Archive for the ‘Climate change’ Category

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Climate change action demanded at Cottesloe Beach
WA today, Australia - Nov 14, 2008
Protesters walked along Marine Parade and the beach to highlight the impact of climate change in WA. The protest was part of the global Walk Against Warming
Frozen Assets
New York Times, United States - Nov 14, 2008
The urgency of preventing and mitigating the effects of climate change in an official way has only recently hit home with Greenlanders.
Governor Schwarzenegger: Plan for Sea Level Rise and Climate Impacts
Imperial Valley News, CA - Nov 14, 2008
“We have to adapt the way we work and plan in order to manage the impacts and challenges that California and our entire planet face from climate change,”
Thousands march to stop climate warming
The Age, Australia - Nov 14, 2008
were more focused on the global financial crisis, which he described as a short-term problem, compared to the long-term problem of climate change.
Clinton as madame secretary of state?
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Nov 14, 2008
Obama’s aides say he would like to have the Arizona senator partner with him on legislation they both have advocated, such as climate change,
Droughts and desalination in Australia — another amplifying feedback
Grist Magazine, WA - Nov 14, 2008
Opponents say that producing the large amount of electricity required to run a desalination plant hastens climate change, which may be the culprit behind
Johns Hopkins’ Dr. Bruce Marsh to Lecture on Antarctic Exploration
Hamilton College News, NY - Nov 14, 2008
It remains Earth’s last frontier; a jumping off point to Mars, a Rosetta Stone to understanding Earth volcanism, and a laboratory of climate change.
Governor Schwarzenegger Welcomes Groundbreaking Green Flight to
Imperial Valley News, CA - Nov 14, 2008
that it is landing here in the great state of California, where we have led the nation in fighting climate change,” said Governor Schwarzenegger.
SAMP feared as threat to fishing
Providence Business News, RI - Nov 14, 2008
“I was … very encouraged that there was widespread agreement at the first meeting that we must act on climate change and that we in Rhode Island need to
Climate change to affect Florida’s drinking water
TCPalm, FL - Nov 14, 2008
BY ASJYLYN LODER St. Petersburg Times If climatologists are right, Florida’s future could be a thirsty one: Climate change, blamed for eating away at

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
James D. Wolfensohn: Diverse G-20 is best forum to address global
Allentown Morning Call, PA - Nov 14, 2008
The effects of climate change will be visible only in the future, when it will be too late to combat them, and the impoverishment of millions overseas is
Obama ‘courting Clinton’ for top post
Ninemsn, Australia - Nov 14, 2008
“Finally, the next president will have to address the looming long-term threats of climate change and a new wave of global health epidemics,” Clinton argued
An issue of food security
Fiji Times, Fiji - Nov 14, 2008
“Against the background of this year’s theme, what we need to do, essentially, is to explore how we could lessen the threat or impact of climate change and
Dixie Chicks’s Charity Work
Look To The Stars, UK - Nov 14, 2008
appear in a commercial to promote Gore’s “We Campaign” initiative to raise awareness about climate change and what Americans can do to help the environment.
Carbon-Monitoring Spacecraft Arrives at Launch Site
EcoGeek, MT - Nov 14, 2008
Most importantly it will allow more accurate measurements of total CO2 in the atmosphere and enable more reliable predictions of future climate change.
ACP assured of good state of affairs in Fiji
Fiji Times, Fiji - Nov 14, 2008
The financial and economic meltdown and climate change also posed new challenges. For this, financial institutions were urged to provide special facilities
A New Beginning and the Wisdom of the Past: Why the Greek Classics
Huffington Post, NY - Nov 14, 2008
Many of the global challenges we face today, whether it is climate change and global warming, or the gap between the haves and the have nots,
Obama has a chance to restore US image abroad
Gulf Times, Qatar - Nov 14, 2008
She said she thought an Obama initiative on climate change also would galvanise global attention. For Sotero, the most crucial US gestures will be those
Future water quality results threatened by climate change, say surfers
Drift, UK - Nov 14, 2008
14/11/2008:// There are 495 designated bathing waters in England and Wales and of these 160 could not meet the tougher of 2 water quality standards set by
Dingell Tries to Undercut Waxman’s Support
Roll Call (subscription), DC - Nov 14, 2008
base with a direct appeal to the 151 lawmakers who last month signed onto a letter that the California liberal penned outlining climate change goals.