Campaigners seek an end to production of CO2-intensive ‘unconventional
29/7/2008 Guardian Ethical investment groups try to halt tar sand projects Read the rest of this entry »
20 sq.km. ice breaks off Ward Hunt shelf in northern Canada
30/7/2008 BBC A large chunk of an Arctic ice shelf has broken free of the northern Canadian
coast, scientists say. Read the rest of this entry »
Glaciers in the Tian Mountains in western China are melting because of global
25/7/2008 Guardian China: Melting glacier leaves world’s worst polluter with no room for
doubt. Read the rest of this entry »
Bonbiot’s critique of UK gov.’s record on climate change/carbon trading
24/7/2008 Guardian Don’t be fooled by the climate change bill. Carbon trading torpedoes it. Read the rest of this entry »
The Arctic has 90bn barrels of oil – US Geological Survey
24/7/2008 BBC The Arctic is thought to hold some 90bn barrels of untapped oil, equal to
Russia’s total known reserves, Read the rest of this entry »
Huge Sahara solar plan for EU
Huge Sahara solar plan for EU. Click here for graphics – go to News List 23/7/2008 for text. Read the rest of this entry »
Huge sahara solar energy project for EU
23/7/2008 Guardian Huge £35bn supergrid would pool green sources Read the rest of this entry »
Warming world ‘drying wetlands’- leads to huge release of CO2
22/7/2008 BBC More than 700 scientists are attending a major conference to draw up an action plan to protect the world’s wetlands. Read the rest of this entry »
Our craving for deception about climate change – Monbiot
22/7/2008 Guardian The well-off are all too eager to hear the kind of climate change denial aired by Channel 4 Read the rest of this entry »
“The public has been swindled” – former chair of IPCC
21/7/2008 Guardian Ofcom’s censure of Channel 4 is flawed: Read the rest of this entry »
Global warming is a brutal truth. Channel 4 unrepentent.
21/7/2008 Guardian Channel 4’s dismissal of Ofcom’s damning verdict
about its flawed programme is the usual professional self-deception. Read the rest of this entry »
Ofcom’s verdict on ‘Great Global Warming Swindle’ angers scientists.
22/7/2008 Guardian Ofcom Regulator accused of letting makers off the hook. Read the rest of this entry »
Why is Channel4 waging a war against Greens?
22/7/2008 Guardian Why does Channel 4 seem to be waging a war against the greens? Read the rest of this entry »
New Economic Foundation Report – A Green New Deal
23/7/2008 New Economic Foundation Report A Green New Deal. Read the rest of this entry »
Ch.4 film ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle broke Ofcom rules.
21/7/2008 BBC Channel 4 film on global warming broke Ofcom rules, the media regulator says. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change & nuclear power risks- Comment by Ulrich beck
17/7/2008 Guardian All aboard the nuclear power superjet. Just don’t ask about the landing
strip. Read the rest of this entry »
New modelling predicts US mountain melt 2 month earlier.
16/7/2008 New Scientist We may have underestimated how early the mountains will thaw in future. Read the rest of this entry »
Greenland’s ice sheet may not be melting as fast as feared
3/7/2008 New Scientist Climatologists now say the ice may not be in such a hurry to throw
itself into the water after all. Read the rest of this entry »
US -contruction of coal-powered plant blocked because of emissions
3/7/2008 Scientific American A Georgia court this week halted construction of a new 1,200-megawatt coal-fired power plant Read the rest of this entry »
Patient deluded by climate change fears
15/7/2008 New Scientist Patient suffered from ‘climate change delusion’ Read the rest of this entry »
SCCS input to Citizen’s Agora, EU Parliament
1/7/2008 CITIZENS’ AGORA, European Parliament, Brussels, June 2008 input by Mike Robinson. Read the rest of this entry »
US Vice-President accused of surpressing senior official’s testimony
9/7/2008 Guardian The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, intervened to gag a senior
official from testifying last year to the public health problems caused by
climate change, Read the rest of this entry »
Fish catches in some poorer countries grossly underestimated
9/7/2008 Guardian Fish catches in some of the poorest nations in the world have been grossly underestimated, scientists warned yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
A Green mood sweeps Scotland – report in Scotsman
12/7/2008 Scotsman A green mood sweeps Scotland. Read the rest of this entry »
Russian scientists evacuate because ice-floe melts faster than expected
11/7/2008 BBC Twenty Russian scientists are to be evacuated from their camp on a drifting ice-floe in the Arctic after it started disintegrating sooner than expected. Read the rest of this entry »
New invention could generate 10x more power from solar panel.
11/7/2008 BBC A new way capturing the energy from the Sun could increase the power generated by solar panels tenfold, scientists show. Read the rest of this entry »
Europe and North America could be at much greater risk of floods than previously appreciated
7/7/2008 New Scientist Fred Pearce Pacific nations threatened with disappearing beneath the waves as sea levels rise have been given a partial reprieve – for a few decades at least. Read the rest of this entry »
A third of the world’s reef-building coral species are facing extinction.
10/7/2008 BBC That is the stark conclusion from the first global study to assess the extinction risks of corals. Read the rest of this entry »
Chooseanotherway – to reduce transport emissions (Scot.Exec.)
Website to encoyrage and inform people how to cut trasnport emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
G8 deal on climate change – but then the backlash
9/7/2008 Guardian US signs up to 50% target but emerging economies demand more. Read the rest of this entry »
Global carbon trading is already nearly double last year’s
9/7/2008 Guardian Value of global carbon trading is already nearly double last year’s
figure at £30bn Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Lynas on climate deniers.
3/7/2008 New Statesman Mark Lynas on climate deniers. Read the rest of this entry »
Critique of eco-towns – Independent
1/7/2008 Independent What are eco-towns, and how green are they in reality? Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change report like a disaster novel, says Australian minister
8/7/2008 Guardian Scientists predict 10-fold increase in heatwaves Read the rest of this entry »
Critique of G8 agreement by Richard Black
8/7/2008 BBC At first sight, the G8 agreement on climate change promises much. Read the rest of this entry »
EU Parliament backs inclusion of avaition CO2 emissions
8/7/2008 BBC The European Parliament has backed a law to include aviation in Europe’s CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for cutting greenhouse gases. Read the rest of this entry »
Arctic sea icemelt 2007
Arctic sea ice melt 2005 and 2007 Read the rest of this entry »
Greenland icemelt 1992 and 2002
Graphic of Greenland ice extent 1992 and 2002 Read the rest of this entry »
Petition by James Hansen to Tokyo conference
Choice of four slide presentation formats – 40 slides - James Hansen’s latest. Read the rest of this entry »
Response to Scottish Parliament’s Climate Change Consultation
4/7/2008 Scotsman Scotland’s fight to save planet wins global support. Read the rest of this entry »
Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis
4/7/2008 Guardian Internal World Bank study delivers blow to plant energy drive. Read the rest of this entry »
Some species could be wiped out 100 times faster than feared, say
3/7/2008 Guardian Calculations of risk found to be seriously flawed - Most-endangered may be months from extinctionIan Sample, science correspondent The Guardian. Read the rest of this entry »
Flat-screen TV may cause more global warming than coal-fired power stations
3/7/2008 Guardian The rising demand for flat-screen televisions could have a greater impact on global warming than the world’s largest coal-fired power stations, a leading environmental scientist warned yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Time for deeds not words to reach emissions targets – study
3/7/2008 Guardian The necessary CO2 fall is achievable if green energy use is speeded up - Pricewaterhouse Coopers says. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate is more urgent than the economy but .. – voters’ poll.
2/7/2008 Guardian Voters think that taking action against climate change matters more than tackling the global economic downturn Read the rest of this entry »
Green energy is the modern gold rush says specialist consultant
2/7/2008 Guardian Alternative power Investors are falling over themselves to put cash into the search for cleaner fuels. Read the rest of this entry »
Global investment in “green” energy surged ahead in 2007
2/7/2008 BBC Global investment in “green” energy surged ahead in 2007 and has continued to grow this year Read the rest of this entry »
Edinburgh Climate Network – Christian initiative
1/7/2008 Conference pallned for 11th October Read the rest of this entry »