Global Warming Today articles from November 2006

Global Warming Today archives from November 2006

Global warming helps isolate Northern Ontario aboriginals.(International Report)
November 13, 2006... Aboriginal communities in Ontario's far north are becoming increasingly isolated as rising temperatures melt their winter route to the outside world and impede their access to supplies. "The ice doesn't have its solid blue color anymore,"...

Report: global warming to hurt Canada hydro-electric power and oil sands.(International Report)
November 13, 2006... An increase in temperatures projected across Canada due to global warming will hurt Ontario's hydro-electric power production and Alberta's oil sands sector, according to a recent study. The report by the Sage Center and the World Wildlife...

Global warming changes wildfire behavior.(Editorials, Asides & Reviews)
November 13, 2006... Some scientists fear global warming could stoke wildfires that disrupt fragile ecosystems and hamper efforts to protect communities. Recent studies tied rising temperatures to an upswing in widespread forest fires, particularly in the...

Report reveals well-known companies pollute Scotland.(International Report)
November 14, 2006... More than 25 million tons of pollution is spewed into the atmosphere every year by 80 industrial plants across Scotland, according to recent reports. New data released by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency reveals that well-known...

Global warming taking toll on birds.(Industry Report)
November 14, 2006... Unchecked climate change could force up to 72% of the world's bird species in some areas into extinction, according to a report released Tuesday by the World Wildlife Federation. From migratory insect-eaters to tropical honeycreepers and...

Index ranks countries on global warming efforts.(Industry Report)
November 14, 2006... Sweden, Britain and Denmark top the list of countries doing the most to address global warming, while the United States, China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia rank as doing the least, according to a new report released by environmental groups. ...

Experts say global warming increases diseases.(International Report)
November 15, 2006... A warmer world is already producing a sicker world, health experts reported Tuesday, citing surges in Kenya, China and Europe of diseases such as malaria, heart ailments and dengue fever. The specialists laid out recent findings as the two-week...

Study reveals animal extinctions due to global warming.(Industry Report)
November 15, 2006... Global warming has already caused extinctions in the most sensitive habitats and will continue to cause more species to go extinct over the next 50 to 100 years, according to a study from the University of Texas at Austin. Report author...

Environmentalists sue White House over global warming report.(Editorials, Asides & Reviews)
November 15, 2006... 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 lawsuit seeks to compel the US Climate Change Science Program to...

Study says decline in polar bear population due to global warming.(Industry Report)
November 16, 2006... Polar bear survival rates have dropped significantly in the past 20 years, due to melting sea ice caused by higher temperatures, according to a study released this week by the US Geological Survey and the Canadian Wildlife Service. The...

US defends record on global warming.(Editorials, Asides & Reviews)
November 16, 2006... The US, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, defended its record Wednesday on battling global warming. "The United States is committed to addressing the serious global challenge of climate change," said Paula J. Dobriansky, a US...

Union buys shares to fight global warming.(Editorials, Asides & Reviews)
November 16, 2006... The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union of Australia recently purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of shares in major mining companies so it can have a say in the way the companies tackle global warming. CFMEU said...

Deciduous trees shown to fight global warming.(Industry Report)
November 17, 2006... University of Florida ecologists and other researchers have found that a reflective effect involving deciduous trees could help offset global warming. In a paper published last week in the journal Science, the researchers said that a...

UN climate conference ends, nations plan next steps.(International Report)
November 17, 2006... More than 180 nations at the UN climate conference agreed Friday on the next steps toward negotiating deeper future cuts in global-warming gases. Under the key agreements made at the conference, future meetings would review the workings of...

EAMA asks for emissions-based auto tax.(International Report)
November 17, 2006... The European Union must come up with a unified auto tax based on carbon dioxide emissions, the head of Europe's main car lobby said Friday. A large part of the responsibility for cutting road-based carbon dioxide fumes lies in the hands of...

Report predicts temperature increase in Southern Alps due to global warming.(Industry Report)
November 20, 2006... Daily temperatures in the Southern Alps could rise up to seven degrees Celsius by 2070 to 2100, according to a report to be released today from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. NIWA national climate...

British environment minister calls 2007 crucial to battling global warming.(Editorials, Asides & Reviews)
November 20, 2006... Next year will be crucial if political inertia is not to have a potentially catastrophic effect on efforts to battle global warming, British Environment Minister David Miliband said on Monday. Fresh from talks in Nairobi on how to take...

African workshop focused on global warming and water supplies.(Editorials, Asides & Reviews)
November 20, 2006... Global warming will undoubtedly have an impact on water supply and demand globally, not just in Africa, according to international experts attending a workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, yesterday and today. Delegates are meeting at the...

Report: global methane levels steady.(Industry Report)
November 20, 2006... Climate researchers at UC Irvine say global levels of the greenhouse gas methane have remained steady for the past seven years instead of rising, as many scientists assumed they would. That suggests the rate of global warming expected over...

World's most powerful computer will help in global warming research.(Editorials, Asides & Reviews)
November 20, 2006... The most powerful supercomputer in the world may be used for global warming research, according to officials at the Energy Department and IBM. The DOE's Office of Science, DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration and IBM will share...

Coalition calls on New Jersey to lead nation on Global Warming.(Editorials, Asides & Reviews)
November 20, 2006... New Jersey could be the national pacesetter on combating global warming, environmentalists said Monday. The Global Warming Solutions Coalition, a group of 140 politicians, church leaders, business owners, scientists and activists, praised...

Supreme Court to hear global warming case.(Legislative)
November 22, 2006... The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Nov. 29, in a case brought by conservation groups and 12 states. Their goal is to force Bush's Environmental Protection Agency to regulate emissions from new cars and trucks. The states and...

Sharp aims to be 'zero impact' brand.(Industry Report)
November 22, 2006... Sharp has announced an eco-friendly business plan it hopes will "change the way consumers worldwide understand and use electronic devices." "As Earth's resources are depleted and as businesses and consumers everywhere become more aware of the...

California officials reject coal-fired power.(Industry Report)
November 22, 2006... Southern California is gambling its future power needs on its constant sunshine, wind and the ability of engineers to effectively harness those and other alternative energy sources. Officials in Pasadena, Anaheim and several other large...

Richmond on Thames Council joins carbon program.(International Report)
November 27, 2006... The Richmond upon Thames Borough Council plans to take part in the Local Authority Carbon Management Program, a UK carbon-reduction campaign. The program is run by the Carbon Trust and aims to help councils cut CO2 emissions and reduce...

Australia invests in carbon capture and storage.(International Report)
November 27, 2006... The Australian government said last Thursday it will put $46.5 million into the world's biggest carbon capture and storage system, aimed at cutting a major gas plant's environmental impact. Owners of the Gorgon gas project, which sits in a...

Report looks at global warming and Great Barrier Reef.(Industry Report)
November 27, 2006... Australia's Great Barrier Reef and other coral ecosystems could suffer from increasingly powerful storms brought about by global warming, according to computer models published by a team of Australian scientists in the journal Nature. ...

Study reveals lower nitrogen oxide emissions.(Industry Report)
November 28, 2006... Nitrogen oxide emissions have declined across the eastern US by about 40% since 1999, according to scientists from the Earth System Research Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and at the University of Colorado,...

UN climate report likely to lead to suits.(Industry Report)
November 28, 2006... A UN report due in 2007 with stronger evidence that humans are causing global warming is likely to spur more lawsuits around the world such as a case to be heard by the US Supreme Court today, a legal expert said this week. Lawsuits from...

New Zealand considers carbon trading regime.(International Report)
November 28, 2006... Energy sector leaders told New Zealand Ministers in a special closed-door Energy Future Forum last Friday to put a price on carbon to help cut emissions and manage climate change. Ministers and business executives discussed possible carbon...

Andrill project looks at Antarctic ice shelf.(International Report)
November 29, 2006... Scientists in Kiwi, New Zealand, this week said that the world's largest ice shelf has collapsed in apparent global warming events in the past, and that it is just a matter of time until it breaks up again. The Andrill Project scientists...

Supreme Court divided in global warming case.(International Report)
November 29, 2006... The nine-member US Supreme Court appeared split as it took up the debate over global warming Wednesday, with rival lawyers arguing whether some greenhouse gas emissions should be regulated. Plaintiffs in the case include several US state...

Bay area to fund global warming grant program.(International Report)
November 29, 2006... California's Bay Area Air Quality Management District recently announced it will devote $3 million in grants to inspire new ways of reducing global warming gases. Board members said the financial carrot could fire the imaginations of...

Environmentalists await new Congress.(Editorials, Asides & Reviews)
November 30, 2006... Many environmentalists have said the Democrats' dominance in Congress means they no longer will have to spend most of their time and money trying to stop lawmakers from drilling for oil in the Alaskan wilderness or weakening protections for...

Australian scientists say warming killed megafauna.(International Report)
November 30, 2006... Giant kangaroos and wombats once roamed Australia but were killed by climate change, Australian scientists said on Thursday. Known as megafauna, the huge animals were common in vast areas of Australia 40,000 years ago before gradually...

Bangkok temperature rising.(International Report)
November 30, 2006... Bangkok's air is about two degrees Celsius hotter than nearby suburban areas, the result of an urban heat island effect occurring when population centers grow in size, according to scientists. The scientists also blamed global climate change...