Global Warming and Climate Change News

Global Warming Roundup (The Asheville Tribune)
Saturday June 14th 2008, 8:59 pm

Excerpt: The Army is weighing in on the global warming debate, claiming that climate change is not man-made. [News Source]

R.I. Sen. Whitehouse sees silver lining in demise of global-warming bill (The Providence Journal)
Saturday June 14th 2008, 8:26 pm

WASHINGTON — The Senate’s global-warming bill, many months in the making, is dead for this congress, but one of the senators involved in preparing it says the work wasn’t wasted. [News Source]

China clearly overtakes U.S. as leading emitter of climate-warming gases.
Saturday June 14th 2008, 7:00 pm

China accounts for two-thirds of growth in global greenhouse gas emissions in 2007. [News Source]

Melting Asia.
Saturday June 14th 2008, 7:00 pm

China and India are increasingly keen to be seen to be tackling climate change--though it is dirtier, China is making a more convincing show of action. [News Source]

Is it crunch time for coal?
Saturday June 14th 2008, 7:00 pm

In two years' time, Australia will get an emissions trading system — a system environmentalists say should close down brown-coal-fired power stations forever. The Age. [News Source]

The race for survival.
Saturday June 14th 2008, 7:00 pm

Enlisting endangered species in the fight against global warming is either a brilliant tactical maneuver—or an arrogant abuse of the law. [News Source]

Infested fish may bear scars of global warming.
Saturday June 14th 2008, 7:00 pm

The Alaskan salmon has been a rare success story among exploited fisheries, but locals report that much of the Yukon River population is peppered with 'white spot disease,' or Ich. A crash could be disastrous. [News Source]

Walking on a wire.
Saturday June 14th 2008, 7:00 pm

Los Angeles needs green power. Does it have to tear up the desert to get it? [News Source]

G8 finance chiefs say global warming demands urgent action (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Saturday June 14th 2008, 12:37 pm

World finance chiefs Saturday said urgent action was needed to battle global warming, calling for funds to provide green technology to developing nations to help them reduce emissions. [News Source]