Damage from Warming Becoming 'Irreversible,' Says New Report (OneWorld.net, 15 March 2004) The Pentagon Sounds The Alarm on Global Warming: Why Isn't President Bush Listening? (Utne Reader, 4 March 2004) Cold Climates and Global Warming (Newswise, 27 Feb 2004) Melting of Glaciers Requires Urgent Action (Inter Press Service, 1 March 2004) Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us (Observer/UK, 23 February 2004) US 'does accept climate threat' (BBC, 23 February 2004) How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age... (Commondreams.org, 30 January 2004) Glaciers and Sea Ice Endangered by Rising Temperatures (Earth Policy Institute, 27 January 2004) 2003 climate havoc 'cost $60bn' (BBC News, 11 December 2003) States Plan Suit to Prod US on Global Warming (New York Times, 04 October 2003) Global warming 'kills 160,000 a year' (New Scientist, 03 October 2003) Bush covers up climate research (The Observer, 21 September 2003) Sweltering nation on brink of heat record: As climate extremes become normal, the country - and the planet - will pay high price (Observer, 10 August 2003) One man can take the heat off. Will he heed the global warning? (Independent/UK, 07 August 2003) Global Warming Hardest On Africa, Study Says (U.N. Wire, 29 July, 2003) Climate expert accuses PM of cowardice (The Guardian, 28 July 2003) Global warming is now a weapon of mass destruction: It kills more people than terrorism, yet Blair and Bush do nothing (The Guardian, 28 July 2003) Pollution is blamed for climate crisis: Met scientists insist greenhouse gases are heating the Earth (The Guardian, 27 July 2003) Experts at U.S. conference on global warming say Bush's position 'ludicrous' (AP, 26 July 2003) Decades of devastation ahead as global warming melts the Alps: A mountain of trouble as Matterhorn is rocked by avalanches (The Guardian, 20 July 2003) The heat is on... and it's getting hotter still: Temperatures over the past decade are the highest for 2,000 years, scientists say (The Guardian, 13 July 2003) Leading Climate Scientists Reaffirm View that Late 20th Century Warming Was Unusual and Resulted From Human Activity (American Geophysical Union Press Release No. 03-19, 07 July 2003) Shadow of extinction: Only six degrees separate our world from the cataclysmic end of an ancient era (The Guardian, 01 July 2003) UK economist rubbishes green sceptic (The Guardian, 26 June 2003) Jeremy Rifkin: Goodbye Cruel World: A Report by Top US Scientists on Climate Change Suggests That Catastrophe Could Be Imminent Best-selling scourge of the greens accused of 'dishonesty' Climate change targets 'will be missed' Earth, air, fire and water Ross Gelbspan: Headlines from the climate crisis (Talk given at the conference: 'REPORTING ON NATURE'S DEADLINE: The political, diplomatic, business and policy conflicts around global climate change,' held at Tufts University on January 13, 2003) Butterflies flying higher and north to escape warmth (Independent/UK, 08 January 2003) Official: next year will be the hottest since records began Air travel is liberating, but we must pay the true price World unable to cope with famine, UN says Democrats call Bush global warming plan "baloney" (Reuters, 12 July 2002) California Medical Association resolution: climate change and human health (24 February 2002) Global Warming Is Speeding Up (Earth Island Institute, Summer 2001) Global warming treaty isn't complete without U.S. (Washington Times, 13 April 2003) Ross Gelbspan: A modest proposal to stop global warming (Sierra, May 2001) Global warming 'far faster than expected' (London Independent, 09 November 2000)Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have jumped abruptly, raising fears that global warming may be accelerating out of control.
Measurements by US government scientists show that concentrations of the gas, the main cause of the climate exchange, rose by a record amount over the past 12 months. It is the third successive year in which they have increased sharply, marking an unprecedented triennial surge.
Christina Ward: Global Warming Could Lead to a Dramatically Different U.S. Climate (DisasterRelief.org, 21 June 2000) Scientists predict 1997 will be warmest on record (CNN, 05 December 1997)Global warming is likely to take place 50% faster and result in much more damage than previously thought, according to remarkable new computer predictions by British scientists.
Global Disagreements: No consensus on global warming policy (CNN, 27 November 1997) U.S. Allies Criticize Anti-Warming Plan (Washington Post, 24 October 1997)"We are beginning to see the fingerprint of man's impact on the climate," Catherine Senior, of the British government's Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research, told delegates from 150 nations.
Senior said data collected from more than 1,000 land stations and an even larger number of ships and buoys indicates Earth's surface air temperature through November has registered, on average, one-fifth of a degree Fahrenheit warmer than in 1995, the previous record year.
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