November 21, 2008

NOAA Declares October Second Warmest for Global Temperatures

By: Department of Commerce

Washington (Nov. 18)—The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for October 2008 was the second warmest since records began in 1880, according to a preliminary analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

November 20, 2008

Measuring the National Carbon Footprint

By: Slate.com

The United Nations reported this week that Kyoto Protocol signatories have reduced greenhouse-gas emissions to 5 percent below 1990 levels, four years ahead of the treaty schedule. Is it really possible for a country to measure...

November 20, 2008

California leads fight against climate change on global level

By: LA Times

Gov. Schwarzenegger signs a pact with heads of other states and provinces to cut greenhouse emissions. 'We have got to do something worldwide here,' he says.

November 19, 2008

Google CEO Schmidt lays out U.S. energy ideas

By: Reuters

The United States should use part of any future economic stimulus package to connect wind turbines and solar energy to the nation's electricity grid, said Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, an advisor to President-elect...

November 19, 2008

Cap carbon to spur economy: business leaders

By: Reuters

U.S. business leaders including the troubled Big Three automakers offered a prescription on Tuesday for economic recovery and job creation: cap the carbon emissions that spur global warming. "The twin dynamics that are going to...

November 19, 2008

Obama seeks immediate action to curb emissions

By: San Francisco

In his first speech on global warming since winning the election, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday to set stringent limits on greenhouse gases, saying the need is too urgent for delay. Many observers had expected...

November 18, 2008

Europe's $14 Billion Clean-Coal Plan Lacking Backers

By: Bloomberg.com

A European proposal to spend 11 billion euros ($14 billion) testing how to pump greenhouse gases underground is itself getting buried. The plan to subsidize 12 pilot plants that capture and store carbon dioxide blamed for global...

November 18, 2008

Global climate summit to open in Los Angeles

By: Associated Press

A day before he was to welcome hundreds of high-ranking officials for a summit on greenhouse gas emissions, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger raised the environmental stakes in California.

Schwarzenegger signed an executive order...

November 17, 2008

Climate change: Emissions from industrialised world still high

By: AFP

Carbon emissions from the industrialised world in 2006 were higher than at the start of the century, mainly as a result of revived activity by former Soviet-bloc states, according to UN figures released on Monday. Greenhouse gas...

November 16, 2008

California to Plan Climate Change Strategy

By: New York Times

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has instructed state agencies to prepare for climate change, especially rising seas, as they plan to replace, upgrade and repair the system of pipelines that distributes water around sewage treatment...