Global Warming and Climate Change News

Hard choices a must to combat climate change: IPCC (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
Wednesday November 14th 2007, 11:50 pm

New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) Climate change caused by humans has reached a point where all governments must make hard choices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions even as they prepare to deal with an inevitable global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says. [News Source]

Global warming info just a click away (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Wednesday November 14th 2007, 9:38 pm

There's growing worry about global warming. How much of it is the work of that power plant just outside town? If Congress limits heat-trapping greenhouse gases, will it affect my utility and electric bills? And who's the biggest corporate culprit when it comes to climate change? Answers to these questions may be only a couple of clicks away. A new interactive online database presented Wednesday ... [News Source]

Global warming info just a click away (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Wednesday November 14th 2007, 9:38 pm

There's growing worry about global warming. How much of it is the work of that power plant just outside town? If Congress limits heat-trapping greenhouse gases, will it affect my utility and electric bills? And who's the biggest corporate culprit when it comes to climate change? Answers to these questions may be only a couple of clicks away. A new interactive online database presented Wednesday ... [News Source]

Science adviser grilled over altered testimony
Wednesday November 14th 2007, 7:56 pm

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 14: John H. Marburger III, science advisor to President Bush and Director of the office of Science and Technology Policy, speaks at a press conference where he announced a plan to expand U.S. tsunami detection and warning capabilities, at the National Press Club in Washington on January 14, 2005. Marburger said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will deploy 32 new advanced technology Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) buoys for a fully operational tsunami warning system by mid-2007. (Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

The president’s science adviser tells senators that he recommended changes in a health official’s global warming testimony — but denies wanting entire pages cut.


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Science adviser grilled over altered testimony
Wednesday November 14th 2007, 7:56 pm

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 14: John H. Marburger III, science advisor to President Bush and Director of the office of Science and Technology Policy, speaks at a press conference where he announced a plan to expand U.S. tsunami detection and warning capabilities, at the National Press Club in Washington on January 14, 2005. Marburger said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will deploy 32 new advanced technology Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) buoys for a fully operational tsunami warning system by mid-2007. (Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

The president’s science adviser tells senators that he recommended changes in a health official’s global warming testimony — but denies wanting entire pages cut.


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Database shows global warming gases by plants, companies, towns (The Toledo Blade)
Wednesday November 14th 2007, 4:47 pm

WASHINGTON — There’s growing worry about global warming, but how much of it is the work of that power plant just outside town? And if Congress limits heat-trapping greenhouse gases, will it affect utility and electric bills? And who’s the biggest corporate culprit when it comes to climate change? [News Source]

Climate change ‘worse than thought’ (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Wednesday November 14th 2007, 4:34 pm

An independent climate change report has found pollution's impact on global warming is worse than previously predicted. [News Source]

Online database tracks climate’s karma
Wednesday November 14th 2007, 4:10 pm

There's growing worry about global warming, but how much of it is the work of that power plant just outside town? And if Congress limits heat-trapping greenhouse gases, will it affect utility and electric bills? And who's the biggest corporate culprit when it comes to climate change? [News Source]

Climate change panel too slow to react?
Wednesday November 14th 2007, 11:16 am

Spanish deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega (L) and Chairman Rajendra Pachauri of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) arrive for the opening session of the IPCC in Valencia, 12 November 2007. The Nobel-winning panel of world climate experts gathered here Monday to hammer out a key report as a top UN official warned that political failure to fix global warming would be "criminally irresponsible."
They are seen as the gurus of global warming, and their reports are accepted almost as the gospel of climate science. Esteem for the panel of scientists was immortalized when it shared this year's Nobel Peace prize.


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U.N. alert targets global warming (The Record)
Wednesday November 14th 2007, 3:32 am

VALENCIA, Spain -- 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]

New class aims to inform on climate change, global warming (Daily Nebraskan)
Wednesday November 14th 2007, 12:44 am

Talk of climate change and global warming has gained worldwide attention, and the School of Natural Resources has created a class to educate University of Nebraska-Lincoln students about the issues. [News Source]