New Poll Shows 6 in 10 Americans Support Cap and Trade
| Probe to track impact of warming on Earth’s water. A 315-million-euro satellite that will gauge the impact of climate change on the movement of water across land, air and sea was hoisted into space early Monday, the European Space Agency said. |
| Future fuel: From algae to oil. With the Copenhagen summit on climate change fast approaching, the race is on to find new technologies that will help to produce cleaner, greener fuel. |
| Multiyear ice covering Arctic is effectively gone. The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished, a startling development that will make it easier to open up polar shipping routes, according to an Arctic expert. |
| Climate change ‘killing children.’ Climate change could be responsible for the death a quarter of a million children next year, according to a leading charity. Save the Children said yesterday the figure could rise to more than 400,000 annually by 2030. |
| Climate change threatens lives of millions of children, says charity. A quarter of a million children could die next year due to the effects of climate change, Save the Children warned today. |
| New Poll Shows 6 in 10 Americans Support Cap and Trade By Sharyn SteinAs the battle over clean energy legislation heats up in the Senate, CNN has released a new poll showing that 60 percent of Americans support cap and trade.CNN says the issue shows a huge generational divide. More than two-thirds of Americans under age 50 support cap and trade, but those 50 and older are split.The [.] |
| Cash Cows: Farm Converts Cattle Manure into Electricity A Vermont dairy farm is producing something other than milk. Earlier this month, state officials were on hand to visit Vermonts newest methane facility. Westminster Farms Inc., along with Green Mountain Power (GMP), have been working together in an on-site plant that converts methane gas released from cow manure into electricity. |
| Historic Solar Tech SunsetMy friend Taylen Paterson has an interesting solar tech blog at: http://solar.calfinder.com/His collection of historic solar tech is a good read:This is the age of Solar. Its hard when youre living in it to tell exactly how history will remember your time and place, but it seems ever more obvious that our current Digital Age [.] |
| Cull of Australia’s burping buffalo urged to reduce greenhouse gases. Northern Australia has long been home to herds of roaming buffalo, but an academic is now calling for the feral animals to be culled in a scheme that would reduce greenhouse gases and could allow local communities to sell carbon credits. |
| Palm oil CO2 targets delayed as planters, NGOs clash. Planned palm oil carbon emission targets will be delayed by at least a year as planters clash with NGOs on calculating the vegetable oil’s environmental impact, officials said on Monday. |
| Maldives wind farm to supply 40 per cent of electricity. The Maldives announced plans Monday to build a wind farm that can supply 40 per cent of its electricity as part of the low-lying archipelago’s pledge to become the world’s first carbon neutral nation. |
| UN climate chief: Deal must be legally enforceable. Developing countries don’t trust wealthy nations’ promises that they will help them meet the challenges of climate change, the U.N.’s top climate official said Monday, adding that means any new global warming deal must have legal force. |