News on Global Climate Change

NOAA director urges better explanations of climate

2010-03-12T11:15:22Z

<div id="subtitle">Scientists need to do better job of explaining climate change science, NOAA's director says</div><div><p>Climate change is here and scientists need to do a better job of explaining it to the public, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday.</p><p>"We are no longer constrained by ...

Energy efficiency: 2009’s realization, 2010’s no-brainer

2010-03-11T19:15:11Z

<div id="subtitle">Greening the economy makes good fiscal sense.</div><div><p>In the last six months I have seen an incredible amount of writing devoted to energy efficiency. Right now everyone is talking about “2010: The Year of Energy Efficiency”, or “2010, The Dawn of the Fifth Fuel.” Well 2010 might be when mainstream investors start to clue in to the potential of investing in energy efficiency technologies, but 2009 laid the groundwork. Last year, according to a Peac...

Climate change pushing bird species 'towards extinction:' US

2010-03-11T17:17:01Z

<div><p>Climate change is pushing some bird species "towards extinction," US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warned Thursday as a new report on the threats facing North American birds was released.</p><p>"For well over a century, migratory birds have faced stresses," Salazar said. "Now they are facing a new threat -- climate change -- that could dramatically alter their habitat and food supply and push many species towa...

Interior: Climate change threatens migratory birds

2010-03-11T16:01:29Z

<div id="subtitle">Climate change threatens US migratory bird populations, Interior Department report says</div><div><p>Global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations, which are already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution, according to a report released Thursday.</...

White House finalizing rules to cut car emissions

2010-03-11T15:45:20Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is finalizing rules on the first U.S. greenhouse gas emission standard for automobiles, which would raise average fuel economy 42 percent by 2016 in a bid to slash oil imports and fight climate change.</p><p>The Reuters) - A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated and more people doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur, according to a new Gallup poll.</p><p>The new doubts come as Cop...

Progress seen on forest scheme, Germany to join

2010-03-11T12:16:15Z

<div><p>Around 60 countries pushed ahead on Thursday with a multi-billion-dollar scheme to reduce climate-changing emissions from deforestation, to which Germany added its support, British minister Joan Ruddock said on Thursday.</p><p>"There was a tremendous mood of determination to get things done. I regar...

FRANCE WORLD FORESTS

2010-03-11T05:17:34Z

Spain's Secretary of State for Climate Change Teresa Ribera Rodriguez, right, and US special envoy for climate change Todd Stern, left, attend the opening of the International Conference on the Major Forest Basins,...

Landform Destruction is Worse Than Global Warming

2010-03-11T07:00:22Z

Many of you have read or seen in the news how a lot of the global warming gurus have been skewing climate records to make global warming seem like it is real. People have fallen for it for over 30 years while people have made billions off the lies. The mainstream media still does not like to talk about this as a possible fraud case. It also seems the governments do not know what to believe. No matter what side of the issues you are on about global warming you do not know what the facts are or...

Independent body to review climate panel

2010-03-10T20:15:38Z

<div><p>A respected international scientific body will review the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a key report on global warming, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said.</p><p>Ban told reporters that the Amsterdam-based OSLO (Reuters) - A "doomsday" vault storing crop seeds in an Arctic deep freeze is surpassing 500,000 samples to become the most diverse collection of food seeds in history, managers said on Thursday.</p><p>Set up on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard two years ago, the vault aims to store seeds of all food cr...

Time for next stage of sustainable business

2010-03-10T14:30:24Z

<div><p>BOSTON (Reuters) - Corporate America needs to track its use of energy and resources as closely as it does its hiring and cash flow if it wants to keep pace with social concern about climate change and other sustainability issues, an activist U.S. investor group argues in a new report.</p><p>Population growth and a rising standard of living ac...

Independent body to review controversial climate panel

2010-03-10T13:17:45Z

UN launches review of criticized climate panel

2010-03-10T12:00:39Z

<div><p>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that a group of national science academies would review U.N. climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors.</p><p>The U.N. UN, climate panel to get outside review from world's top scientists after spate of errors</div><div><p>At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning global warming pa...

China environment worsening, may miss energy goals

2010-03-10T09:16:58Z

<div><p>China's environment is "still deteriorating", a senior official said Wednesday, as the booming nation burnt record amounts of coal and lagged behind in meeting its energy-saving goals.</p><p>Following 30 years of explosive growth, China is on track to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy, but that success has made it one of the most polluted nations in the world.<...

Sun won't stop global warming if dims as in 1600s

2010-03-10T08:18:34Z

<div><p>OSLO (Reuters) - A dimming of the sun to match conditions in the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th century would only slightly slow global warming, a study indicated on Wednesday.</p><p>A weakening of solar activity in recent years, linked to fewer sunspots, would cut at most 0.3 degree Celsius (0.5 F) from a projected rise in temperatures by 2100 if it becomes a l...

China environment worsening, could miss energy goals

2010-03-10T05:16:23Z

<div><p>China's environment is "still deteriorating", a senior official said Wednesday, as the booming nation burnt record amounts of coal and lagged behind in meeting its energy-saving goals.</p><p>Following 30 years of explosive growth, China's is on track to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy, but that success has made it one of the most polluted nations in the world.&...

China unsure on warming cause, to stick with CO2 cuts

2010-03-10T04:30:32Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p>Xie Zhenhua, vice-c...