Global Warming and Climate Change News

Judge explains his issues with Gore movie
Thursday October 11th 2007, 11:16 PM

Al Gore's Oscar-winning climate documentary contains nine scientific errors or omissions, a British judge said in explaining a ruling last month on a challenge from a school official who did not want the film shown to students. [News Source]

Paulson Meets With PG&E’s Darbee, CEOs on Climate Change Policy (Bloomberg via Yahoo! News)
Thursday October 11th 2007, 3:11 PM

Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson met this week with PG&E Corp. Chief Executive Officer Peter Darbee and other chief executives who are pressing President George W. Bush and Congress to support mandatory cuts to global warming pollution. [News Source]

New Zealand’s CO2 war uses electric cars
Thursday October 11th 2007, 12:03 PM

Prime Minister Helen Clark unveiled an ambitious plan Thursday to halve transport greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 and generate 90 percent of New Zealand's electricity supply from non-carbon renewable resources by 2025. [News Source]

Carbon next legal battle with utilities?
Thursday October 11th 2007, 11:44 AM

Acting Assistant Attorney General Ron Tenpas points to a chart during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007, regarding a $4.6 billion settlement, the largest single environmental settlement in history, to be paid by American Electric Power to reduce pollution which has eaten away at Northeast mountain ranges and national landmarks. A $4.6 billion settlement this week by one of the last holdouts among polluting power companies signals the end of a long legal debate over acid rain — and a tougher battle ahead over carbon dioxide and the use of fossil fuels.




Climate Change Paper Published In Nature Journal (Scoop.co.nz)
Thursday October 11th 2007, 4:59 AM

The world is becoming more humid under climate change and exacerbating global warming, research released today (11 October) reveals. [News Source]

Letters to the Editor about global warming (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Thursday October 11th 2007, 4:00 AM

Readers react to climate debateRegarding the Monitor series, "Global-warming skeptics: a closer look": Having measured atmospheric transmission at various altitudes, I must raise some facts that conflict with the conclusion that global warming is human-generated. [News Source]