Climate Change

"Canada's rules for cutting greenhouse gas emissions may not come into effect by 2010 as had been planned, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Thursday."

"The increasing acidity of the world's oceans due to global warming must not be left off the agenda at the United Nations Copenhagen climate negotiations in December, 70 of the world's science academies warned today."

Delegates in Bonn negotiating a post-Kyoto climate treaty grudgingly accepted a first draft text as a starting point -- despite many reservations.

"Delegates from 174 countries and 230 nongovernment interest groups meet from Monday through June 12 in Bonn, Germany, in the second of five negotiating conferences to culminate with a final agreement being adopted in December in Copenhagen, Denmark."

Refugees from lands made uninhabitable by climate change -- expected in tens of millions -- may soon be threatening peace and security in many parts of the world. The UN is expected soon to address this issue.

"There are significant questions about the robustness of the numbers at the heart of the new report estimating more than 300,000 deaths are already being caused each year by global warming...."

"U.S. government and university scientists are partnering to form a new cooperative institute that will use satellite observations to detect, monitor and forecast climate change and its impact on the environment."

"Researchers find climate change is already having a 'sometimes hidden and often unequal' impact on minorities and poor in the United States."

Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research say melting Greenland ice sheets could raise sea levels more in the northeaster US and Maritime Canada because of a change in ocean currents.

"China is ready to strengthen its cooperation with the United States to combat climate change, Premier Wen Jiabao told US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, state media reported."