The Heat Is Online

Climate News Updates (2002-3)

· COP 9 ends with little progress, questionable future (Dec. 2003)

· Climate losses rise to $60 billion in 2003, 10 percent above 2002 (Dec. 2003)

· WHO:Climate change will sicken millions around the world:   (Dec. 2003)

· Russian threats leave Kyoto Protol dangling in limbo -- observers see bargaining ploy for "hot air" payments  (Dec. 2003) 

· Study: Kyoto goals must be four times higher to avoid catastrophic melt (Dec. 2003)

· Scientists: "No doubt" about escalating climate change (Dec. 2003)

· Scientists: planting trees in rainforest "no solution" (Nov. 2003)

· Pension Funds push to incorporate climate risks (Nov. 2003)

· Rising temperatures drive fourth consecutive drop in crop yields (Sept. 2003)

· ExxonMobil projects 50 percent increase in CO2 emissions by 2020 (Nov. 2003)

· Researchers detect signature of climate change in the U.S. (Nov. 2003)

· States drive climate action in the absence of federal leadership (Oct. 2003)

· Warming is driving an "ecological meltdown" in the North Sea (Oct. 2003)

· September, 2003 was warmest September on record (Oct. 2003)

· Tally finds 35,000 died in European heat wave (Oct. 2003)

· Russia remains non-commital about Kyoto Protocol (Sept. 2003)

·  Australian drought, driven by tightening polar winds, (Sept. 2003) slashes farming incomes by half (Oct. 2003)

· CO2 seen acidifying the world's oceans (Sept. 2003)

· 3,000-year-old Arctic ice shelf breaks up (Sept. 2003)

 · Methane from drilling adds more to warming than previously estimated (Oct. 2003)

 ·  Three West Coast states announce new climate partnership (Sept. 2003)

 ·  EU plans move to a hydrogen economy (Sept. 2003)

 · Entergy chief blasts Bush climate policies (Sept. 2003)

· UN: Climate change driving the global spread of wildfires  (Sept. 2003)

 · Melting glaciers threaten Kazakhstan's political stability (Sept. 2003)

 ·  European grain supplies devastated by summer heat wave (Aug. 2003)

 · Cheney energy panel succeeds in stonewalling GAO  (Aug.2003)

 · AGs: White House conspired with Exxon-funded right-wing group to suppress US climate report (Aug.2003)

 · EU adopts emissions trading law (July, 2003)

 · European heat wave sets all-time record in Britain, while officials estimate that as many as 11,000 people have died from the heat in France and 1,300 in Portugal (Aug. 2003) while more than 4,000 elderly people died of heat imipacts in Italy (Sept. 2003)

 · Science journal editors resign over flaws in API-funded paper by "greenhouse skeptics" (July, 2003)

 · Drought cripples European economy (July, 2003)

 · Bush plan:  no action, further study of natural variability (July, 2003)

 · EU adopts emissions trading law (July, 2003)

 · WMO: Warming drives weather  extremes (July, 2003)

 · Bush EPA drops references to climate perils (June, 2003)

 · Drought cripples European economy (July, 2003)

 · Bush plan: no action, further study of natural variability (July, 2003)

· EU adopts emissions trading law (July, 2003)

· WMO: Warming drives weather  extremes (July, 2003)

· Bush EPA drops references to climate perils (June, 2003)

· Cambodia monsoons drive dengue fever epidemic (July, 2003)

· Researchers see climate change driving mass extinction  (June, 2003)

 · All 50 U.S. states warn of West Nile Virus (June, 2003)

 · Survey: more than 80 percent of Americans want action on climate (June, 2003)

 · Hydrogen leakage could threaten ozone layer (June, 2003)

 · Utah Cricket invasion called "worst in memory" (June, 2003)

 · Heat deaths in India, Pakistan top 1,400 (June, 2003)

 · ExxonMobil quietly bankrolls a cadre of "naysayer" groups (May, 2003)

 · Sri Lanka's  worst flooding in memory killed 260 people, left 500 missing and left another 350,000 without homes (May, 2003)

 · Swiss Re factors greenhouse actions into liability coverage policies (May, 2003)

 · New GOP memo to Bush: Deny Scientific Consensus (March, 2003)

· Industry-funded skeptics "trash" climate reconstruction (June, 2003)

· Doctors see climate playing a role in an unprecedented explosion of infectious disease (May, 2003)

· Land Use changes seen bigger driver of warming than previously thought (May, 2003)

· Australia reiterates opposition to Kyoto Protocol (June, 2003)

 · ExxonMobil rated worst of all oil majors on climate practices (May, 2003)

 · Flooding, 225 twisters kill 42 in the U.S. Midwest and South (May, 2003)

 · New GOP memo to Bush: Deny Scientific Consensus (March, 2003)

 · Blair declares goal of 60 percent cuts in 50 years (Feb. 2003)· "Preventable" malaria kills 3,000 African youngsters a day (April, 2003)

 ·German Navy launches first fuel-cell powered submarine (April, 2003)

· Atmospheric pressure changes from ghgs is redistributing moisture in the atmosphere (March, 2003)

· NRC faults Bush climate research agenda (Feb. 2003)

· Pacific Ocean temperatures linked to droughts around the world (Jan. 2003)

· Brutal East Coast cold snap tied to warming (Jan. 2003)

· Research: warming is pushing the tropopause higher (Jan. 2003)

· African crop failures tied to warming-driven weather extremes (Jan. 2003)

· Lomborg is "scientifically dishonest" -- Danish government (Jan., Aug. 2003)

· Small warming triggers large migrations (Jan. 2003)

· 2002 replaces 2001 as second hottest year (Dec. 2002)

· Pachauri sees climate impacts prompting more terrorism (Dec. 2002)

· E.U. approves formal emissions trading market as Canada ratifies Kyoto Protocol (Dec. 2002)

· Two new studies show Arctic ice melt is accelerating, while snow patterns in western Canada show very rapid warming (Nov. 2002)

· While ExxonMobil calls for years or research on renewables . . . Toyota puts fuel cell cars on the streets of Tokyo and California (Dec. 2002)

· Industry applauds Bush's call for years of more climate research (Nov. 2002). . . but scientists say we know enough to act (Dec. 2002)

· While offshore windfarms boom in Europe, renewable energy use in U.S. hits lowest level in 12 years (Dec. 2002)

· Warming threatens reindeers' winter food supplies (Dec. 2002) and the survival of polar bears (Jan. 2003)

· Elevated CO2 suppresses plant growth in a greenhouse world (Dec. 2002)

· EPA guts clean air rules (Nov 2002)

· Scientists foresee Western U.S. water crisis becoming disastrous (Nov. 2002)

· Tree farms said to emit more CO2 than they absorb -- for at least a decade (Oct. 2002)

· CoP 8 or Cop out? climate talks flame out (Nov. 2002)

· As Bush dawdles, the states are taking the lead (Nov. 2002)

· Experts urge crash program to develop renewables (Nov. 2002)

· Swiss Re sees $150 billion annual losses from climate impacts within decade, while Munich Re foresees $70 billion in losses in 2002 (Oct. 2002)

· ExxonMobil changes its public rhetoric on climate change (Oct. 2002)...but not its position.(Nov. 2002)

· U.S.City Health Commissioners prepare for climate-driven diseases (Oct. 2002)

· Plant extinctions seen soaring from warming, settlements (Nov. 2002)

· US pullout forces Kyoto Delegates to focus on adaptation (Oct. 2002)

· Mt. Kilimanjaro, which has lost 80 percent of its glaciers since 1900, could lose the rest of its ice cover in 20 years (Oct. 2002)

· Central America drought seen affecting 8 million people (Sept. 2002)

· Russia tells WSSD it will ratify Kyoto Protocol, putting it into force (Sept. 2002)

· Northern Virginia hit with malaria (Sept. 2002)

· Russian Glacier collapse stirs fears for global cryosphere (Sept. 2002)

· CDC calls West Nile Virus "emerging infectious epidemic" as disease spreads to 42 states in the U.S. infecting 3,104 and killing 172 people (Sept., Oct. 2002)

· Warming collapses glacier in Russia, hundreds missing (Sept. 2002)

· At WSSD UN Climate Chief Pachauri links weather extremes to warming as U.S. guts clean energy plan (Sept. 2002)

· Catastrophic flooding in Europe worst in a century (Aug. 2002)

· Aphids advance up Himalayas as glaciers mark swift retreat -- Indian Sunday Express (Sept. 2002)

· Drought, heat imperil trees in eastern U.S. (Sept. 2002)

· 2002 on track to be hottest year ever (Aug. 2002)

· WHO warns of coming pandemic of dengue fever (Aug. 2002)

· Chinese see global warming behind flooding of normally arid regions (Aug. 2002)

· CO2-fueled vines choke out trees in Amazonia (Aug. 2002)

· Nature Study: Trees' capacity to absorb CO2 is overestimated (Aug. 2002)

· Drought-driven grid collapse leaves 235 million in India with no power (Aug. 2002)

· Are warming waters spawning giant squid? (Aug.2002)

· Skies in Moscow blackened by smoke from nearby wildfires (Aug. 2002)

· Tropical forests may soon turn from sinks to sources (Aug. 2002)

· Drought, grasshoppers threaten Canadian grain output (Aug. 2002)

· Following a heat wave that killed 1,000 people, flooding has displaced more than 5 million people in India and Bangladesh (July, 2002)

· Jeffords: Bush plans to block climate talks in Johannesburg (July, 2002)

· California mandates clean cars (July 2002)

· Officials report West Nile in 26 states (July, 2002)

· Alaskan glaciers melting twice as fast as previously thought (July, 2002)

· Poll: 76% of US voters want mandatory emissions cuts: UCS (July, 2002)

· Heating accelerates reproduction of Alaskan bark beetles (June, 2002)

· Warming will make Earth sicker (June, 2002)

· Warming accelerates melting of Greenland ice sheet (June, 2002)

· Bush: US will have to live with serious climate impacts (June, 2002)

· 15-member European Union, joined by Japan, ratifies Kyoto Protocol, while Australia rejects it (June, 2002)

· Inuit bear witness to dramatic climate changes, as does senator (May, June, 2002)

· Bush adviser: No US role in Kyoto for 10 years (May, 2002)

· More than 1,000 die in brutal heat wave in India (May, 2002)

· Antarctic ice breakups alarm scientists (May, 2002)

· New IPCC Chief Pachauri issues strong warning about coming climate impacts on vulnerable countries (April, 2002)

· First three months of 2002 were the hottest ever recorded (April, 2002)

· Watson ousted as IPCC chair (April, 2002)

· ExxonMobil behind White House move to oust head of IPCC (April, 2002)

· Seal pups casualties of early spring (April, 2002)

· Species all over the world show affects of warming (March, 2002)

· Rhode Island-sized Antarctic ice shelf breaks off (March, 2002)

· Thousands of Guatemalan children acutely malnourished from drought (March, 2002)

· "Skeptics" call on White House, OMB to kill National Assessment (March 2002)

· GHGs linked to fiercer El Ninos (Feb. 2002)

· U.S.winter temperatures set new record (Feb. 2002)

· Bush climate plan: business as usual (Feb. 2002)

· R.I.P. Global Climate Coalition (Feb. 2002)

· Lewis & Clark students vote themselves higher fees to offset warming (Feb. 2002)

· In Memoriam: Anil Agarwal, at 54 (Jan. 2002)