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Poll: Supermajority of Americans finally support climate action
A large supermajority of the American public thinks that the rising temperatures felt across the nation in recent years are a serious problem that demands action soon, The Associated Press reported Friday. An AP-GfK poll found that a record high 78 percent of Americans, nearly 4 in 5, are worried…
Climate Change denier leaks intergovernmental report online
Draft of IPCC’s fifth assessment, due to be published in September 2013, leaked online by climate sceptic Alex Rawls The draft of a major global warming report by the UN’s climate science panel has been leaked online. The fifth assessment report (AR5) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is…
Security group: China will be dominant world economic power by 2030
No state will replace US militarily, says National Intelligence Council, but climate change will create great instability A US intelligence portrait of the world in 2030 predicts that China will be the largest economic power, that climate change will create instability by contributing to water and food shortages, and that…
Typhoon-hit Philippines tells climate talk attendees: ‘Open your eyes’
The Philippines urged bickering UN climate negotiators in Doha on Thursday to take heed of the deadly typhoon that struck the archipelago this week and wake up to the realities of global warming. Philippine climate envoy Naderev Sano made an emotive appeal for action as the annual United Nations gathering…
Climate change will more than double the number of malnourished children
Food prices set to more than double if climate change not checked and developing countries not helped to adapt farming Food prices will more than double and the number of malnourished children spiral if climate change is not checked and developing countries are not helped to adapt their farming, food…
Arab world ‘to bear brunt of climate change’
Global warming will have dire consequences for the Middle East and North Africa, with even hotter and drier conditions devastating everything from agriculture to tourism, a World Bank report said on Wednesday. On current trends, average temperatures in Arab countries are likely to rise by as much as three degrees…
UN chief urges ‘strong political commitment’ on climate change
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday the world was faced by a global warming “crisis” and urged bickering negotiators at climate talks in Doha to show “strong political commitment” and compromise. Noting there were “mixed feelings” among delegates hammering out deals on curbing Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions, the secretary…
Nations moving ‘recklessly slow’ on climate change action: report
Poor nations must make haste to curb greenhouse gas emissions as even an impossible zero-percent pollution target for the developed world by 2030 won’t stop calamitous climate change, a report warned Tuesday. Co-authored by former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern, the document said that while rich countries are responsible…
World temperature set to increase 9 degrees: study
PARIS — Levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) are rising annually by around three percent, placing Earth on track for warming that could breach five degrees Celsius (9.0 degrees Fahrhenheit) by 2100, a new study published on Sunday said. The figure — among the most alarming of the latest forecasts…
Scientists: Climate change threatens black truffle
Scientists said on Tuesday they had proof that climate change was hitting the Perigord black truffle, a delight of gourmets around the world. Trufflers have long suspected that global warming is affecting Tuber melanosporum — dubbed “the black diamond” on account of its colour and extraordinary price — in its…
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