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Eco-Economy Indicators: CARBON EMISSIONS - Data 2
- Earth Policy Institute
Eco-Economy Indicators: CARBON EMISSIONS Carbon Emissions Climbing - Earth Policy Institute
New report shows global warming link to Australia's worst drought

SYDNEY: A new scientific report by WWF Australia and leading meteorologists has shown that human-induced global warming was a key factor in the severity of the 2002 drought. The report compares the 2002 drought with the four other major droughts since 1950 and has found higher temperatures caused a marked increase in evaporation rates from soil, watercourses and vegetation.
Flooding to rise fourfold this century, say scientists
Flooding to rise fourfold this century, say scientists
Most New Zealand regions are likely to face more varied rainfall patterns through the century and floods will become four times more frequent because rainfall is likely to become more intense.
Scientists advising the Government's Climate Change Project say two regions which already have a subtropical climate with warm humid summers and mild winters, Northland and Auckland, are likely to become warmer and drier as global climate change continues.
$1m climate change exercise draws fire
The Government has allocated nearly a million dollars for a public information campaign this year about climate change.
The National Party yesterday called the campaign an expensive propaganda exercise designed to justify ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.

Chorus of disapproval greets Kyoto plan
Brian Fallow: Last year New Zealand slipped, imperceptibly to most of us, from one era into another.
The ratification of the Kyoto Protocol last month commits New Zealand to embarking on a transition - which will take decades - from reliance on fossil carbon to renewable energy sources, in order to mitigate global warming.

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