World View of Global Warming

One of the most stark before-and-after shot you'll see this Earth Hour; Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour lit up like the proverbial Christmas tree, then extinguished at 8:30...        

I ndia observed the Earth Hour with 92 other countries between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm on Saturday. As the clock struck 8:30 pm on Saturday, hundreds of Delhiites and people in other cities voluntarily switched off their lights for one hour to observe Earth Hour, a global climate awareness initiative.   The Earth Hour is a global initiative by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) that aims to send out the message on climate change and that policy makers should make it their foremost priority.

Here's a list of 101 Ways to Save Green and Live Green! If not all...there are some of these we can all implement to do our bit for the environment and Live Greener Lives. Add your own green tips and ideas in the comments below. GREEN . It's the favorite word of the day, week, month, year. The newspapers and media are all over going GREEN . With the current trend to 'GO GREEN ' , everyone has jumped on the bandwagon for having a ' GREEN home' , ' GREEN car' , ' GREEN world' and a lot of the time it's easier said than done. What we need is not to be told to Live GREEN ...We need the common sense and the ability to treat each other and the environment with respect, to spread and share HOW each one of us can Live Greener Lives starting with small changes in our everyday lives. We need to ask our American politicians to do more than play lip service to celebrities and really get serious about the legacy we will leave to our children. Ways to...

What is global warming? Here we discuss the science of global warming, its causes and effects, and why it is one of humanity's biggest challenges. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level. IPCC Climate Change 2007 Report Global warming is quite a recent phenomenon that came to international prominence only by the end of the 20th century. But man-made pollution was known to affect the climate system of the planet as long ago as the middle – end of the 19th century. It was first suggested in 1863 that changes in the composition of the atmosphere due to pollution could lead to climate change. In 1896 the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius made first actual calculations of the effect of greenhouse warming in which he estimated that a doubling of carbon dioxide [in the atmosphere] would increase the global avera...