Climate change experts call on G20 members to commit to action
31/3/2009 Guardian Last-ditch effort to gain specific promises at G20 Read the rest of this entry »
Obama calls summit on Energy and Climate – April 2009
28/3/2009 BBC US President Barack Obama has invited figures from the world’s 16 major economies to Washington for a meeting on climate change at the end of April. Read the rest of this entry »
Major article: Rapid Arctic meltdown could be catastrophe for us all. by Fred Pearce
28/3/2009 New Scientist Climate crunch warning from Fred Pearce Read the rest of this entry »
How much Carbon is each person’s allowance – Black’s Comment
26/3/2009 BBC Richard Black The issue is this: how much carbon dioxide should each person on Earth be “allowed” to emit? Read the rest of this entry »
Hansen’s paper given at Copenhagen Climate Scientists conference
27/3/2009 E-mail from Jim Hansen re his paper at Copenhagen Read the rest of this entry »
Obama may delay signing up to Copenhagen deal because of opposition.
26/3/2009 Guardian Barack Obama may be forced to delay signing up to a new international agreement on climate change in Copenhagen at the end of the year Read the rest of this entry »
Obama arrives in the nick of time for UN Climate Summit.
27/3/2009 Weekly Guardian After nearly a decade of George Bush’s denial and obstruction, Barack Obama could hold the key to a new global deal to tackle global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
God ‘will not give happy ending’ if we don’t stop climate change.
26/3/2009 BBC God will not intervene to prevent humanity from wreaking disastrous damage to
the environment, Read the rest of this entry »
Ocean seeding experiment with iron had little effect
23/3/2009 BBC Setback for climate technical fix. Read the rest of this entry »
Did the climate conference just confuse the politicians?
21/3/2009 New Scientist HAVE scientists muddied the waters over what needs to be done to stave off dangerous climate change? Read the rest of this entry »
Formulating an action plan to curb climate change is not the job of scientists.
21/3/2009 New Scientist Editorial SCIENCE and politics make uncomfortable bedfellows. Read the rest of this entry »
Future looks brighter for carbon capture
21/3/2009 New Scientist THE future looks a little brighter for one of the world’s most ambitious carbon capture projects – so long as its backers can avoid more embarrassing arithmetic blunders. Read the rest of this entry »
Could the Big Apple soon be bobbing in sea water?
21/3/2009 New Scientist A new study shows that sea level rise due to climate change in the next 100 years will be disproportionately high around New York and other cities of northeast US. Read the rest of this entry »
Global crisis ‘to strike by 2030′ – Chief Scientist
19/3/2009 BBC Growing world population will cause a “perfect storm” of food, energy and water shortages by 2030 … Read the rest of this entry »
Scientists have issued a desperate plea for world leaders to act on climate change
19/3/2009 Guardian Weekly Scientists: act now or face climate catastrophe. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change -Upheavals will peak in 2030, says chief scientist
19/3/2009 Guardian Lack of food, water and energy will cause chaos’ Read the rest of this entry »
What message, and whose, from Copenhagen? Comment.
16/3/2009 BBC VIEWPOINT Mike Hulme Last week’s climate science conference in Copenhagen concluded with a declaration Read the rest of this entry »
Maldives – the first state to go carbon neutral
15/3/2009 Guardian The pioneering new president of the Indian
Ocean nation announces plans for his country Read the rest of this entry »
SIX POINT SUMMARY for the Climate Scientists Copenhagen Conference
12/3/2009 Guardian SUMMARY of the Climate Scientists’ Conference in Copenhagen Read the rest of this entry »
Scientists at this week’s conference in Copenhagen summarise findings
12/3/2009 Guardian Six ways to save the world: scientists at Copemhagen conference compile list of climate change clinchers. Read the rest of this entry »
Cold reality of global warming efforts – Martin Livermore
10/3/2009 BBC Setting targets to cut emissions is easy, achieving them is not, says Martin
Livermore.
Scientists claim global warning ‘can be controlled – Copenhgen
14/3/2009 The Times Amid all the forecasts and warnings of doom and disaster issued by climate scientists there is the hidden message that all is not yet lost. Read the rest of this entry »
Nicholas Stern: politicians have no idea of the impact of climate change.
13/3/2009 The Times Politicians had yet to grasp how devastating climate change would be to society
in this century, Read the rest of this entry »
Full text of the statement from the International Scientific Conference on Climate Change
13/3/2009 The Times World leaders told to act on climate before it’s too late Read the rest of this entry »
A kick-start in Copenhagen- Comment by Katherine Richardson
13/3/2009 Guardian The picture laid out by the climate scientists is bleak, but the research paves the way for action. Read the rest of this entry »
Worst-case scenarios on climate change envisaged by the UN two years ago are
12/3/2009 BBC In a statement in Copenhagen on their six key messages to political leaders, they say there is a increasing risk of abrupt or irreversible climate shifts. Read the rest of this entry »
Stern attacks politicians over climate
13/3/2009 Guardian Politicians have failed to take on board the severe consequences of failing to cut world carbon emissions, according to Nicholas Stern, Read the rest of this entry »
World’s leading scientists in desperate plea to politicians to act on climate change,
13/3/2009 Daily Telegraph The world’s leading scientists yesterday issued a desperate plea to politicians to act on climate change, Read the rest of this entry »
Warming converts forests to carbon emitters, researchers say
12/3/2009 Guardian The Guardian Drought, rising temperatures and deforestation are causing tropical forests to
change from carbon sinks into carbon emitters, Read the rest of this entry »
‘Amazon is both victim and villain’
12/3/2009 Guardian The problem of deforestation in the Amazon is not just a regional problem and it is not just Brazil’s problem. Read the rest of this entry »
The more we know, the grimmer it gets. – George Monbiot
12/3/2009 Guardian What’s clear from Copenhagen is that policymakers have fallen behind the scientists: global warming is already catastrophic. Read the rest of this entry »
Europe ‘will be hit by severe drought’ without urgent action on
12/3/2009 Guardian Europe will be struck by a series of severe droughts that will make life “hell” for hundreds of millions of people unless urgent action is taken to reduce carbon emissions, a new study shows. Read the rest of this entry »
Amazon could shrink by 85% due to climate change, scientists say
12/3/2009 Guardian 4C rise would kill 85% of the Amazon rainforest Read the rest of this entry »
Severe global warming will render half of world’s inhabited areas unliveable,
12/3/2009 Guardian Parts of China, India and the eastern US could all become too warm in summer for people to lose heat by sweating, expert warns. Read the rest of this entry »
Obama will face a “revolution” if he commits the US to – head of IPCC
12/3/2009 Guardian Correction published to article below. The IPCC does not have a political role. Read the rest of this entry »
Chaos at Copenhagen climate sceintists’ conference
10/3/2009 Guardian Copenhagen’s frustrating, poorly organised climate conference does not augur well for the UN summit in December Read the rest of this entry »
Acidic seas fuel mass extinction fears
11/3/2009 Carbon dioxide emissions from human activities are acidifying the oceans and
threaten a mass extinction of sea life, -
Carbon emissions creating acidic oceans not seen since dinosaurs
10/3/2009 Guardian Chemical change placing ‘unprecedented’ pressure on marine life and could cause widespread extinctions, warning. Read the rest of this entry »
TODAY Climate Scientists conference Copenhagen before summit.
10/3/2009 BBC More bad news on climate change is expected as more than 2,000 climate scientists gather in Copenhagen. Read the rest of this entry »
Monbiot’s 10 deniers exposed (portraits deleted).
9/3/2009 Guardian With the Heartland Institute’s annual jamboree for climate deniers in full swing … Read the rest of this entry »
Climate Change deniers conference – how to answer them.
9/3/2009 Guardian It is billed as the largest ever gathering of climate change deniers, a convention that kicked off last night with a title suggesting global warming is a thing of the past, Read the rest of this entry »
Ethical weddings on the increase as conscientious couples seek to … and reduce their carbon footprint
8/3/2009 Guardian At least one form of wedding is blossoming: the green variety. Read the rest of this entry »
Scientists to issue stark warning over dramatic new sea level figures
8/3/2009 Observer Rising sea levels pose a far bigger eco threat than previously thought. Read the rest of this entry »
Drought in Amazon rainforest caused massive carbon release
5/3/2009 CBS News A study involving nearly 70 scientists has found that the Amazon rainforest is surprisingly sensitive to drought and even a moderate drought can cause it to release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Read the rest of this entry »
Explorers begin Arctic trek to measure ice depth
1/3/2009 BBC A British team has begun a gruelling trek to the North Pole to discover how quickly the Arctic sea-ice is melting. Read the rest of this entry »