GenevaLunch » global warming http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no 2009 in top 10 for warmest years ever http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/09/2009-among-top-10-warmest-years-ever-wmo-estimates/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/09/2009-among-top-10-warmest-years-ever-wmo-estimates/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:41:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=33367 GenevaLunch.com WMO says temperatures up, also calls for drought indices Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Climate change and global warming are under discussion in chilly Copenhagen this week, and in Geneva the World Meteorological Organization is contributing its share of scientific data to heat up the debate. The WMO late Tuesday published its latest report on global [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/09/2009-among-top-10-warmest-years-ever-wmo-estimates/feed/ 0 Australia’s coastal homes at risk from rising seas http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/06/australias-coastal-homes-at-risk-from-rising-seas/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/06/australias-coastal-homes-at-risk-from-rising-seas/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:22:38 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=27048 GenevaLunch.com Some 700,000 homes along the coastline in Australia are at risk from erosion as sea levels rise: the government says it expects the level to rise by one meter within 40 years, thanks to global warming. Some homes have already lost substantial amounts of land around them, from storms but also higher water levels, reports [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/06/australias-coastal-homes-at-risk-from-rising-seas/feed/ 0 WWF pocket guide to climate change http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/02/wwf-pocket-guide-to-climate-change/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/02/wwf-pocket-guide-to-climate-change/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:22:13 +0000 Marie Joséphine Guillet http://genevalunch.com/?p=26713 GenevaLunch.com Easy to understand, nicely illustrated, quick to download: the WWF pocket guide to climate change gives you the basics, painlessly, of a subject that will remain in the headlines for the rest of 2009 in the weeks leading to the Copenhagen meeting to replace the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions (if you aren’t sure you [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/02/wwf-pocket-guide-to-climate-change/feed/ 0 WWF warns that arctic ice melt rate doubling http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/02/wwf-warns-that-arctic-ice-melt-rate-doubling/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/02/wwf-warns-that-arctic-ice-melt-rate-doubling/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:20:06 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=26701 GenevaLunch.com Complete coverage of the WCC-3 by GenevaLunch Conference is 31 August – 4 September 2009 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – One-quarter of the world’s population is likely to be affected by rising ocean levels provoked by melting Arctic ice, a WWF study released 2 September shows. The Arctic is heating up at twice the rate of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/02/wwf-warns-that-arctic-ice-melt-rate-doubling/feed/ 7 Geneva climate meeting: new weather services framework, sets stage for Copenhagen http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/30/geneva-climate-meeting-new-weather-services-framework-set-stage-for-copenhagen/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/30/geneva-climate-meeting-new-weather-services-framework-set-stage-for-copenhagen/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:23:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=26298 GenevaLunch.com The political climate at the Geneva meeting, in particular the willingness to work together at a ministerial level, could set the stage for Copenhagen.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/30/geneva-climate-meeting-new-weather-services-framework-set-stage-for-copenhagen/feed/ 0 Italy to move its melting border with Switzerland http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/26/italy-to-move-its-melting-border-with-switzerland/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/26/italy-to-move-its-melting-border-with-switzerland/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:46:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=14355 GenevaLunch.com Rome, Italy (The Independent, UK) – This may come as a surprise to many Swiss, but Italy is planning to officially move the border with Switzerland. The Italian parliament is preparing a law for April that will legally change the border, fixed since 1861, redrawing the line through the cryosphere, or eternal snow area in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/26/italy-to-move-its-melting-border-with-switzerland/feed/ 0 Antarctica: ice shelf about to collapse http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/01/20/antarctica-ice-shelf-about-to-collapse/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/01/20/antarctica-ice-shelf-about-to-collapse/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:12:56 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=10928 GenevaLunch.com Global warming continues to quietly take its toll, with the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica possibly the next major victim, as a strip of ice that was 100 km wide in 1950 narrows to just 500 metres at its thinnest point. The flat-topped shelf is thousands of square kilometres in area. Reuters

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