Because the long shadow of “Climategate” and a two-week climate confab in Denmark just weren’t enough grist for the mill, now there’s this: The decade beginning in 2000—the “naughties”?—is the hottest on record, according to the U.K. Meteorological Office
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With a big global summit on climate change just weeks away, the top U.S. negotiator in talks aimed at forging a treaty urged Congress Wednesday to move as quickly as possible to enact caps on U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, warning of “catastrophic” consequences if the world doesn’t stabilize such emissions Here’s a heads up from Down Under. Australians who voted in a new government committed to signing the Kyoto Protocol and tackling climate change are losing their enthusiasm for the fight against global warming Because the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill winding through Congress just wasn’t enough to spur debate, the U.S. government’s big report yesterday detailing all the dire impacts of climate change has spurred some more. Yesterday , Texas Gov. Rick Perry took aim at the federal government, salting his critique with a dose of unabashed global-warming skepticism. Crude oil futures jumped over $71 a barrel ahead of an expected decline in U.S. Al Gore has found another way to link global warming to the financial crisis. The former vice-president previously referred to old-energy plants like coal-fired power stations as “sub-prime carbon assets,” which are a $7 trillion drag on the U.S. economy |
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