Global Warming and Climate Change News

Indonesia: Trapped By Global Warming, Islanders Trek To Bali Seeking Huge Boost In Climate Aid (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 9:23 pm

Workers smoke near a globe part of a giant mock-thermometer representing global warming outside the venue of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Nusa Dua, Bali island, Indonesia, Monday, 3 Dec. [News Source]

Global warming: The facts do not add up (The New Straits Times)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 8:49 pm

I, a Malaysian citizen, am offended by the accusations of Datuk Renji Sathiah, former head of Malaysia’s delegation to climate-change talks ("Global warming irrefutable” — NST, Nov 28). [News Source]

Christian Agencies Actively Engage in Climate Change (The Christian Post)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 7:16 pm

Christian organizations worldwide no longer sit on the sidelines during climate change discussions. Rather, they actively engage in talks and global warming ... [News Source]

Global Warming Likely To Increase Stormy Weather, Especially In Certain US locations (Science Daily)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 6:06 pm

Researchers who study severe weather and climate change joined forces to study the effects of global warming on the number of severe storms in the future and discovered a dramatic increase in potential storm conditions for some parts of the US. [News Source]

Climate change panel set to propose big changes for Md. (The Daily Record)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 4:04 pm

BETHESDA, Md. - Saying there's no time to delay bold steps to prevent global warming, a Maryland commission on climate change is poised to propose the nation's toughest carbon cap when the legislature returns next month, along with a report calling climate change an immediate threat to the state. [News Source]

Lists rank cities by warming risk
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 2:33 pm

Indian Hindu devotees carry an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu God Lord Ganesha into the Arabian sea for immersion on the last day of the ten day long festival of Ganesh Chaturthi, in Mumbai, 25 September 2007.  The ten day Ganesh Festival, which sees millions of Hindus  bringing home idols of Lord Ganesha in order to invoke his blessings for wisdom and prosperity, culminates with immersion of the idols into the Arabian sea, along the western city's coast.            AFP PHOTO/ PAL PILLAI (Photo credit should read PAL PILLAI/AFP/Getty Images)The number of people threatened by coastal flooding due to climate change could more than triple to 150 million by 2070 and the cost could balloon to $35 trillion, according to a new report.


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Global warming is either a challenge or a hoax (Tri-State Neighbor)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 1:27 pm

Mentioning global warming, climate change or even carbon dioxide emissions in any circle is likely to be met with some sort of reaction. What some call the “biggest challenge of our times,” others call “a hoax.” [News Source]

Md. panel to suggest bold steps on climate change (Baltimore Sun)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 1:26 pm

Saying there's no time to delay bold steps to prevent global warming, a Maryland commission on climate change is poised to propose the nation's toughest carbon cap when the legislature returns next month, along with a report calling climate change an immediate threat to the state. [News Source]

U.N. climate talks focus on frontline
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 1:08 pm

An environmental activist has her photo taken in front of a globe before she taking part in a demonstration at the venue of the UN Climate Change Conference 2007 in Nusa Dua, on Bali island, 04 December 2007. The 11-day conference, started 03 December, being held under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and attended by more than 180 nations, aims to craft a blueprint for negotiations leading to a new pact for addressing global warming. Under the new pact, industrialised countries will be pressed to massively reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases from the end of 2012, when the current phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires.  Victims of climate change, real and potential, appealed Tuesday for a vast increase in aid to protect them from and compensate them for rising seas, drought and other likely impacts of global warming.


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C02 storage now a global goal
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 11:53 am

Dr. Yuichi Fujioka, a chemical system engineer, prepares separation membrane modules for a device which is used to reduce carbon dioxide at his RITE laboratory (Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth) in Kuzugawa, western Japan, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007. Scientists in Japan are trying to pull carbon dioxide - the leading cause of global warming - from power plant exhaust. After years of mining and pumping fuels out of the earth, the energy industry has valuable experience with underground sites where CO2 could be stored. Researchers around the globe are part of an expanding race to trap greenhouse gases and bury them deep underground, an experimental and costly technology known as carbon capture and storage.


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Climate change: Attacking China isn’t constructive, says Greenpeace (Adnkronos)
Tuesday December 04th 2007, 11:47 am

Climate change: Attacking China isn't constructive, says Greenpeace (AKI) - The environmental group Greenpeace says that attacking China on its poor record on greenhouse gas emissions and global warming will not help tackle climate change. "To strictly criticise China is not going to lead anywhere and could be quite destructive with regards to the negotiations here in Bali," said Yang ... [News Source]