Global warming efforts / California group wants to be active nationally (San Francisco Chronicle: Sat, 09 Dec) The coalition of environmental entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who lobbied hard for California's global warming law now wants to take its efforts nationwide. It just hasn't decided which policies to push. The Greentech Innovation Network -...
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Key plants at risk in global warming (Los Angeles Times: Sat, 09 Dec) Global warming will stifle life-giving microscopic plants in the surface layer of the oceans, accelerating climate change, according to a study in Thursday's journal Nature. Besides being the foundation of the marine food chain, phytoplankton remove more than 100 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere daily. As oceans' surface layer heats, it separates from the cooler depths where
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Global warming: A few skeptics still ask why it's happening (USA Today: Fri, 08 Dec) Scientists who do still harbor doubts about a looming global-warming crisis are quietly continuing to test alternative ideas about how climate works and what, if not the burning of fossil fuels, might be causing the temperature creep. This week some of the doubters testified at a Senate hearing on global warming.
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Carbon emissions to fuel future global warming just as they did 55 mln years ago (ANI via Yahoo! India News: Sat, 09 Dec) Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): According to a study by a researcher at Yale University, carbon dioxide emissions will play a vital role in present-day global warming, just as they had around 55 million years ago. Mark Pagani, associate professor of geology and geophysics at Yale, who conducted the study said this finding contradicted the position held by many climate-change skeptics that
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YOUR VIEWS: Work to stop global warming (La Crosse Tribune: Sat, 09 Dec) The Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, meeting in General Chapter, their highest governing body, from Nov. 17-22, in Milwaukee, addressed the urgent issue of global warming/climate change.
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