Global Warming and Climate Change News

Global warming worry flows from Arctic ice to tropical waters (USA Today)
Tuesday May 30th 2006, 9:27 pm

David King, the British government's chief scientific adviser, raised eyebrows two years ago when he warned that climate change posed a bigger global threat than terrorism. But there's no question that rising temperatures are poised to change life as we know it. A look at changes already underway. [News Source]

Global Warming Finally Solved! (SYS-CON Media)
Tuesday May 30th 2006, 8:23 pm

The story of how we solved the global warming crisis was released on a web video today on the website http://www.renewus.org/. Arriving 50 years after Al Gore's revolutionary film, 'An Inconvenient Truth' opened nationally across the United States, the video dips into history to report how the consumer movement to demand clean energy triggered a business and political response that has finally [News Source]

Climate Change Responsible For Increased Hurricanes, Researchers Find (Science Daily)
Tuesday May 30th 2006, 6:11 pm

Human induced climate change, rather than naturally occurring ocean cycles, may be responsible for the recent increases in frequency and strength of North Atlantic hurricanes, according to Penn State and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers. "Anthropogenic factors are likely responsible for long-term trends in tropical Atlantic warmth and tropical cyclone activity," the researchers [News Source]

Global Warming Finally Solved! (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Tuesday May 30th 2006, 4:00 pm

The story of how we solved the global warming crisis was released on a web video today on the website http://www.RenewUS.org. Arriving 50 years after Al Gore's revolutionary film, "An Inconvenient Truth" opened nationally across the United States, the video dips into history to report how the consumer movement to demand clean energy triggered a business and political response that has finally [News Source]

Global warming seen in Alaska’s greening (UPI)
Tuesday May 30th 2006, 2:25 pm

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 30 (UPI) -- A forest ecologist in Alaska is warning that the state is losing its forests to global warming and could soon turn out to be a state of grasslands. [News Source]

Climate change responsible for increased hurricanes (EurekAlert!)
Tuesday May 30th 2006, 2:15 pm

Human induced climate change, rather than naturally occurring ocean cycles, may be responsible for the recent increases in frequency and strength of North Atlantic hurricanes, according to Penn State and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers. [News Source]

Climate change may spur poison ivy growth (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Tuesday May 30th 2006, 1:42 pm

Add another item to the list of health threats posed by global warming: poison ivy that's more poisonous, and lots more of it. [News Source]

Climate change (Manila Bulletin)
Tuesday May 30th 2006, 12:48 pm

ALREADY, we are experiencing effects of one of the "burning concerns" of our time — global warming. Flooding, landslides and frequent occurrence of storms have done considerable damage to our infrastructure and agricultural crops and of course the displacement of millions of people. [News Source]

The fight over CO2.
Tuesday May 30th 2006, 12:00 pm

Just when you thought he had stepped out of the political arena for good, Al Gore has made a roaring comeback - and this time, he's gone Hollywood. [News Source]

Energy shortage.
Tuesday May 30th 2006, 12:00 pm

President Bush, who has made so much of US energy dependence on foreign sources without offering legislation of his own, would do the country a great favor by getting behind a Senate measure designed to enhance energy security. [News Source]

Liveris tells it like it is.
Tuesday May 30th 2006, 12:00 pm

Dow Chemical CEO is alternately engaging, decisive, and combative as he outlines his firm's energy, research, and strategic options. [News Source]