Global Warming and Climate Change News

Biggest nuggets taken in global carbon rush.
Thursday September 07th 2006, 8:00 pm

A business fix to save the planet, where rich world polluters pay the developing world to cut greenhouse gas emissions on their behalf, is drawing breath after hoovering up its biggest money-spinning deals. [News Source]

World needs far tougher action on warming - UN.
Thursday September 07th 2006, 8:00 pm

Industrial countries will have to make swingeing cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to slow global warming, perhaps of up to 80 percent by 2050 as suggested by some nations, the UN's top climate official said on Thursday. [News Source]

County Churchill among the lowest polluters in Nevada.
Thursday September 07th 2006, 8:00 pm

Nevada was rated as the second highest global warming state in the nation, though Churchill County was listed as one of the least polluting Nevada counties. [News Source]

Strippers get global warming scientists hot and bothered.
Thursday September 07th 2006, 8:00 pm

A saloon-style striptease, complete with corsets and balloons, at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists hot and bothered. [News Source]

Hang on to your parkas.
Thursday September 07th 2006, 8:00 pm

Global cooling could develop in 50 years and have serious consequences before it is replaced by a period of warming in the early 22nd century, a Russian scientist says. [News Source]

County Churchill among the lowest polluters in Nevada.
Thursday September 07th 2006, 8:00 pm

Nevada was rated as the second highest global warming state in the nation, though Churchill County was listed as one of the least polluting Nevada counties, in a report released by U.S. Public Interest Research Group last month. [News Source]

Arctic - the last refuge from climate change.
Thursday September 07th 2006, 8:00 pm

By 2100, “billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic, where the climate remains tolerable”, says Dr. James Lovelock, the scientist best know for the Gaia theory. [News Source]

Changing climates.
Thursday September 07th 2006, 8:00 pm

Last weekend's march in Burlington, Vermont to call attention to the effects of global warming was apparently not only one of the biggest political rallies in Vermont's recent history, it also was one of the largest demonstrations against global warming ever held in the U.S.. [News Source]

Over a barrel.
Thursday September 07th 2006, 8:00 pm

According to a growing cadre of petroleum geologists, the days of cheap oil are over. [News Source]

Oil and renewables, hand in hand?
Thursday September 07th 2006, 8:00 pm

A day after an announcement by an oil company that it had successfully extracted oil from a huge deposit more than 5 miles below the Gulf of Mexico, environmental groups renewed calls that the country wean itself from oil as they girded for a setback in their push for energy efficiency. [News Source]

Fueling the future.
Thursday September 07th 2006, 8:00 pm

It's unusual that a business gets its diesel fuel delivered, but this is not usual diesel fuel, this is biodiesel - 100% soybean oil. [News Source]