EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — Twice a day, Elena Quispe draws water from a spigot on the dusty fringe of this city, fills three grimy plastic containers and pushes them in a rickety wheelbarrow to the adobe home she shares with her husband and eight children. But the water supply is in peril. El Alto and its sister city of La Paz, the world's highest capital, depend on glaciers for at least a third of their water — more than any other urban sprawl. And those glaciers are rapidly melting because of global warming.
The Associated Press, November 23, 2007
Climate Change Fears Reach Even Formula One RacingTalking about climate change at a Formula One race might at first glance seem like praising celibacy in a brothel.
The world's top motor sport competition is for many the epitome of gas-guzzling wastefulness with powerful engines burning nearly a litre of fossil fuel per kilometre while a vast entourage of people and machines jets to races round the world.
The Guardian, July 22, 2007
Stop Coming to Work and Save the Planet
For most of us facing gridlocked roads and packed trains, the Monday morning commute is a more pressing concern than climate change. But there may be a single solution to both, according to business leaders.
Telegraph.co.uk, April 24, 2007France "Dims" for Climate Protest
The lights of Paris dimmed for five minutes on Thursday in a nationwide "lights out" campaign, aimed at raising public awareness over global warming.
BBC Online, February 1, 2007Ancient ice shelf breaks free from Canadian Arctic
A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said. The mass of ice broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 800 kilometers (497 miles) south of the North Pole, but no one was present to see it in Canada's remote north.
Scientists using satellite images later noticed that it became a newly formed ice island in just an hour and left a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake. Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic conditions, traveled to the newly formed ice island and could not believe what he saw.
"This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years. We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead," Vincent said Thursday.
CNN.com, December 29, 2006Clinton Effort Reaps Pledges of $7.3 Billion in Global Aid
A Sheraton hotel in Midtown Manhattan was the scene of feverish matchmaking over the past three days during Bill Clinton’s second annual gathering on global problems.
New York Times, September 24, 2006Ice caps are melting even in winter, global warming evidence mountsThe vast expanses of ice floating in the Arctic Sea are shrinking in winter as well as summer, most likely a result of global warming, NASA scientists said today.
San Francisco Chronicle, September 13, 2006California Unveils Anti-Global Warming PlanCalifornia's legislature approved the broadest restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions in the nation yesterday, marking a new stage in the accelerating drive for a more aggressive national response to global warming.
Washington Post, September 1, 2006Warming "More Severe" for Cities The predicted rise in temperatures in the coming decades will be exacerbated by what scientists call the "urban heat island effect", in which temperatures during heatwaves can be 6-7C higher in cities than in surrounding areas.
BBC News, August 25, 2006Chinese government says global warming contributing to disastrous typhoon seasonGlobal warming is contributing to an unusually harsh typhoon season in China that started about a month early and has left thousands dead or missing, government officials and experts say.
USA Today, August 14, 2006More Disasters for Warmer WorldRising temperatures will increase the risk of forest fires, droughts and flooding over the next two centuries, UK climate scientists have warned.
BBC, August 14, 2006Who made Al Gore put those penguins to sleep?
Chris Ayres: "So it turns out that perhaps the least funny YouTube video of all time, a parody of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (featuring cartoon penguins who fall asleep during his global warming lecture), might have been posted by, er, Exxon Mobil's PR company." Original news source:
WSJ. August 4, 2006
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