Global Warming and Climate Change News

Under Pressure, White House Issues Climate Change Report (New York Times)
Thursday May 29th 2008, 11:12 pm

The Bush administration, bowing to a court order, has released a fresh summary of research pointing to harmful impacts in the United States from human-caused global warming. [News Source]

U.S. issues climate report 4 years late
Thursday May 29th 2008, 3:10 pm

A California Dept. of Corrections fire crew works the fire lines in the Santa Cruz Mountains west of Gilroy, Calif., Saturday, May 24, 2008. Firefighters  have been aided by calmer winds and cooler weather as they  continue to fight the Summit Fire, which has burned over 3,000 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Under a court order and four years late, the White House Thursday produced what it called a science-based "one-stop shop" of specific threats to the United States from man-made global warming.


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Report: City folk produce less carbon
Thursday May 29th 2008, 1:57 pm

While cities are hot spots for global warming, people living in them turn out to be greener than their country cousins, researchers at the Brookings Institution say in a report released Thursday. [News Source]