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Scientist admits taking, leaking think-tank papers

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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Associated Press: Ethicists are criticizing a prominent scientist for misrepresenting himself to obtain and then leak sensitive documents from a conservative think tank that campaigns against mainstream global warming science. Peter Gleick (GLEEK), president of a California water research institute and winner of a MacArthur genius grant, admitted Monday night in a blog posting that he pretended to be a board member to get fundraising, budget and other documents from the Heartland Institute in Chicago. He said he...

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Virginia Paper Company Linked With Rainforest Destruction

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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WAMU: The World Wildlife Fund issued a surprising plea last week, asking consumers to take care when buying toilet paper. The organization says a Virginia firm and its sister company are destroying rainforests to make a cheap paper products. Paper company faces accusations By some estimates, the world is losing 50 million acres of tropical rainforest a year -- an area double the size of Virginia. On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, much of the destruction has been traced to a Chinese Company called...

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GDP inadequate as climate cost gauge-Stern

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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Reuters: The cost of global warming can no longer be quantified solely in terms of gross domestic product as the changes the world will experience and the resulting loss of life will be so immense, climate economist Nicholas Stern said on Wednesday. In 2006, Stern published a major report on the economics of climate change which said average global temperatures would rise by 2 to 3 degrees centigrade in the next 50 years and could reduce global consumption per head by up to 20 percent. "That particular...

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Shifting Ocean Current Made Earth Spin Faster?

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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National Geographic: Did it feel like time flew in November 2009? It turns out the days were actually going a wee bit faster for part of that month, according to a team of NASA and European scientists. Earth spun about 0.1 millisecond faster for a two-week stretch, said study co-author Steven Marcus, a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The planet's speedier spin appears to have been due to a slowdown in an ocean current that whips around Antarctica. "The Earth speeding up...

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German ministers agree to speed up solar cuts

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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Reuters: The German government has agreed to accelerate the next round of cuts in state-mandated photovoltaic incentives by three months to April 1 after a record-breaking expansion of solar power in 2011, government and industry sources told Reuters on Wednesday. The environment and economy ministries have also agreed to deepen the next round of reductions in the feed-in tariff (FIT) to between 20 percent for smaller rooftop power plants to as much as 30 percent for larger plants. The cuts were more...

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IMO to discuss CO2 curbs for ships, industry frets

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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Reuters: The International Maritime Organization will next week debate market-based measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions from ships, but the world's major shipping associations on Wednesday said the timing is not right for such measures to be applied. While the IMO's Marine and Environment Protection Committee is not expected to reach any conclusions on market-based measures at a week-long meeting in London, the U.N. agency has been under pressure to tackle international shipping emissions. The...

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GDP ‘not sufficient’ for measuring economic wealth

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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SciDev.Net: A group of the world's top environmental scientists have backed calls for replacing the gross domestic product (GDP) as a sole measure of a nation's economic wealth with more inclusive indicators that would consider the impact of economic growth on the well-being of the environment. Relying only on GDP ignores important aspects of a nation's well-being such as sustainable development and threats to the environment, they said in a report presented at the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) 12th special...

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Encroaching deserts threaten life along Tibet’s longest river

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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AlertNet: Rising temperatures, reduced rainfall and excessive numbers of grazing animals are worsening desertification and drying up grasslands in western Tibet, says a Chinese geologist who has explored one of the region's uncharted rivers. Yang Yong said he had observed desertification in parts of the upper reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, and believes this could be caused by climate change as well as human activity. The Yarlung Zangbo (also called the Yarlung Tsangpo) is Tibet's largest river,...

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Don’t cloud young minds

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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New Scientist: THERE is a strong sense of déjà vu about what is emerging over leaked emails from the Heartland Institute. The US libertarian think tank, which argues that global warming is not primarily caused by humans, intends to develop teaching material that would cast doubt on the scientific consensus on climate change. Its approach is sadly reminiscent of fogging tactics employed by the tobacco industry and creationists. Children should be taught honestly what we know about climate change, as well as what...

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Don’t cloud young minds

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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To seek to present distorted science to the generation that will have to deal with the consequences of worsening climate change is deeply cynical


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