stm
Peter Cox, professor in climate change dynamics at the University of Essex in the UK, thinks the same factors which caused the drought are likely to be repeated.
Amazon deforestation damaging critical ecosystem services
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0208-amazon1.html
Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com, February 8, 2007
Amazon rainforest is more extensive than previously thought say a team of scientists writing in the current edition of the journal Frontiers in Ecology.
Death of Amazon rainforest possible, researcher warns
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/death-of-amazon-rainforest-possible-
researcher-warns/2006/12/30/1166895522620.html
Global warming could spell the end of the world's largest remaining tropical rainforest, transforming the Amazon into a grassy savanna before the end of the century, researchers said.
by Michael Astor, SHM, December 31, 2006
DEVELOPMENT
Rich will have to help poor to save climate
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/rich-will-have-to-help-poor-to-save-climate/2007/08/08/1186530447689.html
Wendy Frew, Sydney Morning Herald, August 9, 2007
THE world will only avoid catastrophic climate change if wealthy countries such as Australia recognise they have a responsibility to help poorer countries raise living standards and cut greenhouse emissions, according to a visiting US climate change expert.
Lead by example on climate change
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/lead-by-example-on-climate-change/2007/08/09/1186530529171.html
Rajendra Pachauri, SMH, August 10, 2007
One of the most serious aspects of climate change is the equity dimensions of the problem. The largest responsibility for the increase in concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere lies with the developed countries, but the worst impacts and the highest vulnerability applies to several developing countries.
Climate change and international development summit
http://action.foe.org/dia/organizationsORG/foe/content.jsp?
content_KEY=2512&t=FOE_GCC_Conference_Template.dwt
16 April 2007
Responsibility
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/4/17/20593/3033
Instead, the development groups that are (finally) developingclimate campaigns (Christian Aid, Oxfam, Practical Action, ActionAid, Tearfund, Care, and lots of others) are being encouraged to make the humanitarian disaster point. Turns out they have more moral authority on this point than the WDC environmental community .
How richest fuel global warming - but poorest suffer most from it
http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=66359
The World Development Movement (WDM), a poverty campaign group, has drawn up a "climate calendar" showing the dates when the UK will have emitted as much CO2 gas as other countries will in a yea
Calendar at:
http://www.wdm.org.uk/campaigns/climate/calendar/index.htm
or download at:
http://www.wdm.org.uk/resources/briefings/climate/climatecalandar08012007.pdf
EMISSIONS
Ten-year climate model unveiled: 0.3C rise in a decade
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6939347.stm
BBC News, 9 August 2007
Over the decade as a whole, they project the global average temperature in 2014 to be 0.3C warmer than 2004.
ALSO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/aug/10/weather.uknews
Faster Climate Change Means Bigger Problems
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070831211647.htm
Science Daily, 2 September 2007
If the rate is 0.3 °C per decade, 15 percent of ecosystems will not be able to adapt. If the rate should exceed 0.4 °C per decade, all ecosystems will be quickly destroyed, opportunistic species will dominate, and the breakdown of biological material will lead to even greater emissions of CO2.
Aust greenhouse emissions on the rise
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/14/2004274.htm
ABC News, 14 August 2007
New figures shows Australia's greenhouse gas emissions are rising again after a downward trend last year.
Global economy more carbon intensive, not less
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/umwelt_naturschutz/bericht-84664.html
Innovations Report, 22.05.2007
A new analysis shows that carbon intensity in the world economy is increasing. While emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are accelerating worldwide, we are gaining fewer economic benefits from each tonne of fossil fuel burned.
Can climate change get worse? It has
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/emissions-exceed-worst-fears/
2007/05/22/1179601340054.html
Liz Minchin, The Age, May 22, 2007 - 7:00AM
The world is now on track to experience more catastrophic damages from climate change than in the worst-case scenario forecast by international experts, scientists have warned.
Developing nations have slowed greenhouse gas rise
http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11780
NewScientist.com news service, 03 May 2007
Fast developing nations, such as China and India, have slowed their rising greenhouse gas emissions by more than the total cuts demanded of rich nations by the Kyoto Protocol, says a draft of the UN report on climate.
Australia's greenhouse blowout
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21628440-5001021,00.html
Saffron Howden, The Daily Telegraph, April 26, 2007
John Howard's stance on climate change is under serious threat, with figures warning that Australia will exceed the Kyoto Protocol emissions targets by the end of the decade.
China Can Curb Emissions, Grow Economy - Greenpeace
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/41544/story.htm
April 26, 2007
China can beat its own tentative global warming targets and hold carbon dioxide emissions around current levels by giving stronger support to efficiency and renewables, Greenpeace said on Wednesday.
EU Emissions to Rise, Despite Claims
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37518
IPS, 27 April 2007
One month after the European Union's leaders promised robust action against climate change, green campaigners have accused key EU bodies of implementing policies that will lead to increased emissions of greenhouse gases.
Global growth in carbon emissions
http://www.physorg.com/news96902930.html
27 April 2007
Current fossil-fuel dominated energy demand increases carbon dioxide (CO2) by one billion tonnes every two years, according to IEA data.
Report: US carbon emissions up 18 percent since 1990
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=6361272&nav=4QcS
Emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide rose 18 percent in the United States from 1990 to 2004.
Surge in carbon levels raises fears of runaway warming
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1994071,00.html
Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere much faster than scientists expected, raising fears that humankind may have less time to tackle climate change than previously thought.
David Adam, The Guardian, Friday January 19, 2007
Clean energy will take off 'too late' if trends continue
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=12450&channel=0
Carbon emissions cuts will come too late to avert 'runaway' climate change if current policy trends continue in Europe and across the world according to the EU's World Energy Technology Outlook, published this week.
Greenhouse gas sums don't add up
http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/johnquiggin/news/Greenhouse9612.html
by John Quiggin, Australian Financial Review 17 December 1996.
Worrying rise in greenhouse emissions forecast
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/worrying-rise-in-greenhouse-emissions-
forecast/2006/12/20/1166290591016.html
Australia will slightly overstep its greenhouse emissions target by 2012, but a worrying big rise is predicted within the following decade, a new report has found.
The Age, 20 December 2006
EQUITY
Carbon scheme has power price shock for poor
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/carbon-scheme-has-power-price-shock-for-poor/2007/08/13/1186857428609.html
Gavin Dufty, The Age, August 14, 2007
THE Federal Government's proposed carbon trading scheme will consign households to an annual average electricity price increase of $200, creating a significant impact on those whose incomes are hovering around the poverty line.
Carbon footprint of rich twice that of poor
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/carbon-footprint-of-rich-twice-that-of-poor/2007/06/15/1181414549948.html
Liz Minchin, The Age, June 16, 2007
Rich, well-educated Australians are contributing twice as much to climate change as average households, according to new analysis of consumption habits
Poor 'hit hardest' by carbon taxes
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/13/1977757.htm
ABC News, Jul 13, 2007
A leading welfare advocate says poor and disadvantaged people will be the hardest hit by climate change because they will have the most trouble shouldering the financial cost of greener government policies.
Rich must pay bulk of climate change bill - Oxfam
http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSL28355435._CH_.2400
Jeremy Lovell, Reuters, May 28, 2007
Coping with the ravages of global warming will cost $50 billion a year, and the rich nations who caused most of the pollution must pay most of the bill, aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday
The vulnerable fear neglect in post-carbon era
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21586114-7583,00.html
Dennis Glover, The Australian, April 20, 2007
Unions must take care not to sow the seeds of their own destruction in their responses to the climate change agenda.
IPCC REPORTS
UN report calls for an urgent action on road and air pollution
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=52&id=566602007
Alister Doyle & Ian Johnston, New Scotsman, 13 April 2007
Soaring car and air travel must be tackled if the world is to stop greenhouse gas emissions from transport rising rapidly over the next few decades, according to a leaked draft report by the United Nations' climate panel.
ALSO
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL1232162620070412
A solution won't cost earth
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/tackling-climate-wont-cost-the-earth/
2007/04/12/1175971264385.html
Liz Minchin and Alister Doyle, The Age, April 13, 2007
Tackling climate change today would not cost the earth, according to a major international report due out next month.
Scientists Detail Climate Changes, Poles to Tropics
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/science/earth/07climate.html
JAMES KANTER and ANDREW C. REVKIN, NYT, April 7, 2007
“Essentially there’s going to be a mass extinction within the next 100 years unless climate change is limited,” added Dr. Hare, who previously worked for Greenpeace.
Little time to avert big temperature rise: U.N. study
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL052735320070410
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, Apr 10, 2007
Fighting global warming will be inexpensive but governments have little time left to avert big, damaging temperature rises, a draft United Nations report shows.
Bleak U.N. report on global warming derided as too soft
http://www.mercurynews.com/healthandscience/ci_5616208?nclick_check=1
By Alan Zarembo and Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times, 04/07/2007
Despite the harshness of its vision, the report was quickly criticized by scientists who said its findings were watered down at the last minute by government bureaucrats seeking to deflect calls for action.
JAMES HANSEN
Climate Change: Why We Can't Wait
By James Hansen, The Nation, April 21, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/50795/
This is an adaptation of a talk delivered February 26 at the National Press Club. Comments relating to policy are Dr. Hansen's personal opinion and do not represent a NASA position. There's a huge gap between what is understood about global warming by the relevant scientific community and what is known about global warming by those who need to know: the public and policy-makers. We've had, in the past thirty years, one degree Fahrenheit of global warming.
Dangerous Climate Change
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/testimony_26april2007.pdf
James Hansen, 28 April 2007
Testimony to be delivered at the hearing 10 AM Thursday April 26 at a hearing of the new Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
MITIGATION - BUILDINGS
First zero-carbon home unveiled
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/ethicalliving/story/0,,2100375,00.html
Hilary Osborne, Guardian, June 11, 2007
Plans to create eco-towns across the UK moved a step closer today as the government recognised the first official zero-carbon home.
Making a farce of five-star
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/homes-making-a-farce-of-fivestar/
2007/05/20/1179601242790.html
Royce Millar and Liz Minchin, The Age, May 21, 2007
A damning Government report has recommended replacing Victoria's five-star energy standard with a new benchmark, capping greenhouse emissions and penalising large houses and apartments.
ALSO
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/state-deal-on-green-homes-to-stay-secret/2007/05/22/1179601410993.html
Urban vision
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ken_livingstone/2007/05/urban_vision.html
Ken Livingstone, May 17, 2007
This week in New York, representatives from 40 of the world's biggest cities quietly defied President Bush and agreed a new climate change initiative.
Shops and offices to go eco-friendly
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2516742.ece
By Geoffrey Lean, 06 May 2007
The housing and planning minister, is drawing up a series of deadlines by which all new commercial buildings will have to be "zero carbon" - adding no carbon dioxide, the main cause of climate change, to the atmosphere.
Top 10 US green buildings
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/4/24/112935/218
The American Institute of Architects has put together a list of the top ten green buildings in the U.S.
17p levy sought on utility bills to fund green homes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1539852.ece
Valerie Elliott, The Times, 20 March 2007
A levy of 17p a month on electricity bills has been suggested to raise a £100 million fund to help homeowners to install solar panels and wind turbines. .
ALSO: Gas guzzlers hit hard
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/travel/story/0,,2039316,00.html
MITIGATION - INDUSTRY
Combating Climate Change: Industrial-Strength Efforts to Eliminate Excess Emissions
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=7D0F7914-E7F2-99DF-324A350B33629F97
&chanID=sa007
By David Biello, Scientific American, 11 May 2007
If controlling global warming is a priority, then industries—from banking to cement manufacturing—will have to become efficient energy users, which will require a transformation of their basic operations.
SCEPTICS
Climate myths special
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
The Great Global Warming Swindle: Response
http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=802
My words were twisted in global warming documentary: expert
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s1977366.htm
Miners back global warming denier
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/miners-back-global-warming-denier/2007/07/12/1183833653865.html
Don't be swindled
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/12/1976998.htm
New analysis counters claims that solar activity is linked to global warming
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2123448,00.html
Swindled! Aldatıldık!
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled/
Too much at stake to let climate-change sceptics bluff the world
http://www.smh.com.au
George Monbiot, SMH, May 24, 2007
The problem with The Great Global Warming Swindle, which the ABC plans to screen and which caused a sensation when it was broadcast in Britain earlier this year, is that to make its case it relies not on visionaries, but on people whose findings have been proven wrong. The implications could not be graver.
How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic
http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics
ALSO
Climate change: Why we don't believe it
http://www.newstatesman.com/200704230025
by Lois Rogers, New Statesman, 23 April 2007
What does Britain really think about global warming? We reveal an unreported gulf between the pronouncements of campaigners and politicians and British public opinion.
The chasm between our agenda and climate science: The problem statement
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/4/18/111843/339
Posted by Ken Ward
Humanity has <10 years to avert cataclysm and most U.S. environmentalists simply don't believe it. If we did believe it, we would be acting very differently. Why do we continue, in our materials and on our web sites, to present climate as one of any number of apparently equally important issue.
STERN & REPORT
Stern ratchets up climate change debate
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1884012.htm
Howard rejects climate change calls from Stern
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s1884169.htm
PM's plan to rescue the world's forests
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21466311-30417,00.html
Australia urged to ratify Kyoto pact
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/28/business/warm.php
Sir Nicholas Stern issues climate change challenge
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s1884160.htm
New Stern climate warning
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/new-stern-climate-warning/
2007/03/27/1174761470838.html
STRATEGY
Positive Energy: Harnessing people power to prevent climate change
http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=541
By Simon Retallack and Tim Lawrence with Matthew Lockwood
In the UK, the energy we use in our homes and for personal transport is responsible for almost half of the country's carbon dioxide emissions. The active participation of the public in solutions is therefore critical to reducing the country's overall contribution to climate change. This report examines ways to enable and persuade people to act, suggesting policies, techniques and communications approaches for promoting behaviour change.
Is Big Business Buying Out the Environmental Movement?
http://www.corp-research.org/archives/may-jun07.htm
Phil Mattera, Corporate Research Project, 5 June 2007
With Big Business going green, is it a sign that environmental campaigns have prevailed and are setting the corporate agenda? Or have enviros been duped into endorsing what may be little more than a new wave of corporate greenwashing?
Positive Energy: Harnessing people power to prevent climate change
ISBN: 978-1-86030-310-4
http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=541
Simon Retallack and Tim Lawrence with Matthew Lockwood
Special interests are the one big obstacle
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article1499726.ece
Jim Hansen, March 12, 2007, The Times
The best hope for the planet is a grass roots movement. P
Big Enviro Groups ‘Holding Back’ Anti-Warming Movement
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/4293
by Megan Tady, The New Standard, 9 February 2007
The heat is on environmental groups and politicians to churn out proposals for stabilizing the planet’s rising temperatures, but some environmentalists say existing plans to cool climate change are timid.
TARGETS
A Sudden Change of State
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2117234,00.html
George Monbiot, Guardian, July 3, 2007
A new paper suggests we have been greatly underestimating the impacts of climate change – and the size of the necessary response.
Liberal and Labor, make a call: how much heat can you stand?
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/liberal-and-labor--how-much-heat-can-
you-stand
Richard Di Natale Adam Bandt, The Age, June 11, 2007
WHAT risk of a plane crashing do you accept before buying a ticket? If it was 85 per cent likely, you'd never fly; 10 per cent, or even 1 per cent, would be too much.
Giving Up On Two Degrees
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/05/01/1058/
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 1st May 2007.
Have we already abandoned our attempts to prevent dangerous climate change? The rich nations seeking to cut climate change have this in common: they lie.
Don’t give up on 2°C
http://www.qualityoflifechallenge.com/documents/TwoDegreesApril2007.pdf
Nick Hurd MP and Clare Kerr , April 2007
Nick Hurd is a Conservative Member of the British Parliament for Ruislip-Northwood and is board member of the Quality of Life Commission with responsibility for climate change
Draft UK Climate Change Bill exceeds UK and EU targets
http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/publications/briefing_notes/bn17.pdf
Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows show how the Bill's logic is more likely to contribute to a world average temperature 4°C to 5°C warmer, than to constrain warming to 2°C
World needs to axe greenhouse gases by 80 percent
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL194440620070419
Alister Doyle, Reuters, Apr 19, 2007
An 80 percent global cut would mean rich nations, responsible for most heat-trapping emissions from fossil fuels burnt by power plants, factories and cars, would have to axe emissions by about 95 percent below 2000 levels by 2050.
Florida to introduce tough greenhouse gas targets
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=
2007-07-11T155013Z_01_N11257645_RTRIDST_0_CLIMATE-FLORIDA-UPDATE-1.XML
Reuters, Jul 11, 2007
Florida, the fourth most-populous U.S. state, will impose strict new air-pollution standards that aim to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050, according to draft regulations released on Wednesday.
Merkel rejects call to moderate emissions cuts
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=merkel-rejects-call-to-mo&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters
Erik Kirschbaum, Reuters, 3 July 2007
Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected industry criticism of her plans to cut Germany's greenhouse gas emissions by a third by 2020 and dashed its hopes of a deal to prolong the use of nuclear power
Edwards Proposes Greenhouse Gas Plan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6558113,00.html
Brian Skoloff, Guardian Unlimited, 14 april 2007
The former North Carolina senator said the US needs to put a cap on carbon emissions, and should achieve an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.
The Call for Draconian Cuts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17954879/site/newsweek/
By Jessica Bennett, Newsweek web, 16 April 2007
When it comes to the need to reduce carbon emissions, how far is far enough? .
PM refuses to set target for carbon emissions
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1896685.htm
April 13, 2007
Premiers climate change plan
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2007/s1896163.htm
Is This a Crash Program? I
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032607O.shtml
Tom Athanasiou, t r u t h o u t, 26 March 2007
Zero growth: McKibben makes a case for self-sustaining economies
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/04/01/zero_growth
Elizabeth Kolbert, Boston Globe, April 1, 2007
State goes for 25 percent renewable by 2025
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17281440
Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed the bill Thursday demanding that 25 percent of the state's electricity come from next-generation power sources by 2025, a goal some advocates think will be achieved even sooner.
Last warning: 10 years to save world
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21131732-2703,00.html
by Jonathan Leake, the Australian, January 28, 2007
The world has just 10 years to reverse surging greenhouse gas emissions or risk runaway climate change that could make many parts of the planet uninhabitable.
TRANSPORT - AIR TRAVEL
Aviation in a Low-Carbon EU
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/aviation_tyndall_07_main.pdf
Current proposals to include aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme will have very little impact on aviation's contribution to climate change, a new report by leading climate scientists warns.
Livingstone lends support to Tory tax on frequent flyers
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/travel/story/0,,2100473,00.html
Matthew Weaver, Guardian, June 11, 2007
London mayor Ken Livingstone has backed a Conservative proposal to impose carbon taxes on frequent flyer holidaymakers.
Jet set kids
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06042007/news/regionalnews/
jet_set_kids_regionalnews_sharri_markson.htm
Sharri Markson, New York Post, 4 June 2007
The city's youngest high-fliers are pampered campers whose parents are paying big bucks to jet them off in style to their summer vacations. In some cases, parents are spending thousands to save kids a bus ride of less than an hour.
Rubbery figures talk down aviation pollution footprint
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/rubbery-figures-talk-down-aviation-
pollution-footprint/2007/06/13/1181414383851.html
Wendy Frew, SMH, June 14, 2007
PEOPLE worried about their carbon footprint could be misled about the damage their air travel does to the environment if they rely on government information.
Missed flight: airlines boss says industry has done too little, too late
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2096415,00.html
Dan Milmo, The Guardian, Wednesday June 6, 2007
A senior director at the world's largest airline has warned that the industry has "lost the battle" in the environmental debate and it could take a decade for carriers to restore their reputation.
Ryanair: climate campaigners hitting sales
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/travel/story/0,,2092472,00.html
Dan Milmo, Guardian Unlimited, May 31, 2007
Ryanair admitted today that the onslaught from environmental campaigners against low-cost flying is affecting sales.
Greens angered by 1m flights giveaway
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/travel/story/0,,2081411,00.html
Patrick Collinson and Dan Milmo, The Guardian, May 17, 2007
Ryanair's move was branded "grossly irresponsible" by Friends of the Earth. Its aviation campaigner, Richard Dyer, said: "Passengers may be getting a free ride, but the planet certainly isn't. It is unbelievable that Ryanair is resorting to such tactics."
Eco-warriors plan massive disruption at Heathrow
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23397881-details/
Eco+warriors+plan+massive+disruption+at+Heathrow/article.do
Thousands of green campaigners are planning to cause massive disruption at Heathrow airport. "Eco-warriors" say they will set up a Greenham Common-style protest camp near the perimeter fence.
Fly less to reduce carbon emissions: think tank
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1930588.htm
ABC online, 23 May 2007
The Australia Institute think tank says Australians need to fly less if the country has any hope of meeting future greenhouse gas reduction targets.
Climate change policy fails Aussie tourism industry
AAP | Thursday, 24 May 2007
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4070080a34.html
Prime Minister John Howard risks tarnishing Australia's reputation as a natural tourism destination by failing to urgently address climate change, Queensland Minister for Tourism Margaret Keech says.
'£100 tax on short-haul flights'
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2516765.ece
By Ruth Elkins
Published: 06 May 2007
Mr Ellingham wants a £100 green tax on all flights to Europe and Africa, and £250 on flights to the rest of the world. He also urges investment for a low-carbon economy and a moratorium on airport expansion.
Green groups dismayed as flights soar to record high
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2524436.ece
Michael McCarthy, The Independent, 09 May 2007
Aviation growth is soaring to an all-time high, raising the prospect of a huge increase in the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
A holiday at the end of the Earth: tourists paying to see global warming in action
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2504641.ece
By Michael McCarthy, Independent, 03 May 2007
Bored with your usual holiday? Try watching bits of the world as they start to heat up!
Carbon tax threatens to ground Asia tourism
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Asian_Economy/ID19Dk01.html
Alan Boyd, Asia Times, 19 April 2007
Asia's US$100 billion international tourism industry is being put in jeopardy by a campaign by European environmentalists to limit air travel, with politicians poised to price long-haul destinations out of the market.
Australians fear ‘jet flight guilt’ could hit tourism
http://www.gulf-times.com
AFP/Gulf Times, 19 April, 2007
Australia is concerned that growing guilt over the impact of jet flights on global warming could hit the country’s multi-billion dollar tourism industry, officials said yesterday.
Travel's change of plan
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/travels-change-of-plan/
2007/04/09/1175971023072.html
SHM, April 10, 2007
Concern about the environment is going to change the way people travel - even whether they travel. Judy Adamson reports.
ALSO http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/1053594
Call for 'health warnings' on flights and cars
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=52&id=523962007
Joe Churcher, the Scotsman, 5 April 2007.
BA passengers offered free train tickets
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/travel/story/0,,2038611,00.html
Guardian Unlimited, March 20, 2007
Passengers on a new British Airways flight from Gatwick to Newquay were today offered free train tickets by environmental campaigners in an attempt to encourage them to use a greener method of transport.
SEE ALSO: Really short haul versus the train: a carbon comparison
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2007/03/newquay-calling-by-air-and-by-train.html?
Carbon emissions: Footprints in the sky
http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=71147
Independent (UK), March 18, 2007
No government - or airline - will admit it, but limiting the number of flights individuals and airlines are allowed could be the long-term solution.
SEE ALSO: Open skies pact 'will worsen climate change'
http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=71249
Virgin's latest deal: cut-price carbon offsets
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/virgins-latest-deal-cutprice-carbon-offsets/
2007/03/21/1174153161854.html
Courting Tiger, like air travel itself, is unsustainable
by David Spratt, The Age, 17 March 2007
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/courting-tiger-like-air-travel-itself-is-
unsustainable/2007/03/16/1173722748410.htm
Airlines set to net billions under greenhouse gas plan
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070115/full/070115-11.html
Costs are likely to be passed on to consumers, without a drop in emissions.
Nature.com, 18 January 2007
Concern grows over pollution from jets
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2006-12-18-jet-pollution-usat_x.htm
Aviation and the environment are on a collision course.
By Gary Stoller, USA TODAY, 12/19/200
Preparing for Take-Off
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2006/12/19/preparing-for-take-off/
The government knows that its airport plans will cancel out all its efforts to tackle climate change.
By George Monbiot, Guardian, 19 December 2006
Rise of low-cost flights comes at high price
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,,1983220,00.html
by John Vidal, The Guardian, Friday January 5, 2007
TRANSPORT
Lib Dem plan to ban petrol-driven cars
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,,2157621,00.html
Haroon Siddique, Guardian, August 28, 2007
Petrol-driven cars could be banned across Britain by 2040, under radical Liberal Democrat plans to tackle climate change.
A Couple of Electric Vehicles Available in Australia
http://stevegloor.typepad.com/sgloor/2007/07/a-couple-of-ele.html
On your bike: Cycling soars in London
http://www.theecologist.org/news_detail.asp?content_id=974
Ecologist online, 02/07/2007
As the UK looks forward to the Tour de France's launch in London and Kent next weekend new figures from Transport for London show that Londoners now make an average of 480,000 journeys a day by bike, an increase of 83% since 2000.
Google pushes 100-mpg car
http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/19/news/economy/google_plugin
Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com, June 19 2007
Google said Tuesday it is getting in on the development of electric vehicles, awarding $1 million in grants and inviting applicants to bid for another $10 million in funding to develop plug-in hybrid electric vehicles capable of getting 70 to 100 miles per gallon.
Transport: Cutting greenhouse emissions can start in simple ways
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/cutting-emissions-can-start-in-simple-ways/
2007/03/29/1174761660077.html
Nicholas Low, the Age, March 30, 2007
We can wait for technological advance to come up with "the golden bullet" — the hydrogen car, nuclear power stations or clean coal. Or we can get on with the job of reducing carbon emissions right now with what works.
Time is ripe to push for free public transport
http://www.sundayherald.com/oped/opinion/display.var.1284334.0.
time_is_ripe_to_push_for_free_public_transport.php
Sunday Herald (Scotland), 25 March 2007
Scotland could create a publicly owned, expanded, green, clean, fast, efficient and free public transport network which would be the best in the world for less than £1bn.
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