2007 April:   Climate
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Aquatic down  on

Richard Black, Action urged on illegal fishing, BBC, 2007 April 29 (UK ministers urge more action on illegal fishing, which they say robs poor countries of $9bn per year)
Chee Chee Leung, Eels keel over as drought, salt grip Lake Bolac, The Age, 2007 April 12
Denial up  down  on

Terry Lane, Pray the climate gods aren't churlish, The Age, 2007 April 29 (a chap could well get into a panic about all this were it not for the calm, reassuring prime ministerial nostrum that climate change may be a bit of a worry but we don't contribute much to it and there's nothing we can do about it and if we stop selling coal to China we'll all be ruined)
Oceans blamed for global warming, The Age, 2007 April 29 (leading US hurricane forecaster says global ocean currents, not human-produced carbon dioxide, responsible for global warming)
David Adam, Move to block emissions 'swindle' DVD, Guardian, 2007 April 25 (climate scientists say film misleads public; wag TV producers reject 'contemptible gag attempt')
Sarah Smiles, Climate deniers must 'move on', The Age, 2007 April 19 (Australia cannot afford to be complacent about or ignore climate change, Britain's High Commissioner said yesterday)
Randall Hopkirk, Let's fly: before the Earth fries, Guardian, 2007 April 14 (I am based in London this semester and have been amazed at the breast-beating over global warming)
Food up  down  on

Joanna Blythman, Seeds of discontent, Guardian, 2007 April 19 (Britain is losing its green fields, as the grass that once fattened cattle is replaced by oilseed rape; the bright yellow tide has upset lovers of traditional country views; but what about the effects we can't see?; what is this chemical-hungry crop doing to the environment - and our health?)
David Adam, 'Only intensive farming' will feed Britain, Guardian, 2007 April 18 (organic agriculture 'will never meet demand'; Professor warns of soaring prices and shortages)
Forecasts up  down  on

Carol Nader, Health costs of global warming, The Age, 2007 April 28 (across the nation, the changing climate is expected to result in increases in respiratory problems and infectious diseases, as well as problems due to water shortages and poorer water quality, at least in some areas; then there is the psychological impact of living in a less-predictable, less-secure world)
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Terror in the weather forecast: Climate change and security, IHT, 2007 April 24 (climate stress may well represent a challenge to international security just as dangerous - and more intractable - than the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War or the proliferation of nuclear weapons among rogue states today)
Mark Lynas, Six steps to hell, Guardian, 2007 April 23 (by the end of the century, the Earth could be more than 6C hotter than it is today, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; what thousands of scientific papers for my new book on global warming told me)
Climate threat has plants quivering, BBC, 2007 April 20 (a 2oC increase in temperature may be too much for many plants species to survive)
Energy trading: Weather patterns, Economist, 2007 April 21 (how to forecast the forecasters)
James Bloom, Think global, calculate local, Guardian, 2007 April 19 (calculating the outcomes of climate change requires a choice between regional and local models)
Jonathan Amos, Kilimanjaro's ice set to linger, BBC, 2007 April 17 (a fresh assessment suggests the iconic ice fields on Africa's tallest mountain will be around for decades yet)
Katharine Murphy, Climate change warning on coast, The Age, 2007 April 17 (Australian' love affair with the coast could make us more vulnerable to the damaging consequences of climate change)
Chee Chee Leung, Life in 2050: older, wealthier, hotter, The Age, 2007 April 17 (imagine Australia in 40 years; most drivers will buy small, fuel-efficient cars or simply rent one from a fleet when they need it)
Juliette Jowit, £67m Eden project will show the perils of a warmer world, Observer, 2007 April 15 (plans for Britain's first tourist attraction dedicated to climate change and how humans will live with increasing temperatures will be unveiled this week at the Eden Project in Cornwall)
Global warming: A new tree line, Economist, 2007 April 14 (a climate model suggests that chopping down the Earth's trees would help fight global warming)
Larry Elliott, Review: When the lights go out, Guardian, 2007 April 14 (David Strahan and Duncan Clarke take opposing sides on the peak oil debate in The Last Oil Shock and The Battle for Barrels)
Josh Lacey, Review: On the ski slope to hell, Guardian, 2007 April 14 (Mark Lynas' apocalyptic vision of the planet's future, Six Degrees)
Forests
Ari Sharp, Carbon rules follow different paths, The Age, 2007 April 30 (it may usually be associated with forests, but the carbon offset industry could become more like the law of the jungle) 		up  down  on

Tom Phillips, Invisible but all too real: the illegal roads speeding destruction of the rainforest, Guardian, 2007 April 21 (illegal roads - often built by illegal loggers - represent one of the biggest challenges to the Brazilian government)
Conservation: Raining bats and logs, Economist, 2007 April 14 (how to replant a rainforest cheaply)
John Vidal, Vast forests with trees each worth £4,000 sold for a few bags of sugar, Guardian, 2007 April 11 (Congo village chiefs not told value of concessions; World Bank blamed over deals causing 'catastrophe')
Snowy forests 'increase warming', BBC, 2007 April 10 (planting trees in snowy areas may worsen global warming as they prevent sunlight from being reflected)
Fuel up  down  on

Seth Borenstein, Switch to ethanol may be harmful to health, IHT, 2007 April 18 (switching from gasoline to ethanol - touted as a green alternative at the pump - may create dirtier air, causing slightly more smog-related deaths)
Brazil in ethanol production vow, BBC, 2007 April 18 (Brazil vows to increase its production of ethanol, defying calls from the Venezuelan president to cut output)
Matthew L Wald and Alexei Barrionuevo, Ethanol goals in U.S. prove hard to reach, IHT, 2007 April 16 (without cellulosic ethanol, the national goal for ethanol production will be impossible to reach)
Larry Elliott, Review: When the lights go out, Guardian, 2007 April 14 (David Strahan and Duncan Clarke take opposing sides on the peak oil debate in The Last Oil Shock and The Battle for Barrels)
International up  down  on

Andrew C Revkin, World must act soon to slow warming from emissions, IHT, 2007 April 27 (substantial new efforts will be needed worldwide to stem accelerating growth in greenhouse-gas emissions linked to rising global temperatures, according to a summary of a new report being prepared by hundreds of climate scientists and economists working under the auspices of the United Nations)
Julian Borger, Weekend: Scorched, Guardian, 2007 April 28 (as the conflict in Darfur spreads across central Africa, with thousands more displaced and killed, the origins and contradictions of what is likely to be seen as the first climate change war are investigated)
David Adam, UN: we have the money and know-how to stop global warming, Guardian, 2007 April 28 (report obtained by the Guardian spells out strategy to reverse climate change)
John Vidal and Tom Kington, Pope puts focus on climate change, environment, The Age, 2007 April 28 (Vatican adds its voice to warnings from churches around the world that climate change and abuse of the environment is against God's will)
Lester R Brown, The price of salvation, Guardian, 2007 April 25 (reversing the devastation of our planet will require a massive international effort and vast sums of money; but it's not a question of can we afford it, but can we afford not to stump up)
Mary-Anne Toy, China flags hard line on climate, The Age, 2007 April 24 (the push for a global consensus on reducing greenhouse gases has been dealt a potentially serious blow, with a major report by the Chinese Government declaring that economic growth must take priority over cuts in emissions)
John Harris, A summer of greenwash, Guardian, 2007 April 21 (Al Gore's environmental activism is designed never to threaten the supremacy of the market)
Michael Gawenda and Michelle Grattan, Rudd urges embrace of China on climate, The Age, 2007 April 21 (Australia and the US must engage China on climate change, Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd tells a Washington audience)
First climate debate divides UN, BBC, 2007 April 18 (the UN Security Council holds its first debate on global warming, but Russia and China criticise the British initiative)
Jonathan Freedland, There is now no doubt that global warming is a security threat to us all, Guardian, 2007 April 18 (the debate on climate change at the UN top table is a sign that the big powers are at last beginning to see sense)
Andrew Clark, Climate change threatens security, UK tells UN, Guardian, 2007 April 18 (council debates 'weather of mass destruction'; US claims other factors more important for peace)
Ed Pilkington, UK to raise climate talks as security council issue, Guardian, 2007 April 16 (British government to raise subject of climate change for the first time within the UN security council)
Nick Cohen, Beware the noxious fumes of eco-extremism, Observer, 2007 April 15 (a lunatic fringe is jeopardising the already onerous task of curbing climate change)
World Bank 'must act on climate', BBC, 2007 April 11 (the World Bank must lead the climate change fight, says UK International Development Secretary Hilary Benn)
Invertebrates up  down  on

Bid to halt bumblebee decline, BBC, 2007 April 16 (a national drive to help boost the number of bumblebees in Britain is launched by conservationists)
Orietta Guerrera Why so many wasps?, The Age, 2007 April 11 (Victoria's mild winter and dry spring has boosted wasp numbers in some parts of the state)
Marine up  down  on

Nick Galvin, Tide turning for paradise, The Age, 2007 April 14 (for Kiribati, along with many of its Pacific neighbours, climate change is no longer theoretical)
Mitigation up  down  on

Amelia Hill, Juliette Jowit and Robin McKie, UN facing a backlash on emissions action plan, Observer, 2007 April 29 (environmental groups go on the attack as world experts reveal proposals to tackle climate change)
Richard Black, Canada sets reduced climate goal, BBC, 2007 April 27 (Canada's new climate strategy sets emissions targets, but acknowledges it will not meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment)
Leader, Climate change: Going green and meaning it, Guardian, 2007 April 28 (instead of cleaner technologies, the British are largely relying on market mechanisms that allow them to carry on as before)
National
Richard Baker, Speak of what you know, Prime Minister, The Age, 2007 April 30 (John Howard cannot back up claims that radical cuts to carbon emissions will cost jobs) 		up  down  on

Liz Minchin and Farrah Tomazin, Howard undermined on climate, The Age, 2007 April 25 (CSIRO advises that big cuts in emissions appear to be both inevitable and affordable)
Tim Colebatch, Populism drives out good policy, The Age, 2007 April 24 (all parties claim green credentials, but despite the rhetoric on water and climate change, it's still business as usual)
Mathew Murphy, Greens' emissions target, The Age, 2007 April 24 (Australia's economy is in danger of collapse unless a holistic response is taken to climate change, oil depletion and energy security, according to the Greens, who will today commit to an 80 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050)
Michelle Grattan, Misha Schubert and Tim Colebatch, Agreement on climate centre and diabetes, The Age, 2007 April 14 (a national centre to help Australians adapt to climate change and a $200 million plan to fight the looming diabetes epidemic have been endorsed by federal and state governments)
Vertebrates up  down  on

'Fewer leaves' behind frog demise, BBC, 2007 April 17 (a decline in the amount of leaves on the ground could be behind the rapid demise of frog species, a study of a rainforest in Costa Rica has suggested)
Lorna Edwards, Green apple corps leaves growers in the red, The Age, 2007 April 18 (the ravenous green invaders from the skies know no fear; hungry musk lorikeets, driven out of the bush by drought, have become a nightmare for apple growers in central Victoria and the Yarra Valley)
Ian Sample, Death in the rainforest: fragile creatures give the world a new climate warning, Guardian, 2007 April 17 (amphibian and reptile numbers fall by 75% in reserve meant to save them)
Steven Lee Myers, Russia proposes legal hunt to save polar bears, The Age, 2007 April 17 (on the frozen edge of the Arctic expanse, where a changing climate has brought polar bears into greater contact with people, Russia has embraced a counter-intuitive method of preserving the creatures: hunting them, legally)
AP, Turtles hurtle forth in race to save species, The Age, 2007 April 17 (biologists will today switch on satellite trackers strapped to the shells of 11 female leatherback turtles, signalling the start of the Great Turtle Race from Costa Rica's Pacific coast to the Galapagos Islands)
Water up  down  on

Barbara McMahon, Water, water everywhere, Observer, 2007 April 29 (Australia is in the grip of the worst drought in a century, but you'd never know it if you lived in Sydney)
Clay Lucas, Affluent effluent fouls sewage recycling scheme, The Age, 2007 April 28 (the elaborate toilet habits of the top end of Collins Street will delay for at least a year Melbourne's first big attempt to recycle raw sewage for public use)
Peter Ker and David Rood, Turnbull backs dams but warns on desalination, The Age, 2007 April 28 (Victoria should increase its dam storages but is unlikely to get Commonwealth support for a desalination plant in Melbourne, according to Malcolm Turnbull)
Australia's water shortage: The big dry, Economist, 2007 April 28 (Australia is struggling to cope with the consequences of a devastating drought; as the world warms up, other countries should pay heed)
Catherine McAloon and Olivia Hill-Douglas, Farmers rejoice as rain sets in, The Age, 2007 April 27 (north-west farmers celebrate arrival of soaking rain, with a wet weekend forecast for much of the state)
William Yardley, Conundrum for green-minded Northwest: Is hydroelectricity 'clean'?, IHT, 2007 April 23 (the power company that owns four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River says the dams provide a crucial source of so-called clean energy at a time when carbon emissions have become one of the world's foremost environmental concerns; but the American Indians, fishermen and environmentalists who want the dams removed point to what has happened since the first one was built nearly 90 years ago)
Paul Sinclair, The cost of mismanaging our greatest river, The Age, 2007 April 24 (unsustainable water use and the big dry have run dams to near empty)
Jason Koutsoukis, Drought could 'close down Snowy', The Age, 2007 April 22 (the Snowy Mountains hydro-electricity scheme will be forced to shut down turbines if there is not above-average rainfall during the next 18 months)
Mary-Anne Toy, China confronts costs and causes as rivers run dry, The Age, 2007 April 21 (global warming or development?; residents along the Yangtze ponder the origins of their own drought)
Jewel Topsfield, Last resort: stop the Murray, The Age, 2007 April 21 (drastic emergency plans being considered to stop the Murray River and major streams flowing next summer in bid to reduce evaporation and conserve water for urban use)
Drought threatens crop catastrophe, Guardian, 2007 April 20 (Australia will have to cut irrigation to prime farmland unless heavy rains break the drought)
Jewel Topsfield, Josh Gordon and Orietta Guerrera, Howard's dire warning on water, The Age, 2007 April 20 (large sections of rural Australia face economic ruin and consumers are being warned of soaring prices for basic food items unless drought-relieving rain arrives within weeks)
Sarah-Jane Collins, Trees bite the dust as dry takes its toll, The Age, 2007 April 19 (they have adorned some of Melbourne's most popular streets and gardens for a century, but now drought is proving fatal for some of the city's trees)
Ben Doherty, Wimmera's drought bill tops $1bn, The Age, 2007 April 18 (the cost of the drought in Victoria's Wimmera district has topped $1 billion, a new report says, but the cost to the state could be as high as $2.5 billion)
Chee Chee Leung, Honoured scientist toasts recycled water, The Age, 2007 April 18 (the former head of a committee set up by the Bracks Government to help plan Melbourne's water strategy has supported using recycled water for drinking)
Owen Bowcott, Homes for all—water for no one, Guardian, 2007 April 17 (poisoned locals, no holy water and worried tourists—Galway pays a high price for the economic boom)
Peter Ker, Crop losses sow water fears, The Age, 2007 April 17 (fears over the standard of water being supplied to Victoria's primary vegetable growing region have deepened, after four crop species were badly damaged in a new crisis at Werribee)
Orietta Guerrera, Saltwater haven turns to dust as big dry bites hard, The Age, 2007 April 15 (drought reduces Australia's biggest permanent saltwater lake, Lake Corangamite, to its lowest level in more than 60 years)
Miki Perkins, Cattle turn meadow to mudflat, The Age, 2007 April 15 (last year, a cherished Murray River wetland was a freshwater meadow, replete with lush vegetation and water birds; just six months later it's a muddy plain, and environmentalists say illegal cattle grazing and government mismanagement is to blame)
Josh Gordon, Extreme heat and cold could spark blackouts, The Age, 2007 April 13 (Victoria faces the prospect of power shortfalls next summer if winter proves unusually dry and cold and the coming summer unusually hot)
Josh Gordon and Rachel Kleinman, Power and water bills set to soar, The Age, 2007 April 12 (the drought is set to deliver a double financial impost on households and businesses in Victoria—higher charges for water and for electricity too)
Weather up  top  on

Anushka Asthana, In the hot seat for the warmest April since 1865, Observer, 2007 April 29 (sunbathers basked in the sun yesterday as temperatures hit 22C - putting this month on track to become the hottest April since records began 348 years ago)
James Kanter, High temperatures, and even higher anxiety, in Europe, IHT, 2007 April 26 (while few object to putting on sunglasses and lighter clothing earlier than usual, there already are fears that droughts and electricity shortages are just around the corner)
Martin Wainwright, Warm weather brings risk of summer smog, Guardian, 2007 April 28 (warmest April for more than 140 years may be followed by first summer smog of 2007)
April weather set to break record, BBC, 2007 April 27 (UK Met Office figures indicate this month will be the warmest April in England for more than 300 years)