Issuing a Bold Challenge to the U.S. Over Climate
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Kevin Conrad has become famous as the Papuan who told the U.S. to either lead or get out of the way at the Bali climate talks.
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U.S. policy on global warming seems headed for a tipping point, with politicians, business leaders and economists joining environmentalists to call for new laws to limit greenhouse gases that spur climate change.
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Al Gore on Thursday delivered a rousing call for the world to take strong action to fight climate change without the United States, accusing his country of scuttling a key UN conference in Bali.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said Saturday that securing U.S. support for tackling global warming was the crucial diplomatic challenge for the coming months.
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Scientists and pitchmen press for a more effective name for "global warming.".
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The United States insisted on Thursday it was fighting global warming and tried to reassure skeptics that a meeting of major polluting nations convened by President George W. Bush would not undermine U.N. efforts.
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2050 is apparently far enough away that the United States appears to ready to accept a call for a 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by then. The Americans continue pushing for voluntary, not mandatory, cuts.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - The United States, realizing  it cannot defeat global threats like terrorism alone, must  cooperate to fight other planetary challenges like climate  change, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday.
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The Bush administration is defending its refusal to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from new motor vehicles in the first case about global warming to reach the Supreme Court.
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Tony Blair tries to persuade the US to cut greenhouse gases amid concerns over climate change.
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International experts, searching for ways to break a deadlock with the United States over climate change, consulted on an array of ideas Monday to lure that No. 1 polluter into a joint effort to control "greenhouse gases," along with such second-rank emitters as China and India.
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The Supreme Court yesterday cautiously confronted for the first time the issue of global warming, hearing a challenge to the Bush administration's refusal to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases in new vehicles.
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It was a U.S. government scientist who helped push through the strong language in the upcoming international report on global warming. But that doesn't signal a change in President Bush's policy about greenhouse gas emissions.
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Rising global temperatures that are melting the Arctic and expanding the oceans are now drawing more than 80 world leaders to the U.N. podium for an unprecedented summit Monday on how to combat climate change.From California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a champion of climate-saving legislation, the presidents and premiers will hear that even an often-reluctant United States is pitching in.'California is moving the United States beyond debate and doubt to action,' he says in remarks prepared for the meeting's morning kickoff. Read more
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German Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Security Juergen Trittin called on the United States to support international efforts in the protection of climate and ecology.
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Even a small-scale nuclear war would have far-reaching consequences for the global climate, say US scientists.
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A world plan to fight global warming goes into force on Wednesday, feted by its backers as a lifeline for the planet but rejected as an economic straitjacket by the United States and Australia.