American Support for Local Action on Global Warming

(ClimateRadar.com) Recent national surveys demonstrate that Americans are increasingly convinced that global warming is occurring (in this survey, 68% are “completely” or “mostly convinced”) and favor a wide range of national and international policies to slow it.

http://environment.yale.edu/news/5323/

Great Lakes disappearing fast

(ClimateRadar.com) According to a Globe and Mail article, the Great Lakes, the larget body of fresh water on earth, is shrinking at an alarming rate. Global warming seems to be the culprit.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070924.LAKES24/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/

George Bush again sidesteps UN

(ClimateRadar.com) Once again George Bush will sidestep the UN conference on climate change this week, and will only attend the gala dinner. This is in light of the ‘other climate change summit’ that he is organising on Thursday at the White House. Although it reflects an effort to acknowledge climate change, many see this as a PR exercise with very little substance to come out of this conference. For more >>> http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/23/america/climate.php

Investor alliance sign petition to US stock market

(ClimateRadar.com) A broad coalition of investors, state officials with regulatory and fiscal management responsibilities, and environmental groups today filed a landmark petition asking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require publicly-traded companies to assess and fully disclose their financial risks from climate change. The 22 petitioners include leading institutional investors in the U.S. and Europe managing more than $1.5 trillion in assets.

http://www.ceres.org/pub/docs/Full%20Petition.pdf

Canadian Solar company secures $17m

(ClimateRadar.com) Day4Energy, a Vancouver-based company has secured $17m to expand its production of solar panels. Day4 Energy has developed new PV technology that will significantly reduce the cost of PV to the end-user, making future technology a reality.

www.day4energy.com

QUOTE: “The first thing we have to do is destroy oil as a strategic commodity”

(ClimateRadar.com) “The first thing we have to do is destroy oil as a strategic commodity.” Former CIA director James Woolsey said at a renewable enrgy conference in Iowa, USA. Woolsey, is now a lawyer specializing in energy for the Booz Allen Hamilton consulting firm.

http://www.renewableonparade.com/

ChooseRenewables launches green electricity service

(ClimateRadar.com) A new American startup called ChooseRenewables.com, has launched, to help consumers choose green electricity, conserve energy, offset their emissions and generate their own renewable electricity.

http://www.chooserenewables.com/

Scientific error in major “global warming” Book for Children

(ClimateRadar.com) The Science and Public Policy Institute has uncovered a major flaw, or ‘intended mistake’, by Laurie David, in her children’s book ‘The Down-to-earth Guide to Global Warming’. In it, the study claims that “The more the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the higher the temperature climbed”. However, in order to illustrate that fact, they used a graph where the labels were switched to concur that assertion.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/other/david_book_SPPI_paper2_9-11-07.pdf

Pro-Fossil Fuel senators writing global warming proposal

(ClimateRadar.com) According to Blogger ‘The Cunctator’ the new legislative laws are being concocted by senators with strong links to the fossil fuel industry.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/19/183955/708

Climate change may help rainforests

(ClimateRadar) A new research from Brazilian and EUropean scientists suggests that Amazon forests are vulnerable to both long- and short-term droughts, but satellite observations showed a large-scale photosynthetic green-up in intact evergreen forests of the Amazon in response to a short, intense drought in 2005. These findings suggest that Amazon forests, though threatened by human-caused deforestation, fire, and possibly by more severe long-term droughts, may be more resilient to climate changes than ecosystem models assume.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1146663