November 1, 2006
Global Warming Could Trigger Insect Population Boom
A rise in Earth’s temperature could prove to be a boon to insects worldwide, scientists say.
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Archive for the 'Environment' Category
£3.68 trillion: The price of failing to act on climate change
The review by Sir Nicholas Stern, commissioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and published tomorrow, marks a crucial point in the debate by underlining how failure to act would trigger a catastrophic global recession. Unchecked climate change would turn 200 million people into refugees, the largest migration in modern history.
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Meet The First Car Powered By Air
No Combustion. No Gas. And A Zero-Emissions Vehicle That Runs For Pennies Per Mile.Compressed air in a carbon-fiber tank, something like scuba divers use, drives the pistons and turns the crankshaft. There is no combustion and no gasoline. That’s why there’s no pollution. You fill it up at an air compressor.
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Kyoto Failing to Cool the Planet
Industrialized nations, including those which have signed the Kyoto Protocol, are having trouble reducing their greenhouse gas emissions as the planet continues to warm. The United States, which refused to sign the accord, remains the world’s biggest polluter.
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Greenhouse Effect: Planning for the long term
How can we take action today to fight against atmospheric greenhouse gases emissions, the effects of which will become apparent only over the very long term?
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World’s pollution hotspots mapped
A US-based environmental charity has documented what it calls the 10 most polluted places on the planet. The institute surveyed scientists and environmental bodies across the world to compile its list.”These are places where life expectancy approaches medieval rates, where birth defects are the norm not the exception” the report says.
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How Close Is Runaway Climate Change?
Runaway climate change is a theory of how things might go badly wrong for the planet if a relatively small warming of the earth upsets the normal checks and balances that keep the climate in equilibrium. Scientists estimate that when the temperature reaches an extra 2
˚C above that equilibrium the earth’s natural systems will be in serious trouble.
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Army Corps proposes easing Gulf wetlands rule
Federal regulators have dropped a bombshell on environmentalists with a little-publicized proposal to relax restrictions on filling in certain wetlands along the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast to speed recovery from Hurricane Katrina. The new process would also eliminate the requirement for public notice of such projects.
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Despite popular belief, the world is not running out of oil
If you think the world is on the verge of running out of oil or other mineral resources, you’ve been taken in by the foremost of seven myths about resource geology, according to a University of Washington economic geologist.
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