Global Warming and Climate Change News

$45 trillion ‘revolution’ to fight warming?
Friday June 06th 2008, 4:39 pm

** FILE ** A row of 260-foot-tall wind turbines churn out power at the Smoky Hills wind farm near Lincoln, Kan. on Jan. 25, 2008. A growing number of wind farms across the country is causing concern among wildlife officials that the huge towers may pose a danger to migrating flocks of endangered whooping cranes. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)The world needs to build 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.


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Climate crusader, wannabe scale high-rise
Friday June 06th 2008, 12:20 pm

A man was arrested Thursday after scaling The New York Times' tower in a stunt shortly after a climber nicknamed "Spiderman" did the same thing, in his case to protest global warming.


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GOP blocks Senate’s global warming bill
Friday June 06th 2008, 9:39 am

Republicans blocked efforts to bring a global warming bill up for a final Senate vote after a bitter debate over its economic costs and whether it would push gasoline prices higher. [News Source]