Leading Australian Scientist Tim Flannery on Global Warming and the Worsening Dangers of Climate Change Denial

Democracy Now! - Look, the best way to think about these things, really, is to take a bigger global view. And Americans might feel they’re suffering from a whole lot of severe weather at the moment, but look globally and you see exactly the same thing around the world. Anywhere with a Mediterranean climate, such as Greece or Australia or California, is suffering extreme wildfires. Now, why is that happening? The climate is slowly shifting, so that the desert regions adjacent to those Mediterranean areas, you know, are starting to expand.

Büyük Gıda Şirketleri İklim Felaketine Sebep Olmakla Suçlanıyor

Guardian, John Vidal - Bugün yayımlanan bir rapora göre, büyük gıda ve petrol şirketlerinin, dünyanın en büyük turba yataklarında yetişen hurma yağı ve biyoyakıtlara talebi artırmaya yönelik çabaları bir iklim değişikliği felaketine sebep olabilir.

Years of living dangerously: the wild, wild world

Independent - It's not just your imagination, the weather really is getting worse. Andrew Buncombe and Daniel Howden explain why disasters are coming faster, and more furiously than ever.

CBI report urges business to tackle climate change

Guardian - Green campaigners welcomed a report from the Confederation of British Industry on what British firms can do to fight global warming, but said there were contradictions between what the report says and the actions of CBI member companies.

We build 3 million homes - or leave these families in Dickensian misery

Guardian, George Monbiot - It sounds preposterous: 3 million new homes in England alone by 2020. My instinct is to fight this project. It threatens Britain's countryside, the character of our towns, our water supplies and carbon targets. Today the housing and regeneration bill, which will help to implement this building programme, has its second reading in the House of Commons.

“We Are Now In The Danger Zone”: Leading Australian Scientist Tim Flannery on Climate Change and How To Save the Planet

Democracy Now! - We just seem to accept it as normal. I think it’s a miracle, quite frankly, and a wondrous miracle that allows us to maintain ourselves on this planet, and it’s something we need to know so much more about as we move into this century of ours where we’re going to be putting ever more pressure on this environment of ours.

Finnish police end Greenpeace palm oil protest

STT - Greenpeace had organised a protest near Neste Oil's Porvoo refinery, some 50km east of Helsinki, timed to coincide with the arrival of a tanker carrying about 10,000 tonnes of palm oil.

Before Bali, Merkel calls on EU partners to keep pledges

AFP - "Some EU member states have drastically increased their emissions of carbon dioxide," Merkel said, saying this endangered the emissions reductions targets that the European Union committed to in the Kyoto Protocol.

Bush's Nuclear 'Reprocessing' Plan Under Fire

OneWorld, Haider Rizvi - The Bush administration is pushing for plans to reuse spent nuclear fuel in power reactors across the United States, but key senators and nuclear analysts have raised economic and security concerns about reusing the weapons-grade fuel.

"Suyu Az Tüket" Diyen Devlet Golf Sahası Açıyor

Bianet - Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı 110 golf sahasının açılacağını duyurdu. Suyu idareli kullanın diyerek suya zam yapan devlet diğer yandan golf sahası açıyor.

Barroso warns against "climate fundamentalism"

Deutsche Presse - 'We need to avoid all fundamentalism on climate issues,' he said. Instructing people how to live in private could lead to 'our society taking on totalitarian characteristics.'

Going Green? Easy Doesn't Do It

Washington Post, Michael Maniates - Thanksgiving nicely focuses our attention on things of lasting importance: family, friends, community, a rich harvest. None of these blessings come without cost or sacrifice. Today, then, we might consider what we must give of ourselves to preserve such abundance in the face of increasing climatic instability.

Kendi kendine yetebilen ekolojik kasaba

NTV - İngiltere’nin güneybatısındaki Totnes kasabası, artan petrol fiyatları ve küresel ısınmaya karşı yetkililerin harekete geçmesini beklemeden önlem almaya başladı. Üstelik bu konuda oldukça iddialı.

Australia's Rudd tackles global warming

AP - Australia - Australia's Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd took advice Sunday on how to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and fielded phone calls from world leaders — starting in on work the day after a sweeping election victory.

Yurdu hızlı tren hatları saracak

NTV - Türkiye’de demiryolu ulaşımını geliştirme hedefi doğrultusunda, 2008 yılında 6 güzergahta hızlı demiryolu inşaatı sürdürülecek.

MP says airport plans are 'absolute betrayal'

Guardian - The consultation document outlined plans that might cost as much as £9bn and see flights increase from 480,000 a year to 700,000. The public have until February 27 2008 to make their views known. This fourteen-week period is the minimum period required under EU law for a consultation and will include the Christmas period.

The next Australian election could be the first decided on climate change

The Guardian, Julian Glover - The Australian prime minister, John Howard, has poured scorn on the idea of global warming. But now the trees are dying, the crops are failing and the rivers are drying up. As the country prepares to go to the polls, Julian Glover reports on the world's first climate change election.

Sustaining palm oil markets

Business Times - Four years since its first meeting in Kuala Lumpur, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil yesterday unveiled a certification system which will see certified palm oil hit the markets in the first quarter of next year.

Sweden Turns to a Promising Power Source, With Flaws

New York Times - “We’ve created a new landmark,” said Mr. Floderus, the project manager of the $280 million wind park, one of the world’s largest, which was built by the Swedish power company Vattenfall.

'India's renewable energy capacity to grow eight-fold'

EarthTimes - India's renewable energy capacity will grow eight-fold to touch 80,000 MW by 2032 and will account for 10 percent of the country's total electricity generation capacity, Renewable Energy Minister Vilas Muttemwar said.