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INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Feb 16 2008
Global Warming: A study done for the British government says that global warming will kill thousands. It also says lives will be saved due to warmer winters. OK, which is it? Or is it neither?
A report commissioned by Britain’s Health Department says that one blistering hot summer between now and 2017 could kill more than 6,000 Britons. The panel of scientific experts that compiled the study believes the chance of that is 25%.
Naturally, the global-warming-will-kill-us-all crowd latched onto that speculation, as did headline writers. “U.K. May Suffer Heat Wave That Kills 3,000,” topped a Bloomberg story, while Reuters opted for “Climate Change May Kill Thousands In U.K. By 2017.”
The panel also said global warming will bring warmer winters, which will cut down on cold-related deaths in Britain. So should we fear human-created climate change or embrace it?
Will Global Warming Save Lives?
February 20th, 2008Global warming brings crabs to Antarctic
February 20th, 2008
Global warming has allowed predatory crabs to threaten the Antarctic’s fragile marine ecosystem, scientists said.
Predatory crabs, sharks and rays have begun extending their domain towards the Antarctic continental shelf in the Southern Ocean because of increasing sea temperatures, The Times of London reported.
Cold temperatures previously kept predators out of the region that has allowed unusual sea creatures including sea snails, large sea spiders and isopod crustaceans to safely exist in the ocean, the report said.
It is reported that because these animals have never had to fight off aggressive predators, they are unprepared forthe possible invasion of bony fish and crabs.
The crabs are on the doorstep. They are sitting in deep water, and only a couple of hundred bathymetric meters now separate them from the slightly cooler shallow water in the Antarctic shelf environment, Sven Thatje, of the National Oceanography Centre at Southampton, England, said at a conference in Boston.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
California to hold statewide meetings on combating global warming
February 20th, 2008Feb. 19, 2008 (Xinhua News Agency delivered by Newstex) — California to hold statewide meetings on combating global warming.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) — Hundreds of city and county officials in California were invited to attend a series of workshops focused on combating global warming by reducing dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, officials said Monday.
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Desforestation role in warming climate
February 19th, 2008Federal Information and News Dispatch. Inc. Feb 12 2008
Congressional Documents and Publications
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR 2 PM, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14th
Select Committee to Examine Deforestation’s Role in Warming ClimateIf a Tree Falls in the Woods, How Much Does the Climate Suffer?
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