As thousands of people get ready to fly off for the Easter break, a leading British think-tank is arguing that adverts for flights, holidays and cars should carry tobacco-style health warnings to combat the public’s “addiction” to polluting transport and reduce climate change. The Institute for Public Policy Research said highly visible warnings, such as … Read More
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IPCC Cites Humans in Climate Impacts
The New York Times reports that the latest IPCC report to be released today has found with “high confidence” that greenhouse gas emissions are at least partly responsible for a host of changes already under way, including longer growing seasons and shrinking glaciers. The report said there was at least a 90 percent chance that … Read More
New European Pipeline Planned
The European Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has signed an agreement with five southern European countries to build a pipeline which will transport oil directly from the Black Sea to central European markets. The Pan-European Oil Pipeline is aimed at linking the Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania to the oil hub of Trieste, Italy. The … Read More
Palm Oil: A Disaster Biofuel
Concerned about the planet? Thinking of running your car on biofuel? Well think again.. Within 15 years 98% of the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia will be gone, as they are torn down in the rush to boost palm oil production for biofuels. With them will disappear some of the world’s most important wildlife species. … Read More
Bush: I Have Done Enough on Climate
A day after the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the authority to regulate greenhouse gases, President Bush said he thought that the measures he had taken so far were sufficient. Mr. Bush made it clear that he thought his proposal to increase automobile fuel efficiency was sufficient for the moment; he gave … Read More
Peak “Will be 2020” – One More Opinion
Development of the remaining untapped oil reserves will push world production to its ultimate peak as early as 2020, before a long, slow decline begins near mid-century, according to petroleum geologists, speaking at their annual conference. “The peak in world oil production is not imminent, but is nevertheless foreseeable,” said Richard Nehring, an independent petroleum … Read More
Historic Supreme Court Ruling Over EPA and Emissions
It is being billed as one of the most important environmental decisions in years. It is also a severe rebuke for President Bush. A real poke in the eye, as it were. The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does have the authority to regulate greenhouse gases from automobiles.
Call for UK Firms to Quit the Niger Delta
A leading union leader from Britain’s offshore industry has called on all British oil companies to pull out of the volatile Niger Delta region until safety can be guaranteed. The call by Graham Tran, a regional officer of Amicus, one of the North Sea’s major unions, came as the search went on for a missing … Read More
Europe’s ETS Scheme Branded A Failure
Most critics of emission trading schemes argue that they do not solve the problem. Pollution permits allow people to do just that, pollute. Well figures from the EU show what a sham Europe’s emission trading scheme (ETS) is. New figures show that the ETS scheme failed to deliver the promised curbs in pollution and that … Read More
The Cruel Inequality of Climate Change
Next Friday a new report from the IPCC will underline the growing “climate divide” that is growing across the globe. The world’s richest countries, which have contributed the most to climate change, are already spending billions of dollars to limit their own risks from its worst consequences, like drought and rising seas.