Global Warming and Climate Change News

Climate Change’s Winners and Losers (NPR)
Wednesday March 14th 2007, 5:50 pm

Amid the concerns about potential damage wrought by climate change, some may stand to gain from global warming. Gregg Easterbrook talks about his cover story in the latest The Atlantic Monthly. [News Source]

Global Warming Has A Goose Face In The Northwest (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Wednesday March 14th 2007, 5:41 pm

For most of us, global warming is something that might affect our lives someday. But for some Northwest farmers, climate change could be nibbling at their pocketbooks right now. [News Source]

Global warming seen as a pressing problem worldwide: survey (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Wednesday March 14th 2007, 2:04 pm

An international poll on climate change found that a majority of people in several countries, including South Korea and Mexico, but not the United States, view global warming as a critical threat. [News Source]

Automakers, U.S. Congress to discuss climate change (USA Today)
Wednesday March 14th 2007, 12:21 pm

Confronted with congressional concerns about global warming, the leaders of the U.S. auto industry are highlighting their work to develop alternative vehicles and asserting that the burdens of climate change cannot fall to one industry alone. [News Source]

Global warming seen as a pressing problem worldwide: survey (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Wednesday March 14th 2007, 11:55 am

An international poll on climate change found that a majority of people in several countries, including South Korea and Mexico, but not the United States, view global warming as a critical threat. [News Source]

Dave Johnson: A Global Warming Suggestion: Fewer Babies (HuffingtonPost)
Wednesday March 14th 2007, 11:18 am

In the movie, An Inconvenient Truth , Al Gore says that we are "entering a period of consequences." (No, this isn't another Housing Bubble Subprime Mortgage post). And yes, the world is beginning to understand the consequences of global warming. From today's news story, Global warming story hits critical mass , "The next section of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, ... [News Source]

Auto leaders to discuss climate change (MSNBC)
Wednesday March 14th 2007, 11:13 am

Confronted with congressional concerns about global warming, the leaders of the U.S. auto industry are highlighting their work to develop alternative vehicles and asserting that the burdens of climate change cannot fall to one industry alone. [News Source]

Poll Finds Worldwide Agreement That Climate Change is a Threat (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Wednesday March 14th 2007, 9:16 am

An international poll finds widespread agreement that climate change is a pressing problem. This majority, however, divides over whether global warming is urgent enough to require immediate, costly measures or whether more modest efforts are sufficient. [News Source]

Global warming: a matter of geological history (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Wednesday March 14th 2007, 8:51 am

Posted: 6:37 AM- Global warming is a matter geological history, a University of Utah geologist says. David Chapman, who is dean of the U's geology graduate school, told the Governor's Advisory Panel on Climate Change Tuesday that, "there is little room for argument over whether the world has warmed significantly." Scientists know that heat from the Earth's surface slowly moves down ... [News Source]

Auto industry leaders to discuss climate change with Congress (Houston Chronicle)
Wednesday March 14th 2007, 6:12 am

Confronted with congressional concerns about global warming, the leaders of the U.S. auto industry are highlighting their work to develop alternative vehicles and asserting that the burdens of climate change cannot fall to one industry alone. [News Source]

Survey: Climate change seen as threat (AP via Yahoo! News)
Wednesday March 14th 2007, 3:24 am

A survey on climate change conducted in more than a dozen countries found that a majority of people in nations including South Korea, Australia, Iran and Mexico — but not the United States — view global warming as a critical threat. [News Source]