Mathematical physicist to discuss climate change (News Leader) |
| HARRISONBURG — A mathematical physicist from the University of California, Riverside will visit James Madison University on Thursday to discuss climate change. |
'Climate change biggest threat to human development' (IBN via Yahoo! India News) |
| The Human Development Report 2007 is set to be released a month. But for the first time it focuses on the human development cost of climate change. While there s been consistent progress in areas like literacy, poverty alleviation and nutrition, the report says we could be the first generation to see a drop in these development indices because of global warming. |
Climate change: Merkel asks India to do more (Express India) |
| Angela Merkel urged India to do more to combat climate change, saying Germany was willing to help New Delhi make progress. |
Merkel asks India to do more on climate change (Reuters via Yahoo! India News) |
| NEW DELHI (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged India, one of the world's biggest polluters, to do more to combat climate change on Tuesday, saying her country was willing to help New Delhi make progress. |
Merkel asks India to do more on climate change (AlertNet) |
| Source: Reuters By Y.P. Rajesh NEW DELHI, Oct 30 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged India, one of the world's biggest polluters, to do more to combat climate change on Tuesday, saying her country was ... |
Health Effects Of Climate Change Must Be Highlighted, Australia (Medical News Today) |
| AMA (Australian Medical Assocation) President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said that the potential devastating impact that climate change would have on human health has been largely ignored by the major parties as they spruik their environmental policies ahead of the Federal Election. [click link for full article] |
Nigeria: 'Consequences of Climate Change Unpredictable' (AllAfrica.com) |
| It is absolutely difficult for anyone to predict the consequences of climate change with complete certainty and accuracy but it is accepted that lots of climate change presents serious global risk and threat, a Chair of the African Group on Climate Change said yesterday. |
Editorial: Smart Growth Can Help Minnesota Address Climate Change, Improve Quality of Life (Smart Growth Online) |
| Assembled by Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty to help the state carry out an 80-percent greenhouse gas emission cut by 2050, with about 27 percent of the current emissions attributable to transportation, the broad-based Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Committee has been concentrating on the need ''to change the ways Minnesotans commute and travel,'' observes a Twin Cities Minnesota Daily ... |
'No link' between drought and climate change (Perth Now) |
| MOST farmers believe climate change is a natural phenomenon and not man-made, senior delegates to a farmers' conference said today. |
Schwarzenegger regrets US's poor effort on global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) |
| California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told a conference in Lisbon on Monday that he regretted Washington's lack of engagement on global warming but insisted it was not ignoring the issue. |
Global warming may hit kids harder, pediatrics group says (USA Today) |
| Global warming is likely to disproportionately harm the health of children, and politicians should launch "aggressive policies" to curb climate change, the American Academy of Pediatrics said today. |
Global warming threatens tourist landmarks (China Economic Net) |
| One of China's leading tourist landmarks, Meili Snow Mountain, will be devoid of snow within 80 years if global warming trends continue, a meteorological scientist warned on Monday. |
German Environment Minister opens climate change conference (Deutsche Welle) |
| German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel has opened a two-day meeting of environment and energy ministers by calling for a global agreement on climate change by the end of 2009. The Berlin conference is designed to lay the groundwork for the new climate deal and aims to change the position of countries such as China and India who are wary of binding emissions cuts. |
Westar Energy adopts climate-change policy (The Kansas City Star) |
| Westar Energy Inc. today said it has adopted a climate-change policy that it said will help govern its actions in regard to the environment. |
Icy Calculations to Aid Global Warming Forecasts (Newswise) |
| University of Utah mathematicians have arrived at a new understanding of how salt-saturated ocean water flows through sea ice - a discovery that promises to improve forecasts of how global warming will affect polar icepacks. |
Questioning Global-Warming Focus in 'Cool It' (NPR) |
| Morning Edition , September 10, 2007 · Bjorn Lomborg calls himself a "skeptical environmentalist." Critics say he is an anti-environmentalist. In his new book, Cool It , he argues that global warming is not so important that tens of billions of dollars should be spent trying to prevent it. |
Fairbanks borough considers climate change response (KTVF Fairbanks) |
| The Fairbanks North Star Borough may be the next Alaska community to react locally to climate change and take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. |
Africa: Living With Climate Change - Adaptation Strategies Needed to Build Resilience (AllAfrica.com) |
| Climate change is emerging as one of the main challenges humankind will have to face for many years to come. It could become a major threat to world food security, as it has a strong impact on food production, access and distribution. |
APEC Sees Long Road Ahead After Climate Change Agreement (TechNewsWorld.com) |
| The bargaining that produced a climate change agreement is only the beginning for Pacific Rim leaders if they want to stick to their declaration to chart a new international course on global warming. The modest, and critics say flawed, agreement approved over the weekend contained two initiatives for improving energy efficiency and planting more trees. |
Westar Energy Adopts Climate Change Policy (FinanzNachrichten) |
| TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Westar Energy, ( Nachrichten ) Inc. has formally adopted the Westar Energy Climate Change Policy, which provides the company a framework within which to make decisions that affect the environment. |
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