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April 2009 (CNN) -- Human-induced global warming is real, according to a recent U.S. survey based on the opinions of 3,146 scientists. However there remains divisions between climatologists and scientists from other areas of earth sciences as to the extent of human responsibility.
Against a backdro...
Former Vice President Al Gore must not have been too surprised when it happened, but a well-known climate skeptic confronted him at the Wall Street Journal's ECO:nomics forum in Santa Monica.
The skeptic, Bjorn Lomborg, is a favorite of conservatives who would rather not spend on the environment. D...
Source ABC, October 29, 2008Frogs and salamanders are disappearing in Yellowstone National Park and researchers at Stanford blame their decline on global warming. These amphibious indicators of the environment are the kind of discovery that, for a Ph.D. candidate, can be the makings of a career. So,...
From: WWFPublished March 12, 2009
The new climate and clean energy package proposed by Sweden should serve as an example for all EU countries ahead of crucial global warming negotiations, WWF says. If followed by other industrialised nations the deal could lead towards a low carbon future and help ...
L.A. Times - An 18-year study shows an increased annual risk of death from respiratory illnesses, depending on the pollution level. It goes beyond studies that linked brief ozone spikes to short-term effects.
By Thomas H. Maugh IIMarch 12, 2009
Ozone pollution is a killer, increasing the yearly ri...
China must already grapple with some of the worst environmental effects of climate change, including severe air pollution, desertification, water scarcity, and flooding. Is there more to come?
Air Pollution and Public HealthChina's reliance on its abundant but dirty coal has produced a number of ne...
The UN climate change conference in Copenhagen has one critical goal: a global treaty to help cut carbon emissions to levels that will prevent dangerous rises in global temperatures and catastrophic climate change.
That deal must set goals for cutting global CO2 emissions: some say a 50 percent red...
February 27, 2009
Apple Inc. had its shareholder meeting Wednesday and the media focused on the absence of its charismatic leader Steve Jobs. But there's an even more famous guy associated with Apple. Al Gore is one of my heroes. As a journalist, I covered him as a Senator 20 years ago in Washingto...
By AL GORE
It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.
Of course, we would still need to deal with the n...
Japan PM to draft Green New Deal
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will order his ministries to draft a "Green New Deal" this week to counter the twin threats of climate change and the economic downturn, a report said Sunday.
Aso will order a stimulus package focusing on slashing greenhouse gases a...
CLIMATE SCIENCETransport ministers plot climate action in Japan
Nations have already been toughening standards for car emissions -- decisions mostly taken before the current economic crisis which has battered the auto industry.by Staff WritersTokyo (AFP) Jan 15, 2009
Officials from 20 nations met ...
Aboriginals in Australia's Outback will be among the hardest hit Australians from climate change. It will cause great suffering both in disease increase but also from seeing their ancestral land ravaged.
This news release by the Medical Journal or Australia, addresses the question in the Earth Prot...
The Associated Press has some mixed news for environmentalists. The economic downturn may "make it more difficult to pass a law to reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gases." On the plus side, it may very well make it more necessary.
Members of both parties argue against one of the most popular carbon ...
"A Drop Of Blood" Campaign (a national/international call for action)
Draw a red drop on a small piece of paper and, using cellophane tape, put it on a gas pump.
Reason: The people of the U.S. (and much of the world) are basically addicted to oil. We have grown so dependent on our cars and trucks ...
The U.S. Department of Energy has just launched a major operation tracing climate change.
They do this by using their new Climate Change Prediction technology,the Department of Energy, through the Office of Environmental and Biological Research and the hard work of William Collins of Berkeley Lab’s...
I have several uuber conservative friends that believe global warming is a political and media invention to raise gas prices and destroy the economy.
I do find articles from scientists (180?) that disagree with the evidence for global warming. What do you think? Where does one go for clarification ...
"SLAP stands for “sea level awareness project.” It’s a local community activist project designed to raise awareness of the danger of sea level rise in my community here in Ventura.
If Greenland completely melts (which, scientists say could happen before 2100,) sea level would rise over 20 feet worl...