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Climate change – UK Flooding increases – list of facts.

23/1/2008 Guardian  Seven months after Britain’s worst summer floods, large areas of Wales, the West Country, the Midlands and Yorkshire have been under water again.    Read the rest of this entry »

North Carolina Drought Could Force Nuke-Plant Shutdowns

24/1/2008  The Associated Press   Lake Norman, North Carolina – Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate. Read the rest of this entry »

Permission to pollute – comment on EU carbon trading blueprint.

24/1/2008 Guardian Comment by Oscar Reyes – Far from tackling climate change, the EU’s timid plans are rewarding those on the wrong track.   Read the rest of this entry »

Space imaging gives lie to Brazil’s ‘great achievement’ of halting rainforest destruction

25/1/2008 Guardian Space imaging gives the lie to Brazil’s recent ‘great achievement’ of halting rainforest destruction.   Read the rest of this entry »

“EU aims for moral high ground with swingeing climate change package”

ECO-CONGREGATION EDINBURGH NETWORK Conference

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NICE urges Planners urged to put walkers and cyclists first

23/1/2008 Guardian  . Town planners and architects were told by NICE to give pedestrians and cyclists priority over cars in towns, and to design staircases that make people want to use them, as part of a radical move to make Britons more physically active. Read the rest of this entry »

Walker, Gabrielle & King, Sir David 2008 Hot Topic, – a dangerous but important book.

The Hot Topic – How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights On, Gabrielle Walker & Sir David King, 2008, Bloomsbury Publ;ishing, ISBN 9780747593959,  300 pg, £9.99 Read the rest of this entry »

US Report says the Climate is ‘clearly out of balance’

24/1/2008   The American Geophysical Union (AGU) warned that changes to the Earth’s climate system were “not natural”.  Read the rest of this entry »

Tiverton – “UK’s first truly sustainable town”

Plans to create a new centre for renewable energy could make Tiverton the country’s greenest town. Read the rest of this entry »

Clifford Langley says China’s one-child policy is abuse of human rights

21/1/2008  BBC Thought for the Day,  “One important factor driving  China’s amazing economic development is undoubtedly its population control  policy. Heavy fines and taxes are imposed on those couples who have more  than one child. But isn’t this a human rights abuse?”  Read the rest of this entry »

Warning on rising Med Sea levels

19/1/2008 BBC  The level of the Mediterranean Sea is rising rapidly and could  increase by up to half a metre in the next 50 years, scientists in  Spain have warned. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Big climate impact’ on UK coasts

16/1/2008  BBC  Climate change is having a major impact on Britain’s coast, the seas around the coast, and the life in those seas, Read the rest of this entry »

Bypassing the blockage of nations – Richard Black

15/1/2008 BBC  Green Room Comment by Richard Black  environment correspondent for BBC News Read the rest of this entry »

Carbon Detox George Marshall’s website

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Marshall, George 2007 Carbon Detox by

Carbon Detox, George Marshall, 2007,  Octapus Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85675-288-6 £7.99 Read the rest of this entry »

Changeworks

Irene Cummings, Futures Team, Changeworks Read the rest of this entry »

Peak Oil

4/1/2008 Guardian  Crisis may prime the pumps – explanation of peak oil.  Read the rest of this entry »

California to sue US government over car emissions

4/1/2008 Guardian   ”40% – Percentage of Calefornia’s overall global warming emissions produced by cars – compared with 20% nationally.    Read the rest of this entry »

Burning biofuels may be worse than coal and oil -experts

4/1/2008 Guardian   Burning biofuels may be worse than coal and oil – Scientists point to cost in biodiversity and farmland.   Read the rest of this entry »

Trees absorbing less CO2 as world warms

3/1/2008 Guardian  Shorter winters weaken forest ‘carbon sinks’.   Data analysis reverses scientists’ expectations.  Read the rest of this entry »

2007 ’second warmest year’ in the UK – Met office

3/1/2008 BBC   A summer of rain but still much warmer than average.   Read the rest of this entry »

Climate Change focus as Japan heads G8 summit

1/1/2008 BBC 1 January 2008,  Japan wants nations to achieve consensus on cutting emissions and is to propose the fight against global warming as a main discussion topic at a Group of Eight nations summit later this year. Read the rest of this entry »