News Roundup
‘By analyzing the way the GPS signals are transformed as they travel through snowpack, a team of scientists from the University of Colorado, Boulder, may have found a cheap, easy way to optimize an important variable in climate models.’
via Throwaway GPS Data Reveals Snow Depth | Green Business | Reuters.
‘HONG KONG — Companies that import solar panels to the United States are facing up to $70 million in unexpected tariffs.’
via Solar Panel Tariff May Strain U.S.-China Trade Relations – NYTimes.com.
‘…environmental statistics about meat production are often misunderstood. Take global warming. Because the greatest portion of meat’s global warming contribution comes from deforestation in Latin America, India, and Asia, domestically-produced meat is unconnected to those emissions. Additionally, livestock raised without being fed fertilized crops are unrelated to another large part of the global warming equation: fossil fuel-based agricultural chemicals.’
via Is Meat Bad for the Environment? – The Atlantic Food Channel.
‘WASHINGTON Reuters – As the world wrestles with how to cut greenhouse gas emissions, new technologies are gearing up to grab climate-warming carbon right out of the air.’
via New technologies may grab carbon right out of air | Green Business | Reuters.
‘The bill calls for a 20 percent reduction, by 2020, in greenhouse gas emissions over 2005 levels, and an 80 percent reduction by 2050. That goes further than the House bill, which established a 17 percent emissions reduction target for 2020.’
via Reactions to the Senate Climate Bill – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com.
‘BANGKOK (Reuters) – Developing countries are standing their ground against demands by rich nations to add steps to curb carbon emissions into a formal registry or appendix as part a broader pact to fight climate change.’
via Poor hit back at rich over new carbon emission demands | Green Business | Reuters.
‘WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency took steps Wednesday to control the emissions blamed for global warming from power plants, factories and refineries for the first time.’
‘SAN FRANCISCO — A draft plan to remove four aging dams along the Klamath River in Oregon and California was released Wednesday, a long-awaited step toward ending a protracted dispute over the waterway.’
via Plan Outlines Removal of Klamath River Dams – NYTimes.com.
‘LONDON Reuters – U.S. and China markets are driving recovery in the global clean energy industry, after a sharp fall in investment this year, but uncertainty over government support is clouding the 2010 outlook.’
via Wind, solar execs eye U.S., China for growth | Green Business | Reuters.
‘Almost 10% of the World’s mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish are at risk of extinction, says an Australian report.
The animals face threats including habitat loss and climate change.’
via BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Census reveals extinction threat.