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Western Canada's Glaciers Hit 7000-Year Low

Oct 30, 2007 — Physorg.com

VANCOUVER - Tree stumps at the feet of Western Canadian glaciers are providing new insights into the accelerated rates at which the rivers of ice have been shrinking due to human-aided global warming.

B.C., Manitoba, sign on to European carbon trading initiative

Oct 30, 2007 — Canadian Press

VICTORIA - British Columbia and Manitoba have announced they'll sign on to a European-designed carbon credit trading scheme, despite the federal government's refusal to get involved with such systems.

Carbon partnership hopes to go global

Oct 29, 2007 — Reuters

LISBON - A coalition of European countries, U.S. states, Canadian provinces and New Zealand signed a partnership on Monday to slow global warming through an international carbon trading market, officials said on Monday.

Crisis feared as U.S. water supplies dry up

Oct 27, 2007 — AP

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn’t have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York’s reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year.

Electric car maker charges Ottawa blocking its sale in Canada

Oct 26, 2007 — CBC News

The founder of a Canadian-made, 100 per cent electric car says the federal government is blocking him from selling his cars in Canada.

Are California wildfires a sign of climate change?

Oct 25, 2007 — Salon.com

Fire, flood, drought, hurricanes: In a world where climate change is predicted to usher in an era of extreme weather events, the temptation for impatient activists to treat each new unsettling outburst of Mother Nature as proof that the end is no longer nigh, but busting in the door, is irresistible.

More Japan industries raise CO2 emission cut targets

Oct 24, 2007 —Reuters

TOKYO - Japanese trucking firms, home builders, instant noodle makers and sugar manufacturers promised to take additional measures to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help the country meet climate change goals, the government said.

Greenhouse gas legislation coming this fall: Doer

Oct 23, 2007 — CBC News

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's NDP government said Tuesday it is preparing to introduce legislation that will require the province to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

Study: Warming is stronger, happening sooner

Oct 22, 2007 — MSNBC

Just a days after the Nobel prize was awarded for global warming work, an alarming new study finds that warming signals are stronger, and happening sooner than expected, due to increased human emissions of carbon dioxide and an Earth less able to absorb them.

Quarter of China's carbon emissions due to exports

Oct 19, 2007 — Reuters

LONDON - One quarter of China's booming emissions of climate warming gases are from its export trade to Europe and the United States, a report said on Friday, calling for a new way of calculating national carbon emissions.

Carbon, costs curb growth of coal power plants

Oct 18, 2007 — Associated Press

BILLINGS, Mont. - At least 16 coal-fired power plant proposals nationwide have been scrapped in recent months and more than three dozen have been delayed as utilities face increasing pressure due to concerns over global warming and rising construction costs.

Bank says climate change is investment "megatrend"

Oct 18, 2007 — Reuters

BEIJING - Government efforts to tackle climate change are creating a "megatrend" investment opportunity that should tempt even those skeptical about the nature and pace of global warming, Deutsche Bank analysts said on Thursday.

Annan launches forum for climate change fight

Oct 17, 2007 — Reuters

GENEVA - Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday launched a "Global Humanitarian Forum" which he said would focus on coordinating international efforts to counter the effects of climate change.

Country to world: Pay us to protect forest

Oct 16, 2007 — Associated Press

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Impoverished Guyana has offered to limit logging inside its rain forests if it gets compensation.

Gore's tormentors step up their battle

Oct 14, 2007 — The Sunday Times

LONDON - THE tormentors of Al Gore, who last week won a legal victory against his film, An Inconvenient Truth, are to step up their battle by sending British secondary schools a documentary attacking the science of global warming.

Revealed: the man behind court attack on Gore film

Oct 14, 2007 — The Guardian

UK - The school governor who challenged the screening of Al Gore's climate change documentary in secondary schools was funded by a Scottish quarrying magnate who established a controversial lobbying group to attack environmentalists' claims about global warming.

Science backs Gore's premise

Oct 13, 2007 — The Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO - Most of the remaining doubts some scientists harbored about the impact of human activity on global temperatures have disappeared in the last few years. Gore's recital of climate facts in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" contains some flaws, but most experts agree he is correct on the biggest point: The earth is on a path toward a perilously warm climate and the release of greenhouse gases is playing a key role

Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth: unscientific?

Oct 12, 2007 — The New Scientist

It has been a week of contrasts for Al Gore. No doubt he has spent much of it wondering if he should prepare champagne for breakfast on Friday, with rumors running wild over whether or not he should and would win the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Just this morning, the announcement was made: the prize is his - or at least half of it. The other half goes to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Al Gore and IPCC share Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 12, 2007 — Associated Press

OSLO — Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

Al Gore’s inconvenient judgment

Oct 11, 2007 — The Times

LONDON - Al Gore’s award-winning climate change documentary was littered with nine inconvenient untruths, a judge ruled yesterday.

Delegation asks Assie govt to ratify Kyoto

Oct 10, 2007 — Sydney Morning Herald

SYDNEY - An Australian delegation to low-lying Pacific island nations has called on the federal government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change after the coalition said it might sign an amended agreement.

Warming means stickier world, study finds

Oct 10, 2007 — Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The world isn’t just getting hotter from global warming, it’s getting stickier. It really is the humidity.

Shipping pollution 'far more damaging than flying'

Oct 10, 2007 — The Independent

New research suggests that the impact of shipping on climate change has been seriously underestimated and that the industry is currently churning out greenhouse gases at nearly twice the rate of aviation.

Greenhouse gas emissions hit danger mark

Oct 9 , 2007 — Reuters

SYDNEY - The global economic boom has accelerated greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous threshold not expected for a decade and could potentially cause irreversible climate change, said one of Australia's leading scientists.

Indonesia seeks payout to save forests

Oct 8 , 2007 — Reuters

JAKARTA - Indonesia wants to be paid $5-$20 per hectare not to destroy its remaining forests, the environment minister said on Monday, for the first time giving an actual figure that he wants the world's rich countries to pay. Participants from 189 countries are expected to gather in Bali for global climate talks at a U.N.-led summit in December.

Lacking sea ice, walruses head for shore

Oct 5, 2007 — Associated Press

ANCHORAGE - Thousands of walruses since late summer have congregated in areas on Alaska's northwest shore, a phenomenon likely connected to record low Arctic sea ice and warming temperatures.

Salmon need help to survive climate change

Oct 5, 2007 — Globe & Mail

VANCOUVER -- Salmon in British Columbia will need human help to adapt to changes being brought on by global warming, but some streams may simply become uninhabitable to the cold-water fish, a government advisory body declared yesterday.

World climate deal faces hurdles for '09 deadline

Oct 4 , 2007 — Reuters

OSLO - A growing sense of urgency is pushing world leaders to agree a new treaty to fight climate change but the U.S. presidential election might still foil hopes of a deal by the end of 2009, experts told a Reuters summit.

Ships to shun Northwest Passage

Oct 3 , 2007 — Reuters

OTTAWA - While there has been much talk that Arctic trade routes will open up as northern ice melts, shipping companies and experts say using the fabled Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic archipelago would be too difficult, too dangerous and totally impractical.

EPA: Climate bills dependent on global effort

Oct 2, 2007 — Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Three competing Senate proposals calling for limits on greenhouse gases would have roughly identical success in curbing global warming, but only if other nations also significantly cut heat-trapping emissions, a government analysis says.

Quebec companies to start paying carbon tax to cut greenhouse gases

Oct 2, 2007 — Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Quebec energy companies are going to start paying a carbon tax to help cut greenhouse gases.

The carbon tax, believed to be the first in Canada, takes effect Monday and was announced by the Quebec government in 2006.

B.C. premier rolls out sweeping green plan

Oct 1, 2007 — CBC News

VANCOUVER - B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell laid out more details of his green plan Friday, including the promise of legislation to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 33 per cent below current levels by 2020.

Climate change will alter world travel patterns

Oct 1, 2007 — Reuters

DAVOS, Switzerland - Global warming will produce stay-at-home tourists over the next few decades, radically altering travel patterns and threatening jobs and businesses in tourism-dependent countries, according to a stark assessment by U.N experts.

Climate change top issue, CEOs declare

Oct 1, 2007 — Globe & Mail

OTTAWA — Canada's top chief executive officers have reached an “unprecedented consensus” on the need to combat global warming and their obligation to do more to help.

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