I’M trying to work but suddenly my head is on the keyboard.

The verdict is in: Global warming is real and greenhouse-gas emissions from human activity are the main cause.

The world’s oceans are turning acidic at what could be the fastest pace of any time in the past 300m years, even more rapidly than during a monster emission of planet-warming carbon 56m years ago, scientists said.

RENEWABLE sources such as solar and wind could supply up to 80% of the world’s energy needs by 2050 and play a significant role in fighting global warming, a top climate panel has concluded.

Renewable sources such as solar and wind could supply up to 80% of the world’s energy by 2050 and play a significant role in fighting global warming, a top climate group claims.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon told a meeting of some 150 governments today that time is running out for a new climate deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

AUSTRALIA’S Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are “poor,” a major new report has found.

The United Nations’ leading climate change expert said Group of Eight nations had “clearly ignored” taking any concrete action to accomplish his panel’s new goal of limiting climate change.

A BREAKTHROUGH study of fluctuations in sea levels the last time Earth was between ice ages, as it is now, shows oceans rose three meters in only decades due to collapsing ice sheets.

IT’S everyone’s worst nightmare. You invite a group of friends over for a bite to eat and just as you’re all about to tuck in to a delicious dinner of smoked salmon and lamb cutlets, your old college pal’s latest girlfriend announces she’s a vegan.

I FOUND Dick Barton’s letter (‘Cool response to global warming’, January 7) as amusing as it was irresponsible.

Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today and called on humanity to mobilise at once against the dangers of a changing climate.

Al Gore and the UN climate panel’s chief scientist will accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway today for sounding the alarm over what the former US vice president called the “planetary emergency” of global warming.

GLOBAL warming will leave Sydney in permanent drought by 2070, with huge seas battering its famous beaches and raging bushfires threatening its outskirts, a new report says.

Record extremes in weather and climate will become increasingly common as temperatures rise because of climate change, the United Nations weather agency said today.