Global Warming News

Sixteen notable scientists expressed calm over the panic of global warming. Other scientists--the advocates--responded with the usual alarm.

The results have potential implications for future global climate. Scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand analyzed the first 10 years of global cloud-top height measurements from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft.

There's a popular verb in headlines about climate researcher Peter Gleick's admission that he used trickery to get damning documents out of the climate change-denialist group the Heartland Institute: "Activist Says He Lied to Obtain Climate Papers" ; "Scientist Peter Gleick Admits He Lied to Get Climate Documents" ; "Climate Researcher Says He Lied ... (more)

The climbing oil prices could undermine the U.S. economic recovery and it is an extremely disturbing report for President Oil prices have risen following expectations of an increase in the demand as eurozone finance ministers came to an agreement on a rescue package for Greece and the crisis in Iran intensified.

British Columbia Finance Minister Kevin Falcon tables the provincial budget at the B.C. Legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday February 21, 2012.

Talk of war over Iran's nuclear program has reached a strident pitch in recent weeks, with threats from Israel of a possible strike, bellicose American oratory and defiance from Tehran.

I'm not minimizing the fact that inefficient cookstoves in the developing world cause a lot of problems, including lung disease in the women who use them, deforestation, and other important issues.

We looked Saturday at the financial crisis enveloping Greece and asked if something of the sort could happen in Canada.

Christiana Figueres told The Associated Press on Tuesday that her efforts to reach out to high-profile executives from companies such as Coca-Cola, Unilever and Virgin Group represent "a deeper recognition of the fact that the private sector can contribute in a decisive way." Since the start of 2012, the Costa Rican head of the UN climate agency ... (more)

Two Canadian climate change scientists from the University of Victoria say the public reaction to their recently published commentary has missed their key message: that all forms of fossil fuels, including... In advance of a European Union vote on low-carbon fuel standards scheduled for Thursday, a group of Nobel Peace Prize winners, including ... (more)

Two Canadian climate change scientists from the University of Victoria say the public reaction to their recently published commentary has missed their key message: that all forms of fossil fuels, including the oilsands and coal, must be regulated for the world to avoid dangerous global warming.

The U.S. has joined with five other countries in a first-of-its-kind international effort to slow the pace of global warming by targeting three greenhouse emissions, one of which is black carbon from the open cook stoves widely used in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

A prominent climate scientist and author acknowledged Sunday night that he had obtained internal documents from a climate skeptic group under a fake identity, raising new questions over how advocates have been waging the war over public perceptions about global warming.

Shocking, fascinating, entirely unsurprising: the leaked documents, if authentic, confirm what we suspected but could not prove.

The public is divided because our political leaders are polarized." This is the upshot of a recent study on U.S. public attitudes towards climate change according to one of its lead authors, J. Craig Jenkins of Ohio State University.

The authors of the Jan. 27 Wall Street Journal op-ed, 'No Need to Panic about Global Warming,' respond to their critics.

While the end of the century may seem like a long way off from now, a professor of geology at SFU warns now is the time to act to protect South Delta from the possibility of widespread flooding caused a gradually warming global climate and subsequent rising sea levels.

Film critic Katherine Monk offers capsule reviews of the films being released this week on DVD, including the Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots, in Tuesday's Vancouver Sun.

Biological Conservation , Vol. 143, No. 11. , pp. 2441-2452, doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.06.008 Due to anthropogenic actions, species have become endangered or have been driven to the verge of extinction, requiring conservation plans to be developed and implemented.

Film critic Katherine Monk offers capsule reviews of the films being released this week on DVD, including the Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots, in Tuesday's Vancouver Sun.