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Accelerated warming now requires an accelerated response (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 06:00:28
| New York Times: Today humanity faces its greatest trial. The acceleration of the climate change now under way will sweep away the comfortable environment to which we are adapted. Change is a normal part of geological history. The most recent was the Earth's move from the long period of glaciation to the present warmish interglacial. What is unusual about the coming crisis is that we are the cause of it, and nothing so severe has happened since the long hot period at the start of the Eocene, 55 ... |
Climate study may serve as a wake-up call for government, business (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 06:00:28
| Chicago Tribune: While the question of global warming was settled years ago for all but a few holdouts in the scientific community, the landmark report delivered Friday by a global network of scientists created new certainties: Climate change will remain a potent force in politics, business and, of course, weather, for generations to come. Drier conditions in the U.S. Southwest, more rainfall in the Pacific Northwest and New England, less snowpack in the Rocky Mountains, and an increased incidence of ... |
EU Urges Germany to Lead in Fight Against Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 06:00:28
| Deutsche Welle: The EU's Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has urged Germany to take the lead in curbing global warming, saying Berlin must be aware of its responsibility as a role model. Dimas told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that Germany must "be aware of its responsibility and its position as a role model in the fight against climate change." Germany, which currently holds the rotating European Union presidency, has said the environment is one of its priorities. Yet ... |
Gore's image warms from dull pol to Oscar, Nobel hopeful (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 06:00:28
| Chicago Sun-Times: What happened to the old Al Gore -- the one the national media mockingly dubbed ''the wooden one,'' the stiff-lipped, firm-jawed politico, the favorite Tennessee son who could not carry his own state in 2000? Now we're presented with Hollywood Al, a sport-coated (dress shirt, sans tie) superior statesman representing Mother Earth with an agenda of convincing people that global warming is fact, not myth. Could a 2008 presidential bid be far behind? Gore has said he has no ... |
Sea may swallow Maldives if global warming uncheck (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 06:00:29
| Reuters: His Indian Ocean island cluster is a magnet for Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise, but the Maldives may disappear within generations unless world leaders urgently combat climate change, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom warns. With a United Nations climate panel forecasting world sea levels likely to rise by up to 59 cm (23.2 inches) by 2100 due to global warming, the risks to the low-lying island chain dotted across 500 miles (800 km) off the toe of India are glaring. "The ... |
As Earth warms, coastal housing sales must cool (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 06:00:29
| Orlando Sentinel: Anyone notice we didn't have winter this winter? I'm running the air conditioner more than the heater. And in a few more months, I'll be battening down the hatches. The debate about whether we are cooking up bigger hurricanes with global warming just got a little less debatable. It is "more likely than not," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said last week. This means that most experts worldwide think it is likely, even if Dick Cheney and Exxon ... |
Excluded data push warning to red (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 06:00:29
| Denver Post: Earth is heating up, and it's our fault. Warming is already whittling away at Colorado's snowpack vital for both the state's $2 billion ski industry and water supply across the West. Seas could rise up to 23 inches by 2100, as heat waves scorch more people and hurricanes likely get stronger. That's what a United Nations report released last week forecasts. The report also predicts average global warming by up to 8 degrees Fahrenheit if levels of heat trapping carbon dioxide ... |
South Korea: Saving ourselves (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 06:00:29
| Korea Herald: The extreme weather events that the world has been experiencing should no longer be considered out of the ordinary phenomena, but typical episodes caused by global warming. The latest report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released Friday should serve as a wake-up call for those who have been in denial about global warming. Skeptics who dismissed climate scientists' warnings that the burning of fossil fuel was responsible for global warming are now presented ... |
We must do all we can to cool off climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 06:00:29
| Chicago Sun-Times: By adding the small but significant word "very" to their long-awaited report last week, a body of international scientists took a major step toward erasing doubt about the causes of global warming. Rather than saying it was "likely" that global warming is caused by human activity, as they did six years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asserted in a landmark analysis that it is "very likely," meaning they now are more than 90 percent certain. ... |
A Disaster Epic (in Slo-Mo) (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 09:00:22
| New York Times: The fourth report since 1990 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a huge network of climate experts operating under the United Nations, contained much to fear, but no clanging alarm bells were attached. Before the report's arrival on Friday, the consequences of global warming had been epically imagined – New Orleans-style swampings by superstorms, the specter of an Artic meltdown and a water gush that would block heat-toting currents in the Atlantic Ocean and trigger an ... |
Can Washington get smart about science? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 09:00:23
| LA Times: By beginning to investigate the Bush administration's interference with scientists' work on global warming, the Democratic Congress has embarked on a key task: restoring respect for science – and more generally, for evidence and reason – in the federal government. That we need such reform, and from Democrats, is a historic irony, because it's the Republicans who have often tried to paint themselves as defenders of "sound science" against ideologically motivated ... |
Canada: Layton wants climate-change legislation passed before federal budget (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Canadian Press: Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton says the federal government has time to take action on climate change before the next election. Speaking to about 600 delegates at the Manitoba NDP's annual convention, Layton said legislation could be passed in the next few weeks on fuel efficiency standards for the auto sector and firm limits on the country's biggest polluters. Layton says the legislation could be passed before the federal budget this spring, which will be the next real point ... |
Scientists: Global Warming Report Predicts Warm, Dry Colorado (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| Denver Channel: Experts reviewing Friday's international report on climate change and global warming said Colorado can expect warmer winters, less mountain snow and lower stream flows in the future. Along with that, there could be an increased chance for wildfires. University of Arizona climatologist Jonathan Overpeck said a future fraught with drought isn't too far in the future if the world doesn't get a handle on greenhouse gasses and other emissions blamed for global warming. If ... |
Australia: Water package: PM to meet premiers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 09:00:24
| AAP: Prime Minister John Howard has called a meeting of the state premiers to discuss the federal government's $10 billion water package. In the meantime, Labor leader Kevin Rudd has announced he will convene a climate change conference involving the nation's best business and science brains early this year. His move follows the release on Friday of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which stated that man-made global warming was 90 per cent ... |
United States: Inhofe leading us the wrong direction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2007 at 09:00:25
| Edmond Sun: Suppose you had a friendly neighbor who always offers you advice. Despite his good intentions though, you begin to notice his advice always seems to point you in the wrong direction. Pretty soon, you probably would stop heeding his advice altogether. In Washington, D.C., today, too many of our leaders keep giving us bad advice that leads us astray. One of them is Oklahoma's own Sen. Jim Inhofe, who has been wrong on three of the most important issues of our time. Sen. Inhofe ... |
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