CLIMATE CHANGE CONNECTION NEWS

 

Climate Change Connection is a hub for information about climate change in Manitoba.

We are a project of the Manitoba Eco-Network.

This website will help you to become informed about climate change and to get connected to others who are working on this issue in Manitoba.

 
 

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CLIMATE CHANGE CONNECTION NEWS
  Updated: Tue, May 6   10:28 AM CST    
 

Airline emissions 'far higher than previous estimates'

May 6, 2008 - The Independent

LONDON - The aviation industry's failure to curb its soaring carbon emissions could lead to the "worst case scenario" for climate change, as envisaged by the United Nations.

 

Environmentalists divided on burying CO2

May 5, 2008 - Reuters

OSLO - Greenpeace and more than 100 other environmental groups denounced projects for burying industrial greenhouse gases on Monday, exposing splits in the green movement about whether such schemes can slow global warming.

 
 

Canadian schools sent brochures from climate change skeptics

May 4, 2008 - Canwest News Service

OTTAWA - An American think tank has sent out more than 11,000 brochures and DVDs to Canadian schools urging them to teach their students that scientists are exaggerating how human activity is the driving force behind global warming.

 

In a new climate model, short-term cooling in a warmer world

May 1, 2008 - New York Times

NEW YORK - After decades of research that sought, and found, evidence of a human influence on the earth’s climate, climatologists are beginning to shift to a new and similarly daunting enterprise: creating decade-long forecasts for climate, just as meteorologists routinely generate weeklong forecasts for weather.