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Updates: January -- June, 2007
*
Fast food giants
see climate
threat to key crops
(May, 2007)
*
Antarctic interior
suffered
rapid melting
in 2005 (May, 2007)
* Have we turned
carbon sinks
into
carbon sources
? (May, 2007)
*
Scientists rule out
"
Day After Tomorrow
" scenario (May, 2007)
*
US
to underwrite $35 billion in
new coal plant loans
(May, 2007)
* Climate to be subject of
National Intelligence Estimate
(May, 2007)
*
UN
raises environmental
red flag on biofuels
(May, 2007)
*
Warming
confuses
migratory patterns
of many species (May, 2007)
*
IPCC III
:The time for a (still-affordable)
global fuel switch
is now (May, 2007)
* Researchers:
Capacity of Earth's sinks
is
overestimated
(May, 2007)
*
Butterflies
are hatching
two months early
in Britain (May, 2007)
*
Swedish forest industry
threatened by
beetle infestation
(May, 2007)
*
Bangladesh
sees first movements of
climate refugees
(May, 2007)
* As the rate of
Arctic ice melt
outpaces projections
. . .
*
US, China
try to
weaken IPCC
recommendations (April, 2007)
*
Germany
vows
40 percent cuts by 2020
(April, 2007)
*
Wolfowitz aide guts
World Bank estimates
of climate danger (April, 2007)
*
EC
concerned biofuels will
threaten rainforests
(April, 2007)
*
New island
emerges from
Greenland ice melt
(April, 2007)
*
Ocean acidity
has risen
30 percent
(April, 2007)
*
Florida
feels
real-time climate impacts
(April, 2007)
*
US insured climate losses
could exceed
$900 billion
(April, 2007)
*
Norway
to go
carbon-neutral
by 2050 (April, 2007)
*
Skeptics
complaint: "
Nobody's listening
!" (April, 2007)
*
Ethanol
may pose
greater health threat
than gasoline (April, 2007)
* How
the system
keeps
Katrina's victims
homeless (April, 2007)
* Scientists detail coming
US
water woes
(April, 2007)
* As
G-8
pushes for carbon cuts,
World Bank
funds
more oil
(April, 2007)
*
IPCC II
details
coming impacts
in
the US
(April, 2007)
*
Rising ocean
swallows
Indian island
(April, 2007)
*
IPCC
sounds warning on
ocean acidification
(April, 2007)
*
TXU
swaps
coal for nukes
(April, 2007)
*
Senate bill
casts climate as
national security
issue (April, 2007)
* While
IPCC II
issues
most dire warning yet
. . .
*
Scientists
charge governments with
softening report
(April, 2007)
*
NET displays
changes
from each new degree of warming (April, 2007)
*
Supreme Court
tells Bush to
regulate auto emissions
(April, 2007)
* But
Bush tells court
: "
Thanks, but no thanks
" (April, 2007)
*
CEI
does a
U-Turn
on climate science (March, 2007)
* Earth's
climate sentivity
consistent
for 420 million years
(March, 2007)
*
US Carbon Subsidies
Top
$37 Billion in 2007
(March, 2007)
*
Mining CEO
warns against
sequestration and trading
(March, 2007)
* Michael Dorsey: "
Why
Carbon Trading
Won't Work
"
* Southern Ocean currents
seen slowing
(March, 2007)
* Antarctic meltdown seen
accelerating
(March, 2007)
* Al Gore presents
10-point action agenda
to Congress (March, 2007)
*
Darfur
:
a horrble consequence
of
climate change
(March, 2007)
* Scientific American: IPCC
underestimates
coming changes
(March, 2007)
* Warming cuts crop yields by
$5 billion in 20 years
(March, 2007)
* Winter of 2006-07 is
hottest on record
(March, 2007)
* Government secrecy on science seen
spreading
(March, 2007)
Welcome
to
Planet Edsel
(March, 2007)
* US Carbon Subsidies Top
$37 Billion in 2007
(March, 2007)
* EU agrees on
20 percent cuts below 1990 by 2020
(March, 2007)
* Administration
muzzles wildllife officials
on climate changes
(March, 2007)
* BP, Shell to push
wind development
(March, 2007)
* Inuit: US climate policy violates "
human rights
"
(March, 2007)
* Science panel calls for
immediate action
to avert catastrophe
(Feb. 2007)
* Five western states form
climate compact
(Feb. 2007)
Kathy Ellison's
New York Times
Op-Ed on "
Rewiring the World
"
(May, 2006)
From
Montreal:
A brief
Commentary
(Dec. 2005)
*
Administration
muzzles wildllife officials
on climate changes
(March, 2007)
*
BP, Shell
to push
wind development
(March, 2007)
*
Inuit
: US climate policy violates "
human rights
"
(March, 2007)
*
Science panel
calls for
immediate action
to avert catastrophe
(Feb. 2007)
*
Five
western states
form
climate compact
(Feb. 2007)
* Climate
big winner
in
TXU takeover
? (Feb. 2007)
*
Crop yields
seen as
first casualties
of warming (Feb. 2007)
*
Cheney
: "
big debate" needed
to find cause of warming (Feb. 2007)
*
Delaware
bars skeptical climatologist
from discussing climate (Feb. 2007)
* Arctic
ice melt
depletes northeastern US cod stocks
(Feb. 2007)
*
Carbon fallout
is
"strangling" Southern Ocean
(Feb. 2007)
*Watchdog:
carbon "offsets"
use
Enron-type accounting
(Feb. 2007)
* Scientists:
ice cap meltdown
seems
inevitable
(Feb. 2007)
Blakemore
on IPCC
:
The difference "
is in the audience
"
(Jan. 2007)
* Scientists:
ice cap meltdown
seems
inevitable
(Feb. 2007)
* Finding:
Warming-driven wind shifts
create
marine "dead zones
" (Feb. 2007)
*
January
2007 was
hottest ever
-- by a lot (Feb. 2007)
* Stability of
Antarctic ice sheets
in doubt
(Feb. 2007)
* New
IPCC report
paints
very bleak future
(Feb. 2007)
* Report indicates
impacts by degree
(Feb. 2007)
*
ExxonMobil
pays scientists to trash
IPCC report (Feb. 2007)
*
Chirac
threatens to
tax US exports
for non-Kyoto compliance
(Feb. 2007)
*
Scientists
report
widespread pressure
from
White House
(Jan. 2007)
*
Australians
will be forced to drink recycled
waste water
(Jan.2007)
* Scientists see
inevitable
1,000-year sea level rise
(Jan. 2007)
* Scientists say new
IPCC report
understates impacts
(Jan. 2007)
*
"Misunderstood" Exmo
seems to
change its tune
(Feb. 2007)
*
Oil giant
declares support for
global trading system
(Feb. 2007)
*
Spain
emerges as
"poster child"
for climate impacts (Feb. 2007)
* Al Gore
,
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
nominated for
Nobel Peace Price
(Feb.2007)
*
UN Chief
: Warming hits
poor countries hardest
(Feb.2007)
* New
IPCC report
paints
very bleak future
(Feb. 2007)
* Report indicates
impacts by degree
(Feb. 2007)
*
ExxonMobil
pays scientists to trash
IPCC report (Feb. 2007)
*
Chirac
threatens to
tax US exports
for non-Kyoto compliance (Feb. 2007)
* Scientists see
inevitable
1,000-year sea level rise
(Jan. 2007)
* Scientists say new
IPCC report
understates impacts
(Jan. 2007)
*
Press
cites
softening
of skeptics' positions (Feb. 2007)
*
Exxon, TXU, Wells Fargo
on
climate blacklist
(Feb. 2007)
* But EXMO
declares support
for global trading system (Feb. 2007)
*
"Misunderstood" Exmo
seems to
change its tune
(Feb. 2007)
*
Oil giant
declares support for
global trading system
(Feb. 2007)
*
Spain
emerges as
"poster child"
for climate impacts (Feb. 2007)
* Al Gore
,
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
nominated for
Nobel Peace Price
(Feb.2007)
*
UN Chief
: Warming hits
poor countries hardest
(Feb.2007)
*
Scientists
report
widespread pressure
from
White House
(Jan. 2007)
*
Australians
will be forced to drink recycled
waste water
(Jan.2007)
* Scientists see
inevitable
1,000-year sea level rise
(Jan. 2007)
* Scientists say new
IPCC report
understates impacts
(Jan. 2007)
*
Pew
:Majority of Americans deny
humans cause warming
: (Jan.2007)
*While in
Canada
, climate change tops
public concern
(Jan. 2007)
* A u-turn
on climate
in Bush's State of the Union? (Jan. 2007)
*
Bush
call for energy independence
disappoints executives
(Jan.2007)
* Panel:
Warming
poses
terrorism security threat
(Jan. 2007)
*
ExMo
targets disinformation
at Europe
(Jan. 2007)
*
Senate bill
would cut GHGs
80 percent by 2050
(Jan. 2007)
*
US Coal industry
races to site
150 new power plants
(Jan. 2007)
*
ExxonMobil
blinks, cuts funding to
one skeptical group
(Jan. 2007)
* EU
vows carbon cuts of
20% below 1990 levels by 2020
(Jan. 2007)
*
EU
foresees
climate-driven devastation
(Jan. 2007)
*
Chrysler
takes aim at climate "
chicken littles
" (Jan. 2007)
*
2006
was hottest year on record
in US
(Jan. 2007)
*
ExxonMobil
to change rhetoric --
not policy
(Jan. 2007)
*
Winter 2007
: when
good weather feels bad
(Jan. 2007)
*
Democrats
would put
oil subsidies behind renewables
(Jan.2007)
*
2007
may be one for the
record books
(Jan. 2007)
*
Indian island
vanishes
under rising waters (Dec. 2006)
* Spanish
bears
stop hibernating
(Dec. 2006)
* Global warming make
big waves
around the world
(Dec. 2006)
*
Warm winter
keeps European birds
in summer homes
(Dec. 2006)
* Most
Tree-planting "offsets"
May
Intensify
Warming (Dec.2006)
*
Sea levels
may rise
60 percent higher
than anticipated (Dec. 2006)
*
Voters
around the world
embrace the climate issue
(Dec. 2006)