20 September 2006

Environmental News Today

Three interesting stories this morning:

Al Gore, the former VP of the US and now a campaigner with his film, An Inconvenient Truth, is calling for a new US laws to limit carbon emissions. While Gore and Clinton did not do nearly enough in office on the issue, this is a case of better late than never.

George Monbiot has a 2nd excerpt of 3 in the Guardian of his new book, with this one being on homes and carbon emissions.

Finally, the British Antarctic Survey has found that the melting of ice is causing sea level rises far faster than predicted.

Last week, two American studies showed that the melting of the winter sea ice in the Arctic had accelerated enormously in the past two years, with a section the size of Turkey disappearing in just 12 months.

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