Keeping track of climate change: related news

Keeping track of climate change

LONDON, England (CNN) -- It can often seem like hard work keeping track of the changes happening to our planet. Another day, another new prediction. Another week, another warning. It's enough to make even the most conscientious climate change student issue a weary discombobulated sigh.

Albertans'' personal data not well protected; climate change plan wonky: auditor (Alta-Climate-Change-A)

Albertans'' personal data not well protected; climate change plan wonky: auditor (Alta-Climate-Change-A)

Climate change: opportunities and challenges for patent owners

Although there is often talk of the challenge posed by climate change, it also presents an opportunity. With the policy objective of reducing emissions, the Garnaut Climate Change Review recommended that this could be most efficiently achieved by implementing an emissions trading scheme (ETS), rather than an emissions tax (often referred to as a “carbon tax”) (Interim Report to the Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments of Australia, February 2008). The introduction of an ETS in Australia from 2010 will create a new emissions market in which government-created permits may be exchanged between sellers and buyers. According to the review, the trading of permits will enable:

As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland

Peace Corps Online writes "The Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country's billion-dollar annual tourist revenue to buy a new homeland as insurance against climate change. Rising sea levels threaten to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees as the chain of 1,200 island and coral atolls dotted 500 miles from the tip of India is likely to disappear under the waves if the current pace of climate change continues to raise sea levels. The UN forecasts that the seas are likely to rise by up to 59 cm by the year 2100. Most parts of the Maldives are just 150 cm above water so even a 'small rise' in sea levels would inundate large parts of the archipelago. 'We can do nothing to stop climate change on our own and so we have to buy land elsewhere.

On climate costs: A state of disconnect (Power Lines blog)

Half of Americans view reducing climate change as extremely important or very important, according to one new survey. Sixty-one percent think companies should shoulder the costs of dealing with it. Only 16% think that products and services should cost more as a result. Most would be dissatisfied -- one third would be very dissatisfied -- if they had to pay a 10% higher utility bill to address climate change.

Climate Change Destroying Walden Pond's Flowers

Beautifulplant Climate change is devastating the flowers of Walden Pond, picking off those species that cannot react to rising temperatures.

Climate change helps some invasive species

A British study suggests climate change has assisted some invasive species to advance in a much quicker fashion.

Climate Change Helps Some Invasive Species

A British study suggests climate change has assisted some invasive species to advance in a much quicker fashion.

Climate change, animal diversity studied

U.S. scientists have determined climate change 8 million years ago in what's now Pakistan forced most animal species in that area into extinction.

Climate Change Helps Invasive Species Thrive

Plants that range northward because of climate change may be better at defending themselves against local enemies than native plants.

Climate change helps some invasive species

Valencia, Spain -- A British study suggests climate change has assisted some invasive species to advance in a much quicker fashion.

Climate Change Expected To Support Short-Lived Species

Researchers in Germany and Canada reported on Thursday that climate change could effect the global food chain by supporting animals with short life spans rather than their larger long-lived predators.

Climate change threatens art and tourism, researchers say

ISSUE 162, September 18, 2008: TOURISM in the Northern Territory will be hard hit by climate change, in particular the wetlands of Kakadu National Park, researchers say.

Climate Change: Pushing Species To The Brink

Thirty-five percent of the world’s birds, 52 percent of amphibians and 71 percent of warm-water reef-building corals are likely to be particularly susceptible to climate change, the first results of an IUCN study have revealed.

Climate Change vs. the Economy

As the second term of the George W. Bush's Administration nears its end, policy makers, scientists, environmentalists and others long-concerned about the planet-wide changes being triggered by global warming are optimistic that with a new president, the United States will finally take concrete steps to reduce carbon emissions and slow climate change.

Blogging Like The World Depended On It

Change.org is a two-year-old online community dedicated to tackling some of the world's most entrenched problems: climate change, immigration, ethnic cleansing and so on. But this week, the organization is looking inward to effect its biggest change yet. The focus: itself. The site—which despite being called "Change" has no affiliation with either presidential candidate currently harping on that motif—is morphing into a media company that will publish a suite of 13 individual blogs, each dedicated to a specific topic. Think of it as an activist Huffington Post (only without a socialite figurehead) or a Gawker Media for good (without the empty vitriol).

Technology: Can Bloggers Save the World?

Change.org is a two-year-old online community dedicated to tackling some of the world's most entrenched problems: climate change, immigration, ethnic cleansing and so on. But this week, the organization is looking inward to effect its biggest change yet. The focus: itself. The site—which despite being called "Change" has no affiliation with either presidential candidate currently harping on that motif—is morphing into a media company that will publish a suite of 13 individual blogs, each dedicated to a specific topic. Think of it as an activist Huffington Post (only without a socialite figurehead) or a Gawker Media for good (without the empty vitriol).

Students Study Climate Change in Antarctica and Visit NASA Space Centers During National Distance Learning Week

TMCNet: Students Study Climate Change in Antarctica and Visit NASA Space Centers During National Distance Learning Week

Experts Warn Species In Peril From Climate Change

(AP) Climate change threatens to kill off up to a third of the planet's species by the end of the century if urgent action isn't taken to restore fragile ecosystems, protect endangered animals and manage growth, scientists warned Wednesday as a wildlife summit opened.

Experts warn species in peril from climate change

(AP) -- Climate change threatens to kill off up to a third of the planet's species by the end of the century if urgent action isn't taken to restore fragile ecosystems, protect endangered animals and manage growth, scientists warned Wednesday as a wildlife summit opened.

HSBC establishes climate change research programme

HSBC Global Markets today announces the creation of a Climate Change Research Facilitation Programme (the 'Programme'), in association with:

Albertans' personal data not well protected; climate change plan wonky: auditor

EDMONTON - Alberta's highly touted climate-change plan is based on unsupported projections and may end up wasting taxpayers' money, auditor general Fred Dunn reported Thursday.

Albertans' personal data not well protected; climate change plan wonky: auditor

EDMONTON - Alberta's highly touted climate-change plan is based on unsupported projections and may end up wasting taxpayers' money, auditor general Fred Dunn reported Thursday.

Albertans' personal data not well protected; climate change plan wonky: auditor

EDMONTON - Alberta's highly touted climate-change plan is based on unsupported projections and may end up wasting taxpayers' money, auditor general Fred Dunn reported Thursday.

Albertans' personal data not well protected; climate change plan wonky: auditor

EDMONTON - Alberta's highly touted climate-change plan is based on unsupported projections and may end up wasting taxpayers' money, auditor general Fred Dunn reported Thursday.

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