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Mr. Deregulation's regulations
White House maxim: With an election approaching, even a president who came to office assailing government regulation cannot do too much to protect consumers. New York Times. 31 December 2003.
King coal is back
With natural gas supplies stretched thin, and the Bush administration loosening environmental regulations, energy companies are turning their attention back to coal. High Country News. 28 December 2003.
Evacuation of mountain slide areas considered
Because of the potential for further loss of life, authorities said they were considering evacuating the canyons — during heavy rains — below areas stripped of vegetation in the October and November wildfires in San Bernardino County. Los Angeles Times, California. 28 December 2003.
Soot 'makes global warming worse'.
The effects of soot in changing the climate are more than most scientists acknowledge, two US researchers say. But they say greenhouse gases were the chief cause of last century's global warming, and will probably remain so. BBC. 23 December 2003.
Researchers say diesel soot is a global climate factor.
Soot, mostly from diesel engines, is blocking snow and ice from reflecting sunlight, which is contributing to "near worldwide melting of ice" and as much as a quarter of all observed global warming, top NASA scientists say. USA Today. 23 December 2003.
Soot worse for global warming than thought
Soot particles may be twice as bad as the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in contributing to global warming. The findings could be good news on climate as soot emissions may be easier to cut than carbon dioxide. New Scientist. 23 December 2003.
A dirty secret is out on glacial meltdown
Snow all over the globe, from Alaska to the Alps to the Arctic, contains enough black soot to speed up its melting. This could not only contribute to glacial shrinking, but could also be the cause of up to a quarter of the global warming seen in the past century. 23 December 2003.
Drought has west in chokehold
After five years of distressingly low rain and snowfall, a drought is hammering the West harder than ever, causing multibillion-dollar economic losses and prompting unprecedented measures in many states to cope with less water. Los Angeles Times, California. 22 December 2003.
Cabinet Making: Bush should press for elevating status of EPA
What do the United States, Libya, Myanmar and Peru have in common? They're among the 10 countries that lack Cabinet-level environmental agencies. Dallas Morning News, Texas. Editorial, 22 December 2003.
Nothing virtual about global warming
President Bush recently chided Saddam Hussein for his cowardly attempt to hide, saying that "when the heat got on, you dug yourself a hole and you crawled in it." These same words also describe the attempts by Bush and friends to evade the issue of global warming. It's time for them to crawl out of their hole. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington. 19 December 2003.
The politics of nature
The role of science in forging environmental policy has grown into a central controversy of Bush's presidency. Critics say that although Bush vowed to "rely on the best of evidence before deciding," many of his policies dismiss the scientific recommendations of federal agencies. Chicago Tribune, Illinois. 19 December 2003.
Atlantic's salt balance poses threat, study says
The delicate salt balance of the Atlantic Ocean has altered so dramatically in the last four decades through global warming that it is changing the very heat-conduction mechanism of the ocean and stands to turn Northern Europe into a frigid zone. Toronto Globe and Mail, Ontario. 18 December 2003.
Foes say Bush plan would create 'debating society over science'.
Critics call it a back-door attempt to stifle new health and environmental regulations by burying them under mountains of discussion and analysis. They also contend the process is also designed to produce conclusions slanted toward industry. Baltimore Sun, Maryland. 18 December 2003.
This year will be world's third hottest on record
This year will be the planet's third warmest on record, continuing a run of years with average temperatures higher than at any time in the past millennium. London Financial Times, United Kingdom. 17 December 2003.
PM's green credentials are fading
What famous Canadian said: "we will need to abandon the very concept of waste" by shifting from a linear economy, with waste and pollution as end products, to a closed-loop system, patterned after nature, where no waste or pollution is generated? Toronto Globe and Mail, Ontario. 16 December 2003.
Danger
Several new scientific studies warn that coal and other fossil fuels pose ever-worse threats of global warming peril. America shouldn’t stand alone as a champion of pollution. We hope West Virginia’s members of Congress demand more honest inquiry into this far-reaching threat. Charleston Gazette, West Virginia. Editorial, 16 December 2003.
Climate change
Earth is warming, and the environmental changes--largely attributable to greenhouse gases--are dramatic and potentially dangerous in the Arctic. Chemical & Engineering News. 15 December 2003.
Japan leads the charge in fuel cell applications
Japanese companies are leading the way in fuel-cell research, becoming the first to launch prototypes of the technology for use in laptop computers and mobile phones. Agence France-Presse. 15 December 2003.
Policies put polluters before public health
President Bush's energy bill was blocked by the Senate just before Thanksgiving, and the nation should be grateful. Melbourne Florida Today, Florida. Editorial, 13 December 2003.
Forecast: Rain, drought.
Weather forecasters are predicting a mix of tropical downpours and drought as the South Pacific feels the effects of global warming. Pacific climatologists, who ended a four-day meeting in Auckland yesterday, said the warming was already producing more pronounced weather extremes. Auckland New Zealand Herald. 12 December 2003.
It is one of mankind's final frontiers, a place of extreme cold and extraordinary beauty
But the North Pole's icecap is thawing fast. And many of us will live to see it disappear altogether. Why the North Pole is doomed. London Independent, United Kingdom. 11 December 2003.
2003 climate havoc 'cost $60bn'
Senior UN official Klaus Toepfer said climate change was a reality that would increasingly lead to human suffering and economic hardship. Natural disasters, mostly caused by extreme weather, cost more than $60bn this year alone. BBC. 11 December 2003.
White House attacked for letting states lead on climate
Several times at the talks now going on in Milan over a global warming treaty, Bush administration officials have portrayed states' actions to curb heat-trapping gases as evidence of American resolve. But officials in many of those same states are strongly criticizing the administration's statements, saying their efforts are no substitute for federal action. New York Times. 11 December 2003.
At heart, green politics is still politics
The most eye-catching and effective radical politics continues to come from the environmental movement. It is the UN's warning that global warming threatens the Western middle class' ski resorts in the Alps and the Rockies that captures the headlines, and no issue unites such universal condemnation as US President George W. Bush not signing the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Taipei Times, Taiwan. Opinion, 11 December 2003.
Death by warming: Threatened Inuit appeal for help at UN climate talks
Locked in a battle to save their culture from death by climate change, the Inuit, the ethnic minority of the world's northern polar regions, are pleading for help at the UN's environment conference here. Agence France-Presse. 11 December 2003.
Climate change doubles Britain's stormy weather
Britain has become twice as stormy in the past 50 years as climate change has forced the deep depressions that used to hit Iceland further south. London Guardian, United Kingdom. 10 December 2003.
If an oak eats CO2 in a forest, who gets the emissions credit?
On the same afternoon this fall that the Senate was debating whether to force U.S. companies to cut their carbon-dioxide emissions, Gary Kaster was tromping around dirt fields here in the Mississippi River Delta, hunting for a cheap way to help get the nation's power industry off the global-warming hook. Wall Street Journal. 10 December 2003.
Climate scientists zoom in on changes
Just like everything else in and around New York — from the quality of the schools to crime rates and taxes — global warming and climate change over the coming century will affect people and their health differently depending on where they live. New York Times. 9 December 2003.
The four degrees: How Europe's hottest summer shows global warming is transforming our world
It was the summer, scientists now realise, when global warming at last made itself unmistakably felt. London Independent, United Kingdom. 8 December 2003.
Demand for 'Kyoto tax' on the US
Countries refusing to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases should face trade sanctions, according to a British independent think-tank. BBC. 8 December 2003.
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