Here are some global warming news highlights from around the Web.

Dengue on the rise in S. America, Mexico thanks to global warming and globalization

Deadly translucent jellyfish spreading along Aussie coast because of global warming halt shooting of movie.

Poll: 83% think global warming is a serious problem. That’s up 13% from a 2004 poll.

Republicans plan to block Al Gore’s free “Live Earth” concert from the US Capitol building

Bush Adminstration accused of broad efforts to “stifle, delay or dampen the release of climate change research.”

Global Warming may bring new climate zones into existence that human have never seen before.

More deadly droughts like the one in the Amazon are likely as our climate continues to change for the worse. BBC article says “Two years ago the world was shocked by pictures of hundreds of rotting fish floating in the world’s largest river.” The magnificent river faces yet more droughts.

Researchers say global warming will hurt the poorest nations first.

Al Gore warns Congress that we face a planet emergency. Gore tells Congress emission cuts on existing coal power plants and bans on new coal plants are a must to fight global warming.

Former White House offical Philip Cooney admits altering global warming reports. He now works for Exxon Mobil

Scientists eye unusual climate fixes: Giant artificial trees, wind turbines, a trillion flying saucers and other wild attempts to stop global warming.

This Winter was the warmest on record for the world.

Actress Jennifer Garner is concerned about global warming.



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LG Electronics (LG), a leading worldwide provider of advanced wireless handsets and accessories, and Google today announced a global collaboration to pre-install Google’s services on millions of LG mobile phones. Mobile users around the world will now be able to easily search for information, find locations, update blogs and manage email while on the move.
“Building […]

The Korean electronics maker announced that it will ship select handsets preinstalled with Google products and services — including Google Maps, Blogger Mobile and Gmail — during the second quarter of this year.
The Google features will provide consumers with access to Internet services without a PC, keeping them connected while mobile, said Paul Bae, vice […]

Yahoo will begin offering unlimited storage for its free Web-based e-mail in May, the company announced late Tuesday. The move makes Yahoo the first of the major free e-mail providers to offer unlimited storage, but it likely will not be the last.
Yahoo currently offers 1 gigabyte for its free mail service and 2GB for its […]

For at least the third time this month, Google is grappling with performance and availability problems in the Gmail service of Google Apps, the suite of hosted services that many consider a potential threat to Microsoft’s Office suite of desktop software.
The latest problem began affecting users on Tuesday morning. It remained unresolved Tuesday evening, affecting […]

The Federal Communications Commission is looking into the business practices of broadband service providers. The inquiry is aimed to study how internet providers do business and if needed adopt regulations that ensure all internet traffic is equal in price and offerings as well as business-to-business dealings.
The announcement from the FCC outlines the study with four […]

One in 10 Internet users fell victim to online fraud last year, losing an average of 875 pounds each, according to a survey on Monday.
Many failed to take basic steps to protect themselves online and fewer than half felt they were wholly responsible for their safety while using the Internet.
Six percent had suffered fraud while […]

Yahoo! has launched its oneSearch mobile search platform for mobile web browsers, taking its new search marketing service to a greatly expanded number of handset users.
Previously, oneSearch, which delivers enhanced results and listings for the small screen, was only available in Yahoo!’s downloadable Go 2.0 application, launched in January. Results pages display search-related ads and […]

Where have efforts to stabilize or even reduce the world’s population gone? Even if major efforts to combat global warming are undertaken it may not be enough if the world’s population continues to skyrocket upward. An interesting editorial in The Guardian looks at this very issue.

In the time it takes you to get to the end of this sentence, seven people have been added to the population of the world. At this rate, the United Nations estimates the number of people on the planet will nearly double by the middle of this century. Even with significant reductions in birth rates, the population is expected to increase from 6.7 billion now to 9.2 billion by 2050.



These figures are staggering. Yet there was hardly a mention of them in a major story last week: the announcement by Britain’s two main political parties of how they will tackle what is commonly agreed to be the biggest threat facing the planet, global warming and ensuing climate change.

The editorial also explains how much more emissions will have to be cut if the planet’s population reaches the forecast of 9.2 billion by 2050.

Put simply, if governments want to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent, and the world’s population rises to the mid-range forecast of 9.2 billion, each person would in fact have to slash their emissions by 72 per cent. More efficient technology, renewable energy and lifestyle changes will help do that, but growing prosperity and consumption in developing countries will also make it harder. That all our low-energy light bulbs, home insulation, efficient cars, boilers and washing machines have so far failed to stop emissions growing illustrates how difficult cutting them will be to achieve.



Some population activists argue the world can only support a population of two to three billion, even as few as 500 million in future. But even if reducing the world’s population is unlikely or distasteful, it is incredible that there is not even a debate about limiting and maybe one day reversing growth. There are many understandable reasons for the prevailing reluctance to talk about population.

It is difficult to stabilize population during a period of rapid medical advances but the issue should still be considered. One of the reasons the idea has not been discussed as much in recent years has been the political climate. It has been difficult to even get close to discussing family planning and population control ideas during the current administration that favors big business over the environment and focuses solely on issues like outlawing abortion and abstinence instead of birth control. The Bush administration also cut funding to the UN Population Fund which was well funded under the Clinton administration.



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The number of computers hijacked by malicious hackers to send out spam and viruses has grown almost 30% in the last year, according to a survey.
More than six million computers world wide are now part of a “bot network”, reported security firm Symantec.
Computer users typically do not know that their PC has been hijacked.
More than […]