UALR forum hits on debate surrounding global warming

UALR forum hits on debate surrounding global warming
BY KATHERINE MARKS
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Weekday
27 Jul 2006

The effects of global warming can be felt on a local level and that’s exactly where change should be effected, Pulaski County Judge Buddy Villines said Wednesday. At a forum on global warming hosted by the Arkansas Climate Awareness Project at the... read more...

Scientists want climate commission

Scientists want climate commission
by Errol Kiong science reporter
New Zealand Herald
27 Jul 2006

Agroup of scientists is urging the Government to form a royal commission to investigate climate change. In an open letter to MPs, the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition believed the public was being given ‘‘incomplete, inaccurate and biased... read more...

Global warming — signed, sealed and delivered

Global warming — signed, sealed and delivered
n op- ed
Los Angeles Times
24 Jul 2006

A article in the Wall Street Journal a month ago claimed that a published study affirming the existence of a scientific consensus on the reality of global warming had been refuted. This charge was repeated again last week, in a hearing of the House... read more...

Drought, gales and refugees: w hat will happen as UK hots up

Drought, gales and refugees: w hat will happen as UK hots up
David Adam Environment correspondent
The Guardian
22 Jul 2006

This week’s heatwave is only the beginning. The mercury may not have pipped the all-time record on Wednesday, but it is only a matter of time. Maybe not next week and maybe not next month, but soon. And for the rest of our lives. The planet is warming... read more...

Tigers on the brink of extinction

Tigers on the brink of extinction
James Randerson Science correspondent
The Guardian
21 Jul 2006

Tigers, among the planet’s most iconic and secretive creatures, have been near the top of the endangered list for some time. But yesterday, a landmark study by leading conservationists warned that their plight is even more serious than previously... read more...

Global warming takes toll on cherished mountains

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Global warming takes toll on cherished mountains
BY PATRICK JOSEPH Primary Color Travel
Miami Herald Sunday
16 Jul 2006

The snows of Kilimanjaro may have been immortalized in the fiction of Ernest Hemingway, but in reality they are not long for this world. The mountain’s glaciers have been retreating rapidly in recent decades, and scientists now say that if the trend... read more...

B.C. report paints dire climate picture

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B.C. report paints dire climate picture
BY NICHOLAS READ CanWest News Service
Times-Colonist, Victoria
15 Jul 2006

VANCOUVER — Climate change in B.C. is expected to alter the province’s hydroelectricity supply, affect the productivity of lakes, rivers and the ocean, change ecosystems and increase the risk of forest fires, pest outbreaks, flooding and extreme... read more...

Vast chunk of rock threatens to fall from Eiger as global warming opens up crack (The Guardian, 08 Jul 2006, Page 5)

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Vast chunk of rock threatens to fall from Eiger as global warming opens up crack
John Hooper
The Guardian
08 Jul 2006

A vast chunk of Europe’s most ill-famed mountain threatens to break loose and crash down in the next few days, a geologist monitoring the situation told the Guardian yesterday. Hans-Rudolf Keusen said 2m cubic metres of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps,... read more...

Critical US shift on global warming

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Critical US shift on global warming

New Zealand Herald
10 Jul 2006

FINALLY, after years of trench warfare between US environmentalists and the Bush Administration over global warming, here comes the big push. The US Supreme Court’s surprise announcement that it will decide if the Environmental Protection Agency should... read more...

Global warming worries insurer

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Global warming worries insurer

Houston Chronicle
06 Jul 2006

Lloyd’s of London has estimated there could be up to $100 billion in insured damages on the U.S. Gulf Coast as global warming spurs hurricanes, according to Lloyd’s Chairman Peter Levene. “It’s an indisputable fact that global warming is having an... read more...

State Of Fear

State Of Fear
By NARAYANI GANESH
Times of India New Delhi Edition
04 Jul 2006

Imagine London turning into a Venice.

Imagine London turning into a Venice. Or London-under-sea. By 2100, a submerged London, and a largely inundated Mumbai, New Orleans, Florida, Tokyo, Netherlands and Bangladesh could be part of sub-oceanic landscape — as the Antarctic ice sheets continue to “crumble into the sea”.

Studying computer models of climate past and present, the US National Center for Atmospheric Research concludes that sea levels could rise by up to 20 feet (six metres) by 2100, if current warming patterns continue. While Washington remains unfazed, the fear factor has spurred Britain into action. Post-Gleneagles — unlike the US that continues to make vague noises about climate change — Britain has gone on an eco-awareness overdrive, promoting privately-funded green projects and encouraging public debate on global warming issues... read more...

Disease, habitat loss and climate change threatens amphibians

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Disease, habitat loss and climate change threatens amphibians
Ian Sample Science correspondent
The Guardian
07 Jul 2006

Fifty of the world’s leading conservation experts are calling for an urgent rescue mission to save frogs, newts and other amphibians from extinction. They believe fast action is needed to save the planet’s 5,743 amphibian species after research showing that 32.5% are threatened.

Up to 122 amphibian species have become extinct since 1980. Since the 1960s these vertebrates have gone into sharp decline as humans have encroached on their habitat. Climate change and infectious diseases have also taken their toll.

Writing today in the US journal Science, the conservationists propose a $400m (217m) initiative, the Amphibian Survival Alliance, to dispatch “ rapid response” teams to collect endangered amphibians for captive breeding. The alliance is also to investigate lethal amphibian diseases and environmental changes.

The alliance is expected to become part of the World Conservation Union, which monitors endangered species and which has developed international treaties to urge governments to fund conservation.

Amphibians are considered delicate sentinels of environmental change. Sudden collapses in their populations in the 1980s and 1990s sparked research. Some scientists believe the fungal disease chytridiomycosis, which has spread round the globe, may be to blame in many cases.

Last year, English Nature said the disease was found in Britain for the first time, after infected bullfrogs, imported from North America, had escaped. The organisation destroyed 11,000 infected frogs and is investigating to see if the disease is established here. Predictions suggest that the fungus — which can wipe out 50%80% of amphibians within four to six months of its appearance — emerged from South African toads but is spreading steadily, by about 17 miles ... read more...