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India stands firm on emissions New Delhi (UPI) Nov 19, 2009 
Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh Thursday said his country would never agree to legally binding emissions and downplayed expectations for the climate-change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, next month. "Internationally we reject legally binding emissions. We will never agree to that, and we are prepared to be alone in our stand, but domestically we have to be proactive in ... read moreCopenhagen summit will be 'success': UN climate chief 
United Nations (AFP) Nov 19, 2009Efforts to craft a comprehensive climate treaty in Copenhagen next month will certainly "yield a success," the UN's top climate official pledged on Thursday. "There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that it will yield a success," said Yvo de Boer, executive director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). "I've seen some recent reports that said that Copenhagen has ... more
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Tackling population rise would fight climate change: UN report
Paris (AFP) Nov 18, 2009Braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report published Wednesday that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change. "Slower population growth... would help build social resilience to climate change's impacts and would contribute to a reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions in the future ... more Indigenous groups key in climate change debate: Zoellick 
Washington (AFP) Nov 18, 2009World Bank chief Robert Zoellick said Wednesday it was critical for indigenous people to be included in climate change talks, saying they were among groups most affected by global warming. Two weeks before the opening of a major United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Zoellick said indigenous peoples carried a "disproportionate share of the burden of climate change effect ... more U.S. and China discuss climate change 
Beijing (UPI) Nov 18, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, on Tuesday pledged a "vigorous response" to climate change, saying they would work toward a global agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In a joint statement, the two nations -- the world's largest producers of greenhouse gases -- said climate change was "one of the greatest challenges of our time." They said ... more US Senate to act on climate bill in 2010 
Washington (AFP) Nov 17, 2009The US Senate will act in early 2010 on legislation to battle climate change, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday, ending hopes of a breakthrough by next month's global talks. "We are going to try to do that sometime in the spring," Reid told reporters, with a White House-backed push to remake US health care still dominating the Senate agenda just weeks before the ... more |
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Blueprint For Molecular Basis Of Global Warming
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 17, 2009A new study indicates that major chemicals most often cited as leading causes of climate change, such as carbon dioxide and methane, are outclassed in their warming potential by compounds receiving less attention. Purdue University and NASA examined more than a dozen chemicals, most of which are generated by humans, and have developed a blueprint for the underlying molecular machinery of ... more Global warming a growing threat to Arctic reindeer 
Jarfjord, Norway (AFP) Nov 13, 2009On Norway's border with Russia, the consequences of climate change are affecting the reindeer population as rising temperatures hit food stocks and industry growth eats into vital grazing land. "Over the past three years, I've had to give some hay to my 800 reindeer during the coldest months. It's more expensive and it gives me more work," said Jan Egil Trasti, a reindeer herder from the ... more Kerry vows US climate outline for Copenhagen 
Washington (AFP) Nov 10, 2009Senator John Kerry pledged Tuesday to complete a framework of an elusive US climate change deal in time for next month's high-stakes summit in Copenhagen, vowing not to let the world down. President Barack Obama's election returned the United States to active global efforts to fight climate change, but a year later Congress has yet to make good on promises to set the first-ever US caps on ... more Cave Study Links Climate Change To California Droughts 
Davis CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2009California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student Jessica Oster and geology professor Isabel Montanez. The finding, which comes from analyzing stalagmites from Moaning Cavern in the central Sierra Nevada, was published in the journal Earth and Planetary ... more |
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