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Global Warming News Friday September 8th 2006
Global warming march
By the end of a five-day walk from Ripton to Burlington protesting political inaction on global warming, more than 1,000 people had joined the march. The event, which may have been the largest single demonstration in the nation on climate change, culminated in a two-hour rally in Burlington’s Battery Park on Labor Day. As importantly, organizers of the five-day march were able to get the Vermont candidates for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House from several parties, and Democratic candidate for governor Scudder Parker to walk onto the stage at Monday’s rally and sign a pledge to support retiring Sen. James Jeffords’ bill to fight global warming.
Global warming taking earth back to dinosaur era
Global warming over the coming century could mean a return of temperatures last seen in the age of the dinosaur and lead to the extinction of up to half of all species, a scientist said on Thursday. Not only will carbon dioxide levels be at the highest levels for 24 million years, but global average temperatures will be higher than for up to 10 million years, said Chris Thomas of the University of York. Between 10 and 99 percent of species will be faced with atmospheric conditions that last existed before they evolved, and as a result from 10-50 percent of them could disappear.
Progress on climate change - or just hot air?
The Independent newspaper (Sep 1st 06) had a banner front-page headline 'The Green Revolution': "In California" the paper said, "Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has defied both his President and his own party to impose the toughest anti-pollution laws in the world... while 5000 miles away in Yorkshire, protesters fight to close Drax Power Station, the worst polluter in Britain and symbol of our failure to act over global warming." One in eight Americans lives in California. If its economy were independent it would be the sixth biggest in the world.
Climate change threatens Russia with African epidemics
Russia’s climate has been changing to such extent for the last years that it has become quite welcoming for southern parasites causing fatal illnesses. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the epidemics spreading connected with climate change causes deaths of about 154,000 people annually. Russia in the coming years will be threatened by epidemics of illnesses earlier spread only in Africa and Central Asia.
Climate change linked with rise of world's earliest civilisations
Past changes to the climate that generated increasingly arid conditions for ancient peoples helped to trigger the rise of the earliest civilisations on three continents, a study has found. The ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, south Asia, China and northern South America all owe some of their initial success to significant changes in rainfall and temperature, a climatologist said yesterday. The conventional view of how early civilisations developed is that they benefited from the steady conditions of a predictable period of climate constancy. However, Nick Brooks, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, believes there is mounting evidence to show that past civilisations grew in response to climate change rather than being the result of climate stability.
Fear of global warming unites evangelicals, environmentalists in US
Tending to your soul at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Boise, Idaho, involves recycling old cell phones and printer cartridges in the church lobby, pulling noxious weeds in the backcountry and fixing worn-out hiking trails in the mountains. This is part of the ministry of Tri Robinson, a former biology teacher whose rereading of the Bible led him to the belief that Christians focused on Scripture need to combat global warming and save the Earth. "All of a sudden Boise Vineyard is one of the most important driving forces in our community for the environment," Robinson said. "People say, 'Why are you doing that?' Because God wants it."
Scientist's climate-change book is an urgent call to action
James Lovelock is like a revered family doctor forced to pronounce a grave prognosis, only his "patient" happens to be the Earth. The British scientist, now in his late 80s, has spent three decades expounding on his "Gaia theory" of this planet, which holds that it is a living organism, balancing many disparate demands and stresses. The theory was controversial at first, but has gained increasing acceptance in passing years. Lovelock is saddened to report the Earth's current health is not only imperiled by the onrush of climate change/global warming, it may well have already passed a tipping point where its impact is irreversible.
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