Global Warming News

Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years.

It was meet the press time for Carly Fiorina on Wednesday. But, judging from her responses to many questions, it was not time for this rookie candidate to let the press pin her down.

Do not expect anything much from next month's climate summit in Copenhagen, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Thursday, reiterating that India is not going to accept any legally binding cuts on its greenhouse gas emissions.

In a major blow to the campaign against the presumed threat of global warming, world leaders acknowledge that a legally binding global treaty won't be approved at next month's 192-nation climate conference in Copenhagen.

Global warming will have a severe impact on Arab states where water is already scarce, a regional report warned Thursday ahead of next month's Copenhagen environment summit.

The U.N. environmental chief called on rich nations on Thursday to pledge $10 billion a year for three years at next month's Copenhagen summit to help poor states begin to tackle the impact of climate change.

Developing story: CLIMATEGATE! LEAK OF SECRET EMAILS SHOWS TOP CLIMATE SCIENTISTS ENGAGED IN MASSIVE FRAUD! GLOBAL WARMING WAS HOAX DESIGNED TO ENRICH POLITICIANS AND RESEARCHERS!

An unknown person put a copy of a CRU file on a Russian FTP server. It contained data, code, and emails from Phil Jones at CRU to and from many people. Here is the message that was placed on the Air Vent today: We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps. We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Thursday for all countries to fix binding climate change targets next year at the latest, acknowledging that no such deal is likely at global talks in Copenhagen next month.

Helena Christensen's photographs from a trip to Peru, which document the impact of global warming, have gone on display in London.

SEOUL, South Korea - Showing impatience with Iranian foot-dragging, President Barack Obama said today that the United States and its allies are discussing possible new penalties to bring fresh pressure on Iran for defying international attempts to halt its contested nuclear program.

Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era suggests the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions -- a finding with potentially wide implications for future climate.

A A A' National forests can be used as a carbon "sink" with vast numbers of trees absorbing carbon dioxide to help slow global warming, the Forest Service chief said Wednesday, but that goal must be balanced.

Few would argue that the debate on global warming engenders a lot of emotion. What else are we to make of comments that "within the last 40 or 50 years there has been a very great observable change of climate," that "a change in our climate ... is taking place very sensibly" and that "men are led into numberless errors by drawing general conclusions from particular facts”?

That these comments were actually tossed around back in the late 18th century by the Pennsylvania doctor Hugh Williamson, Thomas Jefferson and Noah Webster reminds us that history has a tendency to repeat itself.

Russia indicated on Wednesday that it is ready to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 25 percent, if other countries do the same, the president of the European Union said.

Native American groups will gather in Prior Lake, Minn., on Wednesday to strengthen their clout in global climate change talks.

The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.

It's often said that we know as much about Mars and the moon as we do about our oceans.

CARBON emissions from fossil fuels rose two per cent last year to an all-time high, leaving Earth on a worst-scenario track for global warming, scientists reported today.

If there were some kind of panic button to stop global warming, what would it look like? How about billions of tiny mirrors, launched into orbit to deflect solar rays away from Earth? Or big, fluffy clouds, artificially whitened so they reflect more sunlight back into space? Or maybe mechanical trees, ugly but effective at sucking carbon dioxide ...

Purdue University and NASA examined more than a dozen chemicals, most of which are generated by humans, and have developed a blueprint for the underlying molecular machinery of global warming.