UN panel report blames human activities for global warming

    PARIS, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Human activities are heating the earth which would bring more disasters to human beings, warned a report of the United Nations climate panel on Friday. It was very "likely" or a probability of more than 90 percent that human activities led by burning fossil fuels had facilitated the warming in the past half century, said the final text of the report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), world's most authoritative group on the study of global warming.

Report: For sure, humans cause global warming!

    BEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- A climate report to be released next month will say an "explosion of new data." It will reveal evidence that human-caused global warming is visible in the air, water and melting ice and is destined to get much worse in the future.

Warming oceans make it tough for fish to breath

    BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Recently completed research reveals warmer oceans caused by global warming is making it more difficult for eelpouts to breath and survive. Biologists have known for years declining fish stocks are connected to global warming, but a new study of eelpouts -- big-headed fish that resemble eels -- is the first to go deeper and see how warmer seas are connected to how fishes take in oxygen.

UK scientists: 2007 might be warmest year on record

    BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- British climate scientists predict that 2007 might be the world's hottest year on record because of a resurgent E1 Nino climate trend combined with higher levels of greenhouse gases. "Even a moderate (El Nino) warming event is enough to push the global temperatures over the top," said Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research unit at the University of East Anglia Thursday.

Global warming advocates target Exxon Mobil. Corp.

    BEIJING, Jan. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists on Wednesday claims Exxon Mobil Corp. gave 16 million U.S. dollars between 1998 and 2005 to ideological groups to promote its view that the science behind global warming is faulty.

U.S. gov't proposes listing polar bears as threatened

BEIJING, Dec. 28(Xinhuanet) -- The United States proposed Wednesday to list polar bears as "threatened" on government list of imperilled species, marking the first time the Bush administration has singled out climate change as the potential driving force behind the demise of a species.  

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