Global Warming and Climate Change News

Climate change: row mars Vienna talks on future emissions cuts (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Friday August 31st 2007, 1:11 pm

Parties to the UN's Kyoto Protocol struggled here Friday to reach even a broad agreement on future cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions that are driving dangerous climate change. [News Source]

Climate Change to Top Agenda at APEC (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Friday August 31st 2007, 12:02 pm

Global warming, not trade or terrorism, will top the agenda at next week's annual meeting of Pacific-Rim leaders -- a year after climate change barely got a mention in the group's final declaration. [News Source]

Farmers must prepare for climate change: UN (EARTHtimes.org)
Friday August 31st 2007, 9:08 am

Geneva - UN climate experts on Friday called for new farming and land management methods to help sustain the world's food resources in the face of global warming. Climate change and desertification were inextricably linked and impacted on the plane... [News Source]

Global warming – who pays and when? (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Friday August 31st 2007, 4:00 am

World leaders are becoming fixated on climate change. That’s good news. But agreeing with one another about who will do what to slow the warming of the planet won’t be easy. The answer is difficult but simple – sit down and get started.



Climate change to top agenda at APEC meeting after being ignored last year (Philstar.com)
Friday August 31st 2007, 12:42 am

SYDNEY (AP) - Global warming, not trade or terrorism, will top the agenda at next week's gathering of Pacific-Rim leaders _ a year after climate change barely got a mention in the group's final declaration. [News Source]

Global warming heats up proxy season (Market Watch)
Friday August 31st 2007, 12:20 am

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- People more than ever want companies to adhere to more responsible environmental practices to create less of an impact on global warming. And they are voicing those wants with their shares of stock. [News Source]

Observations of Atmosphere, Oceans Quantify Climate Change (U.S. Department of State)
Thursday August 30th 2007, 6:28 pm

World leaders, scientists, environmental groups and industry leaders are gearing up for major international climate change talks -- a September meeting in Washington on global warming, and a December U.N. conference in Bali -- prompted by increasingly dire indications that human activities are changing the planet. The measurements that tell scientists of rising oceans, melting glaciers and ... [News Source]

Global warming - who pays and when? (The Christian Science Monitor)
Thursday August 30th 2007, 5:56 pm

The economics of climate change is driving what kind of pact nations may be willing to make. [News Source]

Global Warming Might Spur Earthquakes and Volcanoes (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)
Thursday August 30th 2007, 5:40 pm

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and landslides are some of the additional catastrophes that climate change and its rising sea levels and melting glaciers could bring, a geologist says. [News Source]

Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Plans To Fight Global Warming (New Hampshire Public Radio)
Thursday August 30th 2007, 5:33 pm

Democratic Presidential candidates say global warming is one of their top priorities. We talk to New Hampshire voters in the western part of the state about what they are looking for in a candidate. [News Source]

Merkel Proposes New Blueprint to Fight Global Warming (Deutsche Welle)
Thursday August 30th 2007, 1:58 pm

German Chancellor Merkel’s proposed new plan to curb climate change foresees linking caps on Co2 emissions to the population of a country. It could be of particular interest to large emerging nations China and India.