Global Warming and Climate Change News

Winemakers face climate change with dread (SpaceDaily)
Monday November 16th 2009, 10:34 pm

LOGRONO, Spain, Nov 17 (AFP) Nov 17, 2009 With the Copenhagen climate change summit looming, the world of wine convened on Spain's Rioja region for a conference in which global warming emerged as the industry's top concern. [News Source]

Global Warming - Fact or Fiction? (KMID Midland)
Monday November 16th 2009, 10:13 pm

As U.S. leaders push for legislation which would increase clean, renewable energy, eople are becoming more interested in climate change and are trying to learn more about it. In this weeks segment of Global Warming - Fact or Fiction?, [News Source]

Judge rejects global warming trial in auction case (AP via Yahoo! News)
Monday November 16th 2009, 7:08 pm

A federal judge said Monday he won't allow global warming to be put on trial in the case of a college student charged with disrupting an auction of oil and gas drilling leases. [News Source]

World Leaders Put Off a Climate Change Treaty (Time Magazine)
Monday November 16th 2009, 5:55 pm

As climate change experts had long expected, world leaders said this weekend they will not reach an agreement on climate change in Copenhagen in December [News Source]

EU lawmaker slams US, China over climate change (SpaceDaily)
Monday November 16th 2009, 4:34 pm

BRUSSELS, Nov 16 (AFP) Nov 16, 2009 A senior EU lawmaker on Monday criticised the US and China as the "biggest failures" on climate change after Asia-Pacific leaders buried hopes of forging a binding pact to combat global warming. [News Source]

EU lawmaker slams US, China over climate change (Eu Business)
Monday November 16th 2009, 4:11 pm

(BRUSSELS ) - A senior EU lawmaker on Monday criticised the US and China as the "biggest failures" on climate change after Asia-Pacific leaders buried hopes of forging a binding pact to combat global warming. [News Source]

APEC leaders aim lower on climate change (UPI)
Monday November 16th 2009, 3:05 pm

SINGAPORE, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Asia-Pacific leaders on Sunday conceded that a legally binding global warming accord is not achievable at next month's climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. [News Source]

Obama Hobbled in Fight Against Global Warming (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Monday November 16th 2009, 12:09 pm

WASHINGTON -- President Obama came into office pledging to end eight years of American inaction on climate change under President George W. Bush, and all year he has promised that the United States would lead the way toward a global agreement in Copenhagen next month to address the warming planet. [News Source]

We can feed the world despite global warming, says Pope Benedict (Times Online)
Monday November 16th 2009, 9:11 am

Pope Benedict XVI today told a United Nations world food summit that "the Earth can sufficiently feed all of its inhabitants" despite the "devastation" caused by global warming, and blamed the "greed" of speculators in cereals markets for aggravating world hunger. [News Source]

Under a cloud.
Monday November 16th 2009, 9:00 am

Rows of traders sit staring at their banks of computers, hand on mouse, eyes restlessly scanning the numbers that stutter across the screens. They may not look it, but these men and women are on the front line in the battle against climate change. [News Source]

Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world.
Monday November 16th 2009, 9:00 am

Scientists believe climate change, the warming of oceans, has allowed some of the almost 2,000 jellyfish species to expand their ranges, appear earlier in the year and increase overall numbers. [News Source]