Labour improvments to the Climate Change (Scotland) Bill
26/6/2009 Labour Improvements to the Climate Change (Scotland) Bill – e-mail from Sarah Boyak MSP Read the rest of this entry »
China recruits algae to combat climate change.
29/6/2009 Guardian Chinese firm behind ambitious plan to breed microalgae in greenhouse with the potential to absorb carbon emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate war could kill all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age – James Lovelock
29/6/2009 BBC Comment by James Lovelock.Climate war could kill nearly all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age. Read the rest of this entry »
Royal Society scientists attack energy industry
28/6/2009 BBC Britain’s energy systems are no longer fit for purpose, according to leading members of the UK’s best-known scientific academy, the Royal Society. Read the rest of this entry »
$200m Texas ethanol from cattle manure plant fails
23/6/2009 BBC There are some things that don’t change in Hereford, Texas. Read the rest of this entry »
Why do we allow the US to act like a failed state on climate change?
26/6/2009 Guardian Comment by George Monbiot. Read the rest of this entry »
China suspends reforestation plan as food fears grow
24/6/2009 Guardian Food shortage fears have prompted the Chinese government to suspend the reforestation of marginal arable land,… Read the rest of this entry »
A phone call switches on street lights in German village
24/6/2009 Guardian The mobile phone has been turned into a remote control for street lights in a village in central Germany. Read the rest of this entry »
UK climate change policies ‘dangerously optimistic’,
24/6/2009 Guardian A leading UK climate scientist today warned MPs that the government’s
climate change policies are “dangerously optimistic”.
350ppm “carbon the most important number on earth”
24/6/2009 Guardian Weekly Ex-New Yorker writer and now environmental campaigner Bill McKibbens has a simple, but very difficult message. Read the rest of this entry »
Any real effort on climate change will hurt – Comment by George Monbiot
22/6/2009 Guardian What would we be doing now if we took climate change seriously? Read the rest of this entry »
Synthesis Report reviewed – ‘the most important update since the IPCC 2007 report’
22/6/2009 real.climate.org Review of the Synthesis Report. In March the biggest climate conference of the year took place in Copenhagen: 2500 participants from 80 countries, 1400 scientific presentations. Read the rest of this entry »
Is China ‘unfairly seen as an eco-villain’ Comment
16/6/2009 BBC VIEWPOINT by William Bleisch Read the rest of this entry »
01 The big question is now getting into the media.
The big question is now getting into the media. Read the rest of this entry »
1.2 What do we have to do and can we succeed?
What do we have to do? Read the rest of this entry »
03 Can climate change be held in check?
YES, probably we can still prevent the worst outcomes if we take effective action now. Read the rest of this entry »
How much carbon are we emitting: here is the real-time display
BEWARE downloading the widget because you may not know how to get rid of it and it will automatically start everytime you start your computer
Go to: www.know-the-number.com.
The picture of this display on a prominent building in New York is in the Graphics Category
Nice UK climate predictions? The really bad news is missing.
19/6/2009 Editorial Comment The really bad news about the UK climate predictions is Read the rest of this entry »
Why the Mediterranean climate for the UK message is all wrong – George Monbiot
19/6/2009 Guardian We have a job to convince people of the gravity of climate change if the worst that is predicted for the UK is a future of balmy Mediterranean summers. Read the rest of this entry »
Malaria, freak storms and great white sharks: what may lie ahead for the
19/6/2009 Guardian Scientists today produced a detailed map of how climate change is expected to affect every part of the UK over the next century. Read the rest of this entry »
Qs & As about the Met Office UK climate impacts report
19/6/2009 Guardian The UK government and the Met Office have produced a set of projections of how climate change will affect Britain over the next century. Read the rest of this entry »
Met Office predicts how climate will change in UK
19/6/2009 Guardian Floods, droughts and soaring temperatures: Average mean temperature likely to rise by more than 2C across the UK by 2050 Read the rest of this entry »
We have the climate predictions but do we have the political will to
19/6/2009 Guardian Rising sea levels, changing rainfall patterns and increases in temperature
all demand urgent measures.
Here is the UK weather for 2080: floods, droughts and heatwaves
19/6/2009 Guardian The UK government today issued the most detailed assessment yet of how global warming will unfold across the nation. Read the rest of this entry »
21-metre carbon counter display in New York. 3.6 trillion tonnes
19/6/2009 Guardian CO2 warning: 3.6tn tonnes and counting is what New Yorkers leaving Penn station see Read the rest of this entry »
The Reith Lectures 2009 no. 1 A New Citizenship
The Reith lectures 1. Michael Sandel Read the rest of this entry »
MIT predicts 5.2 C hotter this century: Link to the Full Report is in Documents.
Instead of a global temperature rise of 2ºC by the end of the century at current rates of human emissions they now estimate that it will be 5.2ºC. Read the rest of this entry »
Carbon capture plans threaten shutdown of all UK coal-fired power stations.
18/6/2009 Guardian Radical proposals to require existing plants, including Drax, to fit the technology would force their closure, government admits. Read the rest of this entry »
Latest forecast “worse than the government feared”
18/7/2009 BBC UK maps climate change forecasts. Read the rest of this entry »
Solar ‘farms’ in deserts could provide clean electricity
17/6/2009 Guardian Solar ‘farms’ in deserts to provide clean electricity. Read the rest of this entry »
US White House report recommends action on climate change
17/6/2009 Guardian The Obama administration released a long-awaited report on climate change yesterday Read the rest of this entry »
Lack of scientists who understand climate change in government.
5/6/2009 Planning (journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute) Summaryof an article by Peter Allen ‘Science and Government’. Read the rest of this entry »
In just 40 years, the Caribbean’s spectacular branched corals have been flattened.
10/6/2009 New Scientist Research reveals that the corals have been replaced by shorter rival species – and points to climate change as at least partly to blame. Read the rest of this entry »
“ Climate change alarms me, and it should alarm anyone ” Comment by James Lovelock
6/6/2009 BBC Planet Earth is unwell, argues James Lovelock in The Green Room. Read the rest of this entry »
Australians demand climate action – from climate denial to leaders in a few years.
13/6/2009 BBC Thousands of demonstrators have rallied across Australia to demand greater government action to protect the environment from climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Global warming is a hoax – BNP leader
9/6/2009 Guardian Nick Griffin, BNP leader quote. Read the rest of this entry »
The Reith Lectures (1) Markets and Morals – relevant to carbon trading etc BBC Radio 4
9/6/2009 Very relevant to carbon trading etc Read the rest of this entry »
Levy on international air travel could fund climate change fight
8/6/2009 Guardian Britain and other rich countries will be asked to accept a compulsory levy on international flight tickets and shipping fuel to raise billions of dollars to help the world’s poorest countries adapt to combat climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Floating wind turbine launched
8/6/2009 BBC The world’s first floating wind turbine is to be towed out to sea this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
Fostering Sustainable Behaviour: Community Bases, Social Marketing
This website is for marketing sustainable products Read the rest of this entry »
Rainforest is worth more standing than felled – Research shows
6/6/2009 BBC The Indonesian rainforest is worth more standing than felled say researchers. Read the rest of this entry »
More global investment in renewables than fossil fuels this year.
5/6/2009 Guardian Turning point as renewables attract more global investment than fossil fuels. Read the rest of this entry »
Should newspapers stop adverts for high carbon emitting products?
5/6/2009 Guardian Comment by George Monbiot. Newspapers hot off the press, but should they refine their advertising in line with low-carbon companies? Read the rest of this entry »
Imja Himalayan glacier 1950 to 2009
Photograph from 1950 showing deep ice on the glacier. Second photo from same place 2009. Ice covering gone and 1km long lake. See the News List post for 5/6/2009 Ice on Imaja Glacier etc. Click the ’Read more to see the photos. Read the rest of this entry »
Deep ice covering Imja Himalayan glacier in 1950 is now 1 km lake.
5/6/2009 Guardian A very deep layer of ice covered the Imja glacier in the 1950s. Over the next 50 years, small meltwater ponds continued to grow and merge, and by the mid 1970s had formed the Imja lake. Read the rest of this entry »
05 Why believe what science tells us on climate change?
This is not a new idea. Almost every government in the world has signed up to action to stop climate change. It had to be convincing to get that to happen. Read the rest of this entry »
06 How can climate change threatens our survival?
The carbon – mainly coal – is wrecking the climate and that means civilization as we know it has to change very much and very fast or suffer the consequences which are horrific. Read the rest of this entry »
Nobel laureates compare climate crisis to threat from nuclear weapons
29/5/2009 Guardian Prince Charles-hosted symposium says zero carbon economy is ultimate necessity and
calls for urgent cuts in emissions (what is the Royal carbon footprint ?-ed.) Read the rest of this entry »
Food and Agriculture Organisation found that the livestock industry, from farm to fork, was responsible for 18% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission
31/5/2009 Guardian A three-year survey by Greenpeace shows that western demand for beef and leather and an increase in cattle ranching is leading to intensified deforestation in the Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »