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Tuesday 09 February

Better Weather Forecasts With a Map Showing Atmospheric Vapor - Science Daily
ScienceDaily.com | 09 Feb 2010
We are now completely used to the fact that our TomTom sat nav system shows us where to drive and that the weather forecaster tells us if it will be cloudy or sunny later on today. However, most of us never give a thought to the error margins in ...

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Britain launches labeling for green power tariffs
Reuters | 08 Feb 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has launched a scheme to certify and label electricity produced by green means so as to help consumers and small businesses choose tariffs to support suppliers doing more to cut carbon emissions than obliged.

United Kingdom | Government and Climate Change | Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Biologist solves mystery of tropical grasses' origin
ScienceDaily.com | 08 Feb 2010
Biologists have found that rainfall, not temperature, was the primary trigger for the evolutionary beginnings of C4 tropical grasses.

United States | Biodiversity | Climate Change Impacts | Research | Climate Change

KKR Extends Green Program to a Fifth of Global Portfolio
ClimateBiz | 08 Feb 2010
Global Equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) has extended its money-saving environmental management program to 20 percent of its portfolio, including two companies located outside the U.S.

Economy | Industry | Climate Change | Global Warming

New UN emissions pledges still stack up to 3.5°C
New Scientist | 08 Feb 2010
The commitments from 55 nations representing 78 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions hardly make a dent in projected warming

Climate Change

Climate row scientist says he considered suicide
CNN | 08 Feb 2010
The UK scientist at the center of a controversy surrounding e-mails leaked from a leading UK climate research unit has admitted the strain of the affair led him to consider suicide.

Climate Change

Climate row scientist 'contemplated suicide'
The Independent | 08 Feb 2010
The scientist at the centre of the "climategate" row contemplated suicide after hackers leaked his emails suggesting that he was selectively releasing information to fit his theories of climate change.

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Half a million homes to receive automatic flood warnings
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 08 Feb 2010
The Environment Agency will warn millions of people if their homes or businesses are in imminent danger of flooding.

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Weak ETS needs tightening to be effective - EAC
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 08 Feb 2010
The Environmental Audit Commission has published its third report on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in which it blasts the mechanism for being too loose to be effective and calls for a 'significant' tightening of caps.

Climate Change

Earlier glacial melt rate revised downward, but recent melt is accelerating dramatically
ScienceDaily.com | 07 Feb 2010
Glaciologists have shown that previous studies have largely overestimated mass loss from Alaskan glaciers over the past 40 years.

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Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers
The Independent | 07 Feb 2010
An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night.

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Rob Hopkins: Getting over oil, one town at a time
New Scientist | 07 Feb 2010
The founder of the Transition Towns movement explains why he is optimistic that we can survive peak oil and minimise climate change

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Beware of geoengineering using volcanoes' tricks
New Scientist | 07 Feb 2010
Volcanoes killed 27 per cent of marine genera 94 million years ago - fixing our climate with sulphate aerosols could inflict a similar fate on lakes

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How Well Do Scientists Understand How Changes in Earth's Orbit Affect ... - Science Daily
ScienceDaily.com | 05 Feb 2010
The new research was conducted by a team led by Professor Eelco Rohling of the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science hosted at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. "Understanding how climate has responded to past ...

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Oceans reveal further impacts of climate change
ScienceDaily.com | 05 Feb 2010
The increasing acidity of the world's oceans -- and that acidity's growing threat to marine species -- are definitive proof that the atmospheric carbon dioxide that is causing climate change is also negatively affecting the marine environment.

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Novo Nordisk Slashes Emissions and Water Use, But Sees Waste Grow
ClimateBiz | 05 Feb 2010
Novo Nordisk slashed greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption in 2009, at the same time the Danish pharmaceutical giant boosted sales and profit over the year before.

Economy | Industry | Climate Change | Global Warming

Spotlight: Being Honest With Ourselves: Putting Numbers Behind Green Business
ClimateBiz | 05 Feb 2010
This slideshow, a companion to Saul Griffith's lightning-paced presentation at the State of Green Busines Forum 2010, offers a look at the personal and global levels of responsibility for reducing our environmental impacts.

Economy | Industry | Climate Change | Global Warming

Why Green Business is Like Teen Sex
ClimateBiz | 05 Feb 2010
Corporate sustainability is like teen sex. Everybody talks about it. Nobody does it very much. And when they do it, they don’t do it very well. Friend and colleague Joel Makower likes to tell that joke, and it’s as good a way as any to introduce Greenbiz.com’s third annual State of Green Business report.

Economy | Industry | Climate Change | Global Warming

White roofs can cool cities
New Scientist | 05 Feb 2010
Dark roads and roofs make cities hotter than the countryside - but highly reflective white roofs would cool them by an average of 0.6 C

Climate Change

UN climate change boss Rajendra Pachauri vows to resist pressure to quit
The Independent | 05 Feb 2010
A high-profile error in an international report on climate change does not undermine the scientific case for man-made global warming, the head of the United Nations' panel on the issue insisted today.

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