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Hurricane Dean Hits Jamaica, Moves Toward Yucatan

Mexico and Belize have issued hurricane warnings as Hurricane Dean churns across the Caribbean, bringing torrential rains and winds of more than 240 kilometers-per-hour.

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Savanna habitat drives birds to cooperative breeding

Delaying having kids to help raise the offspring of others seems like a bad choice if you want to reproduce, but many African starlings have adopted this strategy to deal with the unpredictable climate of their savanna habitats, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, and Cornell University biologists.

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College Students Could Save $206 Million in PC Energy Costs this Year

U.S. college students could reduce CO2 emissions from the operation of computers by 1.8 million tons this year - the equivalent of taking more than 350,000 cars off the road - by enabling power saving features on their desktop PCs.

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CO2 Causing Climate Change IS a FRAUD

Please do your homework before CO2-Climate-Change costs you your economies.

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Debate on Linkage Between Global Warming and Hurricanes

Atlantic basin, and the reported increases in recent decades in some hurricane intensity and duration measures in several basins have received considerable attention.

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ICC applauds G8 agreement on climate change

ICC has welcomed progress negotiated at the G8 Summit last week in Heiligendamm, Germany addressing the challenge of climate change.

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Sending a clear signal together on climate change

German Chancellor Angela Merkel feels the G8 stand a good chance of finding a joint position on climate protection issues. That is what she stressed after bilateral meetings with US President George W. Bush and other Heads of State and Government.

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Understanding what causes rain

Weather models are not good at predicting rain. Particularly in hilly terrain, this can lead to great damage arising from late warnings of floods, or even none at all. From June 1 to September 1, 2007 Delft University of Technology is participating in a major international experiment in Germany's Black Forest, to learn more about what causes rain.

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Agreed Statement From The Globe G8+5 Legislators' Forum On Climate Change

In recent months, the international debate on climate change has gained momentum. We welcome the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) summary reports from Working Groups 2 (impacts and adaptation) and 3 (mitigation options) and applaud the leadership shown by the European Union (EU), under the presidency of Chancellor Merkel, at the Spring Council.

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NOAA Predicts Above Normal 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season

In 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season NOAA names 13 to 17 predicted storms.

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CO2 causing Climate Warming

It's a fraud. Current incompetent stories regarding CO2 Causing Climate Change are a fraud.

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Global Warming Pollution Up in 48 States Since 1990

Global warming pollution increased in all but two states nationwide between 1990 and 2004, according to "The Carbon Boom," a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG). This is the first time that 2004 state-by-state data on carbon dioxide emissions have been released. Nationally, carbon dioxide emissions increased by 18 percent over the 15-year period.

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