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Independent: Hurricanes are one of the most destructively powerful forces of nature and their existence depends on the surface temperature of the ocean reaching at least 26C. One obvious question is whether Gustav is the result of rising sea temperatures associated with global warming. The simple answer is that it is virtually impossible to […]

Scotsman: IT IS "improbable" global warming will be kept below 4C – double the rise considered safe to avoid climate catastrophe – according to an influential new report. Internationally, it has long been agreed governments should be aiming to keep a global temperature rise below 2C, to avoid climate change spiralling out of control. […]

Times (UK): Kyoto, the old capital of Japan, is famous for two things: its Buddhist temples and the 1997 treaty that set out, with mixed results, to tackle global warming. Now the failure of the second is threatening the first as accelerating climate change eats away at Kyoto’s ancient heritage. Temples across the city, […]

Herald: The North Pole has become an island for the first time in human history, with fears the melting ice cap has entered a "death spiral". The historic development was revealed in satellite images that show melting ice has produced an opening in the famed Northwest and Northeast Passages, with water stretching all the […]

Associated Press: Scientists say a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes. The United States National Snow and Ice Data Centre says sea ice in the Arctic now covers about 5.2 million sq km. The lowest point since satellite measurements began in 1979 was 4.2 million sq […]

Agence France-Presse: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today he expects "greater leadership" on climate change from whichever candidate succeeds George W. Bush as president of the United States in 2009. "I sincerely hope the next US administration will demonstrate a greater leadership role," Mr Ban said on the sidelines of a ceremony here to […]

Australian: A HALF-EATEN hamburger discarded at the opening ceremony of the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in 1982 is as you read this still decomposing in the depths of the nearby Ferny Grove landfill. Which means it’s still contributing to Australia’s greenhouse inventory, more than 25 years after Matilda the giant winking kangaroo lurched around the stadium. […]

InTheNews.co.uk: Current estimates over rising sea levels - should climate change continue at its current rate - are being "seriously underestimated", scientists have suggested. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison geologist Anders Carlson report that sea-level rise from greenhouse-induced warming of the Greenland ice sheet could be double […]

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/australias-climate-record-a-poor-joke-20080831-: CLIMATE change is the most significant challenge facing the global economy over the coming decades. The basic science of global warming is simple, and has been understood for over 100 years. Granted, we are uncertain about precise impacts at the local level. But it is clear to anyone who looks at the evidence, including […]

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The likelihood of longer and harsher fire seasons will be discussed at an international bushfire research conference in Adelaide from today. There are 1,100 delegates at the three-day conference. An organiser, Naomi Brown, says climate change and water shortages are among the problems facing Australian firefighters. "[Also] major problems […]

Reuters: Hurricane Gustav lashed the Louisiana coast on Monday with pounding rain and heavy winds, posing the biggest threat to the New Orleans area since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Gustav was expected to make landfall before midday as a Category 3 hurricane, but its outer bands were already hitting the Gulf […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Curbs on carbon dioxide emissions from new cars sold in the European Union could be phased in slowly through 2015 after two political groups in a key EU parliamentary committee agreed a compromise. The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, had proposed capping carbon dioxide emissions from new cars to […]

Telegraph (UK): The past decade was the hottest in the northern hemisphere for at least 1,300 years, scientists have found. Despite the damp and gloomy summer, with the Met Office saying this has been the dullest August on record, temperatures across the world have been consistently hotter in recent years than at any time […]

Canwest News Service: Rising sea levels and storm surges are taking a bite out of Canada’s 243,000 kilometres of coastlines from the Atlantic to the Far North to the Pacific, researchers warn. The phenomenon is nationwide but affects regions in different ways, notes Jean-Pierre Savard of Ouranos, a consortium of scientists and specialists who […]