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UK – Unilever tops climate change index with ‘superb’ track record

30/6/2010 Guardian  Unilever followed by BT, Morrisons and Rolls-Royce in a comparison of Britain’s 350 largest firms on energy efficiency and carbon reduction  Read the rest of this entry »

Calling for an ‘old-fashioned’ green revolution by Tensie Whelan

30/6/2010 BBC Using “good old-fashioned” farming techniques will help deliver a sustainable green revolution in Africa, byTensie Whelan. Read the rest of this entry »

UK Advisors urge new UK climate policies

30/6/2010 BBC  A step-change in renewable capacity is part of the committee’s prescription. Read the rest of this entry »

Car fumes raise spectre of 1980s revival nobody wants…acid rain

23/6/2010 Independent by Michael McCarthy, Thirty years ago it was one of the great environmental issues,… Read the rest of this entry »

UK – Living the ecological dream can be a nightmare when it comes to nimby neighbours

27/6/2010 Independent By Daisy Jellicoe Gary Neville had planning permission refused for his £6m eco home. Read the rest of this entry »

UK – power from renewable sources falls 7.5%

29/6/2010 Guardian  Power derived from wind turbines and other ‘clean’ sources fell by 7.5% in the
first three months of 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Paris looks for power from turbines beneath the Seine

29/6/2010 Guardian Paris is hoping to use underwater turbines to harness power from the river Seine. Read the rest of this entry »

Nile nations stand firm in water row

29/6/2010 Guardian  Five East African countries said today that they would not go back on a deal to share Nile waters
that has drawn fierce criticism from Egypt and Sudan. Read the rest of this entry »

UK – Slow Food – You ask, they answer

29/6/2010 Guardian  Post your questions for Slow Food UK, the “eco-gastronomic” organisation Read the rest of this entry »

TVBBC1 29/6/2010 8.30pm After ‘climate-gate’: Dissecting the science

28/6/2010 BBC BBC1 Panorama Tom Heap puts the climate ‘Wall of Certainty’ to the experts. Read the rest of this entry »

Can I spend money and be green? by Lucy Siegle

27/6/2010 Observer Even freshly minted money looks dirty to an eco warrior. Read the rest of this entry »

What do climate scientists think?

24/6/2010 www.realclimate.org Filed under: Climate Scienceskeptics— gavin @ 24 June 2010 by Gavin and Eric.… Read the rest of this entry »

Evidence from earth’s past that Climate Sensitivity is higher than IPCC figure.

25/7/2010 New Scientist CLIMATE CONUNDRUM by Anil Ananthaswamy. Read the rest of this entry »

Unconventional natural gas technology

17/6/2010 New Scientist FORGET coal, it’s too dirty. Forget nuclear power, it’s too expensive and controversial. Forget renewables, they’re too unpredictable. Read the rest of this entry »

Europe’s biggest pop music festival -major solar power investment.

27/6/2010 Guardian Festival-flavoured climate change savings bonds. Read the rest of this entry »

Survey of Europe’s top 300 companies – UK as worst offender in on global warming

27/6/2010 Observer Eiris review names Britain as ‘dirty man of Europe. Read the rest of this entry »

Poorer countries face the double standards of multinationals by Martin Khor

26/6/2010 Guardian The $20bn fund that Barack Obama managed to get BP to agree to set up to meet claims for economic losses and
environmental costs from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is impressive,… Read the rest of this entry »

London, the dirty man of Europe by Simon Birkett

26/6/2010 Guardian 
With the first of many London sites this week breaching –before the end of June – the annual allowance for “bad air days”,… Read the rest of this entry »

UK FTSE index to highlight investor climate risk

26/6/2010 Guardian  With the BP crisis in the Gulf of Mexico having thrown the spotlight on
institutional investors’ cavalier approach to environmental risk, Read the rest of this entry »

Water shortage increases tensions between countries

26/6/2010 Guardian  Fifteen years ago Ismail Serageldin, an Egyptian who was vice-president of the
World Bank, shook politicians by predicting that the wars of the 21st century… Read the rest of this entry »

Climate party risks losing its guests Richard Black

28/4/2010  When you’re deciding whether to get dolled up and head off to the party, do you stop to ask who else might be going? Read the rest of this entry »

It’s payback time for home generation by Keith Harrison

25/6/2010 BBC Home owners are sceptical about the benefits of generating electricity to meet the needs of their own homes, Read the rest of this entry »

Climate change is leaving us with extra space junk

25/6/2010 New Scientist issue 2766 RISING sea levels, vanishing glaciers and earlier blooming of flowers are among the well-documented effects of climate change. Read the rest of this entry »

Humanity will be extinct within a century unless we deal with global warming – leading scientist.

25/6/2010 New Scientist To say Frank Fenner is no fool is without doubt an understatement. Read the rest of this entry »

What’s the carbon footprint of … a bushfire?

25/6/2010 Guardian   One season of Australian bushfires can cause as much CO2 as the annual emissions of 5 million Australians or 50
million Chinese people. Read the rest of this entry »

Sunday Times admits ‘Amazongate’ story was rubbish. But who’s to blame? by George Monbiot

25/6/2010 Guardian  It’s a distressing sight but we’ll have to get used to it: most of the world’s prominent climate change
deniers skewered on their own sword. Read the rest of this entry »

UK hydropower schemes increase sixfold since 2000

24/6/2010 Guardian Hydropower schemes surge in decade, Environment Agency figures show. Read the rest of this entry »

UK emission cuts ‘not radical enough’, airport protest trial told

24/6/2010 Guardian Government plans to cut UK carbon emissions by 80% over the next 40 years are
not radical enough… Read the rest of this entry »

Global cooperation not world government – founding director UN Environment Programme

24/6/2010 Guardian  Strong, the founding executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme and
self-proclaimed “world’s leading environmentalist”, has hit back… Read the rest of this entry »

Green cuts are coming – the environment will be affected like everything else

23/6/2010 Independent The less said the better about the planet, but there are cuts to come. Michael McCarthy. Read the rest of this entry »

Car fumes raise spectre of 1980s revival nobody wants…acid rain by Michael McCarthy

23/6/2010 Independent Thirty years ago it was one of the great environmental issues, along with the hole in the ozone layer and CFC chemicals. Read the rest of this entry »

Overconsumption is costing us the earth and human happiness

21/6/2010 Guardian  Overconsumption is costing us the earth and human happiness. Read the rest of this entry »

UN climate chief departs an optimist despite setbacks

22/6/2010 Guardian UN climate chief departs an optimist despite setbacksEven after the failure to reach agreement on binding CO2 cuts… Read the rest of this entry »

Action – not research – is needed to save our pollinators by Alison Benjamin

23/6/2010 Guardian  Scientists already know why our pollinators are dying out. Read the rest of this entry »

Study examines scientists’ ‘climate credibility’

22/6/2010 BBC  Most experts agreed human activity was affecting the climate system. Some 98% of climate scientists… Read the rest of this entry »

Loss of bees could be ‘a blow to UK economy’

22/6/2010 BBC  Eucera is a type of solitary bee If bees and other pollinators were to disappear completely, the cost… Read the rest of this entry »

Edinburgh experts to monitor how trees absorb CO2

22/6/2010 BBC   Tom Wade, a member of the Edinburgh University team, will pilot the aircraft Scientists… Read the rest of this entry »

Himalayan ice is stable, but Asia faces drought

  21/6/2010 New Scientist The Himalayan glaciers that feed Asia’s five largest rivers are in no danger of disappearing by 2035 Read the rest of this entry »

Is it time to say goodbye cool world? by Fred Pearce

  15/6/2010 New Scientist What hope is there for a deal on climate change based on science? Read the rest of this entry »

Doubt is spreading about the reality of climate change

  21/6/2010 New Scientist ”CLIMATEGATE”and the flaws in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s last
  report…. Read the rest of this entry »

“No cause for climate despair” says David King (“No cause for complacency” Editor)

21/6/2010 New Scientist  THE prospect of an international agreement to halt dangerous climate change may seem more remote… Read the rest of this entry »

Bacteria may make carbon capture work and keep CO2 safely buried

21/6/2010 New Scientist Green machine: Take a dollop of bacterial gloop, add a splash of urea and pour into an underground aquifer. Read the rest of this entry »

Austerity was a hard sell in the 40s. Today it’s harder still – by David Kynaston

22/6/2010 Guardian “No sooner did we awake from the six years nightmare of war and feel free to enjoy life once more than … Read the rest of this entry »

Batteries are putting the brakes on electric car take-up

22/6/2010 Guardian  Battery technology is keeping electric cars heavy, expensive and with a limited range. Read the rest of this entry »

Sunday Times ‘correction’ was a giant climbdown on climate change article

22/6/2010 Guardian  The Sunday Times carried a rather large “correction” yesterday that, once read alongside the original offending article, amounted to a complete retraction. In fact, it was a giant climbdown. Read the rest of this entry »

UK Gas power stations ‘should have carbon capture’

17/6/2010 Guardian Climate committee calls for measure in order to meet target to
cut emissions by 80%. Read the rest of this entry »

Ridge clue to Antarctic ice loss

21/6/2010 BBC  The discovery of an underwater ridge in West Antarctica could help explain why there has been an acceleration in the ice flowing from a glacier in the area. Read the rest of this entry »

UK Manufacturers appeal for simplified carbon tax

21/6/2010 Guardian Britain’s manufacturers have condemned the government’s climate change policy as “chaotic, overcrowded and complicated” and are calling …. (for)  an economy-wide carbon tax. Read the rest of this entry »

China plans to put out its coalfield fires

18 June 2010 New Scientist issue 2765. IS THIS, finally, the end for the gigantic coal fires that have been burning in Inner Mongolia, China, for 50 years? Read the rest of this entry »

Take the political heat out of climate scepticism by Ropger Harrabin

18 June 2010 New Scientist issue 2764. CLIMATE scepticism is on the rise, Read the rest of this entry »

Monckton’s climate denial is a gift to those who take the science seriously by George Monbiot

9/6/2010 Guardian The longer this goes on, the better it will be for all those who take science seriously. Read the rest of this entry »

UN considers review of alleged carbon offset abuses

16/6/2010 Guardian Clean Development Mechanism – Read the rest of this entry »

Rainfall impacts of climate warming to persist

18/6/2010 BBC  Water-scarce regions could see reduced rainfall for many decades. Read the rest of this entry »

Ancient climate change ‘link’ to CO2

18/6/2010 BBC CO2 could have caused Ice Ages in the Northern Hemisphere to intensify. Read the rest of this entry »

A vision of zero carbon Britain in just 20 years by Juliette Jowit

16/6/2010 Guardian   It’s 2030, only 20 years from now: Read the rest of this entry »

Food prices to rise by up to 40% over next decade, UN report warns

16/6/2010 Guardian Growing demand from emerging markets and for biofuel production will send
prices soaring, Read the rest of this entry »

Sperm whale faeces ‘offset CO2 emissions’

16/6/2010 BBC Sperm whale faeces may help oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the air, scientists say. Read the rest of this entry »

Climate panel chief welcomes climate debate

16/6/2010 BBC  The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, says he welcomes “the development of a vigorous debate” on climate science. Read the rest of this entry »

Climate deal blueprint could curb US emissions and poor nations’ growth

12/6/2010 Guardian  A new blueprint for a global climate agreement would force the United States to
massively reduce its greenhouse gas emissions Read the rest of this entry »

France and Japan propose an ‘IPCC for nature’

10/6/2010 Guardian  Delegates from 97 countries meet in South Korea to hear plans for an international body to
monitor destruction of flora and fauna. Read the rest of this entry »

Confidence in climate science remains strong, poll shows.

17/6/2010 Guardian  Survey shows 71% of Britons are concerned about climate, Read the rest of this entry »

Oil extraction is a threat to the future – UK Sir David King

9/6/2010 BBC Sir David King has called on governments to “de-fossilise” their economies. Read the rest of this entry »

Rich nations could increase emissions under pledge loopholes, UN data shows

10/6/2010 Guardian  Analysis seen at Bonn climate talks shows rich nations could use carbon accountancy tricks to increase their emissions by up to
8%. Read the rest of this entry »

Carbon footprints – examples.

8/6/2010 BBC carbon footprints. Examples. Read the rest of this entry »

Ancient oceans belched stagnant CO2 into the skies

5/6/2010 New Scientist At the end of the last ice age, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels shot up by nearly 50 per cent. Read the rest of this entry »

Snakes in mysterious global decline

9/6/2010 BBC Snakes may be declining across the world, according to a global study. Read the rest of this entry »

Overconsumption is costing us the earth and human happiness

21/6/2010 Guardian  Story of Stuff creator Annie Leonard’s new book examines the high
price of the western world’s obession with all things material. Read the rest of this entry »

Profiting from nature’s biodiversity

7/6/2010 BBC Richard Black We’ve had a fair bit of chat here in recent months about diversity in the natural world, and why it matters Read the rest of this entry »

Amazon forest fires ‘on the rise’

7/6/2010 BBC  The number of fires destroying Amazon rainforests are increasing, a study has found. Read the rest of this entry »

UK £2bn offshore windfarm to go ahead off north Wales

4/6/2010 BBC The Gwynt y Mor project involves 160 turbines, around 11 miles off the coast. Read the rest of this entry »

Memo reveals Copenhagen climate talks blame game

4/6/2010 New Scientist AS UN climate negotiators meet in Bonn, Germany, Read the rest of this entry »

Pacific ocean – Shape-shifting islands defy sea-level rise

4/6/2010 New Scientist by Wendy Zukerman AGAINST all the odds, a number of shape-shifting islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean are standing up to the effects of climate change. Read the rest of this entry »

How climate scientists can repair their reputation

4/6/2010 New Scientist THE controversies swirling around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Read the rest of this entry »

The term ‘overfished’ can be confusing – and there is no shortage of cod – Comment by Philip McMullen

4/6/2010 Guardian Your article covered a recent Which? report on consumers’ views on purchasing sustainable seafood, Read the rest of this entry »

Viscount Monckton’s climate change scepticism discredited by Professor John Abraham – George Monbiot

4/6/2010 Guardian  Professor John Abraham’s withering scrutiny reveals how the gurus of climate scepticism repeat a pattern of manipulation. Read the rest of this entry »

UK subsidizing nuclear power industry waste disposal.

4/6/2010 Guardian EDF ran secret lobbying campaign to reduce size of nuclear waste disposal levy. Read the rest of this entry »

UK receives ‘final warning’ from EU over air pollution

4/6/2010 BBC  UK received a first warning about London’s air pollution levels in 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

EU ‘half way to 2020 emissions target’ – ‘Paltry’ carbon curbs point to 3C

4/6/2010 BBC The global economic downturn led to a fall in energy use in many sectors. Read the rest of this entry »

UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet

3/6/2010 Guardian  The UN says agriculture is on a par with fossil fuel consumption because both rise rapidly with increased economic
growth. Read the rest of this entry »

London Olympics 2012 could flunk golden chance to be green

3/6/2010 Organisers of the London 2012 Olympics risk missing a golden opportunity to inspire a step change towards a low-carbon economy, the green watchdog for the games has warned. Read the rest of this entry »

Overpopulation fears nonsense, says author Fred Pearce at Hay festival 2010

3/6/2010 Guardian : Sir David Attenborough, Jonathon Porritt, Jeremy Irons and other “doomsters” are talking “dangerous nonsense” about the threat of overpopulation, according to the environmental writer Fred Pearce. Read the rest of this entry »

Nasa scientist James Hansen condemns attacks from ‘politicised’ media

3/6/2010 Guardian  ’We don’t have a leader who is able to grasp [the issue] and say what is really needed. Instead we are trying to continue business as usual,’ say James Hansen. Read the rest of this entry »

2010 on track to become warmest year ever

3/6/2010 Guardian  US figures show that arctic sea ice is now at the lowest extent ever recorded for the time of year. Read the rest of this entry »

Sustainability: Choices, choices, choices – food and energy by Richard Black

3/6/2010 BBC A group of experts convened under a UN umbrella has been taking a look at what aspects of our global society are the least sustainable Read the rest of this entry »

UK How green are Feed-in-Tariffs?

2/6/2010 Guardian In China it is illegal to be without a solar panel on a certain-sized home. Read the rest of this entry »

UK Government review to examine threat of world resources shortage

2/6/2010 Guardian   Ministers have ordered a review of looming global shortages of resources, from fish and timber to water and precious
metals, Read the rest of this entry »

Temperatures reach record high in Pakistan 53.7 Celcius

2/6/2010 Guardian  A ruined city in what is now Pakistan that contains the last traces of a 4,000-year-old civilisation that flourished on the banks of the river Indus, today entered the modern history books Read the rest of this entry »

UK Hay book festival: ‘Climate change is a long struggle’

1/6/2010 Guardian James Lovelock…’I don’t think we can handle big problems like the Earth.’ Read the rest of this entry »