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Posts in January 2007

• Meanwhile, on the Hill…

  Andy Rowell

  Jan31

  Reporting back from Senator Boxer’s first hearing as chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which included in-person or written statements (all of which will be made publicly available by the Committee) from approximately a third of the Senate on the topic of global warming:

• Bush Administration Accused of Doctoring Climate Reports

  Andy Rowell

  Jan31

  Poor old George. One week he tries to paint himself green, and manages to mention climate change for the first time in his State of the Union address. The next week, his administration is accused of systemic tampering with the work of government climate scientists to eliminate politically inconvenient material about global warming.

• “Curse of Oil” Fuels Corruption in Nigeria

  Andy Rowell

  Jan31

  A leading candidate in Nigeria’s upcoming presidential elections has attacked the country’s foreign-dominated oil industry for fuelling corruption. “Corruption has been worse with oil because oil has brought more money,” said the former Nigerian military strongman General Muhammadu Buhari, who is running a presidential campaign based on an anti-corruption platform.

• Global Cool’s Ten Year Fight to Save the Planet

  Andy Rowell

  Jan31

  “Global Cool” officially launched its 10-year campaign to “defeat” climate change yesterday in London and LA. It is calling on one billion people to reduce their carbon emissions by just one tonne a year, for the next 10 years, so avoiding the “climatic tipping point”.

• US Wind Power Capacity Jumps

  Andy Rowell

  Jan30

  Wind power generating capacity increased by 27 percent in 2006 and is expected to increase an additional 26 percent in 2007, proving wind is now a mainstream option for new power generation, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). The U.S. wind energy industry installed 2,454 megawatts (MW) of new generating capacity in 2006,…
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• Big Oil Sees New “Gold Rush” In the Melting Arctic

  Andy Rowell

  Jan30

  There is something of the ironic here. At the same time as scientists are meeting in Paris to put their final touches to the latest IPCC a report (which is warning over accelerated warming and melting), experts are meeting in Norway to discuss the future of the Arctic – one of its biggest threats is…
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• Glacial Melting Accelerating

  Andy Rowell

  Jan30

  Something of a melting ice feel to start this morning. Mountain glaciers are shrinking three times faster than they were in the 1980s, according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), which continuously studies a sample of 30 glaciers around the world. The acceleration is due to climate change.

• IPCC: Climate Change Worse than Previously Thought

  Andy Rowell

  Jan29

  Blair may be saying that a deal on climate could be in the pipeline, but every day our politicians dither, the science gets stronger. No more so than the latest report from 2000 of the world’s leading climate scientists, who argue that the effects of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide are being felt now on…
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• Shell Faces New Accounting Crisis

  Andy Rowell

  Jan29

  The oil giant Shell faces a new accounting crisis as the ramifications become clear of its December renegotiation with the Russian authorities over its stake in the Sakhalin 2 joint venture. The company may be forced to cut oil and gas reserves on its books by up to a billion barrels after the halving of…
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• Blair: New Climate Deal on Table

  Andy Rowell

  Jan29

  He may be seen as a lame-duck Prime Minister in his last few months in office, but when Tony Blair closed the World Economic Forum in Davos, he held out hopes for a major breakthrough on a post-Kyoto climate-change accord as his crowning achievement of ten years in office.