Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:55am EDT
By David Fogarty and Augustine Anthony
SINGAPORE/ISLAMABAD, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Floods that have devastated Pakistan could be a sign of the future as climate change brings greater extremes of weather to the region.
While climate scientists say single flooding events can’t be directly blamed on global warming, more intense droughts and floods [...]
RODNEY TIFFEN
July 26, 2010
Chances are, you have not heard much about Climategate lately, but last November it dominated the media. Three weeks before the Copenhagen summit, thousands of emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia were published on a Russian website.
The research institute was a leading contributor to the fourth [...]
(Reuters) – The U.N.’s climate agency has for the first time detailed contingency options if the world cannot agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, whose present round expires in 2012 with no new deal in sight.
The document reflects the stuttering pace of U.N. talks to extend or replace the Kyoto pact and disappointment at [...]
The insurance industry like to give themselves fancy titles like “risk managers”. But let’s cut to the chase here. In essence, they’re bookies. They’re not framing a market on the Melbourne Cup or a football match, but they are busy weighing up the chances of you crashing your car or burning your house down, against the cost of the premium they’ll charge you. And, just like bookies, they always frame the market slightly in their favour.
By Brad Gardner | June 29, 2010
The Federal Government is being urged to introduce a carbon tax next year until an emissions trading scheme can be implemented.
Greens leader Senator Bob Brown has written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard saying the Greens will support a $23 tax per tonne on carbon from July 1 next year.
The rate [...]
Report: March was Earth’s warmest on record – USA Today
Although a large chunk of the USA didn’t get in on the warmth in March, the rest of the world sure did.
March was the warmest March ever recorded worldwide, theNational Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported Thursday. NCDC records go back to 1880. Another source, the University of Alabama-Huntsville, [...]
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: April 5, 2010
If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as usual, they say, we are facing a rise in [...]
Associated Press / March 26, 2010
SHANGHAI — China has taken the lead in investments in clean energy, spending nearly double what the United States did in 2009, a report says.
China’s investment and financing for clean energy rose to $34.6 billion in 2009, out of $162 billion invested globally, according to the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts. [...]
Robin Pagnamenta – Times Online
Britain’s nuclear energy industry received a boost yesterday when David Cameron pledged that a Conservative government would raise a carbon tax on coal and gas-fired power stations.
Vincent de Rivaz, chief executive of EDF Energy, the French state-controlled utility that wants to build four new reactors in Britain, welcomed the plans as [...]
Dan Looker
Successful Farming magazine Business Editor
At the Commodity Classic in Anaheim, California, Friday, a Washington expert who works with farmers on carbon policies tried to shatter some myths about cap and trade legislation still being considered in Congress.
Laura Sands of the Clark Group, LLC, acknowledged the widespread fear of potential costs for farmers from a [...]