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Human activity is driving Earth’s ’sixth great extinction event’

29/7/2009 Guardian  ’Population growth, pollution and invasive species are having a disastrous effect on species in the southern hemisphere, a major review by conservationists warns. Read the rest of this entry »

Retreating glaciers in Andes (global warming) will cut off water supply to La Paz

29/7/2009 BBC Marcos Choque is a 67-year-old Aymara Indian with holes in his trousers and battered sandals. Read the rest of this entry »

World will warm 150% faster than predicted in next five years, study warns

29/7/2009 Guardian  New estimate based on the forthcoming upturn in solar activity and El Niño southern oscillation cycles is expected to silence global warming sceptics. Read the rest of this entry »

Attitude change in the USA – Yale Project on Climate Change.

29/7/2009  Interview on Itunes U with the Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change, Anthony  Leiserowitz, Read the rest of this entry »

China Climate change pact ‘needs’ China – UN Secretary General

24/7/2009 BBC  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said there can be no global climate change deal without China’s support. Read the rest of this entry »

2100 sea rise now estimated 1.5 metres US Geological Survey

25/7/2009 GuardianThe release of America’s spy satellite images of Arctic sea ice provides unexpected, dramatic new evidence about the dangers of global warming. Read the rest of this entry »

Revealed 2006 sat pictures Bush tried to hide

25/7/2009 Observer Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide. Read the rest of this entry »

George Marshall on denial YouTube 5 min video

George Marshall lecture on denial

Assessing Greenland’s ice loss

24/7/2009 BBC This contains two small jpg pictures. Read the rest of this entry »

Climate Outreach Information Network COIN George Marshall

Go to: http://coinet.org.uk/

Jonathon Porritt criticises PM over climate change.

25/7/2009 BBC  PM criticised over climate change. Read the rest of this entry »

Clouds in climate ‘vicious cycle’ – possible feedback causing warming.

24/7/2009 BBC  Clouds over the North-East Pacific dissipate as the ocean warms, according to a study in the journal Science. Read the rest of this entry »

Why people don’t act on climate change – Comment

23/7/2009 New Scientist Comment. At a recent dinner at the University of Oxford, a senior researcher in atmospheric physics was telling me about his coming holiday in Thailand. Read the rest of this entry »

Colorado reservoirs empty by 2050?

22/7/2 Is the American West about to run dry? Read the rest of this entry »

We live in the Anthropocene – on track to end human history.

23/7/2009 Guardian Comment by Simon Lewis We live in epoch-making times. I mean this literally, rather than as a tool to dramatise the global economic crisis or latest political scandal. Read the rest of this entry »

Aubrey Meyer video on Contract and Convergence. 16 mins wmv

Aubrey Meyer’s book on Contract and Convergence is in the BOOK LIST

Go to: http://www.tangentfilms.com/WTCApromo.wmv

Europe’s biggest coal powered carbon polluter

23/7/2009 Guardian Poland’s huge coal-fired power station Elektrownia Belchatow, which has been named as the biggest single polluter in the EU. Read the rest of this entry »

CO2 – Europe’s biggest coal powered 30million tonnes carbon emitter

23/7/2009 Guardian Biggest coal fired emitter in Europe – 30 million tonnes/ year Read the rest of this entry »

Temperature – Global world temperature rise.

Global temperature – at least another 0.5°C is inevitable because of emissions already in the atmosphere. Read the rest of this entry »

As Earth becomes hotter and public awareness rises, scientists have dismissed “out-of-date” prior predictions for climate change.

15/7/2009 Guardian Weekly As Earth becomes hotter and public awareness rises, scientists have dismissed “out-of-date” prior predictions for climate change. Read the rest of this entry »

Planes ’should fly on biofuels’ according to Policy Exchange think-tank BUT ….

22/7/2009 BBC A crop area the size of the USA would be needed to biofuel all the world’s cars Read the rest of this entry »

One more giant leap for a greener Britain – Ed Miliband comment

21/7/2009 Guardian Forty years since the Eagle landed on the moon, the idea of a new Apollo project has become shorthand for how we should tackle climate change: Read the rest of this entry »

Hansen pdp file ‘Strategies to Address Global Warming’

James Hansen’s article of ‘Strategies to Address Global Warming (148 kB pdf file with graphics) Read the rest of this entry »

Hot air carbon credits will not make any real emissions cuts – new analysis

20/7/2009 Guardian The system of trading carbon emissions at the heart of the ambitious low-carbon plan announced by the government last week is seriously flawed Read the rest of this entry »

UN tackles ‘climate harm’ ships UN tackles ‘climate harm’ ships

16/7/2009 BBC The United Nations is discussing rules to cut the soaring emission of greenhouse gases from shipping. Read the rest of this entry »

Climate pieces start to stack up by Fred Pearce.

18/7/2009 New Scientist It’s like a giant game of Jenga. One by one, pieces of our green future are stacking up, some more precariously than others. Read the rest of this entry »

Start of El Niño brings climate change warning

17/7/2009 Guardian Weekly Climate scientists have warned of wild weather in the year ahead as the start of the El Niño phenomenon exacerbates global warming. Read the rest of this entry »

India’s vast farming economy is on the verge of crisis.

17/7/2009 Guardian WeeklyIt was a little after 8pm when the water started flowing through the pipe running beneath the dirt streets of Bhopal’sSanjay Nagar slum. Read the rest of this entry »

Arctic Ocean’s permanent ice has thinned 40% since 2004

17/7/2009 Guardian Weekly The Arctic Ocean’s permanent blanket of ice around the North Pole has thinned by more than 40% since 2004, Read the rest of this entry »

Sea levels could rise faster along the US east coast than in any other densely populated part of the world

17/7/2009 Guardian Weekly Sea levels could rise faster along the US east coast than in any other densely populated part of the world, Read the rest of this entry »

Ecotowns and turbines are a political slap in the face of the landscape – Comment by Simon jenkins

17/7/2009 Guardian The British government is to permit the desecration of upland and coastal Britain in the hope that this will shift the climatic balance of Planet Earth. Read the rest of this entry »

Mark Lynas on Miliband’s climate plans

15/7/2009 Guardian For the last two years the “transition movement” has been a grassroots effort by thousands of ordinary people determined to begin the transformation towards a low-carbon lifestyle. Today it became government policy. Read the rest of this entry »

Guardian Editorial on Miliband “Everything must change but nothing must change”

16/7/2009 Guardian Everything must change and yet nothing must change, Ed Miliband insisted yesterday as he set out a plan to make Britain a low-carbon society by 2020, while leaving most aspects of modern life as they are. Read the rest of this entry »

EU turns to music channel MTV to put climate on youth agenda

16/7/2009 Guardian The EU is using music channel MTV to warn teenagers about climate change. Read the rest of this entry »

Miliband plans control of allocation of electricity grid connections

16/7/2009 Guardian Natural power: Britain has most of Europe’s wave and tidal energy resources yet
it provides next to no electricity at present. Read the rest of this entry »

Ashton Hayes, Cheshire cuts emissions by 23%

15/7/2009 BBC The government has announced what it describes as radical plans to cut our emissions. Read the rest of this entry »

Chile faces climate change challenge

23/5/200 9 BBC Chile has enjoyed one of the most dynamic economies in Latin America in recent
years, largely based on a booming export sector. Read the rest of this entry »

Government plans for carbon cuts (apparently nobody needs to change their lifestyles)

15/7/2009 BBC A huge expansion of wind power, home insulation and “smart” electricity meters are among measures being planned to build the UK’s low carbon future. Read the rest of this entry »

Miliband – 80% promises but 0% action to cut airline emissions.

14/7/2009 Guardian Mass air travel will be preserved even in a low-carbon Britain because the government will find deeper emissions cuts in other areas, the climate change secretary Ed Miliband said today. Read the rest of this entry »

Strategies by James Hansen pdf document

14/7/2009  realcimate.org   James Hansen’s pdf document ‘Strategies’ Read the rest of this entry »

The rich can relax. We just need the poor world to cut emissions. By 125% – Goerge Monbiot

14/7/2009 Guardian  The rich can relax. We just need the poor world to cut emissions. By 125%.  Comment by George Monbiot. Read the rest of this entry »

Climate change ‘will cause civilisation to collapse’ – Millenium Project report.

12/7/2009 Independent  on Sunday Authoritative new study sets out a grim vision of shortages and violence – but amid all the gloom, there is some hope too. Read the rest of this entry »

Can an artist’s wheatfield in Hackney switch the mood on climate change? – Madeleine Bunting

12/7/2009 Guardian Something bizarre is happening in the area of Dalston, in London’s Hackney, where I live. Read the rest of this entry »

Climate denial ‘astroturfers’ should stop hiding behind pseudonyms – Monbiot

8/7/2009 Guardian  To stop oil, coal and electricity companies inserting their views into the media by stealth, we need to make blog commenters accountable.  Comment by George Monbiot. Read the rest of this entry »

Planet earth

Planet earth from space showing Africa/ Middle East Read the rest of this entry »

Plans to plant 24million trees in Ghana to absorb carbon

9/7/2009 BBC Ambitious plans to grow 24 million trees to soak up carbon dioxide and restore the rainforest have got underway in Ghana. Read the rest of this entry »

Exxon-Mobil (Esso) Oil firm ‘funds climate deniers’

9/7/2009 Guardian Weekly  The world’s largest oil company is continuing to fund lobby groups that question global warming, despite a pledge to cut support for climate change denial, an analysis has found. Read the rest of this entry »

What two degrees Celsius global warming would mean for human survival.

8/7/2009 realclimate.org website. The countries of the G8 today approved a target of 2° C rise in global average temperature above the natural, preanthropogenic climate, that they resolve should be avoided. Read the rest of this entry »

Greenpeace activists occupy coal power stations in Italy.

9/7/2009 Greenpeace website Activists occupy coal power stations in Itally. Read the rest of this entry »

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is already above the level which condemns coral reefs to extinction

8/7/2009 Guardian David Attenborough joined scientists today to warn that Read the rest of this entry »

Does climate change cloud the other environmental issues? – Comment

3/7/2009 BBC Does climate cloud the bigger picture?  Comment by Richard Black Read the rest of this entry »

Tipping Point – Art and Climate Change

6/7/2009 This website is for artists and creative people in general to harness their skill to persuade people to face the reality of climate change and act accordingly.

Go to: http://www.tippingpoint.org.uk/

Oxfam report – Poor face more hunger as climate change leads to crop failures.

6/7/2009 Guardian  Seasons appear to have shrunk in variety. Storms and heavier rains more common. Read the rest of this entry »

300,000 people flee torrential floods in China

5/7/2009 BBC Days of torrential rains in southern and central China have forced more than
300,000 people to flee their homes,.. Read the rest of this entry »

Feedback – a loud soundtrack but vivid graphics on climate change

James Hansen video clip made 2 weeks ago – VERY IMPORTANT

‘Home’ film trailer

‘Home’ video click will play sound track – for film go to YouTube

What you can do – the planet is in your hands

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Glacial retreat

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British public could invest their savings in the UK’s renewable

4/7/2009 Guardian …under ambitious plans to be discussed this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

Fears for the world’s poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food

3/7/2009 Guardian  UN sounds warning after 30m hectares bought up. Read the rest of this entry »

Going, going.. Greenland ice is going faster

3/7/2009 New Scientist Jakobshavn has doubled its speed in the past 15 years, draining increasing amounts of ice from the Greenland ice sheet into the ocean, Read the rest of this entry »