World-News

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/15/3187/


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Felicity Barringer of The New York Times writes: "Water levels in the three upper Great Lakes are wavering far below normal, and experts expect Lake Superior, the northernmost lake, to reach a record low in the next two months, according to data from the international bodies that monitor the Great Lakes, the world's largest freshwater reservoir."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081407EC.shtml

Study

Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, reports: "The current carbon market actually encourages cutting down some of the world's biggest forests, which would unleash tons of climate-warming carbon into the atmosphere, a new study reported."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081407EA.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cutting+down
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=chopping+forests
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Deborah+Zabarenko

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/10/3106/


Informant: NHNE



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeremy+Rifkin

Michael Hopkin, Nature.com, writes: "Global warming could cut the rate at which trees in tropical rainforests grow by as much as half, according to more than two decades' worth of data from forests in Panama and Malaysia. The effect - so far largely overlooked by climate modelers - could severely erode or even remove the ability of tropical rainforests to remove carbon dioxide from the air as they grow."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081307EA.shtml



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

https://tinyurl.com/39fnf5


Informant: Teresa Binstock

https://www.co2live.com/2007/08/12/at-world-bank-climate-change-isnt-part-of-the-equation/


Informant: Teresa Binstock



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=World+Bank

Deutschland hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten 160 bis 180 Milliarden Euro Steuergelder in die Förderung der klimazerstörenden Kohleenergie investiert. Aber bei erneuerbaren Energien wird um jeden Zehntel Cent gestritten.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682035ms59

Umfrage zu Klimaschutz und Luftverkehr
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Rund 1.500 Quadratkilometer Riffe gehen jährlich verloren. https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682033ms59