Global Warming and Climate Change News

Gore: Global warming an immediate crisis (AP via Yahoo! News)
Monday September 18th 2006, 11:21 pm

Former Vice President Al Gore on Monday called for immediate action to stop global warming, calling the phenomenon a "climate crisis" that demands attention from American leaders. [News Source]

Climate Change Cited in Siberian Landscape Shift (NPR)
Monday September 18th 2006, 9:28 pm

Environmental experts in Russia say global warming is melting the permafrost and forming new lakes in Siberia's vast frozen tundra. Previously frozen methane gas is being released into the atmosphere, potentially compounding the problem. [News Source]

BP seeks profits from climate change.
Monday September 18th 2006, 8:00 pm

Skeptics doubt that the nation should respond to global warming, but don’t count petroleum giant BP among them.



The grapes of wrath.
Monday September 18th 2006, 8:00 pm

As if shrinking glaciers, rising seas, and catastrophic hurricanes weren't bad enough, global warming looks set to devastate the world's greatest vineyards. [News Source]

Experts warn that beech trees could die out.
Monday September 18th 2006, 8:00 pm

Surrey's beech trees could become extinct if global warming and climate change continue at the present rate. [News Source]

England’s warming ‘not natural.’
Monday September 18th 2006, 8:00 pm

Temperatures in central England are about 1C higher than in the 1950s, and humanity's greenhouse gas emissions are the reason, a new study shows. [News Source]

Climate change pulls warm-water fish north: experts.
Monday September 18th 2006, 8:00 pm

A warm-water Atlantic triple fin fish has for the first time been caught off the coast of Britain, in another sign of species migrating north as global temperatures rise. [News Source]

Global warming’s corporate winners and losers.
Monday September 18th 2006, 8:00 pm

Some of the biggest institutional investors in the world are meeting to release results of a survey aimed at figuring out global warming's corporate winners and losers. [News Source]

Fake volcanoes could combat global warming.
Monday September 18th 2006, 8:00 pm

Creating fake volcanic eruptions could help combat global warming, according to a new U.S. study. [News Source]

Californian climate registry seeks national expansion.
Monday September 18th 2006, 8:00 pm

A California registry, which companies use to attempt to secure credit for voluntarily cutting greenhouse gas emissions ahead of laws limiting them, is seeking to expand in the United States, a source at the group said on Monday. [News Source]

Breathing space.
Monday September 18th 2006, 8:00 pm

Parks without grass? It sounds absurd, but in the future climate change is likely to transform our urban green spaces. Think pine trees and wind turbines [News Source]