Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search

News Sections

Newser Specials

Climate Change

Started by C Miller; Last updated Feb 29, 08 8:53 AM CST by S Goldstein | View history

Rate it:

Print

E-mail

|

Digg

Seed this on Newsvine

Add this link to Del.icio.us

StumbleUpon

| Edit thread | Notify editors | + Start a new thread

Climate Change

It's getting hot in here

Is the planet really warming? It's "unequivocal," a major international panel concluded earlier this year, warning that the world's poor would be hit the hardest. While some continue to doubt the science, others are rushing forward toward solutions: from pushing recycled deep-fry oil as gasoline to advocating a return to clean-burning nuclear energy. But will it be too little, too late?

Stories

Stories 81 - 100 of 364

<< Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... 19 Next >>

June 2008
- World Price Tag to Fix Energy Mess: $45T
  
  Bloomberg | Jun 6, 08 9:50 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The world needs to pump $45 trillion into developing green technologies if it hopes to reach its goal of cutting emissions in half by 2050, the International Energy Agency said today. Otherwise, emissions will rise 130% over that period, and oil demand will climb 70%. The $45 trillion represents 1.1% of global GDP over the period, Bloomberg reports. More »
- Dems Find Going Green Can Turn Red States Blue
  
  New Republic | Jun 5, 08 7:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - How is a 35-year-old, pro-choice, pro-civil-unions Democrat considered a serious challenge to Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe? It just might be the environment, the New Republic reports. "These people are out in the natural environment and they are seeing a lot of changes in the ecosystem, and they're concerned," Andrew Rice says of his hunting, farming fellow Oklahomans. More »
- NASA Was Muzzled on Climate Change
  
  New York Times | Jun 3, 08 8:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Political appointees at NASA withheld scientific results on global warming, NASA's inspector general has determined after an internal probe. Investigators found that the public affairs office, run by Bush appointees, suffered from political spinning that was "inconsistent" with the agency's responsibility to pass full information on to the public, the New York Times reports. More »
May 2008
- CO2 Catcher Could Slow Climate Change
  
  Guardian (UK) | May 31, 08 1:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A team of American scientists says it's taken an important first step toward creating a so-called carbon scrubber that can rid greenhouse gases from the air, the Guardian reports. The scientists, led by a Columbia University physicist, have a prototype in the works that can suck a ton of carbon dioxide out of the air per day—and do so economically. More »
- Global Warming, the Opera
  
  Associated Press | May 30, 08 4:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - It started out as a slide show, became an Oscar-winning documentary and best-selling book, and now Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is about to become a full-length opera, reports the AP. Milan's La Scala opera house has commissioned Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli to set Gore's stark warning on global warming to music, for the 2011 season. More »
- High Costs Put Clean Coal on Back Burner
  
  New York Times | May 30, 08 2:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Ambitious plans to combat global warming by pumping carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants into the ground have been delayed or canned due to spiraling costs, the New York Times reports. Scientists now fear that the next generation of coal-burning plants will be built using old, emission-spewing technology, spelling disaster for the climate. More »
- Railroads Hopping Aboard Green Marketing Trend
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 29, 08 8:08 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Often maligned as noxious-fume-spewing bad citizens, railroad companies are hopping the green train, the Wall Street Journal reports. Campaigns by Norfolk Southern and CSX tout clean-burning diesel engines that "can move a ton of freight 423 miles on a single gallon," and Union Pacific claims diverting 25% of truck freight to trains would prevent 800,000 tons of pollution by 2025. More »
- Global Warming Deniers Plan 'Carbon Belch Day'
  
  InformationWeek | May 29, 08 2:40 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Americans should waste all the energy they can on June 12, says conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org, in order to free themselves from “carbon footprint guilt.” Grassfire doesn’t believe humanity is to blame for global warming, and wants to strike back against “climate alarmists.” Organizers suggest having a barbecue, going for a drive, leaving the lights on, and/or smoking a cigar. More »
- Greens Blast Arctic 'Carve Up'
  
  Guardian (UK) | May 29, 08 4:49 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Environmentalists are slamming an agreement reached at a closed-door meeting among nations with Arctic claims as a resource free-for-all, the Guardian reports. Ministers from the US, Canada, Russia, Denmark, and Norway insist they simply agreed to abide by the law of the sea—but green groups charge that the nations are arranging who'll get to grab resources as global warming melts the ice. More »
- Germany Pledges Billions for Rainforest Protection
  
  Der Spiegel | May 28, 08 2:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Germany will spend billions of euros protecting tropical rainforests in an effort to halt global warming. Chancellor Angela Merkel said today at the United Nations' biodiversity conference that Germany will increase its funding for the conservation of rainforests from $330 million to $1.1 billion in the next three years and an additional $785 million per year after that. More »
- Billions Wasted in UN Carbon Program: Study
  
  Guardian (UK) | May 26, 08 3:38 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Billions of dollars spent to encourage developing nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions are being wasted on projects that don't qualify, according to two new studies of the UN's carbon credit program. The Kyoto agreement arranges for wealthy countries unable to meet emission reductions to instead subsidize green energy projects in developing countries. But the fund is routinely abused by energy companies in developing countries improperly claiming emission reduction credits. More »
- Rockefellers Pump Exxon Execs for Changes
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 24, 08 1:58 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Executives at Exxon are bracing for an onslaught from the Rockefeller family, whose patriarch founded the oil firm’s predecessor a century ago, the Wall Street Journal reports. Led by John D. Rockefeller’s great-granddaughter, the family wants Exxon to pursue renewable forms of energy and appoint an independent chairman. More »
- Huge New Cracks Seen in Arctic Ice Shelf
  
  BBC | May 24, 08 6:24 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Canadian expedition has found a major new network of cracks, more than 10 miles long, in the Arctic's ice shelves, the BBC reports. Scientists say the huge shelves are disintegrating; pieces become "ice islands" that can float hundreds of miles away as climate changes takes hold. Arctic sea ice shrank to a record low last year and could melt even further this summer, accelerating a scramble for the Arctic's resources. More »
- 7 Minutes of Danger in Mars Quest
  
  Christian Science Monitor | May 23, 08 2:52 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The latest NASA mission searching for signs of life on Mars comes to a heart-pounding climax Sunday as the Phoenix Lander attempts to touch down at the red planet's pole in a hunt for water. The lander must perform complex maneuvers in which the whole mission is at risk for a full 7 minutes, reports the Christian Science Monitor . More »
- Make Dams and Food, Not War and Ethanol
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 22, 08 4:55 PM CDT