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Local LA TV: Global warming will put Malibu under water.

Global downturn could halve CO2 emissions: alleged expert | Environment | Reuters

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The global economic downturn could cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 50 percent, a scientist said on Thursday at the Congress on Climate Change.

Terry Barker, director of the Center for Climate Change Mitigation Research at Cambridge University, said the recession could cause a reduction in carbon emissions by 2012 bigger than the estimated 35 percent cut in the 1929-1932 Great Depression.

"My top-of-the-head prediction is it would go down as much as 40 to 50 percent at worst but that remains to be seen," Barker said.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Yet another alarmist sea level story, and you paid for it

The state-funded report from the Pacific Institute, an environmental think tank, marks the first sweeping assessment of how California's entire 2,000-mile shoreline, including San Francisco Bay, and the millions who live along it may be affected by higher sea levels.

Puget Sound cold

Puget Sound Energy says the cold weather this March has customer furnaces running. The utility says it set an electricity peak record for March on the ninth. And natural gas use is at a seven-year high for March. Customers will see higher heating bills next month.

Majority Of People Don't Consider Global Warming A Serious Threat

Just 38% of those polled consider it a serious threat, as compared to 40% in 2008.