9/2/2010 Guardian There is one question that no one who denies manmade climate change wants to answer: what would it take to persuade you? In most cases the answer seems to be nothing. Read the rest of this entry »
10/2/2010 BBC : EU’s biofuels policy will stand up to scrutiny. Read the rest of this entry »
10/2/2010 BBC UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world’s science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Read the rest of this entry »
10/2/2010 BBC Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, scientists say. Read the rest of this entry »
10/2/2010 BBC Rich countries including several EU nations are “importing” about a third of their CO2 emissions, says a study. Read the rest of this entry »
9/2/2010 BBC 2010 is a big year for nuclear fusion but experts fear that a lack of fuel could push the dream of cheap, safe, clean and limitless energy far into the future. Read the rest of this entry »
8/2/2010 New Scientist Climate sceptics often ask. But sometimes the right answer is the simplest: Read the rest of this entry »
8/2/2010 Guardian It’s an exceptionally inconvenient truth. Only one American in three believes that human beings are responsible for climate change: a polling result 10% down on where opinion rested the year before. Read the rest of this entry »
8/2/2010 Guardian For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve, one of the world’s experts on biodiversity has warned. Read the rest of this entry »
8/2/2010 Guardian Two hundred and twenty four million energy saving lightbulbs have been sent to households through he government’s efficiency scheme. Read the rest of this entry »
6/2/2010 Guardian Darkness rarely lasted long in the skies over Lake Maracaibo. Read the rest of this entry »
1/2/2010 New Scientist by Wendy Zukerman. The calving of a massive iceberg off east Antarctica last week has prompted fears that the event could alter the salinity of the surrounding ocean, with damaging effects on marine life and global ocean currents. Read the rest of this entry »
4/2/2010 New Scientist This is a depressing time for climate scientists. They’ve spent over a decade battling oil industry propagandists who said that the world was not warming. Read the rest of this entry »
4/2/2010 New Scientist THE long-anticipated nuclear renaissance has arrived. In his State of the Union address last month, President Barack Obama announced plans for the US to build a new generation of nuclear power plants, and his budget for 2011 proposes large funding increases for the industry. Read the rest of this entry »
4/2/2010 New Scientist A wide expanse of Arctic Ocean seabed is bubbling methane into the atmosphere. Read the rest of this entry »
5/2/2010 New Scientist Michael Marshall, reporter. The conclusions of the last IPCC report were unequivocal: it said, with 90% certainty, that greenhouse gases released by human activity were warming the planet. Read the rest of this entry »
4/2/2010 New Scientist issue 2750. Even if we knew precise details of Earth’s core, we would not be able to predict a catastrophic flip in the polarity of its magnetic field more than a decade or two ahead. Read the rest of this entry »
5/2/2010 Guardian Offshore Aerogenerator NOVA (Novel Offshore Vertical Axis) wind turbine concept that aims to provide 1 GW of power by 2020. Read the rest of this entry »
4/2/2010 Guardian I’m not a climate scientist, but I am concerned about the reputation of science and scientists. Read the rest of this entry »
5/2/2010 King coal is ready for a British comeback in a form that sounds more like medieval hellfire than an energy source for the 21st century. Read the rest of this entry »
5/2/2010 Guardian A fund for climate chaos Comment by Kevin Watkins. Read the rest of this entry »
5/2/2010 Guardian Scientists used a technique called ‘optimal detection’, which showed clear fingerprints of human-induced global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
5/2/2010 Guardian We know from many long-term records of environmental change (for instance, analysis of bubbles of air trapped in ice cores) that planet Earth is a truly remarkable “living” entity. Read the rest of this entry »
5/2/2010 Guardian Evidence from a respected scientific body to a parliamentary inquiry examining the behaviour of climate-change scientists, was drawn from an energy industry
consultant who argues that global warming is a religion, the Guardian can reveal. Read the rest of this entry »
5/2/2010 BBC A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
4/2/2010 Guardian George Monbiot’s attack on solar energy and the government’s “cash-back” solar photovoltaic (PV) market-building scheme paints a distorted picture of the
industry I work in Read the rest of this entry »
3/2/2010 Guardian Professor The Institute of Physics has been forced to clarify its strongly worded submission to a parliamentary inquiry into climate change emails released onto the internet. Read the rest of this entry »
3/2/2010 Guardian Homeowners will be able to take out loans for thousands of pounds to pay for insulation and solar panels, under legislation proposed by the government. Read the rest of this entry »
2/2/2010 Guardian Those who hate environmentalism have spent years looking for the definitive example of a great green rip-off. Finally it arrives, and nobody notices. Read the rest of this entry »
2/2/2010 Guardian The US Congress’s most ardent global warming sceptic is being accused of turning the row over climate science into a McCarthyite witch-hunt by calling for a criminal investigation of scientists. Read the rest of this entry »
2/2/2010 Guardian Gaunt and nervous, but with his ever-smiling University of East Anglia vice-chancellor beside him, Phil Jones survived his grilling by MPs – probably profoundly grateful that he did not have to face questioning from an earlier witness, the equally gaunt but far from nervous climate sceptic, Lord Lawson. Read the rest of this entry »
2/2/2010 Guardian The scientist at the centre of a media storm over global warming research admitted today he had sent “awful emails” but said he expected to be cleared of accusations that he tried to pervert the scientific process. Read the rest of this entry »
28/2/2010 BBC Start the Week. Discussion with Graciela Chichilnisky – who works for the US Airforce. Read the rest of this entry »
25/2/2010 Tomgram: “In early 2009,” writes Bill McKibben in a soon-to-be-published new book, “just as Obama was getting set to unveil his energy plans, word came that 2,340 lobbyists had registered to work on climate change on Capitol Hill Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2010 BBC Governments have now demanded – and will get – an independent review into how the IPCC conducts its work and how well its conclusions stand up to scrutiny. Read the rest of this entry »
25/2/2010 stopglobalwarming.org The pace of global warming continues unabated, scientists said on Thursday, despite images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards. Read the rest of this entry »
27/2/2010 Guardin Satellite image showing 97km (60 mile) long iceberg, right, about to crash into
the Mertz glacier tongue, left, in the Australian Antarctic Territory. Read the rest of this entry »
27/2/2010 Guardian The UN is to commission an independent group of top scientists to review its climate change panel, which has been under fire since it admitted a mistake over
melting Himalayan glaciers. Read the rest of this entry »
24/2/2010 New Scientist issue number 2749 EARTH’S NINE LIVES UP TO now, the Earth has been very kind to us. Read the rest of this entry »
24/2/2010 New Scientist issue number 2749 EVEN if the sun were to quieten down appreciably for the rest of this century, it would still be business as usual for global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
24/2/2010 News Scientist Issue 2749 FOR many environmentalists, all human influence on the planet is bad. Read the rest of this entry »
24/2/2010 News Scientist Issue 2749 FOR many environmentalists, all human influence on the planet is bad. Read the rest of this entry »
24/2/2010 New Scientist issue 2749. EVER since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 report on the impacts of climate change was discovered to contain a major error – that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone by 2035 – there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mistakes. Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2010 New Scientist issue 2749. EVERY winter the Arctic ice cap is penned in by curved barriers of ice spanning the straits that lead out of the Arctic Ocean. Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2010 Guardian The climate change movement is dead, long live the climate change movement! was the proclamation made last week by Rising Tide North America, as green
campaigners around the world begin coming to terms with the switchback ride of the last three months. Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2010 BBC The continent of Antarctica is warming up in step with the rest of the world, according to a new analysis. Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2010 BBC in the region, scientists have warned. Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2010 BBC Scientists say the collapse could mean the Wilkins Ice Shelf is on the brink of breaking away, and provides further evidence of rapid change in the region. Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2010 BBC A century of whaling may have released more than 100 million tonnes – or a large forest’s worth – of carbon into the atmosphere, scientists say. Read the rest of this entry »
26/2/2010 Guardian Subsidising expensive sports cars is not the most obvious way to fight global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
18/2/2010 NASA (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) For decades, climatologists have studied the gases and particles that have potential to alter Earth’s climate. Read the rest of this entry »
24/2/2010 BBC Scientists have discovered an area of the North Atlantic Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. Read the rest of this entry »
24/2/2010 BBC Scotland’s targets to cut emissions will be “difficult” without wider agreement. Read the rest of this entry »
24/2/2010 Guardian Drax is opposing the cross-party energy bill amendment to impose a new emissions standard on energy companies. Read the rest of this entry »
24/2/2010 Guardian Climate change survey raises fears it will be harder to persuade the public to support costly policies to curb emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
Center for Research on Environmental Decisions.(2009). The Psychology of Climate Change Communication. This is a 50 page text document. Read the rest of this entry »
23/2/2010 Guardian So the case is closed. The release of private emails between climate scientists at the University of East Anglia that show malpractice and conspiracy have had
their effect. Read the rest of this entry »
16/2/2010 BBC Consumers around the globe are not aware that they are “eating” rainforests, says Andrew Mitchell. Read the rest of this entry »
How do you find out about 350? The best book by far is the Dec 2009 ‘Storms of my Grandchildren’ by James Hansen, the most important climate scientist Read the rest of this entry »
If you want to read all of the arguments against climate change and you want to see an answer to each argument based on good science Read the rest of this entry »
19/2/2010 Guardian Deniers queue up to lambast Skeptical Science application developed by solar physicist John Cook. Read the rest of this entry »
19/2/2010 www.realclimate.org Filed under: Climate Science— rasmus @ 19 February 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
19/2/2010 New Scientist Issue 2748 IN JUNE 1783, lava and gases began pouring from the Laki fissure in Iceland in one of the biggest and most devastating eruptions in history. Read the rest of this entry »
19/2/2010 New Scientist Issue 2748 Rising ocean temperatures might leave coral reefs in seriously hot water – without clouds for protection. Read the rest of this entry »
20/2/2010 BBC Leading scientists say that the recent controversies surrounding climate research have damaged the image of science as a whole. Read the rest of this entry »
19/2/2010 Guardian ‘There is no wealth but life’ … The economy is no stranger to creating its own fantasy world with little or no relation to the real one. Read the rest of this entry »
19/2/2010 Guardian A UN report due later this year will look into the economic cost of environmental damage. Read the rest of this entry »
19/2/2010 Guardian BlThe report into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest public companies has estimated the cost of use, loss and damage of the environment. Read the rest of this entry »
19/2/2010 Guardian The National Trust is almost a third of the way to meeting its goal of creating 1,000 public allotments in the UK by 2012, with enough growing spaces
established over the last year to produce 850,000 lettuces or 16,000 sacks of potatoes. Read the rest of this entry »
The UK spends £500m a year on car ads and fetishises auto-ownership – no wonder cycling is stuck in the slow lane. Read the rest of this entry »
19/2/2010 Guardian Critics of climate change science are few in number but their attacks are aggressive. Read the rest of this entry »
19/2/2010 Guardian Clipper Windpower says the ‘Britannia’ turbines would feature the world’s largest blades. Read the rest of this entry »
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19/2/2010 BBC Rumours that Yvo de Boer, the UN’s top climate official, would be leaving his post well before the end of this year were rife even during the Copenhagen summit. Read the rest of this entry »
18/2/2010 Guardian All new buildings in San Francisco will be wired for electric car chargers in anticipation of the release of vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf. Read the rest of this entry »
18/2/2010 Guardian Almost half of the world’s primate species – which include apes, monkeys and lemurs – are threatened with extinction due to the destruction of tropical
forests and illegal hunting and trade. Read the rest of this entry »
18/2/2010 Guardian Foreign and Commonwealth Office staff have been asked to downgrade flights to economy class. Read the rest of this entry »
10/2/2010 Greenpeace International India’s Environment Minister has made an historic decision rejecting GE that will have a ripple effect across the world. Read the rest of this entry »
17/2/2010 Greenpeace International China — Industries pumping out poisonous substances day after day into rivers that entire communities rely on for their basic water needs – the reality of water pollution in China is one of the country’s biggest tragedies. Read the rest of this entry »
17/2/2010 Guardian In Delhi last week, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the guru of sustainable development from Columbia University, delivered a sobering message about US climate politics. Read the rest of this entry »
17/2/2010 Guardian Barack Obama suffered a setback to his green energy agenda as three firms drop out of a coalition that had been pressing for climate change laws. Read the rest of this entry »
17/2/2010 BBC President Barack Obama has announced more than $8bn (£5bn) of federal loan guarantees to begin building the first US nuclear power stations for 30 years. Read the rest of this entry »
16/2/2010 Guardian Tullow Oil, the London-based oil operator, has signed contracts with the Ugandan government allowing it to flare gas with the potential to release huge volumes
of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, according to a report by non-governmental organisations. Read the rest of this entry »
16/2/2010 BBC Enquiries into the University of East Anglia (UEA) will shine a light deep into the core of science in the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the university. Read the rest of this entry »
15/2/2010 Guardian Californian low-carbon legislation ‘unconstitutional’ says NPRA oil lobby group. Read the rest of this entry »
15/2/2010 BBC Fossilised coral reefs in the Great Barrier Reef could help scientists understand how sea levels have changed over the past 20,000 years. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate science – how can we believe such huge conclusions? Read the rest of this entry »
What kind of scientific evidence is the basis of the climate scientists’ overall conclusions. This is very brief and simple. Read the rest of this entry »
Can you guess if the science is right without understanding it? Read the rest of this entry »
12/2/2010 Guardian Gordon Brown has launched a UN climate change fundraising group alongside the Ethiopian PM, and has criticised climate change sceptics. Read the rest of this entry »
15/2/2010 Guardian Co-chair of the infamous 2007 IPPC report on Himalayan glaciers Martin Parry has said the reaction to the report’s errors is ‘clamour without substance’. Read the rest of this entry »
6/12/2009 New York Times Cap and Fade by James Hansen. Read the rest of this entry »
13/2/2010 Guardian Carbon dioxide is “essentially harmless” to human beings and good for plants. Read the rest of this entry »
13/2/2010 BBC Phil Jones, the professor behind the “Climategate” affair, has admitted some of his decades-old weather data was not well enough organised. Read the rest of this entry »
12/2/2010 Guardian The National Trust is planning the restoration of historic hudro systems at Castle Drogo on Dartmoor as part of its drive to cut its fossil fuel use by 50%. Read the rest of this entry »
12/2/2010 Guardian Xie Zhenhua at the UN talks in Copenhagen, December 2009 said recently that ‘rich nations were completely trying to make conflict among developing countries.’ Read the rest of this entry »
27/4/2007 www.realclimate.org Gore’s hockey stick graph “essentially right” Read the rest of this entry »
3/12/2004 www.realclimate.org What does the lag of CO2 behind temperature in ice cores tell us about global warming? Read the rest of this entry »
11/2/2010 BBC In the past few weeks, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has received a vast amount of advice on how it should be reformed, ranging from minor structural tinkering to immediate self-immolation. Read the rest of this entry »