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At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice

AP - In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday.

Bush climate action now? "Bogus": Schwarzenegger

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Sunday the Bush administration did not believe it should do anything about global warming and that any last-minute action before leaving office would be "bogus."

Boil Them In Big Oil? Let’s Start With You! : Conservative Politics Today

The Guardian UK is reporting that James Hansen, self-professed leading climate scientists is going to speak before congress. In this speech he will "call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer."

Scientist to Congress: Oil Execs Commit High Crimes

Testimony to US Congress will also criticize lobbyists. "Revolutionary" policies needed to tackle crisis.

New York - James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

Analysis Shows Drastic Climate Change Near End Of Last Ice Age

Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation. The ice core showed the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the last ice age some 14,700 years ago with a 22-degree-Fahrenheit spike in just 50 years, then plunged back into icy conditions before abruptly warming again about 11,700 years ago.

To Stop Global Warming and Hunger, Let’s Turn to Organic Farming

Timothy J. LaSalle is CEO of the Rodale Institute, a 60-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to researching sustainable farming and educating farmers and consumers about the food we eat. He will be contributing posts to TreeHugger as a guest blogger on an ongoing basis. There is no question that a perfect storm of factors from rising oil prices to the growing climatic impact of global warming are creating a silent tsunami of global hunger. There is also no question that the world s most vulnerable disproportionately live in Africa where food aid has failed to keep ah...

Carbon world of 2028

How will global warming shape our world 20 years from now? Get ready for massive changes that will reshape business and society.

GM's Bob Lutz: global warming "still a crock"

General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has come out swinging after his put down of global warming in a session with journalists. At that session, Lutz said global warming was a "total crock of sh*t".

Gobal warming insurance premiums

Munich Re, the world's second-biggest reinsurance group, has announced that the cost of natural disasters had spiked this year with the most severe events in terms of insured losses occurring in Europe.

The Age Blogs: Management Line

A study has found that an overwhelming majority of people agreed it would be necessary to make changes in their lifestyle and behaviour to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But there were limits. Only half approved higher taxes for energy and coal although this rose to 77 per cent if the tax raised was specifically devoted to promoting energy efficiency or developing cleaner fuels.

It isn’t only rabbits who will suffer from the new surge of myxomatosis

It isn t only rabbits who will suffer from the new surge of myxomatosis

The Age Blogs: Management Line

Is car pooling the solution to global warming?

The Age Blogs: Management Line

Are hybrids really the answer to global warming?

"Right Now, I Could Kill President Bush"

Not the sort of thing you'd normally expect to hear out of the mouth of a Nobel Peace Prize winner, but then, these are not normal times : Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams came from Ireland to Texas to declare that President Bush should be impeached. In a keynote speech at the International Women's Peace Conference on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams told a crowd of about 1,000 that the Bush administration has been treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally. "Rig