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Global Warming News Thursday August 31st 2006
California OKs Global Warming Law Deal
California will become the first state to impose a cap on all greenhouse gas emissions, including those from industrial plants, under a landmark deal reached Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative Democrats. The agreement marks a clear break with the Bush administration and puts California on a path to reducing its emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by an estimated 25 percent by 2020. 
Climate change protesters feel the heat
Tensions rose yesterday between police and a small but determined camp of climate change protesters who hope to disrupt Britain's biggest power station today. Activists from across the country refused to allow officers to enter a field near the giant cooling towers of Drax in North Yorkshire after previously amicable negotiations over regular informal patrols broke down. There were also protests about allegedly heavy-handed searches as a shuttle bus ferried protesters from Selby rail and bus stations three miles away. The North Yorkshire force invoked section 60 of the Public Order Act late on Tuesday to search "suspicious" newcomers to the two-acre field.
Climate change brings us an uncomplicated choice
The Archbishop of Canterbury recently described the economy as "a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment". Calling for an immediate response to climate change, he said "the Earth itself is what ultimately controls economic activity because it is the source of the materials upon which economic activity works". His view, echoed by the likes of Nobel economics laureates Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz among a great many others, is that we need a new type of market economics - an approach that actually takes the planet into account.
Ballard group pushing plan to help fight global warming
Can Ballard become the first carbon-neutral community in the country? The first to fully neutralize its contribution to global warming? A gathering of politicians, environmentalists and businesspeople on Wednesday answered that question with a definite "yes." All it takes is a couple of mouse clicks of an online calculator to figure out the size of a home or business' carbon dioxide footprint, with the householder or business owner then offsetting that effect with a donation to a non-profit organization that will use the money for projects aimed at slowing global warming.
A Global Warming Shaggy Dog Story from ABC
"Last Days on Planet Earth" was the alarming title of ABC's 20/20 special tonight, a show that presented seven frightening scenarios that could lead to our extinction. But the bottom six in the countdown, things like supervolcanoes and asteroid strikes, nuclear annihilation and superbugs (natural and man-made) were only window dressing for the real point of the show; the number one threat to human existence...global warming. Hostess Elizabeth Vargas trotted out carefully selected environmental scientists to explain the concept to anyone who has been comatose for the past decade or so, leading up to the star of this 20/20 special - Al Gore.
Supreme Court case challenges Bush stance on global warming.
California and 11 other states are suing EPA to force curbs on greenhouse gases. Opening briefs are due before the U.S. Supreme Court today in a case challenging the Bush administration's reluctance to issue regulations to control global warming. California and 11 other states have joined with environmental groups in a legal attack they hope will compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take action to curb the release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere.
Global warming forcing U.S. coastal population to move inland - An Estimated 250,000 Katrina Evacuees Are Now Climate Refugees
"Those of us who track the effects of global warming had assumed that the first large flow of climate refugees would likely be in the South Pacific with the abandonment of Tuvalu or other low-lying islands. We were wrong. The first massive movement of climate refugees has been that of people away from the Gulf Coast of the United States."
Global warming pushes science to the limits
Scientists may be fighting a losing battle in their efforts to keep pace with the fast rate of change to mountain environments caused by rising temperatures. There was a sense of urgency at the International Disaster Reduction Conference in Davos this week and a belief that an integrated approach was needed to prevent huge loss of life. "We observe that the threat is not necessarily increasing but is definitely changing," geography researcher Christian Huggel of Zurich University told swissinfo.
Join forces to fight climate change
Urgent action is needed to minimise the impact of global warning on food production, climate change experts and landowners have warned. Summer droughts are likely to become longer and more frequent, according to a study by the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit and the Country Land and Business Association (CLA). Senior climate scientist and report co-author David Viner said: "Hotter summers, increased droughts and sporadic, heavy rainfall have huge implications for agriculture. Sea level rise remains a major threat." Adapting to global warming will not be easy, warns the report.
Latin America told to baton down hatches for climate change
Latin America and the Caribbean will be beset with devastating hurricanes, floods and tropical storms that will dwarf Hurricane Katrina if climate change is allowed to continue unchecked, according to a report by a coalition of development and environment groups. The report, Up in smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean, which was co-ordinated by the UK-based New Economics Foundation and International Institute for Environment and Development, says that the region's formerly predictable temperature and rainfall patterns are already changing, and the trend is set to worsen.