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NCE UPDATE 27 April 2007 Article Headlines |
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1 Tories order industry to cut emissions Regulations may cost consumers, but won't torpedo economy By Mike De Souza and Andrew Mayeda, The Ottawa Citizen The Harper government effectively left behind the Kyoto Protocol and charted a new course for Canada yesterday in reducing the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, rolling out a regulatory framework that might hit consumers in the wallet, but won't torpedo the economy. Read more at canada.com/ottawacitizen |
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2 Norway aims to be carbon neutral by 2050 Norway wants to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 in the world's toughest national plan for fighting global warming, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. Read more at usatoday.com |
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3 Biologist explains changes to Alaska fisheries due to warming sea climate As the Bering Sea warms, what Kodiak fishermen catch in the next 30 years may be different than anything in the past. “We don’t really know what we will be fishing for,” Mike Litzow, research fisheries biologist for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, said Tuesday. Read more at kodiakdailymirror.com |
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4 Fossil Arctic animal tracks point to climate risks Fossils of a hippopotamus-like creature on an Arctic island show the climate was once like that of Florida, giving clues to risks from modern global warming, a scientist said. Read more at reuters.com |
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5 Island created by global warming A new island has appeared off the coast of Greenland in what is being seen as an alarming sign of global warming. Read more at itn.co.uk |
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6 Natives and scientists state their worries about climate warming: Alaska The day her toddler son demanded to eat maktak, the skin and fat of the bowhead whale, was unforgettable for Mary Sage, a young Barrow mother. Keeping the Inupiat culture strong in her children is important to her. But the state's warming climate is throwing a monkey wrench in her family's future, she said Friday. Read more at adn.com |
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