21 July, 2005
Combating Global Warming-
Blue Skies, Green Cities
By Niko KyriakouIgnoring inaction at the highest levels of the U.S. government, 145 mayors across the country have formed a coalition to combat global warming and begun to reshape their cities using innovative programs and technologies
23 April, 2005
Climate Change! Britain To Go Nuclear
By Marie Woolf and Andrew GriceThe British government is drawing up secret plans to create a new generation of nuclear power stations as the centrepiece of the Government's drive to combat climate change
Antarctic Glaciers In Retreat
By AFPScientists have issued a fresh warning about the effect of climate change on Antarctica, saying that more than 200 coastal glaciers are in retreat because of higher temperatures
18 April, 2005
A Planet On The Brink
By Rowan WilliamsThe Archbishop of Canterbury warns that the price of our continued failure to protect the earth will be violence and social collapse
11 April, 2005
Global warming: Nuclear Power No Solution
By Jim GreenClaims that nuclear power is “greenhouse free” are nonsense. Substantial greenhouse gas generation occurs across the nuclear fuel cycle
04 April, 2005
US In Race To Unlock New Energy Source
By David AdamLocked in mysterious crystals, the sediment beneath the seabed holds enough natural gas to fuel America's energy-guzzling society for decades, or to bring about sufficient climate change to melt the planet's glaciers and cause catastrophic flooding
Taking Care Of Ma Earth
By Tom TeepenWe cannot produce more oceans in our labs if we poison the ones we have. We can't manufacture a new atmosphere if we degrade today's irreparably. There's no fairy dust for bringing back dead species. If not panic, care at least is called for
03 April, 2005
Home Fires In India Melt The Arctic Ice
By Geoffrey LeanPoor women cooking family meals in India are helping to melt the Arctic icecap, startling new studies show. Soot from their fires gets wafted into the atmosphere to fall out on the ice thousands of miles away, hastening its disappearance
02 April, 2005
Adapting To Global Warming: A Modest Proposal
By Gar LipowThe carbon lobby (mainly the coal and oil companies) when they don't deny that human cause global warming exists, suggest that it would be less expensive and more humane to do nothing about it. Here are a few modest proposals for life in a green house
01 April, 2005
Carbon Dioxide Continues Its Rise
By David ShukmanThe atmospheric concentration of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide has reached a new high
31 March, 2005
Global Warming Of Atlantic Could Hit Fish
By Jeremy LovellThe potential shutdown due to climate warming of the key Atlantic Conveyor current that warms northern Europe could have a major impact on fish stocks in the region
27 March, 2005
Hot Air And Global Warming
By Derrick Z. JacksonEvery time the world calls for action on climate change, the United States emits more White House gases. The latest puff came from James Connaughton, the director of environmental quality, during last week's conference of 20 nations that met in London to attempt once again to make global warming a global priority
22 March, 2005
Rock Dust Fights Global Warming?
By Paul KelbieA scottish couple claim the technique of spreading rockdust may play a significant role in the fight against climate change as calcium and magnesium in the dust converts carbon in the air into carbonates
18 March, 2005
No Stopping Global Warming
By Maggie FoxEven if people stopped pumping out carbon dioxide and other pollutants tomorrow, global warming would still get worse
16 March, 2005
Brainstorming On Climate Change
By Jeremy LovellAs the ministerial conference of 20 of the biggest polluters on earth got underway in London the need for action to avert a looming climate catastrophe was rammed home by graphic images of melting glaciers and makeshift sea defences displayed at the venue of the meeting
Racing To Extinction
By Hill Henderson"I am afraid the atmosphere might get hotter and hotter until it will be like Venus with boiling sulfuric acid," said Stephen Hawking. "I am worried about the greenhouse effect."If we go over this cliff no more humanity; the extinction of almost every existing species except some bacteria; the end of life on Earth as we know it
15 March, 2005
Himalayan Glaciers Retreat Fast
By WWFHimalayan glaciers are among the fastest retreating glaciers globally due to the effects of global warming, and this will eventually result in water shortages for hundreds of millions of people who rely on glacier-dependent rivers in China, India and Nepal
Mount Kilimanjaro Photo Wake-Up Call For Action Against Global Warming
By Jeremy LovellA photo of Mount Kilimanjaro stripped of its snowcap for the first time in 11,000 years will be used as dramatic testimony for action against global warming as ministers from the world's biggest polluters meet today
04 March, 2005
Forests Could Be Key To
Curbing Global Warming
By Alister DoyleEffective control of forest fires may prove crucial in the fight against global warming since blazes from Alaska to Indonesia spew out vast amounts of heat-trapping gases
There is No More Time
By Lucinda MarshallAll evidence suggests that our lives and that of our planet are in grave peril.It is our refusal to face the realities of global warming and our continued illegal use of Depleted Uranium that are the true terrors of our time
03 March, 2005
Chronicles Of Kyoto
By Renato Redentor ConstantinoThe Kyoto Protocol is not based on science, said George W. Bush. We will meet the challenge of climate change with clean coal, said John Howard. "The only difference between genius and stupidity," said Albert Einstein, "is that genius has its limits."
23 February, 2005
Market Failure: Global Warming And Peak Oil
By Bill HendersonIf the history of denial and greenwashing of global warming is any indication, and the peak oil pessimists are right, it is probably too late for even a wartime economy government to do anything but try and keep order and save memes needed for the birth of a future society
21 February, 2005
The Final Proof: Global Warming Is Man-Made
By Steve ConnorScientists have found the first unequivocal link between man-made greenhouse gases and a dramatic heating of the Earth's oceans. The researchers have found a "stunning" correlation between a rise in ocean temperature over the past 40 years and pollution of the atmosphere
19 February, 2005
New Data Point To Man-Made Global Warming,
Severe Climate Change
By Seth BorensteinNew measurements from the world's oceans, announced Thursday, give the most compelling evidence yet that man-made global warming is under way and hint at a more dramatic and sudden climate change in the future
18 February, 2005
Dramatic Changes In Southern Ocean,
Fear Climate Link
By AFPScientists have discovered dramatic changes in the temperature and salinity of deep waters in the Southern Ocean that they warn could have a major impact on global climate
Greenhouse Gases 'Do Warm Oceans'
By Paul RinconScientists have "compelling" evidence that ocean warming over the past 40 years can be linked to the industrial release of carbon dioxide. US researchers compared the rise in ocean temperatures with predictions from climate models and found human activity was the most likely cause
17 February, 2005
Kyoto - A Crucial First Step
By Tony JuniperKyoto is to be welcomed, but it must be followed by broader and more radical action
16 February, 2005
Can Kyoto Really Save The world?
By Hamish McRaeIf Kyoto encourages the hunt for the new technologies that is worth something. If it makes us think a little more about our own use of energy that is worth something too. If it is the start of a wider global process of co-operation in conservation, then it is worth a huge amount. A good day for the world
Kyoto Is Not Enough
By Stephen ByersToday, we should give a single cheer for Kyoto but recognise that there needs to be a fresh injection of political will if we are to achieve a new global consensus that will provide the world with the means to meet the challenge of climate change
Mocking Our Dreams
By George MonbiotThe reality of climate change is that the engines of progress have merely accelerated our rush to the brink
14 February, 2005
A Global Problem Requires A Global Solution
By Linda McQuaigGreenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere aren't a national problem; they affect the Earth's entire climate system. This is a global problem requiring a coordinated global solution
Global Warming: "Tragedy Of The Commons" Revisited
By AFPEven if the land becomes overgrazed, people will continue to put their animals on the damaged fields and even add to their herd. Swap the common land for Earth's atmosphere and overgrazing for greenhouse gases and you have the greatest environmental challenge of the early 21st century: how to tackle climate change
India Under Pressure To Cut Emissions
By Sugita KatyalIndia, with a billion people, is one of the world's bigger polluters and is projected to account for a larger share of global carbon emissions as its economy expands. But it has no obligation to cut emissions under Kyoto's first phase to 2012
12 February, 2005
Sleepwalking To The End Of The Earth
By Geoffrey LeanFloods, storms and droughts. Melting Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, oceans turning to acid. The world's top scientists warned last week that dangerous climate change is taking place today, not the day after tomorrow
02 February, 2005
Climate Change Already Here
By AFPEvidence is growing that global warming is already starting to disrupt the world's delicately-balanced climate system, and the damage will reverberate for generations
31 January, 2005
"Dangerous" Global Warming Possible by 2026
By Alister DoyleWorld temperatures could surge in just two decades to a threshold likely to trigger dangerous disruptions to the earth's climate, the WWF environmental group said on Sunday
27 January, 2005
Global Warming Is 'Twice As Bad'
By Steve ConnorGlobal warming might be twice as catastrophic as previously thought reveals a new study
The Denial Lobby
By Bob MayThe climate change denial lobby - funded by the US oil industry - has now moved to the UK
24 January, 2005
Countdown To Global Catastrophe
By Michael McCarthyThe global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already
Warming Approaching Point Of No Return
By Geoffrey LeanGlobal warming has already reached the level of dangerous concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and should make immediate and "very deep" cuts in the pollution if humanity is to "survive"
15 January, 2005
The Challenge Of Change
By Crispin TickellClimate change will force us to rethink the fundamental precepts on which we base our societies
12 January, 2005
Russians Wonder What's Happened
To "General Winter"
By Oliver BulloughAs snow and ice melt away into puddles of dirty water months earlier than usual, Russians are asking what's happened to their once-dreaded winter
09 December, 2004
US Rejects Climate Policy Attacks
By Tim HirschThe US has been defending its decision not to take part in the Kyoto Protocol, just two months before the international agreement to cut greenhouse gases comes into force. Senior US negotiator Harlan Watson attacked the treaty as being politically motivated rather than based on science
Kyoto Will Not Work, Warns Expert
By Michael McCarthyThe struggle by developed countries to cut back their emissions of carbon dioxide will always be overtaken by the rising new emissions of the developing nations, led by China and India, who are not parties to the Kyoto treaty
02 December, 2004
Deadly Hot Summers To Become The Norm
By Steve ConnorBlisteringly hot summers similar to the one in 2003 when thousands of people in continental Europe died of heatstroke will become commonplace because of climate change
26 November, 2004
Asia Faces Living Nightmare From
Climate Change
By David FogartyThe weather predictions for Asia in 2050 read like a script from a doomsday movie. In the decades to come Asia, home to more than half the world's 6.3 billion people, will lurch from one climate extreme to another, with impoverished farmers battling droughts, floods, disease, food shortages and rising sea levels
25 November, 2004
Global Warming Fight To Get Harder From 2012
By Alister DoyleFighting global warming will get tougher once the Kyoto protocol ends in 2012 and the world must try to get Washington involved in the long term
24 November, 2004
Consuming The World's Fossil Fuels
By Mohammed MesbahiIf we do not switch to renewable energy sources – sun, wind, wave, geothermal and hydro, demand for fossil fuel will increase, in tandem with a decline in supplies, resulting in global economic chaos and an uncontrollable runaway greenhouse effect. Our world could be reduced to a hot, Venus-like desert within the lifetime of our grand children
23 November, 2004
Biofuels Would Be A Disaster
By George MonbiotThe adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster
19 November, 2004
Melting Glaciers Threaten World Water Supply
By Ed CropleyMountain glaciers, which act as the world's water towers, are shrinking at ever faster rates, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people and the future of countless species
12 November, 2004
Woes Of Warming Arctic To Echo Worldwide Via Birds
By Alister DoyleThe decline of migratory birds due to an accelerating Arctic thaw may also disrupt the delicate ecosystems of their far-flung winter homes from Africa to South America, experts said this week
09 November, 2004
Fast Arctic Thaw Threatens People, Polar Bears
By Alister DoyleGlobal warming is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens millions of livelihoods and could wipe out polar bears by 2100, an eight-nation report said on Monday
07 November, 2004
Global Warming 'Will Redraw Map Of World'
By Geoffrey LeanMaps of the world will have to be redrawn, as global warming melts the Greenland ice cap, inundating coasts and major cities
Dont Say We Haven't Been Warned
By Mark TownsendRising temperatures, disappearing coastlines and dire predictions that climate change poses a greater threat than global terror ... Yet still we fly, drive, consume and pollute like never before. Where will it all end?
06 November, 2004
Putin Signs:Kyoto Saved
By Oleg ShchedrovPresident Vladimir Putin gave his seal of approval for Russia's crucial backing of the Kyoto Protocol, clearing the way for the U.N. environment pact aimed at curbing global warming to come into force early next year
03 November, 2004
Has A ‘Runaway’ Greenhouse Effect Begun?
By Norm DixonIn recent weeks, scientists have released two separate findings that indicate the consequences of global warming due to the emission of “greenhouse gases” may be far greater than previously estimated
02 November, 2004
Global Warming Has Arrived
By Jim LobeAn eight-nation study on global warming co-sponsored by the United States has concluded that the North Pole is melting. The 144-page report says the accelerated warming of the globe which it blames mostly on the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by the industrial age is transforming the Arctic region dramatically
01 November, 2004
Queen Makes Climate Plea
By Mark Townsend and Gaby HinsliffThe Queen has made a rare intervention in world politics to warn Tony Blair of her grave concerns over the White House's stance on global warming
Environment Activists Weary of Bush, Wary of Kerry
By Kari LydersenEnvironmental groups have soundly criticized Bush's policies during the last four years, and many have endorsed his opponent. Still, most say worries will not end if Kerry wins the White House
28 October, 2004
Bush Hides Global Warming Evidence
By Chuck SchoffnerThe Bush administration is trying to stifle scientific evidence of the dangers of global warming in an effort to keep the public uninformed
25 October, 2004
Dire Warnings From Global Warming Report
By Owen BowcottDaffodils, cod, Christmas trees and the Highlands' ski resorts could have become victims of global warming by 2050 according to an energy-efficiency report
Global Warming Effects Faster Than Feared
By Maggie FoxRecent storms, droughts and heat waves are probably being caused by global warming, which means the effects of climate change are coming faster than anyone had feared
24 October, 2004
US Rejects Kyoto Pact
By AFPThe United States, flying in the face of snowballing world opinion, said it would not follow Russia's lead and ratify the Kyoto protocol on global warming
Should There Be Environmental Refugees?
By Tanveer Ahmed
Climate change is a reality. Increasing numbers of people fleeing natural disaster is a reality. However, this is not mirrored under international law and the impoverished nations which are most affected will continue to suffer
23 October, 2004
Russia Takes One More Step Towards
Kyoto Ratification
By Andrew OsbornRussian MPs voted in favour of Kyoto protocol ratification by 334 to 73, taking their lead from Mr Putin, whose cabinet approved the pact last month
Bjorn Lomborg's Work On Climate Change -
Just Nonsense
By Tom BurkeThe messy world we live in is one in which an unstable climate will guarantee poverty for untold millions. But it is equally one in which, if we fail to solve the problem of poverty much more quickly and cleverly than we are doing at present, we will continue to destabilise the climate. The Lomborg argument that we can delay one until we have solved the other is a cruelly false prospect
21 October, 2004
Climate Change Threatens World Aid Effort
By Michael McCarthyBritain's development and aid agencies joined together yesterday to recognise formally that climate change is the most serious problem facing the poor of the world
20 October, 2004
Climate, The Absent Issue
By Mark HertsgaardClimate change is to the twenty-first century what the nuclear arms race was to the twentieth: the overriding threat to humanity's continued existence on this planet. But it is resolutely kept out of the political debates
11 October, 2004
Surprise CO2 Rise May Speed Up Global Warming
By Michael McCarthyThe rate at which global warming gases are accumulating in the atmosphere has taken a sharp leap upwards, leading to fears that the devastating effects of climate change may hit the world even sooner than has been predicted
08 October, 2004
Greenhouse Denial: Australia’s Kyoto Treaty Shame
By Norm DixonThe clock is ticking. If global industry’s greenhouse gas emissions do not begin to be significantly and rapidly reduced within decades, humanity faces potentially catastrophic consequences
06 October, 2004
Why Putin Is Backing Kyoto Again
By Gwynne DyerWhy did Russian President Vladimir Putin decide to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change last week, only six months after his top adviser, Andrei Illarionov, called it a "death treaty?" The most important reason is that Russians aren't stupid
29 September, 2004
Greenlanders Mystified By Incredible Shrinking Glacier
By Agence France PresseThe Groenlands Posten newspaper sent locals into a tizzy when a few weeks ago it described how the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, one of the most active glaciers in the world, had receded by more than five kilometers in the past two years
23 September, 2004
Antarctic Glaciers Melting Faster
By ReutersGlaciers once held up by a floating ice shelf off Antarctica are now sliding off into the sea -- and they are going fast
22 September, 2004
Global Warming May Spawn More Super-Storms
By Stephen LeahyHurricane Ivan, the incredibly powerful storm that killed at least 120 people in the Caribbean and southern United States, may be a harbinger of the Earth's hotter future
17 September, 2004
Ivan Hits America:Jeanne On The Way
By David UsborneNo one wanted to hear it, but another hurricane, Jeanne, was tracked westwards through the Caribbean last night, just north of Puerto Rico and was expected to strike the United States mainland, probably somewhere on Florida's east coast, late this weekend
12 September, 2004
Disastrous Weather Will continue
By Geoffrey LeanDisastrous weather is set to continue for at least another six months.The US government confirmed that a new El Niño is about to strike, bringing torrential rain and droughts around the world
Devastation Linked To Global Warming
By Gaby Hinsliff and Robin McKieScientists are claiming that the unprecedented ferocity and frequency of the hurricanes that have battered the Caribbean this year can be blamed on one factor: the unexpectedly warm water that has been building up in the Atlantic over the past year
11 September, 2004
Global Warming Will Decimate Arctic Peoples
By Stephen LeahyClimate change will soon make the Arctic regions of the world nearly unrecognisable, dramatically disrupting traditional Inuit and other northern native peoples' way of life
Global Warming Powered Ivan Hits Hard
By Chris BuntingTowering waves the height of two storey buildings and winds of more than 100mph announced the arrival of Hurricane Ivan in Jamaica last night after wreaking havoc in Grenada, where 29 people lost their lives and 90% houses were damaged
09 September, 2004
Is Nuclear Energy The Only Alternative?
By George Monbiot
The politicians are once more revving up the debate that only nuclear power can save the planet
27 August, 2004
Global Warming Means More Frost-Free Days
Frost will become less and less common across much of the world as global warming accelerates. The latest of a series of reports on the real-life effects of climate change shows fewer days and nights when the air temperature dips below freezing
12 August, 2004
World Bank Undermines Efforts On Global Warming
By George M. Woodwell and Kilaparti RamakrishnaThe World Bank recently met to consider continued support for development of new sources of fossil fuels. The action calls attention once again to the growing discrepancy between what the scientific community is saying about the state of the world and what the political and economic communities are willing to hear
11 August, 2004
Greatest Threat To Human Civilization
By Ross GelbspanClimate change is not just another issue. It is the overriding threat facing human civilization in the twenty-first century, and so far our institutions are doing dangerously little to address it
10 August, 2004
Goodbye, Kind World
By George MonbiotPeople choose to believe the climate change deniers because the truth is harder to accept
07 August, 2004
Greenland Ice Cap Is Melting Fast
By Hamish MacdonellNewly published research shows an alarming rise in the rate of collapse of the massive Greenland ice-sheet as a result of global warming. Scientists now believe the ice-sheet is shrinking at the rate of ten metres a year, not the one metre previously thought
03 August, 2004
India Faces A Severe Drought
By Radha ViswanathAll hopes of a normal or near normal rainfall have receded. With barely a month to go before the monsoon takes its formal bow, as many as 28 of the 36 meteorological sub-divisions in India have recorded 'below average'rainfall and the nation is staring straight into a drought year
31 July, 2004
Seabird Breeding Crisis Spreads To England
By Michael McCarthy
England's biggest seabird colony is suffering from the global warming-induced severe food shortage that has devastated the birds of the Northern Isles of Scotland16 July, 2004
Carbon Dioxide Emissions May Harm Ocean Life
By Christopher DoeringThe world's oceans have absorbed nearly half of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans during the last 200 years, creating potential long-term challenges for corals and free-swimming algae
14 July, 2004
Melting Ice Can Submerge Major Cities
By Paul BrownThere is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than for 55m years, enough to melt all the ice on the planet and submerge major cities
07 July, 2004
Faced With Climate Change Britain
Reopens The Nuclear Debate
By Patrick Wintour and Paul BrownAppearing before a committee of senior MPs, Mr Blair said the evidence was now overwhelming that climate change was the single biggest long-term problem facing the country, and conceded the world was nowhere near finding a mechanism to cut carbon dioxide emissions by the government's target of 60% by 2050
06 July, 2004
Driving Into The Abyss
By George MonbiotWe must tackle the environmental nightmare of 4x4s by taxing them off the road
18 June, 2004
Atlantic In Bloom: Hope For Global Warming
By Steve ConnorHurricanes sweeping across the North Atlantic ocean have triggered a spectacular "bloom" of phytoplankton which can soak up huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the air immediately over the sea surface and deposit it deep within the ocean
17 June, 2004
Shell Chief Worries Over Planet Earth
By David AdamThe head of one of the world's biggest oil companies has admitted that the threat of climate change makes him "really very worried for the planet"
16 June, 2004
Climate Change Experts Despair Over US Attitude
By Maggie FoxClimate change experts said on Tuesday they are frustrated the U.S. government and the public are not taking the risk of global warming seriously
06 June, 2004
Global warming: Skating On Thin Ice
By Norm DixonHollywood’s latest blockbuster, The Day After Tomorrow, has triggered the release of vast amounts of hot air from fossil-fuel industry funded “greenhouse skeptics”. They fear the film will focus people’s political concern on the very real dangers posed by increasing industry-induced global warming
05 June, 2004
No Special Effects With Nature
By Renato Redentor ConstantinoThe Day after Tomorrow is science fiction, but global warming is real. Will the movie end up trivializing the impact of climate change and thus increase indifference? Or will it spur more people to take action? Too early to tell. Is reality more frightening than Hollywood? With nature there are no special effects, only consequences
30 May, 2004
Tens Of Thousands Hit By Floods In Caribbean
By Peter Prengaman, David Randall and Annabel FallonA disaster of grotesque proportions is unfolding in the Caribbean where floods on the island of Hispaniola have delivered death and destruction to one of the world's poorest regions on a scale far greater than first thought
28 May, 2004
A Modest Proposal To Save The Planet
By Mayer HillmanAn extract from 'How We Can Save the Planet' by Mayer Hillman advocating radical changes to the way we conduct our daily lives that would ensure a future for our children
A Film That Could Warm Up The
Debate On Global Warming
By Robert B. Semple, Jr.With all its faulty science and melodrama the latest Hollywood disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow" might wake up the public to the dangers of climate change
27 May, 2004
Flood Toll Soars To 2,000
By Sibylla BrodzinskyThe death toll from mudslides and flooding in the Dominican Republic and Haiti soared to around 2,000 last night as rescuers discovered more than 1,000 bodies in a ruined Haitian town
26 May, 2004
Fast Arctic Thaw Portends Global Warming
By Alister DoyleGlobal warming is hitting the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet in what may be a portent of wider, catastrophic changes, the chairman of an eight-nation study has said
24 May, 2004
A Call Of Desperation:Go For Nuclear Power
To Combat Global Warming
By Michael McCarthyThe scientist and celebrated Green guru, James Lovelock warns that there is simply not enough time for renewable energy, such as wind, wave and solar power before global warming overwhelms our civilisation, and the only solution is the massive expansion of nuclear power as the world's main energy source
23 May, 2004
Russia All Set To Back Kyoto
By Geoffrey LeanRussia's President Vladimir Putin - who will effectively decide whether the Kyoto Protocol stands or falls - announced on Friday that his country would "rapidly move towards ratification" in the wake of a complex deal with the European Union
15 May, 2004
The Globe Grows Darker As Sunshine Diminishes
By Kenneth ChangIn the second half of the 20th century, the world became, quite literally, a darker place diminishing sunshine 10% to 37%
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
By Geroge MonbiotThe latest disaster movie from Hollywood "The Day After Tomorrow" has Earth ravaged by a flood and an ice age caused by climate change. Environmentalist George Monbiot gives his verdict on the controversy it has stirred
05 May, 2004
Global Warming's Bottom Line
By Mindy LubberGlobal warming is a reality that is already putting the financial pinch on weather-dependent businesses. Despite mounting scientific evidence, most of the world's largest companies have been operating as if global warming is fiction
02 May, 2004
Antarctica Will Soon Be The Only Place To Live
By Geoffrey LeanAntarctica is likely to be the world's only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked
27 April, 2004
Beware The Fossil Fools
By George MonbiotThe dismissal of climate change by journalistic nincompoops is a danger to us all
22 April, 2004
Global Warming Floods Threaten 4million Britons
By Paul BrownRisks of flooding are growing to "unacceptable levels" because of climate change with up to 4 million Britons facing the prospect of their homes being inundated
05 April, 2004
Bush Again Denies Climate Change
By Antony BarnettGeorge W. Bush's campaign workers have hit on an age-old political tactic to deal with the tricky subject of global warming - deny, and deny aggressively
04 April, 2004
Global Warming As A WMD
By Bruce E. JohansenThe insurance companies, whose business is making book on the future, are watching the weather—and they are worried
30 March, 2004
Global Warming Spirals Upwards
By Geoffrey LeanLevels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have jumped abruptly, raising fears that global warming may be accelerating out of control
20 March, 2004
"Global Warming The Biggest
Problem": British Expert
By G. Venkataramani"Global warming is the biggest and most serious problem faced by us in this century. Climate change is happening and its effects are real. If we do not take seriously, it will have serious consequences that will affect the generations to come"
19 March, 2004
The decline of species ...
By Tim RadfordBritish study covering last 40 years points to worldwide mass extinction of wildlife and plants
12 March, 2004
Damage From Global Warming
Becoming 'Irreversible'
By Jim LobeThe latest scientific reports indicate that global warming is worsening. Unless we act now, the world will be locked into temperatures that would cause irreversible harm
11 March, 2004
'We Face Climate Disaster'
By Ben LeapmanBriton's chief scientist set out an "apocalyptic vision" of global warming bringing back the conditions which drove the dinosaurs to extinction
07 March, 2004
The Sixth Great Extinction -A Status Report
By Janet LarsenThe earth is moving toward another mass extinction that could rival the past big five. This potential sixth great extinction is unique in that it is caused largely by the activities of a single species. It is the first mass extinction that humans will witness firsthand—and not just as innocent bystanders
04 March, 2004
Insurer Warns of Global Warming Catastrophe
By Thomas AtkinsThe world's second-largest reinsurer, Swiss Re, warned that the costs of natural disasters, aggravated by global warming, threatened to spiral out of control, forcing the human race into a catastrophe of its own making
03 March, 2004
Global Warming As A Weapon Of Mass Distruction
By Bruce E. JohansenThe insurance companies, whose business is making book on the future, are watching the weather—and they are worried
26 February, 2004
The Pentagon Sounds
The Alarm On Global Warming,
Why Isn't Bush Listening?
By Arianna HuffingtonAccording to a new Pentagon study change will happen, according to the report's authors, as soon as the next three years, with the most devastating fallout potentially occurring between 2010 and 2020
22 February, 2004
Now The Pentagon Tells Bush:
Climate Change Will Destroy Us
By Mark Townsend and Paul HarrisClimate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters
15 February, 2004
This Parched Earth: Act or We Perish
By Juliette JowitHuge projects pit campaigners fearful of a catastrophic impact on the environment against the thirsty needs of an ever-growing population
31 January, 2004
How Global Warming May
Cause The Next Ice Age...
By Thom HartmannIf enough cold, fresh water coming from the melting polar ice caps and the melting glaciers of Greenland flows into the northern Atlantic, it will shut down the Gulf Stream. The worst-case scenario would be a full-blown return of the last ice age
14 January, 2004
An Apocalyptic Future
By Ted GlickUnless we dramatically shift from the use of fossil fuels to the use of clean and renewable energy, we are facing a truly apocalyptic future
Global Extinction: Does It Matter?
By George MonbiotBy 2050, around a quarter of the world's animal and plant species could die out as a result of global warming. To these we must add the millions threatened by farming, logging, hunting, fishing and introduced species. The future is beginning to look a little lonely
12 January, 2004
Freak Summers 'Will Happen Regularly'
By Tim RadfordClimate scientists from Zurich report in Nature online that costly extremes of weather will become the norm in the coming years
10 January, 2004
Climate Catastrophe
By David EdwardsThe corporate media's refusal to address the real issues behind global warming - the corporations fighting with unrelenting ferocity to destroy not just the Kyoto protocol but the environment movement itself - represents the ultimate betrayal of us, our future, and our planet
09 January, 2004
'US Climate Policy Bigger Threat
To World Than Terrorism'
By Steve ConnorTony Blair's chief scientist has launched a withering attack on President George Bush for failing to tackle climate change, which he says is more serious than terrorism
08 January, 2004
Global Warming Will Kill Off One Million Species
By Steve ConnorA quarter of known land animals and plants, more than a million species, will eventually die out because of the global warming that will take place over the next 50 years
08 December, 2003
Three Metros Will Sink By 2020
Here is a disaster prediction. Coastal cities such as
Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai could go under sea by 2020 at the present levels of global warming and the concomitant rise in sea level07 December, 2003
Beginning Of The End Of The Monsoon?
By Geoffrey LeanGlobal warming can lead to the cessation of the Indian monsoon and the ending of the Gulf Stream threatening the survival of life in Asia and Europe
25 October, 2003
On Climate Change And Social Change
By Doyle CanningOur planet is literally falling apart at the seams
15 October, 2003
Environmental Refugees
By Andrew SimmsGlobal warming could create 150 million environmental refugees - but the countries responsible are in no hurry to carry their share of the costs
02 September, 2003
Not Just Warmer: It's The
Hottest For 2,000 Years
By Ian SampleThe most comprehensive study of climatic history has revealed the earth is warmer now than it has been at any time in the past 2,000 years
12 August, 2003
Our Future Is Laid Out, But We Do Not See
By George MonbiotClimate change threatens the future of humanity, but we refuse to respond rationally
05 August, 2003
Is This Proof Of Global warming?
By Michael McCarthyEurope burns like a furnace and rivers run dry across the continent. If it isn't proof of global warming at last, it certainly looks like it
22 July, 2003
Shadow Of Extinction
By George MonbiotBy the year 2100 it is estimated that the earths atmospheric temperature could rise upto seven degrees. If that happens will this not be a repetition of the mass extinction that occured 251 million years ago?
03 July, 2003
In an astonishing announcement on global warming and extreme weather, the World Meteorological Organisation signalled that the world's weather is going haywire.
21 June, 2003
Bush Fries Climate Change
By Derrick Z. JacksonWhite House took a draft report on the state of the environment by the Environmental Protection Agency and deleted references to studies that directly mentioned industrial pollution and vehicle exhaust as contributors to global warming
Do Something or Perish
By James Gustave Speth
Nations should prevent carbon dioxide concentrations from exceeding about 450 ppm to prevent global warming rise to catastrophic levels. In a business-as-usual scenario, we are scheduled to reach this level by about 2030.
One Generation to Save World
By Paul Brown
The human race has only one or perhaps two generations to rescue itself, according to the 2003 State of the World report by the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute.Hundreds of Species Pressured by Global Warming
Hundreds of plant and animal species around the world are feeling the impacts of global warming, although the most dramatic effects may not be felt for decades, according to new research from a Stanford University team.
Climate change and sustainable development
by Jurgen TrittinThe developed countries have to rapidly re-direct their societies and economies towards clean energy, and more sustainable consumption patterns.Developing world should take a direct road towards a sustainable future. There is no reason why developing countries should go through the same mistakes that developed countries have committed.
Stop Global Warming or NY Submerges
by Sugita KatyalIf the global warming is not brought under control by the year 2080, Bombay,Manhattan and Shanghai could be underwater
