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Ford Focus Ford develops ambitious, private plan to reduce emissions		04 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Ford Focus Ford develops ambitious, private plan to reduce emissions Top executives at Ford Motor Co. have set an aggressive goal to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions -- a goal that would require a roughly 80 percent improvement in the fuel economy of the company's cars and trucks by 2030. The motives behind the goal, which the company has not announced publicly, are complex. It's a business opportunity: Toyota, which has m ...
Topics: business, climate, placemaking (all these topics)

Da! Russian government approves Kyoto; treaty now likely to go into effect		30 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Da! Russian government approves Kyoto; treaty now likely to go into effect After years of mixed messages, coy feints, and internal drama, the Russian government at last approved the Kyoto Protocol today, virtually ensuring that the treaty will go into force worldwide by the end of the year. After the U.S. (responsible for 25 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions) rejected the treaty, its success or failure fell into Russia's hands: T ...
Topics: climate, Russia (all these topics)

Living for the City San Francisco unveils plan to fight global warming		29 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Living for the City San Francisco unveils plan to fight global warming Saying that global warming "is a real and looming threat to our economy, our public health, and our environment" to which the Bush administration "is not paying attention," San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (D) this week unveiled a plan to reduce the city's greenhouse-gas emissions to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. Much of t ...
Topics: California, climate, San Francisco (all these topics)

Baked Alaskans Global warming is destroying Eskimo villages		28 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Baked Alaskans Global warming is destroying Eskimo villages While debates over the "precautionary principle" and economic tradeoffs take place down in the cozy lower 48, global warming is entirely less abstract to Inupiaq Eskimos on the coast of Alaska. They're not so much worried about losing jobs as losing, well, their villages. The annual mean air temperature in Alaska has risen 4 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 30 years, ...
Topics: Alaska, climate (all these topics)

Like a Tundra of Bricks Arctic tundra may produce rather than absorb CO2, accelerating warming		24 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Like a Tundra of Bricks Arctic tundra may produce rather than absorb CO2, accelerating warming It's not often that drama emerges from the Arctic tundra, but there seems to be genuine excitement around revelations from a 20-year study just completed and published in the journal Nature. Researchers have long assumed that Arctic tundra would be a carbon dioxide "sink," absorbing CO2 and slowing -- at least slightly -- t ...
Topics: Antarctica, Canada, climate (all these topics)

Dim Sun Global dimming? Global warming? What's with the globe, anyway?	Kip Keen	22 Sep 2004	Main Dish
Global dimming? Global warming? What's with the globe, anyway? By Kip Keen 22 Sep 2004 Raise a toast to solar radiation. The director of the Zurich-based World Radiation Monitoring Center, the organization that measures the amount of solar radiation hitting the ground around the globe, has a strange talent. Give Atsumu Ohmura a glass of white wine and tell him only its vintage, and he'll swish a mouthful and -- without referring to legs, bouquets, or mango backgrounds -- announce where ...
Topics: air pollution, climate (all these topics)

Sturm Und Dang Climate change and urbanization lead to more natural-disaster fatalities		20 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Sturm Und Dang Climate change and urbanization lead to more natural-disaster fatalities Thanks to global warming and the increasing concentration of the earth's denizens in densely populated urban centers, more and more people are vulnerable to natural disasters -- floods, droughts, storms, fires, landslides, and the like. The number of reported natural disasters rose from 261 in 1990 to 337 last year; durin ...
Topics: Caribbean, climate, Southeast, United Nations (all these topics)

Boilerplate Tectonics Bush and Kerry discuss their positions on science		16 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Boilerplate Tectonics Bush and Kerry discuss their positions on science In the latest issue of the journal Nature, President Bush and John Kerry each respond to 15 questions about science and related topics. Because the responses are written, neither candidate sounds like himself -- there are no Bushian malapropisms or Kerryan layered qualifiers -- and for the most part they simply regurgitate campaign-trail b ...
Topics: climate, elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Vanity Blair Tony Blair calls for action on global warming, critics heap scorn		15 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Vanity Blair Tony Blair calls for action on global warming, critics heap scorn U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair made a major speech yesterday that referred to global warming as the earth's "greatest environmental challenge," and though he never mentioned U.S. President Bush by name, he pointedly called on the world's wealthiest countries to take the lead in battling it. Saying that international cooperation was v ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Walking on Blair Conservatives Accuse Blair of Being Weak on Climate Change		13 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Walking on Blair Conservatives Accuse Blair of Being Weak on Climate Change In a depressing illustration of just how far global consensus on climate change has left the U.S. behind, this week British Prime Minister Tony Blair was criticized for doing too little on global warming by Michael Howard, the leader of the conservative Tory party. Howard attacked Blair for failing to use his close relationship with President Bus ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

The Status D'oh! Salon.com Delves into Global Warming		10 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
The Status D'oh! Salon.com Delves into Global Warming A new trio of articles on Salon.com does a nice job of laying out the current state of play on global warming, though its conclusions will come as no surprise to regular Grist readers: President Bush has been playing what the National Wildlife Federation's Jeremy Symons calls "whack-a-mole" with federal scientists, trying to obscure their consensu ...
Topics: climate, elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Igloom and Doom Arctic Feeling the Heat From Climate Change		07 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Read more about: climate Igloom and Doom Arctic Feeling the Heat From Climate Change Global warming is messing with the Arctic more and faster than any other part of the world, to the detriment of the indigenous peoples and animals who call the region their home. Inuit living around the Arctic Circle have seen their ecosystems transformed. Shrinking ice cover means the hunting season is shorter for polar bears; animals who are either white or turn white in the winter as camouflage are more vul ...
Topics: climate (all these topics)

He Said, She Said -- Except He's Right Study Shows Systematic Deficiency in Climate-Change Reporting		01 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
He Said, She Said -- Except He's Right Study Shows Systematic Deficiency in Climate-Change Reporting An analysis of climate-change coverage in four major U.S. newspapers from 1988 to 2002 confirms what many enviros have long charged: Media coverage of global warming is woefully deficient. A growing chorus of media critics says that the journalistic convention of "balance," which dictates that in order to remain "fair ...
Topics: climate, United States (all these topics)

Good Times, Good Times Federal Report on Global Warming Produces Beltway Drama		27 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Good Times, Good Times Federal Report on Global Warming Produces Beltway Drama When The New York Times reported yesterday on a new Bush administration report to Congress which acknowledged the human causes of global warming, characterizing it as an abrupt shift in policy, some Beltway wags speculated that the newspaper was trying to box the administration in and embarrass it. Today brought evidence in support of such spec ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

Dismission: Impossible New U.S. Government Report Acknowledges Human-Caused Climate Change		26 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Dismission: Impossible New U.S. Government Report Acknowledges Human-Caused Climate Change President Bush famously dismissed a 2002 U.S. government report that acknowledged the human causes of climate change as something "put out by the bureaucracy." Well, it looks like the bureaucracy's at it again: A new administration report to Congress indicates that human production of heat-trapping greenhouse gases is likely behind the r ...
Topics: climate, politics (all these topics)

Good-Bye, Cool World Scientist Warns That Decreasing Air Pollution Means Increased Warming		24 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Good-Bye, Cool World Scientist Warns That Decreasing Air Pollution Means Increased Warming Jeez, we really can't catch a break, can we? A German scientist now warns that air pollution is masking the true extent of global warming -- and as air pollution is reduced, warming may accelerate. Addressing the 13th World Clean Air and Environmental Protection Congress in London this week, Meinrat Andreae said that aerosols in the atm ...
Topics: climate, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Clime Against Humanity Report Warns Europe Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Change		18 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Clime Against Humanity Report Warns Europe Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Change Europe will suffer worse, and sooner, than other parts of the world from climate change, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency. The report "pulls together a wealth of evidence that climate change is already happening and having widespread impacts, many of them with substantial economic costs, on people and ecosystems a ...
Topics: climate, European Union (all these topics)

Public Nuisance No. 1 A bold lawsuit may have utilities reconsidering their fight against regs	Amanda Griscom	30 Jul 2004	Muckraker
A coal-fired power plant. Photo: U.S. Geological Survey. It may have sounded like the understatement of the year when a lawsuit was filed last week against five major U.S. energy companies, alleged to be among the biggest global-warming culprits in the nation, on the legal grounds that they're causing a "public nuisance." In reality it may have been one of the ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

The Inuit Word for Bikini	Suzy Becker	26 Jul 2004	Ha.

Topics: climate (all these topics)

Clash of the Titans An excerpt from Boiling Point highlights a clash of interests over climate change	Ross Gelbspan	21 Jul 2004	Arts and Minds
Boiling Point By Ross Gelbspan, Basic Books, 256 pages, July 2004 Journalist Ross Gelbspan's new book, Boiling Point (out in late July from Basic Books), reveals how politicians, big oil and coal, the media, and even activists have fueled the climate crisis -- and how we might still avert disaster. This excerpt traces what Gelbspan describes as a corrupt relationshi ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, oil, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Day After Tomorrow Never Dies Film plot rings true as NOAA runs up against White House	Amanda Griscom	03 Jun 2004	Muckraker
The brewing storm. Image: NOAA. Even after grapefruit-sized hail and monster tornadoes assault major cities in the Northern Hemisphere in the film The Day After Tomorrow, Jack Hall, a paleoclimatologist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, still can't get the ballooning crisis of global warming through the thick skull of the vice president. "I thin ...
Topics: climate, climate science, green living, movies, Muckraker, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, politics (all these topics)

Another One Bytes the Slush Charles Wohlforth's The Whale and the Supercomputer compares views of climate change	Elizabeth Grossman	02 Jun 2004	Arts and Minds
In for the long haul. Photo: Charles Wohlforth. Out on the ice that forms the shores of the Arctic Ocean, the I�upiaq whalers of Barrow, Alaska, hauled in their catch, a bowhead whale that weighed more than 100,000 pounds. The entire village turned out to pull the enormous mammal ashore and butcher it. Sleds and snowmobiles were piled with maktak (ene ...
Topics: Alaska, climate (all these topics)

The Big Picture Climate change too slow for Hollywood, too fast for the rest of us	Bill McKibben	04 May 2004	Soapbox
It's always been hard to get people to take global warming seriously because it happens too slowly. Not slowly in geological terms -- by century's end, according to the consensus scientific prediction, we'll have made the planet warmer than it's been in tens of millions of years. But slowly in NBC Nightly News terms. From day to day, it's hard to discern the catastrophe, so we don't ge ...
Topics: climate, green living, politics, United States (all these topics)

Housewarming Bipartisan House bill may signal growing consensus on climate change	Amanda Griscom	07 Apr 2004	Muckraker
Gilchrest (left) and Olver, the new climate warriors. Photo: U.S. House. The nascent congressional effort to fight global warming has spread to the House -- but supporters acknowledge that it's not likely to receive an especially warm welcome from the chamber's leadership. Last week, a motley bipartisan crew of representatives including Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) and John Olver (D-Mass ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Seas the Day Enviros Push California to Buy Ocean Areas and Fishing Boats		06 Apr 2004	Daily Grist
Seas the Day Enviros Push California to Buy Ocean Areas and Fishing Boats Environmental groups, buoyed by their success in channeling government money to buy large swaths of California coast to protect it from development, have set their sights on the Pacific Ocean. They hope to secure funding to buy boats, fishing permits, and even plots of ocean floor off the California coast in an effort to mitigate the destructive effec ...
Topics: climate, oceans, United Kingdom (all these topics)

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