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Saturday, Jan 30
U.S. Government Plans to Reduce Its Energy Use
New York Times: The federal government will take steps to cut its energy use and reduce its heat-trapping emissions by 28 percent by 2020, compared with 2008 levels, the White House announced on Friday. The government is the largest user of electricity and fuel in the country, accounting...
Bin Laden blast on climate change
Press Association: Terror chief Osama bin Laden sought to draw a wider public into his fight against the US in a new message, dropping his usual talk of religion and holy war and focusing instead on an unexpected topic - global warming. The al Qaida leader blamed the US and other industriali...
Climate: the long and winding road after Copenhagen
Independent (UK): After the near-train wreck of last month's Copenhagen climate summit, what lies ahead for efforts to beat back global warming? Next week may yield the first clues. Countries are being asked to say by Sunday whether they will endorse an 11th-hour deal, the "Copenhagen A...
Friday, Jan 29
Study: Water vapor may help 'flatten global warming trend'
USA Today: Why the Earth's surface temperature hasn't warmed as expected over the past decade continues to be a puzzle for scientists. One study out earlier this month theorized that the Earth's climate may be less sensitive to greenhouse gases than currently assumed. Another surprisin...
U.S. formally embraces Copenhagen climate deal
Reuters: The United States on Thursday formally notified the United Nations that it has embraced the Copenhagen Accord setting nonbinding goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that was negotiated last month. Todd Stern, the top U.S. climate negotiator for the Obama administrati...
Nations Take First Steps on Copenhagen 'Accord'
ClimateWire: The United States has officially promised the world that it will reduce global warming pollution about 17 percent below 2005 levels in the next decade. Now the question is whether President Obama can deliver. In an announcement yesterday, U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern submit...
Bin Laden condemns US for climate change
United Press International: Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden condemned the United States and other nations, saying Friday in a new audio tape they are responsible for global warming. Bin Laden criticized former President George W. Bush for rejecting the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas...
Bin Laden Blasts US for Climate Change
Associated Press: Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called in a new audiotape for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming. In the tape, aired in part on Al-Jazeera television Friday, bin Lad...
Water vapour is a major cause of global warming and cooling find scientists
Telegraph: The research by scientists at the American weather service found water vapour high in the atmosphere is far more influential on world temperatures than previously thought. During the 1990s one third of the increase in global temperatures was due to an increase in water vapou...
Bin Laden blames industrial nations for global warming
Agence France-Presse: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden blamed industrial nations for global warming, and urged a boycott of the US dollar to end "slavery," in an audio tape aired by Al-Jazeera television on Friday. "All industrial nations, mainly the big ones, are responsible for the cri...
Water vapour caused one-third of global warming in 1990s, study reveals
Guardian: Scientists have underestimated the role that water vapour plays in determining global temperature changes, according to a new study that could fuel further attacks on the science of climate change. The research, led by one of the world's top climate scientists, suggests tha...
Mexico: Calderon: Global climate deal hinges on money
Associated Press: The success of talks this year to salvage a global climate accord hinges on money, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon said Friday, urging executives at the World Economic Forum to pay more to fight climate change. Despite recent scandals that have invigorated global...
U.S. embraces Copenhagen pact, Senators rework bill
Reuters: The Obama Administration formally embraced the Copenhagen Accord on global warming on Thursday, a day after the president urged a fractious U.S. Congress to get to work on comprehensive legislation to stem the nation's emissions. U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern gave notice to the Un...
Atmospheric dry spell eases global warming
National Public Radio: A new study helps explain why the planet didn't warm up dramatically over the course of the past decade, even though the gases that cause global warming increased dramatically. Scientists have identified a surprising phenomenon 10 miles above our heads that expl...
Osama bin Laden enters global warming debate
Telegraph: Apparently speaking in his second audio broadcast of the month, Bin Laden criticised George W Bush, the former US president, for not signing the Kyoto Protocol on regulating carbon emissions, and spoke out against excessive corporate influence in the United States. He also...
Osama bin Laden lends unwelcome support in fight against climate change
Guardian: Climate science is under assault, progress towards a treaty to end global warming is shuddering to a halt, and Barack Obama is struggling to press on with his clean energy agenda. This was the last conversion to the environmental cause that anybody would have wanted. In a new audi...
Canada: Olympic no-show snow due to climate change: scientist
CBC: Climate change and global warming are partly to blame for the current snow shortage on Vancouver's Cypress Mountain, according to the David Suzuki Foundation. (CBC) The David Suzuki Foundation says global warming and climate change are in part responsible for what's happening to...
Thursday, Jan 28
United Kingdom: Climate data sound - science head
BBC: The UK government's chief scientist says his confidence in climate science remains unshaken despite allegations about the withholding of research data. Professor John Beddington told the BBC the fundamental science behind man-made global warming was "correct". He said he was co...
Painting roofs white could cool cities - study
Reuters: Painting all the world's city rooftops white could significantly cool urban areas and perhaps ease the impact of global warming, according to a climate study released on Thursday. Considered a fanciful notion by some critics, the white-roof idea was championed last year by U.S....
United Kingdom: Scientists in stolen e-mail scandal hid climate data
Times (UK): The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny. The University of East Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to comply with requests for data concerning clai...
S.E.C. adds climate risk to disclosure list
New York Times: The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday for the first time that public companies should warn investors of any serious risks that global warming might pose to their businesses. Although the agency has long required companies to reveal possible financia...
Climate studies offer hope on global warming
Houston Chronicle: A pair of climate papers published this week in the world's top science journals may offer some hope that rising levels of carbon dioxide won't imminently bring the planet to boil. One paper concerns the effect of a warming climate on oceans and other sources of carbon d...
Cycle: Manmade climate change triggers more warming
Reuters: The experts made 220,000 comparisons of carbon dioxide levels -- trapped in tiny bubbles in annual layers of Antarctic ice -- against temperatures inferred from natural sources such as tree rings or lake sediments over the years 1050-1800. (Photo: Charles Hanley/AP) OSLO -- C...
Amplification of Global Warming by Carbon-Cycle Feedback Significantly Less Than Thought, Study Suggests
ScienceDaily: A new estimate of the feedback between temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration has been derived from a comprehensive comparison of temperature and CO2 records spanning the past millennium. The result, which is based on more than 200,000 individ...
Egypt's fertile Nile Delta falls prey to climate change
Agence France-Presse: The Nile Delta, Egypt's bread basket since antiquity, is being turned into a salty wasteland by rising seawaters, forcing some farmers off their lands and others to import sand in a desperate bid to turn back the tide. Experts warn that global warming will have a maj...
Norway: Oslo reiterates pledge of at least 30 pct CO2 cut
Reuters: Norway reaffirmed on Thursday a unilateral pledge to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 30 percent by 2020 as part of international efforts to combat global warming. Environment Minister Erik Solheim also restated a policy announced in October that Oslo was willing t...
Wednesday, Jan 27
Yale Finds Climate-Change Concern Wanes as Senators Seek Deal
Bloomberg: Senators trying to salvage climate- change legislation this year are circulating a scaled-back plan to reduce emissions, as a Yale University poll showed public concern about global warming is declining. Among proposals being discussed to achieve President Barack Obama...
United Kingdom: University scientists in climategate row hid data
Telegraph: The University of East Anglia rejected requests for information relating to claims by academic staff that global warming was being caused by man-made emissions. The Information Commissioner's office ruled that UEA was in breach of the Freedom of Information Act -- an offen...
Climate change options for Congress in 2010
Reuters: When U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Wednesday, he is expected to promote alternative energy as a way of tackling global warming problems and creating more domestic jobs. But climate change legislation is facing serious difficulties in Con...
Global warming to trigger more warming
Reuters: Climate change caused by mankind will release extra heat-trapping gases stored in nature into the atmosphere in a small spur to global warming, a study showed. But the knock-on effect of the additional carbon dioxide -- stored in soils, plants and the oceans -- on top of industri...
Brazil: Social forum activists talk of 'green' conspiracy
Assiociated Press: Leftist activists protesting capitalism at the World Social Forum claimed Wednesday that multinational corporations in cahoots with governments are trying to take control of a new multibillion-dollar market for reducing emissions that cause global warming. Th...
Americans cooling on climate change, survey says
CNN International: Public concern about global warming and trust in climate leaders has dropped sharply in the U.S. according to a survey. Fifty-seven percent of Americans polled at the end of 2009 and early 2010 believe climate change is happening compared with a figure of 71 percent in Oc...
EU says it has full confidence in key climate change report despite mistakes
Associated Press: The European Union says it has "full confidence" in a key United Nations climate change study after its authors apologized for mistakes. The EU has based an ambitious and costly plan to turn into a low-carbon economy on dire warnings of global warming from a 2007 report b...
Be alert but wary on climate claims
Sydney Morning Herald: Doubts over modelling and emissions trading schemes are justified. Pre-Copenhagen, the global warming debate had been captured by prophets of doom and the language of apocalypse. This was particularly off-putting in a discussion that depends on high-quality s...
Groups link Maine winter changes to global warming
Associated Press: As Maine experiences a January thaw, environmentalists are releasing a report that says the region faces more thin ice, shorter ski seasons and more winter flooding in the years ahead due to global warming. The National Wildlife Federation report is being released Th...
John Beddington: chief scientist says climate change sceptics 'should not be dismissed'
Telegraph: Prof John Beddington admitted the impact of global warming had been exaggerated by some scientists and condemned climate researchers who refused to publish data which formed the basis of their reports into global warming. In an interview, Prof Beddington, called for a new e...
Advocates of Climate Bill Scale Down Their Goals
New York Times: As they watch President Obama`s ambitious health care plan crumble, the advocates of a comprehensive bill to combat global warming are turning their sights to a more modest package of climate and energy measures that they believe has a better chance of clearing Congress...
Tuesday, Jan 26
Reaction Rates For Three Chemicals With High Global Warming Potential
redOrbit: A study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides new information about the rates at which three of the most powerful greenhouse gases are destroyed by a chemical reaction that takes place in the upper atmosphere. The th...
There is fundamental uncertainty in climate change, science tsar says
Times (UK): The impact of global warming has been exaggerated by some scientists and there is an urgent need for more honest disclosure of the uncertainty of predictions about the rate of climate change, according to the Government's chief scientific adviser. John Beddington was speak...
Wind Power Grows 39% for the Year
New York Times: Despite a crippling recession and tight credit markets, the American wind power industry grew at a blistering pace in 2009, adding 39 percent more capacity. The country is close to the point where 2 percent of its electricity will come from wind turbines. While that is still...
Indian Glaciologist Fires Back at Climate Sceptics
Inter Press Service: "It is a fact that global warming is happening. If the Arctic Sea ice is melting, how can the Himalayan glaciers not be melting?" glaciologist Syed Iqbal Hasnain asked indignantly. Amid the brouhaha over last week's retraction by a United Nations body of its 2007 repor...
IPCC condemns natural disasters claim as misleading and baseless
Guardian: The UN body that summarises climate science for governments has condemned as "misleading and baseless" claims that it overstated the effect of global warming on natural disasters. A newspaper report alleged a section in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007...
Methane causes vicious cycle in global warming
National Public Radio: Carbon dioxide is the gas we most associate with global warming, but methane gas also plays an important role. For reasons that are not well understood, methane gas stopped increasing in the atmosphere in the 1990s. But now it appears to be once again on the rise. Scien...
Russia's weather out of whack
Moscow News: When it comes to global warming, don't let the cold snap fool you. January has seen temperatures in European Russia plunge 5 degrees Celsius below a 30-year average, but this is simply more evidence of man-made climate change, Russia's climatologists say. "Nature is looking...
UN panel defends climate change evidence
Agence France-Presse: The UN climate panel has rejected as "baseless and misleading" a newspaper report that raised doubts about the evidence behind a claim that global warming is linked to worsening natural disasters. This weekend, the Sunday Times of London reported that a passage i...
Canadian scientist says UN's global warming panel 'crossing the line'
Canwest News Service: A senior Canadian climate scientist says the United Nations' panel on global warming has become tainted by political advocacy, that its chairman should resign, and that its approach to science should be overhauled. Andrew Weaver, a climatologist at the Universi...
