World-News

In der Arktis ist der Klimawandel in vollem Gang: Während die Ureinwohner dabei ihre Lebensgrundlage verlieren, wittert die Wirtschaft das große Geschäft.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24290/1.html

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/ourview/display.var.1130781.0.the_true_cost_of_our_desire_to_fly.php


Informant: binstock

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2162862.ece


Informant: NHNE

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It's five minutes to Armageddon, and Hawking tells the world to wake up
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2552841,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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Hawking Warns: We Must Recognize the Dangers of Climate Change

"Climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of the world," the Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking said.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011807EA.shtml

18.01.07

Die aktuellen Winterstürme liefern nach Einschätzung des World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) einen Vorgeschmack auf das Klima der Zukunft. In einer am Donnerstag veröffentlichten Stellungnahme heißt es, dass die Wetterturbulenzen bereits auf eine Änderung des Klimas hinwiesen. Die Organisation erinnerte daran, dass ihr bereits im vergangenen Jahr veröffentlichter Report "Stormy Europe" auf "diese Tatsache" hingewiesen habe: "Wenn wir den Klimawandel nicht in den Griff bekommen, werden die Winter noch ungemütlicher." Dem WWF zufolge steigt die Temperatur in Europa tendenziell an. Dies lasse das Wetter unbeständiger werden. Es müsse deshalb davon ausgegangen werden, dass sowohl die Zahl als auch die Stärke der europäischen Winterstürme in Zukunft erheblich zunähmen, "wenn es nicht gelingt, den Ausstoß an Treibhausgasen entscheidend zu drosseln", meint der WWF.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=15137

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Klimawandel zeigt mit Winterstürmen sein hässliches Gesicht
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3212920/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimawandel

http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_polar_0107

Protect Polar Bears From Global Warming
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/polar_bears2

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Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Thanks to your action and support – Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne was persuaded to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

However, the final decision about whether or not to list the polar bear will not be made until the proposal goes through a 12-month review process. In the interim, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking requests for public hearings until FEBRUARY 23rd.

They are not required to hold public hearings nor will they unless they are swayed by an outpouring of public concern. For this reason, your activism is needed now in order for the Service to listen to and heed our concerns about the polar bear and its melting habitat.

Please send an email to Rosa Meehan at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Marine Mammals Management program at rosa_meehan@fws.gov.

Together, Alaska Wildlife Alliance members can influence the Service's decision regarding the life-or-death outcome of the great white bear. Send Ms. Meehan an email today.


SAMPLE EMAIL MESSAGE to Rosa Meehan

rosa_meehan@fws.gov

Dear Ms. Meehan,

Thank you for proposing to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The Interior's foresight on this matter is greatly appreciated but as a concerned citizen I am requesting that the FWS hold public hearings here in Alaska and across the lower 48.

The plight of the polar bear and its melting habitat are the sentinels of global warming, causing a vast majority of Americans to be concerned about the future welfare of the great white bear and the Arctic sea ice.

Therefore, I urge you to please allow the American public to participate in the planning process that will determine that fate of the polar bear and the variety other species that are dependent on the most endangered habitat in the world – the Arctic Sea Ice.

Thank you,

YOUR NAME


A message from Linda

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/694/36065

The impact of carbon trading in the Third World
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/694/36066

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6270871.stm


Informant: NHNE

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_Economics_of_Climate_Change.php

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The Economics of Climate Change

Video

A talk by Sir Nicholas Stern, head of the United Kingdom Government Economic Service and author of the highly regarded report, the "Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change." Stern explains how inaction on climate change could lead to the kind of economic downturn that has not been seen since the Great Depression and the two world wars.

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/stream.php?type=real&webcastid=19229


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nicholas+Stern