Global Warming and Climate Change News

Walruses signalling climate change (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
Saturday October 06th 2007, 9:03 pm

Thousands of walruses have appeared on Alaska's northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming. [News Source]

92% of public interested in global climate change (The Japan Times)
Saturday October 06th 2007, 7:59 pm

More than 90 percent of the public is concerned about global warming, according to a recent government survey. Read more ... [News Source]

N.H. climate-change forum to include 2008 hopefuls (The Providence Journal)
Saturday October 06th 2007, 7:39 pm

At least three presidential candidates have agreed to join hundreds of community leaders at a major conference in Manchester, N.H., this week exploring climate change and possible solutions. [News Source]

Merkel warns of climate change in South Africa (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Saturday October 06th 2007, 4:18 pm

Climate change is already happening in South Africa, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday during a visit to a biodiversity centre in Capetown. [News Source]

Lawmaker seeks to address effects of climate change (Sun Star)
Saturday October 06th 2007, 12:44 pm

A LAWMAKER introduced a resolution seeking an inquiry into the current climate change and come up with programs to address its adverse effect on the environment. [News Source]

Climate change fix raises quandaries in Montana (KIFI)
Saturday October 06th 2007, 11:51 am

COLSTRIP, Mont. (AP) - Montana lawmakers began work this week on how to unravel the legal and economic questions raised by the state's effort to mitigate climate change. [News Source]

President Bush flip-flops on global warming (The Desert Sun)
Saturday October 06th 2007, 6:57 am

It looks like President Bush is jumping on the global warming band wagon; until now Bush has sensibly refrained from casting his line in the water with the alarmists that pin planet warming on 'greenhouse emissions.' [News Source]

Rice says nations must find ways to reduce global warming (Mohave Valley News)
Saturday October 06th 2007, 5:24 am

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's climate meeting opened Thursday with its main problem on full display: The biggest polluters - industrialized and developing nations alike - say their economies are more important than global warming. [News Source]

ENVIRONMENT Over 90% interested in global warming (Japan Today)
Saturday October 06th 2007, 4:30 am

TOKYO — More than 90% of Japanese polled say they have an interest in the issue of global warming, according to a government survey released Saturday. [News Source]

Climate change fix raises quandaries in Montana (The Montana Standard)
Saturday October 06th 2007, 2:55 am

COLSTRIP — Beneath the towering smokestacks of the state’s largest single producer of greenhouse gases — the Colstrip coal-fired power plant — Montana lawmakers this week began to unravel the daunting legal and economic questions raised by the state’s drive to mitigate climate change. [News Source]