November 5, 2007 – 7:14 am
TreeHugger
Climate change is powerfully symbolized by severe drought. Extended, widespread drought can make potable water scarce. Desalination plants are energy intensive and expensive to build and run: the several recently build or planned for Australia may be taken as a sign of climate change desperation. Coal rules Australian exports and politics. So, each time Australia [...]
October 29, 2007 – 7:29 am
Henry Neondo
26 October 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Low crop yields in Africa is not due to climate change but rather farmers failing to exploit opportunities in wetter years, says a Kenya-based scientist.
Peter Cooper, principal scientist for Eastern and Southern Africa at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Nairobi, argues that much of African [...]
October 25, 2007 – 1:18 am
TreeHugger
Tourists and residents in New England used to receive a spectacular display of color on the second October of every year. However, in recent years, the show has been a bit duller and a bit later than usual. The culprit? What else - area temperatures consistantly warmer than average. The chilly fall nights needed to [...]
October 23, 2007 – 11:05 am
Lately, my mind has been obsessing over gaps …
The gap between the rosy colored fictions of global warming deniers and the the paint it black reality of the scientific evidence predicting dire consequences of continued inaction.
The gap between the real needs of our society and the upside-down priorities of our government’s funding choices.
The gap [...]
October 22, 2007 – 3:23 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
Annan Launches Forum on Humanitarian Impacts of Climate Change. Agence France-Presse, October 17, 2007. “Former UN chief Kofi Annan formally launched his new humanitarian forum here on Wednesday urging all nations to work together to meet the challenges of climate change. The Global Humanitarian Forum will work with governments and civil society to [...]
October 19, 2007 – 6:37 am
EarthJustice
Global Warming Wildlife Survival Bill calls for study, solutions
October 17, 2007
Baby leatherback turtle
Photo by National Park Service
Washington, DC — Today, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), announced that they will soon be introducing the Global Warming Wildlife Survival bill, landmark legislation addressing the threat of climate change to wildlife, oceans, and imperiled species.The [...]
October 19, 2007 – 4:46 am
Friends of The Earth
October 17, 2007
For Immediate Release
Legislation’s allocation of permits to polluters could be worth trillions, says analysis from Friends of the Earth, and the coal industry stands to be the biggest winner
WASHINGTON — Global warming legislation expected to be introduced tomorrow could provide giveaways worth hundreds of billions or even [...]
October 15, 2007 – 1:32 pm
GreenPeace
10 October 2007
Local children on a wooden
raft surrounded by smoke
from tropical rainforest on
fire in Indonesia.
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Sumatra, Indonesia — Never has the threat to the world’s forests been more acute nor the risk of dangerous climate change so imminent. With about one-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions being caused by forest destruction we are highlighting [...]
October 8, 2007 – 6:24 pm
TreeHugger
As lawmakers in Sacramento consider how to provide an adequate water supply for California in the coming decades, at a little-publicized state water summit this week scientists painted a bleak picture of a Western landscape devoid of forests, snow pack and surface water unless the world quickly reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
The state is likely to [...]
October 7, 2007 – 12:47 pm
Source:
University of Southern California
Date:
October 2, 2007
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Global Warming, Climate, Early Climate, Ice Ages, Environmental Issues, Oceanography
Carbon Dioxide Did Not End The Last Ice Age, Study Says
Science Daily — Carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new study in Science suggests, contrary to past inferences from ice core records.
Lowell Stott, [...]
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