West water woes tied to man’s warming

Human activity such as driving and powering air conditioners is responsible for up to 60 percent of changes contributing to dwindling water supplies in the arid and growing West, a new study finds.

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Climate Change Debate Coins New Jargon (Planet Ark) The world's biggest emitters of global-warming greenhouse gases met behind closed doors on Wednesday for a US-sponsored conference as protesters pointed out Hawaii's vulnerability to climate change. [News Source]

16 nations meet in isles over global warming (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) Delegates from the world's major economies are meeting in Honolulu to discuss climate change and a proposed international accord to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and stem the effects of global warming. [News Source]

Climate change debate coins new jargon (The Times of India) HONOLULU: The world's biggest emitters of global-warming greenhouse gases met behind closed doors for a U.S.-sponsored conference as protesters pointed out Hawaii's vulnerability to climate change. [News Source]

UCD to tackle climate change (The Sacramento Bee) DAVIS – UC Davis students are putting their brain power to work – coming up with climate-change solutions. The campus today will host a daylong series of activities to spark innovative solutions to global warming. [News Source]

FACTBOX - Climate change debate coins new jargon (The Star) To understand the climate-change debate, it helps to understand the jargon, a mixture of diplomatese, pundit-speak and techno-talk. Here are some terms used at meetings on global warming. [News Source]

UN: Climate Change May Cost $20 Trillion (San Francisco Chronicle) Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report. Ban's report provides an overview... [News Source]

UN: climate change may cost $20 trillion (AP via Yahoo! News) Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report. [News Source]

Climate change could damage water quality, CSU professor says (The Fort Collins Coloradoan) Climate change might not raise food prices, but it could damage water quality, a Colorado State University professor said to-day, the first of a two-day “teach-in” on global warming at CSU. [News Source]

Arctic island’s ice caps in rapid decline

Ice fields on an Arctic island have shrunk 50 percent in the past 50 years and will be gone in 50 more, scientists said this week.

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Hurricanes and warmer seas quantified When the water in the hurricane breeding grounds of the Atlantic warms one degree in the dead of summer, overall hurricane activity jumps by half, according to a new study. [News Source]