2007 May: Climate
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Juliette Jowit, Fish and chips fall foul of climate change, Observer, 2007 May 6 (study claims that combination of warmer seas and over-fishing makes a collapse of endangered north Atlantic cod stocks 'extremely likely')
George Monbiot, Looking for sensation and ignoring facts, The Age, 2007 May 25 (the climate documentary to be shown by the ABC is bad science)
Wendy Frew, Jewel Topsfield and Katharine Murphy, Interference claim on ABC program, The Age, 2007 May 24 (ABC board accused of pressuring national broadcaster to show a British documentary questioning climate change)
Polly Ghazi, Environment: Where there's a will ..., Guardian, 2007 May 23 (the US public is finally waking up to the notion that climate change is a real danger, and the media and markets are reacting; but what about the country's biggest global warming sceptic?)
Tim Adams, The Interview: Monckton saves the day!, Observer, 2007 May 6 (the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley has thrown down a challenge to Al Gore to a public debate on global warming; what does he know that we don't?)
Drought resistant tomatoes made, BBC, 2007 May 2 (a form of drought resistant tomato has been created by Italian scientists)
Liz Minchin, Can climate change get worse? It has, The Age, 2007 May 22 (global carbon emissions exceed scientists' greatest fears, with Australia among worst offenders)
James Randerson, CO2 sponge losing ability to soak up extra emissions, Guardian, 2007 May 19 (climate change 'feedback effect' in Southern Ocean; stronger winds reduce efficiency of carbon sink)
Walter Gibbs, Scientists back off theory of a colder Europe in a warming world, IHT, 2007 May 16 (mainstream climatologists who have feared that global warming could have the paradoxical effect of cooling northwestern Europe or even plunging it into a small ice age have stopped worrying about that particular disaster)
Liz Minchin, Climate change: shock findings for Victorians, The Age, 2007 May 15 (an alarming new report on the impact of climate change in Victoria has warned of risks to some of our most basic services and necessities—including water, electricity, transport, telecommunications and buildings)
Global warming in Africa: Drying up and flooding out, Economist, 2007 May 12 (rich countries may be largely to blame for adding climate change to Africa's litany of problems, but the continent's own politicians have yet to take it seriously)
Roger Harrabin, CO2 row threatens climate report, BBC, 2007 May 3 (environmentalists fear a key climate report is based on outdated science, leading to dangerous climate change)
Richard Black, Arctic melt faster than forecast, BBC, 2007 April 30 (computer models of climate change have underestimated the pace of Arctic melting)
David Strahan, What Stern got wrong, Prospect, Issue 134, 2007 May (the Stern review on the economics of climate change completely fails to acknowledge the imminent decline in global oil production)
Jonathan Watts, Why Tiananmen Square could go from red to green, Guardian, 2007 May 4 (renowned architect proposes turning Beijing centrepiece into a forest)
Patrick Barkham, Chainsaw massacre, Guardian, 2007 May 3 (they make our streets more beautiful, improve our health and reduce global warming. Yet more and more trees are being chopped down in our towns and cities)
Ivar Ekman, Global warming blamed for Swedish beetle-infestation, IHT, 2007 May 2 (for this year and the next, experts are predicting an explosion in the number of beetles, causing the death of up to 60 million cubic meters of trees - almost two-thirds of the yearly regeneration of Sweden's forests)
Jad Mouswad, Gasoline prices surge with strains on refining capacity, IHT, 2007 May 24 (some oil executives are now warning that the current shortages of fuel could become a long-term problem, leading to stubbornly higher prices at the pump)
Barry Fitzgerald, BP, Rio sure of future for fossil fuels, The Age, 2007 May 22 (BP and Rio Tinto have added an Australian leg to their promotion of coal-fired power generation with carbon capture as part of the attack on global warming)
Peter Weekes, Higher prices at pump due to refinery glitch, The Age, 2007 May 20 (refinery production problems in the United States have forced more sourcing of its gasoline supplies from Asia, competing with Australian motorists and pushing prices higher)
Refining: A cracking trade, Economist, 2007 May 19 (oil refineries are cashing in after years of lacklustre profits)
John Vidal, Global rush to energy crops threatens to bring food shortages and increase poverty, says UN, Guardian, 2007 May 9 (winners and losers in huge biofuel industry; oil price will stabilise but small farmers at risk)
Philip Hopkins, Biofuel market stifled: group, The Age, 2007 May 7 (Australia is falling behind the rest of the world on biofuels due to sluggish government policy and inaction by oil companies, according to the Australian Renewable Fuels Association)
Mark Landler, Selling oil is easier than investing ethically, Norway finds, IHT, 2007 May 2 (Norway has amassed a fortune in excess of $300 billion over the past decade, thanks to a geyser of profits from its oil exports)
Edward Luttwak, The middle of nowhere, Prospect, Issue 134, 2007 May (western analysts are forever bleating about the strategic importance of the middle east; but despite its oil, this backward region is less relevant than ever, and it would be better for everyone if the rest of the world learned to ignore it)
Judy Dempsey, Germans prepare to fight U.S. on climate change, IHT, 2007 May 27 (Germany and some of its partners in the Group of 8 leading industrial economies are bracing for a major conflict with the United States at a summit meeting next week, with the Bush administration expected to block a declaration on global warming)
US 'opposes' G8 climate proposals, BBC, 2007 May 26 (the US appears to have rejected draft proposals by Germany for G8 members to agree tough measures in greenhouse gas emissions)
Tourism in Greenland: Global warming's boom town, Economist, 2007 May 26 (a town in Greenland attracts rich green globetrotters)
Judy Dempsey, Germany and Japan press U.S. for action on climate change, IHT, 2007 May 24 (the leaders of the world's second- and third-largest economies, Japan and Germany, pressed the biggest - the United States - Thursday to agree to dramatic action in addressing climate change at a Group of 8 summit meeting next month)
Deadlock for UN climate meeting, BBC, 2007 May 18 (UN-hosted talks on climate change aimed at paving the way for a climate summit in December end in deadlock)
Jeremy Lovell, Climate change exiles to top 1 billion, The Age, 2007 May 15 (global warming will create at least 1 billion refugees by 2050 as water shortages and crop failures force people to leave their homes, sparking local wars over access to resources)
David Adam and Patrick Wintour, Climate change: new global plan to tie in worst polluters, Guardian, 2007 May 15 (Britain and Germany lead effort to get US, China and India to agree to carbon trading scheme)
John Vidal, Climate change to force mass migration, Guardian, 2007 May 14 (1bn likely to be displaced by 2050, says report; environmental factors will exacerbate existing crisis)
Climate change: How to cool the world, Economist, 2007 May 12 (a new report on the state of the planet offers some grounds for optimism)
Tristana Moore, Experts seek new climate strategy, BBC, 2007 May 7 (officials at a UN climate summit in Germany discuss ways to widen the Kyoto deal on carbon emissions)
Richard Wachman, City wakes up to economic threat of global warming, Observer, 2007 May 6 (higher temperatures could mean a rapid rise in inflation and catastrophic famine; how the business world is taking extreme weather seriously)
Liz Minchin, A climate of change, The Age, 2007 May 5 (the world's leading climate scientists have warned that the planet is warming unnaturally fast, largely driven by human actions)
Climate change 'can be tackled', BBC, 2007 May 4 (experts at a UN climate change summit agree that emissions can be limited with small impacts on economies)
Liz Minchin, Australia wades into nuclear row, The Age, 2007 May 4 (Australia weighs into an international stoush over nuclear power, in a fierce debate expected to dominate the final night of a major climate change summit)
'Green eye' tech centre launched, BBC, 2007 May 2 (a new space innovation centre in the UK will lead the development of novel technologies to monitor our planet)
Ivar Ekman, Global warming blamed for Swedish beetle-infestation, IHT, 2007 May 2 (for this year and the next, experts are predicting an explosion in the number of beetles, causing the death of up to 60 million cubic meters of trees - almost two-thirds of the yearly regeneration of Sweden's forests)
David Shukman, Science team lands on Ice Island, BBC, 2007 May 22 (researchers plant a tracking beacon on a two-billion-tonne block of ice floating off the Canadian Arctic coast)
Chee Chee Leung, Warmer seas link to coral disease, The Age, 2007 May 9 (rising ocean temperatures could be increasing the severity of a mysterious global coral killer, according to scientists investigating the disease along the Great Barrier Reef)
Reuters, Warmer seas linked to severity of coral disease called white syndrome, IHT, 2007 May 8 (warmer sea temperatures are linked to the severity of a coral disease, according to a study on Australia's Great Barrier Reef that offers a dire warning about global warming's potential impact on the world's troubled reefs)
S Pacific to stop bottom-trawling, BBC, 2007 May 7 (a quarter of the world's oceans will be protected from fishing boats which drag heavy nets across the sea floor, South Pacific nations have agreed)
Jonathan Adams, Rising sea levels threaten small Pacific island nations, IHT, 2007 May 3 (Tuvalu consists of nine low-lying atolls totaling just 26 square kilometers, or 10 square miles, and in the past few years the "king tides" that peak in February have been rising higher than ever)
Matt Richtel, Huge swaths of plankton planned to fight climate change, IHT, 2007 May 1 (several groups are working on ventures to grow vast floating fields of plankton intended to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and carry it to the depths of the ocean)
Richard Black, Pacific whale decline 'a mystery', BBC, 2007 April 30 (grey whales along the Pacific coast of North America appear to be in distress, with not enough food available)
Alok Jha, Environmental lobbyist demands action from government mired in 'half-policies', Guardian, 2007 May 28 (half-policies and will end up in a blind alley if government does not rethink response to climate change)
Synthetic biology: Gassed up, Economist, 2007 May 26 (a new, green way to make hydrogen)
Liz Minchin, Doubts fade on 'green' home, The Age, 2007 May 26 (when Michael Cann bought a new "green" townhouse in West Brunswick last year, he had niggling doubts that it might not live up to its promises on saving energy and water)
Tim Colebatch, See the light, and use less of it, The Age, 2007 May 22 (reducing the emissions causing global warming will require big electricity price rises, but need not make us worse off)
Sarah Mukherjee, Climate 'threatening UK species', BBC, 2007 May 22 (action is needed to protect British wildlife from the effects of climate change)
Larry Elliott, Spend, spend, spend is costing the Earth, Guardian, 2007 May 21 (today's consumers make profligate pools winners of the past seem like amateurs)
Ben Doherty, 'Unlimited' water could be on tap, The Age, 2007 May 19 (Australia's cities could have "unlimited" supplies of water in future if governments stopped relying on rain to fill the dams and got on, instead, with investing in new technology such as recycling and desalination)
Climate change: How to cool the world, Economist, 2007 May 12 (a new report on the state of the planet offers some grounds for optimism)
Michael Meacher, Opinion: Blitz spirit needed to face threat of climate change, Guardian, 2007 May 9 (the government's climate change bill has nowhere near the vision commensurate to the scale of the threat)
PA, Heat on parents to have fewer kids to cool planet, The Age, 2007 May 7 (a lower birthrate would help cut carbon dioxide emissions, according to a British report)
Andrew C Revkin, Scientists expected to say that world's energy choices must change to slow warming, IHT, 2007 May 3 (the world's established and emerging powers will need to divert substantially from today's main energy sources within a few decades to limit centuries of rising temperatures and seas driven by the buildup of heat-trapping emissions in the air, the top body studying climate change is poised to conclude)
Timothy Gardner, U.S. industry plan to cut greenhouse gases criticized, IHT, 2007 May 2 (U.S. companies lobbying Congress to cap output of greenhouse gases may be offering a plan that assures them of low costs rather than real progress against global warming)
Matt Richtel, Huge swaths of plankton planned to fight climate change, IHT, 2007 May 1 (several groups are working on ventures to grow vast floating fields of plankton intended to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and carry it to the depths of the ocean)
Ian Dunlop, Turnbull's hypocrisy on climate, The Age, 2007 May 4 (the Government is deliberately misleading Australian voters)
Jewel Topsfield, Turnbull to claim Kyoto compliance, The Age, 2007 May 2 (Australia is on track to meet its Kyoto target after the release of figures showing there was no growth in greenhouse gas emissions between 2004 and 2005, Malcolm Turnbull will claim today)
Alok Jha, Lark may sing its last across much of UK, Guardian, 2007 May 22 (climate change threatens range of British species; experts call for drive to protect habitats)
Jo Chandler, Rhinos' diet to yield solutions as climate change bites, The Age, 2007 May 7 (for two years, Dr Stephane Helary spent his days shadowing the endangered black rhinoceros over some of the harshest landscapes of Africa)
Jonathan Watts, Everest ice forest melting due to global warming, Guardian, 2007 May 30 (the serac forest near Mount Everest's base camp is rapidly shrinking as a result of global warming)
Rachel Kleinman, Goulburn water pipe plan gathers steam, The Age, 2007 May 30 (plans to pipe drinking water to Melbourne from the Goulburn Valley appear to be gathering pace)
Annie Kelly, Hope dries up for Nicaragua's Miskito, Guardian, 2007 May 29 (Nicaraguan indigenous people first to suffer from climate change but least equipped to adapt)
Philip Hopkins, Caution reigns on the farm, with follow-up rain the key to a rural rebound, The Age, 2007 May 29 (rural optimism has eased since the start of the year, and analysts remain cautious about the outlook, despite welcome rain)
Rachel Kleinman, Opposition builds over desalination, The Age, 2007 May 28 (a community campaign against a desalination plant to solve Victoria's water woes is building before the State Government even decides whether it should go ahead)
Josh Gordon and Mathew Murphy, Outages and power costs likely to increase, The Age, 2007 May 26 (the odds of power outages and rising prices have shortened as the State Government prepares for the possibility of electricity shortfalls caused by drought)
Josh Gordon, Australian households world's worst at water use, The Age, 2007 May 21 (next time you throw back a beer or sit down to a cup of coffee consider this: you've just consumed up to 140 litres of water—enough to fill a bath)
Energy policy in Chile: Praying for rain, Economist, 2007 May 19 (a dash for gas gives way to a proposed return to big dams)
Geoff Strong, Saltwater offers best hope, says scientist, The Age, 2007 May 19 (a desalination plant would provide Melbourne with a more reliable water supply at a similar cost and energy output to alternatives, such as a new dam or piping water from inland)
Mathew Murphy, Green groups fear water going up in steam, The Age, 2007 May 18 (environment groups have called for a coal-fired power station proposed for the Latrobe Valley to be scrapped due to Victoria's drastic water shortage)
Jane Holroyd, Hi-tech bid to boost desalination, The Age, 2007 May 19 (scientists join forces to find better way of turning turning salt water into drinking water)
Peter Ker and Liz Minchin, Big dry forces review of strategy, The Age, 2007 May 15 (Melbourne's 50-year water strategy could be revised less than a year after its publication, as the unexpected severity of the drought plays havoc with State Government planning)
Rachel Kleinman and Cameron Houston, Drought puts new pressure on Victoria's power supply, The Age, 2007 May 10 (the security of Victoria's electricity supply is under a cloud after the emergence of threats to the operation of some of the state's key generators)
Ned Temko, Water watchdog faces MPs' anger over leaks, Observer, 2007 May 6 (water regulator will receive scathing criticism this week for not doing enough to get water companies to fix leaking pipes which are leading to water shortages across the country)
Paul Sinclair, Water down the drain—why we don't need more dams, The Age, 2007 May 5 (our water budget is getting smaller because of climate change, growing populations and unsustainable irrigation water use—not a lack of dams)
Rachel Kleinman, Euroa residents turn it on but the tap is dry, The Age, 2007 May 5 (as many people in Euroa woke to their last working day of the week, they could not flush the toilet or fill the kettle for a cup of tea)
Chee Chee Leung, Science to clear up cloud potential, The Age, 2007 May 4 (national water shortage prompts Bureau of Meteorology to organise special meeting of international scientists to review issue of cloud seeding across Australia)
Rachel Kleinman, State lashed and blown and more rain on the way, The Age, 2007 May 30 (windy, wet and unusually warm—a combination that summed up Melbourne's past 24 hours and caused widespread damage across the state)
Nassim Khadem, Carolyn Webb and Helen Westerman, Warm autumn is cold comfort for retailers, The Age, 2007 May 29 (Victoria is on track for its warmest autumn on record, providing further evidence of climate change and leaving some clothing retailers hurting)
Stephen Moss, Are we in for a good June?, Guardian, 2007 May 28 (the Met Office is reasonably encouraging; or discouraging if you take an apocalyptic view of climate change)
William Yardley, Alaskan town seeks lifeline amid climate change, IHT, 2007 May 27 (the permanently frozen subsoil, known as permafrost, upon which Newtok and so many other Native Alaskan villages rest, is melting, yielding to warming air temperatures and a warming ocean; sea ice that would normally protect coastal villages is forming later in the year, allowing fall storms to pound away at the shoreline)
The Canadian Arctic: Anxiously watching a different world, Economist, 2007 May 26 (climate and other changes draw new interest and new misunderstandings to the Canadian north)
Warm spring 'affecting wildlife', BBC, 2007 May 25 (a warm spring has brought about the early arrival of some UK wildlife)
Mary-Anne Toy, China braces for extreme flooding, The Age, 2007 May 25 (Chinese authorities are preparing for potentially catastrophic floods along the Yangtze River where the giant Three Gorges dam is being built as the country braces itself for extreme summer weather conditions)
Tony C Dreibus, Winds and floods send wheat prices higher, IHT, 2007 May 24 (wheat futures in Chicago made their biggest rise in a month Thursday as flooding and winds in the U.S. southern plains damaged plants already weakened by freezing temperatures in April)
Andrew C Revkin, Hurricanes frequent in cooler periods, IHT, 2007 May 24 (over the last 5,000 years, the eastern Caribbean has experienced several periods covering centuries in which strong hurricanes occurred frequently even though ocean temperatures were cooler than those measured today)
Andrew C Revkin, Snow has melted deep in the interior of Antarctica, IHT, 2007 May 16 (new satellite analysis shows that at least once in the past several years, masses of unusually warm air pushed to within 310 miles, or 500 kilometers, of the South Pole and remained long enough to melt surface snow across an expanse the size of California)
Chee Chee Leung, Melbourne records driest 12 months, The Age, 2007 May 16 (since 1997, Melbourne has had a record 10 below-average-rainfall years in a row)
Maev Kennedy, Busy gardeners say it's down to global warming, Guardian, 2007 May 4 (two thirds of gardeners report earlier blooming bulbs, and over a quarter are convinced it is caused by climate change)
Shaila Dewan, Gardening in the U.S.: The up side of global warming, IHT, 2007 May 3 (at the Habersham Gardens nursery, where well-heeled homeowners choose their spring seedlings, a spiky-leafed, sultry coastal oleander has been thriving in a giant urn)