U.S. Mutual Funds Starting to Address Climate Risk

April 16, 2008

Mutual funds, having long resisted shareholder resolutions demanding they focus more on financial risks arising from climate change, are starting to have second thoughts. That is the central conclusion of a report released today by Ceres, a coalition of investors and environmentalists that encourages big financial players to factor environmental sustainability into their strategic decision making. Among other things, Ceres directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk, with 60 institutional inves

Wednesday morning news digest: All this and the Dalai Lama too edition
KAAL-TV reports Tim Walz Leading the way in Fundraising: Republican challengers for Minnesota's 1st Congressional district trail Representative Tim Walz in fundraising. Tim Walz had 350- thousand in the first quarter. Mayo Clinic doctor Brian Davis, who has the Republican Party endorsement, raised 59-thousand. And state Senator Dick Day racked in 16-thousand. The Republicans will face each other in a primary that will decide who will challenge Tim Walz. We wouldn't exactly say the Republic

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Bush Refuses to Lead; WWF Looks to Presidential Candidates for Leadership on Climate Change (Centre Daily Times)

April 16, 2008

Officials at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today expressed doubt that President Bush's Rose Garden speech today will offer any hope for meaningful action on climate change before the end of his term and called on his would-be successors to demonstrate leadership on the issue, specifically urging them to participate in a debate on climate change and other science and environmental issues.

Texas A&M professor tracks climate change (KRIS-TV Corpus Christi)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Texas A and M University professor Frank Hons has studied climate change for 15 years, long before celebrities jumped on the green movement.

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World’s Oldest Living Tree Discovered In Sweden

April 16, 2008

The world’s oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time. For many years the spruce tree has been regarded as a relative newcomer in the Swedish mountain region. “Our results have shown the complete opposite, that the spruce is one of the oldest known trees in the mountain range,” says

Global Warming:Experts’ Opinions vs Scientific Forecasts
Sept. 18, 1924 MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age March 27, 1933 America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776 May 21, 1974 Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate Is Changing: A Major Cooling Widely Considered to be Inevitable

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Africa: Journalists Urged to Report Objectively On Climate Change (AllAfrica.com)

April 16, 2008

A leading Indian expert has urged journalists to improve their reporting of environmental issues by thoroughly investigating and analysing new scientific research.

Bush accepts climate change, announces new energy programs
Finally!

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Most Australians alarmed at climate change says poll

April 16, 2008

NINE out of 10 Australians are worried about climate change according to a new poll..

Nobel PrizeWinning Peacekeeper:UN, Admit Errors onGlobalwar
When Global Warmingest-in-Chief Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, the media's prideful gushing was so obvious it was almost sick-making.Now, six months later, a fellow Nobel Peace Prize recipient is part of a group asking the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "admit that there is no observational evidence in meas

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Global Warming My Ass

April 16, 2008

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to push through a new tax that will fund a global warming research committee to determine the effects “global warming” is having on the state of California. First off I do believe our climate is changing, that obvious.

Climate change serious - beer affected
Australians starting to become worried about climate change as it affects the distribution of crops required for beer production.

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Bush to Give Rose Garden Speech on Climate Change

April 16, 2008

The NYTimes' Andy Revkin takes the optimistic view that he may be seeking a climate legacy. Treehugger, on the other hand, summarizes Bush's new plan as "watch me pretend to care."

As Hunger Rises, Chew on This
The prices of the world’s three main grains — corn, rice and wheat — more than doubled last year. The causes include poor harvests linked to climate change, diversion of cropland to biofuels, population increases, rising meat consumption, emerging diseases and soaring fuel prices.

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Focus: Hunger. Strikes. Riots. The food crisis bites

April 16, 2008

Across the world a crisis is unfolding at alarming speed. Climate change, China's increasing consumption and the dash for biofuels are causing food shortages and rocketing prices - sparking riots in cities from the Caribbean to the Far East.

Biofuels: a blueprint for the future?
Our cars and other forms of transport are the third-largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the UK and the only one likely to have increased by 2020. Any serious attempt to tackle climate change requires us to dramatically step up our efforts to reduce these emissions.

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Bush: US to halt greenhouse gas rise by 2025

April 16, 2008

President George W. Bush Wednesday called for growth in US greenhouse gas emissions to be capped by 2025 but was attacked for his grossly deficient strategy against climate change.

Reason for NWA Departure is Simple, But Not That Simple.
Now that the NWA/Delta merger appears to be real and the leaders of the two companies are talking about their plans, I've been waiting for one of them to tell us how Minnesota's taxes drove the headquarters down to Atlanta. Not a peep from Steenland or Anderson, but that has been the local line here for awhile among a certain set, as exemplified by this pair of comments from Winston Smith: I hope lawmakers also realize that most of the head office stuff will go to Atlanta. They have a better bu

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Bush Unveils 'Realistic' Climate Strategy in Rose Garden Spe

April 16, 2008

President Bush proposes new targets for curtailing nation's greenhouse gas emissions in an attempt to short-circuit what aides call a potential regulatory 'train wreck' if Congress doesn't act on climate change.Although Bush has in the past shown some common sense, He has now become certifiably Insane by condoning this global warming nonsense.

President Calls for Flat U.S. Greenhouse Emissions by 2025
President Bush, in a Rose Garden speech on climate change, challenged the world’s biggest (and most polluting) countries to immediately end trade barriers on energy-related technology, beef up a fund to help bring less-polluting energy options to poor countries, and commit to curbing their greenhouse-gas emissions.

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