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Calum MacDonald of The Herald UK writes: "The UK could cut carbon emissions to zero in 20 years, but only if people accept a virtual end to air travel and stop using fuel-driven cars, a report claimed yesterday."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/070907EB.shtml

Cole Moreton and Geoffrey Lean of the Independent UK report, "Live Earth was watched by two billion people on a day when 20 million tons of carbon were emitted, a square kilometre of the Antarctic ice shelf was lost and a major new study, exclusively revealed by the Independent UK's Sunday Edition, shows the damage we are doing worldwide."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070907P.shtml

US$180 billion. That's the massive amount of money the world could save by moving to a renewable energy future.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681853ms54

Bis zu 50 Millionen Menschen werden in den kommenden zehn Jahren nicht mehr dort leben können, wo sie jetzt zu Hause sind.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681828ms54



Globale Erwärmung lässt chilenischen See verschwinden

Auch in Patagonien schmelzen die Gletscher schneller. https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681832ms54

https://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2739751.ece


Informant: NHNE

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Glacial melting poses potentially costly problems for Peru and Bolivia
https://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9481517


Informant: Teresa Binstock

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Swiss glacier retreats at a rapid clip
https://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4082600/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=melting
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sea+level+rise

John Vidal of the Guardian UK reports: "A worldwide expansion of nuclear power has little chance of significantly reducing carbon emissions but will add dangerously to the proliferation of nuclear weapons-grade materials and the potential for nuclear terrorism, says a leading research group that has analyzed the possible uptake of civil atomic power over the next 65 years."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/070507EC.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Vidal