This week in climate news - 19 May 2013
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Everest losing its snow ice cover
Researchers have found that glaciers in the Mount Everest region including the Sagarmatha national park that surrounds the peak, have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years. »Chinese, Indian airlines face EU pollution fines
Eight Chinese and two Indian airlines face fines of up to several million euros for not paying for their greenhouse gas emissions during flights within the bloc, the European Commission said on Friday. »Seas will rise no more than 69 centimetres by 2100
A comprehensive study of the behaviour of ice sheets in a warming world suggests that the ocean will rise less than feared this century. »Alaska: where politics and climate change go hand-in-hand
Though Sarah Palin has reversed her policy since she was governor, it is undeniable that Alaska is changing fast. Guardian US interactive teamFeilding CageGabriel DanceRichard SprengerSuzanne Goldenberg. »Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist
Prof James Hansen warns public not to be fooled by 'diversionary tactic' from deniers. Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist. »Most popular
20 May, 01:10, reuters - Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international team of scientists said on Sunday. More »
19 May, 21:20, guardian - But forecast global temperature rise of 4C heralds disaster for large swaths of planet with oceans absorbing most global warming. Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialise, new scientific research has suggested, but the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that regarded as safe. More »
20 May, 00:50, physorg - China will not pay for CO2 emissions by its airlines on flights within Europe, a top civil aviation official reportedly said after the European Commission warned eight Chinese firms face fines for nonpayment. More »
18 May, 12:20, physorg - Eight Chinese and two Indian airlines face fines of up to several million euros for not paying for their greenhouse gas emissions during flights within the bloc, the European Commission said on Friday. More »
20 May, 01:40, IPS - The Caribbean does not have the luxury of time for decisive action on climate change and global warming. In fact, it is on the brink of calamity, according to a prominent scientist. Conrad Douglas, a Jamaican scientist who has published over 350 reports on environmental management and related matters, has warned that “urgent action at... More »
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