Archive for February, 2007

Scientists start polar study amid global warming (Reuters)

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

A foraging Emperor penguin preens on snow-covered sea ice around the base of the active volcano Mount Erebus, near McMurdo Station, the largest U.S. Science base in Antarctica, December 9, 2006. More than 60 nations launch the broadest scientific investigation yet of the Arctic and Antarctic on Thursday to chart polar regions on the front lines of global warming. (Deborah Zabarenko/Reuters)Reuters - More than 60 nations launch the broadest
scientific investigation yet of the Arctic and Antarctic on
Thursday to chart polar regions on the front lines of global
warming.

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Old Data Supports Global Warming Link to Stronger Hurricanes (LiveScience.com)

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

LiveScience.com - Scientists have found new evidence for a link between global warming and stronger Atlantic hurricanes in old satellite data.

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Old Data Supports Global Warming Link to Stronger Hurricanes (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Scientists have found new evidence for a link between global warming and stronger Atlantic hurricanes in old satellite data.

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Denmark seeks ambitious EU targets to combat global warming (AFP)

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen gives a press conference in Copenhagen, 21 February 2007.  Denmark said Wednesday it hoped the European Union would set ambitious targets to combat global warming at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels on March 8 and 9.(AFP/SCANPIX/Keld Navntoft)AFP - Denmark said Wednesday it hoped the European Union would set ambitious targets to combat global warming at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels on March 8 and 9.

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Denmark seeks ambitious EU targets to combat global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Denmark said Wednesday it hoped the European Union would set ambitious targets to combat global warming at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels on March 8 and 9.

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Group: Global warming effects hunting (AP)

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Pitseolak Alainga, an Inuit hunter, stands with his dog in Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory, Canada, about 200 miles (321 kms) south of the Arctic Circle on Monday, Feb. 26, 2007. Alainga lost his father and seven uncles and cousins in a freak storm on Frobisher Bay in 1994 while they were out hunting for walrus. He said the storm, which he survived by using ancient survival techniques his father taught him, was the first wakeup call for him that the Arctic climate was dramatically changing. (AP Photo/Beth Duff-Brown)AP - Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures.

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Global warming, hurricane intensity linked (UPI)

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

U.S. atmospheric scientists say they’ve found new evidence to support the theory that global warming produces stronger Atlantic Ocean hurricanes.

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Panel says new fuel economy plan needed (AP)

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

AP - A new approach is needed for setting fuel-economy standards, lawmakers said Wednesday as they considered changes amid concerns about global warming and the problems of struggling U.S. automakers.

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Stormy Thursday looms for Midwest, South (weather.com)

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

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New Orleans newspaper lampoons the pols (AP)

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

AP - Mayor Ray Nagin announces a plan to rebuild the city with Legos. And the Army Corps of Engineers is thinking of a new slogan: “YOU try building things with government screwdrivers.”

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