German far-right extremists tap into green movement for support

Guardian: German consumers are being warned that when they buy organic produce they may be supporting the far-right movement, following the revelation that rightwing extremists in Germany have embraced the ecological movement and are using it to tap into a new generation of supporters. Debunking the popular view that equates eco-friendliness with cuddly, left-leaning greens, rightwing extremists have even begun to publish their own conservation magazine, which is believed to have the backing of the far-right...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/28/germany-far-right-green-movement
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Study: Pollution 'hid' climate warming

United Press International: U.S. researchers say pollution created a "warming hole" over eastern U.S. states, a cold patch where the effects of global warming were temporarily obscured. Climate scientists at Harvard University said particulate pollution in the late 20th century "masked" the warming of the Earth's surface in the eastern United States by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. Tiny particles in the atmosphere can have a reverse effect on regional temperature scales, they said. "What we've shown...

URL: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/04/27/Study-Pollution-hid-climate-warming/UPI-95831335561503/?spt=hs&or=sn
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It's the right rain, but the wrong month

Independent: Despite flash floods and gale-force winds battering the country, with more expected this weekend, Britain's drought worsened last week – because rain is falling in the wrong months. The UK remains on course for one of the wettest Aprils on record, with most of the country, with the exception of northern Scotland, today due to see 70mph winds and huge downpours – up to 40mm of rain in places – causing yet more flooding, traffic chaos and power cuts. Yesterday, the Met Office issued an amber...

URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/its-the-right-rain-but-the-wrong-month-7687497.html
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Eating Less Meat Is World's Best Chance For Timely Climate Change, Say Experts

Forbes: Shifting the world's reliance on fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is important, certainly. But the world's best chance for achieving timely, disaster-averting climate change may actually be a vegetarian diet, according to a recent report in World Watch Magazine. "The entire goal of today's international climate objectives can be achieved by replacing just one-fourth of today's least eco-friendly food products with better alternatives," co-author Robert Goodland, a former World Bank Group...

URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/michellemaisto/2012/04/28/eating-less-meat-is-worlds-best-chance-for-timely-climate-change-say-experts/

Ottawa cuts water surveillance amid warnings on warming

Canadian Press: Environment Canada is cutting the scope of its water surveillance, internal documents show, even as Ottawa is being publicly warned to mind the serious effects of climate change. A new report from the soon-to-be-defunct National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy warns that both business and government are dragging their feet in preparing for the inevitable effects of global warming. At the same time, an internal memo from Environment Canada shows that budget cuts will require the...

URL: http://www.thespec.com/news/canada/article/714043--ottawa-cuts-water-surveillance-amid-warnings-on-warming

EPA faces crucial climate decision on diesel made from palm oil

Washington Post: This isn't just a bit of environmental trivia. There's a fierce battle in the United States over whether the Environmental Protection Agency should allow more diesel made from palm oil to be used by U.S. refineries. Agribusiness groups are lobbying for its use. Environmentalists are trying to block it -- with some saying this could be the EPA's most important climate-change decision of the year. Here's the backstory: In 2007, Congress expanded a requirement for U.S. refineries to blend a certain...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/epa-faces-crucial-climate-decision-on-diesel-made-from-palm-oil/2012/04/27/gIQAD1THmT_story.html

Brazil: All Indications Are That Brazil President Will Veto Forestry Law Pushed by Farm Lobby

BrazillMag: Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff's top administrative aide, Gilberto Carvalho, made it clear that the Land Use Law (Código Florestal - Forestry Code) approved in the Chamber of Deputies Wednesday evening was not what the government hoped for. "It is public knowledge that we expected something similar to what was approved in the Senate. The executive branch has a constitutional right to a veto and the president will analyze the bill calmly, serenely and without animosity," declared Carvalho....

URL: http://www.brazzilmag.com/component/content/article/109-april-2012/12869-all-indications-are-that-brazil-president-will-veto-forestry-law-pushed-by-farm-lobby.html

EPA Underestimates Emissions from Palm-Based Biofuels

Triple Pundit: Scientific and environmental groups announced that they will submit comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to EPA`s proposed finding that palm oil should not qualify for inclusion in the EPA's Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) this morning. While the organizations, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, World Wildlife Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the National Wildlife Federation, agreed with the EPA's conclusion not to include palm oil, they argued...

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Unions and environmentalists: Get it together!

The National: At the height of the Keystone debate, four unions stood with the titans of the fossil fuel industry to lambaste progressive environmentalists as extremist job killers. The Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) president, Terry O'Sullivan, went so far as to describe unionists who opposed the climate-destroying pipeline as being "under the skirts of delusional environmental groups which stand in the way of creating good, much needed American jobs.' This January, when President Obama...

URL: http://www.thenation.com/article/167460/unions-and-environmentalists-get-it-together
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Warming Climate Has Caused Water Cycle to Intensify, Study Says

Yale Environment 360: A new study published in the journal Science suggests that the cycle of evaporation and rainfall over the world's oceans has accelerated 4 percent in the last half-century as a result of global warming, a development that could portend more extreme weather in the decades to come. In an analysis of salinity in the world's oceans from 1950 to 2000, scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California found that the salty areas of the ocean have gotten notably saltier, and fresher...

URL: http://e360.yale.edu/digest/warming_climate_has_caused_water_cycle_to_intensify_study_says/3440/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29
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Canada: Climate change will shape BC in 2035, one way or another

Vancouver Sun: We live on a different planet from the one our parents grew up on, says American environmentalist Bill McKibben. Climate change from our rampant combustion of fossil fuels has pushed the world into a new era of bizarre weather anomalies. In British Columbia, warming has been greater that the global average, with costly consequences, including the pine beetle epidemic, downtime for ferries and highways, raging forest fires and flooding. The big question is whether carbon emissions can be stabilized...

URL: http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Climate+change+will+shape+2035+another/6525298/story.html

Barack Obama warming to climate change task

Toronto Star: In an interview that Rolling Stone published Wednesday, President Barack Obama said he thinks climate change will be a big issue in the coming election and that he will be "very clear" about his "belief that we're going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way." That would be a welcome switch. So far, dealing forthrightly with the world's rising temperatures has been far down the list of priorities in Washington, and the president has shown little willingness...

URL: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1169530--barack-obama-warming-to-climate-change-task

Residents rise up over sea level policy

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Hundreds of waterfront property owners have marched through Gosford on the state's Central Coast to protest against their local councils' sea level policy. The large crowd of residents from the Central Coast and Lake Macquarie have waved placards and chanted, "sea level rise - one big con". They are angry at state legislation and action by their councils in response to projected sea level threats over the next 90 years. They say sea level warnings, attached to their planning certificates,...

URL: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-27/residents-rise-up-over-sea-level-policy/3975268?section=nsw

Can organic food feed the world?

ScienceDaily: Can organic agriculture feed the world? Although organic techniques may not be able to do the job alone, they do have an important role to play in feeding a growing global population while minimizing environmental damage, according to researchers at McGill University and the University of Minnesota. A new study published in Nature concludes that crop yields from organic farming are generally lower than from conventional agriculture. That is particularly true for cereals, which are staples of the...

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Peru is latest developing nation to adopt climate change initiative

Reuters: Peru became the latest developing country to enact a domestic climate change initiative in the absence of a binding global pact, adopting a resolution on Thursday to lower carbon emissions in its fast-growing economy. As one of the world's most geographically diverse places, Peru said it is already feeling the effects of a changing climate, such as melting tropical glaciers in the Andes and high levels of solar radiation. Record rainfall in the Amazon basin this year has wrecked crops, spurring...

URL: http://townhall.com/news/us/2012/04/26/peru_is_latest_developing_nation_to_adopt_climate_change_initiative

Brazil Forest Code Passes In Defeat For Dilma Rousseff

Reuters: Brazil's Congress passed a bill easing rules mandating the amount of forest that farmers must preserve, delivering a long-sought victory to the country's powerful agriculture lobby and a political defeat for President Dilma Rousseff. Though the bill will require millions of hectares of already cleared land to be replanted, environmentalists expect it will make it too easy for farmers, responsible for much of the deforestation of the Amazon and other swaths of environmentally sensitive land in...

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Africa: Rio+20 Must Tackle Leaders' Economic Concerns - Climate Expert

AlterNet: The upcoming U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro could be more positive for the environment than recent international climate summits as long as it attracts enough world leaders and tackles economic concerns as well as environmental challenges, according to a top climate expert. Saleemul Huq of the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) told AlertNet that Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff must convince other heads of government that...

URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/201204260436.html

India: Tribal Farming Beats Climate Change

Inter Press Service: Tribal farmer Harish Saraka has rediscovered the key to sustainable farming in this rain-dependent hinterland of eastern Odisha state – mixed cropping. Saraka, 38, is careful not to take credit for helping to turn around farming in this area, in the news just a decade ago for starvation deaths. "All we are doing is returning to our grandfathers' practices," says this member of the Kondh tribe. Saraka recalls that his forebears sowed three different seeds in the same field: millet, legume, oilseed...

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Is climate protest making a return to the UK?

Guardian: Did climate protest go away? It certainly did. By 2009 the UK had a worldwide reputation for climate action, but in the years after the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December of that year it seemed to be melting away. Climate Camp spent the summer of 2010 up in Scotland, and then decided to not to set up camp at all in 2011. Stop Climate Chaos was stripped down to a skeleton staff, and the head of Campaign Against Climate Change admitted that he was exhausted and "running out of money massively"....

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/27/climate-protest-return-uk
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Where international climate policy has failed, grassroots efforts can succeed: researchers

PhysOrg: The world can significantly slow the pace of climate change with practical efforts to control so-called "short-lived climate pollutants" and by bringing successful Western technologies to the developing world, according to three UC San Diego scientists in the journal Foreign Affairs. For the last two decades global diplomatic talks on climate change have struggled to make progress. Part of the problem, the scientists say, is that diplomacy has focused almost exclusively on carbon dioxide--a pollutant...

URL: http://phys.org/news/2012-04-international-climate-policy-grassroots-efforts.html

Climate-change debate goes on; time's run out for one nation

Toledo Blade: The Great Lakes region should heed what's happening in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, where for the first time a nation could be swallowed by rising sea levels. In what may be the first climate-induced migration of modern times, the Republic of Kiribati has begun talks with Fiji about buying 5,000 acres for its residents. Kiribati's president, Anote Tong, recently told a British newspaper there is "no way out" other than mass migration. "Our people will have to move, as the tides have...

URL: http://www.toledoblade.com/TomHenry/2012/04/26/Climate-change-debate-goes-on-time-s-run-out-for-one-nation.html

Hansen Had It Right in 1981 Climate Report

Huffington Post: A recently rediscovered 1981 paper, written by NASA atmospheric physicist James Hansen and others, has been analyzed and found to be impressively accurate about the course of climate change since its publication. The 10-page paper (available at this link), which was published in the journal Science, had been overlooked for decades when researchers Geert Jan van Oldenborgh and Rein Haarsma from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute uncovered it and began scouring its contents. The paper's...

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-wagner/hansen-had-it-right_b_1450540.html?ref=tw

Sand mining for fracking industry devastating Wisconsin farms and woodlands

EcoWatch: The recent boom in hydrofracking for natural gas and oil has resulted in a little-reported side boom--a sand-rush in western Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota, where we just happen to have the nation`s richest, most accessible supply of the high-quality silica sand required for fracking operations. Unfortunately, most of that silica sand lies beneath our beautiful wooded hills and fertile farmland, and within agricultural and residential communities, all of which are now being ripped apart...

URL: http://ecowatch.org/2012/mining-companies-invade-wisconsin-for-frac-sand/
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Protect Our Winters mobilizing nation’s skiers, snowboarders against climate change

Associated Press: It's a big part of why Jones formed Protect Our Winters in 2007 to unite snowboarders and skiers to save what they love. Coming off a shortened ski season with weak snowfall in much of Colorado, Utah and the Northeast, there's a sense of urgency to what Protect Our Winters wants to do next -- get Congress to pay more attention to climate change. Protect Our Winters has distributed money to groups working on projects like renewable energy and climate education. Last fall, board members, including...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/protect-our-winters-mobilizing-nations-skiers-snowboarders-against-climate-change/2012/04/27/gIQAW0IjlT_story.html

Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California knocked offline by jellyfish-like creatures called salp

MSNBC: In Japan, it was a monstrous earthquake and tsunami that brought down the Fukushima nuclear plant. In California, it's a tiny, jellyfish-like sea creature called salp that's causing problems at the Diablo Canyon atomic plant. An invasion of salp has prompted Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to temporarily shut down a nuclear reactor at Diablo Canyon, in Avila Beach, San Luisa Obispo County, on the central California coast. A giant swarm of the transluscent barrel-shaped organisms this week clogged...

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Climate change isn't a plot, it's science

Canberra Times: My erstwhile travelling companion Nick Minchin argues the view in Fairfax Media today that while we can all agree on clean energy, debate on the science of climate change should continue. He states that "neither Anna, nor those whom Anna took me to meet, could convince me that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are driving dangerous global warming". With due respect to Nick, this refusal to change his mind wasn't for lack of trying -- or for lack of evidence. There are two pieces of clear,...

URL: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/political-news/climate-change-isnt-a-plot-its-science-20120427-1xpjp.html

Canada: Alberta’s Carbon Capture Efforts Set Back

Globe and Mail: The three major companies involved in a project aimed at reducing Alberta's carbon footprint have dropped out, striking a major blow to the province's efforts to combat fierce international criticism over oil sands emissions. TransAlta Corp. TA-T, along with partners Enbridge Inc. ENB-Tand Capital Power Corp. CPX-T, cancelled their $1.4-billion carbon capture and storage effort Thursday, opting to pay the penalties for emissions rather than cutting them. The project, dubbed Pioneer and tied...

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/albertas-carbon-capture-efforts-set-back/article2414965/

Carbon Price Needed to Halt Warming, NASA Chief Says

Bloomberg: Putting a price on carbon is the world's best hope at staving off runaway global warming, said James Hansen, the top climate-change scientist at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Carbon emitted from cars and factories will have to be reduced by an average of 6 percent a year to stabilize Earth's climate by the end of the century, Hansen said late yesterday in Vienna. Government subsidies to oil, gas and coal companies, worth up to $500 billion worldwide each year, have impeded...

URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-27/carbon-price-needed-to-halt-warming-nasa-chief-says.html

Oilsands producers bail on carbon capture project

Edmonton Journal: Alberta's plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions took a major hit Thursday after energy companies cancelled a $1.4-billion carbon capture and storage project because it doesn't make financial sense. TransAlta, Capital Power and Enbridge have pulled out of Project Pioneer, one of four CCS projects that together form the cornerstone of the province's efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Project Pioneer was a central part of TransAlta's plan to reduce emissions at its new Keephills 3 coal-fired power...

URL: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/energy-resources/6523712/story.html
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In Climate of Cheap Gas, Forecast for Renewable Energy Finance is Cloudy: Q&A with Michael Butler, CEO of Cascadia Capital

![][1] Cascadia Capital CEO Michael Butler knows renewable energy finance. His investment banking firm has been a key player in some of the clean technology sector's most significant transactions. His forecast for renewable energy is "near term cloudy." The rush of investments into natural gas is siphoning capital that would have gone into the renewable energy sector. Renewable energy is a viable industry long term, it's just going to take longer than we all hoped.

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Koch-backed group hits Obama on green energy program

Reuters: A conservative group backed by the billionaire Koch brothers on Thursday unveiled a $6.1 million advertising blitz in eight election swing states that accuses President Barack Obama of wasting billions of dollars on green energy. The 60-second ad from the Americans for Prosperity group accuses Obama of spending on green energy initiatives that have led to little job creation and says that some of that money has instead gone abroad. "This administration has had an obsessive focus on their global...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/27/us-usa-campaign-money-idUSBRE83Q01D20120427
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Canada: Budget kills climate accountability legislation, weakens oversight

Vancouver Sun: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has proposed the elimination of federal climate change accountability and reporting mechanisms within a law tied to the 2012 budget. The proposal was included in the new legislation of more than 400 pages, including about 150 pages that were focused mainly on "streamlining" the environmental oversight of industrial development. The legislation, meant to implement measures announced in the budget, also proposes to weaken several federal environmental laws, including...

URL: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Budget+kills+climate+accountability+legislation+weakens+oversight/6525526/story.html

Prudent Energy: World's Largest Vanadium Flow Battery Goes Online in the US.

One of the VRB system's obvious benefits is that it allows Gills Onions to reduce utility bills by storing electricity when rates are lowest and delivering that electricity during expensive peak rate periods. Electricity prices increase during high use periods, especially for six hours in the afternoon when the local utility, Southern California Edison, must call on peaking generators to meet demand. That additional cost of electricity production is passed to the customer via Time of Use (TOU) rates.

URL: http://www.green-energy-news.com/nwslnks/clips412/apr12043.html

Developing countries face up to synthetic biology challenges

SciDev.Net: As commercial synthetic biology production gathers speed, there are growing calls for greater regulation, reports Yojana Sharma. Debate about the governance of the emerging field of synthetic biology is likely to see disagreements among developing countries at a meeting of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) in Montreal, Canada, next week (30 April--5 May). While some want tighter regulation and are concerned that commercial...

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Duke Energy and Sumitomo Secure Financing for Kansas Wind Farms.

Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, announced plans on March 27 to sell a 50 percent stake in the 131-megawatt (MW) Cimarron II Windpower Project in Gray County and the 168-MW Ironwood Windpower Project in Ford County to Sumitomo.

URL: http://www.green-energy-news.com/nwslnks/clips412/apr12044.html

'Old King Coal' faces uncertain times in Virginia

Virginia Business: Coal mining took off in Virginia when the railroads arrived in the 1880s. More than 130 years later, coal still fuels Virginia`s economy. Northern Virginia`s tech sector depends on a steady supply of low-cost electricity, much of it derived from bitumen-rich Appalachian coal. And Virginia`s deepwater port in Hampton Roads - the largest coal exporting terminal in the U.S. - is a huge economic asset that neighboring coal states can only envy. Coal mining is one of Virginia`s oldest continuously...

URL: http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/news/article/old-king-coal/318629/
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Rethinking Electric Cars -- Part 7

Electric vehicle prices will drop only when new models are developed.

URL: http://www.green-energy-news.com/arch/nrgs2012/20120043.html

Are we a "hotspot" for global warming?

Tico Times: Central America accounts for only 0.5 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions, yet is considered a "hotspot" for climate-related damages in the future. Larry Luxner A road near Copán, Honduras, is destroyed by Hurricane Mitch, which devastated Honduras and Nicaragua in 1998. Experts say rising seas and fierce hurricanes will be a consequence of global warming. From the print edition WASHINGTON, D.C. – Only 15 years from now, permanent drought conditions triggered by global warming will...

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Canada: Climate advisers use dying days to tell firms, government to pull up their socks

Canadian Press: Ottawa's advisers on environment and the economy may have lost all their funding, but they're not about to retreat quietly. The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy was told in the federal budget that it had one year left to live. But until its funding runs out, president David McLaughlin says he will continue to issue its reports as usual, detailing how climate change is affecting the economy, and what governments and business should do about it. To that end, the advisory...

URL: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/government-and-business-need-to-manage-risks-of-climate-change-better-report-149210895.html
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Landsvirkjun: Europe Could Receive Renewable Energy From Iceland via Submarine Cable.

Iceland currently holds a unique position amongst European nations in its potential to increase reliable electric energy production from renewable energy resources. This increased energy production could be used to conduct business through an interconnector -- a submarine cable to Europe across the North Atlantic seabed.

URL: http://www.green-energy-news.com/nwslnks/clips412/apr12045.html

What's Profit Got To Do, Got To Do with It?

![][1] As the losses add up for leading PV industry manufacturers, and as manufacturing capacities are idled, it is important to remember that the current correction taking place the PV industry could not necessarily have been avoided. But the severity of the current climate may have been mitigated and the landing made softer if new entrants and participants had paid attention to, and learned from, PV industry history. Manufacturers in China, currently dominating industry demand at 46 percent, might have been more circumspect with capacity growth had they understood that incentives are temporary.

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California Solar Installer? Help! (Yourself and Job Security)

![][1] The good people at the Vote Solar Initiative and SEIA need about a minute of your time, and believe me, that minute will be well spent. If you already know about California's net-metering ticking clock, just click here now before it's too late. If you don't know what's happening, read on: There's a little sola

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What's Undermining Energy Efficiency?

![][1] Exhilaration swept through the energy efficiency industry as city after city, state after state and nation after nation set aggressive energy saving goals over the last several years. But with target dates nearing in certain jurisdictions, a more sober attitude now permeates. Some governments are asking: Are we reaching too high? A

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Is Lithium-ion a Borgia Battery?

![][1] I've recently learned that lithium-ion batteries might be a triple threat – Borgia batteries – cherished by eco-royalty, poisonous in the extreme, and explosive enough to wreak havoc in a $25 million laboratory that was built to safely manage battery explosions.

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BOS Series: Your New Solar Array (Actual Performance May Vary)

![][1] You just bought a large-scale solar array. The performance expectations you have for your new array, like a new car, are high. Just like the information on the window sticker that claims great gas mileage, your solar array comes with a forecast of how many MWh it should produce over its lifespan. This information is critical to your financing strategy, since this energy forecast and the cash flow it generates, are the basis for justifying the investment and the promises to your financial backers. However, how do you know that you got what you paid for? How will you know if it starts underperforming and what will you do to restore and maintain peak performance?

[1]: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com//assets/images/story/2012/3/22/1332-your-new-solar-array-actual-performance-may-vary.jpg

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How to Perform a Heat-Loss Calculation — Part 2

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Simple ways to calculate transmission losses and exfiltration losses

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To continue [last week's discussion of heat-loss calculation methods][3], let's consider a simple rectangular building, 20 feet by 30 feet, with 8-foot ceilings. Let's assume it has an 8-foot-high basement with uninsulated concrete walls; the below-grade portion of the basement is 7 feet high, with 1 foot above grade.

To keep things simple, we'll assume that the house has a flat roof, and that each side of the house has two windows (each 3 ft. by 4 ft.) and one door (3 ft. by 7 ft.). The house doesn't have a chimney.

[1]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog-river/Heat loss illustration.jpg (Heat flow)
[2]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/how-perform-heat-loss-calculation-part-2
[3]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/how-perform-heat-loss-calculation-part-1

URL: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/how-perform-heat-loss-calculation-part-2

Himalayan mountaineers call for unity in battle against climate change

Xinhua: With the conclusion of the 99-day Great Himalayan Trail (GHT) which took place in Nepal as an effort to battle the climate change, participants and organizers called for unity in facing up to climate change and its challenges. The GHT Climate Smart Celebrity Trek began on January 15 with a team led by renowned mountaineers Appa Sherpa and Dawa Steven Sherpa inviting all concerned and enthusiasts to trek along the 1700 km east-to-west Himalayan range of Nepal. The trek was aimed at spreading...

URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2012-04/26/c_131553666.htm

'Gaia' Scientist Takes Back Climate Change Predictions

LiveScience: A scientist and author, James Lovelock, who once predicted doomsdaylike fallout from climate change has backtracked, calling his own projections and those of others "alarmist." Even so, climate scientists stress Lovelock's backtracking doesn't negate the reality of climate change, and in fact, his past predictions highlight some overall misunderstanding about planetary warming. Lovelock, who introduced the Gaia Hypothesis describing life on Earth as a vast self-regulating organism some 40 years...

URL: http://news.yahoo.com/gaia-scientist-takes-back-climate-change-predictions-162747709.html

A Daunting Emissions Quest for U.S. Cities

New York Times: Carbon dioxide emissions declined by 30 percent from 1970 to 2000 in the Pittsburgh area because the economy and the population contracted. More than 1,000 American cities have voluntarily committed themselves to ambitious targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. A recent case study focusing on Allegheny County, Pa., home to Pittsburgh, highlights how hard it will be for some to meet those goals, however. At first glance, one would think that the county is on track. According to a study...

URL: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/a-daunting-emissions-quest-for-u-s-cities/
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Australia: Climate change debate has moved on

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ACCORDING TO THE Lowy Institute's annual poll, Australians are losing their conviction on climate change. The last poll, published in June 2011 showed that just 41 per cent of those polled agreed with the statement, "Global warming is a serious and pressing problem. We should begin taking steps now even if this involves significant costs" down from a whopping 68 per cent in 2006. Meanwhile, support for the statement, "Until we are sure that global warming is really a problem, we should not take...

URL: http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2012/04/26/3489733.htm

Borneo Oil Palm Plantations Threaten Surge in Emissions, Study Says

Yale Environment 360: The draining and burning of peat bogs is a major global source of CO2 emissions. Now, Fred Pearce reports, a project in Russia is looking to re-flood and restore tens of thousands of acres to their natural state. According to researchers from Yale and Stanford universities, about two-thirds of unprotected lands in the Ketapang District of West Kalimantan are now leased to agribusinesses. If those lands are converted to oil palm plantations at current expansion rates, palm stands will cover more than...

URL: http://e360.yale.edu/digest/borneo_oil_palm_plantations_threaten_surge_in_emissions_study_says/3438/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29
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Climate Change Has Intensified The Global Water Cycle

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Climate scientists have been saying for years that one of the many downsides of a warming planet is that both droughts and torrential rains are both likely to get worse. That's what climate models predict, and that's what observers have noted, most recently in the IPCC's report on extreme weather, released last month. It makes physical sense, too. A warmer atmosphere can absorb more water vapor, and what goes up must come down -- and thanks to prevailing winds, it won't come down in the same place....

URL: http://news.opb.org/article/climate_change_has_intensified_the_global_water_cycle/

Brazil's Congress OKs weakened version of forest law; environmentalists outraged

Mongabay: Brazil's Congress on Wednesday approved controversial changes to the country's Forest Code, a move supporters argue will simplify environmental laws and ease agricultural expansion, but environmentalists say will spark deforestation and grant amnesty for past illegal logging. The measure needs to be approved by President Dilma Rousseff to become law. The Forest Code reform legislation - which passed 274-184 - includes amendments that would reduce the amount of land farmers and ranchers are required...

URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0426-brazil_oks_forest_code.html
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Palm oil industry lobbies EPA to reverse palm oil biofuel findings

Mongabay: Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil processor and trader, has hired a major lobbying firm to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's ruling that palm oil-based biodiesel will not meet greenhouse gas emissions standards under America's Renewable Fuels Standard, reports The Hill. Wilmar Oleo North America hired lobbying firm Van Ness Feldman to pressure the EPA on its finding that biofuels produced from palm oil do not offer substantial emissions savings relative to conventional...

URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0426-palm_oil_epa.html
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Cambodian police shoot dead leading anti-logging campaigner

Guardian: A prominent Cambodian anti-logging activist, who helped expose a secretive state sell-off of national parks, has been shot dead by police in a remote south-western province while guiding journalists to the scene of illegal logging. A Cambodian human rights organisation, Licadho, said the confrontation occurred on Wednesday when Chut Wutty, director of the Phnom Penh-based environmental watchdog Natural Resource Protection Group, refused to hand over a memory card with photos taken in the nearby...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/26/cambodia-police-shoot-dead-antilogging-activist
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NGO: lifting sanctions on Myanmar must lead to forestry reform

Mongabay: Following historic elections, many foreign powers have relaxed or lifted sanctions against Myanmar, also known as Burma. But the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) warns that the end of sanctions presents Myanmar and the world with a choice: further plundering of the country's forests for outside markets or large-scale forestry reform. "After half a century of corruption and rule by the military and their business associates, Burma simply has no credible infrastructure through which we can...

URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0426-hance_myanmar_sanctions.html

Warm Ocean Currents Play Key Role in Melting Antarctic Ice Shelves

Yale Environment 360: Warm ocean currents are melting many of Antarctica's floating ice shelves from beneath, which in turn is speeding up the flow of land-based glaciers into the ocean and increasing global sea levels, according to a new study. An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), used 4.5 million measurements from a satellite-based laser altimeter that precisely measures the changing thickness of ice shelves. Using those readings and other data, the researchers...

URL: http://e360.yale.edu/digest/warm_ocean_currents_play_key_role_in_melting_antarctic_ice_shelves/3437/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29

Chesapeake unable to control Wyoming well due to weather

Reuters: Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s crews have delayed their attempt to control a well blowout in Wyoming until the weather improves, the company said on Thursday. Chesapeake lost control of the well near Douglas, Wyoming on Tuesday leading to a blowout that leaked natural gas and drilling mud. "We're waiting for the wind direction and speed to change," Chesapeake spokeswoman Kelsey Campbell said. She declined to specify the exact weather issues stalling the company's response to the blowout. An inspector...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/us-chesapeake-blowout-control-idUSBRE83P1CG20120426?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29

Spread of diseases linked to climate change

Financial Times: Europe is becoming a "hotspot" for emerging infections as those typically confined to tropical climates are making their way north, according to research that links climate change to the global spread of disease. Changing environmental conditions have facilitated the spread of bacteria and other carriers across borders, reports a study in the journal Science. It cited outbreaks of West Nile fever in Greece and Romania and Dengue fever in France and Croatia. Many disease vectors, such as mosquitoes...

URL: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d5c9eb4c-8fbf-11e1-beaa-00144feab49a,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fd5c9eb4c-8fbf-11e1-beaa-00144feab49a.html&_i_referer=

Obama vows to fight for climate action, make global warming a key 2012 issue

The Hill: President Obama is vowing to make the case for action on global warming during the 2012 campaign. "I suspect that over the next six months, this is going to be a debate that will become part of the campaign, and I will be very clear in voicing my belief that we're going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way," Obama told Rolling Stone magazine in a newly published interview. Obama's comments follow a first term that saw global warming legislation collapse...

URL: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/223599-obama-vows-to-fight-for-climate-action-in-campaign

Sierra Club to fight Dominion hub using 1972 deal

Reuters: The Sierra Club will try to use a 40-year-old legal settlement to scuttle plans by Dominion Resources Inc to convert a liquefied natural gas terminal in Maryland into a major export hub. The environmental group, which opposes the export terminal as part of its wider fight against natural gas drilling from shale deposits, can weigh in on certain changes at the site of the proposed terminal under a 1972 legal agreement. The Sierra Club says that under that settlement, it has a say over whether...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/us-dominion-lng-sierra-idUSBRE83P19T20120426?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29

Sea change in salinity heralds shift in rainfall

Reuters: Scientists have detected a clear change in salinity of the world's oceans and have found that the cycle that drives rainfall and evaporation has intensified more than thought because of global warming. The finding published on Friday helps refine estimates of how different parts of the globe will be affected by increased rainfall or more intense droughts as the planet heats up, affecting crops, water supplies and flood defenses. Scientists led by Paul Durack of the Lawrence Livermore National...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/us-climate-rainfall-idUSBRE83P18C20120426?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29
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Stricter EU carbon target would cost you a few cups of coffee

BusinessGreen: The EU could move to more ambitious 2020 carbon reduction targets at a cost of EUR7 to EUR9 per person annually, according to new research by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). The analysis, launched today, found it would cost an extra EUR3.5bn on average per year for the EU as a whole from 2011 to 2020 to increase its 2020 carbon reduction target from 20 per cent to 30 per cent. This would be equivalent to the cost of a few...

URL: http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2170482/bloomberg-stricter-eu-carbon-target-cost-cups-coffee?WT.rss_f=Home&WT.rss_a=Bloomberg%3A+Stricter+EU+carbon+target+would+cost+you+a+few+cups+of+coffee

Climate change speeding up water cycle

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Ramping up The greenhouse effect is accelerating the global water cycle almost twice the rate predicted by climate change models, say researchers. Oceanographer Dr Susan Wijffels of the CSIRO and colleagues report their findings today in the journal Science. "The models predict a 4 to 5 per cent amplification of the global water cycle per degree of warming, instead of 8 per cent," says Wijffels. "It's a significant underestimation. That's a cause for concern." The transport of water through...

URL: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/04/27/3488816.htm
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Countries Losing Steam On Climate Change Initiatives

National Public Radio: Energy ministers from around the world met in London this week and got a scolding. The International Energy Agency warned the ministers that they are falling way behind in their efforts to wean the world from dirty sources of energy. Nations are nowhere near being on track to avert significant climate change in the coming decades. It turns out that right now, just about everything is conspiring to make it harder to clean up the world's energy supply. Nuclear power produces very little carbon...

URL: http://www.npr.org/2012/04/26/151456840/countries-losing-steam-on-climate-change-initiatives
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'Warming hole' delayed climate change over eastern United States

ScienceDaily: Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late 20th century created a "warming hole" over the eastern United States -- that is, a cold patch where the effects of global warming were temporarily obscured. While greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane warm Earth's surface, tiny particles in the air can have the reverse effect on regional scales. "What we've shown is that particulate pollution...

URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120426155117.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29
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U.S. Voters Favor Regulating CO2

Reuters: Three out of four U.S. voters favor regulating carbon dioxide as a greenhouse-gas pollutant, and a majority think global warming should be a priority for the president and Congress, a survey of American attitudes on climate and energy reported on Thursday. The survey was released one day after Rolling Stone magazine published an interview with President Barack Obama in which he suggested that climate change would become a campaign issue this year. In results often at odds with the political...

URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-voters-favor-regulating-carbon-d

UN: Developing countries offer "staggering" clean tech opportunity

BusinessGreen: Businesses have been told they can take advantage of a "staggeringly large" market for renewable energy solutions in developing countries and help the UN achieve its goal of global universal access to energy by 2030. Around 1.3 billion people across the world have no electricity at all, which severely restricts their ability to work or study into the evening, Reid Detchon, vice president of energy and climate at the United Nations Foundation (UNF), said at a briefing during this week's Clean Energy...

URL: http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2170812/-developing-countries-offer-staggering-clean-tech-opportunity?WT.rss_f=Home&WT.rss_a=UN%3A+Developing+countries+offer+%22staggering%22+clean+tech+opportunity

Cambodian police shoot dead activist in forest

Associated Press: An environmentalist has been shot dead in a confrontation with military police near a forest where illegal logging reportedly takes place. A military police spokesman said Chut Wutty, who was director of the National Resources Protection Group, was shot in a clash at a checkpoint in Koh Kong province during which the activist also shot dead a military police officer. A human rights group said the activist was shot when he refused to hand over photos taken in the forest.

URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/cambodian-police-shoot-dead-activist-in-forest-7682418.html

Rousseff pressed to veto Brazil forestry law

Agence France-Presse: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff came under enormous pressure Thursday from environmentalists to veto a new forestry bill they fear will speed up deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Brazil's powerful agribusiness sector scored a major victory with congressional approval Wednesday of the forestry code reforms, which Rousseff repeatedly promised to veto while on the campaign trail in 2010. The current code, which dates back to 1965 and which farmers argue is not respected anyway, limits the...

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US Solar Heads East

![][1] New capacity also increasingly comes as centralised projects rather than distributed PV — another major structural change for U.S. utilities.

[1]: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com//assets/images/story/2012/4/9/10672-us-solar-heads-east.jpg

URL: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/04/us-solar-heads-east?cmpid=rss

Message to Congress: Not Picking Energy Winners Should Not Mean Disadvantaging Clean Tech

![][1] Last week I had the privilege to participate in Environmental Entrepreneurs' (E2) annual advocacy trip to Washington, D.C., joining a small delegation of E2 members to voice the economic benefits of clean energy directly to our nation's leadership, from Senators and Representatives in Congress to key Administration offices and Department officials. After nearly 20 meetings in less than 48 hours — and many more meetings for the delegation as a whole — I left the Capitol inspired as ever that clean tech can and will be a true engine for the U.S. economy; but I also left even more convinced that our system in Washington is broken, and that today's stalemate created by partisan politics increasingly risks cannibalizing U.S. economic competitiveness in the 21st century.

[1]: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com//assets/images/story/2012/4/27/1332-message-to-congress-not-picking-energy-winners-should-not-mean-disadvantaging-clean-tech.jpg

URL: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/04/message-to-congress-not-picking-energy-winners-should-not-mean-disadvantaging-clean-tech?cmpid=rss

Latin America Report: Mexico Climate Law Takes Shape

![][1] Mexico, a heavyweight in oil production, took a firm stand against climate change by passing a law that would make it the second nation after the United Kingdom to institute legally binding carbon targets.

[1]: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com//assets/images/story/2012/4/26/1332-latin-america-report-mexico-climate-law-takes-shape.jpg

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Canadian Clean Cash: Renewable Energy Impact in the Wake of the Federal Budget

![][1] Despite tension-filled anticipation of the 2012 federal budget announcement on March 29, Canada's Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program continues to be one of the most lucrative research and development (R&D) tax incentives in the industrial world. Last year, SR&ED awarded $3.6 billion in tax credits to Canadian corporations contributing in varying degrees to the Canadian R&D drive. The budget (Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity: Economic Action Plan 2012) turned out to be a pleasant surprise for SR&ED stakeholders and claimants, as serious cuts to the program were rumored in the days preceding the budget announcement. The 35 percent enhanced Investment Tax Credit (ITC) rate survived the few key modifications to the program. Further revisions, however, will have an impact on companies within the renewable energy industry.

[1]: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com//assets/images/story/2012/4/24/1332-canadian-clean-cash-renewable-energy-impact-in-the-wake-of-the-federal-budget.jpg

URL: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/04/canadian-clean-cash-renewable-energy-impact-in-the-wake-of-the-federal-budget?cmpid=rss

Axion Power Receives Lead-Carbon Battery Order for Battery-Powered Locomotive.

Axion Power said this first $400,000 purchase order is part of a $475,000 total purchase order, that will be used in the commissioning of Norfolk Southern's NS-999. The total purchase order will be shipped and deployed in the next 90 – 120 days. To date, this is the largest single PbC battery order that Axion has received. No further details were disclosed.

URL: http://www.green-energy-news.com/nwslnks/clips412/apr12042.html

http://www.green-energy-news.com/nwslnks/clips412/apr12041.html

In the 10 states with the most carbon-polluting electricity generation, there are 20 cars that are better for the climate than the Leaf; 13 of them are gas-powered vehicles with conventional engines. The rest are gas-powered hybrids.

URL: http://www.green-energy-news.com/nwslnks/clips412/apr12041.html

Brazil passes divisive forest law

BBC: The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has approved controversial legislation that eases rules on how much land farmers must preserve as forest. Brazil's powerful farmers' lobby argues that the changes will promote sustainable food production. But environmentalists say the new forest code will be a disaster and lead to further destruction of the Amazon. The bill now goes to President Dilma Rousseff, who may use her veto to remove some clauses. Wednesday's 247-184 vote in favour of the new...

URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17851237#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Earth Day and My Career Path to Sustainable Energy

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How I became an environmentalist and a promoter of passive solar design solutions in the 1970s

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With Earth Day this past Sunday, I'm inspired to reflect on what motivated me — some 45 years ago(!) — to focus on a career of environmental protection and improvement, a career that has ledLight-emitting diode. Illumination technology that produces light by running electrical current through a semiconductor diode. LED lamps are much longer lasting and much more energy efficient than incandescent lamps; unlike fluorescent lamps, LED lamps do not contain mercury and can be readily dimmed. me to a significant focus on more sustainable energy solutions. Back in the late 1960s at age 12 or 13, I became immersed in "conservation" and decided that this would be my life career. This was before the modern "environmental" movement really began, and "conservation" was the term used to describe environmental protection.

[1]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog-river/Silent_Spring_7611.jpg (Silent Spring cover)
[2]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/energy-solutions/earth-day-and-my-career-path-sustainable-energy
[3]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog-river/Greenhouse_Wksp_NM_005_0.jpg (Solar greenhouse workshop in New Mexico)

URL: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/energy-solutions/earth-day-and-my-career-path-sustainable-energy

United States: Legal Challenges Counter Plans for New Nuclear Reactors

Inter Press Service: Until this past February, the last time new nuclear power construction was approved in the United States was in 1978. But when the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved two proposed nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle near Augusta, Georgia, on February 9 in a four to one vote, it took less than a week for the legal action to begin. Nine environmental groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on February 16. The concerns at the heart of their...

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Malaysian company looking to invest in Guyana

Business Guyana: Malaysian firm, Wee Boon Ping Group of Companies, has expressed an interest in pursuing investment opportunities in Guyana following a meeting on Monday with the country's President and other officials. Starting off as a logging company in 1976, Wee Boon Ping Group of Companies has since diversified operations into reforestation as part of efforts to promote sustainable management of forestry practices, bioscience, property development and construction, among other ventures. Chairman of the...

URL: http://bis.gy/2012/04/malaysian-company-looking-to-invest-in-guyana/
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Skills "time bomb" threatens renewables growth

BusinessGreen: The renewables sector is facing a skills "time bomb" that could derail the UK's green energy ambitions unless concerted action is taken. That is the stark warning contained in a report by trade body the Renewable Energy Association (REA), published yesterday, which predicts meeting the target of producing 30 per cent of the UK's electricity and 15 per cent of overall energy from renewable sources will require a renewables workforce of around 400,000 by 2020 -- a four-fold increase in just eight...

URL: http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2169935/skills-bomb-threatens-renewables-growth?WT.rss_f=Home&WT.rss_a=Skills+%22time+bomb%22+threatens+renewables+growth

Half of UK biofuels failing environmental tests

BusinessGreen: Almost half of all biofuels supplied in the UK last year failed to meet sustainability standards designed to prevent the loss of important areas for biodiversity, meaning the country has once again fallen short of its targets. Government figures reveal only 53 per cent of the 1,517 million litres of biofuel supplied during 2010/11 complied with environmental requirements, well short of the 80 per cent target fuel suppliers were supposed to meet under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO)....

URL: http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2169738/half-uk-biofuels-failing-environmental-tests?WT.rss_f=Home&WT.rss_a=Half+of+UK+biofuels+failing+environmental+tests

Climate right for Asian mosquito to spread in N. Europe

Agence France-Presse: The climate in northwestern Europe and the Balkans is becoming suitable for the Asian tiger mosquito, a disease-spreading invasive species, scientists said on Wednesday. The warning comes from scientists at the University of Liverpool, northwestern England, who say the two regions have been having progressively milder winters and warmer summers. These temperate conditions favour the mosquito, which gained a foothold in Albania in 1979 and is now present in more than 15 countries on Europe's...

URL: http://news.yahoo.com/climate-asian-mosquito-spread-n-europe-232540133.html

Switzerland: But What in Place of Nuclear Power

Inter Press Service: In the wake of Fukushima, the Swiss government decided last year to slowly, but definitely phase out nuclear energy. But the new energy strategy for the next decade has drawn criticism, especially from environmental organisations. Switzerland's household electricity relies largely on nuclear and hydro power. Five nuclear power plants, of which the last will be shut down in 2034, currently produce 40.7 percent of the country's electricity. Making up for this large share once it's phased out requires...

URL: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107564

BP engineer's arrest may force company to reveal internal estimates on Gulf spill

Guardian: The unveiling of the first criminal charges in the Gulf of Mexico disaster could force BP to disclose a closely guarded secret – its internal estimate of how much oil actually gushed out of its stricken well. It's quite literally a billion-dollar question. The justice department, which announced the charges on Tuesday, against a former BP engineer, is also suing the oil company for damages in a civil case. Those fines under the Clean Water Act will be decided by the amount of oil that flowed...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/25/bp-engineer-arrest-internal-estimates
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Trash Disposal Complicates Climate Change Fight in Jamaica

Inter Press Service: For more than a week this past February, the city choked on the acrid smoke that forced schools and business to close. It racked up millions of dollars in lost production and an estimated 60 million dollars in firefighting costs as the city tried to combat yet another fire at Kingston's Riverton city dump. No one knows what toxins were released in the early days of the fire, even though the fumes triggered health scares in communities within a two-mile radius and, according to some, as far as...

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Judge: Leaning toward approving BP spill deal

MSNBC: ?A judge on Wednesday said he was leaning toward approving the settlement proposed by BP and a coalition of plaintiffs' lawyers to compensate individuals and businesses for the 2010 Gulf oil spill. The plaintiffs' lawyers represent more than 100,000 individuals and businesses, but the proposal also has its critics -- among them shrimp processors, recreational fishermen and Halliburton, BP's cement contractor on the Macondo well. "I'm leaning in favor of doing it, but I'm not going to do that...

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South Asian farmers helped to share "climate smart" knowledge

Reuters: A new initiative to spread information on adapting to climate change across South Asia will encourage farmers, scientists and policy makers to share effective ways of dealing with the impacts of global warming. South Asia is home to one fifth of the world's population and is vulnerable to climate extremes, experiencing seasonal floods, cyclones and droughts that ravage vast swathes of agricultural land each year. More than half of South Asians are dependent on farming, but most have little...

URL: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/asia-farmers-global-warming-idINDEE83O08W20120425
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Ocean driving Antarctic ice loss

BBC: Most of the ice being lost from Antarctica is going as a result of warm water eating the fringes of the continent, scientists say. The researchers used a satellite laser to measure the thinning occurring on ice shelves - the floating tongues of ice that jut out from the land. The team's analysis found the shelves' shrinkage could not be attributed simply to warmer air temperatures. Rather, it is warm water getting under the floating ice to melt it from below. This is leading to a weakening...

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Ireland: Donald Trump's appearance sparks near-riot outside Scottish parliament

Guardian: > Donald Trump poses with anti-windfarm campaigners outside the Scottish parliament. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod It started quite calmly but ended with a near riot, as supporters and critics traded applause and insults. Donald Trump, ever the crowd-pleasing showman, the brusque, blunt wheel-dealer, had his wish. After a relatively understated appearance at the Scottish parliament to decry Scotland's rush for windpower, where he in effect accused his one-time ally Alex Salmond of deliberately...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/25/donald-trump-appearance-scottish-parliament
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RSC targeted by anti-BP protesters

Guardian: Two environmental protesters from the Reclaim Shakespeare Company, perform an unexpected prelude to the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Tempest in Stratford-upon-Avon. Campaigners say BP's sponsorship of cultural events distracts from its environmental record, such as the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/video/2012/apr/25/rsc-bp-protesters-video
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Canada: Wildrose rethinks conscience rights, climate change policies in wake of defeat

National Post: Danielle Smith has admitted some of the party's most controversial policies may be dropped in the wake of the party`s stunning Alberta election defeat Monday night. After the results saw the Wildrose almost shut out of the province's major cities and northern Alberta, Ms. Smith said Liberal and NDP support of the Tories was partly to blame for her party`s defeat. She also claimed controversial statements by two inexperienced candidates cost her party, but stood by her refusal to distance herself...

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/25/wildrose-rethinks-conscience-rights-climate-change-policies-in-wake-of-defeat/
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Cities with dirtiest air see improvement, American Lung Association says in best/worst list

MSNBC: The cities with the dirtiest air are finally cleaning up their act, the American Lung Association (ALA) reported Wednesday in its annual listing of cleanest and most polluted areas across the country. But the nonprofit that's been on a crusade to ease lung ailments also noted that some 127 million Americans -- more than 40 percent of the population -- still live in areas that it graded with an "F" due to smog or soot levels. "The air has gotten cleaner while the population, the economy, energy...

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In sustainability push, Unilever aims to build palm oil processing plant in Indonesia

Mongabay: Unilever is in talks to build a $130 million palm oil processing mill in Indonesia as part of its commitment to use more environmentally-friendly palm oil in its products, reports The Wall Street Journal. The mill, which would be located in Sumatra, would produce about 10 percent of Unilever's annual consumption of palm oil, which is produced from fruit from the oil palm tree. Unilever is the world's largest single consumer of palm oil, using 1.36 million tons a year for beauty and food products,...

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Canada: Oil, Gas and Banks Head South

Dominion: The hard fought battle against the Keystone XL pipeline, which was slated to carry tar sands crude across Canada and the United States to port in Texas, kicked struggles against Canadian-owned oil and gas companies up to a new level. Resistance dominated headlines in Canada, while rural folk, Indigenous people, celebrities, and climate activists in the US took direct action to block Calgary-based TransCanada's plans. In northern BC, Indigenous-led resistance to the proposed Enbridge pipeline, along...

URL: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4439

Oil company Perenco endangering 'uncontacted' indigenous people, says Peru

Mongabay: The company hoping to exploit the oil deposits slated to transform Peru's economy has been declared to be endangering the lives of indigenous people living in "voluntary isolation" by the country's indigenous affairs department (INDEPA). Perenco, an Anglo-French company with headquarters in London and Paris, is currently seeking approval from Peru's Energy Ministry (MEM) to develop its operations in the Loreto region in the north of the country. MEM has already blocked Perenco once this year...

URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0425-hill_perenco_uncontacted.html
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Antarctic ice melting from warm water below

Associated Press: Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting. The western chunk of Antarctica is losing 23 feet of its floating ice sheet each year. Until now, scientists weren't exactly sure how it was happening and whether or how man-made global warming might be a factor. The answer, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal...

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Uni spent £112k on Climategate PR

BBC: The University of East Anglia spent £112,870 on public relations advice in the so-called 'Climategate' affair. Consultants helped the university press office to deal with inquiries and to monitor media activity following the hacking of emails about global warming. Vice Chancellor Professor Edward Acton said they had to bring in extra help to defend the university's reputation. It followed the hacking of Climatic Research Unit emails and the release of data collected on global warming. Climate...

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Climate change is reducing Arctic Ocean biodiversity: $40-M study

Calgary Herald: A unique, all-season study of the effects of global warming in the Arctic Ocean shows that climate change is reducing biodiversity and posing "significant challenges to the survival of some of the Arctic's unique marine species." The study also shows that climate change is resulting in the increased distribution through the Arctic food chain of contaminants, such as methylmercury. The $40-million study, which was conducted by 10 scientific teams from 27 countries, spent 2007-2008 studying open...

URL: http://www.canada.com/technology/Climate+change+reducing+Arctic+Ocean+biodiversity+study/6512407/story.html
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Climate Change Obama Can Believe In

Huffington Post: In an important departure from his recent administration-wide silence on climate change, President Obama announced in a Rolling Stone interview published today that he considers climate change and the money being thrown into the denial of science as one of the most important issues in the coming campaign discussion. Part of the challenge over these past three years has been that people's number-one priority is finding a job and paying the mortgage and dealing with high gas prices. In that environment,...

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shawn-lawrence-otto/obama-romney-climate-change_b_1453288.html?ref=green

United Kingdom: The wrong kind of drought: floods and high winds batter Britain

Independent: We're in drought, water companies in many parts of England declared. Don't dare use a hosepipe, they said, warning of fines, and urging residents to tell on their neighbours if they are seen wielding a hose. But, to judge from the weather yesterday, they didn't account for the rain. As heavy rain swept across the UK, the Environment Agency issued 11 flood warnings across South-west England in the space of 24 hours, urging residents and businesses to take action. The agency's Exeter office said...

URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/the-wrong-kind-of-drought-floods-and-high-winds-batter-britain-7679249.html
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Population and consumption 'key'

BBC: Over-consumption in rich countries and rapid population growth in the poorest both need to be tackled to put society on a sustainable path, a report says. An expert group convened by the Royal Society spent nearly two years reading evidence and writing their report. Firm recommendations include giving all women access to family planning, moving beyond GDP as the yardstick of economic health and reducing food waste. The report will feed into preparations for the Rio+20 summit in June. "This...

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Virginia ruling aids Alaska climate suit

Washington Times: The Virginia Supreme Court has handed down an unprecedented ruling on companies' liability for global warming-related damages — a first-in-the-nation decision that could portend massive consequences for energy companies and environmental lawyers. The ruling stems from an ongoing case in federal court, in which the Alaskan island town of Kivalina accused a handful of mostly U.S. energy companies of contributing to global warming, which it says has rendered the town uninhabitable. One of the energy...

URL: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/25/virginia-ruling-aids-alaska-climate-suit/

Earth faces a century of disasters, report warns

Guardian: World population needs to be stabilised quickly and high consumption in rich countries rapidly reduced to avoid "a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills", warns a major report from the Royal Society. Contraception must be offered to all women who want it and consumption cut to reduce inequality, says the study published on Thursday, which was chaired by Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir John Sulston. The assessment of humanity's prospects in the next 100 years, which has taken...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/26/earth-population-consumption-disasters
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Study: Antarctic ice shelf melt tied to warmer seas

MSNBC: When it comes to melting ice shelves in Antarctica, the danger comes from below, new research suggests. By discovering the anatomy of ice loss across this chilly expanse, research may be able to forecast how the continent will melt in the future -- and also how much global seas may rise. Team member David Vaughan, a scientist at the European Union initiative ice2sea, said this study "shows the key to predicting how the ice sheet will change in the future is in understanding the oceans." Water...

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47180096/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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United Kingdom: Green energy 'must be affordable'

BBC: Renewable energy sources must become "financially sustainable" if they are to meet the world's needs, David Cameron is to say. Opening a meeting of international ministers later, he will hail progress made by the UK in the "green energy revolution". But the prime minister will say the challenge now is to drive down costs. He will also welcome the investment of £350 million on energy projects that will create 800 jobs. Taking office in 2010, Mr Cameron pledged to lead the "greenest government...

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Geophysicists employ novel method to identify sources of global sea level rise

ScienceDaily: Researchers from the University of Toronto, Harvard and Rutgers Universities have found a way to identify the "sea level fingerprint" left by a particular sheet of ice -- and possibly enable a more precise estimate of its impact on global sea levels. As Earth's climate warms, a melting ice sheet produces a distinct and highly non-uniform pattern of sea-level change, with sea level falling close to the melting ice sheet and rising progressively farther away. The pattern for each ice sheet is unique...

URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120424142259.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29
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Warning on Indonesia’s Disappearing Forests

Jakarta Globa: Earth Day commemorations in Indonesia were low-key, but those who marked the day were quick to warn of the worsening environmental situation. An environmental group on Sunday called on the Aceh administration to stop issuing permits to convert forested areas for other uses. "We also call for the government to immediately conduct an inspection of all forest conversion permits," T.M. Zulfikar, the executive director of the Aceh office of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi), said...

URL: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/warning-on-indonesias-disappearing-forests/513189

Mr. Obama needs to show he’s serious about climate change

Washington Post: The president didn't even see fit to mention the words "climate change' or "global warming' in his 2011 State of the Union address. White House rollouts on energy policy have mostly focused on energy independence or green jobs but not on the global threat of warming. In fairness, Republicans deserve blame for stifling fair discussion of the issue. And Mr. Obama can cite some achievements: He pushed through landmark fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks; he invested in renewable energy...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-obama-needs-to-show-hes-serious-about-climate-change/2012/04/25/gIQASGlkhT_story.html

Warm Spring May Mean Drought and Wildfires in West

National Geographic: The early spring of 2012 raised both temperatures and eyebrows, including President Obama's. As reported in The Weekly Standard and elsewhere, the President recently commented at an Atlanta fundraiser: "When it is 75 degrees in Chicago in the beginning of March, you start thinking. On the other hand, I really have enjoyed nice weather." Now, in April, we're seeing that this spring break may leave us with a fierce hangover. On April 10th, 61 percent of the lower 48 states were listed by the...

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Leaking Arctic methane threatens climate

New Scientist: AS ARCTIC sea ice breaks apart, huge amounts of methane could be released into the atmosphere from the cold waters beneath - leading to even faster Arctic warming. Eric Kort of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues flew over the Arctic Ocean in 2009 and 2010 as part of a project to systematically map greenhouse gas levels. They found patches of methane in remote regions, far from known methane sources such as melting permafrost (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1452)....

URL: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428625.300-leaking-arctic-methane-threatens-climate.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=magcontents

Methane Gas Leak in Arctic Throws Scientists a Climate Change Curveball

U.S. News and World Report: Humans might not be to blame for the latest piece of news that has caused new concerns about global warming. A newly-discovered, naturally occuring methane leak over the Arctic Ocean could play a role in future climate change, according to a NASA scientist. Scientists have long known that there are naturally-occurring pockets of methane gas along many of the oceans' surfaces, but openings in Arctic sea ice fields have allowed the gas to leak into the atmosphere, which lead researcher Eric Kort...

URL: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/04/25/methane-gas-leak-in-arctic-throws-scientists-a-climate-change-curveball
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Chesapeake well leaks gas and drilling mud in Wyoming

Reuters: Chesapeake Energy said a leak of natural gas and oil-based drilling mud from a well near Douglas, Wyoming on Tuesday led to the evacuation of 67 residents from nearby homes. The company said on Wednesday there were no injuries to workers on the drilling rig and that it was preparing to "bring the well under control." The cause of the incident is under investigation, the company said in a statement. The incident occurred in the promising oil and gas prospect called Niobrara, that stretches across...

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