Global Warming and Climate Change News

UN panel will give $126b for climate.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has set up a high-level advisory panel to mobilise more than $US112 billion ($126.2 billion) in funding to help developing nations battle climate change. [News Source]

U.N. climate panel admits Dutch sea level flaw.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am

The U.N. panel of climate experts overstated how much of the Netherlands is below sea level, according to a preliminary report on Saturday, admitting yet another flaw after a row last month over Himalayan glacier melt. [News Source]

A look at ‘cap and trade’ vs. ‘cap and dividend.’
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am

Congress is considering several proposals to cap greenhouse gas emissions in an attempt to slow global warming and climate change and move the country away from reliance on fossil fuels like oil and coal. [News Source]

The professor’s amazing climate change retreat.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am

Thanks to the row over leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit, we now learn that this body’s director, Phil Jones, works in a disorganised fashion amid chaos and mess. [News Source]

Astonishment as scientist at centre of global warming email row admits data not well organised.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am

The academic at the centre of the "Climategate" affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble "keeping track" of the information. [News Source]

How will global warming change ecosystems?
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am

Scientists have made lots of projections over the past few years about how warming temperatures and a changing climate will affect the planet. [News Source]

Microsoft co-founder Gates tackling climate change.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has broken from philanthropic work fighting poverty and disease to take on another threat to the world's poor -- climate change. [News Source]

War at home: The local eco-warriors making a big noise.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am

Shivering atop a power-station chimney certainly makes a dramatic eco statement. But is direct action the best way to combat global warming? [News Source]

India, China resist calls to back climate pact.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am

India and China are resisting requests to sign up for the Copenhagen Accord for fighting global warming that risks unravelling without clear support from major emitters. [News Source]

Pollution creating acid oceans.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am

The world's oceans are becoming acidic at a faster rate than at any time in the last 65 million years, threatening marine life and food supplies across the globe, according to a new study. [News Source]

Many meteorologists break with science of global warming.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am

We now take you live to a storm within the ranks of America’s weathercasters. It is a quiet controversy about global warming. [News Source]