James G. Workman (June 17) — In his Oval Office speech on the BP oil spill, President Barack Obama tried to harness our pent-up outrage over the 2.5 million gallons of crude spewing daily into the Gulf of Mexico — a sickening amount equal to an Exxon Valdez every four days — to wean the [...]
Silicon Valley Rocks Climate World With New Breed of Software
By CHRISTA MARSHALL of ClimateWire Only a few years ago, businesses wanting to track their greenhouse gas emissions had few choices. Their main option was a simple spreadsheet with pages and pages of numbers. Now, companies and governments can turn to software that allows them to input emissions data, analyze it in fancy charts and [...]
Climate change sceptics and lobbyists put world at risk, says top adviser
By David Adam, environment correspondent, writes for The Guardian Climate change sceptics and fossil fuel companies that have lobbied against action on greenhouse gas emissions have squandered the world’s chance to avoid dangerous global warming, a key adviser to the government has said. Professor Bob Watson, chief scientist at the department for environment and rural [...]
Asia, Africa Are ‘More Vulnerable’ to Climate Change
By Dinakar Sethuraman for Bloomberg Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — Developing nations in South Asia and Africa including India may face greater threats from heat- trapping pollution if nations fail to reach a new climate agreement at Copenhagen, a United Nations official said. “The unfortunate coincidence is that developing countries are located in the tropical belt [...]
China and U.S. Try to Speed Global Climate Strategy
By MICHAEL WINES for the NY Times… BEIJING — Senior American and Chinese officials urged their governments on Thursday to accelerate joint efforts to reduce pollution, even as their diplomats appeared at odds over crucial elements of a global strategy to fight climate change to be considered in Copenhagen in December. The calls for cooperation, [...]
Draining paddy fields could cut methane from rice production
From The Ecologist The organic waste and lack of oxygen in water-covered paddy fields provide a fertile feeding ground for certain types of greenhouse-gas-producing bacteria. Global rice production accounts for as much as 25 million tonnes a year of methane. But experts at the Chinese Academy of Science have found that draining rice paddies once [...]
