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- Global Warming? No Sweat. // Foreign Policy;May/Jun2008, Issue 166, p23
The article reports on the study of the researchers from Texas A&M University regarding the attitudes of the Americans on global warming. It reveals that people who are informed about its risks and causes are less alarmed it than the people who are less knowledgeable on it. These people trust...
- Scientists attack Bush over U turn on climate change treaty. Ghazi, Polly // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);04/07/2001, Vol. 322 Issue 7290, p813
Reports that world leaders were joined by health experts in condemning the rejection made by United States President George W. Bush of the Kyoto global climate treaty. Future implications on the global environment should the U.S., the world's greatest polluter, fail to reduce the output of...
- How climate change could flatten cities. Ravilious, Kate // New Scientist;10/16/2010, Vol. 208 Issue 2782, p01
The article reports that rock avalanches and landslides are becoming increasingly common in high mountain ranges as a result of climate changes, such as global warming, that is melting glaciers and permafrost, which are triggering the events. An overview of several studies assessing the risk of...
- Global Warming: A Public Health Concern. Afzal, Brenda M. // Online Journal of Issues in Nursing;2007, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p2
Over the last 100 years the average temperature on the Earth has risen approximately 1Fahrenheit (F), increasing at a rate twice as fast as has been noted for any period in the last 1,000 years. The Arctic ice cap is shrinking, glaciers are melting, and the Arctic permafrost is thawing. There is...
- GLOBAL WARMING RISKS OUTWEIGH FINANCIAL CRISIS. // BioCycle;Nov2008, Vol. 49 Issue 11, p12
This article discusses comments by the economist Nicholas Stern indicating that the economic impacts of global warming will outweigh those of the 2008 financial crisis. Environmental risk management through clean energy investment is presented as an analogue to financial risk management...
- Ministers agree to act on warnings of soaring temperatures in Africa. Cherry, Michael // Nature;10/27/2005, Vol. 437 Issue 7063, p1217
Focuses on the agreement of African leaders and governments regarding the need to act on warnings on the problems caused by global warming. Assessment of the temperature increase in the continent; Insights on the environmental risks brought about by the phenomena; Views on the conservation...
- That Sinking Feeling. Clabby, Catherine // American Scientist;Jan/Feb2010, Vol. 98 Issue 1, p25
The article discusses global climate change and the potential magnifying effects on sea-level rise associated with land subsidence in heavily constructed coastal areas. It cites geophysicist St�phane Mazzotti and colleagues and radar measurements of subsidence in Vancouver, Canada made to...
- TRACI 2.0: the tool for the reduction and assessment of chemical and other environmental impacts 2.0. Bare, Jane // Clean Technologies & Environmental Policy;Nov2011, Vol. 13 Issue 5, p687
TRACI 2.0, the Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and other environmental Impacts 2.0, has been expanded and developed for sustainability metrics, life cycle impact assessment, industrial ecology, and process design impact assessment for developing increasingly sustainable...
- At Long Last, Some Action? Traynor, Michael // Environmental Forum;May/Jun2009, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p36
The article highlights the plan of U.S. President Barack Obama in addressing the global warming, which he launched during his budget message to Congress in February 2009 in the U.S. It mentions that the president aims to promote a clean energy economy, which gives American a job that pay well....
