Copenhagen Climate funds lack clarity – Oxfam Report
31/5/2010 BBCRichard Black The international development charity Oxfam has a new report out asking some fundamental questions about climate finance. Read the rest of this entry »
Presence of world leaders ‘paralysed’ Copenhagen climate summit, UN letter claims
31/5/2010 Guardian A leaked letter from the United Nations’ climate chief suggests the Copenhagen climate summit failed because the presence of 130 world leaders paralysed decision-making Read the rest of this entry »
Blame the volcano trouble on sun and global warming
19/4/2010 New Scientist Altered weather patterns may have made the disruption caused by volcanic ash from Iceland worse Read the rest of this entry »
Did early hunters cause climate change?
29/5/2010 New Scientist IT’S not just for the last century that humans have been messing up the climate. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Royal Society under fire on climate change – Roger Harrabin.
29/5/2010 BBC Most scientists agree CO2 has warmed Earth over and above natural fluctuations. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Government’s chief scientific adviser hits out at climate sceptics
29/5/2010 Guardian Professor John Beddington, the government’s chief scientific adviser – appointed by Gordon Brown in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
Ian McEwan collects award for novel that tackles climate change
29/5/2010 Guardian The environment might be the hottest topic at Hay this weekend, Read the rest of this entry »
The history of ice on Earth
27/5/2010 New Scientist Primitive humans, clad in animal skins, trekking across vast expanses of ice in a desperate search to find food. Read the rest of this entry »
Smaret switches to cut emissions from the lights in wasteful offices
27/5/2010 New Scientist Most people instinctively turn off the light as they leave a room at home. Read the rest of this entry »
Sailing ships could harvest fuel from the oceans
27/5/2010 New Scientist A fleet of sailing ships could harvest energy from the wind blowing over the vast tracts of ocean too far from the shore for wind turbines, a scheme unveiled last month claims. Read the rest of this entry »
Just a little ray of sunshine ended ice ages by Jonathan Leake
23/5/2010 Sunday Times VAST sheets of ice that threatened to freeze much of the Earth may have been turned back by tiny changes in the level of sunlight, scientists have found. Read the rest of this entry »
El Niño could make 2010 the hottest year ever by Jonathan Leake
23/5/2010 Sunday Times CLIMATE scientists have warned that 2010 could turn out to be the warmest year in recorded history. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Extreme droughts to be ‘more common’
28/5/2010 Independent Britain is heading for water shortages and crop failures as extreme droughts like that of 1976 become more frequent, experts have warned. Read the rest of this entry »
The real cost of cheap oil by John Vidal
28/5/2010 Guardian Big Oil is holding its breath. Read the rest of this entry »
EU carbon trading scheme failing to cut pollution, campaigners warn
28/5/2010 Guardian The EU emissions trading scheme risks being rendered irrelevant, warn campaigners Sandbag. Read the rest of this entry »
Scottish parliament under pressure over emissions manifesto pledge
28/5/2010 Guardian Scottish parliament is today under pressure over emissions manifesto pledge. Read the rest of this entry »
Countries agree to spend big to save world’s forests
28/5/2010 Guardian Rich and poor countries today agreed on guidelines for releasing aid to save forests, in the first concrete sign of global action on climate change since Copenhagen. Read the rest of this entry »
UK’s Royal Society is reviewing its public statements on climate change
28/5/2010 BBC There is debate over “feedback” effects on the climate. Read the rest of this entry »
US predicts hurricane season may be worst on record.
27/5/2010 BBC Hurricane Ike left a trail of destruction in the Caribbean in 2008As Read the rest of this entry »
Norway hopes to unlock climate cash to fight tropical deforestation
27/5/2010 Guardian Norway hopes to boost aid to fight tropical deforestation at a conference tomorrow, and to set in motion a partnership to unlock cash pledged at the Copenhagen summit to help slow climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
EU stops short of recommending 30% cut in emissions by 2020
27/5/2010 Guardian The European commission today reopened the debate on whether Europe should volunteer to cut its carbon emissions further, but stopped short of recommending
such a move. Read the rest of this entry »
EU climate targets – The Times’ ‘exclusive’ is gibberish by George Monbiot
27/5/2010 Guardian The Times falsely reports that the EU will have the most ambitious emissions targets in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Scottish Parliament may reject carbon emissions targets
27/5/2010 BBC MSPs could reject Scottish government emissions target. Read the rest of this entry »
Europe debates climate ‘ambition’ by Richard Black
26/5/2010 BBC Connie Hedegaard, the EU’s Climate Commissioner, is seeking to open a debate on whether the bloc should adopt a tougher target than it already has for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
Our sixth great extinction -Species are vanishing quicker than at any point in the last 65 million years
26/5/2010 Independent One more step in what scientists are increasingly referring to as the Sixth Great Extinction is announced today: the disappearance of yet another bird species. Read the rest of this entry »
Global warming ‘makes Everest harder to climb’
26/5/2010 Guuardian A Nepalese sherpa who climbed Mount Everest for a record 20th time on Saturday said yesterday that the melting of glacier ice along its slopes by global warming is making it increasingly difficult to climb the peak. Read the rest of this entry »
Saving the planet means more pleasure, says ecologist Gary Nabhan
26/5/2010 Guuardian More biodiversity in food crops is better for the environment and means more pleasure for us, says US ecologist Gary Nabhan. Read the rest of this entry »
UK government cuts £250m from Environment and Energy and Climate Change
26/5/2010 Guardian Green services face axe in coalition savings plan. Read the rest of this entry »
India’s carbon emissions more than doubled since 1994
26/5/2010 Guardian India discloses carbon emissions for first time in more than decade. Read the rest of this entry »
China puts the eco back in economy
26/5/2010 Guardian Amid all the doom and gloom during the past week about the global loss of biodiversity, there have been a couple of potentially positive steps forward by the usual villain of the piece: China. Read the rest of this entry »
London Heathrow’s third runway has been stopped but the struggle to stop airport expansion spreads to regions
26/5/2010 Guardian On the face of it, yesterday was a very good day for campaigners fighting UK airport expansion. Read the rest of this entry »
Polar bears face ‘tipping point’ due to climate change
26/5/2010 BBC Climate change will trigger a dramatic and sudden decline in the number of polar bears, a new study has concluded. Read the rest of this entry »
UK plans for new runways at Heathrow and Stansted are withdrawn following gig protests
24/5/2010 Independent The airport operator BAA bowed to the inevitable yesterday and formally announced it was abandoning plans for new runways at Heathrow and Stansted. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Recession helps meet carbon targets but still on course to fail 2020 target.
24/5/2010 Independent By Emily Beament Britain’s carbon emissions are set to fall again slightly this year after the recession drove dramatic declines of around 10 per cent last year, analysts say. Read the rest of this entry »
China eyes new giant dam in Tibet to take power from Himalayan river. Likely to concern India and Bangladesh
25/5/2010 Guardian Plant would be 1.5 times bigger than Three Gorges. Read the rest of this entry »
Green Hinduism, a natural fit by Kusum Vyas
24/5/2010 Guardian The United Nations has declared 2010 international year for biological diversity. Read the rest of this entry »
Can we kick our addiction to flying?
24/5/2010 Guardian Flying, particularly on long-haul flights, is so highly emitting that it dwarfs everything else on an individual carbon budget. Read the rest of this entry »
Young coral is ‘threatened by noise pollution’
24/5/2010 Independent if it’s not bad enough for them with pollution, fishing by dynamiting, global warming and ocean acidification, the world’s coral reefs face a new threat – from noise. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Climate change concern declines in poll – 80% 2006/ 62% now
24/5/2010 Guardian by Owen Bowcott Popular concern about climate change has declined significantly, following this year’s harsh winter and rows over statistics on global warming, a survey has found. Read the rest of this entry »
UK – How can I maximise my recycling?
24/5/2010 Observer The average British recycling rate is just 18% of the collective bin – a long way off the 50% required by 2020. Read the rest of this entry »
MIT debuts fuel-saving “double bubble” aircraft to cut fuel by 70%
19/5/2010 Guardian MIT’s D ‘double bubble’ series design concept is based on a modified ‘tube-and-wing’ structure that has a very wide fuselage to provide extra lift. Read the rest of this entry »
350 Campaign
350 Campaign promotes James Hansen’s work. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Report on failure to halt wildlife decline is buried by Michael McCarthy,
22/5/2010 Independent A report showing that Britain is failing to halt the declines of many of its highest-priority wildlife species and habitats, from the red squirrel, the juniper and the common skate to chalk rivers and coastal salt marshes, was “sneaked out” this week by the Government with no publicity, environmental campaign groups said yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
UN says the case for saving species ‘more powerful than climate change’
22/5/2010 Guardian The economic case for global action to stop the destruction of the natural world is even more powerful than the argument for tackling climate change, a major report for the United Nations will declare this summer. Read the rest of this entry »
Man-made climate change blamed for ‘significant’ rise in ocean temperature
20/5/2010 Independent The world’s oceans are warming up and the rise is both significant and real, according to one of the most comprehensive studies into marine temperature data gathered over the past two decades. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Economic report into biodiversity crisis reveals price of consuming the planet
22/5/2010 Guardian In every corner of the globe the evidence of the global biodiversity crisis is now impossible to ignore. Read the rest of this entry »
Oil, risk and technology: “addiction to oil” – Choices we need to make by William Jackson
22/5/2010 BBC The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico should be a wake-up call to governments and energy companies, argues William Jackson, raising deep questions about our addiction to oil. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate sceptics rally to claim climate change is a ‘myth’ by Roger Harrabin
21/5/2010 BBC Some sceptics want to end the “myth” of dangerous climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Polluted by profit: Johann Hari on the real Climategate
21/5/2010 Independent Global warming – and the worst environmental disasters – will only be tackled when green lobbyists in the US stop taking cash from Big Oil and Big Coal. Read the rest of this entry »
Did Deepwater methane hydrates cause the BP Mexico Gulf explosion?
21/5/2010 Guardian The deadly explosion caused 3 million gallons of crude oil to pour into the Gulf. Read the rest of this entry »
UK ‘will push EU on CO2 targets’ by Richard Black
21/5/2010 BBC The EU currently has a more modest 20% target. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change and UK rain -A summer heatwave will not affect our ground water by Michael Price
20/5/2010 Guardian Paul Brown is right to imply that “building houses across the south without any reference to available water supply” is not a good idea, especially at a time of
climatic uncertainty Read the rest of this entry »
Richard Lindzen (well-known for climate change denial) seeks a new name for climate sceptics
20/5/2010 Guardian by Leo Hickman. And so the Heartland Institute’s International Conference on Climate Change is over for another year. Read the rest of this entry »
China has main supply of rare elements used to go green
20/5/2010 BBC From electric cars to wind turbines, environmentally-friendly technology around the world needs rare earth metals. Read the rest of this entry »
Greenpeace protesters scale roof of BP headquarters in London
20/5/2010 BBC Greenpeace has accused BP of slashing investment in clean energy. Read the rest of this entry »
New UN climate head demands ambition and transparency
18/5/2010 BBC Ms Figueres asked for “ambition, transparency and inclusiveness” The new head of the UN’s climate convention has called for ambition and transparency in UN climate talks. Read the rest of this entry »
Presentation to the French National Assembly by James Hansen, world’s most important climate scientist
19/5/2010 James Hansen world’s most important climate scientist. Read the rest of this entry »
Canadian logging campaigners end protest with unprecedented forest truce
19/5/2010 Guardian According to media reports and Greepeace Canada an agreement entitled ” the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement” (CBFA) was reached on 18 May 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
‘World’s biggest’ forest protection deal for Canada
19/5/2010 BBC The agreement will protect much of Canada’s wide open rangelands Timber companies and environment groups have unveiled an agreement aimed at protecting two-thirds of Canada’s vast forests from unsustainable logging. Read the rest of this entry »
Scotland – New wave power prototype ‘significant step’ for sector
19/5/2010 BBC The energy generator will be tested for three years in Orkney. Read the rest of this entry »
Kudzu invasive plant increases ozone pollution – nitric oxide powerful greenhouse gas.
18/5/2020 BBC Invasive plant Kudzu ‘increases ozone pollution’. Read the rest of this entry »
Fish conservation works – Uk North sea cod is recovering from overfishing
18/5/2010 Independent Scientists say the fish threatened with extinction is back on the menu again By Martin Hickman. Read the rest of this entry »
This is no forecast. Climate change is here and now by Michael McCarthy
18/5/2010 Independent : You can look at the warming of Lake Tanganyika as a geographical and scientific curiosity; but you’re probably wiser to look at it with a considerable sense of foreboding. Read the rest of this entry »
Small nations given voice on climate change
18/5/2010 Independent The United Nations has appointed a Costa Rican diplomat as its new climate change chief after small island nations intervened to press for a choice who would represent their concerns about the risks of global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
Eco anarchists: A new breed of terrorist?
18/5/2010 Independent Last month, three activists were caught trying to bomb an IBM plant. Their motivation wasn’t religion or politics – but the state of the planet. Read the rest of this entry »
If the world continues overfishing, by 2050 fish stocks could become uneconomic to exploit, or extinct.
18/5/2010 Guardian More than 20 million people employed in the fishing industry may need to be retrained for other work over the next 40 years if the final collapse of fish stocks in the world’s oceans is to be avoided, the UN warned yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
The crucial role of activism in scrapping UK Heathrow’s third runway plan
17/5/2010 Guardian Campaigners claim victory as court orders review of runway expansion plan at Heathrow. Read the rest of this entry »
UN picks new climate change chief – Costa Rica’s Christiana Figueres
17/5/2010 BBC Ms Figueres is regarded as having deep knowledge of the UN process is to be the new head of the UN climate convention, BBC News understands. Read the rest of this entry »
New website – Updating the Climate Science -What Path is the Real World Following? by Makiko Sato & James Hansen
Our aim is to help people understand global climate change — and how the factors that drive climate are changing. Read the rest of this entry »
What we can learn from studying the last millennium (or so)
15/5/2010 www.realclimate.org With all of the emphasis that is often placed on hemispheric or global mean temperature trends during the past millennium, Read the rest of this entry »
Evidence for global warming has mounted but public awareness of the threat has shrunk
17/5/2010 Independent Evidence for global warming has mounted but public awareness of the threat has shrunk, Read the rest of this entry »
UK – Fight against climate change damaged by divided opinions
17/5/2010 Independent The parties are divided over nuclear power, offshore oil drilling and many other green issues – and critics say that will hinder the fight against global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
Tar sands oil extraction spreading rapidly, report warns
17/5/2010 Guardian The Albian Sands mine near Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, are at the vaguard of a global rush for ‘unconventional’ deposits. Read the rest of this entry »
Laurence Kemball-Cook’s innovation: the Pavegen
15/5/2010 Observer ”I just knew this idea had legs,” says Laurence Kemball-Cook, ignoring the puns that come with the invention of an “energy-harvesting paving system” Read the rest of this entry »
Greenpeace survey finds radiation 5000 times background levels in Delhi market by Grace Boyle
14/5/2010 Independent A survey has today uncovered levels of radioactivity up to 5000 times background levels in Mayapuri scrap market, Read the rest of this entry »
Temperature by 2300 parts of Earth so hot humans would die (on present course)
Year 2300 – Parts of Earth too hot for humans (if you continue on present course) Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change – by 2300 parts of Earth will be too hot for humans (if we continue on present course) by Michael Le Page
14/5/2010 New Scientist Parts of the planet could start to become too hot and humid for people to survive in a century or so if we fail to limit global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change denial – The truth is our only weapon by Michael Shermer
14/5/2010 New Scientist ENGAGING with people who doubt well-established theories is a perennial challenge. How should we respond? Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change denial – Questioning science isn’t blasphemy by Michael Fitzpatrick
14/5/2010 New Scientist THE epithet “denier” is increasingly used to bash anyone who dares to question orthodoxy. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change denial – Unleashing a lie by Jim Giles
14/5/2010 New Scientist IN November 2006, the conservative columnist Piers Akerman published a scathing attack on climate science in Australia’s Daily Telegraph. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change denial – How corporations manufacture doubt by Richard Littlemore
14/5/2010 New Scientist YOU can’t beat doubt as a corporate strategy – especially if your product is life-threatening when used as directed. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change denial: Why sensible people reject the truth by Debora MacKenzie
14/5/2010 New Scientist HEARD the latest? The swine flu pandemic was a hoax: scientists, governments and the World Health Organization cooked it up in a vast conspiracy so that vaccine companies could make money. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change denial -Living in denial: When a sceptic isn’t a sceptic by Michael Shermer
14/5/2010 New Scientist WHAT is the difference between a sceptic and a denier? Read the rest of this entry »
New cement process to be carbon neutral or better
14/5/2010 New Scientist As far as clean technologies go, a dollop of cement sounds unlikely to be at the cutting edge. Read the rest of this entry »
Plenty of wave energy to be harvested close to shore
14/5/2010 New Scinetist SINCE the oil crisis of the 1970s kick-started interest in wave power, it has become received wisdom that only offshore waves are worth tapping into. Read the rest of this entry »
Lost lizards validate grim climate change extinction predictions
14/5/2010 New Scinetist Predictions that climate change alone could lead to the extinction of more than one-fifth of plant and animal species before the end of the century have often come under fire, Read the rest of this entry »
IPCC review: friend or foe? by Richard Black
14/5/2010 BBC “Now that we’re in the kitchen, we have to take the heat,” said Rajendra Pachauri. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change link to lizard extinction
14/5/2010 BBC Lizards are more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought. Read the rest of this entry »
IPCC’s Parchauri says climate body must ‘listen and learn’
14/5/2010 BBC The IPCC admits just one error, on the melting date of Himalayan glaciers The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said the organisation needs to learn from recent criticisms and modernise its workings. Read the rest of this entry »
Yes, we can change society before global crises overwhelm us by Simon Lewis
14/5/2010 Guardian Is the end of the world as we know it imminent? Read the rest of this entry »
India’s greenhouse gas emissions rise by 58%
14/5/2010 Guardian The country’s emissions rose emissions rose by 58% between 1994 and 2007. Read the rest of this entry »
10 questions for Chris Huhne, the new UK energy and climate change secretary
14/5/2010 Guardian Chris Huhne has been appointed energy and climate change secretary – here are the issues he must face immediately: Read the rest of this entry »
There’s no right and wrong to tackling climate change – says Mike Hulme
14/5/2010 Guardian Climate change has come to signify far more than the physical ramifications of human disturbance to the earth’s atmosphere Read the rest of this entry »
Fox News’ Glenn Beck holds up Maurice Strong as evidence of ‘global government’ conspiracy
14/5/2010 Guardian Lock up your children: the bogey man cometh. We know this because Fox News
rabble-rouser Glenn Beck has kindly forewarned us. Read the rest of this entry »
Review of IPCC workings starts in Amsterdam By Richard Black
14/5/2010 BBC The IPCC admits just one error, on the melting date of Himalayan glaciers. Read the rest of this entry »
The environmental movement needs to stop pretending
13/5/2010 Guardian George Monbiot agrees with our project, Dark Mountain, that “something has been lost … in the desperate search for green solutions Read the rest of this entry »
UK Coalition government scraps 3rd runway at Heathow and conditions for nuclear power
13/5/2010 BBC The government has cancelled plans for a third runway. Read the rest of this entry »
UK new Coalition pledges to cut central government emissions by 10%
13/5/2010 Guardian Commitment by the new government is the most high-profile success to date for the 10:10 climate change campaign. Read the rest of this entry »