Global Warming and Climate Change News

U.N.: Ignoring global warming is “criminally irresponsible” (USA Today)
Monday November 12th 2007, 6:31 pm

The U.N.'s top climate official warned policymakers and scientists trying to hammer out a landmark report on climate change that ignoring the urgency of global warming would be "criminally irresponsible." [News Source]

Scientists strive for pinpoint climate change forecasts (Express India)
Monday November 12th 2007, 4:53 pm

Moving on from the risk of global warming, scientists are now looking for ways to pinpoint the areas set to be affected by climate change, to help countries plan everything from new crops to hydropower dams. [News Source]

Conference on final climate change report opens in Spain (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
Monday November 12th 2007, 4:52 pm

VALENCIA, Spain - The UN's top climate official warned policy-makers and scientists trying to hammer out a landmark report on climate change that ignoring the urgency of global warming would be "criminally irresponsible." [News Source]

Millions of jobs at risk from climate change: U.N (Environmental News Network)
Monday November 12th 2007, 4:29 pm

GENEVA (Reuters) - Millions of jobs worldwide could be casualties of climate change, though efforts to mitigate its effects will also create huge new waves of employment, United Nations officials said on Monday. The heads of the U.N. climate and weather agencies told diplomats that global warming could decimate the world fisheries sector, threaten the tourism industry and cause widespread ... [News Source]

eSci Conference on final climate change report opens in Spain (CNews)
Monday November 12th 2007, 3:38 pm

VALENCIA, Spain - The UN's top climate official warned policymakers and scientists trying to hammer out a landmark report on climate change that ignoring the urgency of global warming would be "criminally irresponsible." [News Source]

Millions of jobs at risk from climate change: UN (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Monday November 12th 2007, 3:33 pm

Millions of jobs worldwide could be casualties of climate change, though efforts to mitigate its effects will also create huge new waves of employment, United Nations officials said. The heads of the UN climate and weather agencies told diplomats that global warming could decimate the world fisheries sector, threaten the tourism industry and cause widespread job losses among those displaced …



Are ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ interchangeable? (Minnesota Public Radio)
Monday November 12th 2007, 2:58 pm

Former Vice President Al Gore likes the phrase 'planetary emergency.' CNN seems partial to 'Planet in Peril.' Then there are the popular standbys 'global warming' and 'climate change.' How do the terms we use affect the way we view the state of the environment? [News Source]

Predicting the changes of global warming (The New Zealand Herald)
Monday November 12th 2007, 11:48 am

Moving on from the risk of global warming, scientists are now looking for ways to pinpoint the areas likely to be affected by climate change, to help countries plan everything from new crops to hydropower dams. [News Source]

Predicting the changes of global warming (The New Zealand Herald)
Monday November 12th 2007, 11:14 am

Moving on from the risk of global warming, scientists are now looking for ways to pinpoint the areas likely to be affected by climate change, to help countries plan everything from new crops to hydropower dams. [News Source]

UN Panel’s Global Warming Report May Win U.S. Support (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
Monday November 12th 2007, 11:12 am

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- American officials are planning to back a new United Nations document that says governments and businesses will have to spend billions of dollars a year to reduce global warming and adapt to its effects. [News Source]

Environmentalists Meeting in Spain to Draft Key Report on Global Warming (Voice of America)
Monday November 12th 2007, 10:30 am

The international climate change panel that won this year's Nobel peace prize is holding a meeting in the Spanish city of Valencia this week to draft a key report on global warming. [News Source]