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Posts in July 2006

• Q: Why is it So Hot Today? A: Its Climate Change

  Andy Rowell

  Jul19

  Its 100F in California and it could well be over 100 degrees in London today. As we all wilt in the heat, everyone is asking is this climate change? The Independent in its front page thinks so. “Temperature set to hit 100 degrees – and global warming is to blame”, says one of the headlines…
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• Reporting Live from Sakhalin: Big Oil’s New Frontier

  Andy Rowell

  Jul18

  Over the next few days, Oil Change will be bringing you an exclusive blog by Rich Cookson, a British journalist who is visiting the oil and gas developments at Sakhalin Island off Russia’s east coast (see map). Rich writes: “In the sea off Sakhalin Island in the far east of Russia, the giant legs of…
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• The End of the Amazon

  Andy Rowell

  Jul18

  As if the UN Heritage Committee (see below) needed any further proof to act, British climate scientists are warning that the Amazon could disappear by the end of the Century because of climate change. New research from the world-renown Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, part of the Met Office, has shown how vulnerable…
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• U.N: Climate Change A Threat But Let’s Not Do Anything About it

  Andy Rowell

  Jul18

  After years of delay, the bumbling U.N. World Heritage Committee has finally recognized global warming as a threat to natural and cultural heritage sites. But, wait for it, having made the momentous decision, it has decided not to endorse CO2 cuts or even add places such as Mount Everest and Montana’s Glacier National Park to…
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• Ford: $2 Billion Investment to Develop “Green” Vehicles

  Andy Rowell

  Jul17

  The troubled car giant Ford has announced that it will spend nearly $2 billion on “green” technologies across its full range of vehicles, including Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo. Under the plans, its best-selling Ford Focus will be able to deliver 70 miles per gallon with vastly reduced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Lewis Booth, Ford’s…
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• Greens Slam G8 on Nukes and Climate

  Andy Rowell

  Jul16

  The G8′s Plan of Action on Global Energy Security is under fire from multiple directions, including Greenpeace, who argue the Plan will promote the proliferation of nuclear energy and weapons, the GRACE Policy Institute, who argue the Plan’s provisions for fuel efficiency and renewables don’t go far enough, and Oil Change International, who can’t understand…
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• G8 Leaders Play Russian Roulette with Climate Chaos:

  Andy Rowell

  Jul16

  G8 Leaders released today a Communique and Plan of Action on Global Energy Security that will increase public support for the oil and fossil fuel industry and fuel global warming. The Plan, which emerges from the G8 Summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia, seeks to “create”, “maintain”, “encourage”, “expand” and “develop” hydrocarbon production, processing and transportation…
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• BTC: An Epic Feat of Engineering?

  Andy Rowell

  Jul14

  It is “an epic feat of construction” that has been “has been hailed as the first engineering wonder of the 21st century”. This is how the right wing Daily Telegraph describes the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline that opened yesterday. At the ceremony yesterday yesterday attended by heads of state and hundreds of dignitaries, Lord Browne, the chief…
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• Blair Wants G8 to Expand to G13 As British Warn of Risk to Africa From Climate Change

  Andy Rowell

  Jul13

  Britain’s Department for International Development, or DfID, will warn today that climate change could wipe out any benefits from measures to help Africa agreed by the G8 at Gleneagles last year. DfID’s first White Paper for five years, says: ” What is clear is that Africa appears to have some of the greatest burdens of…
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• New Report Shows Oil Prices Overwhelming the Benefits of Debt Cancellation!

  Andy Rowell

  Jul12

  Rising oil prices are overwhelming the benefits of debt cancellation and threatening to deepen the debt crisis. This is the message of a new policy briefing released today by Oil Change International and the Jubilee USA Network (to view the press release click here). The brief outlines the urgent need to challenge G-8 plans to…
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