Unfortunately, I have to put an end to this blog. I have been consistantly behind in keeping the postings up-to-date. I feel I would be doing the profile, and everyone who takes an interest in it, a major disservice if I were to continue managing it in the way I have been.

Thank you all for your interest and support. I am still active in the search for information about Climate Change and you should be too!!!

Blair Gets The Thumbs Down On Climate Change
New Builder

"The public have given Tony Blair the thumbs down on climate change, according to a recent survey. Despite Prime Minister Tony Blair's claim that Europe must lead the way on conversion to a low carbon economy at last week's EU energy summit, UK residents are unimpressed by his record of achievement on the issue..."

http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1654

Warming link to amphibian disease
BBC News

"A fungal disease that threatens to wipe out many amphibians is thriving because of climate change, a study suggests.
Researchers studying amphibians at a national park in Spain show that rising temperatures are closely linked to outbreaks of the chytrid fungus..."
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6083342.stm

Global Warming Worries Iowa Farmers
Amy Lorentzen

"Gary Larsen, who grows corn and soybeans in western Iowa, is among a growing number of farmers who are concerned about the potential effects of global warming. Like Larsen, many in the agriculture industry are developing or adopting new technologies and farming methods to brace for the possibility of widespread drought and crop-pounding storms..."

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/10/25/ap3117922.html

Gore scoffs at Reichert's stance on global warming
Alex Fryer, The Seattle Times

"Environmental policy took center stage in this year's congressional races on Tuesday, with candidates for U.S. Senate holding dueling news conferences across the state and former Vice President Al Gore expressing incredulity at Republican Rep. Dave Reichert's views on global warming..."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2003321663_gore25m.html

A Challenge to Journalists Who Cover Global Warming
Senator James Inhofe

"On September 25, Environment and Public Works Chairman James Inhofe (R.-Okla.) gave a speech on the Senate floor taking to task global-warming alarmists and their enablers in the media. Here are excerpts from his speech..."

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17645

There's more to global warming than heat
United Press International

"A U.S. physician says global warming could do more to hurt your health than simply threaten summertime heat stroke or other temperature-related woes. Dr. Cindy Parker of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health says although heat-related illnesses and deaths will increase with the temperatures, climate change is expected to also attack human health with dirtier air and water, more flood-related incidents, threats to food supplies, hundreds of millions of environmental refugees and stress on and possible collapse of many ecosystems that purify air and water..."

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061024-015435-1512r

Schwarzenegger complains to Bush about global warming policy
The Mercury Times

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who recently signed a sweeping law to cut greenhouse gas emissions in California, complained in a letter to President Bush that there is no coherent federal policy to stop global warming. The Republican governor wrote that the state's request for a federal waiver to set vehicle emissions standards has been 'ignored with no explanation' despite an earlier letter from the governor to Bush..."

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15845735.htm

Eco-friendly retailers heat up aid for global warming documentary
Dianna Dilworth, DMNews

"Ecologically minded retail brands including Krystal Planet, Ecover and The Body Shop are helping promote "The Great Warming" a new documentary film on global warming, with promotional products. The Great Warming is a documentary narrated by Keanu Reeves and Alanis Morissette and will be released nationwide Nov. 3rd in select Regal theaters..."

http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/catalog-retail/38706.html

Climate shifts on global-warming law
Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times

"The bipartisan good feeling that followed the passage last month of a landmark California law to reduce global warming is starting to sour. Harsh words came Monday from the Senate president pro tem, who in a letter accused the governor of subverting parts of the law with an executive order to fast-track plans for a system that would allow industry to sell or trade pollution credits..."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-fi-climate24oct24,0,1773252.story?coll=la-center-politics-cal

Britain to warn climate change threatens security
Sophier Walker, Reuters

"British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett will warn Europe on Tuesday to tackle climate change or risk terrorists seizing on famine, water shortages and failing energy infrastructures to threaten global security. In her first major foreign policy speech, to a group of experts in Berlin, Beckett will call on the European Union to lead a global push toward new technologies and renewable energy, warning EU countries are already 'dangerously behind the curve'...."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23890551.htm

Climate Change Day of Action November 4th
Scoop

"The global day of action against climate change, ŒClimaction,' is taking place on November the 4th Aotea Square in Auckland City. Auckland can expect to see giant public discussion occurring in the centre of New Zealands' largest city, about the climate change issue. The action day symbolises global solidarity and agreement that climate change is the biggest issue facing humanity and one that needs immediate and effective action..."

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0610/S00053.htm

Cosmic Rays Linked to Global Warming
Sara Goudarzi, FOX News

"Earth's recent warming trend might in part be due to a lack of starlight reaching our planet, a new study suggests. But other scientists are not so sure. According to a theory proposed a decade ago, when a star explodes far away in the Milky Way, cosmic rays — high-speed atomic particles — go through the Earth's atmosphere and produce ions and free electrons..."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,224061,00.html

Trying to avoid the reality of climate change
Ian Dunlop, The Age

"This may yet turn out to be the year in which Australia gets serious about climate change. Community concern has been growing for some time, but even last month, during Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth visit, the Federal Government preferred denial, epitomised by Industry and Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane's immortal comment on the film: 'It's just entertainment, and really that's all it is'...."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/trying-to-avoid-the-reality-of-climate-change/2006/10/23/1161455660461.html

Global Warming: The Mainstream Media Ignores the Bigger Stories
National Association of Manufacturers

"Of course this story made the AP wire (and Drudge), while bigger stories -- here and here -- that bucked the hysteria were ignored. Now, thanks to our friend Professor Bob Carter, we've found another one. At the recent EU summit, Czech President Vaclav Klaus first made a pitch for nuclear energy, lamenting its absence in the EU energy plan. Boy, can we sympathize...."

http://blog.nam.org/archives/2006/10/gw_1.php

Doing the sums on the impact of climate change
Anne Davies, The Sydney Morning Herald

"Ever wondered why the electricity companies are so keen to see you use less of their product by installing energy-efficient light bulbs? The reason is the NSW Government's greenhouse gas abatement scheme, which this week will be extended until 2021..."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/scorchedearth/doing-the-sums-on-the-impact-of-climate-change/2006/10/22/1161455605843.html

Climate of change under a cloud
Malcolm Farr, The Daily Telegraph

"Anybody not confused by the Federal Government's direction on environmental issues should be. Lord knows the Government is. It is a long way from a single, considered strategy on protecting the environment..."

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/opinion/story/0,22049,20625164-5001031,00.html

Activists fight global warming at the grass roots
Douglass Crouse, North Jersey.com

"Maybe it was Al Gore or Hurricane Katrina or a 60-degree day in January that got you thinking -- maybe even scared -- about global warming. So now what? For residents in some towns, the path to a cooler future began with changing a light bulb. Standards swapped for energy-saving bulbs. Traffic signals upgraded with light-emitting diodes. Fluorescents in schools tossed in favor of natural lighting..."

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3MDA4ODk1JnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg==

Australia to announce $500 plan to fight global warming
Ireland Online

"With Australia in the grip of its worst drought in a century, Prime Minister John Howard will tomorrow announce a AUS$500m (€300m) aimed at preventing global warming..."

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=199113886&p=y99yy459z

Blue Glacier on Mount Olympus used to gauge global warming
Peninsula Daily News

"Blue Glacier is a study in trickle-down ecology -- with a warning that soon there may be nothing left to trickle. The ancient ice mass on the north side of Mount Olympus is flowing faster as melted water than it is growing in ice. It's a classic example of global warming, say glacier experts from the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington..."

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/264756

Climate Change Conference Draws Crowd
Jim Farrell, Courant Staff Writer

"Like many others who attended the conference on global climate change Saturday at Manchester Community College, Donald Hoyle has a passionate interest in the subject as well as a measure of anxiety about what the next century will bring..."

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-globalwarm1022.artoct22,0,414115.story?coll=hc-headlines-local

Show candidates you care about global warming
Dan Shapley, Poughkeepsie Journal

"I heard exactly one word about climate change in Friday's debate between incumbent Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Republican challenger, John Spencer. The candidates weren't questioned on the issue, but in her final remarks, Clinton said "recognizing" climate change should be a priority..."

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061022/COLUMNISTS07/610220333/1006/NEWS01

Climate change to cause more extreme weather
mongabay.com

"Climate change will cause extreme weather to be a more common occurrence according to new computer modeling by researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Texas Tech University, and Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre..."

http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1019-ncar.html

Blair urges climate change action
BBC News

"The world is close to a 'catastrophic tipping point' on climate change, Tony Blair has warned in advance of a summit of EU leaders. Climate change and energy security are linked and urgent action is needed, the prime minister warns in a joint letter with his Dutch counterpart..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6068226.stm

EPA Revamps Climate Change Web Site
SOPnewswire

"To provide the public with the most up-to-date information on climate change, EPA is unveiling its new climate change Web site. The site provides the latest scientific information and highlights a wide range of U.S. government programs that are actively addressing climate change at the local, state, national and international levels. The updated Web site still contains all information that was on EPA's global warming Web site but organizes it for easier access and adds new information..."

http://www.thesop.org/index.php?id=2531

Harper climate change plan nothing more than hot air
National Union of Public and General Employees

"The National Union of Public and General Employees says the Harper Conservative government's Clean Air Act, which was tabled in the House of Commons today, is nothing more than hot air..."

http://www.nupge.ca/news_2006/n19oc06g.htm

Not spent: $362m to fight global warming
Stephanie Peatling, The Sydney Morning Herald

"More than one-third of the budget set aside for Federal Government projects aimed at tackling global warming has not been spent. The amount, $362 million, is almost equal to the sum announced by the Government for drought relief this week, and sparked Opposition calls for farmers to push for more action on global warming..."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/not-spent-362m-to-fight-global-warming/2006/10/19/1160851070507.html

Great news about global warming
The American Thinker

"A few days ago environmentalist fear-mongers sounded another dire prediction. This time they tell us that the clean up costs resulting from global warming will come to several trillion dollars a year by 2100. But everything considered this is actually great news. Only a couple of months ago, no lesser authority than Al Gore was telling us that we have only ten years to stem the progress of global warming. Mr. Gore prophesied that if we do not shape up during this window of opportunity, we will pretty much go up in flames soon afterwards. And yet now we learn that not only we'll still be around by 2100, but that we'll be even able to clean things up. What a great relief that is! The death sentence pronounced by Al Gore has been stayed at least for a century or so..."

http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6385

A climate for change in industry 
Anders Nordstrom, Business Day

"Industry in SA has a strong appetite for energy. Yet to keep the economy fit against global competition and at the same time protect the environment, industry needs to use less energy but still run faster. SA, which is hosting the Southern African Energy Efficiency Convention today and tomorrow, is among the most energy-intensive economies in the world. Its gross domestic product (GDP) ranks 26th yet it is the 16th largest energy consumer. It scores 13th in carbon dioxide emissions..."

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A292650

Global warming or the search for three additional planets
Alfredo Toro Hardy, VHeadline.com

"Mark Hertsgaard has explained how, after WWII, General Motors, Standard Oil and Firestone secretly acquired the bus and trolley bus systems that operated around the US (The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World, London, Bloomsbury, 2003). Why? So they could take them out of business and eliminate any competition for motorcars..."

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=70189

Greens call for climate change inquiry
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

"The Greens are calling on the Federal Government to establish a Senate inquiry into the implications of climate change for the future of Australian agriculture. The party says climate change could profoundly affect rural communities and is vital to get a clear picture of what steps can be taken now to minimise the impact. The chair of the Senate's rural and regional affairs committee, Senator Bill Hefferenan, has indicated he will take the Greens proposal to his Liberal partyroom..."

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/2006/s1768844.htm

Refugees, disease big risk from global warming
Ben Blanchard, Reuters

"The world is not doing enough to combat global warming which, left unchecked, could trigger a mass movement of people and have serious consequences for security, the United Nation's environment chief said on Thursday..."

http://za.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-10-19T091145Z_01_BAN933087_RTRIDST_0_OZATP-ENVIRONMENT-CHINA-20061019.XML

Chico to help fight global warming
Jenn Klein, ChicoER.com

"The city of Chico is now committed to pursing measures to prevent global warming, but some city councilors say the agreement was made without enough information. A split vote by the council Tuesday night authorized Mayor Scott Gruendl to sign on to the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement and put together a task force to carry out the agreement..."

http://www.chicoer.com/newshome/ci_4514994

Munching microbes help battle global warming
AFP, Turkish Daily News

"Scientists have uncovered microscopic helpers which help attenuate a key greenhouse gas that drives climate change. The unsung assistants are methane-gobbling microbes that live in the deep ocean at the vents of so-called mud volcanoes, they report in Thursday's issue of Nature, the weekly British science journal..."

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=57099

A global trek against climate change
Robyn Stubbs, Canoe Network

"They cycled, rowed, trekked and skied 43,000 kilometres across the globe in the name of climate change, and this week the record-setting Canadian team rolls into Vancouver to present their documentary film on the two-year odyssey..."

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Entertainment/2006/10/19/2068137-sun.html

Climate change – How to strengthen corporate disclosure
Ethical Corporation

"Rory Sullivan considers the role of investors in pushing companies to account for carbon emissions. In recent years, institutional investors have encouraged companies to disclose information on the risks and opportunities presented by climate change..."

http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=4600

US companies see climate change law by 2010
Maya Jackson Randall, Dow Jones Newswires, Market Watch

"Many companies that have developed a strategy for addressing climate change anticipate that a U.S. federal law regulating greenhouse gas emissions could take effect as early as 2010, according to a new report that the Pew Center on Global Climate Change released Wednesday. Thirty-one large corporations that the Pew Center sees as having a history of addressing global warming concerns - including Alcoa Inc. (AA), DuPont (DD), Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) and Whirlpool (WHR) - were surveyed for the report..."

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?dist=newsfinder&siteid=mktw&guid=%7B3C6FA89A-A94F-4EA2-8E51-C95768F01625%7D

Australia's south badly affected by climate change
Lynn Bell, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

"The Director of the CSIRO's climate program, Dr Bryson Bates, predicts major changes as temperatures rise. He says the drought will affect more of eastern and southern Australia, and water quality will suffer from more fires, algal blooms, and sediment. In the shorter term Dr Bates says the outlook is equally grim..."

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1768503.htm

As Climate Changes, Large Firms Look at Global-Warming Practice Areas
Petra Pasternak, The Recorder, Law.com

"While scientists ponder how quickly the polar ice cap will become a tropical resort -- and California turns the heat up on the auto industry -- law firms are starting to wave their green flags..."

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1161162314867

Seabed microbe may help curb global warming
Independent Online

"Bacteria that live in volcanically heated mud deep under the sea off the coast of Norway feed on methane, a gas that is partly to blame for climate change, a Franco-German team of scientists have discovered. The newly-discovered creatures were found in the Haakon Mosby Mud Volcano, a place in the Barents Sea where hot methane gas from deep under the earth seeps into the slime. The bacteria have evolved to live in conditions that would be lethal to other life forms..."

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=14&click_id=143&art_id=qw1161173701133B251

God, country and global warming
Vice Adm. Dennis Mcginn and the Rev. Joel Hunter, Orlando Sentinel

"Volatile gas prices, threats to our national security, economic instability and global warming are just some of the challenges we face because of our dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. People from all walks of life are recognizing these challenges and are pushing our elected officials to act now with visionary leadership and to implement policies that move our nation toward clean, renewable and secure energy resources...."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-mcginn19_106oct18,0,3764389.story?coll=orl-opinion-headlines

Germany Puts Global Warming Prevention Plan in Gear
DW-World

"German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel has warned of the unexpectedly fast pace of global warming and said the country needs to follow a unified plan to protect itself from increasing environment change. At a conference on the topic in Berlin, Gabriel and the head of Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Andreas Troge, presented a national concept for adapting to climate change that would create a 'competency center' on the issue...."

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2207416,00.html

Aviation and climate change
EurActiv

"Growing air traffic makes an increasing contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. The Commission proposed in October 2005 to cap CO2 emissions for all airplanes departing from EU airports and allow airlines to trade their potential surplus pollution credits' on the EU 'carbon market' (Emissions Trading Scheme). A formal legislative proposal is due out in the course of 2006 with inclusion of aviation in ETS foreseen at best in 2009-2010...."

http://www.euractiv.com/en/sustainability/aviation-climate-change/article-139728

How close is runaway climate change?
The Guardian presents an extract from Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change by Paul Brown

"Runaway climate change is a theory of how things might go badly wrong for the planet if a relatively small warming of the earth upsets the normal checks and balances that keep the climate in equilibrium. As the atmosphere heats up, more greenhouse gases are released from the soil and seas. Plants and trees that take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere die back, creating a vicious circle as the climate gets hotter and hotter..."

http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,1922045,00.html

Religion takes on global warming
The Minnesota Daily

"Religious groups have not always been at the forefront of environmental activism, but a new movement is gaining steam across this country. As the United States government continues to hem and haw about the state of global warming (they still can't decide if it actually exists), religious groups are positioning themselves to lead America to a greener future..."

http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006/10/18/69450

Scientist: Glaciers Counteract Global Warming
Xinhua News Agency, ECommerce Times

"A Chinese expert on glaciology said Monday that the world's glaciers may help curb the effects of global warming. Not only are the geographical features good sources of freshwater on earth, they are also 'monitors' and 'adjusters' of global temperatures, said Zhang Wenjing of the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment with the Chinese Academy of Science..."

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/KUgOY8EQ5fwzk9/Scientist-Glaciers-Counteract-Global-Warming.xhtml

Chile Climate Change: An Inconvenient Truth
Renata Stepanov, The Santiago Times

"An image of Mount Kilimanjaro 30 years ago and today – a stark contrast of snow-topped mountains that melted to an earthly brown – is one of the wake-up calls to global warming in Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, to be released in Chile on November 9..."

http://www.tcgnews.com/santiagotimes/index.php?nav=story&story_id=11879&topic_id=1

Finding the Right Mix of Trees to Fight Climate Change
Meryl Rothstein, Seed Magazine

"Throughout the escalating climate change crises, much attention has been given to cleaning up the world's industrial plants. But, according to researchers at the State University of New York, part of the solution could come from an entirely different kind of plant—trees. Scientists have long known that trees can help us to reduce energy use and clean the air of pollutants and gases we emit into the atmosphere. But not all trees are created equal..."

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/10/finding_the_right_mix_of_trees.php

Personal etiquette, cloud watching, global warming, building progress & more
Charlie Lawson, Reno Gazette-Journal

"...An article I read cites a study conducted 50 years ago and headed by Maurice Ewing, then director the Lamont Geological Observatory. The results predicted that natural global warming, starting with the melting of the massive ice sheet 10,000 years ago, is a natural process, and we would see rising seas and the flooding of most of our port cities...."

http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2006/10/17/112119.php?sps=&sch=&sp1=leader-courier&sp2=Leader-Courier&sp3=Fernley&sp5=theLeader-Courier.com&sp6=news&sp7=news_front

New EPA Fuel Economy Guide Shows the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Statement of Dan Becker, Director, Sierra Club's Global Warming Program, Common Dreams News Wire

"Today's U.S. Environmental Protection Agency annual Fuel Economy Guide documents that most automakers are failing to use gas saving technology to cut oil addiction, global warming and gas costs. It also shows that some auto companies and the Bush administration are blowing smoke when they tout E 85 ethanol as a solution to oil dependence and global warming...."

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/1017-15.htm

Matt Drudge's Efforts To Cast Doubt on Global Warming Reaches New Level of Desperation
Think Progress

"Global warming is real. Matt Drudge, 'the Walter Cronkite of his era,' is working overtime to convince people it isn't happening. Here's what he put up on the Drudge Report today..."

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/17/drudge-global-warming/

Belgium heeds Al Gore's warning of climate change as it outlines plan to cut CO2
The Associated Press, Herald Tribune

"Former U.S. vice president Al Gore's warnings of climate change made a deep impression on Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.
'We must take Al Gore's message seriously,' Verhofstadt told the country's parliament in his budget speech on Tuesday. 'If we don't reduce our CO2 emissions, the consequences will be dramatic in the short term'..."

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/17/europe/EU_GEN_Belgium_Climate_Gore.php

Proof of Global Warming? Hardly.
Fred Maidment, Red State

"Okay, so the enviromentalist movement is brining up Kyoto again and are talking about the effect of Global Warming and Rapid Climate Change in the world today. I'm not buying it. First, some recent news articles..."

http://breakingnews.redstate.com/blogs/fredmaidment/2006/oct/17/proof_of_global_warming_hardly

Boris Pledges Supports For Climate Change Inclusion In Queen's Speech
Thame News

"Following a recent public meeting, at which Thame and Chinnor Friends of the Earth urged Boris Johnson to support a Climate Change Bill, the MP has written to the the group. Thame and Chinnor FOE have achieved the aim of the National Body - 'The Big Ask' - to persuade their local MP to ask for a Climate Change Bill to be included in the next Queen's Speech, which outlines the government's legislative plans for the coming Parliament..."

http://www.thamenews.net/readmore.asp?Content_ID=1762

Youth group holds mock funerals to protest Ottawa's climate change policy
Brandon Sun

"Young people in 14 cities across Canada are holding funerals Wednesday - funerals for their future. The newly formed Canadian Youth Climate Coalition organized the mock-funerals as a way to protest the federal government's inaction on climate change. In Toronto, a cardboard casket was led into Grange Park by pallbearers dressed in all black..."

http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=30890

Bogs may have started past global warming
United Press International

"A U.S.-Russian study suggests methane gas from northern peat bogs 11,000 to 12,000 years ago helped fuel a previous major round of global warming. The event marked the end of the ice age, report the researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles and the Russian Academy of Sciences..."

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061018-115157-8545r

Many US Companies See Climate Change Law By 2010-Report
Cattlenetwork, Maya Jackson Randall, Dow Jones Newswires

"Many companies that have developed a strategy for addressing climate change anticipate that a federal law regulating greenhouse gas emissions could take effect as early as 2010, according to a new report the Pew Center on Global Climate Change released Wednesday..."

http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=77040

UK aviation policy will wipe out climate change effort
Edie

"Growing aircraft emissions will prevent Britain from reaching its greenhouse gas targets unless Government takes action to control demand, Oxford academics said in a report published this week..."

http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=12142&channel=0

EU technology institute to target climate change
The Parliament

"The European Institute of Technology can help the EU lead the fight against climate change, José Manuel Barroso said on October 18..."

http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200610/337620a3-b92b-43bc-9954-14daf49dd768.htm

Africa focus on climate change
Africast

"There is an 'urgent need' to help developing countries adapt to impacts of climate change, UK Climate Change Minister Ian Pearson has said. Nations were experiencing environmental changes as a result of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, he told MPs..."

http://news.africast.com/africastv/article.php?newsID=60169

Greens urge climate change impact inquiry
Australian Broadcasting News Network

"The Australian Greens are calling on the Federal Government to establish a Senate inquiry into the implications of climate change on the Australian agricultural sector. Greens Senator Rachel Siewert says the inquiry would also have to examine what needs to be done to guarantee the survival of rural communities. Senator Siewert says rural communities are in crisis..."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1768309.htm

Climate change is a hot topic in education
Wayne Gumley, The Age

"Australia's largest business school, the Monash University faculty of business and economics, held a forum last week to consider what business students should be taught about ecological sustainability..."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/climate-change-is-a-hot-topic-in-education/2006/10/18/1160850997894.html

Global Warming? We Should Be So Lucky
Russ Wellen, Freezer Box

"Slow cooking sure beats being flambeed at ten million degrees in a nuclear attack. There's little doubt that the nuclear weapon programs of North Korea and Iran constitute clear and, if not present, someday-soon, dangers. But they also serve a purpose: moving nuclear weapons to the forefront of the national consciousness, where they haven't been since the Nuclear Freeze Movement of the 1980s..."

http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/blog.php?id=261

Global warming? No. Carbon tax? Yes.
David Frum, Marketplace

"This week some scientists attributed two events to global warming: Britain's hottest summer since at least 1659 and the collapse of an Antarctic Ice shelf back in 2002. There's still a fierce debate over whether global warming actually exists. Commentator David Frum, for one, isn't convinced. But he still believes in the carbon tax, a tool environmentalists wanna use to fight climate change..."

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/10/18/AM200610181.html

Facing climate change: action at local and regional level
Noticias

"The Committee on Sustainable Development of the Council of Europe Congress is organising a hearing to be held in Yerevan (Armenia) on 19 October .to discuss innovative approaches carried out at local and regional level in dealing with the challenges of climate change..."

http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=231639&src=0

Logicalis Partners with Global Action Plan to Combat Climate Change
Networking News

"Logicalis has partnered with Global Action Plan, the practical environmental charity, to encourage ICT users to lower their carbon emissions in order to lessen the impact of global warming and reduce environmental degradation overall..."

http://home.nestor.minsk.by/networks/news/2006/10/1801.html

Hello all,

I realize the dates on the last couple of blogs are a little off. This is due to my frantic attempts to keep this page updated. Now that I've finally caught up I hope you enjoy the reading.

Peace

Studies make business case for fighting climate change
EurActiv

"Avoided damage worth trillions of dollars and new business opportunities for the UK - these are the latest in a series of reports on the positive effects of fighting global warming..."

http://www.euractiv.com/en/sustainability/studies-business-case-fighting-climate-change/article-158855

WaPo: 'Climate Change Nothing New'
Pat Cleary, National Association of Manufacturers

"Wow -- here's a bombshell in yesterday's WaPo, tucked away in the 'Science Notebook' section under the above headline. Here's the opener: 'Global climate change isn't just a problem of the industrial age. Dinosaurs had to cope with it, too, geologists have found.'..."

http://blog.nam.org/archives/2006/10/wapo_climate_ch.php

CLIMATE CHANGE: No good waiting until the day after tomorrow
Peter Borough Today

"It sounds like a scene from a disaster movie – but this is an alarming description of how Peterborough might look in 50 years' time. A new report, The Climate Change Strategy for Peterborough, reveals what life could be like for our children and grandchildren. The report makes for grim reading..."

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=845&ArticleID=1826097

This year's Clean & Green Week campaign targets climate change
Hasnita A Majid, Channel NewsAsia

"Climate change will be the focus of this year's Clean and Green Week. Now into its 17th year, it will see youths as the target group, with the message that their choices now will have an impact on the environment in the future..."

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/235997/1/.html

Howard's choice: nuclear energy, or global warming
Ian McHugh, Crikey

"John Howard has confiscated the middle ground again with his statment, 'Those who say they are in favour of doing something about global warming but turn their faces against considering nuclear power are unreal.' So, it seems we're either with nuclear power, or we're with global warming..."

http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20061017-Howards-choice-nuclear-energy-or-global-warming.html

Mankind the cause of warming
Robert Saunders, Shropshire Star

"I write to differ with the views expressed by David W Coley in his letter 'Changes to climate in history', September 30. He states that the current climate cycle, commonly referred to now as global warming, has occurred over the past many millions of years, and, after returning to what we regard as normal, will happen again sometime in the future..."

http://www.shropshirestar.co.uk/2006/10/mankind-the-cause-of-warming/

Drought fires up global warming, nuclear debate in Australia
Gulf Times
 
"Australia's worst drought in living memory is threatening the booming economy of the driest continent on earth, driving global warming and nuclear power to the forefront of political debate..."

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=113168&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21

'Heatwave Down To Global Warming' Say Experts
Life Style Extra

"Britain basked in its hottest summer for almost 350 years because of global warming, the Met Office has confirmed. This summer's temperatures were an average of 16.2C from May to September, 2C above average and the highest they have been since records began in 1659..."

http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=ZX1630118R&news_headline=heatwave_down_to_global_warming_say_experts

NZ urged to step up climate change measures
New Zealand Herald

"New Zealand has been urged to step up preparations for the impacts of climate change, including the effect on its infrastructure and flood management systems..."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10406307

Save and fight climate change
Helen Loveless, This is Money

"Savers concerned about the environment are being wooed with the launch of a fixed-term account aimed at helping to combat climate change. From tomorrow, consumers with a conscience will be able to invest in a Renewable Energy Bond from the Triodos ethical bank..."

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/saving-and-banking/article.html?in_article_id=413715&in_page_id=7

Global warming may be behind leap in UK infectious diseases
Jeremy Laurance, The New Zealand Herald

"The first deaths from infectious disease attributed to global warming have occurred in Britain, official figures suggest. Cases of legionnaires' disease, the bacterial lung infection which kills more than one in ten of those it infects, reached record levels in August and September and experts say the extreme summer weather is the most likely cause of the rise..."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10406281

Fears global warming has firm grip on land
Border Mail

"Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce says people in drought-stricken rural Australia are starting to worry that climate change is the cause of their predicament..."

http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/bm/national/475312.html

Late floods due to climate change: Gilly
Trevor Marshallsea, The Sydney Morning Herald

"Australia will begin another tilt at the Champions Trophy pleased with the form of most of their squad but pondering how to protect themselves from the latest trend in one-dayers, the increasingly mad dash at the death..."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/cricket/late-floods-due-to-climate-change-gilly/2006/10/16/1160850871048.html

Climate change just as significant as terrorism, scientist says 
Tom Spears, CanWest News Service, The Montreal Gazette

"Governments need to fight climate change at least as much as they combat terrorism, said the leader of Britain's environmental research in Antarctica, since a warming climate would be more harmful than any terror attack..."

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=da57f2cc-eb71-48ae-aa5d-9b010e85d63c&k=99421

Behind the scenes: how a film on global warming got religion
Lisa Taylor, Gristmill

"My dad, Mike Taylor, has spent most of his adult life running a small production house in Montreal. High production values, integrity, and so on, but no glory, no glamour. Actually, the studio, like so many others there, used to be between the hooker district and the gay village, so I guess there was a certain showbiz air..."

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/10/16/154840/60

Gov. Schwarzenegger takes global warming campaign to NYC
KGET

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took his campaign against global warming on the road Monday to tour the nation's first 'green' high-rise residential building in New York City..."

http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=53F0646D-CB4C-442B-8520-24200BE2F0BA

Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Tied to Global Warming
Environment News Service

"Scientists on Monday reported the first direct evidence linking the 2002 collapse of an Antarctic ice shelf to global warming. The researchers found that stronger westerly winds in the northern Antarctic Peninsula, fueled primarily by human-induced climate change, were responsible for the dramatic summer warming that led to the retreat and collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf..."

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2006/2006-10-16-03.asp

Getting colder: climate change and America's elections
James Crabtree, openDemocracy

"Climate change, the defining issue of 21st-century politics, barely registers in the United States's pre-election debate. The reason lies in the current grain of American politics, argues James Crabtree..."

http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/us_elections_4002.jsp

Conservatives must act on climate change
Lucienne Robillard, The Wesmount Examiner

"As many constituents who have written and called my office have noted, there are a number of important issues facing Parliament during this fall session..."

http://www.westmountexaminer.com/article-43882-Conservatives-must-act-on-climate-change.html

State Partners with East Coast in Global Warming Fight
C. Johnson, ABC News KXTV 10

"California is about to join a coalition of states on the other end of the country to establish a greenhouse gas emission credit trade market with the goal of reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide..."

http://www.news10.net/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=20718

Antarctic Ice Collapse Linked To Global Warming
Julie Farby, All Headline News

"Scientists announced on Monday that they found the first direct evidence linking the collapse of a 3,250 sq kms (1,255 sq miles) ice shelf in Antarctica to global warming widely blamed on human activities..."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005193972

Pew Center Releases Comprehensive Guide to Developing Climate Change-Related Business Strategies
US Newswire

"The Pew Center on Global Climate Change will release a detailed 'how to guide' to help corporate decision makers navigate global markets that are rapidly changing in response to climate change. Please join us Wednesday, Oct. 18 at the National Press Club to learn why corporations need to fully integrate climate factors into their business strategies..."

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=74360

World needs climate change action now to pay less
Anna Mudeva, Reuters

"Actions to fight global warming now and introduce environmentally clean and efficient energy technologies will cost the world less than doing nothing, an international conference heard on Monday..."

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-10-16T161655Z_01_L16775300_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-ENVIRONMENT-CLIMATE-ENERGY-DC.XML

Climate expert to talk about global warming
The Northwest India Times

"A leading national expert on global warming will speak at the next event in the 2006 season of the Sinai Forum, which is presented by Purdue University North Central..."

http://nwitimes.com/articles/2006/10/16/news/porter_county/0e9cf129bee229bb862572090008d4a2.txt

Failure to tackle global warming could cost trillions
People and Planet

"The world economy could suffer a $20 trillion hit by century's end if governments fail to address global warming, according to new report by two American economists for Friends of the Earth UK..."

http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=2867

Schwarzenegger to ink global-warming order
Samantha Young, The Associated Press, The Desert Sun

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will sign an executive order today in New York that joins California's landmark global warming law with the Northeast's program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions..."

http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061016/NEWS10/610160315/1024

Opik warns on global warming
Western Mail

"Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Lembit Opik has told his party to get into the driving seat of Government at next May's Assembly elections..."

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/newspolitics/tm_headline=opik-warns-on-global-warming&method=full&objectid=17938710&siteid=50082-name_page.html

Glaciers help curb global warming, expert says
China View, XINHUA Online

"With the world facing an increasing threat from global warming, a Chinese scientist said here Monday that the world's 20 million square kilometers of glacier will help curb a rapid rise in global temperatures...."

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/16/content_5210126.htm

Climate Change Is Nothing New
Christopher Lee, Washington Post

"Global climate change isn't just a problem of the industrial age. Dinosaurs had to cope with it, too, geologists have found. The carbon and nitrogen content of ancient rocks retrieved from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean 1,000 miles east of Japan indicate that ocean surface temperatures fluctuated by as much as 11 degrees Fahrenheit during the Cretaceous period 120 million years ago..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/15/AR2006101500672.html

Agency calls for new Millennium Development Goal on Climate Change
Reuters

"Climate change is one of the biggest dangers facing the world's poor today and must be given equal prominence alongside other anti poverty measures taken by governments and civil society groups, says Christian Aid..."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/218275/116099515987.htm

Students prepare to face climate change effects
Seychelles Nation Online

"Young people will be hardest hit by the future effects of climate change, hence many are taking keen interest to learn how they can minimize the impacts of disasters.Plaisance secondary school S5 student, Terina Madeleine, said this at the Plantation Club and Resort when she opened an exhibition hosted by students from different school clubs..."

http://www.nation.sc/index1024.php?art=7447

Climate change is real and happening in Australia
Ross peake, Khaleej Times

"Australia, the world's second driest continent after Antarctica, is in the grip of the worst drought in its recorded history. The impact is huge, not only on the farmers forced to sell their sheep for virtually nothing, but also on the nation's economy and its mood..."

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2006/October/opinion_October50.xml&section=opinion&col=

Ambrose not yet briefed on science of climate change: critics
Simon Doyle, The Hill Times

"After nearly nine months in government, sources say Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has not received a departmental briefing on the science of climate change, leading her critics to question how seriously the Conservative government approaches the issue..."

http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2006/october/16/lobbying/&c=1

Drought areas blaming climate change
News.com.au

"People in drought-struck areas were beginning to worry that climate change was the cause of their predicament, Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce said today..."

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20588537-1702,00.html

Citing Heavenly Injunctions to Fight Earthly Warming
Neela Banerjee, The New York Times

"To find St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic Church in this working class suburb south of Detroit, look toward the roofline, for the windmill. Not a big windmill, it is a spare steel structure maybe nine feet high, perched atop the rectory of the church and facing northeast into the winds that come off Lake Erie..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/us/15green.html?ref=us

Climate change is expensive. Does that help?
Heather Stewart, The Observer

"An influential report out this month concludes that it will be cheaper to act on global warming now than to wait, but campaigners doubt whether the government will respond..."

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1922632,00.html

Stark reality of climate change
Adelaide Now

"South Australia this week stared into the abyss and did not like what it saw. The strands of the future suddenly came together to wake even the most complacent to the fact that human actions are having a dire impact on the planet's weather..."

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,20581969-5006336,00.html

Around the Mountains: Colorado climate change sessions dominate upcoming autumn agenda
Allen Best, Summit Daily News

"If global warming isn't being tackled now, it's not for lack of talking. Crested Butte has already held a conference devoted to climate change, and additional conferences were scheduled this week in Aspen and Durango..."

http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20061015/NEWS/110150060

Schwarzenegger pushes markets for global warming emissions
Samantha Young, Associated Press, The San Fransisco Chronicle

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will announce an executive order Monday in New York that joins California's landmark global warming law with the Northeast's program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions..."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/10/15/state/n154909D93.DTL&type=politics