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newsclips -- Newsclips for August 6, 2009
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Newsclips for August 6, 2009. California Air Resources Board News Clips for August 6, 2009 This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual websites to view some of the following news articles. Methane Emissions are Something Usually Associated with Agricultural Feed Lots. So researchers were somewhat surprised to find that the Los Angeles area is emitting more than twice the amount of methane than was expected. Posted. http://www.newsreview.com/reno/content?oid=1063764 L.A.-Area Ports Honor Pacific Harbor Line's Clean-Air Efforts: Pacific Harbor Line Inc. (PHL) recently won a San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan Air Quality Award from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif.Posted. http://www.progressiverailroading.com/news/article.asp?id=21130 State Seeks to Honor Climate-Friendly Businesses. The California Air Resources Board is seeking nominees for its "CoolCalifornia Small Business Award" program. Posted. http://www.thebusinessjournal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article. &id=1332:state-seeks-to-honor-climate-friendly-businesses&catid=132:environment&Itemid=759 Thomas Elias: 'Brownest Cut of All' Hacks at Governor's Legacy. It may not be the unkindest cut and it may also not be the most inefficient or deadly one Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made when he used his veto pen to blue-pencil more than $500 million more from the state budget than legislators had already done. Posted. http://www.presstelegram.com/opinions/ci_13000632 Market is Growing for Greenhouse-Gas Credits . While the debate over the cause, severity and impacts of global warming continues to rage, an unprecedented marketplace already has begun to develop over greenhouse-gas credits. Posted. http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/aug/06/market-is-growing-for-greenhouse-gas-credits/ Beijing Softens Stand on Emissions Cap BEIJING -- China signaled a slightly softer position on accepting a cap on the emissions that cause global warming, despite expressing frustration at the lack of a breakthrough on climate-change talks. Posted. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124949995562108653.html Facebook App Gets Pcs to Tackle Climate Change: Flight climate change from the comfort of your jammies and laptop. Intel has just launched an application that uses an eco geek's available computing power for research projects. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/mnGreenTechnology/idUS153573991220090805 Pacific States Seek Urgent Climate Change Action. CAIRNS, Australia — The Pacific Islands Forum called on all nations Thursday to pledge a 50 percent cut in their emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 at U.N. climate change talks in December, bolstering appeals made a day earlier by seven of the region's most threatened islands. Posted. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hDFK72jdmHcrrft7EQOcdklRnc_wD99TCD2O5 Climate Change Poker: Barriers Prevent a Global Agreement. As the world’s environment ministers, government officials, diplomats and campaigners prepare to attend the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 to unite in the battle against climate change in one of the most complicated political deals the world has ever seen, the increasingly complex territory of climate negotiations is being revealed in an article published today, 5 August 2009, in IOP Publishing’s 'Environmental Research Letters'. Posted http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/08/06/climate-change-poker-the-barriers-which-are-preventing-a-global-agreement.html China Balks at Global Warming-Gas Capture Costs (Bloomberg) -- China, the world’s biggest carbon- dioxide polluter, is balking at the cost and effectiveness of extracting greenhouse gases from hundreds of coal plants and storing them underground. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=awnmd15dPMVU California's Global Warming Bills to be Discussed. Local officials may get a better idea this week just how California's global warming bills will affect future development. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13004575 Glacier Melt Accelerating, Federal Report Concludes. Reviewing five decades of data on three 'benchmark glaciers,' researchers say shrinking glaciers clearly result from global warming. Reporting from Washington -- Global warming has melted glaciers in the United States at a rapid and accelerating rate over the last half-century, increasing drought risks and contributing to rising sea levels, the federal government will report today based on data from a 50-year study of glaciers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-glacier7-2009aug07,0,2419256.story Is 'Cash for Clunkers' Program Helping to Fight Global WARMING? Some top environmental experts are saying the "cash for clunkers" program is an ineffective way to target climate change. Posted. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537500,00.html Blogs Psychology is to Blame for Humans not Acting on Climate Change, psychologists say. If you ever wondered what is to blame for the world's sluggish reaction to climate change, wonder no longer. Posted http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/08/no-duh-human-behavior-is-to-blame-for-failing-to-act-on-climate-change-psychologists-say.html Is the Climate Problem in Our Heads? A task force assembled by the American Psychological Association hopes to spur more research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors resulting in rising greenhouse-gas emissions as well as on traits that can impede an effective response to global warming and similar slow-building environmental risks. Posted http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/is-the-climate-problem-in-our-heads/ Can National Parks be Saved from Global Warming? The federal government must take decisive action to avoid "a potentially catastrophic loss of animal and plant life," in the national parks, according to a new report that details the effect of global warming on the country's most treasured public lands. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/08/national-parks-global-warming.html