News Headlines (Links)
- "An EU report says climate change will have a growing impact on global security, multiplying existing threats such as shortages of food and water." - BBC
- "Perth has had the hottest summer on record since record keeping began in the 1950's."
- "South Asia and Southern Africa may be hardest hit by climate change-related food shortages by 2030. The findings suggest Southern Africa could lose more than 30% of its main crop, maize, by 2030. In South Asia losses of many regional staples, such as rice, millet and maize could top 10%." - Science 1 Feb 2008
- "Tackling climate change requires politics and technology as well as individual action. Alternatives to fossil fuels, burying carbon emissions deep in the sea and carbon trading schemes are among the options."
- "During the earth's history there have been warmer periods, millions of years ago. However this is the most rapid rise in temperature since the end of the last ice age."
- "Scientists have confirmed that virtually all the glaciers along the Antarctic Peninsula are retreating, a trend almost certainly linked to temperature rises in the area. Of the 244 glaciers studied, 87% have shown an overall retreat since the 1940s."
- "A novel idea for solving the carbon problem is to bury it. 'Carbon sequestration' involves capturing carbon dioxide and then storing it away for millions of years. The technology for capture, for example from large sources of carbon dioxide such as power stations, is fairly advanced. Locking it away, by pumping it into disused coal mines or natural formations, or to the bottom of the ocean, has proved more of a technical challenge." - BBC
- "Globally 1998 was the warmest year ever recorded and eight of the ten warmest years fell in the last decade."
- "Global sea level has already risen by four to eight inches in the past century, and the pace of sea level rise appears to be accelerating. The IPCC predicts that sea levels could rise 10 to 23 inches by 2100, but in recent years sea levels have been rising faster than the upper end of the range predicted by the IPCC."
- "EU leaders meeting in Brussels are poised to agree on an ambitious plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions." - BBC
- "It takes power to make power—even with a solar grand plan. From the mining of quartz sand to the coating with ethylene-vinyl acetate, manufacturing a photovoltaic (PV) solar cell requires energy—most often derived from the burning of fossil fuels. But a new analysis finds that even accounting for all the energy and waste involved, PV power would cut air pollution—including the greenhouse gases that cause climate change—by nearly 90 percent if it replaced fossil fuels."