World-News

Laura MacInnis of Reuters reports: "The world experienced a series of record-breaking weather events in early 2007, from flooding in Asia to heat waves in Europe and snowfall in South Africa, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080707EA.shtml

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/07/disasters


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Ein Dürrewinter und drastischer Trinkwassermangel bringen in der Türkei den Klimawandel auf die Tagesordnung. Die Gegenmaßnahmen sind allerdings halbherzig.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25882/1.html

Ben Blanchard reports for Reuters that China has called global warming the cause of recent flooding that has killed more than 700 people. China has been told that extreme weather patterns will only increase.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080207EC.shtml

The New York Times's Larry Rohter reports: "Alarmed at recent indications of climate change here in the Amazon and in other regions of Brazil, the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has begun showing signs of new flexibility in the tangled, politically volatile international negotiations to limit human-caused global warming."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080107EB.shtml

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2007/2007-07-31-05.asp


Informant: Bob Banner

Nach einer Studie von US-Wissenschaftlern ist die Zunahme der schweren Stürme vorwiegend auf die Klimaerwärmung zurückzuführen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/93545