Global warming causes 300,000 deaths a year, says Kofi Annan thinktank.
29/5/2009 Guardian Climate change is greatest humanitarian challenge facing the world as heatwaves, floods and forest fires become more severe. Read the rest of this entry »
Carbon Capture diagram see also 29/5/2009 in the News List
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Carbon capture technology tests begin at Longannet power station, Fife
29/5/2009 BBC New carbon capture technology is being tested for the first time in the UK on a working coal-fired power station. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate pressure ‘building on US’
30/5/2009 BBC Climate negotiations are to begin in Bonn with pressure building for the US to deliver deeper emissions cuts. Read the rest of this entry »
Past wealth of offshore marine stocks
26/5/2009 BBC Marine ecosystems are facing a litany of threats, ranging from overfishing to climate change – but the Census of Marine Life is key to mitigating them… Read the rest of this entry »
China’s new faith in solar energy hailed by environmentalists as a
26/5/2009 Guardian Huge investment plan aims to make country a world leader in renewables. Read the rest of this entry »
China puts its faith in solar power with huge renewable energy investment
26/5/2009 Guardian By 2020, Chinese government is committed to raising the share of renewable energy in the energy mix to 6%. Read the rest of this entry »
The human brain is made for environmental complacency – Chris Goodall
20/5/2009 Guardian Comment Most governments in the developed world were elected on platforms that promised aggressive policies on greenhouse gas emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
Brazil floods displace nearly half a million people.
26/5/2009 BBC The Brazilian authorities say almost 408,000 people still cannot return home because of floods that began last month in the north of the country. Read the rest of this entry »
04 How bad are the recent warnings on climate change?
The latest IPCC Report predicts a 2ºC rise in global temperature but the latest scientific evidence says it might be more than twice as high as that. Read the rest of this entry »
Pittock, A.B. Climate Change: The Science, Impacts and Solutions
by Pittock A. Barrie (2nd Edition) 2009 May, Earthscan Books, 360 pages • ISBN 9781844073009 (pbk) £22.95
Doppelt, Bob, The Power of Sustainable Thinking
by Doppelt, Bob 2008 September, Earthscan Books 240 pages ISBN 9781844075959 (hdbk) £16.99. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington Post reports MIT predictions
25/5/2009 Washington Post If an unusually detailed computer simulation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has it right, global warming in this century is on track to be about twice as bad as predicted six years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
New MIT 5.2C predictions – Journal of Climate reference.
23/5/2009 ScienceBlogs.com by Greg Laden -Extract – gives refernece details. Read the rest of this entry »
Without Action, Global Warming Much Higher Than Originally Predict
21/5/2009 Calstart News Cambridge, MA, May 20, 2009 – Without rapid and far-reaching policy action, the Earth will grow twice as hot as predicted just six years ago – and could be even worse. Read the rest of this entry »
Will the USA and China cooperate against climate change?
23/5/2009 Editorial comment. Do you think that public opinion is beginning to swing towards action to stop catastophic climate change? Read the rest of this entry »
6 years ago MIT said 2.4C in 2100 now they say 5.2C in 2100
20/5/2009 Guardian Six years ago the climate modellers at MIT suggested that the median probability was a global temperature rise of 2.4C by 2100 but… Read the rest of this entry »
What should we tell children about climate change? – comment by Leo Hickman
22/5/2009 Guardian G2 ’Why don’t we stop hurting the planet?’ asked a child. Read the rest of this entry »
A greener Germany by Mark Mardell European Editor.
22/5/2009 BBC It’s possibly my imagination, but the air here seems to taste cleaner. Read the rest of this entry »
Coal is the big climate change issue- Film interview with James Hansen
21/5/2009 BBC Report and film and interview with James Hansen. Read the rest of this entry »
Head of UN is hopeful about climate change
20/5/2009 BBC The head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change says he has seen
“encouraging developments” in recent climate change negotiations. Read the rest of this entry »
China and US held secret talks on climate change deal
18/5/2009 Guardian Negotiations began in final months of Bush administration. Read the rest of this entry »
Which ministry is least green? The one that runs climate change
17/5/2009 Observer Whitehall is criticised for its carbon footprint as an energy efficiency report on 267
government offices shows that one in three has lowest rating.
Antarctic WAIS Ice sheet melt threat reassessed at 3.3metres
14/5/2009 BBC The collapse of a major polar ice sheet will not raise global sea levels as much as previous projections suggest, a team of scientists has calculated. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say
13?5/2009 Guardian Senior doctors today published a report warning that climate change is the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century. Read the rest of this entry »
Schmidt, Gavin, Climate Change: Picturing the Science.
by Schmid, Gavin, 2009 Climate Change: Picturing the Science, published byW. W. Norton. Read the rest of this entry »
Government climate change report calls for new institutions to curb global
11/5/2009 Guardian A report commissioned by the British government will call today for an overhaul of global institutions to combat climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
How much sea rise will climate change cause?
6/5/2009 New Scientist – Gaia Vince Read the rest of this entry »
Volcanic shutdown may have led to ’snowball Earth’
9/5/2009 New Scientist A 250-million-year shutdown of volcanic activity which is thought to have occurred early in Earth’s history may be what turned the planet into a glacier-covered snowball. Read the rest of this entry »
Carbon budget set at 1 trillion tonnes
29/4/2009 New Scientist Humanity’s carbon budget set at one trillion tonnes. Read the rest of this entry »
Farmers’ crops keeping US cool
7/5/2009 New Scientist While cities create a warm bubble known as the urban heat island, most farms have an opposite chilling effect. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change displacement has begun – George Monbiot
8/5/2009 Guardian But hardley anyone has noticed. Read the rest of this entry »
Ocean warming affects shrimp populations
7/5/2009 BBC Stocks of northern shrimp, the essential ingredient in the ubiquitous prawn cocktail, could be badly affected if ocean temperatures rise. Read the rest of this entry »
02. What is the basic REALITY about climate change?
We are in danger of wrecking the climate for the whole planet which means wrecking the life-support systems so that civilization collapses into violence, famine and disease. Read the rest of this entry »
China ready for post-Kyoto deal on climate change – Miliband
6/5/2009 Guardian Dramatic reversal in US position under Obama has brought Beijing to the table on emission cuts Read the rest of this entry »
UN Head of Environment ’stunned’ by scale of economic bail-out
7/5/2009 BBC The UN’s head of environment has been left “stunned” by the billions of dollars
pumped into ailing companies following the global financial crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
Critique of ‘cap and trade’ by Jim Hansen
6/5/2009 Extract from e-mailed letter to the Australian government. Read the rest of this entry »
Web providers must limit internet’s carbon footprint, say experts
4/5/2009 Soaring online demand stretching companies’ ability to deliver content as net uses more power and raises costs. Read the rest of this entry »
Ancient tsunami ‘hit New York’ -2,300 years ago
3/5/2009 BBC A huge wave crashed into the New York City region 2,300 years ago, Read the rest of this entry »
Dongtan Eco-City failed project – Fred Pearce
1/5/2009 Guardian Weekly Three years ago, I crossed the world to see it:the site for the world’s fi rst eco-city. Read the rest of this entry »
Dongtan Greenwash – Fred Pearce
1/5/2009 Guardian Weekly Three years ago, I crossed the world to see it:the site for the world’s fi rst eco-city. Read the rest of this entry »
Economic of Climate Change
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Ethics of Climate Change
Ethics of Climate Change Read the rest of this entry »
UK government is missing its own carbon cut targets
1/4/2009 Guardian UK government departments will not meet carbon cuts target of 12.5% by 2012 Read the rest of this entry »
In praise of local activists = by Richard Goldman
20/4/2009 BBC Richard Goldman, founder of the “green Nobel prize”, says it is vital to
recognise the efforts of grassroots activists. Read the rest of this entry »
In search of rainforests’ El Dorado – Comment by Andrew Mitchell
28/4/2009 BBC The world’s tropical forests face the double challenge of climate change and
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