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     "Beyond The Point of No Return" -- Ross Gelbspan (Dec. 2007)

                  CLIMATE NEWS UPDATES: 2000 -- 2007

                                GLOBAL PROBLEM

                         GLOBAL SOLUTION:
             Three integrated policies to tame the global climate
* Massive study tracks global ecosystem changes (May, 2008)
 
* Greenhouse gas levels highest in 800,000 years (May, 2008)
 
* Nitrogen build-up seen exacerbating greenhouse impacts (May, 2008)
 
* DOE: Wind can produce 20 percent of electricity by 2030 (May. 2008)
 
* Worst drought in 60 years forces Barcelona to import drinking water (May, 2008)
 
* Red Cross puts Myanmar cyclone toll at 128,000 in Myanmar (May, 2008)
 
* Recent findings link warming to increase in tornado frequency (May, 2008)
 
* Drought forces Australian government to buy river water (May, 2008)
 
* Carbon Capture: Unproven and Too Late -- Study (May, 2008)
 
* Models project a 10-year pause in warming (May, 2008)
 
* Tropical insects face warming-driven extinction (May, 2008)
 
* UN warns of one billion climate refugees by 2050 (April, 2008)
 
* Warming seen dropping oxygen levels in oceans (May, 2008)
 
* Humans have upset earth's 600,000-year carbon balance (April, 2008)
 
* Australian drought, biofuel craze fuel world food crisis (April, 2008) 

        Seventeen urgent Wake-Up Calls From World's

           Scientific, Political and Religious Leaders  

* Russia rejects binding cap for next round of Kyoto (April, 2008)
 
* Rockefeller family aims to stop ExxonMobil disinformation (April, 2008)
 
* Gallup: US concern about warming unchanged since 1989 (April, 2008)
 
* Report: US climate indifference will likely fuel terrorism (April, 2008)
 
* Researchers set timeline for "dangerous climate change" (April, 2008)
 
* Stern: Report badly underestimated coming damages (April, 2008)
 
* Sun-reflecting aerosols would speed ozone destruction (April, 2008)
 
* Thawing permafrost may be driving surge in greenhouse gases (April, 2008)
 
* Freshening Antarctic waters threaten current changes (April, 2008)

 * Climate change is greatest national security challenge faced by U.S. (Nov. 2007)

 

* 11 Admirals and Generals cite climate as top security threat (April 2007)

* Europeans: Bush plan all spin, no substance (Feb. 2008)

* Migrating jet stream will lead to more weather extremes (April, 2008) 

* Pine beetles turn western forests into CO2 source (April, 2008)

* Ocean CO2 saturation could have 1,500-year impact (April, 2008)
 
* New Bush climate plan evokes global yawn (April, 2008)
 
* Drought connects Australian crop failure to Haitian food riots (April, 2008)
 
* Earlier glacier melts threaten global water supplies (April,2008)
 
* Scientists increase estimates of sea level rise (April, 2008)
 
* Some ocean regions warming two to four times more than reported (April, 2008)
 
* Climate solutions threaten human rights of indigenous groups (April, 2008)
 
* World Bank accused of profiteering on bogus carbon credits (March, 2008)
 

* Food shortages herald a new 'politics of scarcity' (March, 2008)

 

* Warming US west triggers multiple ecosystem changes(March,2008)  

 
* Bush's EPA Chief unsure GHG's pose a risk (March,2008)
 
* Huge Antarctic ice chunk collapses (March,2008)
 
* Earlier springtimes threatens many species (March, 2008)
 

* Glaciers melting faster than any time in last 5,000 years (March, 2008)

 

* Scientists startled by rate of change of New England forests (March, 2008)

 

* Scientists: world must go zero-carbon -- soon (March, 2008)

 

* NRC cites infrastructure risks from warming (March, 2008)

 

* Mongolia highlights plight of environmental refugees (March, 2008)

 

* Rising food prices, falling supplies, fall on world's poor (Feb. 2008)

 

* Europeans: Bush plan all spin, no substance (Feb. 2008)

 

* USCAP firms seen funding skeptic groups (Feb. 2008)

 

* GM Exec: "Global warming is a 'Crock' " (Feb. 2008)

 
* Activists blast trading as environmentally unjust (Feb. 2008)

 

* Study links ocean dead zones to warming (Feb. 2008)

 

* BP Exec: Climate can't handle more oil exploration (Feb. 2008)

 

* Biofuels found to be net carbon source (Feb. 2008)

 

* ExxonMobil profits soar to record $40.6 billion in 2007 (Feb. 2008)

 

* Bush's Big Emitters conference produces nothing (Feb. 2008)

 

* Climate ranks low on most business agendas (Jan. 2008) -- and equally low on most local government agendas (Feb. 2008)

 

* Drought threatens nuclear plants in southern US (Jan. 2008)

 

* Big Coal mounts new campaign to gut climate legislation (Jan. 2008)

 

* Biofuels threaten world's poor: UN, Oxfam (Jan. 2008)

 

* 2007 tied for second hottest year on record (Jan. 2008)

 
* Munich Re: Weather-related losses doubled in 2007 (Dec. 2007)
 

* Scientists declare 350 ppm a "safe level" of CO2 (Dec. 2007)

 




  


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QUOTEWORTHY

"We underestimated the risks ... we underestimated the damage associated with temperature increases ... and we underestimated the probabilities of temperature increases."

-- Sir Nicholas Stern, author of "The Stern Report," April 17, 2008

"The Arctic is often cited as the canary in the coal mine for climate warming. Now as a sign of climate warming, the canary has died."

--NASA scientist Jay Zwally, the Associated Press, Dec. 12, 2007

"We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really dangerous change."

--Dr. Stephen Schneider, Scientific American, Nov. 26, 2007

"Technological measures are important, but equally important is . . . a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility."

--Former Czech President Vaclav Havel

"If the rainy season starts late, crops fail and people suffer. Children eat leaves. In that situation, only God can help us."."

--Kasko Ajikara, farmer and father, Gadabedji village, Niger

"The depression we're all trying to avoid could very well be a prolonged chronic reaction to what we've been doing to the world, a mourning and grieving for what we're doing to nature and to cities and to whole peoples...partly because this is the soul's reaction to the mourning and grieving that we're not consciously doing."."

-- James Hillman, psychologist, author of "Soul's Code"

"The report shows -- and this is encouraging -- that ambitious climate protection is economically manageable."

-- German government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm, on the findings of IPCC Working Group III (May, 2007)

"It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight."

 -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on the urgency of combatting climate change (March 8, 2007)

"We don't have a difference of views that it's an important issue. We have differences about what we know and what we don't know."

-- ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson (May 30, 2007)

Exxon Mobil is "the only principled oil and gas company I know in the US."

-- Richard S. Lindzen, BBCNews.com (April 26, 2007)

"A broad array of...experts said the latest analysis was the most sobering view yet of a century in which thousands of years of relatively stable climate conditions will suddenly be replaced by a new normalcy of continual change."

-- Andrew Revkin, The New York Times on IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (Feb. 2, 2007)

"We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well."

-- Margaret Beckett, British Secretary of State for Environment (April, 2002)


"To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict."

-- U.N. Weapons Inspector Hans Blix, (March 14, 2003)


"The most populous and wealthiest of the world face a moral challenge greater than colonialism or slavery. They are failing in that challenge. Men have lost reason in the fossil fuel economy. . . Inhabitants of small islands have not agreed [to be] sacrificial lambs on the altar of the wealth of the rich."

-- Ambassador Lionel Hurst, of Antigua-Barbuda (March, 2003)


"Our house is burning down and we're blind to it...The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all the continents . . . We cannot say that we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refused to fight it."

-- French President Jacques Chirac, World Summit on Sustainable Development, (Johannesburg, August, 2002)


"Prehistoric and early historic societies--from villages to states or empires--were highly vulnerable to climatic disturbances. Many lines of evidence now point to climate forcing as the primary agent in repeated social collapse."

-- Harvey Weiss and Raymond S. Bradley (Science, Jan. 26 2001)


"There is no scientific consensus that greenhouse gases cause the world's modest global warming trend, much less whether that warming will do more harm than good, or whether we can even do anything about it."

-- Wall Street Journal editorial (April 8, 2003)

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