Economist Warns China About Global Warming | Blogger | 04.06.07 | Article
A former chief economist at the World Bank says China must take urgent action against one of the greatest treats of the new century--global warming.
"If global warming was left uncontrolled, there would be very severe droughts in northern China, severe floods in southern China, and great water stress as a result of receding glaciers and snow caps in the Himalayas," says Stern, who was commissioned last year by the British government to put a price on global warming.
He estimated the cost would be as much as 20 percent of global GDP unless early action is taken and said developing countries would be worst affected... Read Full Story | chinaconfidential.blogspot.com
Global warming, species extinction | The Hindu News | 04.06.07 | News
PENGUINS IN PERIL: The number of emperor penguins has dropped from 300 breeding pairs to just nine in the western Antarctic Peninsula.
ANIMAL AND plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends.
These fast-moving adaptations come as a surprise even to biologists and ecologists because they are occurring so rapidly.
At least 70 species of frogs, mostly mountain-dwellers that had nowhere to go to escape the creeping heat, have gone extinct because of climate change, the analysis says... Read Full Story | www.hindu.com
'Much Stronger' Signs Of Human Role In Warming | Chief Engineer | 01.05.07 | News
An authoritative new U.N. assessment of how Earth's climate is changing - its temperatures rising, polar ice melting, oceans expanding - should have ``a major impact'' on the political debate over dealing with global warming, the world's chief climate scientist says.
The upcoming report by an international scientific network ``might provide just the right impetus to get the negotiations going in a more purposeful way,'' said Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change... Read Full Story | www.chiefengineer.org
Global Warming is Here | Blogger | 04.06.07 | Blog
A big crowd of Montana Tech students and faculty packed into the Digger Den to watch “the former next president” Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth. The film is about the scientific, social, and political dimensions of human-caused global warming—a phenomenon now universally accepted by the scientific community. As the film points out, of peer-reviewed scientific journal articles about global warming in the past 10 years, none (zero) deny that human use of fossil fuels is contributing to global warming. Of articles in the popular press, however, about 53% question the phenomenon.... Read Full Story | ecorover.blogspot.com
Sea warming threatens climate disaster | The Sydney Morning | 04.06.07 | News
GLOBAL warming is creating a climate time bomb by storing enormous amounts of heat in the waters of the north Atlantic, British scientists have discovered.
Marine researchers at Southampton and Plymouth universities have found that the upper 1500 metres of the ocean from western Europe to the eastern United States have warmed by 0.015 degrees in seven years.
The capacity of the oceans to store heat means that a water temperature rise of that size is enough to warm the atmosphere above by almost 9 degrees.
Neil Wells, a scientist on the project at the National Oceanographic Centre in Southampton, said: "People might think it doesn't sound like a big temperature rise but it's very significant."... Read Full Story | smh.com.au
The invented debate of global warming | Democratic Daily | 04.06.07 | Blog
The Environmental Protection Agency lacks the power to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, the administration said in court papers. Even if it had such authority, the EPA still would not use it at this point because of uncertainty surrounding the issue of global warming, the administration said.
Global climate change is “a controversial phenomenon that is far from fully understood or defined,” trade associations for car and truck makers and automobile dealers said in a court filing signed by former Solicitors General Theodore Olson and Kenneth Starr that backs the administration position... Read Full Story | thedemocraticdaily.com
