Global Warming and Climate Change News

Devil is in detail of UN climate change talks (The Scotsman)
Tuesday May 01st 2007, 7:33 pm

UNITED Nations' talks on climate change are at risk of getting bogged down under the weight of hundreds of amendments from governments and China's objections to a proposed blueprint for battling global warming. [News Source]

Koperberg gets two climate change departments (Hastings Gazette)
Tuesday May 01st 2007, 5:11 pm

NSW's new Climate Change Minister, Phil Koperberg, has announced the creation of two new government departments to combat the impact of global warming. [News Source]

Climate change now issue of concern here (Bangkok Post)
Tuesday May 01st 2007, 3:03 pm

Whether it is due to Al Gore's documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, the meeting of the world scientific body on global warming in Bangkok or the fluctuating weather conditions, ''climate change'' is now a familiar term for many Thais. [News Source]

U.N. appoints three envoys on climate change (USA Today)
Tuesday May 01st 2007, 2:39 pm

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki moon on Tuesday announced the appointment of three special envoys on climate change, posts which the world body said his commitment to the pressing problem of global warming. [News Source]

UN chief names special envoys on climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tuesday May 01st 2007, 1:16 pm

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has appointed three leading international personalities as special envoys for climate change to help him negotiate on global warming, his press office said Tuesday. [News Source]

Satellites shed light on global warming (Moldova.org)
Tuesday May 01st 2007, 5:54 am

As climate change continues to make headlines across the world, participants at the 2007 Envisat Symposium this week are hearing how Earth observation satellites allow scientists to better understand the parameters involved in global warming and how this is impacting the planet. The cryosphere is both influenced by and has a major influence on climate. Because any increase in the melt rate of ice ... [News Source]

Poor countries demand a voice on climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tuesday May 01st 2007, 1:49 am

As climate change experts meet in Bangkok, poor nations suffering the brunt of global warming's worst effects are determined their voices will not be drowned out by bickering world powers. [News Source]

Bush, European leaders agree climate change demands urgent response (The Standard-Times)
Tuesday May 01st 2007, 1:21 am

WASHINGTON — President Bush and European leaders claimed progress Monday in the effort to reduce global warming, largely by agreeing that climate change requires global action without infringing on the rights of nations to choose their own... [News Source]