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China takes lead in clean energy, with aggressive state aid. Until very recently, Hunan Province was known mainly for lip-searing spicy food, smoggy cities and destitute pig farmers. Now, Changsha and two adjacent cities are emerging as a center of clean energy manufacturing. New York Times. 9 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Food crisis worsens in central Africa. Torrential rains and flash floods that swept through cities and villages in Central Africa in late August have intensified a food crisis in the region, leaving upwards of 10 million people suffering from severe food shortages, the United Nations and relief organizations warned last week. New York Times. 8 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Weird weather in a warming world. In the end, there are two climate threats: one created by increasing human vulnerability to calamitous weather, the other by human actions, particularly emissions of warming gases, that relentlessly shift the odds toward making today’s weather extremes tomorrow’s norm. New York Times. Opinion, 8 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Germany extends nuclear plant's life. The German government has decided to extend the life spans of the country’s 17 nuclear plants while alternative energy sources are developed, a move that is also likely to create windfalls for both power companies and strained government coffers. New York Times. 7 September 2010. [Registration Required]
His corporate strategy? The scientific method. The scientific rebel J. Craig Venter created headlines when he announced in May that his team had created what, with a bit of stretching, could be called the first synthetic living creature. Now he wants to create creatures – bacteria, algae or even plants – to carry out industrial tasks and displace fossil fuels. New York Times. 5 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Gas cars could get 74 m.p.g. by 2035, researcher says. A new report from a University of Michigan researcher estimates that, even without going electric, U.S. cars and trucks could achieve an average efficiency of 74 miles per gallon by 2035. New York Times. 4 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Another item for climate panel’s to-do list. A committee convened by the InterAcademy Council, delivered a long to-do list to the IPCC. Recommendations included limiting the term and policy recommendations of its leadership and fostering more transparency in its machinations. New York Times. Opinion, 4 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Report says heat, not smart meters, hiked bills. After Pacific Gas & Electric, the giant California utility, began installing smart meters in the state’s Central Valley, the company was swamped with complaints from residents that their utility bills had increased. But one study attributes the higher bills to the heat, not the meters. New York Times. 3 September 2010. [Registration Required]
China sustains blunt ‘You first’ message on CO2. Yu Qingtai, China’s lead negotiator in climate talks from 2007 through the conference in Copenhagen last December, said that China’s national interests will always come first; and in any move toward binding steps for reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases, rich countries must go first. New York Times. Opinion, 3 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Protest shuts down oil rig off Greenland. Greenpeace halted exploratory drilling by a Scottish oil firm off the coast of Greenland on Tuesday after four protesters scaled an oil rig and suspended tents from its underside. New York Times. 2 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Bill Gates on R&D, a carbon tax and China’s climate role. Bill Gates, the software innovator and development philanthropist who has recently championed a big research push to advance non-polluting energy choices, weighs in with some new thoughts after reading a critique of his thesis by Richard Rosen of the Tellus Institute. New York Times. Opinion, 2 September 2010. [Registration Required]
French Champagne makers try for greener bottle. The Champagne industry has embarked on a drive to cut the 200,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide it emits every year transporting billions of tiny bubbles around the world. Producing and shipping accounts for nearly a third of Champagne’s carbon emissions, with the hefty bottle the biggest offender. New York Times. 1 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Homeowners must pay off energy improvement loans. Many homeowners who participated in a program that let them repay the cost of solar panels and other energy improvements through an annual surcharge on their property taxes must now pay off the loans before they can refinance their mortgages. New York Times. 1 September 2010. [Registration Required]
New warnings about costs of nuclear power. As anticipation grows about a possible renaissance for the nuclear power industry - and about its potential for curbing greenhouse gas emissions - some politicians are stepping up warnings about the high cost of such projects. New York Times. 1 September 2010. [Registration Required]
A warming contrarian calls for a global tax. Bjorn Lomborg’s latest book, “Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits,” is unlikely to bolster his popularity among those opposed to drastic immediate action to curb greenhouse gas emissions, as it calls for a global tax on carbon dioxide emissions. New York Times. 1 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Australian leader wins support from Greens. Prime Minister Julia Gillard scored the first victory in the contest to end Australia’s parliamentary deadlock on Wednesday, winning a formal assurance from the Greens Party that it will support her bid for a further three-year term if she supports a renewed focus on climate change. New York Times. 1 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Cleaner cars, A to D. Proposed stickers for vehicles would make it easier to see whether you're buying a fuel-efficient one or a guzzler. The stickers are a symbol of how far this country has come in providing a wider range of environmentally responsible choices to help ensure cleaner air and a healthier planet. New York Times. Editorial, 1 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Banks make a shift toward greener lending. After years of legal entanglements arising from environmental messes and increased scrutiny of banks that finance the dirtiest industries, several large commercial lenders are taking a stand on industry practices that they regard as risky to their reputations and bottom lines. New York Times. 31 August 2010. [Registration Required]
New stickers will go beyond M.P.G. in rating cars. The Obama administration proposed on Monday two alternatives to the window stickers in new vehicles, including one that would assign letter grades for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions. New York Times. 31 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Review finds flaws in U.N. climate panel structure. The U.N. needs to revise the way it manages its assessments of climate change, with the scientists involved more open to alternative views, more transparent about possible conflicts of interest and more careful to avoid making policy prescriptions, an independent review panel said Monday. New York Times. 31 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Climate change and the wealth of nations. I am very fearful about the poor, desperate nations and climate change. In a sense, the ability of all of humankind to weather climate change depends on whether Asia, Africa and South America get richer before they get hotter. A lot of lives depend on their winning that race. New York Times. Opinion, 31 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Cap-and-trade is raising concerns. Opponents of offsetting have likened the system to the kind of financial engineering on Wall Street that helped precipitate the recent banking crisis. They say the offsetting encouraged by the Kyoto Protocol encourages profiteering, with little or no value in efforts to curb climate change. New York Times. 30 August 2010. [Registration Required]
The urgent islands. If a country sinks beneath the sea, is it still a country? That is a question about which the Republic of the Marshall Islands - a Micronesian nation of 29 low-lying coral atolls - is now seeking expert legal advice. New York Times. Editorial, 30 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Drought in Russia ripples beyond the wheat fields. Early reports from Russia’s harvest indicate that yields of wheat and barley are down sharply, as predicted after a major drought here this summer that has helped send global wheat prices up sharply since June. New York Times. 28 August 2010. [Registration Required]
A sticky climate protest. Climate change protest is becoming a sticky business in Britain. New York Times. 28 August 2010. [Registration Required]
The price of wheat. Wheat production may normalize. But unless climate change is forestalled, the next worrying harvest could be around the corner. New York Times. Editorial, 28 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Pacific hot spells shifting as predicted in human-heated world. Federal researchers have published work concluding that a particular variant of the periodic El Niño warmups of the tropical Pacific Ocean is becoming more frequent and stronger. The pattern appears to fit what is expected from human-driven warming of the global climate. New York Times. Opinion, 28 August 2010. [Registration Required]
A way of life swept away on a current. Across India, beaches – and, with them, villages and professions and human lives – are disappearing. The scale of the unfolding disaster is overwhelming. Around a quarter of India’s population live along the coast. Their plight will be exacerbated by the predicted rise in sea levels due to global warming. New York Times. 27 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Wind turbine projects run into resistance. The United States military has found a new menace hiding here in the vast emptiness of the Mojave Desert in California: wind turbines. New York Times. 27 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Mercedes-Benz to produce 500 E-Cell A-Class electric cars. Mercedes-Benz, as part of its collaboration with Tesla Motors, will produce 500 battery-powered “E-Cell” versions of its small A-Class, introducing the car at the Paris auto show in October. New York Times. 27 August 2010. [Registration Required]
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