Is ANYONE talking about the largest UN conference on Climate Change ever?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4506848.stm UN climate talks enter key phase Environmental activists have called for action on global warming
Environment ministers from across the world are to discuss climate change policy as a major UN conference in Montreal moves into its final phase.
It follows 10 days of talks by officials on how to meet the Kyoto targets and where to go next.
The ministers will attempt to finalize a deal on future global climate policy.
The US has so far blocked moves towards limits on carbon emissions after Kyoto expires in 2012, despite a call by one in four US senators for it to join in.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10358430Global warming protest stretches around world 05.12.05
By Geoffrey Lean and David Randall
MONTREAL AND LONDON - More than 100,000 people took to the streets in more than 30 countries yesterday, in the first world-wide demonstration to press for action to combat global warming.
The marches - timed to put pressure on the most important international climate change negotiations since the agreement of the Kyoto Protocol eight years ago - took place against a background of a blizzard of new research showing the heating of the planet is seriously affecting the world sooner than scientists predicted.
The protests were directed primarily at US President George W. Bush, who ruled out even talking about setting targets for reducing pollution past 2012, when present targets expire.
Up to 10,000 people marched through London, carrying banners linking the President and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as "climate criminals".
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,16518,1650590,00.htmlSea level rise doubles in 150 years
· Increase blamed on fossil fuel use since 19th century
· Cut in greenhouse gases futile, researchers say
Ian Sample, science correspondent
Friday November 25, 2005
The Guardian
Global warming is doubling the rate of sea level rise around the world, but attempts to stop it by cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions are likely to be futile, leading researchers will warn today.
The oceans will rise nearly half a metre by the end of the century, forcing coastlines back by hundreds of metres, the researchers claim. Scientists believe the acceleration is caused mainly by the surge in greenhouse gas emissions produced by the development of industry and introduction of fossil fuel burning.
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1201-03.htm Published on Thursday, December 1, 2005 by the Independent / UK
Fears of Big Freeze as Scientists Detect Slower Gulf Stream
by Steve Connor
The ocean "engine" that helps to drive the warm waters of the Gulf Stream and keeps Britain relatively mild in winter has begun to slow down, say scientists.
Measurements of ocean currents in the North Atlantic reveal that they have weakened by about 30 per cent since 1992. The findings, published in the journal Nature, fit computer predictions of what would happen when Greenland glaciers begin to melt because of global warming. The models suggest that extra freshwater released into the North Atlantic could weaken ocean currents and even shut down the Gulf Stream.
Britain benefits from the enormous amounts of heat - equivalent to the output of a million power stations - carried from the Caribbean by the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Drift, and a tailing off in these currents could have a major impact on the country's climate.
Scientists estimate that the detected 30 per cent weakening of the Atlantic currents could lead to a fall of about 1C in Britain's average temperatures over the next 20 years.
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