Warning: fopen(/usr/local/apache/www/globalwarminginthenews.com/htdocs/counts/total) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/www/globalwarminginthenews.com/2006/09/04.htm on line 18
Warning: flock() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /usr/local/www/globalwarminginthenews.com/2006/09/04.htm on line 18
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /usr/local/www/globalwarminginthenews.com/2006/09/04.htm on line 18
Warning: flock() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /usr/local/www/globalwarminginthenews.com/2006/09/04.htm on line 18
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /usr/local/www/globalwarminginthenews.com/2006/09/04.htm on line 18
Warning: fopen(/usr/local/apache/www/globalwarminginthenews.com/htdocs/counts/ 2006 09 04.htm) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/www/globalwarminginthenews.com/2006/09/04.htm on line 18
Warning: flock() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /usr/local/www/globalwarminginthenews.com/2006/09/04.htm on line 18
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /usr/local/www/globalwarminginthenews.com/2006/09/04.htm on line 18
Warning: flock() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /usr/local/www/globalwarminginthenews.com/2006/09/04.htm on line 18
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /usr/local/www/globalwarminginthenews.com/2006/09/04.htm on line 18
About •
Previous News •
Current News •
Links
Alternative Energy •
Bio Diesel •
Global warming •
Peak Oil •
Solar Energy •
Wind Power
Global Warming News Monday September 4th 2006
Chancellor accused of blocking global warming plans
Gordon Brown was accused today by one of Britain’s leading climate change scientists of blocking attempts to combat global warming. Peter Smith, an emeritus professor at Nottingham University, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer has repeatedly refused to provide adequate finances for green energy.
Global warming: Stormy Scotland up to 72% wetter
Rainstorms have dramatically increased in intensity over Scotland because of climate change over the past 40 years, according to researchers. Experts predict people living near rivers will experience worsening flooding as a result of a continuing trend which has seen extreme rainfall double over parts of the UK since the 1960s. The east of Scotland has been particularly badly hit, with the worst storms during the 1990s bringing an average of 72 per cent more rain than those in the three previous decades.
GOP tackles climate change
When he hung up the phone at his Washington office one day last year, Tucker Eskew wondered about the conversation he had just completed. The former spokesman for Gov. Carroll Campbell, a Republican, had been asked to help an environmental group fight against global warming, long-considered a Democratic cause championed by the likes of former Vice President Al Gore. “That was certainly a new and different prospect for my business,” said Eskew, now a political strategist and consultant.
Global warming - the heat is on
As the signs that the Earth is warming up become more apparent every day, the issue of global warming has reached a point where there is almost complete consensus that it is a reality requiring some urgent solutions. Scientific evidence shows the Earth's temperature has risen in the past 100 years. Most of the warming has taken place in the past 20 years, indicating acceleration in the process. It is now also widely accepted that most of the warming in the past 50 years can be attributed to human activities.
Scientists 'surprised' on climate change
Australia's rapid climate change had caught scientists by surprise, a leading water expert said today. Professor Peter Cullen, from the National Water Commission, said experts had expected the changes, which have left much of the country suffering drought conditions, but thought they would take much longer to take effect. "I don't think any of us expected the climate change we have experienced over the last five years. I was expecting climate change but I was expecting it to take 30 years," he said.
Tree-Planting Drive Seeks To Bring a New Urban Cool
This city believes an answer for global warming is growing on trees. About 375,000 shade trees have been given away to city residents in the past 16 years, and there are plans to plant at least 4 million more. To receive up to 10 free trees, residents simply call the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, a publicly owned power company.
Climate change helps diseases spread
Diseases not normally seen in Europe are now starting to appear because of the world's changing climate, a scientist says. Professor Paul Hunter, of the University of East Anglia in England, has told a British science conference that erratic weather that will cause flooding and drought will also lead to changes in the incidence of infectious disease. "There are already significant indications of disease burden occurring in Europe as a result of climate change," he told the conference.
Climate change policy under the spotlight
A day-long public symposium on global and domestic policies on climate change will be held at the Wellington Town Hall on 6 October. The Climate Change Policy Symposium will pay particular attention to the policy issues facing agriculture and forestry, and the balance between mitigation and adaptation. It will also consider the steps necessary to achieve the primary objective of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – to avoid dangerous human-induced climate change.
A market for global warming
Environment should benefit from state's vague plan to cut greenhouse gases, but economic effect uncertain In some ways, California's new greenhouse gas emissions law is a symbolic gesture, but in many others, it is the groundbreaking measure Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hails it as. The law, passed Thursday, 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 it also lets the free market work its magic on greenhouse gases - and that's the best way to reduce pollutants that are now almost universally agreed to be contributing to global warming.
California's Global-Warming Solution
After dinner one recent night, family an friends were discussing their views on global warming. With clarity and wisdom beyond her 15 years, my daughter said, "Dad, I'm scared and angry. Your generation created this problem. What are you going to do to fix it?" California's legislators rolled up their sleeves last week and got started on an answer, passing the most important legislation of the year, possibly of the decade: the California Global Warming Solutions Act. With any luck, its cooling effects will be felt for the rest of the century - and beyond.
Adapt to climate change, world leaders warned
World leaders need to think about adapting to climate change rather than focusing only on trying to fight it, a leading economist said today. Frances Cairncross, who chairs the Economic and Social Research Council, dismissed the Kyoto agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions as "largely ineffectual". To a large extent, global warming was an inevitable reality the world was going to have to cope with, she told the BA Festival of Science in Norwich.