Global Warming and Climate Change News

Climate change didn’t kill megafauna (News Interactive)
Monday December 25th 2006, 9:50 pm

AUSTRALIA'S giant prehistoric animals were killed off by humans, not climate change, new research indicates. [News Source]

Climate change ‘did not kill megafauna’ (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
Monday December 25th 2006, 9:38 pm

Australia's giant prehistoric animals were killed off by humans, not climate change, new research indicates. [News Source]

Coming to forest near you: Debate on global warming (Oakland Tribune)
Monday December 25th 2006, 10:00 am

Last month's U.N. conference on climate change ended without firm promises of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, and critics were quick to suggest that the 5,000 attendees — by jetting to Nairobi and pumping 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide high in the atmosphere — had done more harm to the planet's climate than good. [News Source]

Teachers seek materials on global warming (The Olympian)
Monday December 25th 2006, 7:00 am

WASHINGTON - Global warming is a key subject that many educators and scientists say should be, but isn't, taught in every school. And as with other emerging sciences, there remains a need, they say, for more materials available for teachers to incorporate into their lessons. [News Source]

Coming to forest near you: Debate on global warming Global warming debate branches out into trees (Oroville Mercury-Register)
Monday December 25th 2006, 5:54 am

Last month's U.N. conference on climate change ended without firm promises of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, and critics were quick to suggest that the 5,000 attendees — by jetting to Nairobi and pumping 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide high in the atmosphere — had done more harm to the planet's climate than good. [News Source]

Trees: The answer to global warming? (The Daily Review)
Monday December 25th 2006, 5:43 am

Last month's U.N. conference on climate change ended without firm promises of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, and critics were quick to suggest that the 5,000 attendees — by jetting to [News Source]

Global warming ‘may impact’ bluefin tuna (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
Monday December 25th 2006, 5:06 am

Bluefin tuna stocks in the Pacific could be hit seriously by the end of this century if global warming progresses at the current pace, researchers say. [News Source]

Hackett Environmentalist Joins Gore In Global Warming Fight (The Morning News)
Monday December 25th 2006, 4:03 am

FORT SMITH -- Robert McAfee of Hackett joined forces with Al Gore in the former vice president's initiative to raise awareness about -- and action to slow -- global warming. [News Source]

Cities, towns step up global warming fight (Boston Globe)
Monday December 25th 2006, 3:52 am

BOULDER, Colo. -- Frustrated with the federal response to global warming, hundreds of cities, suburbs, and rural communities across the United States are taking bold steps to slash their energy consumption and reduce emissions of the pollutants that cause climate change. [News Source]

Climate change on agenda for 2007 (INQ7.net)
Monday December 25th 2006, 12:53 am

PARIS -- Nothing beats a whiff of Apocalypse for focusing minds and, next year, climate change will be the big issue that will send an icy shiver down spines followed by a clamor for action. [News Source]