Global Warming and Climate Change News

A home from home: saving species from climate change.
Saturday February 13th 2010, 9:00 am

How can we save some of our most charismatic animals from extinction due to climate change? One US biologist, Camille Parmesan, has a radical suggestion: just pick them up and move them. [News Source]

EPA’s decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions is challenged.
Saturday February 13th 2010, 9:00 am

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced late Friday that it would challenge the EPA's decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, setting the stage for a protracted legal battle with the Obama administration over global warming. [News Source]

Brown to push climate funding.
Saturday February 13th 2010, 9:00 am

Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, is to co-chair a high-level United Nations panel that will seek ways to raise the $100bn a year promised to the developing world to help it cope with the impact of global warming. [News Source]

Rubio questions climate change.
Saturday February 13th 2010, 9:00 am

Senate candidate Marco Rubio said Friday that he doesn't accept the scientific evidence for global warming - a stance Rubio has hinted at before, but which the campaign of Gov. Charlie Crist said is a switch for Rubio. [News Source]

Climate sceptics ‘are playing Russian roulette with planet.’
Saturday February 13th 2010, 9:00 am

The head of a climate research unit which has been accused of manipulating global warming data yesterday turned on sceptics for playing “Russian roulette” with the planet. [News Source]

Utah delivers vote of no confidence for ‘climate alarmists.’
Saturday February 13th 2010, 9:00 am

The US's most Republican state passes a resolution disputing the science of climate change, claiming emissions are 'essentially harmless.' [News Source]

Measuring climate change in Mediterranean caves.
Saturday February 13th 2010, 9:00 am

Caverns on the underside of Mallorca -- the Spanish island where Germans like to bake in the sun -- offer strange new evidence about the movement of glaciers long before the last ice age. What if glaciers melt faster than anyone has suspected? [News Source]

Sea caves reveal rapid rise in ancient ocean levels.
Saturday February 13th 2010, 9:00 am

Researchers found that sea levels were roughly 1 meter higher than present 81,000 years ago, according to coastal caves that precisely record sea level in stone formations. The record suggests that sea level can rise or fall as fast as two meters a century. [News Source]

Obama offers nuclear plant loan guarantee.
Saturday February 13th 2010, 9:00 am

President Barack Obama will announce next week loan guarantees for two new nuclear reactors, setting the stage for the first nuclear power plant to be built in the US in three decades. [News Source]

UK, Ethiopia to head climate funding effort.
Saturday February 13th 2010, 9:00 am

Britain and Ethiopia will head a new United Nations panel that aims to secure $100 billion every year by 2020 to help developing nations cut emissions and adapt to climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday. [News Source]

UN taps prime ministers to seek new climate money.
Saturday February 13th 2010, 9:00 am

The U.N. chief tapped the prime ministers of Britain and Ethiopia on Friday to lead the hunt for hundreds of billions of dollars that nations pledged to contribute this decade for dealing with climate change. [News Source]