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Is global warming making hurricanes stronger? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| A bitter controversy is raging over whether global warming is making hurricanes stronger. reports |
Review 2005: Climate going crazy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The ominous phrase "tipping point" entered the vocabulary of climate science - a stark warning that global warming may soon spiral out of control |
Record US greenhouse gas emissions in 2004 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Emissions reached a new high in 2004, prompting renewed calls for urgent action - US officials note the country's "greenhouse gas intensity" fell |
Climate meeting may turn out to be a pyrrhic victory (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| In the cold light of day, what did Montreal really deliver? The answer seems to be little more than an agreement to carry on talking
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US get-out clause tempers euphoria after climate talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The US signed up for future talks only after winning a stipulation that the dialogue will not open any negotiations leading to new commitments
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Climate negotiators agree to set tougher targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Talks ended at the Montreal meeting with a deal to begin negotiating tougher greenhouse gas targets after Kyoto, but sceptics complain nations have simply agreed to carry on talking |
How much is a rainforest worth? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| So asks a group of developing nations at an international climate meeting this week - they want rich countries to help pay conservation costs |
Climate meeting to discuss 'son of Kyoto' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Formal talks begin in Montreal over how to limit emissions of greenhouse gases after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 - battle lines are already hardening |
Interview: The ice man cometh (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Lonnie Thompson has spent 30 years on ice, and believes his ice cores show that the tropics, and not the poles, drive climate variability |
Frost flowers cleared of depleting ozone (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The puffs of ice crystals that appear where ice and sea meet may not be solely responsible for the seasonal dip in ozone near the poles |
Are 'eco-friendly' labels helping to block free trade? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Countries will propose changes to labelling rules at World Trade Organization talks in Hong Kong |
Biodiversity: a new perspective (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| There is an obvious way to work out how much the rainforest is worth. So why has no one thought of it before? |
Faltering currents trigger freeze fear (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The Atlantic heat conveyor that warms western Europe seems to be slowing. Is a mini ice age on the cards? |
Keep a weather eye on those vanishing jellyfish (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The disappearance of the creatures from Jellyfish Lake in Palau may herald severe weather events caused by El Niño and La Niña |
UK wind power takes a battering (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| An energy analyst has claimed that the UK government's plan to derive one-fifth of the nation's energy from renewables by 2020 is not feasible |
Powdered metal: The fuel of the future (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The clean, green car of the future will cruise the highway on a tankful of powdered metal - welcome to the new Iron Age |
Arctic ice shrinking as it feels the heat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Ice cover in the Arctic Ocean has receded to a record low, despite an increase in clouds shading it from the sun |
Lake algae confirm global warming link (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Algal growth in remote Arctic lakes suggests that entire freshwater ecosystems are altering in response to climate change |
New Noah predicts floods across the US (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Noah Diffenbaugh is a climate scientist predicting a least a doubling of both extremes of rain and drought across the US by the end of the century |
Seesawing gas kept Earth frozen for longer (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| A puzzling shift in glacial cycles that occurred nearly one million years ago could be explained by fluctuating greenhouse gas levels |
Antarctic ice slipping faster into the sea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| New research reveals the shrinking ice shelves could already be the principal cause of rising sea levels |
Global warming in fiction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| talks to the science fiction writer Kim Stanley about his latest book, , in which he continues his exploration of a world ravaged by climate change |
Climate doesn't swing to the rhythm of the sun (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| A study of Irish bogs has thrown doubt on claims that global warming is being caused by increased solar activity
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Satellite to provide new test of global warming threat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Using the most accurate radar instrument of its kind, CryoSat will reveal the rate at which Arctic sea ice may be thinning - shedding light on the potential effects of global warming |
Take greenhouse polluters to the cleaners (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Forget Kyoto. spoke to Myles Allen, the University of Oxford academic who believes the only way to turn around global warming is to sue the pants off the oil companies |
Melting of sea ice speeds up in Arctic (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| After four years of record lows in the extent of sea ice, researchers say the trend can no longer be blamed on short-term variability |
South Atlantic hurricane rings climate alarm bells (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Hurricane Catarina hit Brazil in March 2004 and was the first and only hurricane ever recorded in the South Atlantic - global warming may be to blame |
Air travel boosts climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The growing industry is in danger of swamping all efforts to cut greenhouse emissions elsewhere, a new study suggests |
Global warming may have big effect on air pressure (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Climate predictions may have to be rethought, following the discovery that warming may have a bigger effect on air pressure than realised |
Warming world blamed for more strong hurricanes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Since the 1970s, the number of the most powerful hurricanes has near-doubled - Katrina-strength cyclones could become the global norm |
Soil may spoil UK’s climate efforts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Vast quantities of carbon are being released by UK soils, a new study finds, reducing its effectiveness as a CO sink and nullifying Kyoto cuts |
Your Top 10 ways to take on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Think climate change is the problem of big business and industry? Think again. reveals how you can combat climate change |
Big ideas: Climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| It's here. If we don't react then war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind, says R K Pachauri |
Clean energy special: A greener goal for coal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Like it or not, coal is here to stay. But that does not have to be a disaster for the climate, suggests Bennett Daviss |
Clean energy special: The big clean-up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The US, China and Australia have all signed up to a six-nation pact to use technology to halt climate change, but what will it mean for the world? |
Clean energy special: Gas-guzzling planet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Every year the world consumes energy equivalent to about 10 billion tonnes of crude oil, but what is the breakdown, and what is the future? |
Clean energy special: Going underground (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| When it comes to global emissions of carbon dioxide, the world is in a serious hole. So is it time to start digging? explains |
Clean energy special: Eastern promise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| How do you keep an energy-hungry developing country from turning into a carbon-spewing monster? went to find out |
Painless emissions cuts - too good to be true? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The US-backed, technology-based alternative to the Kyoto protocol could lead to real progress in the fight against greenhouse gases - if it works |
US states bypass White House over emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| While president Bush's government bypasses the Kyoto Protocol, nine of his states appear ready to agree on their own Kyoto-like emissions targets |
Global warming: The flaw in the thaw (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Campaigners have seized upon the world's shrinking glaciers as proof of global warming. But there is more to it than that, reports Fred Pearce |
Sceptics forced into climate climb-down (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Three independent studies have shown that climate sceptics who claim the Earth is not warming have been using faulty data to make their point |
Climate warning as Siberia melts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The world's largest frozen peat bog - a million square kilometres - is melting, according to Russian researchers just back from the area |
Global warming brings earlier spring thaw to Great Lakes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The US lakes, the largest concentration of fresh water on the planet, is thawing earlier each spring, new analysis reveals |
Drought bumps up global thermostat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| As the European drought continues, two research groups have warned that it will unleash large amounts of CO into the environment |
Smart fridges may ease burden on energy supply (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| 'Dynamic device control' could allow fridges and other appliances to reduce their energy use at peak hours, reducing a country's CO emissions |
US-led emissions pact seen as Kyoto rival (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The world's largest coal producers will share technology for limiting emissions of greenhouse gases, but agree no legally binding targets |
Histories: Now you see it, now you don't (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| In 1879, US environmental icon John Muir entered an unexpected Alaskan bay in his canoe - it had been covered by a glacier just 100 years before |
G8 deal good for Africa, falls short on climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| While the G8 leaders deal on African aid and debt relief was broadly welcomed, their position on climate change was generally dismissed as a fudge |
Editorial: G8 missed chance on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The G8 communiqué on climate change from Gleneagles last week was a disgrace - politicians must engage with curbing emissions |
G8 leaders agree global warming is urgent problem (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Climate change is a "serious long-term challenge" requiring "resolve and urgency", the group agreed, but made no specific commitments to act |
Climate scientists fear fudge at G8 meeting (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| A scientific meeting set up by G8 chair Tony Blair concluded that climate change was a "clear and present danger" - but have the politicians heard the message? |
Marine crisis looms over acidifying oceans (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The oceans are gradually turning into a vast "fizzy drink" - the transformation could be catastrophic for ocean life |
Clearing smoke may trigger global warming rise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Increases in temperature could be much worse than feared, says a new study - the new predictions hinge on how little warming has been felt so far |
Global warming will bring fiercer hurricanes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| There is no proof that climate change has increased the number of Atlantic hurricanes, but they are getting wetter and more powerful |
Get off the fence over global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Scientists have been intimidated into a polite silence about climate change. It is time they spoke out, for all our sakes, argues Mark Lynas |
Melting permafrost pulls plug on Arctic lakes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The permafrost that makes the lakes watertight is melting as a result of global warming, allowing the water to drain away |
US climate change assessments 'misrepresented' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| A former senior US official accuses the White House of subverting the findings of climate change assessments to serve political goals |
British conservationist to lose posts after climate claims (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| David Bellamy looks likely to lose two prestigious posts after making controversial claims about the veracity of man-made climate change |
Climate evidence finds us guilty as charged (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Pattern of changes in ocean temperatures almost perfectly match simulations of human effects on regional climate, ruling out natural causes |
Global warming is a 'clear and increasing threat' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Science academies all over the world have jointly issued a stark warning on climate change ahead of the G8 summit in July |
Cities lead way to a greener planet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| While national governments quibble and drag their feet on global warming, government at city level is forging ahead all over the world |
Editorial: It pays to be green (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| President Bush must be bemused. He shields US industry from limits on greenhouse gas emissions but his cities pledge to meet Kyoto-style targets anyway |
Nuclear plant closure may be premature (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| A Swedish nuclear plant closes, honouring a 1980 referendum to phase-out nuclear power - but in today's climate, only 10% of Swedes want it closed |
New probe may silence climate sceptics (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Those who deny the existence of global warming often rely on somewhat error-prone satellite information - a proposed probe could improve accuracy |
Tear up Kyoto or make it tougher? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Radical alternatives to the current programme for limiting greenhouse emissions are on the table as negotiations for the post-Kyoto era begin |
Will global warming impact tourism hotspots? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Apparently not, suggests a new computer model, which finds a destination's economic development and population growth are more important |
The great ecology challenge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The great ecology challenge Jacques Chirac, president of the French Republic, calls on us to reverse our collision course with biodiversity before the extinction rate reaches the point of no return |
Post Kyoto talks start in tough climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Talks begin on how to limit greenhouse gas emissions after 2012 - when the Kyoto Protocol ends - but some nations want to tear up the current blueprint |
Kiwis to pay the first carbon tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| From 2007, New Zealanders will pay NZ$15 for emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other gases |
Earth heats up as the smog clears (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| In a bizarre twist to the climate change saga, cutting smog in industrialised nations is actually accelerating global warming |
Sea birds might pay for green electricity (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Wind farms could damage some bird populations if they are not carefully sited, concludes a review of all the impact studies so far |
Oceans are hiding climate time bomb (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The Earth is storing up trouble by absorbing more energy from the Sun than it is emitting back into space, according to new models |
Clearing smog has led to 'global brightening' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The efforts of industrialised nations to cut smog pollution has had a bizarre side-effect - accelerating global warming |
Squeaky clean fossil fuels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The big money's behind an ambitious plan to build zero-emission power stations that burn coal or gas |
Climate change warning over food production (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The first real-world experiments on the effects of rising carbon dioxide and ozone on key food crops suggest significant drops in yields |
Antarctic Peninsula glaciers in major retreat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Researchers' worst fears over melting in Antarctica have been realised, according to a key survey, and global warming may be involved |
Cities may be abandoned as salt water invades (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Dozens of major cities around the world are at risk from a previously ignored aspect of global warming - the salt-pollution of underground water |
The beauty of wind farms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Far from being a blot on the landscape, wind farms are an asset - especially when you look at the alternative, says David Suzuki |
Aussie birds do not like it hot (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Warmer seas and hotter land are having an impact on Australia's birdlife, according to a comprehensive review |
Global warming could trigger ant invasions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| As temperatures around the world rise, individual ants may shrink while ant colonies boom in size - perfect for successful rampages |
Fuel tax likely for European airlines (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft over Europe rose by 70% between 1990 and 2002 - politicians are considering a trade in emissions permits |
Editorial: Edge of the global warming abyss (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Within 10 years, climate change will be irreversible, concluded the climate science meeting in the UK last month - were politicians not listening? |
Forests belch out greenhouse gas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Satellite observations have been used for the first time to detect ground-level emissions of methane - a potent greenhouse gas |
Global warming may dry up economies too (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| So warns the director of the climate change programme at WWF - China, India and Nepal may be among the worst hit if key rivers shrink |
Ocean heat store makes climate change inevitable (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Cutting greenhouse gas emissions will not stop climate change due to a time lag in the oceans' response to atmospheric warming, warn new studies |
Sooty skies blight Asia's climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Traditional fuels such as wood and crop waste are the prime cause of climate change in south Asia, according to new research |
Hydroelectric power's dirty secret revealed (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Hydroelectric dams produce significant amounts of CO and methane - some produce more greenhouse gases than fossil fuel power plants |
Essay: Making a myth of climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Michael Crichton's stories shape people's view of the world and his next book declares global warming a huge conspiracy - how could he get it so wrong, asks Jeremy Leggett |
Climate change blamed for shift in lake life (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The largest ever survey of Arctic lakes shows that most have suffered dramatic ecological changes in the past 150 years - when recent warming began |
The world is cooling, says NASA (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| New figures suggest that 2004 was actually cooler than 2003, which was cooler than 2002 - but they were still two of the hottest years on record |
Climate change: Menace or myth? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Global warming is a fantasy dreamed up by climate scientists, say the sceptics. Could they possibly be right, asks Fred Pearce |
Climate change: Awaking the sleeping giants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Set certain changes in motion and they will carry on whether we slash emissions or not - lists the risks |
Climate change: Act now, before it is too late (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Time is running out, and fast. That was the message from climate experts at an international climate conference in the UK |
Editorial: Climate change threat may be underestimated (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The climate change conference suggests scientific peer pressure may have led to gross underestimates of the potential scale of global warming |
Coral reefs create clouds to control the climate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| When temperatures soar, coral reefs might create cool shade by releasing chemicals into the atmosphere that promote cloud formation |
Only huge emissions cuts will curb climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| To have half a chance of stopping the world warming by 2°C, greenhouse gas emissions need to fall by up to 70% by 2050, a new study suggests |
Antarctic ice sheet is an 'awakened giant' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The massive west Antarctic ice sheet, previously assumed to be stable, is starting to collapse, scientists warn |
Climatologists pursue greenhouse gas danger levels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| A major conference is aiming to help define the levels that would trigger "dangerous" climate change - but it could be "mission impossible" |
Global temperatures could be set to soar (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Earth could be even more sensitive to global warming than imagined, and if CO levels double as some expect, temperatures could rocket |
Soaring global warming 'can't be ruled out' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| A massive modelling study produces an upper extreme of 11°C warming - suggesting the Earth may be far more sensitive to CO than thought |
Earth dries up as temperatures rise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The fraction of the Earth suffering drought has more than doubled in the past 30 years - rising temperatures and climate change are implicated |
A most precious commodity (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The world has its first carbon trading scheme. Is it the way to cut greenhouse gases and slow global warming? |
2005 preview: Kyoto to go live (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| On 16 February, the long-awaited protocol will come into force, with 30 industrialised countries signed up to reduce their greenhouse emissions |
European trading in carbon-emission permits begins (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The world now has its first carbon trading scheme. Is this the way to cut greenhouse gases and slow global warming? |
Post-Kyoto climate negotiations look troubled (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The climate change protocol comes into force in February, but the US and other countries are hindering talks about what should follow |
Kyoto Protocol gets the green light (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Russia has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, triggering a 90-day countdown to bring the international climate treaty into force |
Cool the world: eat less, walk more (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| A two-pronged attack on laziness and obesity could significantly slow global warming if applied to the Americans who drive rather than walk or cycle |
Climate change issues clouded by ozone (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Pollutants like ozone are fundamentally changing the way clouds form - the newly discovered mechanism may be having "large climate effects" |
Coral reefs may grow with global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the oceans could be offset by warmer waters, which will make coral grow faster, scientists suggest |
Companies could be sued for climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Greenhouse gas polluters may one day be open to lawsuits, due to a way of quantifying how global warming raises the risk of dangerous freak weather |
Massive peat burn is speeding climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Recent surges in atmospheric carbon dioxide may have been aided by smouldering peat bogs in Borneo |
Weather hots up under wind farms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Fields of the giant turbines can pull down warm breezes, find modelling and observational studies |
Arctic warming at twice global rate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Global warming in the region is in full swing, says the most comprehensive report yet, and the melting ice will have major impacts |
Sunspots more active than for 8000 years (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The Sun has been more energetic in the last 70 years than it has for the previous 8000 - but it is not to blame for recent global warming |
Kyoto protocol is just the beginning (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| With Russia now backing it, the Kyoto protocol might finally come into force, but it is what comes next that really counts |
Cool cash will help slow global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Global treaties are not the only way to tackle climate change - markets can do their bit too |
In 50 years, we could cure our oil addiction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The technologies to deliver clean, sustainable energy already exist. So what is stopping us breaking the habit of a century? |
Who should steer the modern global ark? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| American money and expertise is the difference between survival and extinction for many of the world's endangered plants and animals |
Models may underestimate climate swings (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Suggestions that the Earth's climate may have varied wildly in the past spark controversy, and questions about the future |
European deaths from air pollution set to rise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Europe will fail to meet air safety targets due to the combined effects of climate change and its inability to curb high levels of pollutants |
Climate change can slash animal gene pools (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Changes in global climate can lead to unexpected shifts in genetic diversity, affecting long-term survival, suggests a rodent study |
White House report says people cause global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| A report signed by senior members of the US administration accepts that only human activity explains rises in global temperatures |
Dust storms on the rise globally (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| More dust storms are billowing around the world - with far-reaching consequences for health and the environment |
Global warming to devastate Europe first (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Snowy winters will be history, lowland countries flooded, and three-quarters of Alpine glaciers will melt, warns a major report |
Cosmic ray link to global warming boosted (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| A correlation between cloud cover and sunspots supports the controversial idea - but other scientists dismiss the theory |
Corals adapt to cope with global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The world's coral reefs may not be doomed, as two new studies suggest corals are taking on new heat-tolerant algal partners |
Acid rain limits global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Sulphur pollution may have an unexpected benefit - reducing emissions of the global warming gas methane from natural wetlands |
Harbingers of doom? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Clouds have emerged as the real wild card in global warming predictions. Add them to climate models and some frightening possibilities fall out |
Plumbing the depths (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Venice is sinking, and is now under water so often that many people believe the city's expensive flood barrier scheme will make little difference. But one team has a truly uplifting idea |
Rice yields plunging due to balmy nights (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Global warming is cutting yields at twice the predicted rate, according to the first "real world" experiment on the impact of rising temperatures |
Nuclear share of electricity predicted to fall (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The International Atomic Energy Agency argues it should increase for environmental and economic reasons, but others disagree |
Cities will swelter on summer nights (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Summer nights will get stickier for city-dwellers as global warming is set to triple the "urban heat island" effect, warn meterologists |
'Earthshine' fall heats global warming debate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| The amount of sunlight reflected from Earth may be changing, possibly explaining recent warming - but other researchers strongly disagree |
Climate change heralds thirsty times ahead (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| A new modelling study suggests that, while river flows will increase overall, those supplying most of the world's people will begin to dry up |
Oceans rising faster near coasts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Satellite measurements of sea levels have uncovered a bizarre effect - the sea seems to be rising faster near shore than in mid-ocean |
Arctic melt may dry out US west coast (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:16
| Annual rainfall may drop by as much as 30 per cent from Seattle to Los Angeles by 2050, suggest climate models |
Greenland ice cap 'doomed to meltdown' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:17
| Climate models indicate the huge sheet will begin an irreversible decline within decades, eventually causing a massive sea level rise |
Greenhouse gas level hits record high (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:17
| Levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere reached a new peak, and the rate of increase may be accelerating |
Great Barrier Reef to be decimated by 2050 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:17
| The world's largest coral reef may lose almost all its coral even under the best-case scenario for global warming |
Europe's weather could flip annually between extremes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:17
| Scientists modelling global pressure oscillations say the continent could be alternating between floods and droughts within 20 years |
Noxious undersea eruptions killing billions of fish (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:17
| The eruptions, which have a major impact on one of the world's richest fisheries, are more frequent and widespread than anyone realised |
Orbital tracking reveals thinning upper atmosphere (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:17
| The thinning can be explained by global warming near the Earth's surface - it means satellites will fly for longer, but so will space junk |
Global warming threatens millions of species (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:17
| Climate change will mean one in four land animals and plants are on their way to extinction by 2050, predicts a major new study |
Soot worse for global warming than thought (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:17
| Grains of soot darkening snow and ice may be twice as bad as carbon dioxide for global warming, says a new study |
Greenhouse gas 'plan B' gaining support (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:17
| The Kyoto treaty designed to halt runaway global warming is in crisis - but a simpler alternative is now winning ever more influential converts |
Global warming threatens ski resorts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:17
| Hundreds of ski resorts will go bust as rising temperatures push the snowline up to higher altitudes, warns a new report |
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