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As many as 5,000 businesses and public-sector bodies would be forced to buy greenhouse gas permits under plans for a mandatory carbon-trading scheme to be proposed this week by ministers. A white paper, which is to be published on Wednesday and which will take forward Tony Blair’s plans for new nuclear power stations, is expected to commit the government to a world-leading emissions trading scheme going far beyond a European Union-wide system and plans by US states. It is understood there will be a fresh period of consultation on the proposals – known as the Energy Performance Commitment – that...

Our planet is just five years away from climate change catastrophe - but can still be saved, according to a new report. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warns governments have until 2012 to "plant the seeds of change" and make positive moves to limit carbon emissions.

. CARSON CITY - Not as though it happens every day, but sometimes listening to National Public Radio can cost your state $1 billion. In 2004 Chris Giunchigliani, then a state assemblywoman, was listening to NPR while working on "smart growth" bills to introduce the next year. "Suddenly, I heard someone on the radio talking about 'green building,' and I thought, 'Gee, that would be good to have here, too.' " Giunchigliani, now a Clark County commissioner, loves government policy the way some people love to breathe. She quickly searched online and found out what it means to go "green."...

So that the sun would rise and the rain fall, the Mexica and Maya peoples of Meso-America once cut out countless living hearts on stone altars or tossed maidens down wells. Their priesthoods convinced them that the gods who controlled natural forces were propitiated through blood sacrifice. Most ancient cultures, if only symbolically, practiced something of the same. A belief in or impulse to sacrifice seems inherent in the human race. This may be Darwinian: Without parental sacrifices children would not thrive, nor without the blood of warriors could the tribe survive. Some concept of sacrifice is at the core...

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey says he doesn't care about Al Gore's push for alternate power g-g-generation. The rocker is blasting the former vice president's colossal Live Earth concerts - being held this summer to draw attention to global warming - as meaningless. "Bollocks to that!" Daltrey snarled to The Sun, a British newspaper. "The last thing the planet needs is a rock concert." He added, "I can't believe it. Let's burn even more fuel." Daltrey is one of the few members of rock royalty to criticize Gore. Kelly Clarkson, The Police, and Alicia Keys are but three of the...

Canadian Front Page: ‘Experts Say Many of the Claims in Al Gore’s Film Are Wrong’ Posted by Noel Sheppard on May 20, 2007 - 11:02. Here’s something that is almost a metaphysical certitude: no major American newspaper, in the midst of all the current global warming hysteria, would dare do a front-page feature article questioning the merits of Al Gore’s schlockumentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” Yet, there it was Saturday, covering almost two-thirds of the front page of Canada’s National Post, right smack in the middle, with a big picture of the Global Warmingist-in-Chief, surrounded by the shocking headline: Even Climate...

"Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio sent out a message about global warming at the Cannes Film Festival."

Posted by Marc Morano – Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov  - 9:14 PM ET Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now SkepticsGrowing Number of Scientists Convert to Skeptics After Reviewing New Research Following the U.S. Senate's vote today on a global warming measure (see today's AP article: Senate Defeats Climate Change Measure,) it is an opportune time to examine the recent and quite remarkable momentum shift taking place in climate science. Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics. The names included below are just a sampling of the prominent scientists...

Sun of a gun By Licia Corbella Calgary Sun Friday, May 18, 2007 A few weeks ago in a column I wrote about David Suzuki's rudeness and hypocrisy I admitted that similar to that green guru, I too love this planet and try to have as small a negative environmental impact as possible but unlike him, I don't believe that human-made CO2 is the main driver of global warming. I received hundreds of e-mails -- most recounting often hilarious stories of run-ins people had with Suzuki, finding out for themselves that his TV persona is a lot friendlier than...

Ministers want a slop bucket for food waste to be placed in every kitchen under their latest plan to generate green electricity. Instead of throwing out scraps, households would be required to store them separately for at least a week until they are collected by recycling teams. The rules will oblige some homes to sort rubbish into five containers – or potentially risk fines. Some councils already insist on separating glass, metal, paper and nonrecyclable refuse. David Miliband, the environment secretary, is expected to unveil the scheme this week as part of the government’s waste strategy. Food accounts for about...

The unfolding debate over atmospheric warming in the Congress, the news media and the pundits has been totally skewed and so one-sided in that they have been totally preoccupied with possible, speculative environmental disasters of climate change. Some wealthy elitists in our country, who cannot tell fact from fiction, can afford an Olympian detachment from the impacts of a draconian climate change policy.

With $20 billion per annum in public funding the modern earth cult can easily spend some nickels to attract cult members. I can well imagine that soon, on prime time TV, [or a gay sitcom], will be the tax-payer funded eco-cult recruitment, 'You must join us' advert. It will show a wide expanse of meadow populated by masses of automatons with arms outstretched resembling a fuehrer cult rally. Their laconic voices will repeat the intonation, 'save the earth goddess...save the earth goddess...' The camera will sweep in and out showing mindless, fixated faces with dilated pupils staring upwards, saliva seeping...

Leonardo DiCaprio sat down with The Hollywood Reporter and a handful of select film publications at the Hotel du Cap in Cannes on Saturday to discuss his upcoming environmental documentary "The 11th Hour." The film, which premiered in a special Out of Competition screening Saturday at the Festival de Cannes, uses a barrage of images and reams of interviews with the world's top environmental scientists to paint a bleak but still optimistic picture of the fate of our planet. "Hour" was directed by sister Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen, who wrote the script with DiCaprio. What was the most...

Who c-cares about Live Earth? May 19, 2007 JUST when it looked like every rock star on the planet was jumping aboard AL GORE's green bandwagon, there’s a backlash already underway. THE WHO's ROGER DALTRY has blasted the big Wembley gig Gore is organising to raise awareness of global warming. The huge concert - which features performances from the likes of MADONNA and RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - is taking place at Wembley on July 7 and in other countries around the world. But Roger, who played with U2 at Live Aid and Live8, reckons the whole thing is a...

Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio sent out a message about global warming at the Cannes Film Festival. The heartthrob has made a film, the 11th Hour, warning that human beings face extinction as a result of the environmental crisis. At a press conference in the South of France following the screening, The Blood Diamond actor, 32, attacked US President George Bush, saying: "It's very simple. He's done very little for the environmental movement." The Titanic star's latest film, which he narrates, follows another environmental warming documentary by former US Presidential candidate Al Gore, shown at the Cannes Film Festival last year....

Here’s a disturbingly inconvenient truth: Students at Roger Williams University in Briston, Rhode Island, were forced to watch Al Gore’s global warming schlockumentary if they wished to graduate. Think I’m kidding? As reported by Young America’s Foundation: The week before Earth Day, professors teaching the lab portion of CORE 101: Science, Technology and Society required their students to watch Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth during class. Every student at RWU must enroll in this core class to qualify for graduation. Amazing, huh? Fortunately, the students didn’t go down without a fight: Dana Peloso, a Young America’s Foundation student activist and...

First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class. In total, 18-year-old McKenzie, a Northern Ontario high schooler, says he has had the film An Inconvenient Truth shown to him by four different teachers this year. "I really don't understand why they keep showing it," says McKenzie (his parents asked that his last name not be used). "I've spoken to the principal about it, and he said that teachers are instructed to present it as a debate. But every time we've seen it, well, one...

Climate change will be considered a joke in five years time, meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual meeting of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in Ashburton this week. Man's contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn't change the climate if we tried, he maintained. "We're all going to survive this. It's all going to be a joke in five years," he said. A combination of misinterpreted and misguided science, media hype, and political spin had created the current hysteria and it was time to put a stop to it. "It is time to attack the myth of global...

So how did it become required classroom viewing? Even climate change experts say many of the claims in Al Gore's film are wrong. Kevin Libin, National Post Published: Saturday, May 19, 2007First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class. In total, 18-year-old McKenzie, a Northern Ontario high schooler, says he has had the film An Inconvenient Truth shown to him by four different teachers this year. "I really don't understand why they keep showing it," says McKenzie (his parents asked that his last...

ENVIRONMENT: Southern Ocean Nears CO2 Saturation Point Stephen Leahy BROOKLIN, Canada, May 17 (IPS) - Climate change has arrested the Southern Ocean's ability to absorb greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, researchers announced Thursday. That will make it more difficult to stabilise carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere and to reduce the risks of extreme forms of global warming....