UK greenhouse gas emissions are reported down 7% mainly due to very warm winter
30/3/2012 Guardian UK greenhouse gas emissions down 7% in 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
Bees – essential to pollinate many crops – are being killed by pesticides: research shows
30/3/2012 BBC Pesticides hit queen bee numbers. Read the rest of this entry »
USA – reasons why are Republicans so anti-science
29/3/2012 New Scientist US scepticism – it’s been a long time coming. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Met Office tries to convince climate change deniers
29/3/2012 Guardian. Met Office hosts ‘conversations’ with climate sceptics. Read the rest of this entry »
UK German companies pull out of 2 nuclear power stations building projects
29/3/2012 BBC RWE and E.On halt UK nuclear plans at Wylfa and Oldbury. Read the rest of this entry »
Scientist calls for cuts in methane emissions to slow climate change
29/3/2012 New Scientist Methane cuts could delay climate change by 15 years. Read the rest of this entry »
UK government has done nothing to report carbon emissions four years after legislation requiring it
29/3/2012 Guardian Caroline Spelman’s ‘no decision’ announcement on carbon reporting reveals Read the rest of this entry »
IPCC International climate change panel warns of unprecedented deadly weather extremes
29/3/2012 Guardian Climate change panel warns of severe storms, heatwaves and floods. Read the rest of this entry »
USA heatwave is more likely because of burning fossil fuels
29/3/2012 Guardian US heatwave may have been made more likely by global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
Report says global warming will reduce food production worldwide dramatically – so agriculture must change.
28/3/2012 BBC Farming needs ‘climate-smart’ revolution, says report/. – by Richard Black. Read the rest of this entry »
Tipping point may have been passed by Arctic summer sea ice loss
28/3/2012 New Scientist Arctic sea ice may have passed crucial tipping point. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Industry criticises government for failing to set up greenhouse gas reporting
28/3/2012 Guardian Industry blasts ‘unacceptable’ delay to carbon reporting. Read the rest of this entry »
Nigel Lawson’s climate change denial funding revealed as Michael Hintze
28/3/2012 Guardian Michael Hintze revealed as funder of Lord Lawson’s climate thinktank. Read the rest of this entry »
Extreme weather events increased over the past decade due to carbon emissions study shows.
27/3/2012 Guardian Extreme weather events increased over past decade, study says. Read the rest of this entry »
Denmark aims for 35% 0f total energy from wind power by 2020 and 100% by 2050
27/3/2012 Guardian Denmark aims to get 50% of all electricity from wind power. Read the rest of this entry »
State of the Planet Report from two Professors
26/3/2012 BBC Welcome to the Anthropocene – what now? Is the the outlook pessimistic… Read the rest of this entry »
UK new facility to improve measurement of carbon emissions
26/3/2912 BBC UK carbon measuring centre ‘to improve climate future’. Read the rest of this entry »
3°C increase in global temperatures is predicted by 2050 by research study (ie 1.4C-3C range)
25/3/2012 BBC Temperatures could rise by 3°C by 2050, models suggest. Read the rest of this entry »
Study shows that renewable energy is not replacing fossil fuel energy: it is necessary to stop burning fossil fuels.
24/3/2012 BBC Fossil fuels: Stubborn to substitution. Read the rest of this entry »
Fisheries in prehistory give clues to how sustainable catches could be optimised
24/3/2012 New Scientist Prehistoric fisheries offer clues to sustainable catch. Read the rest of this entry »
USA Las Vegas plan to pump water 300miles from east Nevada has been approved to the detriment of local communties
23/3/2012 Guardian Las Vegas plans to pump water across 300 miles of desert approved. Read the rest of this entry »
Do you belive in climate change? Vicky Pope explains why you should not ask this question.
23/3/2012 Guardian Do you believe in climate change? Read the rest of this entry »
UK Chancellor “Environmental sustainable must always be fiscally sustainable” this denies the meaning of environmentally sustainable
24/3/2012 Guardian Budget 2012: green measures at a glance. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Energy secretary warns that wars over water will emerge if carbon emissions continue
22/3/2012 Guardian Water wars between countries could be just around the corner, Davey warns. Read the rest of this entry »
Oceans – more than $2 trillion damage will be caused by global warming by 2010 on with latest projections
22/3/2012 New Scientist Damage to oceans will cost $2 trillion. Read the rest of this entry »
USA Tennessee bill protects climate change denial teachers
2/3/2012 Guardian Tennessee bill protects teachers who challenge evolution and climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Mann, Michael E. The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines.
Michael E. Mann 2012 The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the front Lines. Read the rest of this entry »
UK government plans to scrap many years of environmental protection legislation
21/3/2012 Independent George Osborne will signal today that the Government is to press ahead with highly controversial reforms Read the rest of this entry »
UK – US consortium to build carbon capture plant at Grangemouth, near Edinburgh.
21/3/2012 Guardian US consortium to build carbon capture and storage plant at Grangemouth. Read the rest of this entry »
USA Record breaking temperatures in Illinois are ignored by the candidates.
21/3/2012 Guardian Record-breaking dead heat in Illinois for both polls and temperature. Read the rest of this entry »
China – huge spending on renewable energy aims to provide 15% from renewables by 2020
19/3/2012 Guardian Winds of change blow through China as spending on renewable energy soars. Read the rest of this entry »
US congressman Henry Waxman says make industries creating carbon pollution pay the cost
19/3/2012 Guardian Climate change: make industry pay for carbon emissions, US congressman says. Read the rest of this entry »
World temperature records – the latest update – from 1850 to 2010 (the warmest year on record).
19/3/2012 BBC Update for world temperature data. – by Mark Kinver. Read the rest of this entry »
UK government promised to be “the greenest ever” – only 2% say it has been.
19/3/2012 Guardian Only 2% believe David Cameron is leading ‘greenest government ever’. Read the rest of this entry »
UK British Airways aims to use some fuel from household garbage in an attempt to reduce carbon emissions
18/3/32012 Guardian British Airways, climate change and a load of rubbish. -by Damian Carrington. Read the rest of this entry »
Nuclear power has consistently failed to produce clean energy and safe environment
18/3/2012 Guardian Nuclear power will fail to achieve what George Monbiot wants. Read the rest of this entry »
UK senior engineer calls for geoengineering to stop “planetary emergency” of arctic methane release
18/3/2012 BBC Climate ‘tech fixes’ urged for Arctic methane. -by Richard Black. Read the rest of this entry »
Decommissioning nuclear reactors is “difficult, time-consuming and expensive” – Fred Pearce
16/3/2012 Ne Scientist How to dismantle a nuclear reactor. Read the rest of this entry »
UK London’s air pollution is at a record high
16/3/2012 Guardian London air pollution at record high. Read the rest of this entry »
Antarctic ice sheet may have subsided rather than melted 400,000 years ago when sea levels rose 20 metres
15/3/2012 New Scientist THE East Antarctic ice sheet looks unlikely to release its frozen grip any time soon. Read the rest of this entry »
OECD report predicts 3.6m people per year killed by air pollution by 2050
15/3/2012 Guardian Air pollution ‘will become bigger global killer than dirty water’. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Met Office says loss of Arctic summer sea ice is linked to colder,drier UK winters
15/3/2012 Guardian Met Office: Arctic sea-ice loss linked to colder, drier UK winters. Read the rest of this entry »
USA Thoreau’s Walden Pond is now 2.4C warmer than he measured it in 1840′s
14/3/2012 Guardian Scientists use Thoreau’s journal notes to track climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
USA UNFCCC Secretary warns voting in a Republican Presidential candidate who denies climate change would damage the economy.
10/3/2012 Guardian Republican presidential win would lose US ground to China – UN climate chief. Read the rest of this entry »
UN safe water claim exposed by experts for using weakened criteria
9/3/2012 New Scientist Doubts raised over UN drinking water claim. Read the rest of this entry »
Nuclear reactor construction starts fell from 38 in 2008-2010 to 2 in 2011-2012
8/3/2012 Guardian From 2008 to 2010, construction work began on 38 reactors around the world, but Read the rest of this entry »
UN world target of clean water achieved 5 years early
8/3/2012 Independent The world’s nations have achieved a UN goal Read the rest of this entry »
How research reveals how hot and cold the world was with carbon in the distant past
8/3/2012 Guardian How do we know how warm or cold it was in the past? Read the rest of this entry »
UK nuclear power stations’ sites at risk from rising sea levels caused by global warming
7/3/2012 Guardian UK nuclear sites at risk of flooding, report shows. Read the rest of this entry »
UK climate change denier linked to Europe’s colossal polluter – by Damian Carrington
6/3/2012 Guardian Lord Lawson’s links to Europe’s colossal coal polluter. -Damian Carrington. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty
3/3/2012 Guardian Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty. Read the rest of this entry »
Antarctica probably losing ice but weather patterns changing
3/3/2012 Guardian Is Antarctica getting warmer and gaining ice? Read the rest of this entry »
Oceans are acidifying at unprecedented speed
2/3/2012 New Scientist Oceans acidifying at unprecedented speed. Read the rest of this entry »
China sets new tougher rules to monitor air pollution in all major cities
2/3/2012 Guardian China sets new tougher rules to monitor air pollution in all major cities. Read the rest of this entry »
UK and northern Europe – climate change brings increased risk of diseases
2/3/2012 BBC Schmallenberg virus: Climate ‘raising UK disease risk’ , Read the rest of this entry »
EU politicians back plan to withhold CO2 permits
29/2/2012 Guardian EU politicians back plan to withhold CO2 permits. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Mann answers questions on the ‘hockey stick’ graph
28/2/2012 Guardian Live Q&A: Climate scientist Michael Mann on the ‘hockey stick’ controversy. Read the rest of this entry »
Arctic – loss of summer sea ice is probably causing more extreme cold winters in Europe
28/2/2012 New Scientist Melting sea ice could trigger colder winters. Read the rest of this entry »
Arctic – increasing loss of summer ice is probable cause of recent very cold European winters
28/2/2012 BBC Melting Arctic link to cold, snowy UK winters. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change will bring volcanoes and catastrophic earthquakes – new book by Bill McGuire
27/2/2012 Guardian Climate change will shake the Earth. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Environmental Secretary says it would cost too much to achieve EU pollution reduction goals
27/2/2012 Guardian Pollution row after minister deems air quality goals too costly. Read the rest of this entry »
UK wind farms are subsidized but not as much as fossil fuel tax breaks, new data shows
27/2/2012 Guardian Wind power still gets lower public subsidies than fossil fuel tax breaks. Read the rest of this entry »
UK considers reducing lighting on A -roads to save money and cut CO2 emissions
25/2/2012 BBC Road lighting ‘could be dimmed’ Read the rest of this entry »
Emails released by Heartland show how easily Gleick accessed files
25/2/2012 Guardian Heartland emails show ease in which Gleick accessed sensitive files. Read the rest of this entry »
We need transparency about the Heartland Institute – by George Monbiot
25/2/2012 Guardian Anything to declare, Mr Booker? Read the rest of this entry »
EU vote deadlock on tar sands being highly polluting
24/2/2012 Guardian EU tar sands pollution vote ends in deadlock. Read the rest of this entry »
Heartland Institute: Gleick apologised, but his exposure of hidden funds from fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial in US schools is crucial
22/2/2012 Guardian Gleick apology over Heartland leak stirs ethics debate among climate scientists. Read the rest of this entry »
USA (2)schools targetted by climate change deniers secretly funded by fossil fuel industry
22/2/2012 New Scientist Don’t cloud young minds – Editorial. Read the rest of this entry »
USA (1) schools are targetted by climate change deniers back by hidden funds from fossil fuel industry
22/2/2012 New Scientist Climate sceptics may find fertile ground in US schools. - by Bob Holmes. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate scientist explains why he leaked Heartland Institute’s secret funding of climate change deniers.
21/2/2012 Guardian Climate scientist Peter Gleick admits he leaked Heartland Institute documents. Read the rest of this entry »
Law decision says you can’t know who funds climate change denier Lord Lawson
21/2/2012 Guardian Climate change sceptic thinktank not ‘influential’ enough to reveal funder. Read the rest of this entry »
Heartland Institute leak exposes strategies to undermine long-established climate change science
21/2/2012 Guardian Heartland Institute leak exposes strategies of climate attack machine. Read the rest of this entry »
Heartland Institute’s hidden funding threatens democracy – read George Monbiot
21/2/2012 Guardian We need to know who funds these thinktank lobbyists. Read the rest of this entry »
Russian heatwave 2010 was made 3 times more likely by climate change
21/2/2012 Guardian Climate change increased likelihood of Russian 2010 heatwave – study. Read the rest of this entry »
Canada threatens EU with trade war over tar sands
20/2/2012 Guardian Canada threatens trade war with EU over tar sands. Read the rest of this entry »
Warning from prizewinners – civilization faces ‘perfect storm of eological and social problems’
20/2/2012 Guardian Civilisation faces ‘perfect storm of ecological and social problems’ Read the rest of this entry »
Ocean floor vents give grave warning for future marine ecosystems and increased CO2 emissions
19/2/2012 BBC ‘Jacuzzi vents’ model CO2 future. – by Jonathan Amos. Read the rest of this entry »
USA top scientists “are scared to death of the anti-science lobby”
19/2/2012 Observer Attacks paid for by big business ‘driving science into dark era’. Read the rest of this entry »
Scientists call for more regulation of fracking to reduce health and environment damage
19/2/2912 Guardian Tighten fracking regulations, scientists urge US officials. Read the rest of this entry »
Heartland Institute which tries to discredit climate science pays no tax.
18/2/2012 Guardian The Heartland Institute, whose strategy to undermine climate change was exposed this week, Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Mann’s book shows how the fossil fuel industry tries to discredit his science
18/2/2012 Guardian The inside story on climate scientists under siege. Read the rest of this entry »
Canadian government is muzzling its scientists
17/2/2012 BBC Canadian government is ‘muzzling its scientists’ – by Pallab Ghosh. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change denial-promoting Institute exposed
17/2/2012 New Scientist The tables have been well and truly turned in “deniergate”, Read the rest of this entry »
Thinktank shown to be funded by oil interests to discredit climate change science appeals for donations
17/2/2012 Guardian Heartland Institute ‘fights back’ over publication of confidential documents. Read the rest of this entry »
UN climate negotiating positions match nations’ fossil fuel reserves
16/2/2012 Guardian Revealed: How fossil fuel reserves match UN climate negotiating positions. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate deniers – who gets paid what? Report by Leo Hickman
16/2/2012 Guardian Climate sceptics – who gets paid what? Read the rest of this entry »
Leaked Heartland Institute documents shows big money promoting lies about climate change
16/2/2012 Guardian Leaked Heartland Institute documents pull back curtain on climate scepticism. Read the rest of this entry »
Leak shows billionaire Charles Koch finances Heartland Institute which undermines established science on climate change.
16/2/2012 Guardian Leak exposes how Heartland Institute works to undermine climate science. Read the rest of this entry »
Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice? -by George Monbiot
13/2/2012 Guardian Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice? Read the rest of this entry »
Rio Summit 2012 will fail because the political system is broken say leading ecologists
11/2/2012 New Scientist Earth Summit is doomed to fail, say leading ecologists. Read the rest of this entry »
Glaciers – Ice loss totals 536 gigatonnes (+/- 93Gt) 2012 data
Table of glacier losses plus Leo Hickman’s conclusions. Read the rest of this entry »
Nature report shows major losses of ice from most glaciers — by Leo Hickman
10/2/2012 Guardian Are the world’s glaciers threatened by climate change? Read the rest of this entry »
Satellites show 1,000 cubic miles of ice has melted from our planet
9/2/2012 Independent The total volume of water that has melted from all of the world’s polar ice sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers over the past decade…. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Lord’ Monckton climate denier calls on super-rich to fund Fox News in UK and Australia
9/2/2012 Guardian Australia reacts to Lord Monckton’s call for a ‘Fox News’ funded by ‘super rich’. Read the rest of this entry »
Himalaya peaks have lost no ice in 10 years – everywhere else is melting.
9/2/2012 Guardian The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows. Read the rest of this entry »
EU extreme cold weather traced to loss of Arctic ice by weather scientists
7/2/2012 Independent The bitterly cold weather sweeping Britain and the rest of Europe has been linked by scientists with… Read the rest of this entry »
UK How the ‘wind farms increase climate change’ myth was created – by Leo Hickman
7/2/2012 Guardian How the ‘wind farms increase climate change’ myth was born. – by Leo Hickman. Read the rest of this entry »
UK carbon emissions rose more than 3% in 2010
7/2/2012 Guardian EU wants a 30% cut in carbon emissions, a target agreed by UK, but Tory MEPs are opposing it. Read the rest of this entry »
Geoengineering equivalent of volcano to cool plant might work says report but may have damaging consequences
6/2/2012 Guardian Could an artificial volcano cool the planet by dimming the sun? Read the rest of this entry »
Big financial backers implicated in pressure to try climate geoengineering
6/2/2012 Guardian Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale engineering. Read the rest of this entry »