US senator calls global warming a hoax
Jim Inhofe has one mission for the Copenhagen climate change summit: to be a self-declared
Jim Inhofe has one mission for the Copenhagen climate change summit: to be a self-declared
A WARMING GLOBE IS BRINGING UNPRECEDENTED CONFLICT TO AFRICA AND GOVERNMENTS ARE EXACERBATING THE PROBLEM, SAYS EDMUND SANDERS Most climate related conflicts in Africa have been localised but experts warn that climate wars between neighbouring countries could be a possibility
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BINAJ GURUBACHARYA The high-altitude meeting comes on the heels of the recent underwater Cabinet meeting held in Maldives, also meant to draw attention to global warming : A group of Nepalese ministers reached the Mount Everest region on Thursday for a Cabinet meeting being billed as the highest ever -a stunt meant to highlight the threat global warming poses to Himalayan glaciers.
Minister for Science and Technology Churchill Alemao has appealed to the scientists to find out a remedy to global warming, even as he said that something may happen to the world in 2012.
Bangladesh's vulnerability to global warming was eloquently discussed in French National Assembly here on Wednesday as France and Brazil are poised to make a joint push at the Copenhagen climate change conference for adopting a financial framework to address the adverse impacts of the climate change on the most risky countries in Asia and Africa.
Coastal cities and islands all across the world, including India, are facing serious threat from thinning of ice in Antarctica, according to latest research by 100 world-leading scientists from eight countries released here on Wednesday.
RASHME SEHGAL India's coastal cities are under a new threat. The rapid melting of Antarctica ice will see sea levels rise by over one metre international scientists warn.
The e-mail archives stolen last month from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, have been greeted by the climate-change-denialist fringe as a propaganda windfall. To these denialists, the scientists
China
When the International Energy Agency delivered its recent World Energy Outlook, one figure stood out: $500bn.
The United Nations scheme was agreed under the 1997 Kyoto protocol as a key part of the overall strategy to fight global warming. It awards tradeable carbon credits to projects that reduce developing countries' greenhouse gas emissions - such as wind farms.
The UN body in charge of managing carbon trading has suspended approvals for dozens of Chinese wind farms amid questions over China's use of industrial policy to obtain money under the scheme.
The deal at Copenhagen will not necessarily ensure that the world will be able to avoid global warming of more than 2 degrees relative to pre-industrial levels, according to UK's top environmental economist Lord Nicholas Stern on Tuesday.
A large number of cities across the world, including the eastern Indian metropolis of Kolkata, are at risk from the threat of rising sea level due to global warming, a major international study has claimed.
The boreal forests, one of the largest carbon stocks on earth, will not be able to respond to global warming by migrating northwards. Massive forest dieback, causing runaway warming, is a more likely scenario.
A new map published by the British government presents the likely effects of global warming above the +2o goal - a future that seems impossible to cope with.
This PricewaterhouseCoopers analytical report reviews G20 carbon intensity levels between 2000-2008 and the distance to go to 2050, underlining case for an ambitious deal in Copenhagen and emphasises the key role of China, US, EU and India.
This paper reviews the disproportionate role of wealthy nations in contributing global GHG emissions, contrasted with the role of poorer nations and people. It finds extreme inequity in terms of who contributes to climate change and who benefits from GHG-intensive development patterns.