Friday June 02nd 2006, 6:58 pm
John Prescott has flown to the US to deliver a speech on climate change. After several briefings on the anti-terror raid in London on Friday, the deputy prime is visiting America and Canada to make the case for a united effort to combat global warming.
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Prescott in US to discuss climate change (ePolitix.com)
Climate change: Let the Supreme Court decide (New Scientist)
Friday June 02nd 2006, 10:15 am
Action on climate change has always been left to the politicians - but perhaps not for much longer
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Climate change: Tearing the Earth apart? (New Scientist)
Friday June 02nd 2006, 10:15 am
Never mind the weather, climate change could rip up the very fabric of our planet, says
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Global warming or ordinary weather? (Townsville Bulletin)
Friday June 02nd 2006, 10:01 am
GLOBAL warming is one of those issues which brook no debate.
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Does cleaner air make hurricanes worse?
Friday June 02nd 2006, 7:00 am
In a study to be published soon, an MIT climatologist will make a bold claim: The cycling of hurricane activity from high to low is caused by the rise and fall of pollution released by humans.
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A global warming believer in Bush Cabinet.
Friday June 02nd 2006, 7:00 am
Henry Paulson may find the tightrope he'll be walking as President Bush's Treasury secretary will span a wider gulf than in his current twin jobs as chairman of Goldman Sachs and The Nature Conservancy.
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Wine regions feel the heat.
Friday June 02nd 2006, 7:00 am
Global warming is already having major effects on wines, with more to come. By the end of the century, grape-growing regions may be reduced by nearly 80%.
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Welcome to the Great Green North.
Friday June 02nd 2006, 7:00 am
It’s true: the Arctic is more green in summer — although this greening may be a sign that global warming will hit the world more quickly and harder than previously forecast.
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Gore and Guggenheim: Speaking ‘Truth’ to power.
Friday June 02nd 2006, 7:00 am
Does a 58-year-old former U.S. vice president who's been trying to get the world to wake up to the threat of human-induced climate change ever since he first heard about rising carbon dioxide levels from one of his Harvard professors ever feel like he is butting his head up against a brick wall?
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Gore movie: Fact or feeler.
Friday June 02nd 2006, 7:00 am
Many scientists with expertise on climate change hope Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth," will help transform the issue issue from an abstract potential risk into a real and present danger.
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Sea level rise threatens fishery, study says.
Friday June 02nd 2006, 7:00 am
Even if the sea level rise is no more than 15 inches over the next 100 years, it would wipe out nearly 200,000 acres of tidal habitats in Florida and low-lying coastal areas around Charlotte Harbor will be among the hardest hit.
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