Global Warming
Black soot impact on global warming worse than thought: study
Black carbon, the soot produced by burning fossil fuels and biomass, is a more potent atmospheric pollutant than previously thought, according to a four-year international study.
Global warming evidence strengthens, UN official says
Evidence that global warming is man-made is getting stronger, the head of a UN panel of climate scientists said, in a further blow to sceptics who argue rising temperatures can be explained by...
Rainfall intensity to increase with global warming: study
Global warming will increase the intensity of extreme rainfall events leading to more flooding in future, new research has predicted.
Slowing global warming no cause for complacency
Gerard Wynn The latest forecasts from a foremost climate research institute that global warming has slowed present a new challenge to policymakers on how to inject urgency into the campaign to cut emissions of...
Cause for optimism on global warming
Ben Cubby THE carbon price puts Australia, the world's 15th-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, in the middle of the international pack when it comes to dealing with global warming, a major new report by the...
Arctic plant growth 'could speed up global warming'
Ben Cubby As trees start to grow closer to the North Pole they release more greenhouse gases than they absorb, research shows.
Fourteen steps to reduce global warming
Nicky Phillips, SCIENCE Reducing the amount of soot and methane released into the atmosphere could slow the world's warming by half a degree, save millions of lives, and dramatically improve global air quality, a study has...
Global warming to political warming: Rudd's 'Judas kiss'
Phillip Coorey At the very moment the climate change bills passed the House of Representatives this morning, Kevin Rudd had two choices.
Global warming preparations under scrutiny
The federal government's independent research body has been asked to examine what steps Australia must take to get ready for climate change.
Australia to broach radical global warming solutions
Graham Readfearn Clouds could be made more reflective and oceans fertilised to increase carbon dioxide absorption under plans to be discussed at a global climate engineering conference later this month.
Falling clouds could counter global warming
Clouds around the world may be falling in response to rising global temperatures and having a cooling effect on global warming, according to analysis of satellite data by Auckland University...
Global warming stance leaves laureate cold
Philip Sherwell, London A Nobel laureate has resigned from one of the world's leading organisations for scientists in protest at its assertions that the evidence of damaging global warming is ''incontrovertible''.
Global warming slowed by aerosols
Nicky Phillips Science For many years, people have thought of aerosol cans as being bad for the environment but it seems aerosols - tiny, airborne particles - have slowed the rise in global temperatures over the past...
UN scientists vet global warming fixes
On the heels of another halting round of talks on climate change, UN scientists this week will review quick-fix options for beating back the threat of global warming that rely on technology rather...
Whale poo, the Southern Ocean, and the battle against global warming
Chalpat Sonti Sperm whales are the new frontier in the war against carbon.
El Nino comes in new flavours, thanks to global warming
Deborah Smith GLOBAL warming may make a new breed of El Nino weather events, called El Nino Modoki, more common, increasing the risk of drought over larger parts of the continent, a study has found.
Abbott welcomes global warming report
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is using a new report about global warming as a tick of approval for the Coalition's direct action policy on climate change.
Emphasis shifts to limiting effects of global warming
Ben Cubby There is little sense of urgency about climate change in the budget, and the more muscular rhetoric about cutting greenhouse gases in recent budget papers has been replaced by talk of "minimising"...
Mass murderer Manson finally speaks ... about global warming
Charles Manson, the leader of the cult that murdered the actress Sharon Tate, has broken a 20-year silence in an interview from his prison cell to warn the world of the dangers of global warming.
Warming to take longer in reaching forecast levels
Tom Arup The rate of global warming caused by rising greenhouse gas levels could be slower than previously thought, but will still result in the same eventual higher temperatures as earlier forecast, new...
