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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Chicago Climate Exchange

http://www.chicagoclimatex.com/

Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) CCX is the world’s first and North America’s only voluntary, legally binding rules-based greenhouse gas emission reduction and trading system.

Southern Ocean current faces slowdown threat

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070322/sc_nm/climate_ocean_dc;_ylt=AoUbepe1lEn6QaoMWwjO8xIDW7oF

The impact of global warming on the vast Southern Ocean around Antarctica is starting to pose a threat to ocean currents that distribute heat around the world, Australian scientists say, citing new deep-water data.

Melting ice-sheets and glaciers in Antarctica are releasing fresh water, interfering with the formation of dense "bottom water," which sinks 4-5 kilometers to the ocean floor and helps drive the world's ocean circulation system.

A slowdown in the system known as "overturning circulation" would affect the way the ocean, which absorbs 85 percent of atmospheric heat, carries heat around the globe.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Gore implores Congress to save planet

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070321/ap_on_go_co/gore;_ylt=AmR5BSTEpbp7RUBNnkGIWKwEtbAF
Fresh off a triumphant Academy Awards appearance in which his climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" won two Oscars, Gore drew overflow crowds as he testified before House and Senate panels about a "true planetary emergency" if Congress fails to act. He said addressing the problem is a moral issue and should not be a partisan or political.