Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "According to several climate researchers, the former vice president basically gets it right.
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Japan's monied clout over small nations to vote against the ban on whaling can be stopped with a boycott.
Looking for place of origin when making a purchase, if you can find it, is too much work for American consumers. Time is money after all. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Two new studies credit a 1987 international agreement to phase out harmful gases for the improvement.
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "The World Health Organization has for the first time asked the maker of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu to ready the global stockpile ...
This is not encouraging. I received my stockpile of face masks and nitrile gloves, yesterday. I ordered paper overalls too, used by painters, for those times when we have to venture forth into the contagious public. Get home, take 'em off and burn 'em in the fireplace for heat. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CBS News: CBS Evening News: "As the World Health Organization tracks cases of bird flu and the way it has spread, the U.S. is hunkering down to get ready for the disease - if and when it arrives on our shores. CBS News medical correspondent Elizabeth Kaledin reports."
Who produces most? - Ben Tuxworth, of the green charity, Forum, said: "Downward pressure on prices seems to mean that it's only the less affluent users that bother to save energy. If the rich are using over three times as much energy as the poor, we need to incentivise them to clean up their act."
"Reuters: Top News: "AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton said on Saturday global warming is a greater threat to the future than terrorism and that the United States and other countries must "get off our butts" and do something about it.
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "The ozone hole over the Antarctic is likely to begin contracting in the future and may disappear by 2050 because of a reduction ...
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'Plundered' to extinction - Fish stocks in international waters are being plundered to the point of extinction because governments are failing to protect them, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has warned.
"CBS News: "He says he isn't running for anything, but former vice president Al Gore is happy to talk your ear off about his favorite topic - global warming - as he makes the rounds showing "An Inconvenient Truth," his documentary on the subject."
CNN: World: "Authorities can't locate the oil spill responsible making this increasingly worrisome. "
Independent: World News: " More than 26,000 species of animals, birds, plants and fish will this week be added to the list of those in serious danger of extinction. Thousands of species including the common hippotamus are to be added or moved up the so-called "red list" drawn up by The World Conservation Union (IUCN).
The alarming study by the union, one of the most authoritative pictures of world flora and fauna, will make clear that global warming and human activity is responsible."
ABC News: Politics: "Bush Suspends Environmental Rules on Gasoline, Halts Oil Reserve Deposits to Ease Fuel Prices"
The reserve is almost full anyway. The 25 thousand barrels per day won't make a dent in the 4 million barrels a day we import. And suspending environmental rules only makes the environment and the people living in it sicker. Sorry, he is going to have to do a whole lot better than this to impress me with his compassion for the working stiff. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
BBC: World: "A UN official says bird flu has spread rapidly in Burma, with more than 100 outbreaks among the country's poultry."
CBS News: "On the ice floes of the Gulf of St Lawrence, thousands of seals give birth, turning the whole area into a giant floating nursery. But as CBS' Jennifer Santiago reports, about a third will be killed and their pelts sold in overseas markets."
Independent: World News: "A row has broken out over tiger numbers in India, with some conservationists arguing that the species is on the brink of extinction there."
Over population of humans is a devastating thing to do to any environment. The poachers are the ones who should be poached. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CNN: Politics: "Read full story for latest details."
My daughter's school banned the junk last year. She is 6 pounds lighter this year. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
BBC: World: "A US businesswoman offers to raise $16m so that Canada ends a controversial seal hunt."
This is akin to paying terrorists to stop terrorizing. It just breeds more to line up for the hand out. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
BBC: World: "Environmentalists in Japan claim a rare victory after five firms quit whaling following a pressure campaign."
Impressive. Good for them. Whales have intelligence at the top of the animal kingdom, and communicate with each other. If you need meat, eat beef. Cows are flatulently stupid. Though you can grow attached to them if you hang around them awhile as a kid. I like cows, but if pressed between a cow and whale, I say, save the whale. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Slate Magazine: "Two new books on the clear and present danger of global warming."
This is the issue of the 21st century that will make Iraq a passing footnote. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Churchill once said that a good afternoon snooze makes two days out of one.
Research supports Churchill, but, don't look to American companies to buy into it. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CBS News: "Sealers took to the thawing ice floes off the Atlantic Ocean on the first day of Canada's contentious seal hunt. So did activists and the media, but their presence infuriated sealers hunting for scarce animals on small, drifting ice pans."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "An Iowa corn refinery, open since December, uses 300 tons of coal a day to make ethanol.
Just another example of unintended consequences when incompetent lawmakers create quick fix short term solutions to complex long term problems. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "For World Water Day, here's a glimpse at global patterns of water access, volume, and consumption.
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Mayor's plan avoids the most controversial issue: Where can city residents safely rebuild?
That is the 64 billion dollar question, isn't it? -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "People dependent on region's icy reign are alarmed at the environmental reshaping of their world."
There world first, ours is next, especially near coastal areas. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
BBC: World: "Five people in Azerbaijan have died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the World Health Organization says."
Independent: World News: "Oil gushes into Arctic"
And the Bush Administration and the GOP continue to tell us the technology is safe for drilling in ANWR. Bastardos! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "South Korea's Supreme Court has ruled in favor of continuing construction on the world's longest sea wall.
CBS News: "Veterinary officials in Israel are going ahead with the slaughter of hundreds of thousands turkeys and chickens amid bird flu concerns."
It is just a matter of time. This ticking time bomb will catch the U.S. too far in debt to be able to respond appropriately to the crisis. It is called 'opportunity cost'. Opportunity cost is by far the higher cost of debt over the dollars owed. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CBS News: "By 2010, nearly half the children in the Western Hemisphere and 38 percent of European kids will be overweight, say pediatricians. That "global epidemic" will impact everything from health care to economies to life expectancy."
CBS News: CBS Evening News: "The children of La Oroya, Peru have grown up in the shadow of a giant smelter, and researchers say they have up to seven times the acceptable lead level in their systems. Randall Pinkston reports on the campaign to improve their health."
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "Arizona's driest winter on record has left snowpack levels at their lowest since records began in the 1930s. Snowpack is critical ..."
Water - the modern version of the Gold Rush in late 1800's for the S.W. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Is the Endangered Species Act helping more than 1,300 plants and animals survive, or is it a costly failure?"
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Bats in some US regions may be killed by wind farms in greater numbers than previously thought."
BBC: World: "Niger becomes the third African country to have confirmed cases of the deadly strain of bird flu, experts say."
Reuters: Top News: "ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - St. Louis and Sacramento, California, may be the next two U.S. flooding disasters waiting to happen, with rivers prone to overflow and insufficient levees protecting developments that never should have been allowed, experts said on Saturday.
BBC: World: "Iraq confirms that a 39-year-old man who died in January, was killed by the H5N1 strain of bird flu."
This puts the virus at the United State's doorstep with our troops coming home from Iraq. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
BBC: World: "France investigates the amount of asbestos aboard a controversial aircraft carrier bound for India."
Independent: World News: "Despite the President's obdurate stance on climate change, the US administration last week took the first steps towards officially listing the bear as an endangered species. The Arctic ice on which the iconic animal lives is melting away as the world heats up and, if the listing is finalised, the Bush administration will be obliged to modify its pollution policies to try to save the bear."
New York Times: International News: "The A(H5N1) bird flu virus has been detected in Italy, Greece and Bulgaria, but even more worrisome, scientists say, is the recent outbreak in Nigeria."
Independent: World News: "Bird flu has become endemic in Hong Kong after its recent discovery in both local wild birds and chicken, the territory's health secretary said today."
New York Times: International News: "The disease may be spreading widely -- and undetected -- among birds in the countries of central Asia."
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing Earth to warm, the central debate has shifted to whether climate change is progressing so rapidly that, within decades, humans may be helpless to slow or reverse the trend."
Certainly, this is encouraging that this inquiry and investigation may now proceed without the naysayers denying the problem exists. The next phase however, is going to prove very difficult as climatology is still a relatively new science and frought with variables too numerous to easily model. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
BBC: World: "More than 100 chemical plants beside China's rivers pose safety threats, the country's environment chief warns."
New York Times: International News: "A study shows that just six nations - led by New Zealand - have achieved at least 85 percent success in meeting a set of environmental goals."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "New research says that in addition to 'scrubbing' CO2, they also give off methane, a stronger greenhouse gas."
ABC News: Politics: "Republican Former EPA Chiefs Accuse President Bush of Neglecting Global Warming"
New York Times: International News: "Global warming is combining with a spreading fungus to kill off many species of frogs in Latin America, scientists say."
Which of course, could lead to dramatic increases in mosquito and other insect populations which in turn could threaten human populations, and increase disease transmission. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CBS News: "A foundation set up by a plastics magnate is harnessing India's most plentiful natural resource - sunshine - to bring lighting to rural villages, using technology one advocate says can light a village for less power than a 100-watt light bulb."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "By 2100, fewer pollutants mean average temperatures could rise as much as 8 degrees F."
Toronto Star: World: "ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) %u2014 Climate change could thaw the top three metres of permafrost in most areas of the Northern Hemisphere by 2100, altering ecosystems across Alaska, Canada and Russia, according to a federal study."
Toronto Star: World: "ANCHORAGE, Alaska%u2014Three environmental groups sued the U.S. government Thursday, seeking to protect polar bears from extinction because of disappearing Arctic sea ice."
Toronto Star: World: "Some 595 sites around the world have been identified as the sole home of at least one endangered bird species, including Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta, home to the endangered Whooping Crane."
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "MONTREAL, Dec. 10 -- Despite the Bush administration's adamant resistance, nearly every industrialized nation agreed early Saturday to engage in talks aimed at producing a new set of binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions that would take effect beginning in 2012."
When the President is heavily invested in the industry responsible for the largest contributions to greenhouse gases, when Congress is deep into the energy industry's pockets for campaign donations for reelection in 11 months, is it any wonder the U.S. will oppose the rest of the world on cleaning it up? What an abyssmal failure of the American Democratic Form of Government. Voters must take it upon themselves to remove these corrupt incumbents from office in 2006. Find out how you can help accomplish this at Vote Out Incumbents for Democracy. -- David R. Remer, -- PoliWatch.Org.
New York Times: International News: "The Amazon River basin is grappling with a drought that in some areas is the worst since record keeping began a century ago."
ABC News: Politics: "150 Nations to Launch Talks on Post-2012 Reductions in Greenhouse Gases - U.S. Not Included"
Independent: World News: "More than 150 nations were poised to move forward with the Kyoto protocol atUN talks, while the chief US negotiator walked out."
New York Times: International News: "The Bush administration has maintained its opposition to new targets for cutting emissions linked to global warming."
BBC: World: "Environment ministers at a major UN conference in Canada discuss ways to break a deadlock on climate change."
CBS News: "2005 is likely to go down as the hottest, stormiest and driest ever, making a strong case for the urgent need to combat global warming, a report released at the U.N. Climate Change Conference said."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "At the Montreal climate talks, delegates examine incentives to stem deforestation in developing countries."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Conservation groups will give a yearly stipend to landowners to save a whale refuge - and a way of life."
BBC: World: "Changes to ocean currents in the Atlantic may bring colder weather to Europe within a few decades, scientists say."
Reuters: Top News: "MONTREAL (Reuters) - The United States ruled out making extra pledges to fight global warming beyond 2012 on Tuesday, angering environmentalists who accused Washington of blocking a 189-nation conference in Canada."
BBC: World: "A major climate change conference is due to open in Montreal but the US warns it will not commit to targets."
Newsweek: World News: "Zimbabwe's animals are dying, which means its people are suffering, too."
CBS News: "A team of European researchers analyzed tiny air bubbles preserved in Antarctic ice for millennia and determined there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than at any point during the last 650,000 years."
BBC: World: "Hundreds of Chinese are being evacuated as the city of Harbin spends a third day without water mains."
BBC: World: "A pollution threat to Khabarovsk in eastern Russia sparks a rush for bottled water and a plea for calm."
Independent: World News: "'We must do more to beat climate change'"
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "New studies forecast declines for rivers in the US and elsewhere."
Reuters: Top News: "PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Rising sea levels caused by global warming could shrink New Jersey by up to 3 percent in the next 100 years, U.S. scientists warned on Wednesday."
CNN: Politics: "Read full story for latest details."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Sweeter perks are driving more motorists to buy costly hybrids. But others resent the special favors."
CBS News: CBS Evening News: "There is a solar revolution in the making. Solar panels are now relatively small, fit seamlessly into a roof and shrink energy costs. Thalia Assuras reports some homes with solar energy even earn money."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Giving up their high-cost war with the sea, some architects are designing ways to live on, instead of against, the rising tide."
New York Times: International News: "Much of the gold left to be mined is microscopic and is being wrung from the earth at enormous environmental cost."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "New methods detect twice as much logging as previously estimated."
Toronto Star: World: "COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) %u2014 The Canadian government and some U.S. researchers say there's no way to stop an Asian beetle from steadily spreading to attack and kill all 10 billion ash trees in the United States and Canada. "
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "The Army Corps of Engineers, Congress, and even the Supreme Court weigh in with possible policy changes."
Toronto Star: World: "WASHINGTON - Worldwide, it was the warmest September on record, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said today. "
BBC: World: "Worsening drought in the Amazon basin prompts Brazil to extend an emergency across Amazonas state."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Development of gas wells in Wyoming could impair air quality and visibility in pristine areas, studies show."
New York Times: International News: "The floating cap of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer to what is probably its smallest size in a century."
BBC: World: "The area covered by Arctic sea ice has shrunk for a fourth consecutive year, according to a new study."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "In the tradition of Erin Brockovich, the author sinks her teeth into an environmental challenge and won't let go."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Modifications can give some cars 50 to 60 gas-free miles after a night's charging."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Large predator populations are growing across the US, raising concerns over managing healthy biodiversity."
Independent: World News: "A group of black workers is suing the world's largest poultry meat producer, accusing it of tolerating a racist workplace where African Americans were routinely abused and a "whites only" sign was pinned to the lavatory door."
Reuters: Top News: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of strong hurricanes --like the devastating Katrina -- significantly increased in thelast 35 years, fueled by hotter seas that have been linked toglobal warming, researchers reported on Thursday."
Reuters: Top News: "OSLO (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina has spurred debate about global warming world wide with some environmentalists sniping at President George W. Bush for pulling out of the main U.N. plan for braking climate change."
BBC: World: "Destruction of tropical peatlands is contributing significantly to global warming, according to UK scientists."
Independent: World News: "Thousands of Sunnis demonstrated in Iraq against the new constitution as the campaign for its rejection in a coming referendum swung into action."
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "Army engineers continued trying to control floodwaters Wednesday in a race against time and rising waters, while the city sank ..."
CNN: World: "As Hurricane Katrina bears down on the U.S. city of New Orleans, an expert warns the expected flooding could wreak catastrophe, overwhelming water and sewage systems, damaging structures and leaving survivors in a bowl of toxic soup. Authorities have ordered the mandatory evacuation of the city."
