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Newsclips for August 6, 2009. 

California Air Resources Board News Clips for August 6, 2009

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Methane Emissions are Something Usually Associated with
Agricultural Feed Lots. So researchers were somewhat surprised to
find that the Los Angeles area is emitting more than twice the
amount of methane than was expected. Posted.
http://www.newsreview.com/reno/content?oid=1063764

L.A.-Area Ports Honor Pacific Harbor Line's Clean-Air Efforts:
Pacific Harbor Line Inc. (PHL) recently won a San Pedro Bay
Ports Clean Air Action Plan Air Quality Award from the ports of
Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif.Posted.
http://www.progressiverailroading.com/news/article.asp?id=21130

State Seeks to Honor Climate-Friendly Businesses. The California
Air Resources Board is seeking nominees for its "CoolCalifornia
Small Business Award" program. Posted.
http://www.thebusinessjournal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article.
&id=1332:state-seeks-to-honor-climate-friendly-businesses&catid=132:environment&Itemid=759

Thomas Elias: 'Brownest Cut of All' Hacks at Governor's Legacy.
It may not be the unkindest cut and it may also not be the most
inefficient or deadly one Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made when he
used his veto pen to blue-pencil more than $500 million more from
the state budget than legislators had already done. Posted.
http://www.presstelegram.com/opinions/ci_13000632

Market is Growing for Greenhouse-Gas Credits . While the debate
over the cause, severity and impacts of global warming continues
to rage, an unprecedented marketplace already has begun to
develop over greenhouse-gas credits. Posted.
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/aug/06/market-is-growing-for-greenhouse-gas-credits/
 
Beijing Softens Stand on Emissions Cap BEIJING -- China signaled
a slightly softer position on accepting a cap on the emissions
that cause global warming, despite expressing frustration at the
lack of a breakthrough on climate-change talks. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124949995562108653.html

Facebook App Gets Pcs to Tackle Climate Change: Flight climate
change from the comfort of your jammies and laptop. Intel has
just launched an application that uses an eco geek's available
computing power for research projects. Posted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/mnGreenTechnology/idUS153573991220090805

Pacific States Seek Urgent Climate Change Action. CAIRNS,
Australia — The Pacific Islands Forum called on all nations
Thursday to pledge a 50 percent cut in their emissions of
greenhouse gases by 2050 at U.N. climate change talks in
December, bolstering appeals made a day earlier by seven of the
region's most threatened islands. Posted.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hDFK72jdmHcrrft7EQOcdklRnc_wD99TCD2O5

Climate Change Poker: Barriers Prevent a Global Agreement. As
the world’s environment ministers, government officials,
diplomats and campaigners prepare to attend the COP15 conference
in Copenhagen in December 2009 to unite in the battle against
climate change in one of the most complicated political deals the
world has ever seen, the increasingly complex territory of
climate negotiations is being revealed in an article published
today, 5 August 2009, in IOP Publishing’s 'Environmental Research
Letters'. Posted 
http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/08/06/climate-change-poker-the-barriers-which-are-preventing-a-global-agreement.html

China Balks at Global Warming-Gas Capture Costs (Bloomberg) --
China, the world’s biggest carbon- dioxide polluter, is balking
at the cost and effectiveness of extracting greenhouse gases from
hundreds of coal plants and storing them underground.  Posted.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=awnmd15dPMVU

California's Global Warming Bills to be Discussed. Local
officials may get a better idea this week just how California's
global warming bills will affect future development. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13004575

Glacier Melt Accelerating, Federal Report Concludes. Reviewing
five decades of data on three 'benchmark glaciers,' researchers
say shrinking glaciers clearly result from global warming.
Reporting from Washington -- Global warming has melted glaciers
in the United States at a rapid and accelerating rate over the
last half-century, increasing drought risks and contributing to
rising sea levels, the federal government will report today based
on data from a 50-year study of glaciers in Alaska and the
Pacific Northwest. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-glacier7-2009aug07,0,2419256.story

Is 'Cash for Clunkers' Program Helping to Fight Global WARMING?
Some top environmental experts are saying the "cash for clunkers"
program is an ineffective way to target climate change. Posted.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537500,00.html

Blogs

Psychology is to Blame for Humans not Acting on Climate Change,
psychologists say. If you ever wondered what is to blame for the
world's sluggish reaction to climate change, wonder no longer.
Posted
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/08/no-duh-human-behavior-is-to-blame-for-failing-to-act-on-climate-change-psychologists-say.html

Is the Climate Problem in Our Heads? A task force assembled by
the  American Psychological Association hopes to spur more
research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors
resulting in rising greenhouse-gas emissions as well as on traits
that can impede an effective response to global warming and
similar slow-building environmental risks. Posted
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/is-the-climate-problem-in-our-heads/

Can National Parks be Saved from Global Warming?  The federal
government must take decisive action to avoid "a potentially
catastrophic loss of animal and plant life," in the national
parks, according to a new report that details the effect of
global warming on the country's most treasured public lands.
Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/08/national-parks-global-warming.html