Monthly Archives: May 2007
Greenland: A Hot New Stop to See Global Climate Change
U.S. News and World Report: Melting ice is making Greenland, the world’s largest island, the with-it new stop for those who want to highlight the risks of global climate change. The latest such visitor is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led a congressional delegation that stopped off in Greenlandlast weekend. Afterward, she said that she [...]
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Bush’s Remarks on Climate Agenda
Wall Street Journal: THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Laura, thanks for that short introduction. (Laughter.) I’m proud to be introduced by my wife. I love her dearly. She’s a great First Lady. (Applause.) And I appreciate the chance to address the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign. This is a fine organization and [...]
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Q&A: President Bush’s climate goals
BBC: US President George W Bush has urged countries to agree on long-term goals for greenhouse gas emissions. He said he would hold meetings bringing together the US and 14 other major emitters, including developing nations, to set targets by the end of 2008. Mr Bush was speaking ahead of next [...]
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Global Warming Models Underpredict Increase in Rainfall, Study Says
National Geographic: The world will be getting hotter, according to many climate models. But it might also be getting unexpectedly wetter. That’s the finding of a new study by Frank Wentz and colleagues at the research company Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) in Santa Rosa, California. Wentz’s team analyzed satellite data from the [...]
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FPL finds U.S. wind power boom is not always on solid ground
International Herald Tribune: Don Quixote would have fallen off his horse if he could have seen FPL Group’s new wind farm here – by far the biggest in the world – a 121-square-mile track of 421 wind turbines scraping the big West Texas sky with blades well over 100 feet long. As if to [...]
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Bush’s climate announcement praised by his allies
Reuters: President George W. Bush’s announcement of a long-term strategy on climate change was praised by his allies Thursday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany saying it proved that global warming could not be ignored. But critics of the plan argued that Bush was trying to short-circuit discussions next week at the Group of 8 [...]
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Bush Calls for Global Goals for Emissions
New York Times: Seeking to end America’s isolation on the issue of global climate change, President Bush called today for the 15 countries that are major producers of greenhouse gases to confer this fall and adopt a common goal on curbing emissions. The president spoke today in advance of a summit meeting next [...]
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Bush calls for action to reduce greenhouse gases
International Herald Tribune: President George W. Bush reversed previous policy on Thursday and called for the first time on the world’s top greenhouse-gas emitters to meet and agree, by next year, on goals to cut emissions aimed at averting potentially catastrophic global warming. "In recent years, science has deepened our understanding of climate change; [...]
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Bush calls for action by biggest greenhouse emitters
Guardian: George Bush today called on the world’s biggest polluters to set goals on curbing greenhouse gases, in the US president’s clearest admission yet of the threat posed by climate change. The US would also cut tariff barriers to sharing environmental technology, Mr Bush said. The president was speaking in Washington ahead of next [...]
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NASA Chief Not Worried About Climate
Associated Press: The head of NASA drew criticism from scientists when he said he was not sure global warming was a problem and added that it would be "arrogant" to assume the world’s climate should not change in the future. "I have no doubt that global _ that a trend of global warming exists," [...]
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Finland Sees EU Carbon Goals Hurting Economic Growth
Reuters: Finland expects a long-term weakening in economic growth, productivity and employment resulting from the European Union’s ambitious emission reduction goals, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday. "Reducing emissions will have a clearly larger impact on Finland’s economy than in the EU on average," the ministry said in a report published on Wednesday. [...]
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US says could shift climate policy: UN
Reuters: A speech by President George W. Bush on Thursday could signal a shift in U.S. climate policy, White House officials told the U.N. climate change chief Yvo de Boer. "White House staff said that this could result in a policy shift," de Boer told Reuters. "I asked White House representatives does this [...]
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China Warns of Full Gamut of Weather Disasters
Reuters: China warned on Wednesday of possible floods, landslides and other weather disasters over the next three days with heavy rain, strong winds and hail expected. "Our country has entered the phase in which weather disasters may happen frequently," the official Xinhua news agency said, citing the national meteorological bureau. "Local [...]
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G-8 to take up climate change
Christian Science Monitor: The international squabble over climate change – who’s to blame and how to deal with it – is coming to a boil as many of the major players prepare to meet in Germany next week. In essence, Europe and Japan want stricter controls on greenhouse gases and a faster timetable [...]
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Germany Welcomes US Plan to Curb Climate Change