Global Warming and Climate Change News

UN head links climate change, Darfur (Fox 19 Cincinnati)
Saturday June 16th 2007, 11:56 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the United Nations says climate change is partly to blame for the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. Writing in The Washington Post, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (bahn kee moon) says droughts have provoked fighting over water sources in Sudan. [News Source]

UN head links climate change, Darfur (KXXV Waco)
Saturday June 16th 2007, 11:33 pm

Associated Press - June 16, 2007 11:23 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the United Nations says climate change is partly to blame for the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. [News Source]

U.N. head links climate change, Darfur (The Charlotte Observer)
Saturday June 16th 2007, 9:42 pm

Climate change is partly to blame for the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, where droughts have provoked fighting over water sources, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an editorial published Saturday. "Almost invariably, we discuss Darfur in a convenient military and political shorthand - an ethnic conflict pitting Arab militias against black rebels and farmers," Ban wrote in The ... [News Source]

U.N. head links climate change, Darfur (AP via Yahoo! News)
Saturday June 16th 2007, 9:37 pm

Climate change is partly to blame for the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, where droughts have provoked fighting over water sources, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an editorial published Saturday. [News Source]

Climate change up for debate at NSW Nationals conference (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Saturday June 16th 2007, 7:51 pm

Clear divisions have emerged within the New South Wales Nationals during a debate on climate change. [News Source]

Climate change behind Darfur killing: UN’s Ban (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Saturday June 16th 2007, 5:27 pm

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday. [News Source]

Are we to believe latest global warming report? (AG Weekly)
Saturday June 16th 2007, 3:34 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]

Western lawmakers targeted over global warming (Casper Star-Tribune)
Saturday June 16th 2007, 6:00 am

WASHINGTON -- An environmental group that last year helped defeat conservative House Resources Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., is taking aim at five more Western Republicans over global warming. [News Source]

Western lawmakers targeted over global warming (Casper Star-Tribune)
Saturday June 16th 2007, 4:17 am

WASHINGTON -- An environmental group that last year helped defeat conservative House Resources Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., is taking aim at five more Western Republicans over global warming. [News Source]

A weather station near glacier to study global warming (Calcutta News)
Saturday June 16th 2007, 1:48 am

For the first time, an Indian weather station is being set up near a Himalayan glacier to study the impact of climate change and provide weather details and warnings to mountaineers. [News Source]

Global warming good for Colorado skiing? (Aspen Daily News)
Saturday June 16th 2007, 12:46 am

COPPER MOUNTAIN -- It's hard for ski resorts to see a bright side to global warming trends that are expected to rob the mountains of snow, but for one global warming expert, Colorado resorts may fare better than some. [News Source]