Global Warming and Climate Change News

Plasma, LCDs blamed for accelerating global warming (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Wednesday July 02nd 2008, 11:33 pm

A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming. [News Source]

Q&A: Lomborg on Al Gore and Climate Change (Newsweek)
Wednesday July 02nd 2008, 7:39 pm

Bjorn Lomborg earned the wrath of many scientists by calling into question the direness of global warming.  Now, in this wide-ranging interview, find out why he claims that Al Gore is 'wildly exaggerating' about climate change and its effects. [News Source]

Tahmima Anam on climate change and ‘perineal re-education’ (Guardian Unlimited)
Wednesday July 02nd 2008, 7:28 pm

Tahmima Anam: Climate change is happening. We, and the generations before us, have caused it. It should not matter whether we believe it or not [News Source]

Tahmima Anam on climate change and ‘perineal re-education’ (Guardian Unlimited)
Wednesday July 02nd 2008, 7:15 pm

Tahmima Anam: Climate change is happening. We, and the generations before us, have caused it. It should not matter whether we believe it or not [News Source]

Q&A: Lomborg on Al Gore and Climate Change (Newsweek)
Wednesday July 02nd 2008, 7:00 pm

Bjorn Lomborg earned the wrath of many scientists by calling into question the direness of global warming.  Now, in this wide-ranging interview, find out why he claims that Al Gore is 'wildly exaggerating' about climate change and its effects. [News Source]

The science of curbing emissions.
Wednesday July 02nd 2008, 7:00 pm

We're great at spewing CO2 into the air. Visionaries like Klaus Lackner, with his synthetic tree, are devising new ways to suck it out. [News Source]

Condemned to single-sex life by climate change.
Wednesday July 02nd 2008, 7:00 pm

A tuatara's sex is determined by the temperature of incubation. And with global warming raising temperatures, all tuatara could be born male--and doomed to extinction--within decades. [News Source]

State’s car shoppers to get information on emissions.
Wednesday July 02nd 2008, 7:00 pm

All new cars for sale in California starting with 2009 models will be required to display a window sticker indicating how the vehicle's greenhouse gas emissions compare with other vehicles of the same model year. [News Source]

Science on climate change wrong: report.
Wednesday July 02nd 2008, 7:00 pm

Politicians may have got the science on climate change wrong and don't realise how bad the situation is, a new report says. [News Source]

Scientists: Midwest floods will happen more often.
Wednesday July 02nd 2008, 7:00 pm

Torrential Midwest storms that caused devastating floods in Iowa and northern Missouri will occur more frequently as global warming increases, scientists warned today. [News Source]

Scientists meet 25 years later for another look at permafrost.
Wednesday July 02nd 2008, 7:00 pm

Permafrost — ground or any matter in a frozen state for two or more years — is sensitive to climate change. More and more permafrost is reaching the point where one or two degrees of warming will thaw it. [News Source]