Global Warming and Climate Change News

EU says it compromise global warming proposal (NDTV)
Friday December 14th 2007, 11:27 pm

Is mankind playing havoc with nature? The European Union said today it supported a compromise proposal on future negotiations for a new global warming pact, bringing contentious talks at a UN climate change conference nearer to resolution. [News Source]

EU says it accepts compromise global warming proposal at UN conference (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Friday December 14th 2007, 10:35 pm

The European Union said Saturday it supported a compromise proposal on future negotiations for a new global warming pact, bringing contentious talks at a U.N. climate change conference nearer to resolution. [News Source]

EU says it accepts compromise global warming proposal at UN conference (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Friday December 14th 2007, 10:35 pm

The European Union said Saturday it supported a compromise proposal on future negotiations for a new global warming pact, bringing contentious talks at a U.N. climate change conference nearer to resolution. [News Source]

EU says it accepts compromise global warming proposal at UN conference (Philstar.com)
Friday December 14th 2007, 9:24 pm

BALI, Indonesia (AP) - The European Union said it supported a compromise proposal on future negotiations for a new global warming pact, bringing contentious talks at a U.N. climate change conference nearer to resolution. [News Source]

UN climate change talks head toward final agreement (EARTHtimes.org)
Friday December 14th 2007, 8:10 pm

Bali Island, Indonesia - Global climate change negotiators returned to talks Saturday in a final attempt to reach an agreement for a pact to fight global warming after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. The conference was scheduled to end Friday, bu... [News Source]

Climate Change: Respects No Borders, Affects All (Scoop.co.nz)
Friday December 14th 2007, 7:44 pm

Global warming impacts everyone regardless of national borders, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling on negotiators at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, to overcome differences and agree on a road map to tackle the issue. [News Source]

Global Warming Commission hires consulting group (Arkansas News Bureau)
Friday December 14th 2007, 6:57 pm

By John Lyon Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - In its first major decision since being formed by an act of the state Legislature this year, the Governor's Commission on Global Warming voted Thursday to hire a consulting group to help develop policy recommendations aimed at reducing Arkansas' contribution to climate change. [News Source]

Study shows how clean-energy programs fight global warming (Tri-State Neighbor)
Friday December 14th 2007, 1:24 pm

As climate change concerns creep into new laws, a recent study shows farm policy is already aiding the cause and has potential to further curb gases that cause global warming. [News Source]

Global Warming Commission hires consulting group (Arkansas News Bureau)
Friday December 14th 2007, 12:27 pm

By John Lyon Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - In its first major decision since being formed by an act of the state Legislature this year, the Governor's Commission on Global Warming voted Thursday to hire a consulting group to help develop policy recommendations aimed at reducing Arkansas' contribution to climate change. [News Source]

3,000 walruses die in stampedes
Friday December 14th 2007, 12:11 pm

Walruses at a coastal haulout in Alaska.Several thousand walruses in Russia's Arctic were killed in stampedes after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline.


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Climate skeptics still making their case
Friday December 14th 2007, 11:48 am

Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg, who says global warming isn't a big threat and that international treaties requiring sharp and immediate cuts in carbon emissions would cost a lot but do little good, is seen in Copenhagen, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007. Lomborg belongs to the small and splintered but loud camp of skeptics - also known as contrarians - who claim the climate threat is exaggerated. The head of the U.N. panel on climate change compared him to Hitler. Another leading scientist called him a parasite. A third described his latest book as a "stealth attack" on mankind.


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