Monthly Archives: September 2007
Still Out In The Gold
President Bush’s two-day summit on global warming this week was not, as some of the European delegates complained privately, a total bust. Our own expectations weren’t high, but we can note several positive outcomes.
The meeting brought...
George Bush’s Climate Change Plan Fire
George W Bush has staged his first major meeting on climate change in an attempt to persuade the world’s most polluting powers to avoid another Kyoto-style agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The US president drew immediate...
Bush to Skip U.N. Talks on Global Warming
Dozens of world leaders are to gather at the United Nations for a full agenda of talks on how to fight global warming, and President Bush is skipping all the day’s events but the dinner.
His focus instead is on his own gathering of leaders...
Global Warming ‘Is Good And Is Not Our Fault’
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Global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon and its effects can even be beneficial, according to two leading researchers. Recent climate change is not caused by man-made pollution, but is instead part of a 1,500-year...
The Jane Fonda Effects
If you were asked to name the biggest global warming villains of the past 30 years, here’s one name that probably wouldn’t spring to mind: Jane Fonda. But should it?
In the movie “The China Syndrome,” Fonda played a California TV reporter...
Pacific Islant State
The Pacific island state of Tuvalu begged the rest of the world to do more to combat global warming before it sank beneath the ocean. The group of atolls and reefs, home to some 10,000 people, is barely six feet above sea level on average, and...
Activists Take Al Glore to Task on His Diet
He may be the hero of the environmental movement for his crusade against global warming but Al Gore is about to be targeted by animal rights activists over his carnivorous contribution to greenhouse gases. Citing United Nations research that...
Times Atlas Shows Effect of Global Warming
The drastic effects of climate change across the globe are disclosed in a new world atlas.
Cartographers of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World have had to re-draw coastlines and reclassify land types because of the effects of global...
