Stories indexed under: Global warming

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• Founder of carbon-offset firm to speak March 26, 2008 A prominent champion of environmental quality and human equality, Michel Gelobter will give a free public lecture, “Environmental Justice and Climate Change,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in 1121 Mosse Humanities.
• Post-Kyoto environmental discussion to take place at UW-Madison Nov. 13, 2007 This December in Bali, new international talks will be launched to determine the successor of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. The science has spoken. We know the problem is real, but how do we move forward with a solution?
• Health toll of climate change seen as ethical crisis Nov. 6, 2007 The public health costs of global climate change are likely to be the greatest in those parts of the world that have contributed least to the problem, posing a significant ethical dilemma for the developed world, according to a new study.
• Illustration: The ethical dimensions of global climate change Nov. 6, 2007
• UW-Madison faculty contributed to global warming reports that led to Gore’s Nobel Oct. 12, 2007 University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty made significant contributions in developing the reports on the implications of global warming that led today (Oct. 12) to the awarding of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
• Environmental filmmakers Helfand, Siegel are fall guest artists Sept. 4, 2007 The Arts Institute is pleased to welcome artist in residence Judith Helfand and guest artist Sarita Siegel to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Fall 2007. The Arts Institute Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program brings world-class artists to campus to teach semester-long, interdepartmental courses and to publicly present their work for campus and community audiences.
• Hungry insects leave clues to impacts of climate change Aug. 27, 2007
• New certificate prepares students for global change Aug. 9, 2007 Graduate students intrigued by large-scale environmental challenges like climate change will have a new opportunity this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Professor recognized for work on climate change and insurance June 22, 2007 Dan Anderson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor, has won a $10,000 stipend for his paper on risk management as it relates to global warming and climate change.
• Engineers develop higher-energy liquid-transportation fuel from sugar June 20, 2007 Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and combine it with water molecules and sunshine to make carbohydrate or sugar. Variations on this process provide fuel for all of life on Earth.
• Two students to lead sustainability bus tour this summer May 16, 2007 Two students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with 11 other students and recent graduates from around the country, are going to live on a bus this summer.
• Climate change exhibit opens May 5 in Ashland May 1, 2007 A traveling art and science exhibition focusing on climate change in the Lake Superior region will open Saturday, May 5, at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center in Ashland. An opening reception will be held at the center at 4 p.m. that day.
• Global warming forecasts creation, loss of climate zones March 26, 2007 A new global warming study predicts that many current climate zones will vanish entirely by the year 2100, replaced by climates unknown in today's world.
• New evidence that global warming fuels stronger Atlantic hurricanes Feb. 28, 2007 Atmospheric scientists have uncovered fresh evidence to support the hotly debated theory that global warming has contributed to the emergence of stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.
• Supercomputer to power climate change study Jan. 10, 2007 Climate researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been given unprecedented access to one of the world's most powerful supercomputers to better understand the causes and consequences of abrupt climate change.
• New process makes diesel fuel, industrial chemicals from simple sugar June 29, 2006 A University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical and biological engineering professor reports in the June 30 issue of the journal Science on a better way to make a chemical intermediate called HMF from fructose: fruit sugar. Chemical intermediates are compounds that are the raw material for many modern plastics, drugs and fuels.
• Third World bears brunt of global warming impacts Nov. 16, 2005 A team of health and climate scientists at UW-Madison and the World Health Organization report in the journal Nature that the growing health impacts of climate change affect different regions in markedly different ways. Ironically, the places that have contributed the least to warming the Earth are the most vulnerable to the death and disease higher temperatures can bring.
• Climate change to bring a wave of new health risks Feb. 21, 2005 Climate change will not only bring about a warmer world, it is also very likely to set the stage for an unhealthier one.
• 150-year global ice record reveals major warming trend Sept. 7, 2000 From sources as diverse as newspaper archives, transportation ledgers and religious observances, scientists have amassed lake and river ice records spanning the Northern Hemisphere that show a steady 150-year warming trend.