Climate change threat 'daunting'
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One of the world's top business leaders expresses his fears over the "daunting" challenge of climate change.
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By Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 12--The board tasked with meeting the state's water needs through 2060 says climate change is uncertain enough that it's not worth accounting for in its long-range plans.
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THE worldâs highest peak should be put on a danger list because of the threat posed to it by climate change, campaigners urged today.
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Scientists are warning that the earth&#39;s climate could be changing more rapidly than anyone thought because of a sudden and unexplained rise in the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.
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PARIS, Feb 2 (IPS) - Stark warnings over the damaging effect of  impending climate change were underlined in the release Friday of  the fourth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate  Change (IPCC).
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The board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation's leading general science organization, yesterday issued a consensus statement declaring global climate change "a growing threat to society."
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Climate change could have global security implications on a par with nuclear war unless urgent action is taken, a report said on Wednesday.
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Professor Martin Parry, of the Met Office, says that even if governments take action against global warming now, it will take decades to take effect.
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An eco-entrepreneur says climate control will be very expensive and a new approach is required to spread the costs of action.
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Climate change is just one of the threats facing some small island developing states, the United Nations says.
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Global warming is so severe that it will "continue for centuries," leading to a far different planet in 100 years, warned a grim landmark report from the world's leading climate scientists and government officials. Yet, many of the experts are hopeful that nations will now take action to avoid the worst scenarios.
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Climate change is the greatest threat to global equality, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband tells the UN.
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The four million inhabitants of the Arctic will have to change their way of life if warming trends in the region continue apace, leaders have warned.
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A new report warns that life in the Australian city of Sydney could be made unsustainable by climate change.
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Rich countries meeting in Germany this week will agree that they need to confront climate change, but unpleasant tradeoffs are already emerging.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair warns that the world cannot ignore the global threat posed by climate change.
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Ecologists fear that global warming will make protected landscapes  inhospitable to prized species.