Category Climate change

Global warming and political structures

Huge ice shelf breaks loose in Arctic A 41-square-mile shelf of floating ice that jutted into the Arctic Ocean for 3,000 years from Canada’s northernmost shore broke away abruptly in the summer of 2005, apparently freed by sharply warming temperatures…

Global warming, local initiatives

Hundreds of cities are actively taking steps to reduce their energy consumption and cut down on global warming. They are signing on to agree to the Kyoto Protocol. They hope their actions will encourage larger cities and the federal government…

More global warming portents

Ice free Arctic by 2040 This from US researchers, who say most Arctic ice will be gone by 2040 with the tipping point coming in 2025. Rumors that Dubya said the researchers were “terrorists who hate freedom” are probably untrue.…