Solar panel costs ’set to fall’
30/11/2009 BBC The cost of installing and owning solar panels will fall even faster than expected according to new research. Read the rest of this entry »
Australian aims to breed ‘green’ sheep that burp less
29/11/2009 BBC Australian scientists have said they are hoping to breed sheep that burp less as part of efforts to tackle climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Nepal cabinet to meet on Mount Everest to highlight the threat global warming poses to glaciers.
29/11/2009 BBC On 4 December prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and those politicians physically fit enough will ascend 17,192ft (5,250m) to base camp. Read the rest of this entry »
Hansen, James Storms of my Grandchildren 2009
by Jamnes Hansen, Storms of my Grandchildren, 2009 ISBN-10: 1408807459 ISBN-13: 978-1408807453 Hbk £16.95 Pbk 320pp release Dec 2009 320 pp.
Is there any real chance of averting the climate crisis – by James Hansen
29/11/2009 The Observer Nasa’s James Hansen was the first to point out the perils of climate change to the US Congress. Read the rest of this entry »
Commonwealth leaders back climate change fund
28/11/2009 BBC Commonwealth leaders have backed a multi-billion-dollar plan to help developing nations to deal with climate change and cut greenhouse gases. Read the rest of this entry »
Where is the data – the e-mail hackers say they want?
27/11/2009 realclimate.org Much of the discussion in recent days has been motivated by the idea that climate science is somehow unfairly restricting access to raw data upon which scientific conclusions are based. Read the rest of this entry »
This was the week that saw the heavyweights come to town – Comment on Copenhagen by Richard Black
The EU had said it, UN climate convention chief Yvo de Boer had said it: without something firm on the table from China and US, together responsible for about 40% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions Read the rest of this entry »
Carbon offset schemes not working, says holiday firm
28/11/2009 BBC Consumer carbon offset schemes do not lead people to change their behaviour, the first holiday firm to run such a scheme has argued. Read the rest of this entry »
Commonwealth summit in Trinidad targets climate change
27/11/2009 BBC Commonwealth leaders have begun meeting in Trinidad with climate change high on the agenda in the last major summit before the Copenhagen climate talks. Read the rest of this entry »
African conflicts spurred by warming
27/11/2009 New Scientist Magazine issue 2736. Africa is poised to experience a surge in civil wars, causing nearly 400,000 additional battle deaths by 2030 – all as a direct result of rising temperatures. Read the rest of this entry »
Eating less meat helps the planet – and your heart – Lancet
27/11/2009 New Scientist Magazine issue 2736. Skip that third helping of roast beef, save the planet and do your heart a favour at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »
World’s last bastion of stable ice – East Antarctica is now thawing
27/11/2009 New Scientist We thought it was one of the Earth’s last remaining regions of stable ice. Read the rest of this entry »
Nuclear fuel: are we heading for a uranium crunch?
27/11/2009 New Scientist Magazine issue 2736 AS THE world prepares for the largest investment in nuclear power in decades, owners of uranium mines last week raised the prospect of fuel shortages. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate ‘diagnosis’ is stark message for politicians – international team fo climate scientists
27/11/2009 New Scientist It may sound like a thriller, but The Copenhagen Diagnosis is not an enjoyable read. Read the rest of this entry »
Designs for new UK nuclear reactors are unsafe, claims Britain’s main safety regulator
27/11/2009 Guardian Regulators in France, Finland and Britain have asked earlier this year French nuclear engineering specialist Areva SA to make improvements to the design of a new generation of reactors, known as EPR. Read the rest of this entry »
Power of osmosis used to deliver eco-friendly energy – but not efficiently yet
25/11/2009 Guardian The world’s first osmotic power prototype at Tofte, one hour south of Oslo, Norway. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Copenhagen Diagnosis’ offers a grim update to the IPCC’s climate science
27/11/2009 Guardian The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received a kick in the pants today from members who say the climate situation is much worse than the IPCC has so far reported. Read the rest of this entry »
Clark, Duncan Rough Guide to Green Living
Clark, Duncan Rough Guide to Green Living Nov 2009
Top 10 green living myths by Duncan Clark
27/11/2009 Guardian There is more to being green than driving a Prius and buying local produce. Read the rest of this entry »
This year ‘in top five warmest’ since records began 150 years ago
27/11/2009 BBC This year will be one of the top five warmest years globally since records began 150 years ago, according to figures compiled by the Met Office. Read the rest of this entry »
Past “little ice age” and “medieval warm period” climate anomalies explained
27/11/2009 BBC Unusually warm and cold periods in Earth’s pre-industrial climate history are linked to how the oceans responded to temperature changes Read the rest of this entry »
Battle against climate change begins at home
26/11/2009 Guardian An imaging camera capturing the heat loss of a typical house. Read the rest of this entry »
Arms manufacturer joins 10:10 campaign
26/11/2009 Guardian Adding a green sheen to a business is a common strategy for a company seeking to impress its customers, but what if that company makes missiles? Read the rest of this entry »
China completes the climate circle – comment by Richard Black
26/11/2009 BBC A fair bit of the doubt and confusion surrounding next month’s UN climate summit has suddenly cleared, with the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas emitters – the US and China – announcing pledges on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
China unveils emissions targets ahead of Copenhagen
26/11/2009 BBC The Copenhagen talks aim to seek a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change: What price will future generations pay? by David Puttnam
25/11/2009 BBC Climate change poses a huge barrier to a fulfilling future, argues Lord Puttnam, an ambassador for Unicef UK. In this week’s Green Room, he asks what price children will have to pay for three or four carbon-happy generations? Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change policies ‘improve health’
25/11/2009 BBC Cutting emissions to mitigate climate change will also make people healthier, according to research. Read the rest of this entry »
Obama will go to Copenhagen and pledge carbon emissions cuts in stages beginning with 17% by 2020
25/11/2009 BBC News US President Barack Obama is to pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the US in several stages, beginning with a 17% cut by 2020, the White House has said. Read the rest of this entry »
Plan to boost UK woodland to tackle climate change
25/11/2009 BBC Millions of trees should be planted to cover an extra 4% of the UK in woodland in order to tackle climate change, Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change: Rising sea levels hit Maputo, Rotterdam
25.11.2009 BBC When people talk about the impact of rising sea levels, they often think of small island states that risk being submerged if global warming continues unchecked. Read the rest of this entry »
2009 This year ‘in top five warmest’ since record began 150 years ago.
24/11/2009 BBC This year will be one of the top five warmest years globally since records began 150 years ago, according to figures compiled by the Met Office. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate has been a major driver of armed conflict in Africa, research shows
24/11/2009 BBC Climate has been a major driver of armed conflict in Africa, research shows Read the rest of this entry »
‘Global Warming Time Bomb: Actions Needed to Avert Disaster’ by James Hansen to Club of Rome Global Assembly Amsterdam
’Global Warming Time Bomb: Actions Needed to Avert Disaster’ by James Hansen 26 October 2009 to the Club of Rome Global Assembly 2009, Muzickgebouw aan ‘t ij/Harbour Music Hall, Amsterdam, Netherlands Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change – facts for Copenhagen
24/11/2009 BBC This is a text version – for the graphics go to the website at the end. Read the rest of this entry »
Global warming science alarming, say climate experts
24/11/2009 BBC Three UK groups studying climate change have issued a strong statement about the dangers of failing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases across the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Acid oceans leave fish at more risk from predators
23/11/2009 BBC Ocean acidification could cause fish to become “fatally attracted” to their predators, according to scientists. Read the rest of this entry »
US will announce target for cutting carbon emissions before Copenhagen summit
23/11/2009 BBC The US will announce a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions before next month’s UN climate summit, according to a White House official. Read the rest of this entry »
Global body needed to direct green technology, G77 says
23/11/2009 Guardian A green technology body with powers to direct a worldwide transition away from a high-carbon economy is needed Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change sceptics and lobbyists put world at risk, says top adviser
23/11/2009 Guardian Professor Bob Watson, chief scientists at the department for environment and rural affairs. Read the rest of this entry »
East Antarctica ‘is losing ice’
23/11/2009 BBC The East Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass for the last three years, according to an analysis of data from a gravity-measuring satellite mission. Read the rest of this entry »
Biodiversity loss is Earth’s ‘immense and hidden’ tragedy, Darwin’s ‘natural heir’ warns
21/11/2009 Guardian The diversity of life on Earth is undergoing an “immense and hidden” tragedy that requires the scale of global response now being deployed to tackle climate
change, according to one of the world’s most eminent biologists. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate crunch at Copenhagen
21/11/2009 Guardian It’s breakfast time in the biggest of Copenhagen’s Scandic hotels. Read the rest of this entry »
Four ways to feed the 9billion ie double food production by 2050
18/11/ 2009 New Scientist Magazine issue 2735. IT IS humanity’s oldest enemy. Read the rest of this entry »
World on track for 6 degrees of extra heat – “catestrophic for society and the environment
18/11/ 2009 New Scientist The world is on track to warm by a whopping 6 °C by the end of this century, unless steps are taken immediately to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to research published yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Greenland ice loss behind a sixth of sea-level rise
18/11/2009 New Scientist Magazine issue 2735.GREENLAND lost 1500 cubic kilometres of ice between 2000 and 2008, making it responsible for one-sixth of global sea-level rise. Read the rest of this entry »
How reputation could save the Earth by David Rand and Martin Nowak
15/11/2009 New Scientist Magazine issue 2734. HAVE you ever noticed a friend or neighbour driving a new hybrid car and felt pressure to trade in your gas guzzler? Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change gives ancient trees growth spurt
16/11/2009 New Scientist Rising temperatures are causing some of the oldest trees on Earth to grow faster, new research suggests. Read the rest of this entry »
Copenhagem – how the Danes will salvage a deal
17/11/2009 New Scientist It’s official: the organisers of the Copenhagen climate conference conceded last weekend that it cannot deliver a final, legally binding deal. Read the rest of this entry »
Greenpeace chief urges Obama to use ‘political capital’ to agree climate deal
19/11/2009 Guardian Kumi Naidoo is a seasoned human rights activist who started as international executive director of Greenpeace this week. Read the rest of this entry »
Newcastle is the ‘greenest’ British city
19/11/2009 BBC Newcastle upon Tyne has been named as Britain’s greenest city in a think tank’s annual study. Read the rest of this entry »
How 7.4% of Americans can block humanity’s efforts to save itself
18/11/2009 Guardian A couple weeks ago I wrote a piece on what’s really killing climate legislation: Read the rest of this entry »
Apocalypse fatigue: Losing the public on climate change
18/11/2009 Guardian Even as the climate science becomes more definitive, polls show that public concern in the US about global warming has been declining. Read the rest of this entry »
Barack Obama and Hu Jintao aim to agree greenhouse gas targets
18/11/2009 Guardian The US and China, the world’s two biggest polluters, today said they aimed to set targets for easing greenhouse gas emissions next month, potentially breathing new life into the flagging Copenhagen climate negotiations. Read the rest of this entry »
UN environment chief Achim Steiner warns of high cost of climate delays
18/11/2009 Guardian • Plea for world leaders to avoid Copenhagen failure Read the rest of this entry »
Earth ‘heading for 6C’ of warming – a new analysis says.
18/11/2009 BBC Average global temperatures are on course to rise by up to 6C without urgent action to curb CO2 emissions, the lead author of a new analysis says. Read the rest of this entry »
Antarctic ice retreat creates new CO2 store but minuscule effect
18/11/2009 BBC Retreating ice in Antarctic has allowed tiny aquatic plants to flourish and absorb 3.5 million tonnes of carbon from the ocean and atmosphere annually. Read the rest of this entry »
Scotland’s Highlands and Islands braced for climate change
18/11/2009 BBC When you talk to people in South Uist about climate change, many already know what may be in store for them. Read the rest of this entry »
Poor women ‘bear climate burden’ Poor women ‘bear climate burden’
18/11/2009 BBC Women in developing countries will be the most vulnerable to climate change, a report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has warned. Read the rest of this entry »
UN environment chief Achim Steiner warns of high cost of climate delays
17/11/2009 Guardian The likely delays in sealing a global deal to fight climate change would have a “human cost”, and increase the risks of great harm to the planet and the economic costs of dealing with it, the head of the UN environment programme said today. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate: A question of justice by Kumi Naidoo
17/11/2009 BBC This week, lifelong human rights activist Kumi Naidoo takes over as international executive director of Greenpeace. Read the rest of this entry »
Danish PM says there must be firm pledges at Copenhagen
17/11/2009 BBC Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen has said there must be firm pledges on greenhouse gas reductions at December’s climate talks in Copenhagen. Read the rest of this entry »
16/11/2009 Guardian China’s president, Hu Jintao, meets US President Barack Obama tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry »
The two faces of China’s giant coal industry
16/11/2009 Guardian Jonathan Watts reports from Ordos, Inner Mongolia, on a project that could eventually clean up the planet’s fastest growing source of greenhouse gases. Read the rest of this entry »
Trees in far north provide biggest climate benefit
13/11/2009 New Scientist CHAMPIONS of carbon offsetting may have been barking up the wrong tree. Read the rest of this entry »
Innovation: Can technology persuade us to save energy?
6/11/2009 If technology is to save us from climate change, it has some tough challenges to master: taming wave, wind and sun, cheaply scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air or mastering fusion. Read the rest of this entry »
12,800 years ago – Mini ice age – took hold of Europe in months
14/11/2009 New Scientist JUST months – that’s how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. Read the rest of this entry »
Global warming is not our fault, say most voters in Times poll
14/11/2009 Times Less than half the population believes that human activity is to blame for global warming, according to an exclusive poll for The Times. Read the rest of this entry »
The Seattle activists’ coming of age in Copenhagen will be very disobedient – Comment by Naomi Klein
13/11/2009 Guardian| The climate conference will witness a new maturity for the movement that ignited a decade ago. Read the rest of this entry »
Oil running out far faster than predicted: report by IEA
13/11/2009 Guardian A leading academic institute has urged European governments to review global oil supplies for themselves because of the “politicisation” of the International Energy Agency’s figures. Read the rest of this entry »
Britain’s renewable energy targets are ‘physically impossible’, says study
13/11/2009 Guardian It will be physically impossible for the UK to meet its renewable energy targets in both the short and long term, according to a group of engineering experts. Read the rest of this entry »
UK climate targets ‘unachievable’ – according to a new analysis
13/11/2009 BBC UK government plans to make carbon emission cuts of 80% by 2050 are physically impossible to achieve, according to a new analysis. Read the rest of this entry »
Greenland ice loss ‘accelerating’ -study confirms
13/11/2009 BBC The Greenland ice sheet is losing its mass faster than in previous years and making an increasing contribution to sea level rise, a study has confirmed. Read the rest of this entry »
The rate of deforestation in the Amazon has dropped by 45%
13/11/2009 BBC …. and is the lowest on record since monitoring began 21 years ago, Brazil’s government says. Read the rest of this entry »
Gore, Al, 2009 ‘Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis’
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The fallacy of climate activism by Adam Sacks
23/8/2009 In the 20 years since we climate activists began our work in earnest, the state of the climate has become dramatically worse, and the change is accelerating—this despite all of our best efforts. Read the rest of this entry »
Copenhagen climate talks: Time to change, no time to waste
11/11/2009 Guardian Next month, 192 countries will meet to set targets on carbon emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
Poor nations vow low-carbon path by Richard Black
11/11/2009 BBC Poor countries considered vulnerable to climate change have pledged to embark on moves to a low-carbon future, and challenge richer states to match them. Read the rest of this entry »
1,300 people at New Economics Foundation’s Interdependence Conference
11/11/2009 nef’s event last month, The Bigger Picture: Festival of Interdependence, drew over 1,300 people to London’s South Bank Read the rest of this entry »
EU biofuel rules likely to cause more harm than good
11/11/2009 Dudley Curtis, Communications Manager, Transport & Environment. Read the rest of this entry »
IPCC chairman – India is ‘arrogant’ to deny global warming link to melting glaciers
10/11/2009 Guardian IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri accuses Indian environment ministry of ‘arrogance’ for its report claiming there is no evidence that climate change has shrunk Himalayan glaciers. Read the rest of this entry »
Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower
10/11/2009 Guardian The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency Read the rest of this entry »
How many people think Climate Change is a serious problem?
9/11/2009 BBC These figures are from the table at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8345343.stm Read the rest of this entry »
Where countries stand on Copenhagen – November 2009
9/11/2009 BBC 1. There are just over four weeks to go before the Copenhagen conference intended to agree a new international framework for controlling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
UK to embrace nuclear power generation – Miliband
9/11/2009 BBC Ed Miliband: “I think it’s right that we go ahead with this” Read the rest of this entry »
There are urgent parallels between the fall of Communism and the fight to stop climate change
9/11/2009 Times The German people, and the whole world alongside them, are today celebrating a landmark date in history: the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Read the rest of this entry »
Maldives anger at climate inertia
9/11/2009 BBC The president of the Maldives has strongly criticised the world’s rich countries for doing too little to stem climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Urgent parallels between the fall of Communism and the fight to stop climate
9/11/2009 Times The German people, and the whole world alongside them, are today celebrating a landmark date in history: the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Read the rest of this entry »
Business Scheme ‘can cut extra emissions’ Scheme ‘can cut extra emissions’
8/11/2009 BBC A new business scheme could slash energy bills and cut carbon emissions by 50% more than anticipated, a study by the Environment Agency will claim. Read the rest of this entry »
British climate change campaigners ride The Wave -5th Deecmeber 2009
6/11/2009 Guardian Thousands of protesters called on the government to combat climate change during National Climate Change March, December 6, 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
We cannot change the world by changing our buying habits = George Monbiot
6/11/2009 Guardian Small actions allow people to overlook the bigger ones and still claim they are being environmentally responsible. Read the rest of this entry »
Civil unrest has a role in stopping climate change, says Gore
6/11/2009 Guardian EnvironmentCopenhagen climate change conference 2009 Civil unrest has a role in stopping climate change, says Gore. Read the rest of this entry »
The blame game at the UN climate negotiations in Barcelona.- Richard Black
It’s a story that’s been coming for the last few months; now that it’s being written, the first cards of the blame game are being played. Read the rest of this entry »
Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior visits London and Edinburgh
5/11/2009 E-mail Exciting news! We’ve just heard that our flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, will be visiting the UK in a few weeks’ time. Read the rest of this entry »
No global climate change treaty likely for up to a year, negotiators admit
5/11/2009 Guardian (Reuters) World’s key industrialised nations say they have abandoned hope of legally binding deal at Copenhagen. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s no need – or desire – for a life where we are cold, hungry and in the dark – Tiffany Jenkins.
29/11/2009 Scotsman Vegetarianism won’t save the Earth, but there must be other things we could do. Writes Tiffany Jenkins Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change ministry signs up to 10:10 campaign
5/11/2009 Guardian The 10:10 Environmental Campaign launch at the Turbine Gallery at the Tate Modern. Read the rest of this entry »