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Posted: 01 Dec 2009 11:06:43
California Air Resources Board News Clips for December 1, 2009. This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual websites to view some of the following news articles. Cap-and-Trade Count Picks Up Moss Landing Plant. One of California's top greenhouse gas emitters is right on Monterey Bay. Dynegy's Moss Landing power plant came in fifth in a first-ever list of the state's largest greenhouse gas emitters, created by the California Air Resources Board. Posted. http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20091201/NEWS01/912010303/1002 Kern County Company Fined For Emissions Violations. The California Air Resources Board says it has fined Sturgeon & Son Inc. of Bakersfield $14,500 for emissions violations during 2007 and 2008. CARB says the company failed to properly inspect some of their diesel vehicles, as required by California law. Failing to conduct the inspections can lead to an increase of toxic diesel particulate matter in the air. Posted. http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=13739 CARB Issues Drayage Truck Extension. Sacramento — The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has granted a temporary extension in its implementation of 2010 requirements for a limited number of drayage trucks which meet certain criteria. Posted. http://www.thetrucker.com/News/Stories/2009/12/1/CARBissuesdrayagetruckextension.aspx CARB Low Sulfur-Fuel South – Missiles And Traffic Issues. In Southern California, the unintended consequences generated by the California Air Resources Board low-sulfur fuel rules have involved ships rerouting to new approaches rather than engine-performance problems. Posted. http://www.cunninghamreport.com/news_item.php?id=1117 http://www.cunninghamreport.com/news_item.php?id=1118 CO2 Output Too High To Contain Warming. The world's emissions are too high to keep the planet from excessive warming by 2050, according to a report released today from accounting company PricewaterhouseCoopers. The Big Four firm called for "challenging" targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at Copenhagen. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/12/01/3 Carbon Dioxide Not The Only Climate Enemy. UCSD scientists focusing on others. Greenhouse gases - Carbon dioxide, or CO2, is the best-known of the compounds that warms the earth’s atmosphere, but some scientists want more attention paid to minimizing other greenhouse gases. — Black carbon, or soot, may be the second leading cause of global warming. Unlike CO2, it remains in the atmosphere for only a few days or weeks. Posted. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/nov/29/mike-lee-emissions-story/ EPA Signals Support For Higher Blends But Delays Decision. U.S. EPA said today that it may allow the mixing of larger amounts of ethanol with gasoline, but the agency delayed a final decision on the matter until mid-2010 to allow for additional testing. In a letter to biofuels advocate Growth Energy, EPA hinted that it is likely to support raising the ethanol limit above the 10 percent allowed in gasoline under current regulations. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/12/01/1 Logue Wants Air Rules To Face Popular Vote. Assemblyman Dan Logue is looking to put AB 32, the 2006 state legislation meant to address emissions and global warming on a statewide basis, before voters next year. Logue, R-Linda, said the economic impacts associated with AB32 are such he wants voters to decide whether it should be in effect while the economy is in a recession. Posted. http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/state-89220-logue-jobs.html Our View: Emissions Standards Do More Harm To Economy. Scientific, economic and political realities are reining in worldwide efforts to combat global warming. But not so in California. As others stop short of committing economic suicide, California's over-aggressive government could inflict further economical harm on the state. Posted. http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/emissions-89227-california-regulations.html UN: El Nino Likely To Last Until May. Geneva - The weak to moderate El Nino weather system in the tropical Pacific Ocean has strengthened considerably and could create droughts and floods around the world until May, a U.N. agency said Wednesday. The phenomenon of warmer surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean can affect monsoons and hurricanes, causing droughts in some places and floods in others, said Rupa Kumar Kolli of the World Meteorological Organization. Posted. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/01/un-el-nino-likely-to-last-until-may/ UN: US, China Climate Offers 'Can Still Evolve'. Geneva — The U.N.'s environment chief said Tuesday he is optimistic that the climate change talks beginning in Copenhagen next week will reach a deal setting firm targets to cut carbon emissions. Recent offers by the United States and China appear modest compared with European Union proposals and scientists' demands, but probably represent only first offers, said Achim Steiner, director of the U.N. Environment Program. Posted. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5haQ7D_evoXwEsnLew9u4aHxu_VNwD9CAIPF00 When Scientists Behave Like Bullies. This just in from the Times of London: After the leak of highly embarrassing e-mail messages from the University of East Anglia's influential Climatic Research Unit, CRU has been forced to admit that it dumped "the original raw" climate data used to bolster the case for human-caused global warming, while retaining only the "value-added" - read: massaged - data. In short, the CRU dumped the scientific data, but archived information that supports its conclusions. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/01/EDV01ASHN5.DTL&type=printable Gaming The System In Copenhagen. Climate-change skeptics are barking up the wrong smokestack. The shell game being played isn't with the science, it's with the solutions - specifically, the carbon-emission targets that enlightened world leaders are pledging to meet. That's where the numbers don't add up. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/01/EDS21ASKNR.DTL&type=printable The Climate Science Isn't Settled. Is there a reason to be alarmed by the prospect of global warming? Consider that the measurement used, the globally averaged temperature anomaly (GATA), is always changing. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes down, and occasionally—such as for the last dozen years or so—it does little that can be discerned. Posted. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703939404574567423917025400.html Most World Leaders to Attend U.N. Climate Summit. Copenhagen/Canberra - Most world leaders plan to attend a climate summit in Copenhagen this month, boosting chances that a new U.N. deal to fight climate change will be reached, host Denmark said on Tuesday. The number of leaders planning to come to the December 7-18 talks had risen to 98 out of the 192 members of the United Nations, Denmark said. The number was up from 65 in a first count after invitations were sent last month. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/01/news/news-us-climate-copenhagen.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print Major Cities At Risk From Rising Sea Level Threat. Sea levels will rise by twice as much as previously predicted as a result of global warming, an important international study has concluded. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) calculated that if temperatures continued to increase at the present rate, by 2100 the sea level would rise by up to 1.4 metres — twice that predicted two years ago. Posted. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6938356.ece Global Warming Scandal Makes Scientific Progress More Difficult, Experts Say. The latest revelation came on Sunday with the publication of a report by The Sunday Times of London that scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit in the United Kingdom confessed to throwing out most of the raw temperature data on which the theory of global warming is founded. Posted. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578368,00.html Coal Concerns Lead U.S. Climate Bill Challenges. Washington - For anyone trying to understand why the United States is having such a hard time joining an international effort to combat global warming, a short drive west from Washington to one of the smaller states in the country might explain a lot. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/internal_ReutersNewsRoom_BehindTheScenes_MOLT/idUSTRE5B00UQ20091201 BLOGS Santa Monica Launches Program To Turn Cooking Grease Into Biofuel. Santa Monica, known for its eco-friendly initiatives, is launching a new effort to collect cooking grease and turn the waste into biofuel. The program is primarily aimed at restaurants in the downtown area. Restaurants will be able to dump their excess grease, fat and oil in special containers at public parking structures 2 through 6, which border the Third Street Promenade. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/11/santa-monica-launches-program-to-turn-cooking-grease-into-biofuel.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lanowblog+%28L.A.+Now%29&utm_content=Google+Reader The Global Warming Email We’ve All Been Waiting For. I got a good chuckle out of this piece by George Monbiot in the Guardian about the recent global warming e-mail controversy. My view is that the emails aren’t that damaging. Is it surprising that scientists would try to keep work that disagrees with their findings out of journals? Posted. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/the-global-warming-email-weve-all-been-waiting-for/ Capstone To Launch New Hybrid Electric Car At Los Angeles Auto Show. Capstone Turbine has introduced the CMT-380, a hybrid-electric supercar powered by traditional batteries and an untraditional, ultra-low emission, range-extending microturbine. Posted. http://greenpowertrain.automotive-business-review.com/news/capstone_to_launch_new_hybrid_electric_car_at_los_angeles_auto_show_301109