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/

World airline traffic set to grow at 5% a year until 2025

(ClimateRadar.com) According to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Total world airline scheduled passenger traffic in terms of passenger-kilometres is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 4.6 per cent up to the year 2025, half a percentage point lower than the growth rate achieved over the period 1985-2005, according to forecasts prepared [...]

New forum established for sustainable nuclear energy research

(ClimateRadar.com) Energy consumption worldwide is likely to double between 2000 and 2050, and nuclear energy will remain a key element in future low-carbon energy systems. Europe has the largest nuclear industry in the world and one third of its electricity comes from nuclear plants. A Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP) was launched in Brussels, [...]

Carbon footprint enters Oxford Dictionary

(ClimateRadar.com) Carbon footprint has now become part of the popular vernacular as it enters the new version of Oxford Dictionary.
http://www.oed.com/news/ 

Venture Capital reaping Billions

 
(ClimateRadar.com) European venture capital investors are on track to realise annualised gross returns above 50% from investment in clean energy companies, according to the second annual European Clean Energy Venture Returns Analysis, completed by New Energy Finance to coincide with the European Energy Venture Fair 2007, taking place this week in Zurich.
http://www.newenergyfinance.com/docs/Press/2007-09-18_Venture_Investors_in_Clean_Energy.pdf 

UK Houses will miss zero carbon target

(ClimateRadar.com) National Housing Federation chief executive David Orr warned that the Government is in danger of missing its target to ensure all new homes are zero carbon by 2016. Speaking at the Federation annual conference, at the ICC in Birmingham, Mr Orr revealed that while 92% of housing association new homes are already meeting minimum [...]

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 [...]

Carbon trading market will be $100bn by 2020

(ClimateRadar.com) According to a new report launched by Lehman Brothers, the size of the carbon trading market will be $100bn by 2020.
http://www.lehman.com/press/#0907

Nature Magazine launches new climate change hub

(ClimateRadar) Nature Magazine has launched an online science resource from Nature Publishing Group. Nature Reports: Climate Change covers the news behind the science and the science behind the news of global climate change, arguably the most far-reaching challenge of this century. The site is dedicated to authoritative in-depth reporting on climate change and its wider [...]

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 [...]