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Former Vice President Al Gore has collected nearly 300,000 electronic signatures asking Congress to take action on global warming, Gore said in an entry on his Web site Friday. Gore said the signatures demonstrate "that hundreds of thousands of people share my sense of urgency" on climate change. Gore is scheduled to testify before Congress about the issue Wednesday.
Within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say......By 2050, polar bears will mostly be found in zoos, their habitats gone.
By 2020, the United States will emit almost one-fifth more gases that lead to global warming than it did in 2000, increasing the risks of drought and scarce water supplies.
Fed up with federal inaction and convinced of the dangers from global warming, five governors from Western states agreed Monday to work together to reduce greenhouse gases.
"The Australian government on Tuesday announced plans to phase out incandescent light bulbs and replace them with more energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs across the country."
A group of global lawmakers signed a resolution Thursday urging a new agreement limiting greenhouse gas emissions by 2009 to succeed the Kyoto protocol, which is set to expire in 2012.
Al Gore announced on Thursday a series of worldwide concerts to focus on the threat of climate change, with a powerhouse lineup from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Snoop Dogg to Bon Jovi.
Forecasters expected up to 100 inches in places by the end of the weekend, but said the snow emergency still has a way to go to make history.
Chief executives of 10 major corporations urged Congress on Monday to require limits on greenhouse gases this year, contending voluntary efforts to combat climate change are inadequate.
Saying they share a moral purpose, a group of evangelicals and scientists said Wednesday they will work together to convince the nation's leaders that global warming is real.
The effects of global warming are being felt around the world and unless international efforts are launched within the next 10 years species will disappear and the earth will be a vastly less habitable planet by the end of the century, according to NASA scientist James E. Hansen.
Deepening drought in Australia. Stronger typhoons in Asia. Floods in Latin America. British climate scientists predict that a resurgent El Nino climate trend combined with higher levels of greenhouse gases could touch off a fresh round of ecological disasters — and make 2007 the world's hottest year on record.
ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in an effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted Wednesday.
The six largest automakers asked a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit by California that accuses them of harming human health and the environment by producing vehicles that contribute to global warming.
Environmentalists sued the Bush administration Tuesday for failing to produce a report on global warming's impact on the country's environment, economy and public health.
The U.S. Air Force has begun a two-week effort to haul scientists, supplies and equipment from this base for global warming research in Antarctica.
Raising the stakes in the global warming dispute with the United States and China, Britain issued a sweeping report Monday warning that the Earth faces a calamity on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression unless urgent action is taken.
A major British report said unchecked global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression.
The governors of California and New York announced a partnership Monday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by allowing power plants in their states and across the Northeast to trade emissions credits.
Global warming could strain the Northeast's power grid, farms, forests and marine fisheries by the next century unless carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by 3 percent each year, according to a report released Wednesday.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday signed into law a sweeping global warming initiative that imposes the nation's first cap on greenhouse gas emissions, saying the effort kicks off "a bold new era of environmental protection."
The planet's temperature has climbed to levels not seen in thousands of years, warming that has begun to affect plants and animals, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
British business mogul Richard Branson said Thursday he would invest about $3 billion to combat global warming over the next decade.
California is suing the auto industry over tailpipe emissions, marking the first time a state has sought monetary damages for the impact of global warming by vehicles.
Big wine fans take the growing conditions for their grapevines seriously. And recent genomics research out of the University Nevada Reno could lead to wine grapes that will be adapted to the more extreme weather filled future.
A new method to combat global warming by dumping iron into the sea needs to be treated with caution, governments and scientists warn Gland, Switzerland, November 19, 2007 – Neither the safety nor the effectiveness of ocean fertilization – adding iron or other 'micronutrie …
"The 12 big glaciers with these pro-glacial lakes have passed a tipping point," said NIWA's principal scientist Jim Salinger.
Climate change is causing more weather-related disasters than ever in the Himalayan region of Tibet, where the temperature is rising faster than the rest of China, state press reported Wednesday.
The extreme cold weather in the past centuries has coincided with wars, population collapse and economic crises.
With climate change placing increasing pressure on environmental resources, it is now being viewed as a threat to national security
What's the proper position for the government on a carbon tax for B.C.? It's not far from the middle of the fence -- more or less where Finance Minister Carole Taylor started out last September when she put the issue on the public agenda -- if you believe the legislature committe …
Bush Administration's SUV Standards Struck Down. The Bush Administration was wrong to ignore the causes and consequences of global warming when it set new fuel economy standards for light trucks and SUVs, a federal Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.
Some positive environmental news, for a change...
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could grow more quickly in the next 50 years than in the previous half-century, and technological change may cause increased emissions rather than control them, according to a new study by an MIT economist and his colleague.
Something is amiss in these United States. A pall cast over the land that forebodes a looming sense of dread. The laughter of average Americans is no more than a thin mask that barely conceals the anxiety we all feel.
The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change has finally released the last of its 2007 Fourth Assessment Reports together with a "Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) " (see: ).
The American people will soon be asked to support global warming cap-and-trade legislation that will be billed as a "solution" to global warming. These bills come at a time when the science is overwhelmingly taking away the basis for alarm.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) Summary for Policy Makers, published on 17 November, notes nuclear power as a currently available commercial climate change mitigation technology, and advanced nuclear power as an option before 2030.
Leaders of 16 Asian countries, including top polluters China and Japan, agreed to a vague pact on climate change on Wednesday, trying to put aside discord over Myanmar's suppression of democracy protests.
The average person doesn't mind sifting through their snail mail real quick and then discarding the junk mail, but that's just it, people are throwing this stuff away, not recycling.
The wind whipped through the sky. The river swelled above the tree line.
If you look at environmentally troubled Puget Sound, its waters usually appear healthy. On any given day, the climate seems pretty good, too. As U.N. scientists and leaders are warning, however, the time for debate about global warming is past.
As Rajendra Pachauri, a scientist and economist who leads the I.P.C.C., noted: "What we do in the next two or three years will define our future."
Can global warming push India to go 'up in smoke'? A study by a coalition of developmental and environmental groups, called 'Up in smoke', indicates that global warming can reverse decades of social and economic progress in India, and Asia, if no immediate action is taken.
The allegedly new climate bible is not even up to date. It dates back to the middle of 2006. The IPCC authors and experts looked at and assessed all the scientific literature in the field of climate research that had been published by that date.
Researchers have proposed a geoengineering solution to global warming that involves building a series of water treatment plants that enhance the ability of the ocean to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by removing hydrochloric acid from seawater by electrolysis.
The biggest study yet from a unique coalition of major UK poverty and environment groups, including church and Christian groups, has said that immediate action is needed before global warming pushes asia 'into reverse'.
I constructed a temperature history for different parts of the world from 169 glacier length records. Using a first-order theory of glacier dynamics, I related changes in glacier length to changes in temperature.
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