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| Rock school - Guardian Unlimited "If you went a few million years into the future it'd be really interesting to see how mankind is preserved. Probably as a little black line of carbon. If that. We won't leave much record in the rock sequence." |
31st December 2005 |
| As we get closer to 2012, extreme climate changes engulf the earth – India Daily How often have you seen a newspaper proclaim ' Record High Temperature!' Does this mean that the climate, the average range of weather conditions for a given region, is changing? |
31st December 2005 |
| NI power plant is 'revolutionary' - BBC News An NI biomass plant has been named as one of the best in the UK for leading the way in cutting carbon emissions and promoting renewable energy. |
30th December 2005 |
| Robot car: streets ahead in cities of the future - Guardian Unlimited · Architects and engineers rethink auto technology · 'Easy to drive, stackable vehicle for people to share' |
29th December 2005 |
| 2005: The year in environment - New Scientist |
29th December 2005 |
| My Turn: Time for action on global warming - Burlington Free Press He's worried, and he explains why... |
29th December 2005 |
| Wind-Powered Sewage Treatment Plant Cuts CO2 Emissions by 96% - GreenBiz Kakegawa City, together with the Japan Sewage Works Agency, has been recognized by Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport for its highly resource-efficient sewage system. The city's sewage project earned top honors at the 14th annual Water Treatment System Awards in the category of effective use of sewage systems. |
29th December 2005 |
| EDF adds £2m to underwater power project - Guardian Unlimited EDF Energy is stepping up investment in Bristol-based Marine Current Turbines to fund commercial development of electricity produced using underwater tidal currents. A prototype device is to be installed in Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough and connected to the local power grid next year. |
29th December 2005 |
| Australia must clean up its environmental act - The Age The Government is out of tune with the rest of the world. |
29th December 2005 |
| Climate options for a greener world - BBC News The prediction is that by 2100, the average global temperature will rise by anything from 2 degrees Celsius to around 6C with potentially devastating consequences. |
28th December 2005 |
| Operation Noah seeks further climate change action - ekklesia Operation Noah, the UK churches' climate change campaign, has welcomed the agreement reached at the recent climate summit in Montreal to discuss long-term global climate strategy beyond 2012, and has further challenged the British Government to declare the hand it will play. |
28th December 2005 |
| Study Predicts Southwest Summers Will Be Hotter - ENN A study billed by its researchers as the most detailed projection yet of climate change says hotter, drier Southwestern summers will become a reality by the late 21st century if human-caused global warming continues. |
28th December 2005 |
Wildfires sweep southern states - Globe & Mail ![[canaries]](../images/canary.gif) Cross Plains — Firefighters searched for missing people and hoped for cooler, calmer weather Wednesday after deadly wildfires raced across thousands of acres of grassland dried out by Texas' worst drought in decades and destroyed dozens of homes. |
28th December 2005 |
| One year on… - RealClimate.org Review of 2005 and the topics that the superb website RealClimate has covered during its first year. |
28th December 2005 |
| Drought threatening fresh water supplies in southern China - Today OnLine |
28th December 2005 |
| Racing Toward Climate Disaster - Inter Press Service News Agency With 2005 the warmest year in modern times and new research confirming scientists' worst fears, most experts agree that urgent and innovative international action on climate change is needed. |
27th December 2005 |
| Evangelicals direct clout at global warming - Oxford Press The climate change statement, being crafted by several evangelical leaders nationwide, could call for curbs on emissions of greenhouse gases. It also could put evangelicals — who make up 1 in 4 voters and are a key support base for President Bush, with 78 percent of white evangelicals voting for him last year — at odds with the White House and business interests that form another key Republican constituency. |
27th December 2005 |
| Past Hot Times Hold Few Reasons to Relax About New Warming - New York Times But the pace of the recent rise in carbon dioxide is as much as 200 times as fast as what has been estimated in past rapid climate transitions. |
27th December 2005 |
| Is planting trees the solution to global warming - Guardian Unlimited Interesting comments from the letters page on CO2 sequestration in soils and forests |
27th December 2005 |
| Climate study predicts big thaw - CCN Climate change could thaw the top 11 feet of permafrost in most areas of the Northern Hemisphere by 2100, altering ecosystems across Alaska, Canada and Russia, according to a federal study. |
26th December 2005 |
Climate in the balance - SunHerald.com ![[essential]](../images/redDot.gif) |
23rd December 2005 |
| Tree-planting projects may not be so green - Guardian Unlimited · Knock-on effect thwarts carbon offsetting plan · Attempts to undo CO2 damage a short-term fix |
23rd December 2005 |
| True blues may go a shade green and end hostility to climate change levy - Financial Times UK: David Cameron is reconsidering the Conservatives' opposition to the climate change levy as part of a drive to rebrand the Tories as a party that cares about the environment. |
23rd December 2005 |
| Australia Ban Fires, Barbeques as Temperatures Soar - Bloomberg Fire departments in four Australian states have banned all open fires and barbecues for the Christmas holidays as soaring temperatures and high winds threaten to spark another outbreak of deadly wildfires. |
23rd December 2005 |
| New Swedish Air Ticket Tax Set at Minimum $12 - Reuters / Panet Ark Sweden's government and parliamentary allies have agreed to set a new environmental airline ticket tax at between 96-430 crowns ($12-$54), depending on the class of travel, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday. |
23rd December 2005 |
| US storms cause record insurance losses – Swiss Re - WBCSD Environmental Finance, 22 December 2005 - The series of hurricanes that battered the US in 2005 look set to make this year the costliest ever for companies offering insurance against natural and man-made catastrophes, according to preliminary estimates from Swiss Re. |
22nd December 2005 |
| Greens to kill energy subsidies - Red Deer Advocate The Green Party says it will eliminate tax breaks to all fossil fuel sectors. |
22nd December 2005 |
| New Zealand Scraps Kyoto Carbon-Tax Plan - Reuters / Planet Ark WELLINGTON - New Zealand scrapped plans on Wednesday to introduce a carbon tax from 2007, saying it would not achieve its aim of cutting greenhouse gases. |
22nd December 2005 |
| Pollutants ward off global warming, study finds - Guardian Unlimited Cutting air pollution could trigger a greater surge in global warming than previously thought, suggesting future rises in sea level and other environmental consequences have been underestimated, climate scientists report today. |
22nd December 2005 |
| American global warming gas emissions accelerate to a record high - Guardian Unlimited Emissions of global warming gases from the United States have nearly doubled in 14 years and reached an all-time high in 2004, according to figures released by the American government. But new analysis suggests Europe is also falling behind in its attempt to meet legally binding United Nations targets. |
22nd December 2005 |
| Melting of permafrost threatens homes and roads, scientists warn - Guardian Unlimited Global warming could melt almost all of the top layer of Arctic permafrost by the end of the century. Scientists say the thaw would release vast stocks of carbon into the atmosphere, threaten ocean currents and wreck roads and buildings across Canada, Alaska and Russia. |
21st December 2005 |
| Biologist uses carbon trading to grow forests - Reuters KUCHING, Malaysia (Reuters) - Biologist Ian Swingland took up the idea of trading commodities to fund afforestation programs after he witnessed the devastation caused by logging in the Malaysian rainforests of Borneo in 1998, two decades after his first visit there. |
21st December 2005 |
| Gas Emissions Reached High in U.S. in '04 - New York Times American emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming reached an all-time high in 2004, rising 2 percent from the year before, the Energy Department said, nearly double the average annual rate measured since 1990. |
21st December 2005 |
| Ford outlines plan to fight global warming - Detroit Free Press Ford's strategy, published in a report requested by shareholder activists, listed few specifics for increasing the fuel economy of its vehicles. But environmental groups hailed the move as a significant commitment by the automaker, and called on General Motors Corp. to produce its own overview, a move GM has resisted so far. |
21st December 2005 |
| Motorbikes '16 times worse than cars for pollution' - Guardian Unlimted Tests on a selection of modern motorbikes and private cars revealed that rather than being more environmentally-friendly, motorbikes emit 16 times the amount of hydrocarbons, including greenhouse gases, three times the carbon monoxide and a "disproportionately high" amount of other pollutants, compared to cars. |
21st December 2005 |
| Drowning polar bears worry researchers Evidence hints that bear populations are on thin ice. - Nature Reports this week claimed that polar bears were being forced by climate change into cannibalism and attempting suicidal swims. Experts say it is too early to be sure, but that these are the kind of impacts expected as melting sea ice leaves the bears with longer distances to travel. |
20th December 2005 |
| Most Of Arctic's Near-surface Permafrost To Thaw By 2100 - Science Daily New simulations from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) show that over half of the area covered by this topmost layer of permafrost could thaw by 2050 and as much as 90 percent by 2100. Scientists expect the thawing to increase runoff to the Arctic Ocean and release vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. |
20th December 2005 |
| China firms, World Bank in $930 mln emissions deal - Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Two private Chinese chemicals firms and the World Bank on Monday launched the world's biggest single project to cut greenhouse gas emissions in a deal worth nearly $1 billion, the World Bank said. |
20th December 2005 |
| Climate change concert at stadium - BBC News The Millennium Stadium is to host a charity concert as part of a campaign to raise awareness over climate change. |
20th December 2005 |
| Playing With Fire: Mankind's Planet-wide Experiment - EV World Address to Committee for Economic Development of Australia by Stanford University professor Stephen H. Schneider |
20th December 2005 |
| Trade can 'export' CO2 emissions - BBC News New research from the US shows that trade can significantly affect emissions of greenhouse gases. |
19th December 2005 |
| US States Forge on With Slimmer Plan to Cut CO2 - Reuters / Planet Ark Seven Northeastern US states hope to proceed with plans to launch a regional greenhouse gas market, even after two states dropped out of the group, sources said. |
19th December 2005 |
| A big wave of mini-hydro projects - Christian Science Monitor Interest revives in hydropower on a small scale, sparked by the new energy bill and high fuel costs. |
19th December 2005 |
| Two California Forests Commit to New Protocols to Protect Global Climate - earthvision.net Two privately owned California forests have become the first forestlands to join the California Climate Action Registry. The landowners announced their intent to remove over 3 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere -- the annual emissions equivalent of over 500,000 cars -- during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP11) meeting. |
19th December 2005 |
| Earth heading close to record hottest year - The Age This year is Australia's hottest on record and could turn out to be the planet's warmest for thousands of years. |
17th December 2005 |
| Relief as snow hits ski resorts - BBC News With a week to go until Christmas, ski resorts are breathing a collective sigh of relief as snow finally falls across many parts of the Alps. |
17th December 2005 |
| Polar bears living on thin ice after record temperatures - Guardian Unlimited This could be the hottest year ever recorded, posing a threat to Arctic wildlife including polar bears, ice-dwelling seals and several forms of vegetation, according to UN scientists collating data from across the world. |
16th December 2005 |
| Government fails to hit carbon emissions targets - Guardian Unlimited In the same year that the government claimed to take a global lead on climate change, total CO2 emissions from government departments have actually increased, according to independent advisory body the Sustainable Development Commission. |
16th December 2005 |
| Climate, Storms Hit Extremes in 2005 - UN Weather Body - Reuters / Planet Ark Catastrophic storms like Hurricanes Katrina and Stan took weather extremes to new levels in 2005, with flooding and heatwaves touching almost every continent, the United Nations weather body WMO said on Thursday. |
16th December 2005 |
| The global climate - 2005 - Met Office, Hadley Provisional figures for 2005 compiled by the Met Office's Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia (UEA) show that the northern hemisphere is experiencing its warmest ever year. |
15th December 2005 |
| Montreal talks end in hope - SciDev.net A considerable breakthrough was made at the very last minute, when the United States agreed to consider a dialogue on future strategies. The United States has not signed the Kyoto Protocol and is not obliged to discuss binding targets for reducing emissions. |
15th December 2005 |
Methane hydrates and global warming - RealClimate.org
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12th December 2005 |
| Democrats seek energy independence by 2020 - Red Orbit New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid Pennsylvania's Gov. Ed Rendell said greater use of renewable energy, mass transit and domestic fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel could cut oil and gas imports. A plan they unveiled on Monday is called Energy Independence 2020. |
12th December 2005 |
| Warning on clean coal or hot death - Sydney Morning Herald THE world would be condemned to a "hot death" if it did not pursue so-called clean coal technologies, the federal Minister for the Environment, Ian Campbell said. |
12th December 2005 |
| Temperatures Climb as Warming Talks Stall - NRDC |
12th December 2005 |
| The world can breathe again - Guardian Unlimited Robin McKie, science editor, explains the global significance of yesterday's deal in Montreal |
11th December 2005 |
It Never Sleeps, but It's Learned to Douse the Lights - New York Times ![[hopeful]](../images/greenDot.gif) More than 11,000 traffic lights and "Don't Walk" signals in New York City have been switched to light-emitting diodes that use 90 percent less energy than conventional fixtures. |
11th December 2005 |
| US retreats at climate change talks - Guardian Unlimited 'Obstructive' White House stung by criticism of its stance as 157 nations extend the Kyoto agreement. |
11th December 2005 |
| Cheers, yet concern for climate - BBC News Analysis "...for Greenpeace and the rest of the NGO lobby, the glass is indeed fuller than it might have been. But is it the right glass? Or are they focussing on the tiny aperitif they have managed to rescue while the tankard slowly drains?" |
11th December 2005 |
| In Shift, US Agrees to Future Climate Talks - Inter Press Service News Agency More than 150 nations agreed early Saturday to launch formal talks on mandatory post-2012 reductions in greenhouse gases at the U.N. conference on climate change in Montreal. |
10th December 2005 |
| World Warms to New Climate Talks - WWF Real progress was made at the Montreal climate talks as governments finalized the ground rules for the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol and set the stage for discussions to further cut carbon emissions after 2012. |
10th December 2005 |
| Clinton damns Bush climate policy - BBC News The claim that the Kyoto treaty would damage the US economy is "flat wrong", former President Bill Clinton has told the UN climate conference in Montreal. |
10th December 2005 |
| Warning to Blair on climate change - Guardian Unlimited A New coalition of environmental & aid groups is calling for official recognition that the threat from climate change is so large that it threatens all the internationally-agreed targets for poverty reduction - the Millennium Development Goals. It is also lobbying that any deal to develop the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012 should force countries to adopt greenhouse gas reduction targets which are adequate to stop dangerous climate change. |
9th December 2005 |
| Bush 'must not stand in the way of new Kyoto deal' - The Independent Stephen Byers, the former UK environment secretary, was at a world conference in Montreal to promote a policy that is guaranteed to infuriate US airlines. |
9th December 2005 |
| Global Warming Could Halt Ocean Circulation With Harmful Results - PhysOrg.com "The shutdown of the thermohaline circulation has been characterized as a high-consequence, low-probability event. Our analysis, including the uncertainties in the problem, indicates it is a high-consequence, high-probability event." |
9th December 2005 |
| Castro: Rich Nations Endangering Planet - Reuters / Planet Ark "The unbridled race to waste the planet's natural resources will bring life to an end on Earth. The first to die will be our small island states." |
9th December 2005 |
| Hot air: Summit heads to a close with no sign of progress - The Independent The UN climate conference began 11 days ago. Representatives from 189 countries jetted in to Montreal. Tomorrow the talking stops, with little sign of action. Since the summit began, the seas have risen by 0.077mm, 1,176 million barrels of oil have been pumped, 280,000 hectares of forest have been destroyed, and 907 million tonnes of greenhouse gases have been discharged. So what have 11 days of talks achieved so far? |
9th December 2005 |
| Anti-Pollution Gasoline Tax Urged by Californian Panel - Reuters / Planet Ark An advisory panel appointed by California's governor urged the state on Thursday to impose a new tax on gasoline, diesel fuel and other petroleum products to fund efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. |
9th December 2005 |
| TOP SECRET Briefing Book for George W. Bush |
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| Greenland glacier races to ocean - BBC News "We've seen a 5km retreat of the terminus, we've see an almost 300% acceleration in the flow speed and we've seen about a 100m thinning of the glacier - all occurring in the last one or so years... the predictions for both the rate and the timing for sea level rise in the next few decades will be largely underestimated." |
8th December 2005 |
| U.S. MAYORS TAKING ACTION AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING - NRDC Call on Washington Leaders to Follow Their Lead, Understand Threats to America's Cities |
8th December 2005 |
| Changes to land cover may enhance global warming in Amazon, reduce it in midlatitudes - EurekAlert New simulations of 21st-century climate show that human-produced changes in land cover could produce additional warming in the Amazon region comparable to that caused by greenhouse gases, while counteracting greenhouse warming by 25% to 50% in some midlatitude areas. |
8th December 2005 |
| Oil industry targets EU climate policy - Guardian Unlimited Lobbyists funded by the US oil industry have launched a campaign in Europe aimed at derailing efforts to tackle greenhouse gas pollution and climate change. |
8th December 2005 |
| Inuit Accuse Washington of Violating Human Rights - Reuters / Planet Ark In a groundbreaking case, the Inuit filed a petition to a commission of the Organization of American States that said climate change was tantamount to human rights abuse. |
8th December 2005 |
| Canadian leader rips U.S. over warming - San Francisco Chronicle "Climate change is a global challenge that demands a global response. Yet there are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or indifference, that this is not our problem to solve. Well, let me tell you, it is our problem to solve." |
8th December 2005 |
| UN climate talks enter key phase - BBC News Dr James Hansen told a meeting of American Geophysical Union in San Francisco that just 1C more of warming would take the Earth into climate patterns it has not experienced for more than 500,000 years. |
7th December 2005 |
| 2005 Costliest Year for Extreme Weather - Inter Press Service News Agency The world has suffered more than 200 billion dollars in economic losses as a result of weather-related natural disasters over the past year, making 2005 the costliest year on record, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday by Munich Re. |
7th December 2005 |
| It's time to move on - Guardian news blog The EU should look to build support in the developing world on climate change and only re-engage with the US when it has a new president, says Simon Retallack.... |
7th December 2005 |
| Report Says 2005 Will Be Warmest, Stormiest Year on Record, Likely Due to Global Warming - ENN This year is likely to go down as the hottest, stormiest and driest ever on Planet Earth, making a strong case for the urgent need to combat global warming |
7th December 2005 |
| US senators push Bush on climate - BBC News Almost a quarter of the US Senate has written to President George Bush urging him to join UN talks on climate change currently taking place in Canada. |
7th December 2005 |
| Bush treats planet as his alone - Seattle Post Intelligencer |
7th December 2005 |
| Arctic Soil Carbon Vastly Underestimated - Science a Go Go Seriously big trouble brewing in the arctic tundra. |
6th December 2005 |
| Climate at record extremes - Toronto Star This is shaping up as the year the battered earth hit back, wreaking havoc with record weather extremes that almost certainly spring from global climate change. |
6th December 2005 |
| Warming effect in a world without snow - Guardian Unlimited According to a new climate model in which researchers imagined a world without snow, not only would global temperatures rise but, bizarrely, the amount of permanently frozen land in the world would also go up. |
6th December 2005 |
| Don't go soft on Kyoto promises - Globe & Mail Forget about asking nations to deal voluntarily with the climate-change crisis. Compulsory rules are the only way, says British environment minister |
6th December 2005 |
| Worse than Fossil Fuel - George Monbiot Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth |
6th December 2005 |
| Scientist hopes for CO2 storage - BBC News Mankind's only hope of staving off catastrophic climate change is burying CO2 emissions underground, says the UK's chief scientist. |
6th December 2005 |
| U.N. Talks Seen Averting Deadlines for Climate Pact - ENN U.N. climate talks in Canada are likely to avoid setting a target date for agreeing a successor for the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol, disappointing environmentalists who want a 2008 deadline, delegates said Monday. |
6th December 2005 |
| The Struggle Against Ourselves - monbiot.com Speech to the Climate March, 3rd December 2005. By George Monbiot. "...I don't have to remind you of the two forces which are converging on our lives. We are faced with an impending shortage of the source of energy which is hardest to replace – liquid fossil fuels. And we are faced with the environmental consequences of the fossil fuel burning which has permitted us to be standing here now. The structure, the complexity, the diversity of our lives, everything we know, everything that we have taken for granted, that looked solid and non-negotiable, suddenly looks contingent. All this is a great tottering pile balanced on a ball, a ball that is about to start rolling downhill..." |
5th December 2005 |
| What planet are you on, Mr Bush? (and do you care, Mr Blair?) - The Independent Tens of thousands of people marched in 33 countries yesterday to express concern for the environment. But will their leaders respond? |
5th December 2005 |
| The Race Against Climate Change - BusinessWeek How top companies are reducing emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases |
5th December 2005 |
| Fighting global warming: New, broad treaties in doubt - International Herald Tribune |
5th December 2005 |
| EU States Back Inclusion of Airlines in Emissions Trade - Planet Ark |
5th December 2005 |
| Thousands March in Montreal to Urge Climate Action - Planet Ark |
5th December 2005 |
| Climate change: time for action - The Independent Today, protesters unite in 30 nations - this is what lies ahead if nothing is done |
3rd December 2005 |
| Thousands in Montreal protest against global warming - CTV |
3rd December 2005 |
| China refuses to cut energy use - The Sydney Morning Herald CHINA has underlined the difficulties in forging a new international regime to limit greenhouse gases by declaring that its people barely use enough energy to make a living. |
2nd December 2005 |
| Trade exacerbates global warming - The Daily Camera The global warming impacts of international trade between the United States and China has become more apparent in the last six years, according to a study released by Boulder's National Center for Atmospheric Research. |
2nd December 2005 |
| The Climate in Montreal - Washington Post The Bush talk on numbers is just that and, not surprisingly, it turns out that so is the Bush talk on international cooperation. |
2nd December 2005 |
| US stand poses hurdle at environmental talks - Christian Science Monitor |
2nd December 2005 |
| EU Says Will Fulfil Kyoto Target Early, in 2010 - Reuters / Planet Ark The European Union will meet its Kyoto Protocol obligations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2010, two years before the global environment treaty's final deadline, a report by the EU executive showed on Thursday. |
2nd December 2005 |
| How coal is cleaning up its act - BBC News Coal is back on the agenda as a serious player in meeting the world's future energy demands. |
2nd December 2005 |
| Eyes wide shut on global warming - MENA Financial Network News "...perhaps we are hoping that the "we" whose interests are taken into account when important decisions are made will not be the "we" who are among the big losers. Perhaps we will continue to close our eyes." |
1st December 2005 |
| 'Climate threat badly understood' - BBC News Public understanding of climate change and what people can do to help tackle the problem is very weak, the environment secretary has said. |
1st December 2005 |
| China vows to cut greenhouse gases - CNN Beijing laments U.S. absence at Kyoto Protocol |
1st December 2005 |
| Stormy times predicted for years ahead - Financial Times “I’d like to foretell that next year will be calmer, but I can’t,” said Conrad Lautenbacher, administrator of the US National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration. |
1st December 2005 |
| No one is immune from the effects of global warming - The Independent None of us in this global village of the 21st century is going to be immune from the effects of climate change. This is the basic message of the European Environment Agency, whose latest report says that changes to the continent's climate that have been experienced to date have not been matched in the past several thousand years. |
30 November 2005 |
| Forget U.S. on Kyoto, Kennedy advises - sue the 'criminals' - The Gazette Environmental lawyer and nephew of JFK says legal action against polluters is best bet |
30 November 2005 |
| Science faces 'dangerous times' - BBC News Fundamentalism is hampering global efforts to tackle climate change, according to Britain's top scientist. |
30 November 2005 |
| 2° Celsius: A World Of Difference To Life On Earth - Scoop.co.nz The consensus of international conservation organisations is that if temperatures rise above 2° Celsius from pre-industrial levels, massive species extinctions and dramatic changes in ecosystems will have severe consequences for human wellbeing. |
29 November 2005 |
| A DIY guide to saving Planet Earth - The Telegraph Human survival depends on problem fixing not avoidance - in particular learning how to cool down our planet, says David Deutsch |
29 November 2005 |
| BP expects £3.5bn income from alternative energy - Guardian Unlimited BP promised yesterday to build the biggest alternative power business in the world, capable of producing $6bn (£3.5bn) worth of revenues per annum from projects in Britain and abroad within 10 years. |
29 November 2005 |
| New Technologies Take Center Stage at Montreal Summit - Der Spiegle At the World Climate Summit in Montreal, politicians and environmentalists are discussing technical solutions for dealing with global warming. In initial pilot projects, engineers are attempting to capture the carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and burying it in rock beneath the surface or depositing it on the ocean floor. |
29 November 2005 |
| US resists climate change pressure at UN conference - Guardian Unlimited Crucial talks aimed at combatting the threat of global warming opened in Montreal yesterday with the US government signalling that it will resist attempts to be drawn into a new international process to cut emissions. |
29 November 2005 |
| CO2: This time it's personal - BBC News DTQ scheme would entail each citizen receiving - free of charge - an identical personal carbon allowance. If you don't use all of your allowance, you could sell the excess. Similarly, going over your personal quota would cost you. |
29 November 2005 |
| How Much Energy Do We Have? - George Monbiot Are there enough renewables to keep the lights on? The answer will be comforting to no one. |
29 November 2005 |
| Climate change: It's now or never - The Independent "As the politicians dither, whole nations and ecosystems are shifting from the "still time" file to the "too late" file as vital climatic tipping points are crossed." |
28 November 2005 |
| Climate change awareness increases - Financial Times Consumers are spending more than £3bn a year to help tackle climate change. |
28 November 2005 |
| The victims of climate chaos begin to fight back - through the courts - johannhari.com The Roe vs Wade-ing of global warming? |
28 November 2005 |
| Rain Forest Nations Seek Incentive to Conserve - Los Angeles Times Papua New Guinea and others suggest they be compensated for the benefits of green areas. |
28 November 2005 |
| Farmers warn over climate change - BBC News UK agriculture must adapt to climate change which could cause a global food shortage, farmers are warning |
28 November 2005 |
| Global warming equals weapons of mass destruction: scientist - PhysOrg.com The impact of spiralling pollution on the planet poses a threat to civilisation just as catastrophic as much-vaunted weapons of mass destruction, top scientist warned. |
28 November 2005 |
| Global warming scuppers Blair's nuclear power plans - Sunday Herald Prime Minister Tony Blair's plans to build new nuclear power stations were thrown into doubt last night after a government agency warned that the preferred sites would be flooded or eroded by global warming. |
26 November 2005 |
| Listen to the trees - Guardian Unlimited Colin Tudge sounds a warning for modern society with The Secret Life of Trees. They are the key to humanity's evolutionary past - and our future, says Adam Thorpe |
26 November 2005 |
| Climate talks to be most significant since Kyoto - Globe & Mail The conference will be judged a success if Mr. Dion gets commitments from most of the world's industrialized and developing countries to at least agree to begin talks on the post-Kyoto period. |
26 November 2005 |
| No-Confidence Vote on Canada's Government Threatens U.N. Climate Change Meeting - New York Times |
26 November 2005 |
| Climate talks - hoops and hot air - BBC News Analysis of the Montreal post-Kyoto climate change conference |
26 November 2005 |
| U.S. won't accept any new 'constraints' at Kyoto talks - canoe.ca Just ahead of the UN conference on global warming, a senior American official said Saturday that Washington would hold to its position that any new measures to protect the environment not limit economic development. |
26 November 2005 |
| CO2 'highest for 650,000 years' - BBC News Scientists say their research shows present day warming to be exceptional. |
24 November 2005 |
| Stabilizing climate change more daunting than thought - PhysOrg.com If the world is serious about halting global warming then it will have to reduce carbon emissions over the next century by as much as 230 billion tonnes more than previously thought, according to new research from the University of Calgary. |
24 November 2005 |
| Clearing the air - The Hour Scientist Sylvie Fradette tackles global warming with a cool new invention |
24 November 2005 |
| UK victory rips hole in EU's pollution trading scheme - Guardian Unlimted The EU's emissions trading scheme, cornerstone of Europe's effort to combat global warming, was thrown into chaos yesterday after Europe's second highest court ruled that Britain had the right to press for looser limits on polluting industries. |
24 November 2005 |
| Can "tipping points" accelerate global warming? - Reuters |
24 November 2005 |
| Scientists use new techniques to narrow down impact of global warming on specific regions - EurekaAlert The STARDEX project's seven European research teams, led by the University of East Anglia, narrowed down evidence of changing weather patterns to predict the occurrence of floods, heat waves and drought on even smaller regions across the UK and Europe. |
24 November 2005 |
| Terror Against the Biosphere - Dissident Voice Virtually alone among nations, the United States -- by far the worst polluter on the face of this green and smoggy planet—refuses to acknowledge the existence of a greenhouse threat -- let alone address it. The world burns, the barons steal, and America plays its public relations fiddle. |
23 November 2005 |
| Kyoto's the key - Guardian Unlimited Environment groups are alarmed at the conflicting signals Tony Blair has been giving on climate change. Tony Juniper urges the UK to lead the fight for legally-binding agreements at next week's talks in Montreal |
23 November 2005 |
| Up To One-third Of US In Compliance With Kyoto Accords - Science Daily Even though the United States does not participate in the Kyoto protocol, about one-quarter of the population lives in states, counties or cities that have adopted climate change policies similar to those of the global initiative, according to a Brief Communication published in the November 17 issue of Nature. |
23 November 2005 |
| Council turns up the heat on energy wasters - Guardian Unlimited Leicester city council is looking after the environment and residents by using a spy in the sky to spot energy-wasting homes |
23 November 2005 |
| Aviation fuel to undermine pledge on global warming - The Independent The devastating cost in global warming of tax-free fuel for airlines is laid bare in an EU report being studied by MPs. |
23 November 2005 |
| Financial Giant Goldman Sachs to Invest $1B in Alternative Energy - NRDC Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs unveiled a new policy this week that details how its 24,000 employees should protect forests and work to prevent climate change, aiming to encourage clients in environmentally sensitive areas to use "appropriate safeguards." |
22 November 2005 |
| Snows fail to fall in Arctic tundra - CNN Life is harsh on the freezing tundra of the Arctic Circle where Anna Prakhova lives. But it can be much harder when snows do not fall. |
22 November 2005 |
| Nations to debate new climate plan - CNN About 190 nations meet in Canada next week to try to enlist the United States and such developing nations as China and India in the U.N.-led fight against global warming beyond 2012. |
22 November 2005 |
| Clear the air on climate change - WWF Industry's immense capacity for innovation can help mitigate the effects of climate change, but there is a substantial barrier that must be addressed in order to provide clarity: The uncertainty about the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012. |
22 November 2005 |
| No honey left in European “buffets” because of climate change - WWF Five WWF “Climate Witnesses” from the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain descended on Brussels to tell their personal stories of how climate change is affecting their lives and businesses. Snow disappearing in Scotland, fewer bees in Italy, crop losses in Spain, forests on the decline in Germany and sea levels rising off the coast of England are dangerous signs of climate change in Europe. |
22 November 2005 |
| Forests paying the price for biofuels - New Scientist THE drive for "green energy" in the developed world is having the perverse effect of encouraging the destruction of tropical rainforests. |
22 November 2005 |
| The big thaw - The Independent Global disaster will follow if the ice cap on Greenland melts. Now scientists say it is vanishing far faster than even they expected. Geoffrey Lean reports |
20 November 2005 |
| How green can we go? - The Gazette An extraordinary summer fades into an awesome autumn, the last rusty leaves glinting against a pale blue sky. For the most part, it's been warmer and a shade drier than the wet, blustery Novembers Montrealers have come to know and dread. What's not to like? Plenty, actually. |
19 November 2005 |
| Tony Blair: 'We must do more to beat climate change' - The Independent 'We will cut our emissions by 2012 by almost twice the targets set by Kyoto' |
19 November 2005 |
| Polar bears face up to warmer future - BBC News |
19 November 2005 |
| Moral obligation to ratify Kyoto: bishops - Sydney Morning Herald Australia's 5 million Catholics were as morally bound to combat the loss of biodiversity as they were to protect the rights of the unborn child, according to a landmark statement by the church's bishops that calls for Australia to cap greenhouse emissions. |
19 November 2005 |
| The False Objectivity of “Balance” - RealClimate "We here at RC continue to be disappointed with the tendency for some journalistic outlets to favor so-called "balance" over accuracy in their treatment of politically-controversial scientific issues such as global climate change." |
18 November 2005 |
| Climate needs 'decisive action' - BBC News A top UN advisor on climate science says world politicians are not acting fast enough to tackle global warming. |
18 November 2005 |
| Hot, hungry and gasping for air – climate change puts fish at risk, warns WWF Fish are increasingly threatened by the effects of climate change as temperatures rise in rivers, lakes and oceans, says a new WWF report. It says that hotter water means less food, less offspring and even less oxygen for marine and freshwater fish populations. |
18 November 2005 |
| Move Kyoto Forward in Montreal, urges WWF |
18 November 2005 |
| EU Says New Deal To Replace Kyoto Must Have Specific Targets - ENN A new agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012 will need specific targets that are applied sensitively to avoid damaging national economies, Britain's Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett said Wednesday. |
17 November 2005 |
| 'Culture change' on environment - BBC News Worldwide interest in the threat from greenhouse gases has undergone a "massive change", the government's chief scientific adviser has said. |
17 November 2005 |
| Climate change: world round-up - Nature The seven continents and their climate challenges. |
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| U.S. pressed to return to climate change game - cnews Some U.S. senators and environmentalists are trying to push the White House back into the climate change game before a big international conference in Montreal this month. |
16 November 2005 |
| Princeton study puts up to 3% of N.J. under water by 2100 - Times Leader.com The authors cited global warming and sinking land. Solutions include cutting emissions and some withdrawal from Shore. |
16 November 2005 |
| Evolution, Ecology And 'Malignant Design' - CounterCurrents "In our time, Bush administration hostility to scientific inquiry puts the world at risk. Environmental catastrophe, whether you think the world has been developing only since Genesis or for eons, is far too serious to ignore." |
15 November 2005 |
| The politics of climate change. It will happen, and they will come - SF Gate "Every ecosystem on the planet is under threat of catastrophic collapse, and if we don't begin to acknowledge and solve them, then we will go down." |
15 November 2005 |
| The rainforest: climate change icons under threat - The Age Rising temperatures could spell doom for many of the delicate creatures in Queensland's wet tropical rainforest. |
15 November 2005 |
| Ocean levels rising faster - The Age |
15 November 2005 |
| Oil project stored 5 million tons carbon dioxide - Reuters |
15 November 2005 |
| France takes new steps to fight global warming - Reuters |
15 November 2005 |
| New England's Winters Growing Warmer - Reuters / Planet Ark "Evidence of changes is strong and is consistent with warming temperatures in the late-winter and spring in New England in the last 30 to 40 years." |
15 November 2005 |
| Don't call it global warming. It's climate chaos - Johann Hari If Blair's policies on terror were as incoherent as his environmentalism, he would have to resign |
14 November 2005 |
| Climate change could spread plague - Reuters Warmer, wetter weather brought on by global warming could increase outbreaks of the plague, which has killed millions down the ages and wiped out one third of Europe's population in the 14th century, academics said. |
14 November 2005 |
| Windpower survey blows away myths from opponents - The Independent Wind power supporters have received a boost from a study that shows Britain has the best wind in Europe because it blows all year round and peaks when there is greatest demand for electricity. |
14 November 2005 |
| Speed limit crackdown to cut emissions - Guardian Unlimited Ministers are planning to crack down on motorists who speed on motorways in an attempt to meet government targets aimed at reducing Britain's emissions of greenhouse gases. |
14 November 2005 |
| Government sets out challenge for greener Britain - Guardian Unlimited The government's climate change review offers a blueprint for a greener Britain and the government's last chance to meet its ambitious political pledge to slash emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by 20% by 2010. |
14 November 2005 |
| Environmental Groups Accuse Britain's Blair of Squandering Chance To Tackle Climate Change - ENN LONDON — Environmental groups on Monday accused Prime Minister Tony Blair of squandering his chance to take action on climate change during Britain's leadership of the European Union and G-8. |
14 November 2005 |
| Truth a higher calling than fairness - Saettle Post Intelligencer |
13 November 2005 |
| Fish numbers plummet in warming Pacific - The New Zealand Herald A catastrophic collapse in sea and bird life numbers along America's Northwest Pacific seaboard is raising fears that global warming is beginning to irreparably damage the health of the oceans. |
13 November 2005 |
| Whale sightings down by 50% - Sunday Times GLOBAL warming and overfishing have been blamed for a dramatic drop in the number of whales in Scottish waters. |
13 November 2005 |
| World Temperatures Keep Rising With a Hot 2005 - Washington Post ...this year's higher temperatures are "really small potatoes compared to what's to come," |
13 November 2005 |
| ‘We’re Not Talking About Sacrifice’ - Newsweek '-we're talking about waste', Larry David’s wife is on a crusade to save the planet—no matter how much it irritates her husband |
13 November 2005 |
| Global warming is the biggest threat - The News & Advance The single greatest problem facing mankind in 5,000 years of civilization is not terrorism, but global warming. |
13 November 2005 |
| Capital MP's global warming Bill leaps over first Westminster hurdle - The Scotsman The proposal would give households that micro generate their own heat and light council tax rebates. |
13 November 2005 |
| Harvard, UNDP and Swiss Re unveil results of groundbreaking climate change study - swissre.com A Swiss Re-sponsored report focused on the interrelated business and scientific implications of climate change was released November 1 with a press conference and day-long event at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. View.pdf. |
12 November 2005 |
| Could Acidification of the Oceans Be the Most Irreversible Consequence of Climate Change? - ClimateOrg |
12 November 2005 |
| Canada gravely threatened by climate change - Edmonton Sun |
12 November 2005 |
| We have power to look to future, so why don't we? - David Suzuki / yorkregion.com |
12 November 2005 |
| 'Environmental refugees' set to become big global scourge - WebIndia123 It has said that by 2010 the world will need to cope with as many as 50 million people escaping the effects of creeping environmental deterioration |
12 November 2005 |
| Greens Praise Fox News 'Global Warming' Documentary - Cybercast News Service |
11 November 2005 |
| China unlikely to sign on to Kyoto emissions cuts - Yahoo / Reuters China is unlikely to commit to cutting emissions in the next phase of the Kyoto Protocol, fearing it would retard economic growth, but analysts say the government is waking up to the threat of climate change. |
11 November 2005 |
| OSU professor knows global warming a real threat - The Lantern "We as human beings don't do much until it's a crisis situation, you look at that and say, 'at what time do we as human beings start waking up?' We have a sensitive system and we depend on it." |
10 November 2005 |
| Water Vapor May Be Biggest Contributor to Higher Global Temperatures, Researcher Says - ENN Water vapour identified as yet another positive feedback factor increasing Global Warming. |
10 November 2005 |
| UK 'losing authority' on global warming as emissions rise - Guardian Unlimited The UK risks losing its international authority on climate change because of its failure to cut greenhouse gas pollution, according to a leading scientist. |
10 November 2005 |
| Climate catastrophe threatens Africa - Shanghai Daily Deadly epidemics, ruined crops and the extinction of some of Africa's legendary wildlife are some of the potential consequences of global warming for Africa, yet its nations are among the least equipped to cope. |
10 November 2005 |
| Abnormal fruits due to global warming reported everywhere - Kyodo News In what appears to be influences from global warming, abnormal fruits, such as grapes not turning red and peaches with their flesh turning brown, are being reported throughout the country. |
9 November 2005 |
| Are sea birds becoming too dumb to survive? - New Scientist The sharp drop seabird numbers coincides with a climate shift that reduced the abundance of lipid-rich fish. Researchers theorise that chicks born at or after this time lacked the lipid-rich foods they need for proper cognitive development, leaving them less likely to have the skills needed to survive as independent adults. |
9 November 2005 |
| Nature shows climate change - news.com.au "The fact that so many different species are exhibiting changes is quite astounding." |
9 November 2005 |
| Global Energy Meet Agrees Roadmap on Renewables - Planet Ark / Reuters Environment officials from around the world agreed in Beijing on Tuesday to work to increase reliance on renewable sources of energy, underscoring a commitment to renewables after oil prices hit record highs. |
9 November 2005 |
| Climate, economy on agenda as China's Hu meets Blair - Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao is due to meet Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday on the second day of a state visit to Britain after delivering the message that China wants a "world of lasting peace". |
9 November 2005 |
| U.S. environmentalists urge Canada to lead - Globe & Mail OTTAWA -- U.S. environmentalists are calling on Canada to take the lead in negotiating an international climate treaty that goes beyond the Kyoto Protocol without waiting for White House participation. |
9 November 2005 |
| Improve EU Emission Trading System to meet Kyoto target, says WWF - WWF The EU may not meet its climate change target under the Kyoto Protocol unless it drastically improves the effectiveness of the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), new reports commissioned for WWF have found. |
9 November 2005 |
| US States say Power Bills Won't Soar on CO2 Plan - Reuters / Planet Ark Businesses who oppose a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions in nine Northeastern US states have overestimated how much the plan will raise electric bills, according to a study released by the states on Monday. |
8 November 2005 |
| Entire Lakes Feel Effects Of Climate Warming - Science Daily Climate warming brought on in part by human activities is producing major ecological changes in remote arctic lakes at an alarming rate, according to new University of Alberta research |
8 November 2005 |
| Global warming model bodes dire future, scientists say - The Daily Review "We may not have seen the climate change today, but if we continue to emit fossil fuels as usual, I think we are headed for real severe climate consequences and the sooner we take action the better." |
8 November 2005 |
| OCTOBER WAS SECOND WARMEST IN 126 YEARS - Roger Coppock via Google Groups 5 out of the 6 hottest Octobers since 1880 occurred in the last six years. Original NASA data here. |
8 November 2005 |
| Charles in US climate change plea - BBC News "Throughout my lifetime, your country has been willing to take responsible action for the greater good of the global community, even when it had no direct need to do so."The environmental crisis we face is another situation in which I believe the United States could use its power and its influence to help create a sense of unity in a common cause among disparate peoples and sectors of society." |
8 November 2005 |
| China pledges to double reliance on renewable energy by 2020 - Guardian Unlimited ● Huge polluter would be leading green player ● Critics claim target will not offset climatic damage |
8 November 2005 |
| Greenhouse gas 'to rise by 52%' - BBC News Global greenhouse gas emissions will rise by 52% by 2030, unless the world takes action to reduce energy consumption, a study has warned. |
7 November 2005 |
| Planet Venus: Earth's 'evil twin' - BBC News Through Venus Express, scientists hope to understand better the mechanics of climate change on our own planet. |
7 November 2005 |
| Climate Signals - New York Times President Bush has long argued that a nationwide program of mandatory controls on carbon dioxide and other global warming gases would saddle the country with crippling electricity costs. He may be surprised to learn that his own Environmental Protection Agency no longer believes that to be the case. |
7 November 2005 |
| When Cleaner Air Is a Biblical Obligation - New York Times In the latest effort, the National Association of Evangelicals, a nonprofit organization that includes 45,000 churches serving 30 million people across the country, is circulating among its leaders the draft of a policy statement that would encourage lawmakers to pass legislation creating mandatory controls for carbon emissions. |
7 November 2005 |
| Global warming cuts oil demand - iafrica.com Crude oil prices continued to fall on Monday, as global warming is likely to lead to higher-than-normal temperatures in the northern hemisphere and a resultant drop in demand for heating oil. |
7 November 2005 |
| British engineers to help build 'eco-cities' in China - Yahoo / AFP British engineers will this week sign a contract with Beijing to design and build a string of so-called 'eco-cities' in China, a newspaper reported. |
5 November 2005 |
| Prince issues gentle rebuke to Bush on climate change - Guardian Unlimited The Prince of Wales used a speech during a White House dinner to administer the politest of warnings to George Bush to shoulder the burdens of world leadership in tackling environmental and climate change issues |
4 November 2005 |
| Ripples of Global Warming Spread Outward - Common Dreams UNITED NATIONS - Human health and the earth's ecosystems are increasingly threatened by climate change, warns a new study jointly released by three leading environmental organisations here this week. |
4 November 2005 |
| 'Gas muzzlers' challenge Bush - BBC News President George W Bush is facing a rebellion over his softly-softly approach to climate change. |
3 November 2005 |
| Funds to promote renewable energy - BBC News A £30m funding package aimed at promoting renewable electricity sources and reducing carbon emissions is to be unveiled by the energy minister. |
2 November 2005 |
| Environmentalists tell PM: don't abandon global warming fight - Guardian Unlimited Blair stresses importance of economic growth - Campaigners fear end of target-based approach |
2 November 2005 |
| Long road ahead - Mercury News Scientist sets off on 13,000 mile bike ride to raise awareness about climate change and energy consumption. |
2 November 2005 |
| What If We Burn Everything? - Universe Today Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a detailed model of the Earth's climate over the next few centuries to answer the question... what if we burned all the fossil fuels by the year 2300. The answer, of course, isn't a pretty picture... |
1 November 2005 |
| Climate change linked to rise in malaria, asthma - Yahoo News / Reuters Climate change may promote the spread of deadly diseases like malaria and asthma in both rich and poor countries by increasing the range of parasitic insects and whipping up dust from storms, a new report says. |
1 November 2005 |
| Concepts for a low carbon future - BBC News |
1 November 2005 |
| Climate change: 10 ways to save the world - The Independent Today, Tony Blair will address energy ministers from around the world on tackling climate change. But he is failing to meet his own targets, with British carbon emissions on the rise again. There are, though, measures he could adopt... |
1 November 2005 |
| Talks opened on climate change - BBC News Energy and environment ministers from 20 nations are holding talks in London on tackling climate change. |
1 November 2005 |
| Why we don't believe - Daily Press Global warming is real, but thinking about it sends Americans into denial |
31 October 2005 |
| It's climate change, as forecast -The Age A year of climatic disasters is now persuading politicians to accept the warnings of 20 years ago, writes Geoff Strong. |
31 October 2005 |
| Prince Charles: Climate change is 'terrifying' - CNN "..if you look at the latest figures on climate change and global warming ... they're terrifying, terrifying," |
31 October 2005 |
| Over your limit - Guardian Unlimited In order to stabilise CO2 levels, we need to spend less at the planet's carbon bank. Lucy Siegle unveils a novel credit card which will make real savings |
30 October 2005 |
| Blair pushes for 'eco-friendly' petrol and cleaner, greener cars - Guardian Unlimited Apparently, modifying UK cars to run on 'bio-fuel' will reduce UK CO2 emissions by 1% by 2010 |
30 October 2005 |
| Global warning: TEMPERATURE! - Vancouver Sun The past two years were the warmest ever recorded in some of Greenland's coastal communities ... ice didn't form |
29 October 2005 |
| Record heat raises climate fears - The Independent Just four days before Hallowe'en, Britain was enjoying the warmest 27 October since records began in 1880. |
28 October 2005 |
| DiCaprio takes global warming to TV - contactmusic.com LEONARDO DiCAPRIO joined environmentalists to give Americans a pre-Hallowe'en scare on OPRAH WINFREY's chat show in the US yesterday, when he warned about the dangers of global warming. |
28 October 2005 |
| Japan wants all nations in post-Kyoto deal - Reuters / AlertNet Japan, whose former capital gave its name to the Kyoto Protocol, wants all nations -- including the United States and especially China -- to be bound by the next framework aimed at fighting global warming. |
28 October 2005 |
| Tropical Cloud 'Dust' Could Hold The Key To Climate Change - Science Daily Scientists at the University of Manchester will set off for Australia this week to undertake an in-depth study of tropical clouds and the particles sucked up into them to gain further insight into climate change and the depletion of the ozone layer. |
28 October 2005 |
| Climate change hits home - The Seattle Times "... there's plenty of bad news..." |
28 October 2005 |
| Prince's plea over climate change - BBC News Prince Charles says climate change should be seen as the "greatest challenge to face man" and treated as a much bigger priority in the UK. In full: Prince Charles interview |
27 October 2005 |
| Winds Crumple Sugar Cane, a Staple of Florida Economy - New York Times Normally the stalks of sugar cane rise ramrod straight, but after being beaten for hours by winds of more than 100 miles an hour from Hurricane Wilma, the columns of cane bent forward in defeat... |
27 October 2005 |
| Europe study shows climate risks - BBC News Mediterranean and mountain regions of Europe will be hardest hit by the changes set to affect the continent's natural resources this century. |
27 October 2005 |
| Wind of change for China's energy - CNN Once the stomping ground of Genghis Khan, the heart of rural Inner Mongolia is an unlikely center of innovation. |
27 October 2005 |
| A rapid warm-up for the Northwest - Christian Science Monitor There are growing indications that the Pacific Northwest, from Oregon to British Columbia to Alaska, is warming up faster than elsewhere on the planet - a trend that's likely to accelerate, according to scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle. |
27 October 2005 |
| Half of the world's coral reefs could be dead in 40 years - The Independent "up to 20 per cent" of reefs have already been destroyed by rising sea temperatures. |
26 October 2005 |
| Global-Warming Skeptics Under Fire - Wall Street Journal Two global-warming skeptics who questioned an influential climate study and prompted a congressional inquiry are now facing critics of their own, as a pair of new research papers take issue with their results. |
26 October 2005 |
| The Big Melt - New York Times No Escape: Thaw Gains Momentum |
25 October 2005 |
| What Part of 'Global Warming' Don't We Get? - AlertNet It's time for the denial to end, but Washington is governed by a bipartisan consensus that somehow the laws of physics and chemistry don’t apply to us. |
25 October 2005 |
| Our Nuclear Salesman - Monbiot.com It's a shame George has to bash poor old Sir David King who has done much to bring the problems of GW to the global consciousness. However, this article does contain many salient facts & figures about the nuclear vs renewables debate. |
25 October 2005 |
| The Arctic's new gold rush - BBC News A predicted thaw in the Arctic ice cover combined with a search for energy supplies is leading to a new "gold rush" in the high north, bringing diplomatic squabbling in its wake as five countries vie for access to resources. |
25 October 2005 |
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They think it's still summer... The Independent
As October draws to a close, there are still home-grown strawberries in the shops and wasps in the garden. Meanwhile, snowdrops are sprouting in St Austell. What's going on? |
25 October 2005 |
| Gas Taxes: Lesser Evil, Greater Good - New York Times "There's no serious disagreement that two major crises of our time are terrorism and global warming. And there's no disputing that America's oil consumption fosters both." |
24 October 2005 |
| 'Standby culture' adds £120m a year to energy bills The Independent Office workers who leave computers on standby are costing British industry £123.2m a year in energy bills, research has found. |
24 October 2005 |
| Rainforests, National Security and Tomorrow's Economy - EV World A short essay on the future of a bioenergy-based world. |
24 October 2005 |
| EU has power to freeze climate change - WWF The European Union can cut a third of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 through energy efficiency and renewable energies, as well as with a strong emissions trading system, says WWF. |
24 October 2005 |
| Canada: environmental bad boy - Guardian Unlimited 'Sluggish, asleep at the wheel, haywire and incontinent.' A leading green country a decade ago is found severely wanting in a new report. |
24 October 2005 |
| Africa aid at risk, warns expert - BBC News Extra aid for Africa could be cancelled out by global warming. |
24 October 2005 |
| Nature offers signs of change - Times Union "Some species will win, some will lose in the climate change lottery, but all will be profoundly affected." |
22 October 2005 |
| Turning up the heat in Jakarta - The Jakarta Post Think of the difference between reclining in a hammock under a shady tree and standing in the full glare of the noon-day sun. That, in a nutshell, is how much Jakarta's climate has changed over the past fifty years. |
22 October 2005 |
| Call for carbon rationing - The Belfast Telegraph A GREEN MEP yesterday called for people to be given a special swipe card to ration the amount of carbon they use in transport and household energy in a bid to tackle climate change. |
22 October 2005 |
| Saving a power-mad world - Shanghai Daily Reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions starts at home by turning off lights and unwatched television sets. |
22 October 2005 |
| Running out of Energy - Bangor Daily News It is going to take a lot more than a national cartoon hog to solve national and regional energy problems made worse by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. |
22 October 2005 |
| Meeting Our Energy Needs for the 21st Century - The Progress Report Look to Modern Ideas, Not Nuclear |
22 October 2005 |
| Global Warming a Major Threat to Africa - RedNova Deadly epidemics. Ruined crops. The extinction of some of Africa's legendary wildlife. The potential consequences of global warming could be devastating for the world's poorest continent, yet its nations are among the least equipped to cope. |
21 October 2005 |
| Religious Call - Living on Earth Environmentalists and evangelical Christians may see eye to eye on one issue: global warming. Listen with RealPlayer |
21 October 2005 |
| Climate change: start of the second European Climate Change Programme - EU On Monday, 24 October, Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas will launch the second European Climate Change Programme (ECCP II) at a stakeholder conference in Brussels. In view of the magnitude of the climate change threat, ECCP II will focus on new cost-effective measures and technologies that will allow the EU to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years and to adapt to the climate change effects that are inevitable. |
21 October 2005 |
| Warmest Yet - Patriot News With 2002, 2003 and 2004, the second, third and fourth warmest years up to this point, what is it that the doubters still don't get about global warming? |
21 October 2005 |
| Is this proof of global warming? - The Independent A quarter of a century ago, America's last frontier would have been frozen. Now the glaciers are shrinking - and local people know why. Andrew Buncombe toured Alaska to see the evidence |
20 October 2005 |
| Brazilian Amazon being cut down twice as fast - Nature Loggers are cutting down trees in the Amazon rainforest at twice the rate of previous estimates, according to a new analysis of satellite images of the region. |
20 October 2005 |
| Humour: The Climate Mash - Climatemash.org Bobby Pickett reworks his 'Monster Mash'. (Flashplayer required) ...worth watching just to see Condi on a broomstick! |
19 October 2005 |
| Polar regions take centre stage in climate crisis - Reuters AlertNet World scientists are aiming to spell out in graphic detail the threat of flooding faced by millions of people from America to Asia as global warming melts the polar ice caps. |
19 October 2005 |
| Ocean warming threatens Antarctic wildlife - Guardian Unlimited · Sea ice melts and glaciers shrink at accelerating rate · Decline in stocks of krill hits entire food chain |
19 October 2005 |
| Antarctic glaciers calving faster into the ocean - New Scientist The edges of the Antarctic ice sheets are slipping into the ocean at an unprecedented rate, raising fears of a global surge in sea levels, glaciologists warned on Monday. |
18 October 2005 |
| Mission to Venus could help beat global warming - The Independent Europe's first space mission to the planet Venus will shed new light on the greenhouse effect here on Earth, scientists said yesterday. |
18 October 2005 |
Climate change to reduce into rice yields: IRRI - Yahoo News / AFP ![[food]](../images/food.gif) Climate change resulting from human activity is likely to lead to reduced rice yields and the problem may only be manageable if action is taken starting right now, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) experts warned. |
18 October 2005 |
| No Winter by 2105? New Study Offers Grim Forecast for U.S. - National Geographic A study conducted by scientists in the U.S. and Italy warns that summers could be a lot hotter in a hundred years because of global warming caused by greenhouse gases. |
17 October 2005 |
| The future of the Earth: Is this the end of the world? - The Independent Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Floods. What is happening to our planet? |
16 October 2005 |
| Irish bog oaks give clues about global warming - The Times Claims that increased solar activity is the cause of global warming have been undermined by a study of Irish bog oak trees. |
16 October 2005 |
| UK climate change envoy cool on Australian pact - The Age* AUSTRALIA'S much-trumpeted new climate change pact — with six other nations — will not achieve any real progress, Britain's chief scientist Sir David King warns. |
14 October 2005 |
| World Temperatures Keep Rising With a Hot 2005 - Washington Post New international climate data show that 2005 is on track to be the hottest year on record, continuing a 25-year trend of rising global temperatures. |
13 October 2005 |
| Perceived benefits of warming don't pan out - David Suzuki Stuck out in the cold on freezing February mornings, Canadians can be forgiven for thinking: "Bring on global warming!" But new research tells us we should be careful what we wish for... |
13 October 2005 |
| Amazon drought 'could worsen climate change' - SciDev Net Drought could slow tree growth, which could eventually contribute to climate change by making the forest less able to absorb carbon dioxide. |
13 October 2005 |
| Link between tropical warming and greenhouse gases stronger than ever, say scientists - EurekAlert New evidence from climate records of the past provides some of the strongest indications yet of a direct link between tropical warmth and higher greenhouse gas levels, say scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
13 October 2005 |
| Another False Start for Fighting Global Warming - AlertNet The World Bank has long denied any responsibility to prevent or reduce climate change. Now America's neocons are looking to the global financial institution to 'address' the problem. |
13 October 2005 |
| SEPTEMBER HOTTEST IN 126 YEARS OF LAND RECORD! - Roger Coppock / Google Groups These globally averaged temperature data come from NASA:They represent the results of tens of millions of readings taken at thousands of stations covering all the lands of the Earth over the last 126 years. |
12 October 2005 |
| 50 million environmental refugees by end of decade, UN warns - Guardian Unlimited Rising sea levels, desertification and shrinking freshwater supplies will create up to 50 million environmental refugees by the end of the decade, experts warn today |
12 October 2005 |
| The Heat Death of American Dreams - AlertNet Overshadowed by last month's hurricanes was the news that global warming is likely to accelerate much faster than feared, and it's already begun. |
11 October 2005 |
| Insurance-Global Warming - ScienCentral News While politicians and scientists argue over global warming, many insurance companies are seeing the impact in a place no one can ignore their bottom line. |
11 October 2005 |
| Documentaries Portray an Ailing Planet - Inter Press News Service Agency In the documentary "The End of The World as We Know It", presenter and writer Marcel Theroux is a young climate change sceptic who treks across the planet to discover the truth on his own. Seeing the evidence of climate change with his own eyes, Theroux comes to believe that the Earth is undergoing the biggest change since that last ice age. He ends up agreeing with Britain's chief scientist that global terrorism is a trivial issue compared to global warming. |
11 October 2005 |
| Underlying cause of massive pinyon pine die-off revealed - innovations report The high heat that accompanied the recent drought was the underlying cause of death for millions of pinyon pines throughout the Southwest, according to new research. |
11 October 2005 |
| Gore paints picture of environment crisis - China View It was a vivid picture of the consequences of global warming: melting glaciers, rising sea levels, dying lakes and increasing numbers of floods and droughts. |
11 October 2005 |
| Global warming drying China's 'mother river' - Independent Online Global warming is leading to widespread ecological decline at the headwaters of the Yellow River, threatening water supplies to 120-million people, an environmental group said on Monday. |
10 October 2005 |
| Ice satellite loss was a disaster, say scientists - Yahoo / AFP European scientists mourned the loss of CryoSat, a unique satellite designed to monitor the polar ice for signs of global warming. |
10 October 2005 |
| Insurers on alert for climate change - Newsday.com Some of the industry's largest companies have sided with environmental groups in recent years to argue that global warming exists and that man-made causes are adding to the severity and cost of natural catastrophes. |
10 October 2005 |
| The truth about global warming - The Seattle Times "The fact that so many scientists think it's likely a truck is heading for us means that the last thing we want to do is close our eyes and lie down in the road." |
9 October 2005 |
| There's no disguising it -- global warming's no put-on - SF Gate Mounting evidence has forced an end to any serious scientific debate on whether humans are causing global warming. This is an event of historical significance, but one obscured from public view by the arcane technical literature and the noise generated by perpetual partisans. |
9 October 2005 |
| Has the Age of Chaos Begun? - AlertNet While we wait for the oft-predicted tipping point in the war on Iraq, an actual tipping point has been creeping up on another front -- climate change. |
8 October 2005 |
| Earth - melting in the heat? - BBC News Glaciers are melting, the ice caps disappearing into the oceans. Sea levels may rise by many metres as a consequence. |
7 October 2005 |
| Melting, melting - Los Angeles Times An ice-free Arctic Ocean hasn't existed in a million years, but some scientists fear that we may be headed there -- and beyond. |
7 October 2005 |
| Crichton's conspiracy theory - BBC News "The era of procrastination, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences." |
7 October 2005 |
| Climate change and pollution are killing millions, says study - Guardian Unlimited Almost a fifth of all ill health in poor countries and millions of deaths can be attributed to environmental factors, including climate change and pollution, according to a report from the World Bank. |
6 October 2005 |
| Eastern Canada Bakes in Extreme High Temperatures - Reuters / Planet Ark Much of eastern Canada is baking in dramatically high temperatures, a fact which underlines how climate change is set to affect the giant country, a leading environmental expert said on Wednesday. |
6 October 2005 |
| B.C. told to brace for global warming - Revelstoke Times Review Evidence of global warming is devouring our forests, killing our salmon and lapping at our shores, a panel of scientific experts has warned mayors and councillors from across B.C. |
5 October 2005 |
| Heat Waves Could Burn Out California Grid - The Daily Californian Rising temperatures in California could lead to unprecedented heat waves and overwhelm the state's electricity grid, according to Berkeley researchers. |
5 October 2005 |
| Animals 'hit by global warming' - BBC News Climate change could lead to the extinction of many animals including migratory birds, says a report commissioned by the UK government. |
5 October 2005 |
| Climate change summit postponed - BBC News The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific climate pact, scheduled to take place in November in Australia, has been postponed, the BBC has learned. |
5 October 2005 |
| Cities swap expertise on climate - BBC News The leaders of more than 20 world cities are meeting in London to swap ideas on combating climate change. |
5 October 2005 |
| Rate of Climate Change Increasing - Science a Go Go The finding last week from NASA that summertime Arctic sea ice was declining at such a rate that it may disappear by the end of the century has been strengthened by scientists from Germany who say that the rate of climate change is increasing. |
3 October 2005 |
| Climate to increase UK flies - BBC News Fly populations in Britain could soar this century because of climate change, according to a new study. |
3 October 2005 |
| Melting Planet - The Independent Species are dying out faster than we have dared recognise, scientists will warn this week. The erosion of polar ice is the first break in a fragile chain of life extending across the planet, from bears in the north to penguins in the far south |
3 October 2005 |
| Carl Pope - Preparing for Global Warming - EV World Preparedness alone is merely a stopgap. We need prevention, and the only way to limit our overall vulnerability is to rein in the greenhouse pollutants that are driving global warming. |
3 October 2005 |
| A Greener World - A Possible Dream - EV World EV World editor's keynote address to opening of 2005 Kansas City Solar Home Tour |
2 October 2005 |
| Amazon dries out as worst ever drought hits rainforest - Guardian Unlimited |
1 October 2005 |
| Acidic oceans threaten marine food chain - Guardian Unlimited Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is threatening to make oceans too corrosive for marine organisms to grow protective shells, according to researchers. |
29 September 2005 |
| Inhofe and Crichton: Together at Last! - RealClimate.org Today we witnessed a rather curious event in the US Senate. Possibly for the first time ever, a chair of a Senate committee, one Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), invited a science fiction writer to advise the committee (Environment and Public Works), on science facts--in this case, the facts behind climate change. The author in question? None other than our old friend, Michael Crichton whom we've had reason to mention before (see here and here). |
29 September 2005 |
| Arctic ice 'disappearing fast' - BBC News The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk for a fourth consecutive year, according to new data released by US scientists. |
28 September 2005 |
| EU ready to lead the way to a clean energy future - Greenpeace The 'Greenpeace Energy Revolution Scenario'(1), launched today by Greenpeace, shows that Europe can phase out nuclear power and, at the same time, reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 30 per cent by 2020 to avoid catastrophic climate change. |
28 September 2005 |
| Death in the Deep-Freeze - RedNova As Global Warming Melts the World's Ice Sheets, Rising Sea Levels Are Not the Only Danger. Viruses Hidden for Thousands of Years May Thaw and Escape and We Will Have No Resistance to Them. |
28 September 2005 |
| Time to Connect the Dots - New York Times "...natural disasters..with human fingerprints..." |
28 September 2005 |
| Climate change transforms Alaska landscape - PhysOrg.com Canadian researchers say lakes and wetlands in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula are drying at a significant rate due to global warming. |
28 September 2005 |
| Dutch Answer to Flooding: Build Houses that Swim - Der Spielgel |
28 September 2005 |
| Weather changing business climate, too - Dallas Morning News Industries forced to navigate harsher environment, contain emissions, pay for insurance |
28 September 2005 |
| Dengue outbreak could be linked to global warming, climate change: Kolkata Mayor - The Hindu |
28 September 2005 |
| Global Warming: Time for the Media to Stop Falling Into the "Balance" Trap - Yahoo News Journalism isn't supposed to find balance, it's supposed to find the truth and then convey it to the American public. But when it comes to global warming, the media keep falling into the same old trap, set by polluting industries, of giving equal weight to the opinions of a handful of industry shills masquerading as "skeptics." |
27 September 2005 |
| Foundation Commits $7 Million to Promoting Climate-Friendly Coal Plants - PNNOnline The Joyce Foundation is committing $7 million over three years to ensure that the next generation of Midwest coal plants uses state-of-the-art technology for minimizing climate change and pollution. |
27 September 2005 |
| Government Says Effect of Greenhouse Gases Rising - RedNova WASHINGTON -- The effect of greenhouse gases on the Earth's atmosphere has increased 20 percent since 1990, a new government index says. |
27 September 2005 |
| It's better to cry wolf now than to wait until the oil has run out - Guardian Unlimited No one knows how much is left, but humankind can't wait any longer before coming up with alternatives |
27 September 2005 |
| The sudden death of Blair's greenery - JohannHari.com - Why? - |
27 September 2005 |
| Burying CO2 may curb global warming, but cost high - Reuters Burying heat-trapping gases emitted by power plants and factories could play a big role in fighting global warming but would be a costly fix needing strong government backing, a U.N. report said on Monday. |
27 September 2005 |
| UK 'needs yearly climate updates' - BBC News Draft legislation just published in the UK would require the prime minister to make annual reports to Parliament on measures to curb climate change. |
26 September 2005 |
| Hard Choices Blow in the Winds of Katrina, and Now Rita - Los Angeles Times This year, the storm of the century has been arriving every few weeks. |
26 September 2005 |
| Biggest typhoon in 30 years hits south China island - Reuters The strongest typhoon to hit China's southern tropical island of Hainan since 1973 swamped two villages on Monday after forcing the evacuation of thousands, the official Xinhua news agency said. |
26 September 2005 |
| Blair is accused of Kyoto U-turn - Guardian Unlimited Tony Blair was accused last night of backing down on the Kyoto agreement to tackle climate change after he confessed to 'changing my thinking about this'. |
25 September 2005 |
| Major conference hears of climate change effects on cod - FishUpdate.com "Cod stocks in the Celtic and Irish Seas are expected to disappear while those in the southern North Sea and Georges Bank will decline." |
25 September 2005 |
| Early snowmelts heating Alaska Arctic - Yahoo News Spring snowmelt in Alaska's Arctic is occurring progressively earlier, accelerating the region's climate change and helping produce its warmest summers in at least 400 years, according to a new study. |
25 September 2005 |
| Bill McKibben: Only the beginning - DallasNews.com (subscription) Think Katrina was bad? You haven't seen anything yet, says the environmental author. |
25 September 2005 |
| ENVIRONMENT-GERMANY: An Island That Wants to Survive - Interpress News Service Agency FOEHR, Germany - On this island in northern Germany, nearly 70 percent of the electricity consumed comes from the wind and the sun, through processes that are free of so-called greenhouse gases. |
24 September 2005 |
| Underestimating the threat of global warming - Independent Online A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. |
23 September 2005 |
| Cow dung for the climate - BBC News A model biogas project is creating a win-win situation for rural Nepalese, the industrialised world and the atmosphere. |
23 September 2005 |
| Comment: Sorry, Mr President, homilies won't stop the hurricanes - Guardian Unlimitied "We Americans need to get out of our SUVs and learn the harsh lesson of Katrina and Rita: we are all to blame". |
23 September 2005 |
| UK scientist slams U.S. climate 'loonies' - CNN A leading British scientist said on Friday the growing ferocity of hurricanes hitting the United States was very probably caused by global warming and criticized what he termed U.S. "climate loonies" over the issue. |
23 September 2005 |
| Hurricanes are packing more punch - Christian Science Monitor Long before it ends, the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season has already rewritten its chapter in America's record books. |
23 September 2005 |
| Heatwave makes plants warm planet - BBC News A new study shows that during the 2003 heatwave, European plants produced more carbon dioxide than they absorbed from the atmosphere. |
22 September 2005 |
| Impact Of Global Warming On Weather Patterns Underestimated - ScienceDaily The impact of global warming on European weather patterns has been underestimated, according to a new report published in Nature this week. |
22 September 2005 |
| Warming might hit hard on West's rivers - Daily Camera "The West is warming, our snowpack is declining and that has profound impacts on our water supply,." |
22 September 2005 |
| How to avoid severe climate change discussed at CO2 conference - PhysOrg.com The kind of devastation seen on the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Katrina may be a small taste of what is to come if emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are not diminished soon, warns Dr. Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology |
21 September 2005 |
| The fossil fuel party is nearly over - JohannHari.com The twin realities of peak oil and runaway global warming |
20 September 2005 |
| A World Turned Upside Down - Monbiot.com The corporations are demanding regulation, and the government is refusing to give it to them. |
20 September 2005 |
| The fantasies of these petrol protesters and the realities of our dwindling oil supplies - JohannHari.com It's going to be 1973 all over again - and again |
16 September 2005 |
| Time to head for the hills? - Sacremento Bee From starfish on the Pacific Coast to a large moth dubbed the "black witch," creatures across North America and beyond are moving, in apparent reaction to a shifting climate and environment. Some biologists who study those changes say people would be wise to take a cue from wildlife and get out of harm's way. |
12 September 2005 |
| Retreating Glaciers Worrying Greenlanders - Live Science ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) -- The gargantuan chunks of ice breaking off the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier and thundering into an Arctic fjord make a spectacular sight. But to Greenlanders it is also deeply worrisome. |
12 September 2005 |
| The Chilling Spin On Global Warming - CapeCodToday “Is anyone listening? Anyone at all?” |
12 September 2005 |
| Faith Won't Solve Peak Oil - EV World Bill Henderson writes that markets can't create oil and the hopeful optimists totally dismiss the scale of needed change. |
12 September 2005 |
| Forest fires set to increase, EU ministers told - FT More catastrophic forest fires like those that engulfed large parts of Portugal and Spain this summer will result from a combination of land abandonment and climate change, European environment and agriculture ministers were warned on Sunday. |
11 September 2005 |
| Worldwide disaster alert - The Mercury More than 2.5 billion people were affected by floods, earthquakes and hurricanes between 1994 and 2003, writes Charles Hanley. |
11 September 2005 |
| Autumn will set Britain ablaze - Guardian Unlimited "Farmers are finding they can cultivate crops that were once the preserve of warmer climates. Tea, kiwi fruits and apricots can all now be grown in the UK." |
11 September 2005 |
| Global warming: Adapting to a new reality - International Herald Tribune "Everyone wants to solve the problem, but it's hard to find a solution." |
11 September 2005 |
| Can't blame global warming, at least not this time - Seattle post intelligencer |
10 September 2005 |
| August Was the Third Warmest in 126 Years! - Roger Coppock - sci.environment / Google Groups "These globally averaged temperature data come from NASA. They represent the results of tens of millions of readings taken at thousands of land stations and ships around the globe over the last 126 years." |
10 September 2005 |
| FAO chief on major challenges to global food security - People's Daily Online The United Nations chief agriculture official on Friday called on the international community to overcome challenges arising from population explosion, environmental degradation, and global warming in global efforts to eliminate poverty and ensure food security. |
10 September 2005 |
| How going green at home could cut your heating bill - The Independent A mini power station in the kitchen, rooftop windfarms, and central heating power sucked out of the soil are about to become essential household utensils. |
10 September 2005 |
| Rise in methane emissions worsens global warming - ABC Transcript from The World Today. You can also listen to the story in REAL AUDIO. |
9 September 2005 |
| Katrina rings alarms on climate change - Yahoo / Reuters Hurricane Katrina may serve as a wake-up call on climate change for developing nations, many of which are vulnerable to devastation from global warming. |
9 September 2005 |
| Stomping on science - Rocky Mountain News Mooney argues that Republicans, beginning with Ronald Reagan, have ignored, subverted, twisted and misrepresented science to conform to political goals |
9 September 2005 |
| Weather play: India to be hotter - The Times of India If climate change scenarios play out as projected, this is what India may be in for: Higher temperatures across the country, more rain in central India but less in the northwest, longer droughts in some areas, largescale changes in forest types, drops in wheat and rice yields as the wheat production line moves north, up from MP, more water in the Krishna and Godavari, possibly even the Ganges. |
9 September 2005 |
| Ancient humans 'altered' climate - BBC News Humans were influencing the climate long before the Industrial Revolution, new research suggests. |
8 September 2005 |
| Sucker's Bets for the New Century - TomDispatch Hurricane Katrina brings a foretaste of environmental disasters to come |
6 September 2005 |
| For the New Generation, the Apocalypse Is Now -- and It's Green - Pacific News Service 'I've seen my future and it's scary...' |
8 September 2005 |
| Severe weather increasing losses, report says - Financial Times Losses to the US insurance industry from severe weather have far outstripped rises in premiums over the past three decades, and worse could come, insurers were warned on Thursday. |
8 September 2005 |
| Global Catastrophes Set to Increase Unless We Change NOW - Common Dreams |
8 September 2005 |
| 'York could be UK's New Orleans' - Guardian Unlimited |
8 September 2005 |
| Loss of soil carbon 'will speed global warming' - Guardian Unlimited England's soils have been losing carbon at the rate of four million tonnes a year for the past 25 years - losses which will accelerate global warming and which have already offset all the cuts in Britain's industrial carbon emissions between 1990 and 2002, scientists warn today. |
8 September 2005 |
| Vegetation Growth May Quickly Raise Arctic Temperatures - Science Daily Warming in the Arctic is stimulating the growth of vegetation and could affect the delicate energy balance there, causing an additional climate warming of several degrees over the next few decades. |
8 September 2005 |
| As oil prices rise, Asia sees sense in going green - Reuters Alert Net Across the region, renewable energy such as solar, wind and geothermal power is gaining ever greater credence as a way to curb the region's appetite for oil and cut runaway import bills. |
8 September 2005 |
| Cities queue up to ban electric bikes as gridlock grows - The Scotsman Bike paths removed to make way for the increasing numbers of cars... |
8 September 2005 |
| Faith Communities To Discuss Environmental Responsibility - WTXX Courant Leaders from a range of denominations and faiths will gather for the first time Friday at Hartford Seminary to discuss the responsibility of faith communities to care for the environment. |
8 September 2005 |
| Curtain set to rise on mission to Venus - Independent OnLine Scientists are putting the finishing touches to a landmark European mission to explore Venus, a planet whose scorching climate could help understand global warming on Earth. |
7 September 2005 |
| Climate change will affect carbon sequestration in oceans, model shows - PhysOrg.com |
7 September 2005 |
| Tall grasses set to power Europe - BBC News The fields of Europe could soon take on a shimmering silver colour as farmers grow giant grasses to try to mitigate the effects of global warming. |
7 September 2005 |
| The New IEDs - Guerrilla News Network Irreversible Ecological Decline, Irreparable Economic Damage and Indigenous Emigration and Displacement |
7 September 2005 |
| It’s Time for a New Vision -- A Guest Commentary - Environmental News Network |
7 September 2005 |
| Nine out of Ten Canadians Want Corporate Disclosure of Climate Management Plans - GreenBiz.com An overwhelming 89.2% of Canadians believe that companies should be required to disclose publicly what they are doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stop global warming, according to a new survey by the Tremblant Forum on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. |
7 September 2005 |
| Poisonous plant found in garden - Sheffield Today A plant which turned up in a South Yorkshire garden could be more evidence of global warming. |
7 September 2005 |
| The Snowball Effect of Global Warming - Yahoo / Live Science Arctic temperatures are stimulating plant growth, which darkens the landscape and causes more sunlight to be absorbed rather than reflected -The result: Winter heating could increase by 70 percent, according to a new study. |
6 September 2005 |
| Katrina gobbles up crops - Montgomery Advertiser Hurricane Katrina damaged pecans, cotton, peanuts and nurseries throughout southwest Alabama, with the pecan crop largely lost in Mobile and Baldwin counties, where much of it usually is produced. |
6 September 2005 |
| Katrina leaves damaged crops, fuel frustrations - Northeast Missippi Daily Journal "The statewide corn yields may be reduced as much as 20 percent," said Erick Larson, grain crops specialist with Mississippi State University's Extension Service. |
6 September 2005 |
| Climate food crisis 'to deepen' - BBC News Climate change threatens to put far more people at risk of hunger over the next 50 years than previously thought, according to new research. |
6 September 2005 |
| Katrina Prompts London to Examine Defenses - Yahoo / AP Waves of crushing water may seem out of place on the River Thames, which snakes lazily through London. But the British capital has long lived with the threat of catastrophic flooding. |
6 September 2005 |
| Global warming ups downpours, droughts - The Japan Times The number of days when it either rains heavily or not at all in Japan has increased during the past 100 years, while the number of moderately rainy days has decreased, according to the Meteorological Research Institute. |
6 September 2005 |
| Typhoon Nabi Batters Southwest Japan - Reuters / Planet Ark |
6 September 2005 |
| Rising ocean temperatures trigger gas fears - The Scotsman Rising ocean temperatures caused by global warming could initiate a catastrophic runaway greenhouse effect by releasing gases trapped beneath the ocean floor, experts have warned. |
5 September 2005 |
| Climate change raises risk of hunger - Reuters About 50 million more people, most of them in Africa, could be at risk of hunger by 2050 due to climate change and reduced crop yields, scientists predicted on Monday. |
5 September 2005 |
| EU and China climate policy cut from the same cloth - WWF The EU and China, two key actors in the global political arena, have signed an agreement on global warming, recognizing the huge economic, social, and environmental importance of climate change. |
5 September 2005 |
| Cooperation the only way for win-win future for US, China relations: Berger - People's Daily Online "Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons," said former US official Samuel Berger. |
5 September 2005 |
| China mulls raising renewable energy commitment - Reuters / Alert Net China, the world's second-largest oil consumer, may boost its long-term commitment to renewable energy use by 50 percent, a top policy maker said on Monday. |
5 September 2005 |
| Iraq in America - TomDispatch The Perfect Storm and the Feral City |
4 September 2005 |
| Erratic monsoon a fallout of global climate change - The Financial Express |
4 September 2005 |
| Scientists Must Offer Solutions For Conserving Tropical Forests In A Rapidly Changing World - Science Daily |
4 September 2005 |
| New Orleans is a frightening glimpse of the future - Johann Hari It is the poor and the weak who are invariably swept away first by climate change |
3 September 2005 |
| Some after thoughts on Hurricane Bush and a possible 'end of days' scenario - Uruknet |
3 September 2005 |
| A ticking time bomb 2,000ft under the sea - Daily Telegraph Gases trapped beneath seabeds could be released into the atmosphere as oceans get warmer, so accelerating global warming, the conference was told yesterday. |
3 September 2005 |
| Peat bog burning blamed for much of global warming - Daily Telegraph Burning peat bogs set alight by rainforest clearance in Indonesia are releasing up to a seventh of the world's total fossil fuel emissions in a single year, the geographers' conference heard yesterday. |
3 September 2005 |
| Clean energy special: The big clean-up - New Scientist 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? |
3 September 2005 |
| Arctic's Warming Climate Threatens Region's Traditional Cultures - NRDC |
2 September 2005 |
| China won't agree to target for cutting greenhouse emissions, says Dion - cnews Allegedly, chinese kids need milk more than a future... |
2 September 2005 |
| Water crisis looms as Himalayan glaciers melt - Reuters It's a scary thought, but scientists say the 40 percent of humanity living in South Asia and China could well be living with little drinking water within 50 years as global warming melts Himalayan glaciers, the region's main water source. |
2 September 2005 |
| Plants May Not Mitigate Global Warming - Discovery Plants may not suck up as much carbon dioxide as previously thought, Swiss scientists warned in a study published in the current issue of Science. If the team's findings hold, it may mean that global warming is happening at a faster rate than predicted. |
2 September 2005 |
| Ivory gull populations plummet - Nunatsiaq News "It's no surprise that we're seeing changes. These birds are so dependent on the ice" |
2 September 2005 |
| Powerful typhoon strengthens, heads for Okinawa - Yahoo TOKYO (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon churning toward Japan's Okinawa islands strengthened by Friday to a Class Five storm -- technically the same strength as Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans -- and experts said it could also threaten Japan's southernmost main island. |
2 September 2005 |
| Scientist calculates Greenland warming - Los Alamos Monitor "Greenland warms 2.2 times faster than the rest of the world." |
2 September 2005 |
| The High Cost Of Climate Change - Fortune To New Orleans residents, Hurricane Katrina must seem like an incredibly bad piece of meteorological luck that could only happen once in a lifetime. But to many climate researchers, it looks like a harbinger of things to come—with catastrophic regularity—as the world's atmosphere heats up. |
2 September 2005 |
| Bush takes heat on global warming - Internaional Herald Tribune As politicians and commentators around the world took in pictures of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, many seized the opportunity to blame the fierce storm, at least in part, on the Bush administration's environmental policy. |
2 September 2005 |
| Busy Season - Sun-Sentinel ISSUE: Hurricane seasons are busier and storms are growing stronger. BOTTOM LINE: There may be other causes, but the United States needs a strategy to combat global warming. |
2 September 2005 |
| Southerners, Devastated by Super-Hurricanes like Katrina, Doubt Bush's Ability to Confront Global Warming - BuzzFlash |
2 September 2005 |
| New Orleans is sinking, man, and I don't wanna talk about climate change - The Dominion For the most part, discussion of climate change in the context of coverage of the recent flooding and destruction on the Louisiana coast doesn't exist. Traditionally, journalism about extreme weather -- particularly the recent slew of hurricanes like Juan -- does not take into consideration the possibility that global climate change might be partially responsible for the destruction that merits hours upon hours of coverage. Exceptions are rare, and usually brief. |
2 September 2005 |
| Lethal Needle Blight Epidemic May Be Related To Climate Change - Science Daily Biologists studying a lethal blight of lodgepole pines in northwestern British Columbia present strong evidence in the September issue of BioScience that climate change is to blame for the outbreak. |
1 September 2005 |
| Climate change blamed as birds fail to breed - The Scotsman SEABIRDS have suffered an appalling breeding season around much of Scotland's coast, research from three of the country's leading conservation organisations has shown. |
1 September 2005 |
| Can we expect more hurricanes like Katrina? - Guardian Unlimited According to Professor Kerry Emanuel of MIT, man-made climate change has warmed the cooler deeper waters that used to dampen the intensity of hurricanes. |
1 September 2005 |
| Soaring Oil to Trigger New Renewables Boom - Reuters / Planet Ark Rocketing world oil prices will trigger a wave of new investment in renewables as green energy becomes more competitive and countries push to reduce their reliance on imported crude, analysts say. |
1 September 2005 |
| Dry, Hot Weather Ignites Big Alaska Wildfire Season - Reuters / Planet Ark Successive hot summers, vast swaths of insect-weakened trees and lightning strikes have combined to torch about 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) of forest in Alaska this summer, nearly tying the state's third-largest fire season on record, federal and state officials said on Tuesday. |
1 September 2005 |
| Fires in Portugal Burn 240,000 Hectares of Forest - Reuters / Planet Ark The fires, sparked by the worst drought in the country's history, have decimated forests in central and northern Portugal, damaged the paper industry, killed 14 people and prompted the evacuation of villages since they began in May. |
1 September 2005 |
| Christians draw swords on climate - BBC News A new UK organisation hopes to combat climate change through harnessing the political power of the church. |
1 September 2005 |
| UK, China in cleaner power plan - BBC News Britain and the EU will next week announce plans to hand China the technology for a power station designed to combat climate change. |
1 September 2005 |
| The Endless Hurricane Season - Inter Press Service News Agency Up to 12 more tropical storms are expected to follow Hurricane Katrina, the most destructive storm to ever strike the United States, and four may be major hurricanes, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). |
31 August 2005 |
| Alaska is feeling the heat - Independent On Line Anchorage - Successive hot summers, vast swaths of insect-weakened trees and lightning strikes have combined to torch about 1,6 million hectares of forest in Alaska this summer, nearly tying the state's third-largest fire season on record, federal and state officials said on Tuesday. |
31 August 2005 |
| Climate change 'species threat' - BBC News Some species around Northern Ireland's coast are under threat because the sea is warming up, a WWF report has found. |
31 August 2005 |
| Islands warned of global warming - BBC News Conservationists are predicting wildlife will be affected by climate change in the Channel Islands over the next 50 years. |
31 August 2005 |
| Warm ocean conditions affect salmon returns - Idaho Mountain Express |
31 August 2005 |
| Republicans accused of witch-hunt against climate change scientists - Guardian Unlimited Some of America's leading scientists have accused Republican politicians of intimidating climate-change experts by placing them under unprecedented scrutiny. |
30 August 2005 |
| Brace for more Katrinas, say experts - Yahoo / AFP For all its numbing ferocity, Hurricane Katrina will not be a unique event, say scientists, who say that global warming appears to be pumping up the power of big Atlantic storms. |
30 August 2005 |
| Climate change will "cause chaos" - BBC News |
30 August 2005 |
| Katrina's real name - Boston Globe The hurricane that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming. |
30 August 2005 |
| Paul J. Nyden: Oil, blood and the future - Charleston Gazette ' “Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.” Most of us alive today will live to see the consequences. All of our young children will.' |
30 August 2005 |
| Katrina may Cost Insurers Record $26 Billion - Reuters |
30 August 2005 |
| Couple offer lessons in life after doomsday - Guardian Unlimited While world leaders squabble about whether climate change is real and what action to take, one couple has retreated to rural Wales to help humanity plan for what they believe will be a dark future. |
30 August 2005 |
| The End is Nigh - American Scientist Book review: The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. James Howard Kunstler. x + 307 pp. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. $23. |
29 August 2005 |
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: 'For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind' - Yahoo News As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi's Gulf Coast, it's worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush's iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2. |
29 August 2005 |
| Asleep at the energy switch - Seattle Times A fervid wave of criticism has followed Congress' new omnibus energy bill - and who's to say it's not deserved? |
29 August 2005 |
| Fans and foes put different spin on new windfarm - Guardian Unlimited |
29 August 2005 |
| Bruce Babbitt Calls for More Dams To Cope with Global Warming's Effects - Environmental News Network SACRAMENTO — California should build more dams and reconsider building a highly controversial peripheral canal, a key architect of the state's decade-old Delta water plan said Thursday. |
29 August 2005 |
| Boost to CO2 mass extinction idea - BBC News A computer simulation of the Earth's climate 250 million years ago suggests that global warming triggered the so-called "great dying". |
28 August 2005 |
| Clean getaway? - Guardian Unlimited Hydrogen-powered cars are being touted as the pollution-free alternative of the future. But, reveals Lucy Siegle, they'll come with a dirty secret ... |
28 August 2005 |
| Reasons unknown for Mat-Su's low salmon returns - Seattle Post Intelligencer ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An extremely low return of salmon this season has left setnetters in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough with one of their smallest harvests ever. |
27 August 2005 |
| Energy bill deserves outrage - The State.com “This new law is a historic failure. It fails to do anything to increase the fuel efficiency of our cars and SUVs even though more than two-thirds of the oil we consume goes into gasoline tanks. It fails to mandate increased use of renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind. It fails to address emissions of greenhouse gases from fossil-fuel industries that are contributing to climate change.” |
27 August 2005 |
| New-wave energy - Newsday.com As the price of a barrel of oil continues to surge, scientists are turning to the ocean as a possible source of alternative energy. |
27 August 2005 |
| China prepares to tax gas guzzlers - International Herald tribune Alarmed by high world oil prices and sporadic shortages of gasoline and diesel fuel in big cities this summer, China's leaders are drafting plans to impose steep taxes on cars and sport utility vehicles with gas-guzzling engines. |
27 August 2005 |
| Weathermen forecast a century of storms - The Standard The wet weather and landslips of the past couple of weeks are just a taste of what is in store for the remainder of the century, according to the Hong Kong Observatory. |
27 August 2005 |
| Fish catches in Japan to decline due to global warming - Yahoo News Japan can expect to see some of its fish catches decline by as much as 70 percent over the next 100 years due to global warming, an official at the National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineering said Saturday. |
27 August 2005 |
| Spanish renewable energy to produce 12 pct of electricity in 2010 The Spanish government approved a 2005-2010 Renewable Energy Plan that envisages renewable energy sources accounting for 12 percent of total electricity generation in 2010, Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesperson Maria Teresa Fernandez said. |
26 August 2005 |
| Floods and fires – natural disasters are linked to the power sector, says WWF - WWF Floods and mudslides in the Alps and Danube basin, fires in the Iberian Peninsula, drought destroying harvest in France, Spain and Portugal — these are signals of a world suffering from climate change. |
26 August 2005 |
| Global warming 'has doubled storm threat' - Guardian Unlimited Weather expert finds destructive power worse than models predict |
26 August 2005 |
| Scientists Try to Harness Wave Energy - ENN As the price of a barrel of oil continues to surge, scientists are turning to the ocean as a possible source of alternative energy. |
26 August 2005 |
| Trees don't suck up carbon dioxide as hoped - Nature "Some scientists and politicians cling to the idea that a carbon-dioxide-rich future might favour the greening of planet Earth. It's time to disillusion them," |
25 August 2005 |
| US states bypass Bush to tackle greenhouse gas emissions - Guardian Unlimited America's north-eastern states are on the brink of a declaration of environmental independence with the introduction of mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions of the kind rejected by the Bush administration. |
25 August 2005 |
| Peru's glaciers in retreat - BBC News Experts predict all the Peruvian glaciers below 5,500m will disappear by 2015. This is the majority of Peru's glaciers. |
25 August 2005 |
| Federal Judge OKs Global Warming Lawsuit - AP / Yahoo News Environmental groups and four U.S. cities can sue federal development agencies on allegations the overseas projects they back financially contribute to global warming, a judge has ruled. |
25 August 2005 |
| Another Blow to the Pseudo-Science of Global Warming Skeptics - ENN In a serious blow to the already discredited arguments made against climate change by global warming skeptics, a new analysis of satellite data confirms that the earth is warming at a rate consistent with that projected by climate models, and far faster than the skeptics previously acknowledged. |
25 August 2005 |
| US states plan to cut emissions - BBC News Officials in nine north-eastern US states have reached a ground-breaking preliminary deal to reduce power plant emissions, a US newspaper has reported. |
24 August 2005 |
| Heal the Planet, Heal Ourselves - Inter Press Service News Agency The Biomass Users Network of Central America operates in seven countries and administers multi-million-dollar projects, with the ambitious goals of spurring rural development, preserving natural resources and reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. |
24 August 2005 |
| Bush drive to save fuel fails to include cars and biggest SUVs - Guardian Unlimited The Bush administration yesterday put forward a plan to make the US's burgeoning fleet of pickup trucks, minivans and some sports utility vehicles go further on a gallon of gas in response to the soaring cost of petrol. |
24 August 2005 |
| Arctic Summer Could be Ice-Free by 2105 - Yahoo News |
23 August 2005 |
| Fires, floods leave trail of death and destruction in Europe - Yahoo News |
23 August 2005 |
| Panel Sees Growing Melting Arctic Threat Within a century the melting could lead to summertime ice-free ocean conditions not seen in the area in a million years, the group said Tuesday. |
23 August 2005 |
| Visitors rush to glimpse vanishing glaciers - Guardian Unlimited |
22 August 2005 |
| The business of climate change - peopleandplanet.net Commentary on the recent agreement by six countries (India, China, the United States, Australia, Japan and South Korea) to co-operate in a pact to combat climate change - outside the Kyoto Protocol |
20 August 2005 |
| Christian Aid joins Leading Groups in Coalition to Tackle Climate Change - Christian Today Christian Aid has announced that it has officially joined a climate movement coalition, which is a body set up for political action on climate change. |
20 August 2005 |
| Global warming brings earlier spring thaw to Great Lakes - New Scientist The Great Lakes of the US, the planet's largest concentration of fresh water, is thawing earlier each spring, according to an analysis of ice break-ups dating back to 1846. |
20 August 2005 |
| Global warming all too real to paleoclimatologists - The Union Recorder |
19 August 2005 |
| Earth's Ability to Absorb Increased Carbon Emissions May Be Limited - YubaNet.com The ability of both land and sea to absorb increased emissions of carbon dioxide is limited, according to a recent study using a new computer model of Earth's climate that takes into account the planet's carbon cycle. The new generation climate model indicates land and ocean will absorb less carbon, much of it from the burning of fossil fuels, in the future if current trends continue, and that could mean significant shifts in the climate system. |
19 August 2005 |
| World Officials Want Global Warming Action - RedNova |
19 August 2005 |
| Climate change affecting UK birds - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds The latest assessment of bird populations in the UK reveals some interesting trends. Whilst some of the UK's most threatened birds are showing encouraging increases, more secure species continue to decline alarmingly. |
19 August 2005 |
| Fishing, Climate Change, Development Jeopardize U.S. Coral Reefs - ENS Coral reef ecosystems of the United States and associated Pacific Islands are still under pressure from overfishing, disease, pollution, coastal development, and climate change finds a new national assessment of the condition of U.S. shallow coral reef ecosystems. |
19 August 2005 |
| Expert warns of climate calamity - News.com.au |
18 August 2005 |
| Polar bears, seals are vanishing, say hunters - Independent Online "We used to see the polar bears, we used to hunt them. But they don't migrate any more because of the disappearing ice. Even further north, there are fewer and fewer polar bears and the hunters there have been forced to kill their own sleddogs this year because they were unable to feed them," |
18 August 2005 |
| U.S. insurers don't heat up to global warming threat - The Daily Review British, Japanese firms predict more frequent storms could increase losses on insured property by 65 percent by 2080 |
18 August 2005 |
| Cost of ending global warming 'too high' - Irish Independent (subscription) "In reality, no-one seriously proposes a cure for global warming, because adequate measures would cause economic catastrophe and probably world war." That's funny, I thought those would be the consequences of doing nothing... |
18 August 2005 |
| World running out of time for oil alternatives - Reuters / Yahoo News The world could run out of time to develop cleaner alternatives to oil and other fossil fuels before depletion drives prices through the roof, a leading Dutch energy researcher said on Thursday. |
18 August 2005 |
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Senators say Alaska visit confirms climate change
ANCHORAGE, Alaska --Anyone doubting the effects of human activity on global climate change should talk to the people it affects in Alaska and the Yukon, U.S. Sen. John McCain said Wednesday. |
17 August 2005 |
| A Lesson in Humility - FromTheWilderness.com Book Review - Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means for Our Future |
17 August 2005 |
| Sea Ice May Be On Increase In The Antarctic - Space Daily A new NASA-funded study finds that predicted increases in precipitation due to warmer air temperatures from greenhouse gas emissions may actually increase sea ice volume in the Antarctic's Southern Ocean. |
17 August 2005 |
| Climate conference begins in Greenland - denmark.dk Ministers from the USA, India, China, and 22 other countries have begun an informal meeting in Greenland to discuss climate changes |
17 August 2005 |
| From permafrost to permatan, Alaska basks in record heat - The Independent If Americans are clamouring to beat the heat this summer, they had better not do the obvious and travel to Alaska. For the second summer in a row, the glacier state has been baking under sweltering skies, stirring anxieties about global warming and its impact on the polar region. |
16 August 2005 |
| 'Climate change pushed dinosaurs over edge' - Independent Online One of the most violent volcanic eruptions on Earth may have triggered the demise of the dinosaurs. |
16 August 2005 |
| Monsoons may dry up - Nature Land use changes in India could turn off the rain. |
16 August 2005 |
| US Senators examine climate change in Yukon, Canada - Yahoo News "The senators recognize that the Yukon and other northern regions already see the effects of climate change." |
16 August 2005 |
| Fossil forest points to rapid climate change, scientists say - ABC News |
16 August 2005 |
| Planet a decade from global warming point of no return - The New Zealand Herald The global warming danger threshold for the world has been clearly marked out for the first time in a report to be published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already. |
15 August 2005 |
| The universal ostrich mindset - Guardian Unlimited Everyone knows that there are very big, very bad things which are going to happen. And when they do, it's goodbye human race or (if we're lucky) civilisation as we know it. Goodbye to the gas-guzzling, goodbye to the easyJetting, goodbye to the colour supplement lifestyle. Hello Darfur. |
15 August 2005 |
| Data slip may have hidden warming - BBC News A dispute over the data for global warming may be down to the way sensors were placed on weather balloons when readings were taken in the 1970s. |
15 August 2005 |
| City traders facing up to climate change - BBC News "We're not trying to save the world - what we want is for people to realise that climate change is an issue that can affect the value of their investments." |
15 August 2005 |
| CLEARING THE AIR - PBS Newshour Mayors across the country have united to pledge support for the Kyoto Protocol despite the Bush administration's concerns the treaty to curb greenhouse gases will hurt the U.S. economy. Listen to the programme in RealAudio. |
15 August 2005 |
| Icy Greenland turns green - BBC News Greenland's ice is melting rapidly. In some places, glacial levels have been falling by 10 metres a year and ultimately contributing to rising sea levels. |
14 August 2005 |
| The spin on global warming - Vail Daily "the issue [global warming] receives three times as much media coverage in Great Britain than in the U.S." |
14 August 2005 |
| Cloud whitener offered as global warming cure - TimesOnLine The government is examining a British-designed system for spraying seawater into the air to make clouds whiter. The idea is that they would reflect more radiation away from the Earth and slow the worldwide rise in temperatures. |
13 August 2005 |
| Siestas forecast as UK heads for heatwaves - Guardian Unlimited |
13 August 2005 |
| Dead birds tell us what we don't know - DenverPost Hundreds of dead birds washed up on the California shore, and almost all of them appear to have died from starvation. |
13 August 2005 |
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Climate warning as Siberia melts - New Scientist
"ecological landslide that is probably irreversible and is undoubtedly connected to climatic warming" |
11 August 2005 |
| It's getting hotter in the city - WWF As European cities swelter in the summer heatwave, a new report from WWF, analyzing summer temperature data from 16 EU cities, shows the continent's capitals warming by sometimes more than 2°C in the last 30 years. |
11 August 2005 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger: It's not a time for talk. It's a time for action - The Independent The Terminator: There's no doubt about the science. Now we must all gear our economies to take on global warming |
3 July 2005 |
| We Need To Cool It - Newsweek Even without federal leadership on global warming, states and businesses are starting to take action. A leading advocate for clean energy explains. |
3 July 2005 |
| US gives way on carbon pollution - Guardian Unlimited A historic deal on climate change which would see the US sign up to cut greenhouse gas emissions was last night emerging after a day of frantic negotiations ahead of the G8 summit. |
3 July 2005 |
| A Livable Shade of Green - New York Times Newly released data show that Portland, America's environmental laboratory, has achieved stunning reductions in carbon emissions. It has reduced emissions below the levels of 1990, the benchmark for the Kyoto accord, while booming economically. |
3 July 2005 |
| Turning warming into cash - The Seattle Times U.S. corporations are increasingly calling for action on global warming, sensing a business opportunity in cutting greenhouse gases while hoping to shape regulations they think are inevitable. |
3 July 2005 |
| Expert View: We're on a different planet in fighting global warming - The Independent |
3 July 2005 |
| Disaster Losses Lead Insurers to Global Warming Debate - Los Angeles Times* "It may sound alarmist, but what is being discussed increasingly is the potential for surprises and nonlinear events. Things are changing faster than we thought." |
3 July 2005 |
| Germany plans C02-free power plant - BBC News The search for a coal-fired power station that does not give off any carbon dioxide has taken a step forward with the announcement of plans to build such a plant in Germany. |
2 July 2005 |
| Britain considers 'carbon card' - Science Daily LONDON, July 2 (UPI) -- The British government is considering issuing each citizen a "personal carbon allowance," or a form of energy rationing, within a decade. |
2 July 2005 |
| US accepts Earth is warming in bid to avert clash - Guardian Unlimited Senior officials from G8 countries were last night locked in intensive talks on climate change and details of aid for Africa at a London meetinglaying the ground for next week's Gleneagles summit. |
2 July 2005 |
| Now global warming is a mortal sin - Sydney Morning Herald* A key international body of the Anglican Church has declared the wilful destruction of the environment to be a sin as a core group of Australian religious leaders have placed their political weight behind a campaign to fight global warming. |
2 July 2005 |
| Rich nations 'must change to avoid climate disaster' - Financial Times The developed world is "going to have to adjust" to prevent climate change becoming a global catastrophe, Hilary Benn, Britain's international development secretary, has warned. |
2 July 2005 |
| A warm Atlantic linked to hot summers over Europe and US - Innovations Report The Atlantic Ocean plays a much larger role in controlling summer climate in Europe and North America than previously thought, say scientists |
1 July 2005 |
| Energy: China's burning ambition - Nature The economic miracle that is transforming the world's most populous nation is threatened by energy shortages and rising pollution. It also risks plunging the planet's climate into chaos. Peter Aldhous reports. |
1 July 2005 |
| Merrill Lynch, World Resources Institute Make Stock Picks Based on Climate Change - ENN A new report, the result of a collaboration between a mainstream U.S. investment bank and a environmentalist nonprofit, has broken new ground by issuing stock recommendations. |
1 July 2005 |
| Bush's simple pollution solution - Times OnLine It worked brilliantly for his father, so why doesn't today's US President adopt emissions trading? |
1 July 2005 |
| Climate change 'threatens to evict African plants' - SciDevNet Climate change could drastically alter the distribution of thousands of plant species across Africa, say scientists. |
1 July 2005 |
| Blair faces challenges on Africa, climate - Seattle Post Intelligencer EDINBURGH, Scotland -- This picturesque medieval city is bracing for protests by tens of thousands of demonstrators demanding urgent action on aid to Africa and climate change by leaders of the world's richest nations. |
1 July 2005 |
| Blair may snub US on climate - Guardian Unlimited Leaked papers reveal huge gulf between Europe and Bush as UK PM ponders political gamble |
1 July 2005 |
| Marine crisis looms over acidifying oceans - New Scientist The oceans are gradually turning into a vast “fizzy drink”, a transformation that could be catastrophic for ocean life. Levels of carbonic acid - the reaction product of water and carbon dioxide that is found in soda water - are increasing at a rate one hundred times faster than the world has seen for millions of years. |
30 June 2005 |
| Future Climate Could be Hotter than Thought - Reuters / Planet Ark Global temperatures in the future could be much hotter than scientists have predicted if new computer models on climate change are correct, researchers said on Wednesday. |
30 June 2005 |
| Save us from Ourselves - Monbiot.com Green hypocrisy means that we can’t tackle climate change without government intervention. |
30 June 2005 |
| African sands 'set for upheaval' - BBC News One of the first studies to examine how climate change might alter the land surface of Africa has been published by scientists from Oxford University. |
30 June 2005 |
| One in six countries facing food shortage - Guardian Unlimited One in six countries in the world face food shortages this year because of severe droughts that could become semi-permanent under climate change, UN scientists warned yesterday. |
30 June 2005 |
| Warnings of Imminent Disaster Fall on Deaf Ears - Inter Press News Service Agency If a select international group of architects and engineers warned that a house already showing cracks and leaks was in danger of collapse, the residents would logically adopt immediate measures to prevent the imminent disaster. |
30 June 2005 |
| Clearing smoke may trigger global warming rise - New Scientist Global warming looks set to be much worse than previously forecast, according to new research. Ironically, the crucial evidence is how little warming there has been so far. |
29 June 2005 |
| Blair Admits G8 Climate Deal "Very Difficult" - Planet Ark / Reuters Britain's Tony Blair vowed on Monday to press for agreement among world powers to tackle the causes of climate change but admitted he was a long way from achieving it. |
28 June 2005 |
| Storm costs 'could rise by 66%' - BBC News The worldwide cost of major storms will rise by two-thirds unless governments start taking immediate action to reduce global warning, a report has warned. |
28 June 2005 |
| Rising sea levels may destroy nuclear dump - New Scientist Rising sea levels caused by global warming could destroy the UK's only major nuclear waste dump in as little as 500 years, according to a report by the Environment Agency. |
28 June 2005 |
| Micro-power hailed as cheap, safe energy of future - Guardian Unlimited Thinktank sees nuclear subsidy as bar to full use of renewables |
28 June 2005 |
| Climate change 'to drown Britain' - The Independent Sea-level rise caused by climate change could turn Britain into a string of islands, a study published today suggests. |
28 June 2005 |
| Fliers could pay for emissions trading - CNN International British Airways says extra costs to the airline from a European emissions trading scheme would likely be partly passed on to passengers through ticket price hikes. |
28 June 2005 |
| While Supplies Last: Three Natural Wonders That Are Feeling the Heat - New York Times* For decades, scientists have been warning the world about global warming. And while skeptics still call the increase in the earth's temperature over the last century a natural evolution, its effects are beginning to show in some of the world's most famous tourist destinations. Here are three where the changes have been particularly dramatic in recent years. |
26 June 2005 |
| Take the flood tide now - The Independent Britain's top climatologist says a G8 fudge on global warming could be disastrous |
26 June 2005 |
| The heat is on - Guardian Unlimited Act on carbon emissions now |
26 June 2005 |
| Britain backs curb on cheap flights - Guardian Unlimited The majority of Britons believe that there must be restrictions on cheap air travel if the increasing problem of global warming is going to be tackled. |
26 June 2005 |
| Something's fishy with the sockeye numbers - King County Journal "... temperature is having an adverse effect on the fish" |
26 June 2005 |
| French watchdogs call for action on climate change - Gulf Times "Every increase of one degree Celsius causes Europe’s winegrowing zone to migrate northwards by 180km..." |
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| The Race to Alaska Before It Melts - New York Times* Alaska is changing by the hour. From the far north, where higher seas are swamping native villages, to the tundra around Fairbanks, where melting permafrost is forcing some roads and structures to buckle in what looks like a cartoon version of a hangover, to the rivers of ice receding from inlets, warmer temperatures are remaking the Last Frontier State. |
26 June 2005 |
| Climate change is already costing you - The Independent If George Bush is so convinced that the US's superior technology will be able to solve problems related to climate change, it would be handy if he would lend some of it to Britain's insurance industry |
25 June 2005 |
| Bush Set to Shun G8 Allies on Global Warming - Reuters / PlanetArk Unconvinced that the world is warming, US President George W. Bush looks set to shun pleas by his main industrial allies to step up a fight against climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month. |
24 June 2005 |
| Government attacked over inadequate green energy policies - Guardian Unlimited The government was warned yesterday that aspects of its policies to develop renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions were "totally inadequate". |
24 June 2005 |
| Charles Secrett: 'We are killing the planet. That is not an exaggeration' - Independent The statistics released yesterday are a wake-up call to individuals and families that we're all responsible for climate change. Too many people think: "Climate change has nothing to do with me - it's the fault of government and industry." But statistics like this show the cumulative effect of millions of people doing the wrong thing. |
23 June 2005 |
| Senate Defeats Global Warming Amendment - Cybercast News Service Fans of the global warming theory say they are disappointed with the U.S. Senate for failing to pass an amendment that would have established mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions. |
23 June 2005 |
| Extinction of Frogs is Catastrophic, Scientists Say - Reuters / PlanetArk "Frogs and toads are becoming extinct all over the world. It's the same magnitude event as the extinction of the dinosaurs," |
23 June 2005 |
| Keeling Helped Awaken World to Climate Change - NPR The death of Charles D. Keeling at age 77 Monday ended a career in science that led to new ideas about climate change and global warming. |
23 June 2005 |
| Climate change 'worries children' - BBC News Climate change is young people's biggest concern for the world's future, a government survey says. |
23 June 2005 |
| Chilly theory on climate change - BBC News Global warming could lead to a cooling down of northern Europe, according to research led by experts at the University of Edinburgh. |
22 June 2005 |
| The Wall Street Journal vs. The Scientific Consensus - RealClimate "We are disappointed that the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has chosen to yet again distort the science behind human-caused climate change and global warming in their recent editorial "Kyoto By Degrees" (6/21/05)" |
22 June 2005 |
| London to be the 'greenest city' - BBC News Mayor Ken Livingstone hopes the launch of a Climate Change Agency for London will make it the most environmentally friendly city in the world. |
20 June 2005 |
| Sudden climate change is not just about Eskimos in bikinis - SFGate |
19 June 2005 |
| Fiddling as the planet burns - Guardian Unlimited |
19 June 2005 |
| New US move to spoil climate accord - Guardian Unlimited Extraordinary efforts by the White House to scupper Britain's attempts to tackle global warming have been revealed in leaked US government documents obtained by The Observer. |
19 June 2005 |
| How Much Excess Fresh Water Was Added to the North Atlantic in Recent Decades? - WHOI Continued Freshening of the North Atlantic Could Slow the Conveyor in the 21st Century |
18 June 2005 |
| Growing deserts 'a global problem' - CNN Millions of people could lose their homes and livelihoods as the world's deserts expand because of climate change and unsustainable human activities |
18 June 2005 |
| Southeast Asia’s first wind farm launched - WWF The opening of Southeast Asia’s first wind farm in the Philippines is a vital step forward in efforts to promote renewable energy in some of the world’s fastest growing economies. |
18 June 2005 |
| Europe fails to cut greenhouse gas emissions - Guardian Unlimited Europe is failing to tackle climate change, putting further pressure on Tony Blair to come up with a fresh initiative at the G8 summit and embarrassing the European commission, which is floundering over budget cuts and the constitution treaty. |
18 June 2005 |
| Oil, CO2, Environment, Climate, War - Common Dreams This year there are real, physical issues for the humans on Planet Earth. We hear hints of them when our mainstream media can tear itself away from runaway brides and the gong-show in Rome, where old men in red dresses and lacy rochets fiddle around with edicts about sex and sin while AIDS smolders, populations explode, and fossil fuels burn steadily worldwide. |
17 June 2005 |
| 'We Have No Time To Lose', Says Shell Chairman - EV World |
17 June 2005 |
| Britain's sharks 'moving north' - BBC News Britain's biggest fish appears to be moving to Scottish waters - and experts say it may be down to global warming. |
17 June 2005 |
| PM urged to bypass Bush on climate change - Guardian Unlimited Tony Blair was today urged to break with George Bush over climate change as it emerged from leaked G8 papers that the US is unwilling to put its name to anything that says the world is getting hotter. |
17 June 2005 |
| Bush's climate row aide joins oil giant - Guardian Unlimited A senior White House official accused of doctoring government reports on climate change to play down the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming has taken a job with ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company. |
17 June 2005 |
| Heat wave claims 130 victims in India - CBC |
17 June 2005 |
| Climate change has lawyers frothing - OneNews "Litigation on climate-related damage is clearly on the horizon." |
30 May 2005 |
| Africa gains in carbon balance - Guardian Unlimited The government has decided to invest in an African project to offset carbon dioxide emissions created by all G8 events, air travel, local transport and meetings. |
30 May 2005 |
| G8 SUMMIT:The Climate Does Not Look Good - IPS News Agency The prospects for progress on climate change at the G8 summit in July do not look too good, going by the content of a leaked document. |
30 May 2005 |
| Half of Europe’s plant species at risk from global warming - Daily Times More than half of Europe’s plant species will be at threat or classified as vulnerable by 2080 as a consequence of global warming, a study said. |
30 May 2005 |
| Shift in energy strategy sought - Business-Standard Ficci and the Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA) has called for bringing down unsustainably high energy intensity and laid down a few steps to avert a possible deceleration of growth. |
30 May 2005 |
| Mini-generators fill demand for clean energy, alternative power - the Advocate Overburdened power grids and the environment are getting a small but important assist from new - and sometimes, old - energy generators that fill a demand for clean and alternative sources of energy. |
29 May 2005 |
| World's mayors seek to fight global warming, make cities greener - SF Gate Mayors from some of the world's biggest cities are gathering here this week to forge a set of international guidelines for sustainable urban living — billed as a municipal version of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming that the United States never ratified. |
29 May 2005 |
| Nuclear Power Not Needed to Reduce Global Warming Emissions - EV World Environment Colorado says There is no need to jeopardize our health, safety, and economy with increased nuclear power when we have cleaner, cheaper, and safer solutions to reduce global warming pollution. |
29 May 2005 |
| Can industry spread its green fever? - USNews.com General Electric puts new focus on global warming |
29 May 2005 |
| Global warming? A small few non-believers say no - Seattle Post Intelligencer "...climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers" |
29 May 2005 |
| Owners of gas-guzzling cars to be hit by five-fold tax increase - Common Dreams
Motorists who drive fuel-hungry BMWs, people carriers and Range Rovers face a five-fold increase in road tax under radical plans to combat Britain's spiralling greenhouse gas emissions. |
29 May 2005 |
| Plane speaking - Guardian Unlimited Thanks to low-cost airlines and super-size jets, the world has got smaller. Unfortunately, it's also got hotter. Lucy Siegle becomes a carbon counter |
29 May 2005 |
| US told to face up to climate change - Guardian Unlimited Margaret Beckett today urges the Bush administration to accept that the "incontrovertible" weight of scientific evidence on the dangers of global warming is stimulating an urgent worldwide dialogue that the US must seriously engage with - or risk being left out. |
28 May 2005 |
| New turbines in the wind - Guardian Unlimited British Gas has announced plans to offer mini wind turbines to allow homeowners the chance to generate their own electricity. |
28 May 2005 |
| Warmer, drier summers lead to tree fatigue - Vancouver Sun Climate change threatens future of B.C.'s famed red cedars |
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| Undercutting the deal - Guardian Unlimited Carbon trading is a positive step towards curbing pollution - but it is being undermined by government hypocrisy, says Victor Keegan |
27 May 2005 |
| Industry chiefs' environment plea - BBC News A group of Britain's leading industrialists has written to the prime minister urgently demanding long-term policies to combat climate change. |
27 May 2005 |
| Draft G8 deal on climate change 'lets US off hook' - The Scotsman Tony Blair's aim of securing a breakthrough on climate change at the G8 summit appears destined to end in failure, according to a leaked document seen by The Scotsman. |
27 May 2005 |
| The fuel that's locked in ice - Globe and Mail Canadian scientists are leading efforts to tap vast deposits of natural gas hydrates within the frozen earth. |
27 May 2005 |
| Penn West proposes C$400 mln Alberta C02 pipeline - Reuters Penn West Petroleum is planning to build a C$400 million ($320 million) pipeline to ship carbon dioxide from Canada's biggest emitters to oil fields for use in boosting output, its chief executive said on Friday. |
27 May 2005 |
| Europe Tackles Climate Change During Green Week 2005 - ENS "Get to grips with climate change" is the slogan and the goal, of this year’s Green Week, the European Commission’s annual conference program and exhibition showcasing the European Union's environment policy. |
27 May 2005 |
| Scientists sift arctic snow for evidence of pollution, climate change - Nunatsiaq News |
27 May 2005 |
| Wind map shows top sites for turbines - Nature Earth's breezes prove fast enough to provide plenty of power. |
26 May 2005 |
| Climate change threatens crop losses, more hungry people - UN Climate change threatens to increase crop losses, increase the number of people facing malnutrition, or worse, and may change the development patterns of animal diseases and plant pests, the United Nations agricultural agency says in a new report. |
26 May 2005 |
| Climate and energy: what the United States needs - Open Democracy America can meet the global warming challenge by modernising its energy policy to catch up with and then lead the world. Tim Wirth of the Energy Future Coalition explains how. |
26 May 2005 |
| Blair Struggles to Win Backing for G8 Plan - New York Times Prime Minister Tony Blair has six weeks to persuade the world's wealthiest nations to back his plans for doubling aid to Africa and tackling global warming. |
26 May 2005 |
| UN food agency warns sub-Saharan Africa risks most from global warming - Yahoo / AFP A UN food agency warned that people in sub-Saharan African countries are most in danger of starvation and food security difficulties in the light of the latest findings on global warming. |
26 May 2005 |
| Global warming not new, but it's happening faster - Chicago Sun-Times |
26 May 2005 |
| Exxon Mobil Holders Reject Environmental Resolutions - Bloomberg.com Shareholders of Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil producer, voted down resolutions calling on the company to take steps toward reducing emissions linked to global warming. |
25 May 2005 |
| A Tailwind is Blowing - EV World OpEd by Ken Silverstein, Director, Energy Industry Analysis looks at the current state of the wind power industry. |
25 May 2005 |
| Waste Not, Want Not as Villagers Pioneer Use of Biogas in Cambodia - ENN AMOUNG, Cambodia — Nget Loun's rickety old thatched house is typical of Cambodia's impoverished countryside, but it holds a surprise inside: a state of the art, environmental-friendly gas stove. |
25 May 2005 |
| World needs more than sea walls to stop floods - ABC News Building higher and stronger dykes will not be enough to protect the world's low-lying areas against rising sea levels and global warming, a conference heard on Wednesday. |
25 May 2005 |
| Increasingly, evangelists are embracing environmentalism - TimesLeader.com One of Calvin DeWitt's favorite Bible verses is Revelation 11:18: "... The time has come for judging the dead ... and for destroying those who destroy the Earth." |
25 May 2005 |
| New Campaign for Climate Change Law - 73% Say Government Not Doing Enough - F.O.E. |
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| Capitulation to the nuclear lobby is a politics of despair - Guardian Unlimited Despair is the great peril in climate change policy. Nothing can be done, we're all doomed! Democratic politics reaches its nemesis here: who dares to stand for election on a consumption-cutting agenda? No one. What opposition will hold its tongue as a government takes tough measures? None. So who dare put unpalatable truths to voters? |
25 May 2005 |
| A Restraint of Liberty - Monbiot.com Climate change’s unprecedented moral challenge demands that we restrict market freedom |
24 May 2005 |
| Climate-change fears prompt CIS rebellion at Exxon - Guardian Unlimited A major British institutional investor will tomorrow oppose the re-election of Lee Raymond as chief executive of ExxonMobil on "ethical grounds" at its annual meeting. |
24 May 2005 |
| Tropical Glacier Retreat - Real Climate |
23 May 2005 |
| Blair to visit Bush ahead of G8 - BBC News Prime Minister Tony Blair is embarking on a whirlwind tour of world leaders in a bid to win support for his plans for Africa and climate change. |
23 May 2005 |
| Past century sees biodiversity dive - Nature Biodiversity is disappearing faster than ever, according to a report backed by the United Nations. |
20 May 2005 |
| Start-up drills for oil in algae - New York Times GreenFuel is one of many companies developing businesses based on alternative energies such as biodiesel and so-called clean technologies. |
20 May 2005 |
| Scottish company to build world's first commercial wave power station - Guardian Unlimited The world's first commercial wave power station is to be built in Portugal by a Scottish company which employs 35 people but believes it is tapping into a market worth billions. |
20 May 2005 |
| Blair may fly to US to save Africa plans - Guardian Unlimited Tony Blair is considering flying to Washington in a bid to rescue his ambitious G8 agenda on Africa and climate change, Downing Street acknowledged yesterday. |
20 May 2005 |
| Climate change could crowd middle of Europe - Reuters The middle of Europe could become crowded by "climate change refugees" escaping a thawing Arctic to the north and Mediterranean droughts to the south, the head of the European Environment Agency (EEA) said on Friday |
20 May 2005 |
| BBC NEWS VIDEO:Melting away: Nasa alarmed over Greenland's glaciers (requires RealPlayer) |
19 May 2005 |
| Editorial: Climate Signals - New York Times |
19 May 2005 |
| A critique on Veizer’s Celestial Climate Driver - RealClimate The solar warming theory debunked |
19 May 2005 |
| East Antarctica puts on weight - Nature Increased snowfall could slow sea-level rise. |
19 May 2005 |
| Drought Strikes Hard in Southern China - Reuters / Planet Ark |
19 May 2005 |
| Can hybrids save US from foreign oil? - Christain Science Monitor Red-hot demand for Priuses causes doubters to take second look. |
19 May 2005 |
| Amazon destruction accelerating - BBC News The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed at near record levels, to make way for soya plantations |
19 May 2005 |
| To track global warming, watch the water flow - CS Monitor Say "climate change" and people tend to think global warming. But we also should think about water, specifically, the cycle of precipitation, evaporation, and river flow that is a key climate component. A little decline here, a little boost there, can have direct effects on how we live our lives. |
19 May 2005 |
| Wind power 'a must' to beat climate change - Guardian Unlimited Wind power must be made to work in Britain, despite massive opposition, if the government is to succeed in tackling the threat of climate change, the Sustainable Development Commission says in a report out today. |
19 May 2005 |
| Climate change threatens the water supply of western North America - WWF |
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| Payout idea to save rainforests - Guardian Unlimited Developing nations should be paid to preserve tropical rainforests as part of a drive to slow global warming, according to suggestions made at a two-day climate seminar in Bonn yesterday. |
18 May 2005 |
| Mayors back global warming pact - CNN International Despite the Bush administration's resistance to the Kyoto global warming pact, more than 130 U.S. mayors have applied the agreement's standards in a bid to reduce America's carbon dioxide emissions, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels said Monday. |
17 May 2005 |
| Post Kyoto talks start in tough climate - New Scientist Talks started on Monday to draw up a treaty to cut greenhouse gas emissions after 2012, when the existing Kyoto Protocol to fight climate change runs out. Experts nominated by more than 100 governments met in Bonn, Germany, on the first lap of negotiations likely to last two years or more. |
17 May 2005 |
| China warns of danger of melting Everest glaciers - Reuters Global warming is shrinking glaciers on the Tibet side of Mount Everest faster than ever, putting world water supplies at risk, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. |
17 May 2005 |
| Drowning by numbers - Guardian Unlimited Blair must convince Bush that carbon trading provides the best chance of dealing with climate change |
16 May 2005 |
| Soil temps convince scientist warming is real - Duluth News Tribune Donald Baker isn't the type to jump on the latest bandwagon. When global cooling was all the hubbub in the 1970s, he kept his distance. When global warming got traction in the 1990s, he resisted. |
16 May 2005 |
| U.N. to Start Marathon in Bonn to Widen Kyoto - ENN "This is progress that requires a microscope to track..." |
16 May 2005 |
| The High Price of Global Warming - Stanford Graduate School of Business Business school is not the usual venue for discussing global warming, but Jacques Dubois, chairman of reinsurance giant Swiss Re America Holding Corp., believes that it ought to be. |
16 May 2005 |
| Problems Aplenty in a World of Plenty - Inter Press News Service Agency Humans are devouring more food, material goods, and natural resources than ever before and the worldwide pursuit of prosperity and material luxury is stoking environmental and security problems, according to a new report on trends shaping the planet's future. |
14 May 2005 |
| Carbon trade-off - Guardian Unlimited Oliver Balch considers the morality of industrialised countries buying greenhouse gas emission reductions from developing countries |
13 May 2005 |
| Boost for climate change research - BBC News A research institute is being set up at the University of York to help scientists work out how the world can manage the impact of climate change. |
13 May 2005 |
| Time to get serious in international climate negotiations - WWF Bonn, Germany - Government representatives of up to 189 countries are meeting for an informal two-day seminar in Bonn (16-17 May 2005) to assess past actions to combat global warming and to begin discussing what comes after 2012 when the Kyoto Protocol's first target period ends. |
13 May 2005 |
| US to reject UK climate measures - BBC news The US will not agree to UK measures to tackle climate change, due to be discussed at the upcoming G8 summit, a US presidential negotiator has said. |
13 May 2005 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands Should Use Caribbean Sun, Switch to Solar Energy, Says Official - ENN CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands — U.S. Virgin Islands residents ought to switch to solar power because of skyrocketing oil prices, an official said Thursday. |
13 May 2005 |
| Clean Patagonian Energy from Wind and Hydrogen - Inter Press Service News Agency BUENOS AIRES, May 12 (Tierramérica) - A laboratory situated in the southern Patagonia region of Argentina is producing hydrogen from wind energy to supply power to a village -- and prove that it is possible to replace the polluting fuels derived from petroleum. |
12 May 2005 |
| Fish get hooked on cooler waters - Nature North Sea species are moving towards the Arctic to dodge climate change. |
12 May 2005 |
| Wave, wind, sun and tide is a powerful mix - Guardian Unlimited Research at Oxford shows how renewables can plug Britain's energy gap. |
11 May 2005 |
| UK fails to pay global warming dues - Guardian Unlimited Britain has failed to provide financial backing for a new UN fund to help the world's poorest countries cope with the devastating effects of global warming despite making Africa and climate change the twin themes of its G8 presidency, it was revealed last night. |
11 May 2005 |
| The Hockey Stick Controversy - The National Center for Atmospheric Research New Analysis Reproduces Graph of Late 20th Century Temperature Rise |
11 May 2005 |
| Global warming, pollution threatening 'roof of the world' - Yahoo / AFP Chinese scientists warn the fragile environment of the Tibet-Qinghai plateau, known as the roof of the world, is under serious threat from global warming and pollution. |
11 May 2005 |
| LAST CHANCE FOR CIVILIZATION - The Crisis Papers "It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing." |
10 May 2005 |
| Changes in Vegetation Might Make Severe Weather Worse - Live Science A changing climate can alter the types and extent of plants in a region, scientists have been telling us. And now the bad news: The altered vegetation can, in turn, can make bad weather worse, a new study suggests. |
10 May 2005 |
| Junk Science - monbiot.com Climate change denial, as David Bellamy’s claims show, is based on pure hocus pocus |
10 May 2005 |
| Investors at UN meet pledge $1 bln in clean energy - Reuters U.S. and British institutional investors who collectively manage over $3 trillion in assets pledged on Tuesday to invest $1 billion in clean energy companies in an effort to reduce risks posed by climate change. |
10 May 2005 |
| Cloak protects glacier from sun - BBC News Workers at a Swiss ski resort have wrapped part of a retreating glacier in reflective sheeting to protect it, they say, from global warming. |
10 May 2005 |
| NASA to launch new weather satellite - CNN International A new weather satellite is scheduled to be launched this week in an effort to improve forecasting and the monitoring of global climate changes, officials said. |
10 May 2005 |
| Forum issues global warning - NY Newsday Scientists at Stony Brook conference say climate changes could hurt the planet in 15 years if nothing is done |
9 May 2005 |
| Blair demands nuclear power to protect high 'living standards' - The Independent Tony Blair has ruled out making changes to "living standards" to tackle global warming, and is drawing up plans to build a new generation of nuclear power stations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions instead. |
9 May 2005 |
| Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows - The Times Online CLIMATE change researchers have detected the first signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream — the mighty ocean current that keeps Britain and Europe from freezing. |
8 May 2005 |
| Rooftop wind turbines on urban horizon - Times Online 1.5kW satellite dish sized generators set to become common city sight. |
8 May 2005 |
| Secret papers reveal new nuclear building plan - Guardian Unlimited The government's strategy to kick-start a huge nuclear power station building programme is revealed today in confidential Whitehall documents seen by The Observer. |
8 May 2005 |
| Glaciers in Mt. Everest melting faster - NetIndia123.com According to a Chinese team of scientists led by Professor Kang Schichang, the glaciers in the Mt. Everest area are melting at a faster rate than expected. |
8 May 2005 |
| Climate fear for African elephant - BBC News The eminent wildlife expert Dr Richard Leakey has described climate change as a bigger threat to animals like the elephant than poaching. |
7 May 2005 |
| Snaps from space check Earth's health - The Times Online The Globcover project will produce a global portrait of the world’s land cover with a resolution three times sharper than any previous satellite map, enabling researchers to study the impact of global warming and environmental change with unprecedented accuracy. |
7 May 2005 |
| Huge solar power station planned for Portugal - Guardian Unlimited A plan to build the world's biggest solar energy power station, covering about 250 hectares and capable of sustaining 130,000 households, has been unveiled in Portugal. |
6 May 2005 |
| Russia - World’s largest polluter to reduce CO2 - WWF A major first step has been made in ensuring a clean energy future for Russia. WWF Russia and RAO UES, the Russian energy monopoly, have started a dialogue on reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions |
6 May 2005 |
| Global warming plus natural bacteria could release vast carbon deposits currently stored in Arctic soil - PhysOrg Increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will make global temperatures rise. By studying soil cores from the Arctic, scientists have discovered that this rise in temperature stimulates the growth of microorganisms that can break down long-term stores of carbon, releasing them into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. This will lead to further increases in global temperatures. |
6 May 2005 |
| Global warming makes seal pups go hungry - ABC Science Online Retreating ice in the Southern Ocean is making it harder for elephant seal mothers to feed their babies, say Australian researchers. |
5 May 2005 |
| Clearing smog has led to 'global brightening' - New Scientist The efforts of industrialised nations to cut smog pollution has had a bizarre side-effect - accelerating global warming. |
5 May 2005 |
| What to do about climate change? British activists debate - Open Democracy Part 1 Part 2 Climate change will dominate the lives of billions in the 21st century, yet it scarcely features on the political agenda. In a three-part debate, four leading activists discuss why, and what can be done. |
5 May 2005 |
| 'Climate change will see malaria soar' - Independent Online Climate change will quadruple the number of South Africans at risk from malaria by 2020, bringing the mosquito-borne disease south towards the country's commercial heartland, a minister said on Thursday. |
5 May 2005 |
| Norway CO2 injection 'too costly' - Aftenposten Pumping greenhouse gases into oil wells off Norway is too costly as a way to boost oil output while easing global warming, Norway's Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said on Tuesday. |
5 May 2005 |
| Fruit farms withering in Northwest drought - USA Today To farmers like Ric Valicoff, the economics of drought are depressingly familiar. Four dry years in the past 13 have scorched their balance sheets and got them wondering whether there's something to the global warming hype. |
5 May 2005 |
| Scientists Clueless over Sun's Effect on Earth - Live Science While researchers argue whether Earth is getting warmer and if humans are contributing, a heated debate over the global effect of sunlight boiled to the surface today. |
5 May 2005 |
| A Planetary Problem - The New Yorker Elizabeth Kolbert travelled from Alaska to Greenland, and visited top scientists, to get to the heart of the debate over global warming. In this week’s magazine, she publishes the last of a three-part series on climate change; the first and second parts are available online. In this article, she discusses the series with Amy Davidson. |
4 May 2005 |
| Storms and Climate Change - Real Climate Is there enough statistical evidence to say for sure? |
4 May 2005 |
| Capitals of smog - Guardian Unlimited Our cities need to unite to tackle climate change |
4 May 2005 |
| World should look beyond Kyoto: climate expert - The Age* Debate about climate change needs to shift from the Kyoto Protocol to the level of global warming that is "dangerous", the head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says. |
4 May 2005 |
| Planetary energy imbalance? - RealClimate How those scientists got it right |
3 May 2005 |
| Is it getting dark in here? - Warwick Boar The effect that might make all our predictions of termperature change wrong |
3 May 2005 |
| U.S. energy chief wants 'clean coal' push - Seattle Post Intelligencer U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman called for more international efforts to develop coal as an alternative energy source as ministers met Tuesday to address concerns over the future of the world's energy supplies. |
3 May 2005 |
| Australia is running out of water - Independent Online "Australians have a stark choice: conserve or leave." |
3 May 2005 |
| Blown away - The Independent Butterflies cannot survive climate change. Peter Marren reports on the fight to save these most fragile of insects |
2 May 2005 |
| Warmer Himalayas killing fish in Arabian sea - Deccan Herald Reduced snowfall in the Himalayas, caused by global warming, is threatening marine life in the distant Arabian Sea, say researchers. |
2 May 2005 |
| Scientists watch for calamari that bites back - Globe and Mail Marine biologists anticipate return of jumbo flying squids off B.C. coast. |
2 May 2005 |
| Spain Suffered Worst Winter Drought on Record - Reuters / Planet Ark Spain has suffered its driest winter and early spring since records began almost 60 years ago, data from meteorologists showed on Friday. |
2 May 2005 |
| Australia Grain - Drought Threatens to Devastate Crop - Reuters / Planet Ark Australian wheat and other winter grain crops face possible devastation on a similar scale to three years ago when the worst drought in a century struck, industry leaders warned on Friday. |
2 May 2005 |
| Simple steps that could save planet - Guardian Unlimited Tony Blair must do what numerous MPs and most of the other political parties have already done - affirm the governance of global climate policy by the principle of contraction and convergence. |
2 May 2005 |
| Whoever we choose, our planet is the vital issue - Guardian Unlimited Politicians fiddle as the world burns, but when Britain hosts the G8 summit in July, climate change must top the agenda |
1 May 2005 |
| Missouri river at risk of drying to mere trickle - The Independent The longest river in America has been so badly affected by drought it could be unnavigable by next year |
1 May 2005 |
| Power to the People - Time Forget the national power grid. Small communities are starting to make their own energy from clean, renewable, local sources |
1 May 2005 |
| Rising number of greens ditch cheap air travel - Guardian Unlimited Campaigners focus on environmental impact of flights |
1 May 2005 |
| Redford teams up on global warming - Washington Times Mayor Rocky Anderson is teaming up with Hollywood super star Robert Redford in a project to fight global warming. |
29 April 2005 |
| Earth absorbing more heat than it radiates - New Scientist The difference amounts to 0.85 watts for every square metre of the planet’s surface. That is equivalent of 7 trillion 60-watt light bulbs - or the energy output of almost half a million thousand-megawatt power stations. |
28 April 2005 |
| Data validates global warming projections - CNN World's rising sea temperatures a 'smoking gun' |
28 April 2005 |
| Fear that giant ‘burp’ could trigger global warming - Felix Online As evidence for global warming stacks up, it is the speed of change that is now alarming scientists. As a result, climatologists are turning to our geological record to investigate what may have amplified global warming events in the past and how quickly we might expect things to change in the future. |
28 April 2005 |
| Squeaky clean fossil fuels - New Scientist Big money and big politics are lining up behind the development of "zero-emission" power plants that burn coal or gas but release no carbon dioxide. |
28 April 2005 |
| Windmills turn in power-starved China - Reuters Windmills line the mountain ridges of the picturesque southern Chinese island of Nan'ao, sending power into the grid of Guangdong province, the world's manufacturing centre |
28 April 2005 |
| Bush Is Blowing Smoke on Energy - BusinessWeek Hitting all the points in a noted GOP pollster's playbook, the President's plan is driven by politics not policy. Worse, it won't cut oil dependency |
28 April 2005 |
| Congress takes wrong turn down the road to ruin - Seattle Times |
27 April 2005 |
| Bush seeks to ease US oil needs - BBC News President George W Bush unveiled a five-part energy plan on Wednesday designed to reduce the US's dependence on fossil fuels, such as oil. |
27 April 2005 |
| Ozone layer most fragile on record - Guardian Unlimited Fears over increase in skin cancer as scientists report that climate change continues to destroy the earth's protection |
27 April 2005 |
| Global Warming Could Be Risky for Satellites Too - Universe Today According to researchers from the University of Southampton, rising levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is actually decreasing the density of the thermosphere (where low-Earth orbiting satellites and the International Space Station are traveling). This will allow space debris in this region to orbit more quickly, and impact satellites and space stations more frequently. |
27 April 2005 |
| Climate change warning over food production - New Scientist Climate change is set to do far worse damage to global food production than even the gloomiest of previous forecasts, according to studies presented at the Royal Society in London, UK, on Tuesday. |
26 April 2005 |
| A Different kind of Revolution - Monbiot.com Wind power is a technological fix for a political problem. |
26 April 2005 |
| JP Morgan publishes green investment guidelines - Guardian Unlimited JP Morgan Chase yesterday became the third big banking group in the United States to issue guidelines restricting its lending and underwriting to industrial projects likely to damage the environment. |
26 April 2005 |
| Analyst fears global oil crisis in three years - Guardian Unlimited One of the world's leading energy analysts yesterday called for an independent assessment of global oil reserves because he believed that Middle Eastern countries may have far less than officially stated and that oil prices could double to more than $100 a barrel within three years, triggering economic collapse. |
26 April 2005 |
| Let's talk about climate change - openDemocracy To address climate change and the political challenges it raises, we must harness imagination to understanding, good science to enlightened globalisation, says Ian McEwan. |
25 April 2005 |
| Biosphere is source, not sink, for carbon dioxide emissions, study shows - PhysOrg.com Converting forests into croplands and pastures reduces carbon storage, say scientists who studied the impacts of human-induced change on terrestrial ecosystems. The study results have important implications for predicting carbon dioxide levels, and will help provide a more complete understanding of Earth’s carbon cycle. |
25 April 2005 |
| Seabed supplies a cure for global warming crisis - Guardian Unlimited Scientists say they have found the solution to the global warming crisis. They want to bury it. |
24 April 2005 |
| 900,000-year-old ice may destroy US case on Kyoto - Guardian Unlimited An Italian expedition to the Antarctic has taken a sample of ice which is more than 900,000 years old and could give scientists evidence of past climate changes which would discredit global warming doubters. |
23 April 2005 |
| Greenhouse Gas Limits Affordable - New York Times Mandatory limits on all U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other ''greenhouse'' gases would not significantly affect average economic growth rates across the country through 2025, the government says. |
15 April 2005 |
| Climate change wreaking havoc with seasons - The Independent "It is now warmer than at any point in the past 1,000 years and nine of the 10 warmest years have occurred in the past decade." |
15 April 2005 |
| Southern Africa: Recurrent Dry Spells `Cause for Concern' - allAfrica.com The rising temperatures and recurrent dry spells in Southern Africa points to the impact of climate change and are "cause for concern", a senior scientist told IRIN. |
15 April 2005 |
| Seeking solutions to a cooler planet - CNN Experts see technology as key to tackling global warming effects |
15 April 2005 |
| The beauty of wind farms - New Scientist "We can't shout about global warming and then shout even louder about the 'dangers' of windmills" |
14 April 2005 |
| Stricter Auto Fuel Use Would Slow Oil Demand - Reuters / Planet Ark A bipartisan commission's proposal to tighten fuel efficiency standards for new US cars, trucks, mini-vans and sport utility vehicles would cut forecast American oil demand in 2015 by 2.5 percent, the Energy Information Administration said Wednesday. |
14 April 2005 |
| Surge in four-wheel drive sales threatens air pollution targets - Guardian Unlimited |
14 April 2005 |
| Australian Farmers Watch Skies as Drought Returns - Reuters / Planet Ark |
14 April 2005 |
| Glaciers retreat at the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau - Peoples Daily Online |
14 April 2005 |
| The Weather Channel Warms Up to Climate Change Theory - CNS News |
14 April 2005 |
| Canada plans to cut greenhouse gases - CNN Canada plans to spend about $10 billion (US$8 billion) over the next 7 years to meet Canada's Kyoto targets. Conservatives say they'll scrap $10 billion plan if they win office |
13 April 2005 |
| House panel rejects boost in car mileage rule - Reuters A House committee on Wednesday voted against requiring U.S. automakers to ratchet up fuel efficiency to a fleet average of 33 miles per gallon by 2014 from the current 27.5 mpg for passenger cars. |
13 April 2005 |
| A firm line on greenhouse gas limits - International Herald Tribune European Union regulators rejected for a second time on Tuesday a British request to increase air pollution permits for companies taking part in emissions trading. |
13 April 2005 |
| States take clean-air measures into their own hands - CS Monitor Although the Bush administration has backed off carbon dioxide regulations, others are pushing the issue. |
13 April 2005 |
| UK Offshore Wind Plans Blown Off Course - Reuters / Planet Ark Plans to build dozens of wind farms off the UK coast face delays which threaten to derail the government's goal for a big increase in renewable energy. |
13 April 2005 |
| US takes the lead in trashing planet - Boston Globe |
13 April 2005 |
| University to research melting polar ice caps - CNN A new federally funded center will give the University of Kansas a prominent role in researching global warming, the melting of polar ice caps and their effects on the world's climate. |
12 April 2005 |
| US states sue over greenhouse gases - Financial Times A group of US states is seeking to put new pressure on the federal government on global warming with a court case that would force the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. |
8 April 2005 |
| Gas-thirsty cars imperil U.S., conservative ex-officials warn - San Francisco Chronicle While environmentalists who advocate the same ideas approach them from an ecological standpoint, the national security figures say they fear that America's increasing reliance on foreign oil suppliers is a dire national danger. |
7 April 2005 |
| Crude oil's slippery slope - The Halifax Herald With skyrocketing crude oil prices recently hitting all-time highs energy efficiency and alternative fuel sources have become as critical to the economy as the global warming treaty's backers claim they are to the environment. |
7 April 2005 |
| Disappearing Lakes, Shrinking Seas - ENN More than half of the world's 5 million lakes are endangered. |
7 April 2005 |
| Duke Energy CEO Proposes Carbon Tax - New York times Duke Energy Corp. will lobby for a tax on carbon dioxide emissions that would reduce fossil fuel consumption and begin addressing the global warming problem, the company's chairman and chief executive said Thursday. |
7 April 2005 |
| Bird reserve opens floodgates to nature - The Scotsman "Managed realignment of some coastal areas is about the need to adapt to climate change. Doing nothing is not an option. The rise in sea levels is going to happen and we need to act now." |
7 April 2005 |
| Heading off Eco-Armageddon - Christian Science Monitor Try not to despair. Yet another report has come out predicting a dire future for Earth's ecosystems. This one, however, is hard to ignore. Some 1,300 experts from 95 countries spent more than four years trying to get a global picture of the state of the planet. |
7 April 2005 |
| Kyoto Sceptics Try to Debunk Global Warming Facts - Inter Press News Service A major oil producer ExxonMobil has sponsored a seminar featuring leading Australian and global sceptics disputing the science behind the Kyoto Treaty, ahead of two important international conferences this week backing the need for substantial reductions in greenhouse emissions. |
6 April 2005 |
| Goverment to start preparing public for climate change - Mail & Guardian Government is poised to start preparing the public and business sector to deal with climate change, which is expected to have a major impact on South Africa's economy over the next few decades. |
6 April 2005 |
| Climate change could sour US maple sugaring - Christian Science Monitor Warming means shorter sugaring seasons and eventual die back of maple forests in US. |
6 April 2005 |
| Why Our Food is So Dependent on Oil - Guerilla News Network Norman Church discusses the facts surrounding our current cheap food sources and the reliance on cheap oil of our food market today. He shows how the current system is both not sustainable and inefficient. |
4 April 2005 |
| Home fires in India help to melt Arctic icecap half a world away - The Independent Poor women cooking family meals in India are helping to melt the Arctic icecap, startling new studies show. Soot from their fires gets wafted into the atmosphere to fall out on the ice thousands of miles away, hastening its disappearance. |
4 April 2005 |
| US in race to unlock new energy source - Guardian Unlimited Green groups warn against moving methane hydrates from beneath seabed |
4 April 2005 |
| Global study reveals algae in world’s water is causing Alzheimer’s disease - Sunday Herald “More toxic algae is another nasty little side effect of climate change .” |
3 April 2005 |
| Mystery of salmon who don’t return - Times On Line The number of wild salmon returning to Ireland has halved in the past decade, prompting an international investigation into why so many are dying. |
3 April 2005 |
| Alarm bells over plantations - Sunday Tasmanian Burning forests add release CO2 |
3 April 2005 |
| Out of petrol - The Age* |
2 April 2005 |
| Hybrid-Car Tinkerers Scoff at No-Plug-In Rule - New York Times Ron Gremban and Felix Kramer have modified a Toyota Prius so it can be plugged into a wall outlet. |
2 April 2005 |
| Climatologists discover deep-sea secret - Eureka Alert Climate changes in the northern and southern hemispheres are linked by a phenomenon by which the oceans react to changes on either side of the planet |
2 April 2005 |
| Global warming: Shutdown of Atlantic current would ravage food stocks - Yahoo / AFP f the North Atlantic Ocean's circulation system is shut down -- an apocalyptic global-warming scenario -- the impact on the world's food supplies would be disastrous, a study said. |
31 March 2005 |
| The Ends of the Earth - Guardian Unlimited |
31 March 2005 |
| CO2 emissions reach record levels - BBC News Levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have reached a new high, according to US researchers. |
31 March 2005 |
| U.S. poll indicates support for 1000% increase to renewables - ReFocus The American public would increase budgetary spending on renewables by 1000%, according to a national survey. |
31 March 2005 |
| Global warming of Atlantic could hit fish - Reuters / Alert Net The potential shutdown due to climate warming of the key Atlantic Conveyor current that warms northern Europe could have a major impact on fish stocks in the region, a scientist said on Wednesday. |
31 March 2005 |
| The USA's Global Resource War - "The Epic Struggle for World Hegemony” - uruknet.info |
30 March 2005 |
| The state of the world? It is on the brink of disaster - The Independent Planet Earth stands on the cusp of disaster and people should no longer take it for granted that their children and grandchildren will survive in the environmentally degraded world of the 21st century. |
30 March 2005 |
| WWF puts UK Parliament under water It is estimated that if just one flood broke through the Thames Barrier it would cost around £30bn in damage to London, roughly 2 per cent of GDP. |
30 March 2005 |
| Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' - Guardian Unlimited "...the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted," |
30 March 2005 |
| China Fuel Tax its Best Weapon to Check Oil Demand - Reuters / Planet Ark China's energy planners are ready to take the bitter pill of an unpopular nationwide fuel tax to put the brakes on runaway fuel demand in the world's second-biggest oil consumer. |
30 March 2005 |
| Soot may speed up melting of Arctic ice - MSNBC Dark, dirty ice absorbs light and traps heat |
28 March 2005 |
| Ice Classic followers betting on early breakup - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Odds on for an early melt. |
28 March 2005 |
| Security Experts Lobby for Oil Conservation - ABC News An unlikely coalition convened in Washington today to take action against the country's increasing dependence on foreign oil sources. |
28 March 2005 |
| Call for action on climate change - BBC News The UK government is not doing enough to tackle climate change, according to a report by a parliamentary committee. |
28 March 2005 |
| Higher and higher: ski resorts in fight to survive global warming - Guardian Unlimited Critics fear loss of last wildernesses as industry seeks fresh pistes |
26 March 2005 |
| Wildlife winces at early spring - BBC News Many native British species are struggling to cope with the "stop-start spring", wildlife experts say. |
25 March 2005 |
| CLIMATE CHANGE POORLY UNDERSTOOD BY U.S. PUBLIC, MIT SURVEY FINDS - NASA Climate change and the threat of global warming are poorly understood by the U.S. public, and taking action to reduce their impact is not a high priority, according to a recent MIT survey. |
23 March 2005 |
| Warming hole keeps Midwest cooler - Iowa Farmer Today "In this part of the world, things might even get a little colder, creating a sort of a hole in that global warming trend." Great! ...top ranking emitter gets 'get-out-of-jail-free' card.... |
23 March 2005 |
| Global warming may be making rivers too hot - Seattle Post Intelligencer If current warming trends continue unchecked, more than 20 percent of the Pacific Northwest's rivers could become too hot for salmon, steelhead and trout by 2040, according to a Northwest Wildlife Federation report. |
23 March 2005 |
| Sierra Club Statement On Historic Clean Cars Deal "Today, automobile manufacturers reached an historic agreement with the Canadian government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 5.3 million tons by 2010" |
23 March 2005 |
| The biggest challenge of our time - The Independent The Kyoto treaty makes a step towards reducing greenhouse emissions, but it's far from enough |
21 March 2005 |
| Global warming could trigger ant invasions - New Scientist The study of 665 ant colonies in environments ranging from tropical rainforests to frozen tundra suggests that in warmer environments the ants' body size shrinks, on average, while the number of individuals in the colony booms. |
21 March 2005 |
| Worries swelling over oil shortage - Star tribune In the space of a couple of hours last week, crude oil prices hit a record $56 a barrel, President Bush fretted publicly over world oil shortages and the Senate voted to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to drilling |
21 March 2005 |
| Saving the life aquatic - The Independent The effects of overfishing and climate change are taking a dire toll |
21 March 2005 |
| UN Pilot Project Aims to Give Africa Clean Energy - reuters / Planet Ark The African Rift Geothermal facility project aims to tap the heat trapped in rocks deep beneath the floor of the geological feature that runs from the Red Sea to Mozambique. |
21 March 2005 |
| Rock dust grows extra-big vegetables (and might save us from global warming) - The Independent |
21 March 2005 |
| Prepare Now for the Post-Oil Era - BusinessWeek The transition promises to be wrenching, but to delay the inevitable is a sure invitation to a global disaster |
18 March 2005 |
| Worldwide glacier retreat - RealClimate 'glacier retreat is in fact an essentially global phenomenon' |
18 March 2005 |
| G8 to tackle illegal timber trade - BBC News Environment and development ministers from the G8 group of leading countries have committed themselves to tackling the problem of illegal logging. |
18 March 2005 |
| Ocean heat store makes climate change inevitable - New Scientist Even if greenhouse gases never rise beyond their present level, temperatures and sea levels will continue rising for another century or more because of a time lag in the oceans' response to atmospheric temperatures. |
17 March 2005 |
| Economy 'needs healthy climate' - BBC News The UK Chancellor has urged countries to work together for a healthier climate to ensure economic prosperity. |
15 March 2005 |
| How long will global warming last? - RealClimate CO2: 75% sticks around for hundreds of years, 25% sticks around forever. |
15 March 2005 |
| UK urged to turn to wind power - Guardian Unlimited Germany's Green party environment minister said yesterday that Britain should emulate Germany's example and build thousands more wind turbines if it wanted to prevent climate change. |
15 March 2005 |
| Canada's Shrinking Ice Caps - Science Daily Recent research conducted by NASA scientists has revealed that Canada's ice caps and glaciers have important connections to Earth’s changing climate, and they have a strong potential for contributing to sea level rise. |
14 March 2005 |
| Cuba's Worst Drought in a Century Worsens - Reuters / Planet Ark Cuba's worst drought in a century has left one in six Cubans without running water and will get worse. |
14 March 2005 |
| Climate Group: Kilimanjaro a 'wake-up call' - CNN A photo of Mount Kilimanjaro stripped of its snowcap will be used as testimony for action against global warming as ministers from the world's biggest polluters meet on Tuesday. |
14 March 2005 |
| Himalayan glaciers 'melting fast' - BBC News Melting glaciers in the Himalayas could lead to water shortages for hundreds of millions of people. |
14 March 2005 |
| UK 'climbs down' over climate - BBC News The UK government has announced tougher limits on greenhouse gas emissions following pressure from the European Commission. |
11 March 2005 |
| The Chuck Stops Here - Grist Magazine An interview with Sen. Chuck Hagel, Republican from Nebraska, on his new climate bills |
11 March 2005 |
| Mexico's Gulf coast in peril from global warming - Reuters "Global warming is here and it's already affecting us. Our coasts are at risk from rising seas and hurricanes. We'll see droughts in the North and floods in the South" |
9 March 2005 |
| Climate Change Dealt a New Wild Card - Inter Press News Service Agency New Canadian research shows that forest fires are becoming larger and more intense due to the effects of climate change and are adding enormous amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. |
8 March 2005 |
| China Raises Environmental Bar for Heavy Industry - Reuters "The environment has become a new way, in addition to things like interest rates, to cool down the economy if it is too hot." |
8 March 2005 |
| Local food 'greener than organic' - BBC News "The most political act we do on a daily basis is to eat, as our actions affect farms, landscapes and food businesses" |
8 March 2005 |
| Rising carbon dioxide could make crops less nutritious - Science and Development Network Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could make rice and wheat grow faster but be less nutritious |
8 March 2005 |
| Bush accused of 'fiddling while world burns' by ignoring climate change - The Independent 'Continuing to deny the impact of human activities on the environment may ultimately have catastrophic consequences for everyone on the planet,' |
7 March 2005 |
| US gases to 'dwarf world savings' - BBC News The President of Britain's leading science academy is to accuse the US of undermining global efforts to tackle climate change. |
7 March 2005 |
| Charge a battery in just six minutes - New Scientist A rechargeable battery that can be fully charged in just 6 minutes, lasts 10 times as long as today's rechargeables and can provide bursts of electricity up to three times more powerful is showing promise in a Nevada lab. |
7 March 2005 |
| How prehistoric farmers saved us from new Ice Age - Guardian Unlimited Ancient man saved the world from a new Ice Age. That is the startling conclusion of climate researchers who say man-made global warming is not a modern phenomenon and has been going on for thousands of years. |
6 March 2005 |
| 'Denial lobby' turns up the heat - Guardian Unlimited The vocal minority sceptical of the threat of global warming are now targeting the UK, writes Conal Walsh |
6 March 2005 |
| What color is the sea? - Houston Chronicle Formula to study bodies of water helps diagnose the planet's health |
5 March 2005 |
| Drought could be declared in days - Seatlle Post Intelligencer Federal officials to meet with Gregoire on coping with lack of snow, rain |
5 March 2005 |
| Forests could be key to curbing global warming - Reuters Effective control of forest fires may prove crucial in the fight against global warming since blazes from Alaska to Indonesia spew out vast amounts of heat-trapping gases, Canadian foresters said on Thursday. |
3 March 2005 |
| Climate 'threatens' Arctic lakes - BBC News Communities of creatures living in Arctic lakes are undergoing dramatic changes in response to global warming, according to Canadian experts. |
1 March 2005 |
| Global Warming Sparks Plankton Migration - The Scotsman Global warming is causing microscopic marine life in the seas around the UK to move north, in the biggest shift in the past 100 years and raising concerns that other marine species could follow, according to a Government report out today. |
1 March 2005 |
| Making the best of garbage gas - New Scientist A new way of harvesting methane should mean that many landfill dumps that till now were thought to be too small to produce usable amounts of the gas will be able to provide a viable supply. |
1 March 2005 |
| Opponents see intimidation tactics over Clear Skies bill - The Philadelphia Inquirer Sen. Inhofe, a backer of the bill, sought tax records of groups fighting the measure. |
28 February 2005 |
| Britannia ruins the waves: how pollution and over-fishing are destroying sea life - The Independent Government-led investigation has found clear proof that the seas around the British Isles are already suffering the effects of global warming |
27 February 2005 |
| Munich Re Issues Annual Catastrophes Report, Focuses on Climate Change - Green Car Congress "The past year thus confirmed the fear that has long been expressed by Munich Re: global warming—very probably triggered by human activity—is leading not only to an increase in the frequency and intensity of exceptional weather events but also to new kinds of weather risks and greater loss potentials" |
27 February 2005 |
| Global warming threat increasing - John Hopkins News-Letter 'Don't let TV meteorologists put a positive spin on something as serious as climate change.' |
25 February 2005 |
| Gambling on global warming - The Australian To insure or reinsure? |
25 February 2005 |
| Early Bloomers - The Mercury News Some blossoms are two weeks ahead of schedule |
24 February 2005 |
| Hydroelectric power's dirty secret revealed - New Scientist Hydroelectric dams produce significant amounts of carbon dioxide and methane, and in some cases produce more of these greenhouse gases than power plants running on fossil fuels. |
24 February 2005 |
| Climate threshold may alter economic picture of climate change - Innovations report Typical economic analysis applied to global warming may be biased because they neglect climate thresholds, according to Penn State researchers. |
23 February 2005 |
| Coral reef clue to fast sea rise - Guardian Unlimited Ancient mangroves discovered beneath the Great Barrier reef suggest that sea level rise attributable to climate change might be more severe and more sudden than previously thought. |
23 February 2005 |
| Microbes survive deep permafrost - BBC News If the activity of these bacteria was incorporated into models of climate change prediction, the permafrost may take on the role of a source of greenhouse gases rather than a sink. |
23 February 2005 |
| New diseases arise as environments destroyed, says UN - The Independent Changes to the environment that are sweeping the planet are bringing about a rise in infectious diseases, the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) has warned. |
22 February 2005 |
| Mucking with Mother Nature Goes Way, Way Back - EV World Scientific American article postulates that man unintentionally halted earth's cycle of warming and cooling when he began practicing agriculture 8,000 years ago |
22 February 2005 |
| Scientists Looking at Ways to Trap Greenhouse Gases - The washington Post Arizona Study Aims to Ease Global Warming |
22 February 2005 |
| Critical Thinking About Energy - Skeptical Inquirer Highly centralized generation of electrical power is a paradigm that has outlived its usefulness. Decentralized generation could save $5 trillion in capital investment, reduce power costs by 40%, reduce vulnerabilities, and halve greenhouse gas emissions. |
22 February 2005 |
| Kyoto, Global Warming, and the Economy - The Progress Report Excellent article from a progressive and practical viewpoint. |
21 February 2005 |
| Bush's policies prompt resentment by scientists - The Buffalo News The voice of science is being stifled in the Bush administration, with fewer scientists heard in policy discussions and money for research and advanced training being cut, according to panelists at a national science meeting. |
21 February 2005 |
| Can the world live with China? - Guardian Unlimited Can the planet's environment survive turbocharged economic growth from China? |
20 February 2005 |
| Pollution may worsen in northern US, report says - The Boston Globe Global warming could stifle cleansing summer winds across parts of the northern United States in the next 50 years and worsen air pollution, US researchers said yesterday. |
20 February 2005 |
| We're here, we're warming, can we get used to it? - EurekaAlert A combination of global warming and El Niño will cause water shortages in the Yakima valley, Washington |
20 February 2005 |
| Oceans of evidence for global warming - Guardian Unlimited "The statistical significance of these results is far too strong to be merely dismissed and should wipe out much of the uncertainty about the reality of global warning," |
19 February 2005 |
| "Only huge emission cuts will curb climate change" - ABS-CBN To have half a chance of curbing global warming to within safe levels, the world's greenhouse gas emissions need to fall dramatically to between 30 percent and 50 percent of 1990 levels by 2050, study suggests. |
19 February 2005 |
| ENVIRONMENT-CANADA: Kyoto vs. NAFTA? - Inter Press Service News Agency Closing North America's biggest coal-fired power plants is a key part of Canada's plan to meet its Kyoto Protocol obligations, but experts warn that U.S. coal companies could claim such a move violates international trade pacts like NAFTA. |
18 February 2005 |
| Climate threshold may alter economic picture of climate change - Eureka Alert Typical economic analysis applied to global warming may be biased because they neglect climate thresholds. |
18 February 2005 |
| Dummies guide to the latest 'Hockey Stick' controversy - RealClimate |
18 February 2005 |
| "Global warming real" say new studies - Financial Times "The most compelling evidence yet" that human activities are responsible for global warming. |
18 February 2005 |
| Scientists: Global warming is real - CNN Studies looking at the oceans and melting Arctic ice leave no room for doubt that it is getting warmer, people are to blame, and the weather is going to suffer. |
18 February 2005 |
| Greenhouse gases 'do warm oceans' - BBC News Scientists say they have "compelling" evidence that ocean warming over the past 40 years can be linked to the industrial release of carbon dioxide. |
17 February 2005 |
| Thinking beyond Kyoto - Guardian Unlimited The most important thing about the Kyoto protocol - which came into effect yesterday - is that it is there at all. |
17 February 2005 |
| China criticizes the United States for refusing to sign Kyoto global warming - The China Post "As the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States' failure to reduce its gas emissions to below its 1990 level could nullify the global undertaking." |
17 February 2005 |
| China takes measures to handle climate change - People's Daily |
17 February 2005 |
| Kyoto protests disrupt oil trading - Guardian Unlimited Traders attack peacful protestors at London Energy Exchange |
17 February 2005 |
| Global warming: The danger of tilting at windmills - International Herald Tribune Finally, American environmentalists have a chance to get it right about wind power. |
17 February 2005 |
| Should religion have a voice? - San Francisco Chronicle 'The moral and ethical implications of these impending global changes are not lost on the religious community.' |
16 February 2005 |
| Anderson invites residents to Lick Global Warming - The Salt Lake tribune To celebrate the enactment of the international Kyoto Protocol - which the United States hasn't joined but Salt Lake City did - Mayor Rocky Anderson will encourage residents to help end global warming. |
16 February 2005 |
| Global warming could sink much of Hub - Boston Herald Boston risks inundation due to sea level rise caused by climate change |
16 February 2005 |
| UNEP chief warns of 'planet spinning out of control' as Kyoto takes effect - Tribune de Genève '...even a two degree Centigrade rise could take the planet past a point of "no return."' |
16 February 2005 |
| Giant leaps needed post-Kyoto - BBC News |
16 February 2005 |
| A warmer Arizona and Southwest chill scientists to the bone - Arizona Daily Star "It's not going to be just a couple of degrees." |
16 February 2005 |
| Spain warned of global warming threat to beaches - Guardian Unlimited Global warming may cost Spain many of its famous beaches and could push summer temperatures over 50°C. |
16 February 2005 |
| January was 3rd WARMEST on land and sea! - talk.environment via Google groups Link to NASA source document. |
16 February 2005 |
| Q&A: The Kyoto Protocol - BBC News |
16 February 2005 |
| Kyoto: 'The targets are grossly inadequate' - Guardian Unlimited press review |
16 February 2005 |
| Kyoto: European press review - BBC News |
16 February 2005 |
In pictures: How the world is changing - BBC News While the effect of human activity on the global climate is hotly debated, physical signs of environmental change are all around us. |
16 February 2005 |
| Mocking Our Dreams - Monbiot.com Climate change exposes progress as a myth. |
15 February 2005 |
| Do cows and sheep stoke global warming? - Reuters Grazing cattle, joggers' shoes or even the fridge could all be targeted under a new U.N. pact meant to rein in global warming. |
15 February 2005 |
| Global warming: While scientists quibble, species vanish - International Herald Tribune Safe levels of CO2 need to be established. |
15 February 2005 |
| Global warming here, says MP - Daily Post North Wales is beginning to suffer from the disastrous consequences of global warming, say politicians. |
15 February 2005 |
| Climate change happening now: expert - ninemsn Australians can look forward to less rain and warmer, more unpredictable weather if world wide climate change continues. |
15 February 2005 |
| Pressure builds for US climate action - BBC News As the Kyoto protocol on climate change comes into effect this week, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, the US, remains on the sidelines. |
14 February 2005 |
| Calpers ups ante in emissions fight with car makers - Reuters The board of the biggest U.S. pension fund voted on Monday to intensify its efforts to prod car makers to adopt California's strict tailpipe emission standards and vowed to make environmentalism a top investment priority. |
14 February 2005 |
| Global warming hitting home in Auckland Power plant can no longer dump heat into local river as water temperature reaches record high. |
14 February 2005 |
| US Senate Bills Take Opposing Tactics on Warming - Planet Ark /Reuters A Senate bill reintroduced this week and three expected to be introduced next week take differing views on reducing the gases most scientists believe cause global warming. |
14 February 2005 |
| EU says UK emissions change illegal - Reuters The government may face legal action from the European Commission if it launches an altered emissions trading plan that allows industry to pollute more. |
14 February 2005 |
| Market attack on global warming - Chicago tribune New market for carbon emissions will reward businesses that minimize their output of greenhouse gas. |
14 February 2005 |
| China clears the way for Kyoto trade - Sydney morning Herald Greenhouse gas reduction is about to boost the country's global status, writes Hamish McDonald. |
14 February 2005 |
| Jobs and the Climate Stewardship Act - NRDC (.pdf) How Curbing Global Warming Can Increase Employment. |
14 February 2005 |
| UK industry learns the price of Kyoto - Guardian Unlimited Government wants to beat its agreed carbon reductions two years early but companies fear they will be handicapped |
14 February 2005 |
| It's much too late to sweat global warming - SF Chronicle Environmentalists won't say this for fear of sounding alarmist or defeatist. Politicians won't say it because then they'd have to do something about it. |
13 February 2005 |
| Climate fears prompt energy U-turn in China - The Independent China has abruptly slowed and halted work on building 22 major dams and power stations in a dramatic greening of the policies of the world's most populous nation. |
13 February 2005 |
| Global warming: "Tragedy of the Commons" revisited - AFP / Yahoo News "Individuals see no point in making a sacrifice if others continue to use a common asset." |
13 February 2005 |
| Persuading U.S. on climate is top challenge - Blair - Reuters "The reality is that unless America comes back in to some form of international consensus, it's very hard to make progress." |
12 February 2005 |
| Earth's 'lung,' the Amazon forest, breathes uneasily in a time of climate change - SanDiego Union Tribune |
12 February 2005 |
| Marchers highlight Kyoto Protocol - BBC News "The point is now to get people onto the streets and make this a political issue." |
12 February 2005 |
| Political meddling alleged in US wildlife service - New Scientist "Political interference with science at the FWS has become pervasive," |
12 February 2005 |
| Rise in sea level threatens leading bird reserve - The Independent Minsmere, at the edge of the sea in Suffolk, is so threatened by the consequences of global warming that RSPB staff are starting to think what would once have seemed the unthinkable: to recreate it further inland. |
12 February 2005 |
| 2005 Could Be Warmest Year Recorded -- NASA - Planet Ark / Reuters A weak El Nino and human-made greenhouse gases could make 2005 the warmest year since records began in the late 1800's. |
11 February 2005 |
| Snubbing Kyoto: Our Monumental Shame - Los Angeles Times As the world celebrates the global warming pact's debut, Bush continues to pander to the energy industry. |
11 February 2005 |
| Venezuela Floods Leave at Least 16 Dead - New York Times "This is the result of those ecological problems of the world, that rich countries don't want to hear about, of global warming'' |
11 February 2005 |
| Kyoto - First of ten steps towards a CO2 free future - WWF |
11 February 2005 |
| Environmental Emergency Looms as Governments Fail to Address Global Warming - Baltimore Chronicle "We are facing a huge crisis..." |
11 February 2005 |
| Clouds Gather Over Future of Kyoto Climate Pact - ENN Doubts are already growing over the long-term future of the world's most ambitious environmental agreement. |
11 February 2005 |
| Climate change leading to severe erosion in parks - CBC News Frost free winters and severe winter storms exacerbate coastal erosion; climate change blamed. |
11 February 2005 |
| EU's Post-Kyoto Proposals 'Cheap', Say Green Groups - Inter Press Service News Agency ''This is a very low price for addressing one of the biggest threats to mankind. In the end benefits will be much higher than costs. New jobs, new technologies and new markets opened by clean energies will bring new economic benefits.'' |
11 February 2005 |
| Arid Arizona Points to Global Warming as Culprit - Washington Post Climate Shift Is Blamed as Livelihoods Are Affected. Computer predictions from 25 years ago are vindicated. |
10 February 2005 |
| Brussels quits lead role in CO2 cuts - Guardian Unlimited |
10 February 2005 |
| U.S. Firms Said Lagging in Global Warming Fight - Reuters |
10 February 2005 |
| Jet pollution: drawing a line in the sky - Christian Science Monitor Although cars generate more greenhouse gases, airliner exhaust has an exaggerated effect, scientists say. Is it time to take action? |
10 February 2005 |
| U.K. to Revoke Water Licenses to Cope With Droughts - Bloomberg.com |
10 February 2005 |
| Climate change may force crop swap - Guardian Unlimited Bad news for the S.E UK, worse news for low lying East Anglia. |
10 February 2005 |
| Nobel Peace Prize winner urges all nations to act on environment - The State Developing nations should not depend too heavily on industrialized nations to protect the environment, saya Wangari Maathai. |
10 February 2005 |
| Earth Gets a Warm Feeling All Over - Red Nova Last year was the fourth warmest year on average for our planet since the late 1800s, according to NASA scientists. |
9 February 2005 |
| King tide pummels Kiribati - Greenpeace Less than a week before the Kyoto Protocol enters into force, the tiny island nation of Kiribati is ravished by a 'king tide' -- an example of the kind of sea-level rise we can expect to see more of as global temperatures increase. |
9 February 2005 |
| Economist calls for tax on the unborn to pay for cut greenhouse gases - Eureka Alert |
9 February 2005 |
| An end to infinity - Guardian Unlimited The Kyoto climate change treaty, which comes into force next week, is a start to realising Earth's limits, says Michael Meacher |
9 February 2005 |
| China Under Pressure on Emissions as Kyoto Looms - Reuters |
9 February 2005 |
| Global warming: a threat to world security? - Christian Science Monitor |
8 February 2005 |
| US 'is ready to talk on climate' - BBC News "People have a natural instinct about this. A massive amount of pollution cannot be right." |
8 February 2005 |
| Change was underreported in 2004 - The Standard Times Climate change is one example of an underreported topic, and it is worth reflecting on the profound character of some of the little noticed 2004 climate-related news. |
8 February 2005 |
| Bush's global-warming death sentence - Philadelphia Daily News ON FEB. 16, the international Kyoto Protocol to curb global warming will take effect with no support from the Bush administration. This should be an embarrassment to all Americans. |
8 February 2005 |
| It's a Warmer World, But Does That Mean Armageddon? - Planet Ark When bears wake early from hibernation, Australia suffers its worst drought in 100 years and multiple hurricanes hammer Florida should we believe The End is nigh? |
8 February 2005 |
| Climate change Bill is blocked - The Journal The National Farmers' Union has expressed disappointment at the Government's decision to block a Bill designed to help combat climate change. |
8 February 2005 |
| Scientists probe Antarctic ice - Daily Camera Studies on rising temperatures, sea level heat up |
7 February 2005 |
| Unmask the scaremongers and look at the benefits of controlling pollution - Guardian Unlimited |
7 February 2005 |
| Apocalypse now: how mankind is sleepwalking to the end of the Earth - The Independent The world's top scientists warned last week that dangerous climate change is taking place today, not the day after tomorrow. You don't believe it? Then, says Geoffrey Lean, read this... |
6 February 2005 |
| Global warming is written in stone - Seattle Post Intelligencer Will we, and our leaders, heed the warning of prehistory? |
6 February 2005 |
| The Greening of Evangelicals - The Washington Post Christian right turns, sometimes warily, to environmentalism -'Creation Care' |
6 February 2005 |
| Brown: tax on air travel could fund Africa aid - Guardian Unlimited Chancellor Brown proposes new tax on tourist airfares to raise money for african debt relief. |
6 February 2005 |
| Coral reefs create clouds to control the climate - New Scientist When the temperature soars, coral reefs might cool off by creating their own clouds. |
6 February 2005 |
| Alarm bells ring louder over climate change - New Scientist The risks of global warming are "more serious than previously thought", concluded a major international climate conference on Thursday. |
4 February 2005 |
| Threat is seen to world's grain crop - The Seattle Times Despite depressed prices for wheat and corn, the world price for rice a crop particularly vulnerable to water shortages has climbed by more than 30 percent to $260 a ton in the past year, according to government figures. |
4 February 2005 |
| Climate conference hears degree of danger - Guardian Unlimited A grim assessment of the global cost for each degree rise in temperature was released yesterday showing how species would become extinct and cherished habitats destroyed. |
3 February 2005 |
| Senate Panel May Deadlock on Utility Emissions - Reuters A Senate panel fight over whether carbon dioxide should be included in a plan to limit pollutants emitted by U.S. utilities threatened on Wednesday to derail a Bush administration push for a bill this year. |
3 February 2005 |
| Crops face extinction in global warming - Sydney Morning Herald Australia faces an ever-shrinking water supply, the extinction of plant and animal species and the loss of billions of dollars from a less productive agriculture sector, says a submission to an international global warming conference. |
3 February 2005 |
| Global warming could hit Africans hardest - CBC News |
2 February 2005 |
| Climate Change Triggers Said Unclear - Discovery Channel Risk of sudden, catastrophic, irreversible and uncontrollable climate change that could be triggered in as-yet unknown conditions. |
2 February 2005 |
| Antarctic's ice 'melting faster' - BBC News Scientists say the rise in sea levels around the world caused by the melting may have been under-estimated. |
2 February 2005 |
| US Must Help Avert Climate Catastrophe - Planet Ark / Reuters Britain, arguing that climate change is now unstoppable, urged the United States on Tuesday to sign up to life-saving cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as environmentalists warned of approaching Armageddon. |
2 February 2005 |
| Climate warming spells species wipeout - Reuters "The only way rapid climate change can affect species is through extinctions," |
2 February 2005 |
| Hotter world may freeze Britain - Guardian Unlimited Bake or freeze? It's a fifty-fifty chance depending on the gulfstream. |
2 February 2005 |
| Antarctic thaw threat to London - The Times Online If all the ice in East Anarctica melted, the average global sea level would rise about 157ft. |
2 February 2005 |
| Climate Change Already Here, Meeting Told - Discovery Channel Evidence is growing that global warming is already starting to disrupt the world's delicately-balanced climate system |
1 February 2005 |
| From Pole to Pole: The Inescapable Reach of Global Warming - Islam Online |
1 February 2005 |
| Experts debate global impact of greenhouse gases - Guardian Unlimited Scientists from around the world are today meeting at a climate change summit to discuss the long-term implications of the increase in greenhouse gases. |
1 February 2005 |
| How we put the heat on nature - Guardian Unlimited As the world's experts meet in Britain to discuss climate change, leading scientists warn that its effects could be unstoppable. |
30 January 2005 |
| Climate change 'disaster by 2026' - BBC News Dangerous levels of climate change could be reached in just over 20 years if nothing is done to stop global warming. |
30 January 2005 |
| How we may tame the climate tiger - BBC News One of the most highly charged topics preoccupying the governments of the world is to be thrashed out at a UK conference. |
30 January 2005 |
| Glaciers Shrinking in a Warming World - ABC News "Ample" evidence indicates that global warming is causing glaciers to retreat worldwide, reports IPCC. |
29 January 2005 |
| Strange Bedfellows & Hybrid Economics - EV World What do uber-Hawk James Woolsey and ulta-environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio have in common? Yep, they both drive Toyota Priuses, but for totally different reasons. |
29 January 2005 |
| CO2: The Slow Fuse of Abrupt Climate Change - EV World Build up of CO2 could act as the fuse unleashing hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more effective than CO2 at trapping earth's heat. |
28 January 2005 |
| A Warming Climate - The Washington Post Could it be possible that US hawks & greens might share viewpoint re: fuel efficiency, and therefore, emissions legislation? |
28 January 2005 |
| US responds coolly to Blair call for action on climate change - Financial Times The US administration's opposition to the UN-brokered Kyoto protocol on climate change requiring mandatory curbs on greenhouse gas emissions remained essentially unchanged, officials said. |
28 January 2005 |
| Oil firms fund campaign to deny climate change - Guardian Unlimited Lobby groups funded by the US oil industry are targeting Britain in a bid to play down the threat of climate change and derail action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, leading scientists have warned. |
27 January 2005 |
| Alarm at new climate warning - BBC News Global temperatures could rise by as much as 11° C, twice the level that previous studies have suggested. 'no such thing as a safe level of carbon dioxide'. |
26 January 2005 |
| Going beyond Bush - Guardian Unlimited In hosting G8, the UK has its chance to affect climate change but should forget about influencing the US, argues Tom Burke |
26 January 2005 |
| Shell: Nothing to fear from climate change laws - Reuters Shell Oil says that it has nothing to fear from the taxation and regulatory changes that are needed to avoid the potentially "disastrous" consequences of climate change. |
25 January 2005 |
| G8 should spearhead climate control - Guardian Unlimited Launching a new report jointly with the Republican senator Olympia Snowe, Byers called climate change an "ecological time bomb" |
25 January 2005 |
| Antarctica, Warming, Looks Ever More Vulnerable - New York Times |
25 January 2005 |
| Anomalous Recent Warmth in Europe - RealClimate While the anomalous nature of recent trends in global average temperature is often highlighted in discussions of climate change, changes at regional scales have potentially greater societal significance. |
24 January 2005 |
| Climate crisis near 'in 10 years' - BBC News The world may have little more than a decade to avert catastrophic climate change, politicians and scientists say. |
24 January 2005 |
| Global warming approaching point of no return, warns leading climate expert - The Independent Even Bush's man at the IPCC says that the survival of the human race is on the line. |
23 January 2005 |
| Improving life here and now not unfaithful act - The Montgomery Advertiser "After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back." Scary stuff from the fundamental anti-environmentalists... |
23 January 2005 |
| Global warming will impact nitrogen use - Grand Island Independent Scientists reckon wheat farmers may have to use 4 times as much fetiliser by 2050 as a result of higher concentrations of CO2. Great News for marine dead-spots... |
23 January 2005 |
| Next generation may be doomed to live in 'global Somalia' - The Independent An environmental collapse that would transform the world into a "global Somalia" could begin in 50 years if we fail to do anything about it, a world authority on the rise and fall of civilisations warned yesterday. |
21 January 2005 |
| Baby birds in winter sound climate change warning - edie Spring has arrived in January this year, providing another warning sign that the UK's climate is changing . |
21 January 2005 |
| Flowers may signal climate change - BBC News Climate change experts claim that many of Guernsey's indigenous plants are blooming earlier. |
21 January 2005 |
| U.S. tries to drop climate change from UN plan - cnews Calling it a "distraction," U.S. delegates worked to expunge the issue of climate change from the United Nations action plan being readied for adoption at a global conference to reduce natural disasters worldwide. |
21 January 2005 |
| Volcanic Warming Eyed in 'Great Dying' - New York Times An ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history. |
21 January 2005 |
| Peer Review: A Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition - RealClimate '...just because a particular paper has passed through peer review does not absolutely insure that the conclusions are correct or scientifically valid.' |
20 January 2005 |
| Arctic rivers 'flowing faster' - BBC News The amount of fresh water entering the rivers that feed the Arctic Ocean is increasing and is an early sign of climate change. |
20 January 2005 |
| Ben & Jerry's Inaugural Ad Urges Americans to Put Aside Red and Blue Differences and Think Green - Yahoo News Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., the Vermont-based ice cream manufacturer, will feature a full page ad in Thursday's Washington Post to highlight global warming and urge unity in taking immediate action to reduce its effect.By Alex Kirby |
20 January 2005 |
| Disaster plan talks stalled - Guardian Unlimited Negotiations over a disasters action plan stalled yesterday when the US demanded that references to climate change as a cause of natural calamities be removed from the final document.BBC News website environment correspondent |
20 January 2005 |
| Paying to ease greenhouse gases -- and consciences - Los Angeles Times A new company, using a market-based system of carbon credits and debits not unlike Kyoto, allows drivers to pay to offset their cars' annual emission of greenhouse gases. |
19 January 2005 |
| Putting Some Heat on Bush - The Washington Post NASA scientist accuses US administration of blocking information about climate change.Stepping softly: The Arctic warms up |
19 January 2005 |
| Arctic rivers discharge more freshwater into ocean, reflecting changes to hydrologic cycle - Innovations Report Far northern rivers are discharging increasing amounts of freshwater into the Arctic Ocean, due to intensified precipitation caused by global warming, say researchersThe amount of fresh water entering the Arctic Ocean from the rivers that feed it is increasing, UK scientists report. |
19 January 2005 |
| US forests cost-effective vs global warming - Reuters / Alert Net The cost of using forests to remove greenhouse gases from the air could be about the same as cutting pollution with fuel switching or energy efficiency improvements |
19 January 2005 |
| 'Sinks' Feasible, Effective in Fighting Climate Change - IPS News Agency Undaunted by their government's refusal to get on board an international push to reduce emissions of so-called greenhouse gases, many U.S. scientists are urging new strategies to contain carbon dioxide, the leading culprit in global warming. |
19 January 2005 |
| Experts in climate change study - Guardian Unlimited UK and Japanese scientists will join forces in a collaboration that it is claimed will significantly advance the science of predicting climate change for the 21st century. |
19 January 2005 |
| Blair's greenhouse gas policy 'scandalous' - The Independent "Blair is saying publicly that climate change is the greatest threat to mankind this century. But privately he is trying to get the EU to downgrade their targets." |
19 January 2005 |
| Global warming melts winter joy at top German resort - AlertNet / Reuters Global warming vs. the snow machines. |
18 January 2005 |
| UK wildlife inquiry seeks helpers - BBC News Thousands of wildlife sleuths are being recruited for an investigation into the effects of climate change on wildlife. |
18 January 2005 |
| Canada Considers Copying California's Greenhouse Gas Law - Los Angeles Times Canadian officials check out Californian CO2 law in case voluntary measures fail. |
18 January 2005 |
| Global temperatures continue to rise - RealClimate Preliminary calculations show that temperatures averaged over the globe in 2004 were the fourth highest (and the past decade was the warmest) since measurements began in 1861. |
18 January 2005 |
| Conservation on the Wing - The Washington Post (free registration required) You know that saying, 'canary in a coalmine'? |
18 January 2005 |
| Climate: The Arctic Goes Bush - Space Daily More evidence of accelerated arctic warming with the very real possiblilty of positive feedback. |
17 January 2005 |
| Americans are trying to discredit me, claims Chief Scientist - The Independent The UK Government's chief scientific adviser is being aggressively targeted by American lobbyists trying to discredit his view that man-made pollution is behind global warming. |
17 January 2005 |
| Climate Network Funding Axed - Science via sci.environment via Google groups Congress has eliminated funding for a fledgling network of 110 observation stations intended to provide a definitive, long-term climate record for the United States. |
17 January 2005 |
| DEP aims to cut greenhouse gases 75% - New Haven Register (registration required!) The Connecticut DEP has issued 55-point plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 75 percent over the next two decades. |
17 January 2005 |
| Emission break proposed for industrial polluters - The London Free Press via canoe.ca Yet another Kyoto signatory worried about meeting relatively paltry Kyoto targets. |
17 January 2005 |
| Earth Simulator will allow British experts to predict climate change The Independent |
17 January 2005 |
| Download Climate Modelling software - The EdGCM co-operative |
17 January 2005 |
| Cartoon by dstrbo - www.dstrbo.com 'You know - right now, this weather seems just fine to me.' |
16 January 2005 |
| Blair tried to ditch green policy - Guardian Unlimited Leaked documents reveal that the UK sought to remove targets that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions during high-level meetings to formulate Europe's climate policy. |
16 January 2005 |
| Estonian Wind Farm Now Grows Where Soviet Guards Trained - New York Times On the site where Soviet border guards used to train, Estonia is erecting a wind farm to generate clean electricity. |
16 January 2005 |
| Bush's Choice for Energy Secretary Was One of Texas' Top Five Worst Polluters - Independent Media TV |
16 January 2005 |
| Bear facts point to global warming in arctic - Guardian Unlimited Mild winter sets record for higher than normal temperatures, and leaves nature confused |
15 January 2005 |
| U.S. faces global warming suit - Yahoo News / Reuters Green lobbyists and several U.S. cities hope a lawsuit against U.S. development agencies will force the government to act on global warming. |
15 January 2005 |
| The Global Cooling Myth - RealClimate RealClimate scientifically debunks another favourite myth of the sceptics. |
14 January 2005 |
| Global Temperature Trends: 2004 Summation - NASA The 2004 meteorological year was the fourth warmest year in the period of accurate instrumental data (since the late 1800s). |
13 January 2005 |
| Annan issues climate warning - The Australian UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for "decisive measures" to address climate change and says a global early warning system must be set up in the wake of last month's Asian tsunami disaster. |
13 January 2005 |
| Global Dimming - BBC Horizon Decline in sunlight may mean that global warming is a far greater threat to society than previously thought. |
13 January 2005 |
| Canadian Researcher Invents New Solar Cell - Reuters 400% improvement in effieciency over existing cells. |
13 January 2005 |
| Moscow Melts in Record Warm Spell - Moscow Times Moscow is enjoying the warmest January in recorded history... |
13 January 2005 |
| Climate shift sends wasps to the Arctic - The Times Experts' climate predictions seem to be coming true. |
13 January 2005 |
| It's time to stop dithering on Kyoto - Toronto Star A leaked federal document urging Ottawa to regulate reductions in greenhouse gases, because voluntary cutbacks aren't working, should light a fire under the Liberals to get them moving on Kyoto Protocol commitments. |
13 January 2005 |
| How Global Warming is affecting the weather - BBC News VIDEO (RealPlayer) As the north of the UK is battered by severe weather, there are concerns global warming may be responsible. |
12 January 2005 |
| Terror War Diverting Attention from Roots of Insecurity - IPS Inter Press Service Worldwatch Institute's annual 'State of the World' report calls poverty, disease and environmental decline the 'true axis of evil'. |
12 January 2005 |
| A new disaster in the works for tsunami victims - The Boston Globe Many of the areas devastated by the South Asian tsunami that killed at least 160,000 people are among those scientists say are the most endangered by global warming. |
12 January 2005 |
| Climate Change Desiccating the Planet, Researchers Conclude - Scientific American The portion of our planet affected by serious drought has doubled in the last three decades, a new study suggests. |
12 January 2005 |
| Three killed as storms batter UK - BBC News Storms with winds up to 124mph hit Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England. |
12 January 2005 |
| Unbearable thaw grips Russian zoo - BBC News Temperatures in NW Russia are so mild this week that they are disrupting bears' sleep in St Petersburg's zoo, local media say. |
12 January 2005 |
| Struggle for existence - Socialist Worker online The horrors of the Asian tsunami will be repeated a thousand times over if we don't act now to stop climate change. |
12 January 2005 |
| Huge CO2 emission cuts proposed - The Daily Yomiuri Proposal to reduce CO2 emissions in advanced nations to levels one-fourth of those in 2002 by 2050. |
12 January 2005 |
| Senator Inhofe on Climate Change - RealClimate Sen. James Inhofe is at odds with real scientists over global warming. |
11 January 2005 |
| Rocky Mountain glaciers showing effects of climate change - CBC News Glaciers in Canada's Rocky Mountains are melting fast, making them a barometer for climate change in Canada. |
11 January 2005 |
| Tougher Kyoto rules urged - Globe and Mail Ottawa's voluntary approach won't meet pollution targets, federal documents say. |
11 January 2005 |
| Europeans Wonder: Snow, Where'd You Go? - phillyburbs.com Bears in Slovakia are awakening early from hibernation. So are barmaids in Bavaria, unseasonably busy in outdoor beer gardens. Bushes are blooming in Austria, and skiers at snowless Bosnian resorts are chilling out in hotel pools. |
11 January 2005 |
| Rising Seas Threaten Islands, Cities, Coasts - Reuters It sounds insignificant alongside the Indian Ocean tsunami, yet an almost imperceptible annual rise in the world's oceans may pose a huge threat to ports, coasts and islands by 2100. |
11 January 2005 |
| Professor Claims Hydrogen Economy Will Actually Hurt Environment - FuelCellWorks.com An hydrogen economy would actually lead to greater emissions of CO2 and pollutants. |
11 January 2005 |
| Anderson's State of the City full text - The Salt Lake Tribune Inspiring speech by Mayor Anderson outlining the need to promote sustainabilty. |
11 January 2005 |
| UK carbon output revision threatens trading scheme - Guardian Unlimited tsk, tsk, tsk... |
10 January 2005 |
| Freak Weather Intensifies Climate Change Debate - The Scotsman |
10 January 2005 |
| 10-mile Thames flood barrier plan - BBC News Plans to build a 10-mile barrier along the Thames to protect London from flooding are being considered. |
10 January 2005 |
| Global warming thawing Qinghai Plateau - Xinhua News Agency The frozen earth on the Qinghai Plateau has been thawing as a result of global warming. |
10 January 2005 |
| Aid for vulnerable islands declines - Guardian Unlimited UN conference hears how small states are struggling with rising seas, pollution and cuts in foreign assistance. |
10 January 2005 |
| An unnatural disaster - Guardian Unlimited if mankind continues to burn oil, coal and gas at the current rate, up to one third of all life forms will be doomed by 2050. |
8 January 2005 |
| Scotland now 'hotter and wetter' - BBC News Last year was Scotland's second hottest and third wettest on record. |
7January 2005 |
| Disasters waiting to happen - Guardian Unlimited The tsunami may have been an act of nature, but further environmental catastrophes caused by humans will be much worse... |
6 January 2005 |
| In melting Arctic, warming is now - Christian Science Monitor Arctic-dwelling Inuit call their crazy weather 'Uggianaqtuq' (oog-gi-a-nak-took) - It means "to behave unexpectedly." |
6 January 2005 |
| Icebergs in New Zealand waters for first time in 57 years - AFP / Yahoo News New Zealanders complaining about unseasonal summer rain in recent weeks have received proof of changing climatic conditions after icebergs were sighted in local waters for the first time since 1948. |
5 January 2005 |
| Why We Need Alternatives to Oil - EV World With the political stability of Saudi Arabia in doubt and peak oil just around the corner, it's critical the West find realistic alternatives to petroleum. |
1 January 2005 |
