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Global Warming News Wednesday September 20th 2006
Clinton kicks off appeal to fight global problems
(ABC News) Former U.S. President Bill Clinton called together some of the world's richest and most influential people on Wednesday in hopes of coming up with more than $2.5 billion and ideas on how to stop conflict, health woes, poverty and climate change. Among 1,000 people attending the second annual Clinton Global Initiative, or CGI — many paying $15,000 each — were billionaire businessmen Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Richard Branson, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and 50 current and former heads of state.
Report on coastal impact of global warming offers soggy forecast ...
(Brunswick Times Record) The Natural Resources Council of Maine released a report today saying that, if unchecked, global warming could put Bath Iron Works and the Bath Police Department under water. How wet? The report shows 21 percent - or 3,186 acres - of Harpswell at risk of being submerged by the six-meter estimate.
Business Tides Are Changing in Oceanography
(Newswise (press release)) Big business is taking notice of what was long thought of as small money in oceanography. The indicator of this shift is in the emergence of large companies like Teledyne Corp. purchasing smaller companies like Benthos on Cape Cod and RD Instruments in San Diego. This is not an isolated case Lockheed Martin has also taken notice and most recently purchased Sippican also a Cape Cod based company.
Aspen sunflower warns of global warming
(United Press International) A U.S. biologist says the Aspen sunflower of the Rocky Mountains could be a "canary in the mine," warning of the consequences of global warming. University of Maryland Biology Professor David Inouye says the buds of aspen sunflowers have been killed by frost in each of the past seven years, meaning they aren't producing flowers, and, therefore, not producing seeds.
Emails indicate Administration blocked scientist from discussing ...
(Raw Story) The Department of Commerce attempted to block a government scientist from discussing the impact of global warming on hurricanes, according to a series of emails obtained by RAW STORY. In the documents, a request from CNBC's On The Money for an appearance by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) scientist Tom Knutson was, for some reason, forwarded to the press office for the United States Department of Commerce and answered by Chuck Fuqua, who was previously the 2004 Republican National Convention Director of Media Operations.
World Bank Addresses Climate Change
(MSN Money) The World Bank plans to help developing countries better address the impact of climate change, including the effect of droughts and floods on agriculture and how rising sea levels threaten coastal areas. The bank's chief scientist, Bob Watson, also said that as much as 40 percent of its $20 billion in annual loans and grants is going to projects that may be at risk because of climate change.
Tree Rings Provide a 200-Year-Old Hurricane Record
(National Science Foundation (press release)) Scientists have shown that an age-old "database"-tree rings-contains surprisingly accurate information about hurricane activity that occurred hundreds of years ago. By measuring different chemical forms of oxygen present in the rings, researchers identified periods when hurricanes hit areas of the Southeast more than 100 years before modern records were kept.
Sea levels are rising faster than predicted, warns Antarctic ...
(Independent) The global sea level rise caused by climate change, severely threatening many of the world's coastal and low-lying areas from Bangladesh to East Anglia, is proceeding faster than UN scientists predicted only five years ago, Professor Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, said yesterday.
Iceland's president says the world should look to icebound North ...
(International Herald Tribune) Iceland's president is offering his tiny North Atlantic country as a case study for the world as it works its way through the perils of global warming. Iceland is already experiencing clear signs of climate change, but also offers a good source of energy that has not yet been tapped, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson told an audience at the Washington Summit on Climate Stabilization on Tuesday.
American consumption and Chinese economic growth makes transition ...
(Fuel Cell Today) A hydrogen-powered world is still some way off after provision is made for American consumption and Chinese economic growth, according to leading US manufacturers and scientists. DaimlerChrysler's head of research Thomas Weber told Reuters that, with 900 million vehicles on the road and annual production running at more than 50 million units, it would take time to make the transition to fuel cell-powered cars.
BSkyB aims to spread word on climate change
(Reuters) UK satellite TV operator BSkyB wants to use its extensive access to consumers to hammer home the threat of climate change, Chief Executive James Murdoch told business leaders on Wednesday. "A company such as ours can bring the climate change debate into the household," he said at the British launch of the Carbon Disclosure Project, a survey of industry awareness about climate change.
The heat is on to stop global warming
(Guardian Unlimited) There are three things on which almost all climate scientists are now agreed. The first is that man-made climate change is real. The second is that we need to take action. The third is that, to avert catastrophic effects on both humans and ecosystems, we should seek to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.
Pine Beetle spreading faster than expected
(Vanderhoof Omineca Express) The mountain pine beetle's damage to B.C. forests is accelerating and will likely have killed more than half the lodgepole pine trees in the province by next year, according to a new report from the forests ministry. With far more trees being killed than can be harvested, the provincial government is looking for firms to build biomass power projects that would use up some of the timber that can't be milled, and is also investigating the export of logs.
ESA: Arctic ice anomaly shocks scientists
(Political Gateway) The European Space Agency says satellite images show, for the first time, dramatic openings over large areas in the Arctic's perennial sea ice pack. The Paris-based ESA said the openings over an area larger than the British Isles extend from north of Svalbard into the Russian Arctic and all the way to the North Pole.
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