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Global Warming News Saturday September 2nd 2006
Climate change, policing on election radar
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is campaigning on the Sunshine Coast, where he has announced policies covering water safety, climate change and road rage. Coalition leader Lawrence Springborg, meanwhile, has returned to the campaign, launching the Coalition's police policy. Mr Beattie unveiled a cocktail of policies on the Sunshine Coast, which he says will be an important battleground. "Basically what we're spelling out today is a package to improve safety on our beaches, to minimise road rage and have a long-term plan to deal with climate change," he said.
There's a market for limiting global warming
In many ways California's new greenhouse gas emissions law is a symbolic gesture. What Gov. Schwarzenegger hails as groundbreaking leaves much to the imagination - and the state Air Resources Board's discretion - as to how California will reduce carbon dioxide output by 25 percent before the year 2020. But the law also lets the free market work its magic on greenhouse gases - and that's the best way to reduce pollutants widely considered to contribute to global warming.
Global Warming: An issue for all seasons
For those of you who have not yet been walloped by a tree hugger with the full transcript of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, Global Warming is heating the earths surface. As you may have noticed, this phenomenon - which allegedly could someday have cataclysmic consequences absent any mitigating actions in our part - has tempted many a scientist to don the coveted mantle of prophet from time to time.
Climate change and Health
Climate change accelerates the spread of disease primarily because warmer global temperatures enlarge the geographic range in which disease-carrying animals, insects and microorganisms - as well as the germs and viruses they carry - can survive. Analysts believe that, as a result of global temperature rises, diseases that were previously limited only to tropical areas may show up increasingly in other, previously cooler areas.
Experts come together to tackle Global Warming
Environmentalists and business leaders will gather in York next week to try and find ways of cutting global warming. Participants are expected to include Dan Gross, a senior executive from US-based Wal-Mart, Asda's parent company, who will explain via a videolink how the world's biggest supermarket chain is going green.
Global Warming Shows Up in Fly Genes
Climate warming over the last quarter century is writ large in tiny fruit flies, according to a genetic analysis. In a species of fruit fly, the frequencies of so-called inversions, in which a piece of chromosome is flipped around, were observed decades ago to correspond to the latitude at which the flies were found. In nearly all the sites where the flies have recently been sampled - a span of three continents - the frequency of specific inversions has increased hand in hand with climbing temperatures. "It's a very clear signal that climate warming is going to have a big impact on our environment," says Raymond Huey of the University of Washington, co-author of a report in the September 1 Science that documents the change.
Global Warming Skeptics
"Unlike many global warming skeptics, Dr. Lindzen is acknowledged even by his critics as being an outstanding atmospheric scientist. Even those who accept global warming theories usually agree there is a range of predicted global warming outcomes - between 3 and 15 degrees centigrade. This is the difference between a manageable change and a catastrophe. Which is it? While Al Gore, for whom I have huge respect, stumps the globe with newfound and natural passion, preaching the need for urgent action, I wonder how many people have really thought about what, in practice, it would mean to regulate carbon emissions."
Marchers' message on global warming: Do something now
Marchers continued on a journey Friday that started a day earlier in Ripton and is to end Monday in Burlington to bring attention to global warming. "It's perhaps the largest single demonstration yet in this country against global warming," said Bill McKibben, a Middlebury College environmental scholar whose book, "The End of Nature," was among the first to present the problem to a popular audience. Some 200 people from around the state and across the country joined the march and set off Thursday for the 49-mile trek from Ripton to Burlington, where a rally is set for Monday.
California's anti-global warming plan costly
California's ambitious plan to curb global warming has led to worries in the business circle as it will be costly to businesses as well as consumers. As a result of the plan, the state's basic industries, including utilities, oil refineries and steel mills, can expect to make major changes in how they do business, according to the Los Angeles Times on Friday. "And consumers may face higher bills for electricity, gasoline and other goods that use energy," the paper added. California reached an agreement to combat global warming on Wednesday, the first such action in the nation.