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December 03, 2007
It’s said that a week is a long time in politics. The burning question is whether two weeks is long enough for governments to finally wake up, smell the carbon and confront the biggest problem facing the world. We say yes! It’s time for governments to take action on global warming.
Here it is [...]
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071129183753.htm
ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2007) — As the world warms, the interaction between the Atlantic Ocean and atmosphere may be the recipe for stronger, more frequent hurricanes.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have found that the Atlantic organizes the ingredients for a powerful hurricane season to create a situation where either everything is conducive to hurricane activity or [...]
Climate Crisis Coalition
By Frank Ahrens and Carrie Johnson, The Los Angeles Times, November 16, 2007. “A federal court in California yesterday rejected the Bush administration’s new fuel economy standards for light trucks including SUVs, ruling that the government failed to take into account the effects of carbon emissions and their possible link to global warming. [...]
TreeHugger
The last few months have witnessed a flurry of debate in the scientific literature over the relative merits of using forests as carbon sinks to combat global warming. The broad-based consensus seems to be that, yes, trees can work - if planted in the right areas - but also that we shouldn’t hang our hopes [...]
Climate Crisis Coalition
By Arthur Max, The Associated Press, November 12, 2007. “The UN’s top climate official challenged world policymakers Monday to map out a path to curb climate change, charging that to ignore the urgency of global warming would be ‘nothing less than criminally irresponsible.’ Yvo de Boer issued his warning at the opening of [...]
Climate Crisis Coalition
By Alister Doyle, Reuters, November 12, 2007.
“Tiny ocean plankton can reduce global warming by soaking up unexpectedly large amounts of carbon dioxide but their carbon-bloated cells might damage marine food chains, scientists said on Sunday. Experiments [the results of which have been published in the journal Nature] in a Norwegian fjord showed that [...]
EPA failed to act on waiver allowing CA to implement sweeping global warming program
November 8, 2007
EarthJustice
Los Angeles Smog
Photo by USEPA
Oakland, CA — California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown will announce today plans to sue the Bush administration’s Environmental Protection Agency for failing to act on needed waivers to allow the state [...]
ScienceDaily (Nov. 1, 2007) — Tree stumps at the feet of Western Canadian glaciers are providing new insights into the accelerated rates at which the rivers of ice have been shrinking due to human-aided global warming.
Geologist Johannes Koch of The College of Wooster found the deceptively fresh and intact tree stumps beside the retreating glaciers [...]
ScienceDaily (Nov. 1, 2007) — Large-scale fires in a western or southeastern state can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a few weeks as the state’s entire motor vehicle traffic does in a year, according to newly published research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of [...]
October 10, 2007
GreenPeace
The threat to the world’s forests has never been more acute nor the risk of global warming so imminent. With about one-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions being caused by forest destruction, we are highlighting how Indonesia is now at the heart of this problem.
Indonesian forests are being destroyed faster than any [...]
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