Browsing Tag: Global Warming

Almost 200 nations are set to strike a global warming agreement in Paris in December after over two decades of trying.

Anyone who continues to deny the reality that is climate change, I dare them pay a visit to the Philippines right now

A war is not won by force of arms alone and it is not lost on the battlefield. It is the people that matter foremost, the spirit and strength of the people, and their understanding and willingness to sacrifice for the chosen end, their common victory.

Recent research seems to confirm worries that a warming world is melting one of Earth's most iconic, not to mention tallest, summits: Mount Everest.

A leaked draft of the UN’s most comprehensive study ever on climate change shows increasing evidence that links human activity to global warming.

Searing heat in the U.S. Midwest is expected to see global food prices snap three months of declines in July, the UN said on Thursday, as some international grain prices surged to highs last seen during the 2007-08 food crisis.

Jonathan Overpeck, a climate scientist at the University of Arizona, said the key question was not whether the ice sheets would break up, but how quickly. Some models suggest rapid melting that would bring sea level rises of more than a metre per century. "That would be much harder for us to cope with," he says.

An all-encompassing climate deal "may be beyond our reach for now," the U.N. chief said Tuesday as China and India delivered a setback to European plans to negotiate a new treaty that would bind all parties to their pledges on greenhouse gas emissions.

"For those who believe climate change is about some distant future, I invite them to visit Kiribati or the Solomon Islands and most of the Pacific island countries," he said in a speech at Auckland University. "Climate change is not about tomorrow. It is lapping at our feet...

"That ice sheets will dominate future sea level rise is not surprising - they hold a lot more ice mass than mountain glaciers," said lead author Eric Rignot from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. "What is surprising is this increased contribution by the ice sheets is already happening."

All the pledges of the nations which have agreed to cut or limit their emissions of greenhouse gases, when added together, still leave the world far short of what is needed to halt the coming rise in global average temperatures to 2C, generally regarded as the danger threshold...

Malaria, downpours and drought: Report predicts major climate changes in India by 2030

The two men have never met. Yesterday both bicycled through Central Jersey, each halfway through their separate journeys around the world. As they travel tens of thousands of miles across dozens of countries on all of the continents, they hope to fulfill their own spiritual missions...

Melting glaciers, more humid air and eight other key indicators show that global warming is undeniable, scientists said on Wednesday, citing a new comprehensive review of the last decade of climate data.

"This is our way of meeting the challenges of dowry, global warming and female foeticide. There has not been a single incident yet of female foeticide or dowry death in our village," he says.

Today's issues — global warming, ocean pollution, carbon-based energy systems — are more abstruse and remote. And environmentalists' opponents are far better organized than in the past.

UN and Sikh Leaders to Launch Sikh Response to Global Warming and Climate Change at India Habitat Center in Delhi

Giant Space Mirrors might, when combined with cuts in greenhouse gases may help reverse global warming

A rock found mostly in Oman can be harnessed to soak up the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide

Calls for government to set consumption targets for meat, dairy, alcohol, and other food products.