If you can take a minute, please mark this URL as a favorite.

http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/climate/other.html

This link has all the credible linkages to climate change and global warming
information.

There is also and excellent news service put out once or twice per month at
newswatch in England.

Scanning over 50 news sites every hour, Newswatch presents links to all the
main climate news stories of the day...

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/tiempo/newswatch/

It takes over four hours to read all the articles when they arrive in your
mail box every two weeks. There is no scientific challenge regarding the
validity of human induced climate change.....

Here are headlines from one scan last summer:


1) MARKET FOR POLLUTION CREDITS? (CBS News)
2) DUTCH SAY SOME EU STATES COULD AGREE ON ENERGY TAX (Reuters)
3) UK ENERGY BUYERS WANT CLIMATE LEVY DELAYED A YEAR (Reuters)
4) GREENHOUSE TAX IDEA WELCOMED (Australian Broadcasting)
5) AUSTRALIA SEEKS COMMENT ON EMISSIONS TRADING PLANS (Reuters)
6) WAKE-UP CALL TO U.S. CONGRESS (Financial Times)
7) INCREASE IN CARS MAIN EU POLLUTION THREAT (Irish Times)
8) ECONOMY, WEATHER BRING LOWER CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS (Japan Times)
9) EU PROPOSES CURBS ON FLUORESCENT LIGHTS (Reuters)
10) MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY TACKLES EMISSION TARGETS (The Australian)
11) CHINA RECEIVES $420 MILLION TO PROTECT OZONE LAYER (CNN)
12) UK AND EU TO MISS RENEWABLE ENERGY TARGETS - REPORT (Reuters)
13) MINISTER: CRISIS THREATENS RUSSIAN ENERGY SUPPLY (Russia Today)
14) GOVERNMENT LOOKING TO LOCALLY PRODUCED ENERGY (Albanian Daily)
15) IS EUROPE REALLY GOING NON-NUCLEAR? (Reuters)
16) FINDINGS TAKE HEAT OFF ALUMINIUM (Australian Financial Review)
17) TOYOTA CONFIDENT CAR WILL SPARK INTEREST (Wall Street Journal)
18) WIND POWER TAKES OFF (Christian Science Monitor)
19) BUSINESSES, HOMES GETTING OWN POWER PLANTS (Knight-Ridder)
20) HONDA SAYS CAR WILL BE WORLD'S MOST EFFICIENT (Japan Times)
21) US STEPS ON THE GAS TO SLOW WARMING (Chemistry and Industry)
22) HUMAN IMPRINT ON CLIMATE CHANGE GROWS CLEARER (New York Times)
23) GLOBAL WARMING ESTIMATES RISE SLIGHTLY (Washington Post)
24) GLOW-IN-THE-DARK CLOUDS: A WARNING? (National Geographic)
25) WARMING THREATENS CORAL (Yomiuri Shimbun, Australian, MSNBC)
26) ANTARTICA'S CLIMATE IMPACT ASSESSED (Australian Broadcasting)
27) ANTARCTIC DINOSAURS CLUE TO WARMER CLIMATE (USA Today)
28) REPORT WARNS NEW YORK OF WARMING'S PERILS (New York Times)
29) DEATH TOLL RISES IN CHINA FLOODS (BBC News)
30) IRAN DROUGHT CAUSES CRISIS (CNN)
31) U.S. PLAINS BATTERED BY FLOODS, HIGH WIND (MSNBC)
32) NORTHEAST U.S. SIZZLES IN RECORD TEMPERATURES (ABC News)
33) GREAT LAKES IN DIRE STRAITS (Ottawa Citizen)
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS
34) NAYSAYERS, THRIVING IN THE HEAT (New York Times)
35) GORE STATEMENT ON ENERGY TAX INCENTIVES (U.S. Newswire)
36) TRYING TO IGNORE GLOBAL WARNING (Boston Globe)
37) GOOD FOR CLIMATE - GOOD FOR INDUSTRY (Financial Times)
38) THE TYPO THAT ATE MICHIGAN (Detroit Free Press)
39) GLOBAL WARNINGS (The Age-Australia)
40) REVISITING ATTITUDES ABOUT WARMING (Roll Call)



At 07:07 PM 11/30/00 -0000, Michael Meuser wrote:
>> Uhhh no.  However, you cannot make ethical decisions in a vaccuum.  You
>> should know what the facts are before you make a decision.  One thing I
>> think that can be said with certainty is that the level of certainty that
>> is often found in comments and news reports about Global Warming is way
>> way over stated.
>
>What?  If anything, they've been understated over the last decade
>or so.  The response, of course, has been even more understated.
>If folks in power had embraced the likelihood early on and
>supported alternatives we might not be in the fix we are in.  More
>delay won't help when there are alternatives readily available.  If we
>quit the understating of the problem, who knows, with luck we'll
>make a change for the better.  GW is but a symptom of a world
>turned upside down.  Even if we don't fix global warming, we will
>have implemented alternatives (less consumption, less inequality,
>move away from fossil fuels, banning of some toxics, etc.) that will
>make the life left a better life.  Better than nothing.  So it seems
>the ethical choice is to embrace GW.  Even if it isn't true and the
>Earth is not warming, the alternatives are needed for a host of other
>reasons.
>>
>Mike
>
>
>
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