Global Warming (Humans, particularly Co2 emissions, are the primary cause of the warming)
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Contents

• News

• Global Warming

• Storms

• Glaciers

• Shifting animals

• Both Sides

• How to make a difference

News

• 6/22/07 Global warming: What steps will you take to adapt to a warmer world? | csmonitor.com
  Amphibians are vanishing from
  Costa Rica's nature preserves. They are the
  canaries in the coal mine, among the first of the
  estimated 25 percent of species that may disappear this century. Can humans design 'escape routes' and 'arks' to help?

• 3/22/07: U.S. developing system to track global warming gas: Scientific American
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States is developing a system to track atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, which could help scientists project future climate change, a government researcher said.
  The CarbonTracker monitors carbon dioxide levels throughout North America to create an Internet-based map. Carbon-emitting areas, such as cities and industry centers, show up in red and carbon sinks, such as forests, are represented in blue.

• 3/22/07: Global warming and new technology heat up race for riches in melting Arctic - International Herald Tribune
  HAMMERFEST, Norway: Barren and uninhabited, Hans Island is very hard to find on a map.
  Yet these days the Frisbee-shaped rock in the Arctic is much in demand — so much so that Canada and Denmark have both staked their claim to it with flags and warships.
  The reason: an international race for oil, fish, diamonds and shipping routes, accelerated by the impact of global warming on Earth's frozen north.

Global Warming
Humans, particularly Co2 emissions, are the primary cause of the warming

• 4/4/08: Climate Debate Daily
  Climate Debate Daily is intended to deepen our understanding of disputes over climate change and the human contribution to it. The site links to scientific articles, news stories, economic studies, polemics, historical articles, PR releases, editorials, feature commentaries, and blog entries. The main column on the left includes arguments and evidence generally in support of the IPCC position on the reality of significant anthropogenic global warming. The right-hand column includes material skeptical of the IPCC position and the notion that anthropogenic global warming represents a genuine threat to humanity.
  Many sites on the Internet, including some of those listed at the far left of the page, take firm views for or against the threat of anthropogenic global warming. As a matter of editorial policy, Climate Debate Daily maintains a studied neutrality, allowing each side to present its most powerful and persuasive case. Our object is to allow readers to form their own judgments based on the best available information.

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. It is currently finalizing its Fourth Assessment Report "Climate Change 2007". The reports by the three Working Groups provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the current state of knowledge on climate change. The Synthesis Report integrates the information around six topic areas.

• People's Daily Online -- Global warming causes heat wave
  Beijing reports record high temperatures
  After temperature records were broken on "Lichun" (the beginning of spring, the first of China's 24 traditional agricultural "terms" in the lunar calendar, which this year fell on February 4), Beijing reported another record high temperature of 16 degrees Celsius on the afternoon of February 5, the highest recorded temperature on that date in the last 167 years (systematic temperature records have been kept since 1840). Meteorological data shows that the average temperature in Beijing last December and this January were significantly higher than in previous years and that trend will continue this month. Meteorological experts say that the recent abnormally high temperatures have seldom been seen during this period at any time in history. Temperatures also remain high in Harbin city. The snow in the streets is melting. In Shanghai, the temperature was above 20 degrees Celsius for a few days in early February.

• 2/8/07 Poor countries will suffer most from global warming,Ban ki-Moon warns | IndianMuslims.info
  United Nations, Feb. 6 (NNN-APP) The world's poor, who are the least responsible for global warming, will suffer the most from climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told environment ministers from around the world on Monday.

• 2/3/07 Blame for global warming placed firmly on humankind - earth - 02 February 2007 - New Scientist Environment

• 2/3/07 Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study at File22.com
  Scientists and economists have been offered $10.000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
  Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The UN report was written by international experts and is widely regarded as the most comprehensive review yet of climate change science. It will underpin international negotiations on new emissions targets to succeed the Kyoto agreement, the first phase of which expires in 2012. World governments were given a draft last year and invited to comment. The AEI has received more than $1.6 million from ExxonMobil and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI’s board of trustees. The letters, sent to scientists in Britain, the US and elsewhere, attack the UN’s panel as “resistant to reasonable criticism and dissent and prone to summary conclusions that are poorly supported by the analytical work” and ask for essays that “thoughtfully explore the limitations of climate model outputs“.

• 2/5/07 Graph showing variations in Earth's temperatures

• 1/3/07 Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil's Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science
  WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 3–A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue. According to the report, ExxonMobil has funneled nearly $16 million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations that seek to confuse the public on global warming science.

• 11/05/06 The Threat of Climate Change - washingtonpost.com
  Special Report

• Scientific American.com: Climate panel lowers global warming forecast: report
  SYDNEY (Reuters) - The world's top climate scientists are slightly less pessimistic in their latest forecasts for global warming over the next 100 years, the Australian newspaper reported on Saturday.

• 9/5/06 Global warming 'cannot be stopped' - Britain - Times Online
  THE world must be more realistic about the chances of preventing climate change and prepare for the inevitability of global warming, the head of one of Britain’s foremost scientific societies will urge today.

• Causes, Effects of Global Warming, Global Warming Science
  The scientific community has reached a strong consensus regarding the science of global climate change.   The world is undoubtedly warming.  This warming is largely the result of emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from human activities including industrial processes, fossil fuel combustion, and changes in land use, such as deforestation.  Continuation of historical trends of greenhouse gas emissions will result in additional warming over the 21st century, with current projections of a global increase of 2.5ºF to 10.4ºF by 2100, with warming in the U.S. expected to be even higher.  This warming will have real consequences for the United States and the world, for with that warming will also come additional sea-level rise that will gradually inundate coastal areas, changes in precipitation patterns, increased risk of droughts and floods, threats to biodiversity, and a number of potential challenges for public health. 

• 9/2/06 Global Warming Feedback Loop Caused by Methane, Scientists Say
  In the ongoing debate over global warming, climatologists usually peg carbon dioxide as the most dangerous of the atmosphere's heat- trapping gases.
  But methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, might be even more problematic.

• 9/2/06 Climate panel lowers global warming forecast - New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz
  SYDNEY: The world's top climate scientists are slightly less pessimistic in their latest forecasts for global warming over the next 100 years, the Australian newspaper reported on Saturday.

• Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), UW-Madison

• Natural Resources Council of Maine

• 8/25/06 Finally, fired up over global warming - The Boston Globe
  by Bill McKibben who is a scholar in residence in environmental studies at Middlebury College and the author of ``The End of Nature."

• 8/25/06 The bill for global warming  Canadian Business Online
  Question:
  Because of this unusually hot summer, I'm spending more to cool my house than ever before. That got me thinking: What's the economic cost of global warming?
  Answer:
  First off, plenty of assumptions go into these kinds of estimates. So don't take this number as the final word-or I guess, the final figure-on the topic. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America this year, Yale economist William Nordhaus estimates that a three degree Celsius increase in the world's average temperature would cause a one to three percent decline in global income. That works out to roughly US$393 billion to $1.2 trillion, respectively. The economist's 1999 book, Roll the DICE Again: Economic Models of Global Warming, actually revealed Canada could enjoy a slight economic benefit from a rise of about 2.5 degrees Celsius from 1995 to 2105.

Storms and oceans

• 12/02/06 ScienceDaily Seagrass Ecosystems At A 'Global Crisis'
     An international team of scientists is calling for a targeted global conservation effort to preserve seagrasses and their ecological services for the world's coastal ecosystems, according to an article published in the December issue of Bioscience, the journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS).
     The article "A Global Crisis for Seagrass Ecosystems" cites the critical role seagrasses play in coastal systems and how costal development, population growth and the resulting increase of nutrient and sediment pollution have contributed to large-scale losses worldwide.

• 9/2/06 Global Warming and Hurricanes
  Is there a connection between the recent severe weather events and global warming?  Was the 2004 hurricane season unprecedented? What is happening in the 2005 season?

Glaciers and the Artic

• 12/11/06 Antarctica works as living global warming laboratory
  MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica (Reuters) - For scientists at this ice-encircled outpost, global warming is not a matter of debate. It is a simple fact and crucial research questions center on what its consequences will be. 
  Antarctica is a prime place for this research because it serves as an early warning system for climate change and is a major influence on global weather. 

• 11/05/06 Melting Arctic Makes Way for Man - washingtonpost.com
  ICEBREAKER CHANNEL, Northwest Passage -- The Amundsen's engines growl low, as if in warning. The ship steals ahead; its powerful spotlights stab at fog thick with the lore of crushed ships and frozen voyagers. Ice floes gleam from the void like the eyes of animals in the night.
  Despite that theory, some heavy hitters in Maine's business world — the Maine State Chamber of Commerce and Wiscasset's Coastal Enterprises Inc., for example — have spoken out against the spending growth cap, claiming that TABOR would gouge government programs, infrastructure and investments upon which businesses and their employees rely.
  The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen weaves in graceful slow motion through the ice pack, advancing through the legendary Northwest Passage well after the Arctic should be iced over and shuttered to ships for the winter.
  The fearsome ice is weakened and failing, sapped by climate change. Ultimately, this night's ghostly procession through Icebreaker Channel will be the worst the ship faces on its late-season voyage. Much of the trip, crossing North America from west to east through the Northwest Passage, will be in open water, with no

• Effects of Global Warming: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Q&A
  New research on the effects of global warming on the Arctic was released November 8th.  Why is the arctic warming faster than the rest of the world? What will the impacts on the United States be? Is Alaska already being affected?  Answers to these frequently asked questions can be found below.

• 9/1/06 United Press International - NewsTrack - Greenland feels effects of global warming
  NUUK, Greenland, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Global warming has changed the climate in Greenland to such an extent, it is now possible to raise cattle on the island for the first time in centuries.

• 8/27/06 Ice Age gives clues to global warming: study | Tech&Sci | Science | Reuters.co.uk
  OSLO (Reuters) - Ice Age evidence confirms that a doubling of greenhouse gases could drive up world temperatures by about 3 Celsius (5.4 Fahrenheit), causing havoc with the climate, a study showed on Friday.

Shifting animals

• 06-08-20 /March of the Manatee - New York Times
  A MANATEE has recently been reported lolling about the confluence of the Croton and Hudson Rivers in the vicinity of several Westchester County yacht clubs. Evidently it is unaware of the long waiting list for membership and moorings.

• 9/2/06 Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Global Warming Shows Up in Fly Genes
  Climate warming over the last quarter century is writ large in tiny fruit flies, according to a genetic analysis. In a species of fruit fly, the frequencies of so-called inversions, in which a piece of chromosome is flipped around, were observed decades ago to correspond to the latitude at which the flies were found. In nearly all the sites where the flies have recently been sampled--a span of three continents--the frequency of specific inversions has increased hand in hand with climbing temperatures. "It's a very clear signal that climate warming is going to have a big impact on our environment," says Raymond Huey of the University of Washington, co-author of a report in the September 1 Science that documents the change.

How to Help

• Global Warming: What's Being Done
  Global Warming Solutions
  The issue of climate change is one of the most profound challenges of our time, and we believe it is a challenge that can be met.  Because the causes of climate change—as well as the solutions to this problem—cut across every nation, every sector of the economy, and every community, responding effectively will not be easy. However, significant strides are being made. Read on for more information.  

• 9/1/06 California takes lead in global-warming fight | csmonitor.com
  But caps on greenhouse-gas emissions are largely symbolic.
  LOS ANGELES AND BOSTON – California's landmark deal to require a 25 percent cut in industrial greenhouse gases by 2020 is a largely symbolic victory with only a tiny impact on climate. But it's one that could prompt significant change in the nation's stance on global warming - and give the state a competitive edge in future years.

• 8/25/06 Environment Maine: Action Now on Global Warming
  With all the attention around global warming, Congress can no longer ignore the issue. Sens. Snowe and Collins signed onto a letter to President Bush requiring mandatory cuts to stop and reverse increases in global warming pollution. Meanwhile, Rep. Waxman has introduced a bill to cut emissions by 20 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050. Scientists say these aggressive cuts are needed if we’re going to avoid the worst of global warming’s effects.

• 8/25/06 Environment Maine: New Report: U.S. Can Cut Global Warming Pollution 20 Percent by 2020
  PORTLAND—Just weeks after the strongest global warming legislation in history was introduced in Congress, a new report released today by Environment Maine Research & Policy Center shows how the U.S. can meet – and even exceed – the legislation’s goals. The report finds that the U.S. can reduce its global warming emissions by nearly 20 percent within the next 15 years by boosting energy efficiency and renewable energy.

• Ceres | 2006 Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Making the Connection
  The 2006 Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Making the Connection report includes a 30-page summary report comprised of the executive summary, the climate governance scoring criteria, the 100 company scores and sector-specific findings. The report also includes 2- to 3-page profiles on each of the companies evaluated.
  Note: A complete listing of all companies and their scores can be found at page four of the full report.\

• EPA - Climate Leaders
  Climate Leaders is an EPA industry-government partnership that works with companies to develop long-term comprehensive climate change strategies. Partners set a corporate-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goal and inventory their emissions to measure progress. By reporting inventory data to EPA, Partners create a lasting record of their accomplishments. Partners also identify themselves as corporate environmental leaders and strategically position themselves as climate change policy continues to unfold