Global Warming and Climate Change News

Bush floating new climate proposal
Monday April 14th 2008, 9:16 pm

The White House has told a group of House GOP conservatives it may be forced to support a limited cap on greenhouse gases and avoid a "train wreck" of regulations involving climate change, sources familiar with the meeting said Monday. [News Source]

Yale hopes climate change conference is groundbreaking (49 ABC News Topeka)
Monday April 14th 2008, 8:56 pm

Governors and leading experts on global warming will be at Yale University Thursday and Friday. [News Source]

Yale hopes climate change conference is groundbreaking (USA Today)
Monday April 14th 2008, 1:05 pm

Organizers hope a gathering of governors this week will be as effective in addressing climate change as a similar event that launched the conservation movement a century ago. [News Source]

Global warming, our fault? (The Jackson Sun)
Monday April 14th 2008, 12:00 pm

In February of 2007 the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change said that evidence of a global warming trend is “unequivocal” and that human activity “very likely” has been the driving force behind the change. [News Source]

Gore’s presence felt in presidential race
Monday April 14th 2008, 10:33 am

Former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore addresses a training session with environmental activists on how to give global warming presentations, in Montreal on Saturday, April 5, 2008 The Democratic White House hopefuls speak often about green jobs, emissions cuts and renewable energy — music to the ears of former VP Al Gore, who also happens to be a party superdelegate.


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Rich countries not leading on climate change: IPCC chief (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Monday April 14th 2008, 7:57 am

The head of the United Nations's scientific panel on climate change said in an interview published Monday that developing countries were unwilling to sign up to a global deal on cutting carbon emissions because rich countries were not leading the way. [News Source]

Report: Savvy wildlands management can fight global warming (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Monday April 14th 2008, 3:51 am

Utah’s forests are like money in the bank for the state’s climate-change balance sheets, according to a new report by the Wilderness Society.