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World NewsGlobal Warming News Saturday September 23rd 2006
Clinton obtains $7bn in pledges
(Monterey County Herald) A conference hosted by Bill Clinton on world problems ended Friday with the former president announcing a total of $7.3 billion in pledges to help reduce global warming and fight Third World poverty, disease and ethnic strife. Last year's gathering produced 300 commitments worth $2.5 billion.
Wal-Mart 5-Year Plan to Reduce Packaging
(Houston Chronicle) Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Friday announced a five-year program with its suppliers to help reduce overall packaging by 5 percent, hoping to keep trash out of landfills and global-warming gases out of the atmosphere.
Demand for electricity 'to double'
(NEWS.com.au) Australia's domestic consumption of natural gas is forecast to almost double over the next 25 years, driven by demand from the electricity generation, mining and manufacturing sectors.
Murdoch plans environmental push
(MSNBC) Mr Murdoch, better known as a sceptic on global warming, said at a conference organised by Bill Clinton, former US president, that climate change was important and he was planning to put in place strategies across his News Corp media business to tackle it.
Beckett warns of developing nations' link to climate change
(Scotsman) Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, last night warned growing industrialisation and prosperity in the developing world is accelerating climate change and risks global disaster. She told the UN's annual General Assembly in New York: "If we all try to free ride, we will end up in free fall, with accelerating climate change the result of our collective failure.
Global warming film lights fire under Congress
(San Francisco Chronicle) Congress, it appears, is channeling Al Gore. After years of debating whether global warming was real or a hoax, the House and Senate staged six hearings this week on how the government should respond to climate change. And the Bush administration, which has downplayed the threat of global warming during its six years in office, released a 244-page strategic report this week laying out plans to address the rapid warming of the planet.
Dinosaurs' Climate Shifted Too
(Newswise ) Ancient rocks from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean suggest dramatic climate changes during the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era, a time once thought to have been monotonously hot and humid.
Huge lake has melted out of Arctic sea ice
(Hamilton Spectator) omething unusual is going on in the Beaufort Sea, a remote part of the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska. Over the past six weeks, a huge "lake" bigger than the state of Indiana has melted out of the sea ice.
Look first at overpopulation
(Contra Costa Times) "Are we to believe that population has no impact on global warming? The world population has increased from 1 billion in 1804 to over 6 billion in 2004, with a projected level of 7 billion in 2012. This is not speculation, but proven fact over the history of mankind, since man stopped walking on all fours."
Waterway policies make flooding more likely
(Contra Costa Times) "What will happen to California when an endless, inland tsunami flows out onto the valley floor through a breached levee near you? Every river, including the Sacramento, Feather, American, Yuba and San Joaquin, has the potential to unleash its own massive, unstoppable rogue torrent."
4,000 congregations join together across the country
(Religion News Service) On October 1st8th, in churches, mosques, synagogues and halls of worship across the nation, congregations are participating in an unprecedented inter-religious screening and discussion of educational films about global warming, featuring Paramount's An Inconvenient Truth, HBO's Too Hot Not to Handle and the independent documentary Lighten Up. The event, called "Spotlight on Global Warming" is being organized by Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) a nationwide movement to engage people of faith in the urgency to address global warming.
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