28/2/2008 Guardian The US is willing to enter a binding international agreement on cutting greenhouse gas
emissions by this summer, if China and India agree to match the commitment, a
White House official said yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Surviving the Century, Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges. Ed. Girardet, Herbert, Director of the World Future Council. May 2007 224 pp. ISBN 978-1-84407-458-7 hdbk only £17.99 Read the rest of this entry »
Sudden and Destructive Climate Change, Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them, MacCracken, M.J. ed. Dec 2007, Pub. Climate Institute, 320 pg ISBN 978-1-84407-478-5 pbk £24.95. Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2008 Guardian centre page. The vault will preserve a 4.5 million ‘genetic bank’ of agricultural seeds in case of war, climate change, natural disasters and failing biodiversity. Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2008 Guardian Almost two and a half million people are without sufficient drinking water because of the bad weather in the north of China, according to the state drought relief organisation. Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2008 Guardian An increase in extreme weather will lead to poor harvests – a trend that has already started – and demand for biofuel will take land away from food production. Other factors such as Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2008 Guardian Huge budget deficit means millions more face starvation – Julian Borger, diplomatic editor. Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2008 Guardian Comment by Simon Lewis So why are we still so reluctant to quantify the deaths it has caused? Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2008 BBC It is one of the world’s strangest and smallest sea creatures, growing to no
bigger than the size of a lentil. Read the rest of this entry »
24/2/2008 BBC If the trend continues, they say, it could lead to a significant rise in global sea level. By Martin Redfern, Rothera Research Station, Antarctica. Read the rest of this entry »
21/2/2008 BBC The campaign to make Selkirk plastic bag-free aims to achieve its goal within six weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
20/2/2008 BBC The UK’s former top diplomat has called for a massive increase in the amount of money available to help developing countries to adapt to climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
20/2/2008 BBC Impressive record of Portugal’s sustainable energy programme. Read the rest of this entry »
19/2/2008 Guardian Monbiot: Britain’s official approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. Read the rest of this entry »
19/2/2008 BBC The impact climate change is having in four Scottish local authority areas is to be studied to improve their readiness for extreme weather. Read the rest of this entry »
18/2/2008 BBC VIEWPOINT by Rebecca Swift Read the rest of this entry »
|15/2/2008 Guardian Fiigures show Britain installed about 270 solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on houses in 2007, compared with 130,000 in Germany. Read the rest of this entry »
11/2/2008 Guardian Beekeepers seek £8m to fight hive plagues - food prodcution threatened. Read the rest of this entry »
15/2/2008 BBC Unique marine life in Antarctica will be at risk from an invasion of sharks, crabs and other predators if global warming continues, scientists warn. Read the rest of this entry »
15/2/2008 BBC Scientists at the University of East Anglia have found that winter rain has become more intense in past 100 years. Read the rest of this entry »
13/2/2008 Guardian True scale of C0₂emissions from shipping revealed in leaked UN report. Read the rest of this entry »
14/2/2008 BBC Science journal – climate change, fishing, pollution + other human factors have exacted a heavy toll on almost half of the marine waters. Read the rest of this entry »
13/2/2008 BBC NEWS The UK’s weather forecasting needs to be improved, according to the man leading a government review into last summer’s downpours. Read the rest of this entry »
8/2/2008 BBC Glasgow mother describes how climate change hits the poor in Nicaragua hardest. Read the rest of this entry »
8/2/2008 BBC Researchers suggest that natural processes appear to be regulating sea surface temperatures in a region of the western Pacific Ocean. Read the rest of this entry »
7/2/2009 BBC Two scientists have claimed that climate change was not the only cause of the collapse of a 500bn tonne ice shelf in Antarctica six years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
5/2/2008 Guardian Experts assess point at which it is too late to act. Disastrous repercussions of warming are spelled out. Read the rest of this entry »
4/2/2008 Guardian Co-op study of 100,000 of their UK shoppers – only 4% said that climate change is their key concern. Read the rest of this entry »
5/2/2008 BBC NEWS Two senior bishops are urging people to cut back on carbon for Lent instead of the conventional chocolate or alcohol. Read the rest of this entry »
4/2/2008 BBC Many of Earth’s climate systems will undergo a series of sudden shifts this century as a result of human-induced climate change, a study suggests. Read the rest of this entry »
5/2/2008 BBC The Treasury Committee has called for a new ministerial post to co-ordinate the fight against global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
4/2/2008 BBC The most heavily polluting lorries are facing charges of £200 per day to enter Greater London as Britain’s first low emission zone (LEZ) comes into force. Read the rest of this entry »
31/1/2008 BBC The UK’s carbon emissions fell by just 0.1% last year and some sectors rose. Read the rest of this entry »
10-16/1/2008 Big Issue Good news that Ullapool is trying to save 300,000 plastic bags each year BUT proportionality is important. Read the fatal flaw – Read the rest of this entry »
31/1/2008 BBC Climate change could cause severe crop losses in South Asia and southern Africa over the next twenty years, a study in the journal Science says. Read the rest of this entry »
Winter 2008 Scientists for Global Responsibility Newsletter, Issue 35. Read the rest of this entry »
30/1/ 2008 Guardian Masdar, the new $15bn zero-carbon, zero-waste city designed by Lord [Norman] Foster and his team of architects for Abu Dhabi’s crown prince ruler.
1/2/2008 Guardian UK scientists show warmer waters in the north Atlantic have made hurricanes stronger and more frequent in the past decade. according to a study by British scientists. Read the rest of this entry »