Climate Change

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 22 mins ago - 3 reports

Compensation up for grabs for energy intensive businesses

Energy intensive businesses will soon be able to claim compensation to offset the cost of energy policies.Eligible firms will be able to apply for the Government-backed scheme from 3 June.New guidance, which sets out how firms can claim compensation from ... [Published En the Web - 15 mins ago]

Entities: Carbon, Michael Fallon, Tranche, United Kingdom, Wind Turbine

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 30 mins ago - 15 reports

Sheldon Whitehouse

Democratic Senator uses Okla. tornadofor anti-GOP rant over global warming

While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the ... [Published Lucianne.com - 30 mins ago]

Entities: Sheldon Whitehouse, Global Warming/Climate Change, Dan Pfeiffer

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 34 mins ago - 4 reports

Oxfam

Hunger the face of the future without reform – Oxfam

A Zimbabwean mother arrives to collect her monthly rations of food aid from Rutaura Primary School in the Rushinga district of Mt Darwin about 254km north of Harare March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Philimon BulawayoNAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The world ... [Published TrustLaw - 34 mins ago]

Entities: Oxfam, Resilience, Inequality

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 48 mins ago - 4 reports

Mediterranean diet is brain food

Sticking to a Mediterranean diet may not just be good for your heart, it may be good for your brain as well, according to a new study.Researchers in Spain followed more than 1,000 people for six and a half years, and found that participants who were on ... [Published WDSU New Orleans - 48 mins ago]

Entities: Diet, Dean Ornish, Low-Fat Diet, Olive Oil, Inflammation

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 6 reports

The mammoth's lament: How cosmic impact sparked devastating climate change

Rock-Solid Evidence of Cosmic CalamityIn studying this layer, Tankersley found ample evidence to support the theory that something came close enough to Earth to melt rock and produce other interesting geological phenomena. Foremost among the findings ... [Published Newsvine - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Constellation Observing System for Meteorology,..., Global Warming/Climate Change, Carbon

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 6 reports

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Future Global Warming Likely Lower: Second Chance for Humanity?

A major new study published in NatureGeoscience reports that future global warmingis likely to be significantly less than many climate modelprojections have suggested. The authors cannot be characterized byopponents as climate change "deniers." Using ... [Published REASON Online - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Climate, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Global Warming/Climate Change

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 5 reports

Liberal Democrats

Davey slams 'vested interests' for trying to neuter UK climate policy

Energy and Climate Change Secretary tells Independent rise of Ukip risks 'saloon bar' dismissal of climate riskMounting Lib Dem frustration at recent efforts to undermine the government's Energy Bill and wider climate change strategy again broke out into ... [Published BusinessGreen - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Ed Davey, Climate, Climate Policy, Global Warming/Climate Change, Liberal Democrats

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 7 reports

Climate Change Will Drive Up Manhattan's Heat-Related Death Toll

Despite the modern advances of central air and cooling centers, record-hot weather still regularly kills people all over the world. A 2010 heat wave in Russia was blamed for killing about 55,000 people . An earlier one, in 2003, claimed 70,000 across ... [Published The Atlantic Cities - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, Manhattan, Heat Island Effect, New York City, Emission

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 3 hours ago - 5 reports

Government doubles cash for renewable heat projects

Householders across Britain will be able to get more cash for renewable heating projects, the Government announced yesterday.DECC has increased money off vouchers available for people switching to renewable heat from traditional systems: £2,300 for ground ... [Published Energy Live News - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Solar Thermal, Ground Source Heat Pumps, Energy Saving Trust, Greg Barker

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 6 hours ago - 6 reports

BT sources all UK power from renewable energy

BT has signed an agreement with npower to source 100 percent of electricity in the UK from renewable energy. BT has calculated that this amount of electricity from non-renewable sources would equate to a carbon footprint of around one million tonnes of ... [Published Telecompaper - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Renewable Energy, RWE npower, United Kingdom

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 22 hours ago - 18 reports

Heat deaths in Manhattan to rise

Residents of Manhattan will not just sweat harder from rising temperatures in the future, says a new study; many may die. Researchers at Columbia University estimate deaths linked to warming climate may rise some 20 percent by the 2020s, and, in some ... [Published Mother Nature Network - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Manhattan, Columbia University, Mortality

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 25 reports

More research on climate change needed, but too late!

Just how severe will the predicted severe weather, from IPCC and others ,become- or are they being "conservative" in their attitudes and their reaction to new methods?; Climate image; Credit: © ShutterstockThe University of Oxford's Alexander Otto and ... [Published Earthtimes.org - May 20 2013]

Entities: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Global Warming/Climate Change, Climate, Geoscience

Quotes

"There is not sufficient investment, for example, to improve irrigation practices, especially in developing countries," he said. "It is in agriculture where genuinely dramatic changes have to take place." EFE

Scientists warn of human impact on world's water [Published Zecco - 13 mins ago]

"Although the backloading proposal is very much a 'quick fix', reactionary measure, it is clear that longer term structural reform will take time, with changes unlikely to be in place until 2017 at the earliest" she said

Commission repeats calls for carbon market reform as surplus allowances double [Published Out-Law.com - 13 mins ago]

"Changes that are taking place, and that we're concerned about, include an increase in heatwaves, both in intensity and frequency, increase in extreme precipitation events and also extreme sea-level related impacts because of the increase in Arctic sea level" Pachauri said

Don't pin US tornado on climate change: UN panel head [Published Expatica Switzerland - 14 mins ago]

Ernesto Hanhausen, managing director of Emerging Energy & Environment's CleanTech Fund, said that the push for PV installations might come more from "emergency needs for power than regulation and willingness of the government"

[Blog] Mexico offers tantalising prospect of a dawning major market [Published PV-Tech - 16 mins ago]

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Blogs

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China Looks to Ramp Up Energy-Saving Retrofits [Published Switchboard, from NRDC - 32 mins ago] Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City When the posh architectural firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill designed the Chemsunny World Trade Center in Beijing, it was more efficient than a typical glass-walled luxury building in China. The fifteen-story ...
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Waiting for a Tornado of Speculation [Published Power Line - 46 mins ago] ( )The news broadcasts of the Oklahoma tornado disaster that I saw last night and this morning were thankfully free of speculation that this tornado is proof of— wait for it —global warming, and therefore one more reason to hand over control of our energy ...
Waiting for a Tornado of Speculation [Published Power Line - 1 hour ago] (Steven Hayward) The news broadcasts of the Oklahoma tornado disaster that I saw last night and this morning were thankfully free of speculation that this tornado is proof of—wait for it—global warming, and therefore one more reason to hand over control ...

Audio/Video

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Are We Likely to See Big Tornadoes All Season? [Published WSJ.com Video - News - 1 hour ago]
Time to Wake Up: GOP Opposition to Climate Science [Published Senator Sheldon Whitehouse - YouTube Channel - 17 hours ago]
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