Global warming causing disease to rise | NBC | 12.06.06 | News
NAIROBI, Kenya - A warmer world already seems to be producing a sicker world, health experts reported Tuesday, citing surges in Kenya, China and Europe of such diseases as malaria, heart ailments and dengue fever.
“Climate affects some of the most important diseases afflicting the world,” said Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum of the World Health Organization. “The impacts may already be significant.”
Kristie L. Ebi, an American public health consultant for the agency, warned “climate change could overwhelm public health services.” The specialists laid out recent findings as the two-week U.N. climate conference entered its final four days, grappling with technical issues concerning operation of the Kyoto Protocol, and trying to set a course for future controls on global greenhouse gas emissions.... Read Full Story | msnbc.com
Climate science a factual contrast to global warming 'skepticism' | Blogger | 12.06.06 | Blog
The human species is at a crossroads. We can continue to ignore the rapidly increasing devastating impacts of our behavior. Or we can take responsibility for these impacts and start working together to solve the most pressing issue of our time, the warming of our planet, due in large part to the burning of fossil fuels.
Despite the incredible challenges posed by global warming, which has the potential to destroy all life on Earth, some still seek to discredit, often on a purely partisan and ad hominem basis, the robust science that testifies to the reality of climate change.
Sandy resident Mark Whitney, for example, claims global warming science is merely an "unstable foundation underpinning the Gore-heads," and insinuates that scientists who are warning the public about the dangers of global warming are doing so merely to benefit from "the funding gravy train that has supported their flights of fancy" ("Alarmists losing ground," Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. 21).... Read Full Story | greenethoughts.blogspot.com
Warmed-up oceans reduce key food link | Seattle PI | 12.06.06 | Article
WASHINGTON -- In a "sneak peak" revealing a grim side effect of future warmer seas, new NASA satellite data find that the vital base of the ocean food web shrinks when the world's seas get hotter.
And that discovery has scientists worried about how much food marine life will have as global warming progresses.
The data show a significant link between warmer water - either from the El Nino weather phenomenon or global warming - and reduced production of phytoplankton of the world's oceans, according to a study in Thursday's journal Nature.... Read Full Story | Seattlepi.com
Aspen, Colo., Takes on Global Warming | ABC News | 12.06.06 | News
Nov. 14, 2006 — When you first meet conservatively dressed, bespectacled new grandfather John Worcester, you're not surprised to learn he's the city attorney in Aspen, Colo.
He's soft-spoken, mild-mannered, intently focused and observant. And he's doing battle with what 11 national academies of science say is one of the gravest emergencies civilization has ever faced: global warming.
Under Worcester's quiet leadership, Aspen's city government has already cut its planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by 10.5 percent in only 18 months — a rare achievement.
Yet Another Rant on the Radio
It was two years ago that Worcester, disgusted by a talk radio host calling global warming a hoax, set out to educate himself on the subject. ... Read Full Story | abcnews.go.com
The Worst of Both Worlds? | NBC News | 12.06.06 | Article
Scare stories about global warming may end up justifying policies that hurt the economy without much curbing of greenhouse gases.
Nov. 13, 2006 issue - It seems impossible to have an honest conversation about global warming. I say this after diligently perusing the British government's huge report released last week by Sir Nicholas Stern, former chief economist of the World Bank and now a high civil servant. The report is a masterpiece of misleading public relations.
It foresees dire consequences if global warming isn't curbed: a worldwide depression (with a drop in output up to 20 percent) and flooding of many coastal cities. Meanwhile, the costs of minimizing these awful outcomes are small: only 1 percent of world economic output in 2050... Read Full Story | msnbc.com
Cool-headed calculus of global warming | Bussines Day | 12.06.06 | News
THE British government recently issued the most comprehensive study to date of the economic costs and risks of global warming, and of measures that might reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in the hope of averting some of the direst consequences. Written under the leadership of Sir Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics, who succeeded me as chief economist of the World Bank, the report makes clear that the question is no longer whether we can afford to do anything about global warming, but whether we can afford not to.... Read Full Story | businessday.co.za
