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Climate change media to 27 January 2009
ENERGY & INNOVATION-------------
'One million jobs in wind power' by 2010
Terry Macalister, guardian.co.uk, 20 January 2009
One million people will be employed in the world wind-power industry by the end of the decade, despite the impact of the financial crisis, it was forecast today.
Worldwide race to make better batteries
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/01/22/worldwide-race-to-make-better-batteries/
Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor, 22 January 2009
Down in his basement laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech?nology, Donald Sadoway and his students are hunting for the perfect battery.
Top 7 alternative energies listed
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16419-top-7-alternative-energies-listed.html
Catherine Brahic, New Scientist, 14 January 2009
World's toughest wind turbines set to make debut off Germany's coast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/23/wind-turbines
Alok Jha, guardian.co.uk, 23 January 2009
Unique offshore wind turbines optimised for use at sea boast new waterproofing system and a simplified and lighter design
POLITICS & POLICY---------
•• An open letter to President Obama on how to make the climate challenge real and urgent to Americans
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/1/19/135710/112
Ken Ward, Gristmill, 21 January 2009
350 is the wrong target
http://climatecodered.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html
David Spratt, 22 January 2009
If targets should put the science before the politics, then...
'Climate hope' in economic plans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7851227.stm
Richard Black, BBC News, 26 January 2009
Economic stimulus packages unveiled around the world show leaders are taking the environment seriously, says the UN's top climate official.
OBAMA SPEECH
Obama Announces Plans to Achieve Energy Independence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601147_pf.html
Emissions pathway to return global warming beneath 1 degree Celsius
http://www.climateshifts.org/?p=1038
Chris McGrath, climateshifts, 22 January 2009
Leading climate scientist Bill Hare has published the first emissions pathway to date that brings expected global warming beneath 1°C, albeit after peaking beneath 2°C.
Launch green economic revolution now, says Stern
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16433-launch-green-economic-revolution-now-says-stern.html
Catherine Brahic, New Scientist, 21 January 2009
Never mind the downturn, a green economic revolution must be launched within months, one of the world's top economists has told New Scientist.
Congo rainforest given hope as deals cancelled
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/congo-rainforest-given-hope-as-deals-cancelled-1482768.html
Daniel Howden, the Independent, 21 January 2009
The Congo rainforest, the second largest tropical forest in the world, has been handed a temporary lifeline after two-thirds of timber concessions were cancelled this week.
Turnbull's carbon capture plan 'props up polluters'
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/24/2473676.htm
ABC News, 24 January 2009
The Greens are outraged that the federal Opposition's new climate change policy includes subsidising the construction of two new coal-fired power stations.
SCIENCE & IMPACTS-----------
•• New evidence on Antarctic warming
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7843186.stm
Richard Black, BBC News, 21 January 2009
The continent of Antarctica is warming up in step with the rest of the world, according to a new analysis.
AND
Scientists solve enigma of Antarctic 'cooling'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/21/global-warming-antarctica
WHAT THE AUTHORS SAY
State of Antarctica: red or blue?
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/01/state-of-antarctica-red-or-blue/langswitch_lang/sw
Antarctic Sea Creatures Hypersensitive to Warming
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=6733944
ALister Doyle, ABC News, 26 January 2009
Reindeer herding, indigenous people and climate change
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/01/reindeer-herding-indigenous-people-and-climate-change/
RealClimate, 24 January 2009
The Sámi are keenly aware about climate change, and are thus concerned about their future. Hence, the existence of the International Polar Year (IPY) project called EALÁT involving scientists, Sámi from Norway/Sweden/Finland, as well as Nenets from Russia.
NASA study links severe storm increases, global warming
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_11539060
Pasadena Star News, 23 January 2009
The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics - the type associated with severe storms and rainfall - is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge.
Climate change has doubled forest mortality
http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/trees/climate-change-has-doubled-forest-mortality
Douglas Fischer, Daily Climate, 22 January 2009
The death rate of the most stable and resilient forests in western North America has doubled during the past few decades as the climate has warmed, according to research to be published Friday.
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Tree Deaths Double in Pine Forests in Western U.S., Canada
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=awISWUdE.YSA&refer=canada Jeremy van Loon and Randall Hackley, Bloomberg, 23 January 2009
Old-growth forests once studded with pine, hemlock and fir trees are dying across the western U.S. and Canada at double the rate of a half-century ago in what scientists are blaming on climate change.
BUT
Congo rainforest given hope as deals cancelled
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/congo-rainforest-given-hope-as-deals-cancelled-1482768.html
•• Some climate damage already irreversible
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090126.wgreenhousedamage0126/BNStory/Science/home
Associated Press, January 26, 2009
Many damaging effects of climate change are already basically irreversible, researchers declared Monday, warning that even if carbon emissions can somehow be halted temperatures around the globe will remain high until at least the year 3000.
MEDIA RELEASE
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090126_climate.html
Living on thin ice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/25/melting-arctic-north-pole-explorers
Juliette Jowit, The Observer, 25 January 2009
In a single year, the Arctic lost an area the size of Alaska. So how long before it melts altogether? Juliette Jowit meets the British explorers risking their lives to find out.
Global warming will create ocean dead zones
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24963717-11949,00.htm
The Aiustralian, 26 January 2009
GLOBAL warming may create "dead zones" in the ocean that would be devoid of fish and seafood and endure for up to two millennia, according to a study published yesterday.
SUSTAINABILITY----------------
Warming Trends Alter Conservation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/24/AR2009012401728.html?hpid=topnews
Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, January 25, 2009
As climate change begins to transform the environment, policymakers and environmentalists are realizing that the old paradigm of setting aside tracts of land or sea to preserve species that might otherwise disappear is no longer sufficient.
VIDEO--------------
CPRS: The community response
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgr6Za0C5Qs
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