Temp rise at poles directly caused by humans – study
30/10/2008 BBC The rise in temperatures at Earth’s poles has for the first time been attributed directly to human activities, according to a study. Read the rest of this entry »
StopGlobalWarming.org
“An average car in the US driven 10,000 in a year releases 5.5 tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere”.
A good campaigning website.
What the Public Doesn’t Get About Climate Change
29/10/2008 | West Coast Climate Equity (see end of this post) Science students also fail this. Read the rest of this entry »
West Coast Climate Equity
China warns on emissions control – now equals USA
29/10/2008 BBC China has admitted that controlling greenhouse emissions is a “difficult task”
and warned that there is little prospect of an early improvement. Read the rest of this entry »
World faces a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch
29/10/2008 Guardian • Two planets need by 2030 at this rate, warns report Read the rest of this entry »
Thickness of Arctic ice plummets
29/10/2008 BBC The thickness of Arctic sea ice “plummeted” last winter, thinning by as much as
49 centimetres (1.6ft) in some regions, satellite data has revealed. Read the rest of this entry »
Review warns of runaway global warming.Targets are outdated.
27/10/2008 Guardian Carbon pollution levels are rising so fast that the world has no realistic chance of
hitting ambitious climate targets set by Britain and the G8, an influential report to the Australian government has warned. Read the rest of this entry »
Big decline in depth of Arctic winter sea ice.
28/10/2008 The Guardian The thickness of sea ice in the Arctic dramatically declined last winter for the first time since records began in the early 1990s. Read the rest of this entry »
CO2 curbs may be too late for coral reefs, study warns.
27/10/2008 Guardian A new global deal on climate change will come too late to save most of the
world’s coral reefs, according to a US study that suggests major ecological damage to the oceans is now inevitable.
Climate change ‘making seas more salty’
27/10/2008 Guardian Scientists report that increased salinity in oceans can be attributed to manmade climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Study probes clouds’ climate role
27/10/2008 BBC BBC NEWS An international team of scientists is hoping to shed light on how clouds over
the Pacific Ocean are affecting global climate and weather systems. Read the rest of this entry »
Big Chinese companies join climate group
24/10/2008 Guardian Huge mobile phone firm is first state-owned member. Read the rest of this entry »
Wakeupfreakout.org has 11 min free video
25/10/2008 www.wakeupfreakout.org video is a very simplified summary of the tipping point implications of global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
Report form China says emissions could more than double in 20 years.
22/10/2008 New Scientist. Extracts – The Chinese Academy of Sciences says China’s greenhouse gas pollution could more than double in two decades. Read the rest of this entry »
Arctic air temperature now 5C above normal
25/10/2008 New Scientist Arctic Heat Autumn air temperatures have risen to record levels in the Arctic. Read the rest of this entry »
What is the scientific case for optimism about climate change? paper by Morris Bradley
1/10/2008 ‘What is the scientific case for optimism about climate change?’ This is a short text version of a presentation by Morris Bradley. Read the rest of this entry »
Italy aims for carbon-neutral farm
18/10/2008 BBC Italy aims for carbon-neutral farm at Castello Monte Vibiano Vecchio, Italy Read the rest of this entry »
How climate change relates to the financial crisis- 15pages in NS
18/10/2008 New Scientist The Folly of Growth, 15 pages this week, Issue 2578 Read the rest of this entry »
Nature loss “dwarfs bank crisis – EU commissioned report
11/10/2008 BBC The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than
through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study. Read the rest of this entry »
MacDonald, Christine 2008 Green Inc. A Grubby Shade of Green
by Christine MacDonald, Lyons Press, 2008 $24.95 ISBN 978 1599214368 Read the rest of this entry »
Brown, Paul 2006 Global Warning
by Paul Brown, Guardian Books, Dakini books NP, 2006 307 pages large format, £19.95 ISBN 10 0 7136 8205 1 or 13 978 0 7136 8205 2 Read the rest of this entry »
Steffen, Alex (Ed.) 2008 World Changing: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century
by Steffen, Alex editor, published Abrams, New York 2008 Winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. 600 pages medium size, double column, £9.99 ISBN 13: 978-0-8109-7085-4 Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change may hasten the spread of diseases
7/10/2008 BBC -Climate change may hasten the spread of diseases that can move from wild animals to human warns the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in a report. Read the rest of this entry »
Plane truths about flying from NEF
27/9/2008 New Economics Foundation Plane truths reveals that increased air travel and tourism leaves UK taxpayers out of pocket, and benefits multinational tour operators and hotel chains, rather than poor people. Read the rest of this entry »
Past decade warmest for at least 1,300 years – new evidence
2/9/2008 www.realclimate.org (quoted in www.canada.com) Past decade warmest in
1,300 years. Read the rest of this entry »
What causes some glaciers to accelerate – realclimate report
7/10/2008 www.realclimate.org Changes occurring in marine terminating outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet and ice shelves fringing the Antarctic Peninsula have altered our sense of the possible rate of response of large ice sheet-ice shelf systems. Read the rest of this entry »
At least 25% of mammals on land+ 33% in the sea risk extinction
7/10/2088 Guardian Figure of 25% likely to be conservative estimate. Read the rest of this entry »
Now is the time to tackle global warming – Stern
7/10/2008 Guardian Lord Stern of Brentford has suggested the credit crunch might provide an opportunity to invest in measures to tackle global warming as a way of stimulating economic growth. Read the rest of this entry »
End use of fossil fuels in 20 years says Com’tee on Climate Change
7/10/2008 Guardian Britain must abandon using almost all fossil fuels to produce power in 20 years’
time, the government’s climate change watchdog will warn today. Read the rest of this entry »
Committee on Climate Change says cut by 80% by 2050
7/10/2008 BBC The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said a cut in greenhouse gas emissions of
at least 80% by 2050 should include international aviation and shipping.
Seas turn to acid as they soak up CO2
5/10/2008 Guardian ‘The waters are like a Jacuzzi – there is so much carbon dioxide fizzing up from the seabed,’ said Dr Jason Hall-Spencer, of Plymouth University. Read the rest of this entry »
Britain’s rivers could run dry
5/10/2008 Observer Flows in Severn and Mersey might drop by up to 80
per cent by 2050, experts warn. Read the rest of this entry »
Combating climate change requires a reduction in energy consumption
26/9/2008 Guardian Comment by Ben Adler New energy sources are all the rage at the Clinton Global Initiative, but where are the calls to reduce consumption? Read the rest of this entry »
Head of Met Office climate change centre on latest Report
1/10/2008 Guardian (Society) Met Office’s bleak forecast on climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate Calamity -Emissions rising fast – Global Carbon Project
1/10/2008 New Scientist Global Carbon Project reports – Read the rest of this entry »
Met Office warns of need for drastic cuts in greenhouse gases from 2010
1/10/2008 Guardian 3% a year may keep temperature rise to 2C Read the rest of this entry »