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OPINION: Does 'Great Global Warming Swindle' cause harm?

Jul 22, 2008 - Globe and Mail

GEORGE MONBIOT: As UK's Channel 4 is once again fiercely criticised by the TV watchdog for distorting the views of climate scientists, George Monbiot lays bare the channel's shameful history of misleading its viewers on global warming

Who covets the electric car? Sales surge in Ottawa

Jul 22, 2008 - CBC News

OTTAWA - Ottawa motorists are being driven like never before toward technology that allows them to run a car without gas, say those who help convert cars to electric power.

OPINION: Climate brinkmanship in Alberta, Saskatchewan

Jul 22, 2008 - Globe and Mail

JEFFREY SIMPSON: It is one of Canada's pathetic ironies that the two provincial premiers least concerned about greenhouse gas emissions govern the provinces most at risk from climate change.

The race to own the top of the world

Jul 22, 2008 - Globe and Mail

MOSCOW — "We were there first and we can claim the entire Arctic, but if our neighbours like Canada want some part of it, then maybe we can negotiate with them," says a flamboyant Russian ultranationalist, who happily hands out pictures of a Russian flag sitting on the seabed at the North Pole.

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Science, sunshine and strategy power solar racers

Jul 19, 2008 - Winnipeg Free Press

WINNIPEG - Strategy more than anything might determine which of 15 entries wins the North American Solar Challenge race this year.

Premiers seize climate-change initiative

Jul 18, 2008 - Globe and Mail

QUEBEC — The Harper government faced new pressure Friday to adopt a more aggressive climate-change plan after Canada's largest province threw its considerable political weight behind a North American initiative to tackle global warming.

20% increase in energy efficiency in 12 years, premiers pledge

Jul 18, 2008 - CBC News

QUEBEC - Canadian premiers said Friday they have committed to achieving a 20 per cent increase in energy efficiency in their provinces by 2020.

Unnecessary flights killing the poor says Tutu

Jul 18, 2008 - Reuters

LONDON - Businessmen who take flights rather than use video conferencing are adding to global warming that is condemning millions of the world's poorest people to death, according to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

Gore: Make all U.S. electricity from renewable sources

Jul 17, 2008 - Reuters

WASHINGTON - Al Gore, the Nobel Prize-winning crusader on climate change, challenged the United States on Thursday to commit to producing all U.S. electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind power in 10 years.

Electric cars allowed on some Quebec roads

Jul 16, 2008 - Canadian Press

ST-JEROME, Que. - They're arriving in a trickle, not a flood, but low-speed electric cars are allowed on some Quebec roads as of Thursday. Two companies - Nemo and Zenn - can operate their vehicles on roads in Quebec with speed limits under 50 km/h. They must also be outfitted with an orange triangle denoting a slower vehicle.

Solar cooling becomes a new air-conditioning system

Jul 15, 2008 - Physorg.com

MADRID - Spanish scientists have developed an environmentally friendly cooling technology that does not harm the ozone layer. This is achieved by using solar energy and therefore reducing the use of greenhouse gases.

World on the verge of the last great land grab

Jul 14, 2008 - New Scientist

Forests will be hard hit to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding world population, experts warn. In two reports, they say that booming demand for food, fuel and wood as the world's population surges from 6 to 9 billion will put unprecedented and unsustainable demand on the world's remaining wooded ecosystems.

U.S. EPA says greenhouse emissions endanger health

Jul 14, 2008 - Reuters

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, a critical finding that has languished in bureaucratic limbo since last December.

Chrysler aims to have electric cars in three to five years

Jul 14, 2008 - Reuters

DETROIT - Chrysler LLC is planning to launch all-electric vehicles in the next three to five years, the latest automaker to join the race to produce cars with fuel-saving technologies.

Abandon ice floe! Scientists cite warming

Jul 14, 2008 - MSNBC

MOSCOW - Russian scientists are evacuating a research station built on an Arctic ice floe because the ice has melted to a fraction of its original size, a spokesman said.

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