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newsclips -- Newsclips for October 22, 2009.
Posted: 22 Oct 2009 11:50:55
California Air Resources Board News Clips for October 22, 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. China Hopeful About Copenhagen Climate Talks. Beijing, China -- China wants to increase cooperation with the U.S. and other nations to reach a deal at global climate talks in December, Vice Premier Li Keqiang said Thursday. Li's comments come less than two months ahead of the global climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, that seeks an international agreement on a treaty to cut greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/22/international/i044606D69.DTL&type=printable http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/world/asia/23china.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print Britain Publishes Doomsday Climate Change Vision. London (AP) -- Two British Cabinet ministers showed off a doomsday vision of disappearing cities and rising seas on Thursday, part of an effort to push nations to strike a new pact on curbing emissions of global warming gasses. Foreign Secretary David Miliband and his brother, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband, published an online map detailing the predicted impact of a 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit) rise in global temperatures. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/22/world/AP-EU-Britain-Climate-Map.html?sq=climate%20change&st=cse&scp=3&pagewanted=print Future Dangers for a Maritime City. From its description Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront, a six-month research program being inaugurated early next month at the Museum of Modern Art, sounds like the kind of dry, somnolent workshop someone would dream up for a convention of civil engineers. Conceived to address the potential effects of rising water levels and apocalyptic storms on the city, the program is modeled on the principles of “soft infrastructure,” which proposes flexible ecological systems as an alternative to “hard” solutions like concrete dams and storm barriers. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/arts/design/22currents.html?sq=global%20warming&st=cse&scp=7&pagewanted=print U.N. Finds Greenhouse Gases On The Rise Before Economic Collapse. Greenhouse gas emissions in wealthy countries shot up between 2006 and 2007, according to the most recent U.N. figures released yesterday. The data, which show a 1 percent spike, do not reflect the impact of the global recession, and they come on the heels of a more recent study projecting that the economic crisis will force down global warming pollution to about 2007 levels. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/10/22/7 Fewer Americans Believe In Human-Induced Global Warming – Poll. A declining percentage of Americans believe there is solid evidence that human activities, including burning fossil fuels, are causing global temperatures to rise, according to a newly released poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. However, the poll shows that more respondents support carbon dioxide controls than oppose them. Asked if they back setting emissions limits and making companies pay for their emissions, even if it may mean higher energy prices, 50 percent said they were in favor and 39 percent said they were opposed. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/10/22/4 Talking Turkey on Cap-and-Trade. With the Senate starting work on its version of a cap-and-trade system to limit carbon emissions, opponents are gearing up for a fight. "This cap-and-trade is a turkey," said Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., yesterday. "I don't care how many gee gaws you put on it, that baby's never going to fly." Bond and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, yesterday unveiled a new study that claims the Senate cap-and-trade proposal amounts to a $3.6 trillion fuel tax. Posted. http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-print.asp?news_id=68236 Ask The Experts: Think 'Green' For Automotive Job Opportunities. The recession may be waning, but job hunting is still hard work. This week, career counselor Terri Carpenter of Sacramento Works offers advice to jobless readers. My husband lost his job as a shop foreman at a Ford dealership last November. He has been unable to find anything else since. His legacy is the fact that he can fix anything! Do you have any recommendations for career redirection or insight into what types of careers might be in the forefront in (coming) years? Your husband might consider a "clean diesel" training program or one of the clean energy industry's training programs for specialty jobs, such as a mechanic for hybrid/alternative fuel vehicles. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/business/story/2267488.html The End of California? Dream On! California, you may have heard, is an apocalyptic mess of raging wildfires, soaring unemployment, mass foreclosures and political paralysis. It's dysfunctional. It's ungovernable. Its bond rating is barely above junk. It's so broke, it had to hand out IOUs while its leaders debated how many prisoners to release and parks to close. Nevada aired ads mocking California's business climate to lure its entrepreneurs. Posted. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1931582,00.html Plug-In Cars Are Almost Here, but Charging Stations Lag. Detroit — Even though several automakers plan to begin selling electric vehicles next year, their sales may be limited by the lack of a national infrastructure to support them, speakers at a conference here on plug-in cars said on Wednesday. Utilities that serve most of the nation’s electricity customers said they were aware of the issue, and would take several steps, including working to help develop plans for charging stations, and would use battery-powered vehicles themselves. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/business/22electric.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print The Road To Zero Mpg Starts With A 'Hybrid Household,' Nissan Says. For some, the key to clean driving might be a hybrid car. For others, the better path may be a "hybrid household." Many households already have different cars for different purposes -- a compact car for fuel-saving rides and an SUV for handling the kids, for example. That model might also work for all-electric cars such as the Nissan Leaf, a five-seat sedan scheduled to hit the mass market in 2012. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/10/22/2 State May Push For TVs To Use Half The Energy. Sacramento - California regulators, concerned over the proliferation of flat-panel television sets that guzzle electricity, could soon impose first-in-the-nation laws that restrict how much power televisions can consume. In some cases, televisions use more energy than refrigerators, regulators said during a legislative hearing Wednesday on a proposal to force television manufacturers to cut the power TVs use in California in half by 2013. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/22/MNIB1A8C5P.DTL&type=printable The Air Up Here: Why Emissions Checks Are Not Required For Most Tahoe Vehicles. Incline Village, Nev. — Lake Tahoe is the land of the environmental impact study. From building a new resort, changing a road or developing a new regional plan, practically every development that could affect the lake's environment is tested and tried. But when it comes to vehicle emissions, testing and trying is negligible. Most vehicles registered in the Lake Tahoe Basin are not required to have an emissions test. Posted. http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20091021/NEWS/910219986/1066&ParentProfile=1051 BLOGS Time To (Finally) De-Guzzle Our Cars? Californians will get the last word in a trio of public hearings that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation launch this week over whether and how to slash the fuel appetite of the nation's car fleet. In the wake of President Obama's May 19 accord with California regulators, U.S. automakers, the United Autoworkers and environmental groups, the federal agencies will listen to public comments in Detroit today, in New York on Friday and in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/10/fuel-economy-standards.html Keeping Natural Gas in Pipelines, Not the Air. The Environmental Protection Agency issued its latest report on the Methane to Markets program aimed at encouraging industries to capture “fugitive” emissions of the one greenhouse gas that’s a valuable fuel, methane. (Nearly all of natural gas is methane.) The illustration above shows the emissions captured so far in international partnerships and those identified but not yet pursued. The gains are substantial, and — as we reported recently — and often profitable. Posted. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/keeping-natural-gas-in-pipelines-not-the-air/?pagemode=print