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World losing traction in climate fight: UN officialThe Associated Press KOBE, Japan -- The world is losing momentum in the battle against global warming, the United Nations climate chief warned Saturday, urging environmental ministers from wealthy countries to revive the effort by setting clear targets for reducing greenhouse gases.
China's 2030 CO2 Emissions Could Equal the Entire World's Today
If China's carbon usage keeps pace with its economic growth, the country's carbon dioxide emissions will reach 8 gigatons a year by 2030, which is equal to the entire world's CO2 production today. That's just the most stunning in a series of datapoints about the Chinese economy reported in a policy brief in the latest issue of the journal Science.
Coal power has been driving the stunning, seven plus percent a year growth in China's economy. It's long been said said that China was adding one new coal power plant per week to its grid. But the real news is worse: China is completing two new coal plants per week.
UNEP sounds alarm over decline in migratory birds
by Staff Writers
"The decline in numbers is currently being recorded for many of the migratory bird species along all of the world's major flyways," UNEP said in a statement issued ahead of the May 10-11 World Migratory Bird Day. "For example: 41 percent of the 522 migratory waterbird populations on the African-Eurasian flyways are declining and there are reports that numbers of migratory songbirds using the same flyways are also decreasing," it said. Migratory birds are vulnerable to environmental changes and are considered some of the best indicators of the state of the world's ecosystems.
· Global warming might reverse social and economic progress across Asia
Global warming to hit India hard; may even reverse human development
China facing a major global warming threat, say scientists
· Bering Sea may not remain productive fishery by 2100 due to ocean warming
· Mediterranean sea levels might rise by up to half a metre in next 50 years
Poor people to suffer more from global climate change
· Ships are a major source of global warming pollutants
Greenest Hits: The 20 most-read climate change stories this year
Warming May Cause Crop Failures, Food Shortages by 2030
Mason Inman January 31, 2008 Impoverished farmers in South Asia and southern Africa could face growing food shortages due to climate change within just 20 years, a new study says. Increasing levels of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are heating up the planet, with droughts and shifting rainfall patterns predicted for many parts of the world. (See an interactive map of the effects of global warming.) "The majority of the world's one billion poor depend on agriculture for their livelihoods," said the lead author of the new study, David Lobell of Stanford University. "Unfortunately, agriculture is also the human enterprise most vulnerable to changes in climate."
Disasters escalating four-fold as climate change hits poor hardest
27th November 07 - Oxfam
Natural disasters have quadrupled over the last two decades, from an average of 120 a year in the early 1980s to as many as 500 today, says international agency Oxfam in a new report, Climate Alarm, today. The increase in these extreme climatic events is in line with climate models developed by the international scientific community.
The number of people affected by disasters has risen from an average of 174 million a year between 1985 to 1994 to 254 million a year between 1995 to 2004. Earlier this year the Asian floods alone affected 248 million people.
There has been a six-fold increase in floods since 1980. The number of floods and wind-storms have risen from 60 in 1980 to 240 last year. Meanwhile the number of geothermal events, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, has stayed relatively static.
"This year we have seen floods in South Asia, across the breadth of Africa and Mexico that have affected more than 250 million people. This is no freak year. It follows a pattern of more frequent, more erratic, more unpredictable and more extreme weather events that are affecting more people," said Barbara Stocking, Oxfam's director. "Action is needed now to prepare for more disasters otherwise humanitarian assistance will be overwhelmed and recent advances in human development will go into reverse."
Climate change will bring new diseases, WHO warnsCTV.ca News Staff The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm about the potential health effects of global warming in the coming years. The hardest hit countries will be poorer nations in Asia, where, according to the WHO, millions of people will face hunger, disease, and poverty due to rising temperatures and increased rainfall.
What other climate change reports say
February 21, 2008 - 8:47PM
In its latest assessment, published last year, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that if global warming is not checked, hunger and disease will spread, further stress will be put on water resources, it will cause wilder storms and more droughts.
Tons of Climate Change Articles
GM Exec Stands by Calling Global Warming a 'Crock'
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made dismissing global warming as a "total crock of shit," saying his views had no bearing on GM's commitment to build environmentally friendly vehicles. Lutz, GM's outspoken product development chief, has been under fire from Internet bloggers since last month when he was quoted as making the remark to reporters in Texas.
Clean Energy Transition (3/07)
The Plan involves three interacting strategies which include:
· In industrial countries, the withdrawal of subsidies from fossil fuels and the establishment of equivalent subsidies for clean energy sources;
· The creation of a large fund -- perhaps through a small tax on global commerce -- to transfer clean energy technologies to developing countries; and,
· The incorporation within the Kyoto framework of a progressively more stringent Fossil Fuel Efficiency Standard that rises by 5 percent per year.
Global Warming 101
takes a look at the by-products of our consumption.
Climate change is now. It’s not to late to do something video
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