Global Warming and Climate Change News

Pelosi Reveals Who’s Who On Global Warming Panel (Washington Post)
Sunday March 11th 2007, 10:39 pm

The best-kept secret on the Hill -- the full membership of the new committee on global warming -- is no longer secret. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has announced the 15 members of the committee, formally known as the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. [News Source]

Gibbons’ stance puzzles global warming activists (Las Vegas Sun)
Sunday March 11th 2007, 11:04 am

WASHINGTON - Global warming activists were thrilled to hear Gov. Jim Gibbons was launching a climate change task force in Nevada - until they learned that the starting point for discussion would not assume that global warming exists. [News Source]

Many efforts target global warming, but progress is slow (Baltimore Sun)
Sunday March 11th 2007, 6:50 am

The perils of climate change are attracting much attention these days, with a popular award-winning movie on the subject, a United Nations panel emphasizing the dangers and widespread agreement among scientists that global warming presents a potentially catastrophic threat. [News Source]

Next climate change report spells out effects of global warming (International Herald Tribune)
Sunday March 11th 2007, 6:25 am

An international group of more than 1,000 scientists, in the second of a series of reports, will say next month that the harmful effects of global warming are already showing up around the world. [News Source]

In a world of climate change, New Yorkers ask how safe their homes are (International Herald Tribune)
Sunday March 11th 2007, 6:25 am

There is a growing urgency that global warming be understood at a local level, right down to the block. [News Source]

Investors look for opportunities brought by global warming worries (Asbury Park Press)
Sunday March 11th 2007, 4:31 am

Droughts. Hurricanes. Rising temperatures. Melting glaciers. In a world abuzz with talk about global warming, climate change is elbowing aside tech and biotech as the major investment theme of the future. [News Source]

State Senate approves climate-change legislation (Seattle Times)
Sunday March 11th 2007, 4:13 am

Al Gore and his "inconvenient truth" about global warming were invoked Saturday as the state Senate voted to sign up Washington in the crusade... [News Source]