Global Warming and Climate Change News

Baptist adds caution over global warming (BPNews.net)
Monday June 11th 2007, 9:10 pm

WASHINGTON (BP)--Southern Baptists and other conservative evangelicals support environmental protection but do not believe the Bible provides a "blueprint" for government policies on global warming, members of the U.S. Senate were told in a recent hearing. [News Source]

Are we to believe latest global warming report? (AG Weekly)
Monday June 11th 2007, 7:45 pm

The UN Climate Change panel is asserting — again — that humans are overheating the planet. Again, they have no evidence to support their claim — but they want the U.S. to cut its energy use by perhaps 80 percent just in case. [News Source]

Media need to join fight against global warming, says panel at Banff TV festival (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
Monday June 11th 2007, 6:38 pm

BANFF, Alta. (CP) - Actress Daryl Hannah says it's time for the mainstream media to get on board in the battle against global warming. [News Source]

Carbon Capture And Storage To Combat Global Warming Examined (Science Daily)
Monday June 11th 2007, 5:03 pm

While solar power and hybrid cars have become popular symbols of green technology, Stanford researchers are exploring another path for cutting emissions of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas that causes global warming. Carbon capture and storage, also called carbon sequestration, traps carbon dioxide after it is produced and injects it underground. The gas never enters the atmosphere. [News Source]

The Woes Of Kilimanjaro: Don’t Blame Global Warming (Science Daily)
Monday June 11th 2007, 5:02 pm

Two scientists writing in a new magazine article say that global warming has nothing to do with the decline of ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro, and using the mountain in northern Tanzania as a "poster child" for climate change is simply inaccurate. [News Source]

Wildlife on the Move As Climate Change ; Everyone is Talking About Global Warming - but What Are the Signs and Howmight … (RedNova)
Monday June 11th 2007, 4:56 pm

By IAN PARRI SOME of the biggest losers in the battle against climate change could be various species of wildlife, some of them already hanging on grimly against extinction. [News Source]

Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming (EurekAlert!)
Monday June 11th 2007, 2:47 pm

While solar power and hybrid cars have become popular symbols of green technology, Stanford researchers are exploring another path for cutting emissions of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas that causes global warming. [News Source]

G8 Countries Agree on Process To Address Global Warming (U.S. Department of State)
Monday June 11th 2007, 1:36 pm

Leaders of the Group of Eight countries agree on an accelerated process that eventually can lead to “substantial” cuts in emissions that contribute to global warming. “We are … committed to taking strong and early action to tackle climate change,” they say in a declaration issued in Heiligendamm, Germany. Calling climate change an “urgent challenge,” the leaders called on the countries that are ... [News Source]

The Woes of Kilimanjaro: Don’t Blame Global Warming (Newswise)
Monday June 11th 2007, 1:29 pm

Two scientists writing in a new magazine article say that global warming has nothing to do with the decline of ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro, and using the mountain in northern Tanzania as a "poster child" for climate change is simply inaccurate. [News Source]

The woes of Kilimanjaro: Don’t blame global warming (UW News)
Monday June 11th 2007, 1:03 pm

Two researchers writing in American Scientist say that global warming has nothing to do with the decline of ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro, and using the mountain in northern Tanzania as a "poster child" for climate change is inaccurate. [News Source]

Scientist sees accelerated global warming (Block Island Times)
Monday June 11th 2007, 12:19 pm

Although he has been spending summers at his island home for the last 30 years, this year Dr. Michael Oppenheimer will return here only sporadically; he's too deeply involved in his work on climate change to find much time to vacation. [News Source]