Global Warming and Climate Change News

Climate change could crush wheat yields (The Age)
Tuesday June 06th 2006, 11:41 pm

Soaring temperatures and declining rainfalls caused by climate change could wipe a billion dollars a year off Australia's wheat industry within 30 years, a study suggests. [News Source]

Climate change could cost billions (AAP via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Tuesday June 06th 2006, 11:01 pm

High temperatures declining rainfalls caused by climate change could wipe a billion dollars a year off Australia's wheat industry within 30 years. [News Source]

Experts Available to Discuss Global Warming and “An Inconvenient Truth” (Newswise)
Tuesday June 06th 2006, 7:18 pm

In the coming weeks, former Vice President Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth," (www.climatecrisis.net), will be released nationally and in the San Diego region beginning June 9. The movie focuses on problems associated with global warming-driven changes and draws attention to climate change issues. [News Source]

Survey: Most sportsmen fear global warming (UPI)
Tuesday June 06th 2006, 5:50 pm

RESTON, Va., June 6 (UPI) -- A National Wildlife Federation survey of U.S. sportsmen shows most say global warming is an urgent problem that needs immediate action. [News Source]

Global Warming Threatens Coastal Fishing (Newswise)
Tuesday June 06th 2006, 4:19 pm

Many of Florida's coastal bays and estuaries will be inundated by 2100 due to sea-level rise from global warming, making the "Fishing Capital of the World" uninhabitable by some of Florida's most prized game fish, a new study reveals. [News Source]

Computer simulation of global warming includes more spring cloud cover (The Olympian)
Tuesday June 06th 2006, 12:08 pm

SEATTLE - Cloudy springs, hot summers and much less snow in the mountains may be in Washington's future, according to a detailed computer simulation of global warming done by the University of Washington. [News Source]

Lloyd’s tells members climate change could destroy insurers.
Tuesday June 06th 2006, 12:00 pm

Lloyd's of London, the oldest insurance market in the world, yesterday urged its members to start taking global warming more seriously, by increasing prices to avoid being "swept away" in a sea of future financial claims. [News Source]

Oak Openings a key force in greenhouse gas battle.
Tuesday June 06th 2006, 12:00 pm

Unknown to many people, trees in northwest Ohio's booming Oak Openings region appear to be 75 percent more efficient than most trees at removing the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming. [News Source]

Debate over wind power creates environmental rift.
Tuesday June 06th 2006, 12:00 pm

Dan Boone has no doubt that his crusade against wind energy is the right way to protect the Allegheny highlands he loves. [News Source]

Santorum not conceding environment.
Tuesday June 06th 2006, 12:00 pm

In a race with only subtle differences between the candidates on some key issues, the environment could emerge as one of the sharpest dividing lines. [News Source]

U.K. deputy prime minister calls on West to honour Kyoto accord.
Tuesday June 06th 2006, 12:00 pm

British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott urged Western governments to follow through on the Kyoto accord in a speech in Canada on World Environment Day. [News Source]