Gormley highlights climate change
The snowman ice sculpture will last just three months
The artist behind the Angel of the North statue has turned his hand to building a snowman in the Arctic.
Antony Gormley, a former Turner Prize-winner, went to the Arctic with environmental project Cape Farewell.
He joined fellow artist Rachel Whiteread, author Ian McEwan and nine other artists invited on the journey to raise awareness of climate change.
Gormley worked in conditions of -32 degrees to complete the ice sculpture that will last just three months.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4354863.stm
Brown rounds on US over climate change
By Simon Freeman, Times Online
Gordon Brown today increased the pressure on the United States to cut its carbon emissions, saying that there was no need to hide behind the argument that tackling climate change damaged the economy.
The Chancellor, addressing the influential Roundtable of Energy and Environment Ministers in London - which included a representative from Washington - said that he believed British industry was doing well at balancing economic growth with protecting the environment.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1526572,00.html
Round Table Tackles Climate Change
Posted: 03/15
From: Dabrowska
Pic:www.dw-world.de
The need for international co-operation, pooling of resources and ideas and the need for dialogue was emphasised in the keynote speeches at the opening of the Energy and Environmental Ministers roundtable which began in London today.
The ministers will be considering the challenge of creating lower carbon energy systems to combat climate change over the next 50 years.
http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=154395
CLIMATE CHANGE, HERITAGE
Noah’s Ark comes to the rescue again
We are familiar with the damage that pollution can have on exposed cultural artefacts, but scientists behind the Noah’s Ark EU project are now concerned about the impact of climate change on built heritage and cultural landscapes.
Cultural buildings lapped by water in the August 2002 floods in the Prague (CZ).
© Noah’s Ark project
Climate change over the next 100 years is likely to have a range of direct and indirect effects on the natural and material environment, including the historic built environment, according to a team of scientists working for a Commission-backed project called Noah’s Ark.
Significant changes likely to affect Europe’s culturally important buildings, monuments and heritage sites include temperature fluctuations, extreme climatic events, alterations in precipitation and soil conditions, and changes to groundwater and sea water levels.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/headlines/news/article_05_03_16_en.html
Climate Change Advances Rapid Spread Of Diseases
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 10:46 pm
Article: Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Climate Change Advances Rapid Spread Of Diseases
By Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scoop Report: Global warming and changes to the earth's environment are accelerating the spread of diseases. These facts have been revealed in the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP). yearbook.
“In the nineteen seventies the disease dengue fever was prevalent in nine countries. Today it is found in about 100 countries”, said Marion Cheatle, one of the authors of the yearbook.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00134.htm
I don't know why this article is dated for the 19th.
Global warming may dry up economies too
19 March 2005
Magazine issue 2491
So warns the director of the climate change programme at WWF - China, India and Nepal may be among the worst hit if key rivers shrink
First will come floods, then drought. This biblical-sounding prophecy is what global warming has in store for countries surrounding the Himalayas when the glaciers melt. And economic development might also dry up as millions of people in China, India and Nepal suffer water shortage.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg18524913.700
Stark Effects From Global Warming
CO2 emissions are causing oceans to warm, ocean chemistry to change, and rainfall patterns to shift
The clearest evidence yet that Earth is warming and that CO2 emissions are largely responsible was presented by researchers in February at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in Washington, D.C.
The researchers also presented evidence that increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 may be causing some biosystems, such as coral reefs, to approach the threshold for damage. If global temperatures rise more than 1.5 °C over today’s level, the world’s tropical coral reefs may be irreversibly destroyed, they said.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/83/i12/8312globalwarming.html
Battle against global warming
TARA GREAVES
16 March 2005 09:00
With seemingly impossible targets and a noticeable lack of support from the USA, mitigating climate change on a world scale is not easy.
But as Chancellor Gordon Brown showed yesterday, when he kicked off a two-day event involving the G8 group of rich countries with emerging economies such as China, leading by example is key.
Mr Brown told energy and environment ministers that the UK is making inroads into global warming with measures including renewable power sources.
http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED16%20Mar%202005%2010%3A29%3A15%3A457
Global warming threat central to policy-Britain
15 Mar 2005 17:53:55 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Updates with fresh quotes, details)
By Jeremy Lovell
LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) - Britain told the world's biggest polluters including the United States on Tuesday that only by placing the environment at the heart of economic policy could they prevent a crisis caused by global warming.
Britain hosted a two-day brainstorming on climate change by ministers and senior officials from 20 countries in the run-up to a July meeting of the eight most industrialised nations -- the G8 group -- currently led by London.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15490768.htm
Climate Change Is Called Economic Threat at Talks
By HEATHER TIMMONS
Published: March 16, 2005
LONDON, March 15 - The British government gathered together environment and energy officials from 20 countries on Tuesday to discuss climate change, which Britain has declared a top issue as it takes the leadership of the Group of 8 industrialized nations.
Britain's finance minister, Gordon Brown, told the delegates here at the opening of the meetings that the changing climate could no longer be considered just an environmental issue, but a real threat to economic activity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/16/international/asia/16climate.html?
International Conference Launches New Climate Change Dialogue
"No one country can do this on its own, but between us we have enormous power to act. "
A portfolio of technologies and solutions is needed to help developed and developing nations combat the challenge posed by climate change and move towards sustainable energy systems over the next 50 years.
Energy and Environment Ministers from 20 countries with significant energy needs, agreed at the Roundtable in London that greater energy efficiency, renewables, clean fuel technology and hydrogen and carbon capture and storage would all play an invaluable role in cutting emissions.
http://www.a2mediagroup.com/?c=50&a=2968&sid=dab37de651d8a6dc00a29a98fdef146b
Canada Joins International Climate Change Partnerships
LONDON, United Kingdom – March 16, 2005 - The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Canada’s Environment Minister, and the Honourable R. John Efford, Minister of Natural Resources Canada, announced today that Canada has joined both the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) and the Methane to Markets Partnership at the G8 Energy and Environment Ministerial Roundtable.
The goal of REEEP is to accelerate and expand the global market for renewable-energy and energy-efficient technologies.
http://www.ec.gc.ca/press/2005/050316_n_e.htm
