A U.S. Senate committee is scheduled for an historic vote on a global warming bill this week, perhaps as early as Wednesday. Environmental groups are planning a flurry of press conferences tomorrow (12/4/2007) to try to influence the vote.
A company is hoping to help tackle the issue of global warming with an environmentally-friendly film release.
Big River Man is a feature-length documentary about Martin Strel, who campaigns for the environment by swimming in polluted stretches of the Mississippi and Amazon rivers.
Film distributors have pledged to avoid chemical processing, petrol consumption and waste by-productions involved in Big River Man's distribution process.
The film will be delivered from the US on the internet, transported to cinemas using electric transport or through a new digital delivery process.
When the film is released on DVD, it will come in fully biodegradable packaging.
Big River Man is a feature-length documentary about Martin Strel, who campaigns for the environment by swimming in polluted stretches of the Mississippi and Amazon rivers.
Film distributors have pledged to avoid chemical processing, petrol consumption and waste by-productions involved in Big River Man's distribution process.
The film will be delivered from the US on the internet, transported to cinemas using electric transport or through a new digital delivery process.
When the film is released on DVD, it will come in fully biodegradable packaging.
A press release of the WWF during the two-week U.N. climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, said Tuesday that financial resources will have to be provided by the international community to help developing countries adapt to the damaging effects of climate change.
"The devastating impacts of climate change reach across the globe, but in the near-term those most at risk, and least responsible, are developing countries," said Hans Verolme, director of the WWF's Global Climate Change Program.
"The devastating impacts of climate change reach across the globe, but in the near-term those most at risk, and least responsible, are developing countries," said Hans Verolme, director of the WWF's Global Climate Change Program.
The greenhouse effect is causing Earth's zone of tropical climate to creep towards the poles, according to a study whose release on Sunday coincided with the eve of a major UN conference on climate change.
The poleward expansion of the tropics will have far-reaching impacts, notably in intensifying water scarcity in the Mediterranean and the US "Sun belt" as well as southern Africa and southern Australia, it warns.
The poleward expansion of the tropics will have far-reaching impacts, notably in intensifying water scarcity in the Mediterranean and the US "Sun belt" as well as southern Africa and southern Australia, it warns.
Two big non-supporting facts are that even though manmade CO2 production has increased continuously for over 200 years, the overall Earth's temperature dropped from 1940 to 1975. And, more recently, not only has the Earth been warming up, but so have other planets like Mars, which doesn't receive any of our manmade CO2.
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