Satellite data show that changes in the sun are contributing to global warming but to a smaller extent than human activity, a space scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington told a group of petroleum geologists on Wednesday.”The sun is playing a role that you can detect, but it’s not the dominant role,” Judith […]
Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are walking a delicate line as they promise to aggressively tackle global warming while trying to assure voters that they continue to believe in the future of coal.In states like Pennsylvania, where voters will cast ballots this Tuesday, and in West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Montana - upcoming primary […]
The next U.S. president should signal a shift in global warming policies before taking office to help a U.N. meeting in Poland in December take steps to work out a new climate treaty, Poland said on Wednesday.Under President George W. Bush, the United States is the only rich nation opposed to the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol […]
The US Environmental Protection Agency used to insist that it lacked the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions - until the Supreme Court ruled otherwise a year ago. Since then, scientific research has provided new evidence for the urgency of acting to slow global warming. But the Bush administration drags its feet anyway, leaving the […]
Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday he would give Al Gore, a Nobel prize winner, a major role in an Obama administration to address the problem of global warming.At a town-hall meeting, Obama was asked if he would tap the former vice president for his Cabinet to handle global warming.
“I would,” Obama said. “Not only will […]
SCIENTISTS from Scotland’s six main research institutes briefed ministers yesterday on climate change research, showcasing how to tackle the problem.
The conference was organised to update the ministers responsible for climate change and environment on some of the projects being carried out at Scotland’s leading environmental, agricultural and biological research institutes. The projects include:• Developing measures […]
The FAO said Tuesday that hunger and malnutrition due to climate change will mostly affect those already poor, malnourished or dependent on local food production.The FAO expressed the view in a statement, issued simultaneously in Rome and Cario and made available to our correspondent in Abuja.
The statement quoted a report to be discussed at the […]
Investment in renewable energy skyrocketed in 2007, but such sources still provided just a tiny fraction of the world’s power, researchers said Tuesday on the sidelines of an international renewable energy conference in Washington. Investment in renewable energy technologies amounted to 71 billion dollars last year, up from 55 billion dollars in 2006 and 40 […]
Free, single-use plastic bags will be banned in South Australia by the end of the year, regardless of whether the federal government moves on the issue, the state government said on Sunday.”We started the anti-plastic bag fight and we’re pushing ahead regardless of whether a nationally consistent approach is agreed to in the meantime,” Premier […]
Among the nearly 100 featured speakers at the upcoming 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, sponsored by The Heartland Institute and to be held in New York City, March 2-4, will be two distinguished world figures who will present their views on the world debate concerning the likely consequences of global warming. They are:* The […]
