The world’s will to tackle climate change is irresistible – IPCC Chair
30/6/2008 Guardian Far from stymying the environmental cause, the downturn in the
world’s economies highlights just how pressing it is. Read the rest of this entry »
UK petrol/diesel sales down 25% since June 2007 – International Energy Agency.
29/6/2008 Observer. Drivers share cars and reduce trips in a bid to beat soaring cost of motoring. Read the rest of this entry »
Plants and trees head for the hills to escape global warming
28/6/2008 Guardian Scientists examining plant records in the Pyrenees discovered that plants
ecosystem are growing at higher altitudes. Read the rest of this entry »
Britain goes slow as trains, planes and ships cut fuel costs
28/6/2008 Guardian The soaring cost of oil has led to the slowing of vehicles of almost every type in Britain, from planes to trains, ferries, merchant vessels, buses and private cars. Read the rest of this entry »
Media interest in whether North Pole is ice-free this summer
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to real short analysis by www.realclimate.org with webcams watching at the North Pole, graph of past records etc.
Cost of tackling global climate change has doubled, warns Stern
26/6/2008 Guardian Author of landmark report says 2% of GDP is needed Read the rest of this entry »
Monbiot comments on Jim Hansen’s testimony
23/6/2008 Guardian Monbiot comments on Jim Hansen’s testimony. Read the rest of this entry »
Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist
23/6/2008 Guardian James Hansen in Testimony to US Congress will also criticise lobbyists. Read the rest of this entry »
Arctic sea ice is melting even faster than last year, despite a cold winter
18/6/2008 BBC Data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Lynas wins this year’s Royal Society prize for popular science writing.
16/6/2008 BBC Mark Lynas’ Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet has already been turned into a TV programme and is now almost certain to experience a jump in sales. Read the rest of this entry »
Cox, Peter 2007 ‘Planet Earth We Have a Problem’
Peter Cox, Deepak Rughani, Peter Wadhams. David Wasdell ‘Planet Earth We Have a Problem’ , Proceedings of a Briefing given in the House of Commons, 6th July 2007. Read the rest of this entry »
Conflicts fuelled by climate change causing new refugee crisis, warns UN
17/6/2008 Guardian · Total world-wide refugees are up 3m to 37.4m as downward trend reverses. Read the rest of this entry »
2nd Citizen’s Agora of European Parliament – Report
16/6/2008 CITIZENS’ AGORA, European Parliament, Brussels Report by Mike Robinson, Chair of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland Read the rest of this entry »
Climate chaos is inevitable. We can only avert oblivion – M.Lynas
12/6/2008 Guardian Comment. At best we will limit the extent of global warming, but Kyoto barely helps. Read the rest of this entry »
£1.25m for support for Going Carbon Neutral Stirling
12/6/2008 BBC Funding of £1.25m has been given to the community-led project, Going Carbon
Neutral Stirling (GCNS), Read the rest of this entry »
New satellite atlas reveals greenhouse effect on Africa
11/6/2008 Guardian Africa is suffering deforestation at twice the world rate and the continent’s few glaciers are shrinking fast, according to a new UN Read the rest of this entry »
New satellite atlas charts the effects of humans on Africa
10/6/2008 Guardian “Climate change is emerging as a driving force behind many of the problems and is likely to intensify ….” Read the rest of this entry »
Carbon capture at power stations must start soon- scientists
10/6/2008 Guardian Burying gas could achieve 1/3 of UK emissions targets · Without it, world experts say disaster is unavoidable. Read the rest of this entry »
Hard evidence of serious damage from ocean acidification
9/6/2008 BBC Natural carbon dioxide vents on the sea floor are showing scientists how carbon
emissions will affect marine life. Read the rest of this entry »
Antarctica’s Whillans Ice stream earthquakes
7/6/2008 New Scientists Twice a day big, slow earthquakes shake the Whillans Ice stream Read the rest of this entry »
UK’s climate change plans are incoherent says scientist.
9/6/2008 Guadian The UK will fall behind the rest of the world in developing one of the key technologies in the fight against climate change Read the rest of this entry »
Destruction of New Guinea forests faster than Amazon
7/6/2008 New Scientist Rate of loss of New Guinea forest is accelerating – if this continues half will have gone by 2021. Read the rest of this entry »
Bush appointees distorted research findings on global warming
4/6/2008 Guardian Political appointees placed by the Bush administration into senior positions within Nasa’s media headquarters acted to play down and distort accounts given to the public of the research findings of its scientists on global warming, an official investigation has concluded. Read the rest of this entry »
Guardian comment needs a completent rebuttal.
2/6/2008 Guardian Comment by David Cox – Remember that global warming thingy? Read the rest of this entry »
Guardian leader on climate change and carbon capture
2/6/2008 Guardian Climate change: A captivating remedy (Leader, Guardian)
A crude division can be made between two sets of people who both
want to fight climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Earth may hide a lethal carbon cache – scientists warn
24/5/2008 New Scientist Fred Pearce Earth may hide a lethal carbon cache. Read the rest of this entry »
Critique of proposals for engineering solutions to global warming
29/5/2008 Guardian Many scientists now believe the Earth can be altered to tackle global warming. But are these geoengineers being overly optimistic? Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change threat to US crops and water
29/5/2008 Guardian The US south-west, a region that is experiencing one of the fastest rates of population growth, faces dramatic challenges Read the rest of this entry »
Act on climate change, 1,700 top scientists warn US
30/5/2008 Guardian 1,700 leading scientists call on US government to fight global warming. Read the rest of this entry »