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According to John Vidal of The Guardian UK, "The true scale of climate change emissions from shipping is almost three times higher than previously believed, according to a leaked UN study seen by the Guardian."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021308EB.shtml



UN Security Council Urged to Punish CO2 Offenders

Haider Rizvi, Inter Press News, writes: "The world's small island nations are calling for the UN Security Council to help protect their lands and resources by using its authority to demand reductions of carbon dioxide emissions, and to penalize those nations that fail to comply."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021308EA.shtml



Lake Mead May Go Dry in a Few Years

Felicity Barringer, The New York Times, reports: "Lake Mead, the vast reservoir for the Colorado River water that sustains the fast-growing cities of Phoenix and Las Vegas, could lose water faster than previously thought and run dry within 13 years, according to a new study by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021308EC.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=carbon+dioxide
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Vidal
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Felicity+Barringer

According to Ashok B. Sharma of The Financial Express, "The United Nations, apprehending that climate change can take a toll on agriculture, water resources, fisheries, forestry, public health and may increase the frequency of natural disasters ... has geared up to formulate appropriate support systems for the countries facing these challenges."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021108EB.shtml

https://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/02/a_regions_vitality_is_melting.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Menschliche Aktivitäten könnten das Klimasystem der Erde über kritische Grenzen hinaus belasten, sodass wichtige Prozesse im Gesamtgefüge „kippen“ und von da an grundsätzlich anders ablaufen. In einem Artikel in der Fachzeitschrift „Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences“ (PNAS) beschreibt ein internationales Forscherteam nun, wo schon kleine Störungen große Auswirkungen auf Mensch und Natur haben könnten.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683040ms86



Es wird immer schneller immer wärmer

Der menschgemachte globale Klimawandel ist beschleunigt.
https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683065ms86



Klimawandel bringt Süßwasserhaushalt durcheinander

Der Klimawandel setzt eine grundlegende Annahme des Wassermanagements außer Kraft: Der heutige Umgang mit der Ressource Süßwasser basiert auf der Annahme, dass Faktoren wie Niederschlag und Abflussmengen von Gewässern innerhalb fester Grenzen schwanken.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683039ms86



Dürre in den USA von Menschen verursacht

Die Wasserrationierungen in den westlichen US-Bundesstaaten sind auf die globale Erwärmung zurückzuführen und nicht auf natürliche Klimavariationen, kommen Hydrologen zum Schluss.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683046ms86



Städte bekämpfen Klimawandel

Die EU-Kommission hat soeben mit dem Konvent der Bürger­meisterInnen die bisher ehrgeizigste Initiative zur Einbeziehung der Bürger in den Kampf gegen den Klimawandel gestartet.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683058ms86




https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimawandel

UN News Centre: "Many of today's conflicts around the world are being fuelled or exacerbated by water shortages and climate change is only making the situation worse, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly today."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020808HA.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=water+shortages

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/08/6937/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuel
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=carbon+emission
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alan+Zarembo

Associated Press

02/07/08

The widespread use of ethanol from corn could result in nearly twice the greenhouse gas emissions as the gasoline it would replace because of expected land-use changes, researchers concluded Thursday. The study challenges the rush to biofuels as a response to global warming. The researchers said that past studies showing the benefits of ethanol in combating climate change have not taken into account almost certain changes in land use worldwide if ethanol from corn — and in the future from other feedstocks such as switchgrass — become a prized commodity...

https://tinyurl.com/34fx6f


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=gas+emissions
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ethanol

Michael Casey, of The Associated Press, writes: "For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn't save Indonesia's rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020608EC.shtml

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
https://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rainforest

Climate change has already dramatically altered the water cycle and these changes signal a looming water supply crisis, according to a prominent group of hydrologists and climatologists writing Thursday in Science magazine.

https://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/426781


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