Friday March 23rd 2007, 6:21 pm
WASHINGTON -- 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.
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Poll Finds Worldwide Agreement That Climate Change is a Threat (NBC26 Green Bay)
Global warming topic of talk at Hales Center (The World)
Friday March 23rd 2007, 6:05 pm
The Climate Project, in conjunction with the South Coast Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, will host a presentation by Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury on climate change and global warming at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 31, at the Hales Center for the Performing Arts at Southwestern Oregon Community College, 1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay.
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Global warming gives nuke power a boost (UPI)
Friday March 23rd 2007, 3:35 pm
Rising concern over global warming is causing some U.S. environmentalists to have second thoughts about nuclear power. USA Today says the groups are ...
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Save forests to fight global warming: Stern (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Friday March 23rd 2007, 9:53 am
The world should invest 10 billion dollars annually to halve deforestation in the fight against global warming, Nicholas Stern, the author of a key climate change report, said Friday.
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Global Warming and New Technology Heat Up Race for Riches in Melting Arctic (Environmental News Network)
Friday March 23rd 2007, 6:41 am
The latest report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the ice cap is warming faster than the rest of the planet and ice is receding, partly due to greenhouse gases. But some see a lucrative silver lining of riches waiting to be snatched from the deep.
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UK Stern: Indonesia “Very Vulnerable” To Global Warming (Nasdaq)
Friday March 23rd 2007, 3:31 am
JAKARTA -(Dow Jones)- The Indonesian archipelago is "very vulnerable" to the impact of potential climate change fueled by global warming, Sir Nicholas Stern, head of the U.K. Government Economic Service, warned Friday.
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Earthwatch President Calls for Citizen Action on Global Warming (Newswise)
Friday March 23rd 2007, 12:19 am
NOVA documentary Dimming the Sun wins Earthwatch Film Award during the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. A lively forum at the awards ceremony urged people hungry for leadership on global climate change to turn to Earthwatch for education and meaningful individual action.
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