Sierra Legal sues Canadian nuclear energy

Sierra Legal, acting on behalf of a coalition of environmental, public health, church and community groups and renewable energy developers, including the Pembina Institute, filed a false advertising complaint against the Canadian Nuclear Association under the federal Competition Act for a highprofile advertising campaign that has been running for several years making similar claims. The nuclear association’s ads have stated that nuclear power is “clean,” “affordable” and “reliable.”

More here.

Sierra Legal here.

Nuclear power links

Google nuke links here.

Bloggin on nuke power CO2 emissions here.

World nuclear association publications here.

US DEA non-nuclear CO2 emissions (until 1999) estimates here. Note: decrease measured up to 2000. However, net increase again after 2000 (not commonly reported).

Energy Alberta -Power to the Oil Sands here.

Climate Change Blog

Here.

IPCC Report

IPCC here.

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE 2007 Report (21 pager) here (pdf).

More coming later this year:

  Another report by the panel later this year will address the most effective measures for slowing global warming.

Pembina Institute

Pembina Institute news releases here.

IPCC Report

UN report says climate change man-made

SETH BORENSTEIN

Associated Press

PARIS — The warning from a top panel of international scientists was blunt and dire: “warming of the climate system is unequivocal,” the cause is “very likely” man-made, and the menace will “continue for centuries.”

Authors of the 21-page report released Friday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change placed the onus on governments to stop prevaricating and take action.

Among other things, the report highlighted “increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and (a) rising global mean sea level.”

It said man-made emissions of greenhouse gases can already be blamed for fewer cold days, hotter nights, killer heat waves, floods and heavy rains, devastating droughts and an increase in hurricane and tropical storm strength — particularly in the Atlantic Ocean.

The message to be taken home from the report is “it’s later than we think,” panel co-chair Susan Solomon of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told The Associated Press in an interview.

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