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Campaigners say climate change report rings alarms, but action still possible (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Associated Press: Environmental campaigners and governments pressed industrial nations, specifically the United States, to significantly cut their emissions of greenhouse gases, in response to Friday's report on global warming. South Africa's Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said failure to act would be "indefensible." His Indonesian counterpart said "drastic steps" were needed to slow rising temperatures. "We are now beyond a critical turning point ... |
EU must listen to climate change science -Dimas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Reuters: The European Union has to look at what science is saying about climate change and tailor its policies accordingly, the EU's environment chief said on Friday after a U.N. report warned humans are heating the planet. Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment Programme, said the EU goal of limiting temperature rises to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels was "almost redundant" after the findings of the report. EU Environment Commissioner Stavros ... |
Global warming 'very likely' man-made (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Associated Press: The world's leading climate scientists said global warming has begun, is "very likely" caused by man, and will be unstoppable for centuries, according to a report obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The scientists – using their strongest language yet on the issue – said now that the world has begun to warm, hotter temperatures and rises in sea level "would continue for centuries," no matter how much humans control their pollution. The report also linked the ... |
Climate Report Won't Signal Policy Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Associated Press: It was a U.S. government scientist who helped push through the strong language in the upcoming international report on global warming. But that doesn't signal a change in President Bush's policy about greenhouse gas emissions. The climate change report coming out Friday _ an agreement by officials from 113 governments, including the United States _ is very different from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that Bush has long opposed. "I think it's hard to take the U.S. action ... |
CO2 cloud hangs over European carmakers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Reuters: European automakers will take a hit on capital markets if the European Union imposes strict limits on cars' carbon dioxide emissions as a way to help curb global warming. The earnings drag from stepped-up spending to curtail greenhouse gases and the sales impact from higher prices for almost all new cars would provide a double whammy that analysts agree has not been priced into the market. Riven by a dispute over just how tough to be on carmakers, the European Commission is set ... |
Global Warming Very Likely Caused by Humans, UN (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Bloomberg: Global warming is ``very likely'' caused by humans, and temperatures and sea-levels will increase by the end of the century, the UN said in its most comprehensive report yet on climate change. Global temperatures are likely to rise by 1.1 to 6.4 degrees Celsius by the end of this century relative to the last, with a probable 2 to 4.5 degree range if carbon dioxide doubles from pre-industrial levels, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in the report. ... |
How language on climate change has evolved (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| Associated Press: A brief look at how language on climate change has evolved, gradually showing that man-made factors are to blame: --- "Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations ... The observed widespread warming of the atmosphere and ocean, together with ice mass loss, support the conclusion that it is extremely unlikely that global climate change of ... |
Climate panel warns on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 06:00:24
| OneWorld South Asia: Planet Earth is doomed to be 5.8 degrees hotter ninety years on, according to the intergovernmental panel on climate change. The panel's full report will contain the biggest warning yet of a rapidly changing world. It is expected to list policy proposals for governments to prevent global warming. According to drafts of the report temperatures will rise 1.5 to 5.8 degrees Celsius by the year 2100. "We are looking at a major catastrophe basically. We are ... |
Changing mood isolates Bush in his own country (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:25
| Sydney Morning Herald: Australia may find itself isolated in its opposition to binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as the US swings towards Kyoto Protocol-type restrictions in order to put a brake on climate change. Australia and the US are the only industrialised countries to oppose the Kyoto treaty, which seeks to impose binding targets on emissions of greenhouse gases by developed countries. A series of extraordinary weather events, including Hurricane Katrina, unprecedented warm winters ... |
28 South Florida mayors sign pact to reduce greenhouse gases, energy use (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:25
| South Florida Sun-Sentinel: As world climate experts in Paris worked on a long-awaited report on global warming, South Florida cities were joining a growing national movement to fight climate change at the local level. Twenty-eight South Florida mayors have signed an agreement to take steps to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in their cities, such as buying low-pollution vehicles and requiring new buildings to be energy efficient. Frustrated with what they regard as inaction by the Bush administration, many ... |
Catastrophes Inevitable, Says New Report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:25
| Inter Press Service: The fourth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will confirm catastrophic predictions on global warming and its effect on nature and weather cycles over coming decades. The IPCC is meeting in Paris this week to revise and present the final draft of its fourth assessment on global warming. The report, which will be finally released Feb. 2, confirms predictions that global temperatures will rise between two and 4.5 degrees Celsius during this century due to ... |
Danger of Global Warming As Official As It Can Get (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:26
| Inter Press Service: Stark warnings over the damaging effect of impending climate change were underlined in the release Friday of the fourth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level," says the report 'Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis'. ... |
Global warming effects will last centuries, UN warns (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:26
| Agence France-Presse: The United Nations has just released its long-awaited report on climate change at an environmental conference in Paris, warning global warming is almost certainly caused by humans and will be unstoppable for centuries to come. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report says warming over the past century was "very likely" - a certitude of 90 per cent - and caused by human activity. The Earth's surface temperatures will likely rise between 1.8 degrees ... |
Report says global warming man-made (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:26
| Press Association: Words of warning about global warming from the top panel of international scientists have been purposely blunt - "warming of the climate system is unequivocal," the cause is "very likely" man-made, and "would continue for centuries". Officially releasing a 21-page report in Paris on the hows and the what of global warming - though not telling the world what to do about it - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gave a bleak observation of what is ... |
Scientists Say Earth Could Heat Up for Centuries to Come (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:26
| ABC news: In Paris, representatives from 113 countries have banded together and come out with headlines about climate change that could change history. The most extensive report on global warming to date was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change today. In the report, an international collection of leading scientists warn that the Earth's climate will continue to heat up for centuries. For the first time ever, the report confirms that global warming is very likely man-made. ... |
UN Signals `Smoking Gun' of Global Warming With Climate Report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:26
| Bloomberg: The United Nations today issued its most comprehensive report yet on climate change, saying it's more sure than ever that global warming is caused by humans and warning of temperature and sea-level rises by the end of the century. Global temperatures are likely to rise by 2 to 4.5 degrees Celsius by the end of this century relative to the last, with a ``best estimate'' of 3 degrees, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in the report. Sea-level gain over the same ... |
Climate change debate 'now over' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:26
| Press Association: Environment Secretary David Miliband has declared the "debate about climate change is now over" following dire warnings contained in a new UN report. After six years of research, scientists predict the average world temperature will rise by about three degrees by the end of the century - with potentially devastating consequences for melting icecaps and rising sea levels. The report, which makes the strongest causal link so far between human behaviour and global ... |
Climate change, human pressure shrink Lake Chad (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:26
| Reuters: As the sun sets on Lake Chad, fishermen in simple wooden pirogues paddle back to shore with their day's catch. Most have a basin or two filled with small fish -- a fair haul, they say, but nothing like the numbers they remember in days gone by. "We have less fish, but more fishermen," said Lake Chad resident Yanga Diguedjaena. Locals lay the blame on a shrinking Lake Chad, which experts say is the result of poor rainfall, itself the consequence of climate ... |
Australia: Climate report to pressurise government (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:26
| AAP: Pressure is mounting on the Australian government to take more immediate action to combat climate change, with the release of a United Nations report predicting potentially catastrophic temperature rises. The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the combined findings of about 800 climate change scientists around the world and one of the most significant updates on the issue in recent years. Officially released in Paris on Friday night, the report ... |
Climate scientists warn of chaos from human action (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| Financial Times: The world is expected to warm by 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade for the next 20 years and more thereafter owing to human activity, aggravating water shortages, heatwaves, storms and floods, declares the most authoritative report yet on climate change. The report published on Friday will set the terms of the debate for negotiations around the renewal of the Kyoto protocol in 2012. "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal as it is now evident from observations of increases in ... |
Exxon Mobil defends climate change record (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: With the UN's report on climate change due to be released soon, the oil giant Exxon Mobil says it is doing what it can to help the environment. Earlier today, Exxon Mobil announced an annual profit of more than $50 billion, which is the highest ever by a US company. Less than 1 per cent of the company's profits over the last two years has been used to tackle climate change. But Exxon Mobil vice-president for public affairs Ken Cohen says the company is working hard to ... |
Australia: Flannery calls for urgent action on climate change report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ELEANOR HALL: But first today leaks from the international conference in Paris are turning the heat up on Australia's political leaders over climate change. The report by the world's top scientists, to be released officially in Paris tonight, lays the blame for climate change squarely at the feet of humans and predicts that without a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, global warming will produce catastrophic increases in global temperatures. Australian of the ... |
Australia: Flannery warns climate change report could forecast 'disaster (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| Radio Australia: The Australian of the Year, prominent scientist Tim Flannery, says a new report on climate change will forecast catastrophic consequences this century. The report by the United Nations Climate Panel will be released formally in Paris and is expected to say it is very likely humans are responsible for climate change. It will also detail the threats posed by sea level rises and increased temperatures. Professor Flannery says the consequences from global warming could last ... |
Canada: Global warming 'even more significant' for the Arctic: Baird (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| CBC: The facts are irrefutable: the world is heating up and mankind is to blame, the most comprehensive report to date on global warming warned Friday. The 21-page document, which drew upon every study known on the subject, essentially declares an end to the long-standing debate over whether human activity has fundamentally changed the weather. With the top scientists from 113 countries reaching a unanimous consensus at the Paris International Panel on Climate Change that mass ... |
Global warming could swamp Florida within 50 years, UN report suggests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| South Florida Sun-Sentinel: A much-debated U.N. report on climate change to be released today raises the specter of rising sea levels and hurricanes that could eventually swamp much of South Florida. One official this week even suggested the Bahamas could be under water by 2030. Dozens of scientists and government experts from 113 countries edited the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. It is considered by most in the scientific community to be the comprehensive document ... |
Global Warming panel blunt about rising temperatures, bleak future (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| Pravda: 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 on why the planet is warming by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change placed the onus on governments to stop prevaricating and take action. The report highlighted "increases in global ... |
Global warming threatens Australia's Barrier reef (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| Reuters: From a boat at sea, Australia's Great Barrier Reef seems invincible -- its myriad corals stretching 2,300 kilometres (1,400 miles) beyond sight. But the reef's vastness and wave-smashing outcrops mask fragility in the face of climate change threatening to bleach its fluorescent depths the stark white of death. The reef, and possibly the A$5.8 billion ($4.5 billion) tourist industry it underpins, will be "functionally extinct" by 2050, a draft report by the ... |
Hiding the facts about climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| Miami Herald: Fresh evidence emerged this week that the White House can't tell the difference between fashioning policy and spinning the facts to suit its own politics. Most administrations share this problem to a degree, but it's far worse when the White House decides to tighten its grip on federal regulators at the expense of those who write the laws. Downplaying warnings First, to the case in point. Government scientists claim the Bush administration has been trying for two years to force ... |
Hotting Up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| Spiegel Online: A new UN report on the climate has kicked up a flurry of debate about what politicians should do to keep the ice caps from melting, oceans from rising, glaciers from disappearing and hurricanes from taking out more coastal cities. But how sound is the UN's climate science? The United Nations report on the climate released in Paris on Friday represents the world body's sharpest warning so far about man-made global warming. A summary of the report leaked to wire services this week ... |
International climate change report rings the alarm bell (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| WWF: Governments must negotiate deeper emission cuts for CO2 and other greenhouse gases, says WWF following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) report on the urgency to slow climate change and keep increases in global temperatures as low as possible. "The report embodies an extraordinary scientific consensus that climate change is already upon us, and that human activities are the cause," says James P. Leape, Director General of WWF International. "It is a clarion call ... |
Canada: Liberals press PM to abide by Kyoto (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:27
| Globe and Mail: All three opposition parties said yesterday they would try to force the minority Conservative government to meet Canada's Kyoto Protocol obligations, even as an increasing number of environmentalists acknowledge this cannot be done by the 2012 deadline. MPs will vote Monday on a resolution tabled in the House of Commons by Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion calling for Canada to adhere to the Kyoto targets to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and impose hard caps on industrial polluters. The ... |
President Sunbeam (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:28
| LA Times: CAN YOU SAY "smoke and mirrors"? Instead of accepting mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions, the Bush administration now proposes to combat global warming through the deployment of giant mirrors that reflect sunlight back into outer space. For most of the last six years, President Bush has resolutely implied that if you're feeling hot around the collar, it must be because his administration annoys you, because it sure can't be global warming. But he now seems to have ... |
Scientific report on climate change paints a gloomy picture of rising CO2 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:28
| Toronto Star: Even if the world stopped spewing out carbon dioxide by the end of this century, in another 100 years the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would still be double what they were at the start of the Industrial Revolution, a major scientific report warns. But it could take as long as 400 years to be reduced even to that high level, according to the final draft of a report, obtained by the Toronto Star, that will be made public in Paris today. The technical summary, which is the ... |
Sharp to double UK solar module production (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:28
| Info World: Behind the planned expansion is growing demand for solar energy systems in several European countries including Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece and France. Sharp said long hours of sunlight coupled with electricity buy-back programs, which allow consumers to sell surplus electricity back to the power company, are driving the demand. The company will invest ¥2.2 billion (US$18.2 million [m]) to take annual production to a total of 220 megawatts of panels. The factory in Wrexham began ... |
Shell emits more CO2 than most countries (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:28
| Guardian: ExxonMobil and Shell, two of the biggest carbon emitters in the world, reported combined annual profits yesterday of nearly £90m a day, earned largely from oil production, refining and petrol stations. The earnings triggered protests from trade unions and fuel poverty groups as well as environmental campaigners. Exxon's net income of $39.5bn (£20bn) last year is the largest ever recorded in US corporate history and comes amid mounting fears worldwide about the impact of CO2 ... |
Snowball effect heats global warming issue (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:28
| Globe and Mail: New research on climate change suggests that government regulations will increasingly determine corporate winners and losers as global warming dramatically alters Canada's economic landscape. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is issuing the first instalment of its authoritative report in Paris today. Since the report will offer "unequivocal evidence the world is heating up, it should snuff out skepticism about climate change, and provide impetus to ... |
United States: State won't drop auto industry emissions suit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:28
| San Francisco Chronicle: State Attorney General Jerry Brown followed his predecessor's lead on global warming Thursday, pushing ahead with a lawsuit seeking damages from six major auto manufacturers for their vehicles' emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. At the same time, Brown released a letter he sent this week seeking a meeting with chief executives of the car companies to "discuss resolution of our pending litigation and moving forward cooperatively." He was referring to the ... |
The rising costs of coal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 09:00:28
| Charlotte Observer: Westar Energy knew its coal-fired plant was in trouble. The Kansas company wanted to build a $1 billion, 800-megawatt power plant, but construction costs kept rising as global demand for steel and other materials skyrocketed. Soon $1 billion became at least $1.4 billion -- costs ultimately passed to consumers. Faced with sobering numbers, the utility in January shelved the project. "We didn't even get to the point where we were bidding," said Greg Greenwood, the ... |
2500 scientists, 1200 pages, and one quibble (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:23
| Age: AFTER years of research and a marathon week of intense secret debate, scientists from around the world last night signed off on a bleak assessment of a devastated planet: Earth. A turbulent future of violent storms, devastating drought, increasing temperatures and rising sea levels is inevitable, according to a United Nations report released in Paris last night. The report, the work of 2500 scientists over six years, is considered the most authoritative evaluation of climate change ... |
China: Beijing shifts the blame (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:23
| Sydney Morning Herald: China has ratified the Kyoto Protocol but, because it is a developing country, the world's most populous nation is not required to reduce greenhouse gases (the chief of which is carbon dioxide) by the 2012 deadline. Critics of the protocol, such as the United States, cite the exclusion of China and India as a key reason for their refusal to ratify the protocol. The US argues China will soon be the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases and without compulsory reduction targets ... |
Australia: The dragging of dusty feet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Sydney Morning Herald: There are no real surprises in the Paris report. With each report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the evidence gets stronger that the climate is being changed by human activity, mainly our burning of fossil fuels. We are already paying the costs of climate change in reduced farm production, increased costs of water supply and rising bills for extreme weather events. As the new report confirms, more change is inevitable because of the long time fossil-carbon stays ... |
Just the facts, folks, say the experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Sydney Morning Herald: THEY'RE a weird mob, scientists. No doubt they feel and bleed like the rest of us. But their job is not to show it. Their job is to stick to measurable facts. That, they insist, is the best way they can advance human understanding. When the American chemist Susan Solomon, the co-chairwoman of the world's leading body of climate change, was asked what should be done about it, she said her answer was "going to disappoint you, sir". "It is not my role to communicate ... |
Australia: So now we know, and the ball's in our court (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Age: THE scientists have done their job. Now the question is, when will our political leaders get on with theirs? Based on longer records, better observations and more climate models than were available in the previous three assessments, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest scientific report could not be much clearer. There is now overwhelming evidence that humans are heating up the planet unnaturally fast, with consequences that will last for centuries. And ... |
A look at the climate change report's main findings (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Associated Press: A brief look at main findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report: ___ THE CAUSE: Global warming is "very likely" caused by man – the strongest conclusion to date. Concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the planet's atmosphere "have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750," mainly from the use of fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal, and because of agriculture. ___ THE OUTLOOK: Now that the ... |
Bribes offered to scientists (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Guardian: SCIENTISTS and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine the UN climate change report. Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute, an ExxonMobil-funded think tank with close links to the Bush Administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of the report. Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered. The institute has received more than $1.6 ... |
Bush Administration Says Human Climate Role Now Clear (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Bloomberg: The Bush administration said the human role in climate change is no longer debatable, responding to a United Nations report that concludes world temperatures and sea- levels are ``very likely'' increasing. ``Human activity is contributing to changes in the Earth's climate,'' Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said at a press conference in Washington. ``That issue is no longer up for debate.'' The Bush administration has to date rejected all efforts to address global warming with ... |
France: Chirac calls for 'revolution' to deal with climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Montreal Gazette: French President Jacques Chirac called for.a "revolution" Friday to counter the "guilty selfishness" of climate change. "Faced with this emergency, the time for half measures is finished," Chirac said at the opening session of an international conference on the environment, whose participants include Quebec Premier Jean Charest. "It is time for a revolution," the French president added. "A new industrial revolution, that of sustainable development, lies before us." ... |
Democrats Say Climate Report Smoking Gun (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Associated Press: A strongly worded global warming report from the world's top climate scientists put pressure Friday on the Bush administration to reduce the United States' growing share of gases that trap heat in the atmosphere. Democrats newly in control of Congress and other critics of President Bush's environmental policies pounced on the long-awaited United Nations report like fresh meat. ``Although President Bush just noticed that the earth is heating up, the American public, every ... |
Evidence of Human-Caused Global Warming Unequivocal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Environment News Service: Changes in the atmosphere, the oceans, glaciers and ice caps show unequivocally that the Earth is warming, according to the first global assessment of climate change science in six years. The report confirms that the observed increase in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide since 1750 is the result of human activities. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, concludes that advances in climate modeling and the ... |
Fossil fuel and land use behind CO2 rise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Guardian: The first volume of the fourth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been almost three years in the writing and brings together the work of 600 writers from 40 countries. More than 620 experts have reviewed the findings, and representatives of 113 governments have read and revised the key points. The report assesses our current knowledge of climate change and the reasons behind it, looks at how the climate has already changed and how a range of ... |
Global warming called 'unequivocal' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| International Herald Tribune: In a bleak and powerful assessment of the future of the planet, the leading international network of climate change scientists concluded for the first time Friday that global warming is "unequivocal" and that human activity is "very likely" to blame. The warming will continue for hundreds of years, they predicted. The scientists, members of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change, said that new science had also allowed them to conclude that the warming caused by human activity is ... |
Mankind to blame for global warming say scientists (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:24
| Reuters: Mankind is to blame for global warming, the world's top climate scientists said on Friday, sending governments a "crystal clear" warning they must take urgent action to avert severe and irreversible damage. The United Nations panel, which groups 2,500 scientists from more than 130 nations, predicted more droughts, heatwaves and a slow gain in sea levels that could last for more than 1,000 years even if greenhouse gas emissions were capped. The panel's report predicts ... |
All England schools to see Al Gore climate film (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:25
| Reuters: The government will distribute Al Gore's dramatic global warming film to all secondary schools in England in its fight to tackle the climate crisis, Environment Minister David Miliband said on Friday. The announcement came as a panel of the world's top scientists issued a new report blaming mankind for the crisis and predicting that average temperatures would rise by between 1.8 and 4.0 degrees Celsius this century as a result. "The debate over the science of climate ... |
Climate change could crush wine industry (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:25
| Contra Costa Times: By any measure, California wines rank among the best in the world. But a 2-degree rise in temperature could make Napa Valley chardonnay a thing of the past. A couple more degrees and Napa would no longer be prime territory for wine of any kind. And warmer grape growing regions such as the Livermore valley could be knocked out of the premium wine game entirely. "It's clear that there's the potential for really substantial problems, and almost certainly going to be some ... |
Climate Panel Issues Urgent Warning to Curb Gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:25
| New York Times: The world is already committed to centuries of warming, shifting weather patterns and rising seas from the atmospheric buildup of gases that trap heat, but the warming can be substantially blunted by prompt action, an international network of climate experts said today. The report released here represented the fourth assessment since 1990 by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations, of the causes and consequences of climate change. But for the ... |
Climate report released (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:25
| Nature: In what may be the most eagerly awaited weather forecast of all time, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today released its most recent assessment of the state of climate change around the world. The report, a consensus document put together by 600 scientists and agreed by representatives of 113 countries, predicts continued warming of 0.2 °C per decade for the coming few decades. Over the twenty-first century it predicts a range of 1.1-2.9 °C warming in a ... |
Strongest Climate warning yet demands action (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:25
| Greenpeace International: With the strongest warnings yet from the international scientific community on the threat of dangerous climate change just published, it's clearly time to match strengths of scientific warnings with determined action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The latest report on the science of climate change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Paris, concluded that continuing polluting business-as-usual practices is likely to increase global average ... |
The world will need our help when it gets hot (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:25
| International Herald Tribune: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, some 2,500 scientists, issued its fourth report on Friday in Paris. The news is that the fact of rising temperatures is no longer news; even the media has stopped trying to adopt a "balanced" approach to the few remaining skeptics, and politicians are leaping on the green bandwagon. The debate now is how to identify the horrific effects of climate change and what to do about them. In fact, the main criticism of the IPCC report ... |
A Tropical Germany by 2100? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:26
| Spiegel Online: Tropical nights in Bavaria, torrential rains elsewhere? Scientists have now come up with the most detailed predictions ever of the expected consequences of climate change in Germany. Kaufbeuren, 90 kilometers west of Munich, is like many other small German cities. With a population of 42,000, the town boasts a small pedestrian shopping zone, a handful of ice cream parlors and its own highway bypass. Life is normal in Kaufbeuren -- for now. Kaufbeuren could become famous in the ... |
California's changing climate: Less water, more conflict (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:26
| Contra Costa Times: At the Golden Gate, the sea is rising. In the Sierra Nevada, the snowpack is shrinking. These developments, attributable to a warming climate, threaten one of California's most indispensable resources: water. Without water and the ability to move it efficiently over hundreds of miles - to cities, suburbs, farms and factories - California would be unrecognizable from the highly developed, fertile and industrial powerhouse it is today. The threats to California's ... |
Australia: Climate change affects Tas sea habitat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:26
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: LISA MILLAR: In Tasmania, scientists say climate change is already taking a toll in the fragile waters around the State. Global warming is pushing the east Australian current further down the Tasmanian coast, and they say the current has brought a pest from New South Wales. The long-spined sea urchin is eating up the habitat of Tasmania's rock lobsters and abalone, much to the dismay of the local fishermen. Felicity Ogilvie reports. FELICITY OGILVIE: Scientists ... |
Climate debate over: CSIRO scientist (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 12:00:26
| AAP: A CSIRO scientist who contributed to a UN climate change report says it shows the global warming debate is over. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research scientist, Dr Penny Whetton, was the lead author of the regional climate projections chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report which was released in Paris tonight (AEDT). The report says human activity had "very likely" caused most global warming since the mid-20th century. Evidence ... |
Chirac issues call for new UN environment body (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 03:00:21
| Reuters: French President Jacques Chirac called on Friday for the creation of powerful new U.N. environment body as he opened a conference to discuss his plan hours after a U.N. panel said global warming was man-made. Speaking to a meeting of scientists, environmental campaigners and foreign officials, Chirac said the current United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) had insufficient clout and should be upgraded to have more say in world affairs. "The ecological crisis knows no ... |
Global warming report may trigger lawsuits: lawyers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 03:00:21
| Reuters: A U.N. report saying global warming is man-made could trigger more lawsuits against big industrial emitters despite vast hurdles in pinning down blame for floods, droughts or rising seas, lawyers said on Friday. "We're entering a new era," said Audley Sheppard, a partner at Clifford Chance law firm in Britain. He said major emitters of greenhouse gases could no longer argue they were unaware of the risks after top climate scientists said on Friday they were 90 percent ... |
White House Rejects Mandatory CO2 Caps (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 03:00:21
| Associated Press: Despite a strongly worded global warming report from the world's top climate scientists, the Bush administration expressed continued opposition Friday to mandatory reductions in heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman warned against "unintended consequences" - including job losses - that he said might result if the government requires economy-wide caps on carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. "There is a concern ... |
A call to arms on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 03:00:21
| Guardian: In today's report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we have a mayday alert. The fourth scientific assessment from this expert group in 17 years tells us that the first tank battalions have already broken through the border. Reading between the committee-written lines one can sense the panic. In 1990, I listened to the scientists who had completed the IPCC's first assessment in a Berkshire hotel. At a press conference, Margaret Thatcher, not otherwise known ... |
Chirac calls for environmental 'revolution' in wake of global warming report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 03:00:21
| Associated Press: French President Jacques Chirac sought Friday to parlay world worry about global warming into support for his bid for a new international body to protect the environment – and perhaps punish nations who abuse it. "In the face of this urgency, it is no longer the time for half-measures. It is time for a revolution," Chirac said in opening a conference he convened to push for the new environmental agency. The conference coincided with another international meeting in ... |
Final Report: Humans Caused Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 03:00:22
| Scientific American: For the first time, a panel of climate experts has confirmed that global warming is occurring and that it is "very likely"–90 percent certain–man-made. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a working group of some 3,000 delegates from 113 countries, today issued its final report here on the state of climate change -- and the findings were grim. "There can be no question that the increases in these greenhouse gases are dominated by human activity," says ... |
Africa Could Face Weather Extremes Due to Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 03:00:22
| Voice of America: Many people and groups are reacting to a new report that says people are "most likely" to blame for global warming. Among them is the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Madeleen Helmer is the head of the federation's climate center, located at The Hague. She says the findings of the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are not a surprise. She told VOA English to Africa Service reporter Joe De Capua there's concern over possible ... |
United Kingdom: An unforgivable truth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2007 at 03:00:22
| Guardian: It was very pleasant when I left home in Cambridge this morning. Song thrushes, dunnocks, wrens, robins and even a blackbird were all in full song. Daffodils were in bloom, and it was wonderfully mild. Later this morning I was walking in shirt sleeves, in bright sunshine that was warm on my face. It was gorgeous to experience a real flush of spring. The only trouble is, we are still in depths of winter - or should be. If there is anyone who still believes that the visible signs of ... |
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