-
asahi.com????????Global warming to hit Japan hard – English
Damage caused by global warming will cost Japan at least an extra 11 trillion yen each year by the end of the century, even if carbon emissions are halved by 2050
11 trillion yen = €81 bn
-
Auto Executives Back Obama’s Emissions Plan – US News and World Report
By 2016, the proposed rule says, the entire American car and light truck fleet must be nearly 40 percent more fuel efficient than it is today. That means standards for cars and light-duty trucks will have to jump from the current laboratory average of 25 mpg to 35.5 mpg. (When cars are driven on the road, the actual miles per gallon drop by about 25 percent.)
Many top auto executives were on hand for the event, so the new proposal has the industry’s formal backing. But it didn’t come easily or quickly
-
Boulder residents plan Monday rally against coal : Science and Environment : Boulder Daily Camera
If Boulder is serious about meeting the goal it set in 2002 when city leaders agreed to meet the Kyoto Protocol — reducing greenhouse gas emissions 7 percent below 1990 levels — it’s time for city officials to play hardball in their negotiations with Xcel Energy.
-
Hawaii Says Aloha (Greetings) to Clean, Renewable Energy: Scientific American
Hawaii signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) that would make the Aloha State the country’s most aggressive in pursuing renewable energy. By 2030, it plans to obtain 70 percent of its power from clean energy
-
British supermarkets accused over destruction of Amazon rainforest | Environment | The Guardian
British supermarkets are driving rapid destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using meat from farms responsible for illegal deforestation, according to a three-year investigation of the global trade in Brazilian cattle products.
-
Australian solar and geothermal cheaper than coal and nuclear
The average Australian household could pay up to 30 per cent more per year by 2025 for electricity generated from coal and nuclear power than from concentrating solar and hot dry rock geothermal power, according to clean energy organisation DESERTEC-Australia.
-
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Ranchers driving wind revolution
Texan cattle rancher Mike Baca seems an unlikely evangelist for the American green revolution.
When he voices a visceral dislike of the “Washington liberals” there seems to be little hint of the environmentalist beneath the cowboy hat and saucer-sized belt-buckle.
But Mike is proof that renewable energy now unites the partisan debate on climate change.
-
160 Syrian villages deserted ‘due to climate change’ – Yahoo! News
Some 160 villages in northern Syria were deserted of their residents in 2007 and 2008 because of climate change, according to a study released on Tuesday
-
Leo Hickman: Burger King’s climate change whopper | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Would you like a side order of climate denial with your flame-broiled Triple Whopper? If so, then you need to get yourself over to Tennessee where a number of Burger King franchises in the US state that gave us Al Gore have been displaying “Global Warming is Baloney” signs outside their fast-food restaurants.
-
Study finds climate change boosts Tex storm flood risk | Industries | Energy | Reuters
Climate change over the next 20 to 70 years can be expected to increase hurricane flooding in Corpus Christi, Texas, home of three U.S. refineries, according to a study by Texas A&M University
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.