Global Warming and Climate Change News

Arctic climate change challenge (BBC News)
Wednesday June 13th 2007, 8:43 pm

Three kayakers set off on a 3,000-mile expedition to raise awareness of how global warming affects people in the Arctic. [News Source]

Baptists approve global warming measure (AP via Yahoo! News)
Wednesday June 13th 2007, 8:12 pm

Southern Baptists approved a resolution on global warming Wednesday that questions the prevailing scientific belief that humans are largely to blame for the phenomenon and also warns that increased regulation of greenhouse gases will hurt the poor. [News Source]

Arctic climate change challenge (BBC News)
Wednesday June 13th 2007, 7:33 pm

Three kayakers set off on a 3,000-mile expedition to raise awareness of how global warming affects people in the Arctic. [News Source]

Southern Baptists take on global warming (AP via Yahoo! News)
Wednesday June 13th 2007, 4:10 pm

Southern Baptists weighed a resolution on global warming Wednesday that questions the prevailing scientific belief that humans are largely to blame for the phenomenon and also warns that increased regulation of greenhouse gases will hurt the poor. [News Source]

Are we to believe latest global warming report? (AG Weekly)
Wednesday June 13th 2007, 3:05 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]

Climate change brings toxic moth to England (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Wednesday June 13th 2007, 12:02 pm

A species of toxic moth which has been moving steadily north from the Mediterranean because of global warming has reached England, the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew said on Wednesday. [News Source]

FOR WEALTHY NORTH, CLIMATE CHANGE HAS SUNNY SIDE (The Tocqueville Connection)
Wednesday June 13th 2007, 10:35 am

TROMSOE, Norway, June 8, 2007 (AFP) - Climate change is expected to have disastrous consequences for Earth but some areas will profit, notably wealthy nations in the northern parts of Europe, Russia and the US, scientists say. [News Source]

Researchers Examine Carbon Capture And Storage To Combat Global Warming (PollutionOnline)
Wednesday June 13th 2007, 7:32 am

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. The practice could transform heavy carbon spewers, such as coal power plants, into relatively clean machines with regard to global warming [News Source]

Climate cafes aid in fight against global warming (The Ithaca Journal)
Wednesday June 13th 2007, 5:34 am

ITHACA — The Climate Change Action Group of Central New York wanted to turn feelings of frustration and isolation about global warming into action, and thus climate cafes were born. [News Source]

Global warming future: Drought, wildfire, floods and pestilence (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Wednesday June 13th 2007, 3:18 am

DEADWOOD, S.D. - Top climate scientists offered Western governors an assessment Tuesday on the impacts of global warming that sounded like something out of the Old Testament: drought, wildfire, floods and pestilence. [News Source]