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Mountain glaciers changing faster than ever says eminent mountaineer

28/11/2007 Guardian  President of the Alpine Club with decades of experience climbing mountain glaciers says they are changing faster than ever and affects about 1.5bn people.   Read the rest of this entry »

Non-silicon solar power - cheaper but less efficient?

29/11/2007  Guardian  Research aims to make much cheaper non-siliocon solar cells but efficency is much less.   Read the rest of this entry »

Compare CO2 emissions for train, car, plane

28/11/2007 from the web   Virgin trains offered comparisons of CO2 emissions.  Read the rest of this entry »

Constructive critque of book ‘Six Degrees’ Mark Lynas

The realclimate website (details in websites list) has an article on ‘Six Degrees’ Mark Lynas. Read the rest of this entry »

Research claims homes could cut CO2 by 80% by 2050

27/11/2007 BBC  Carbon dioxide emissions from UK homes could be cut by up to 80% by 2050, according to a low carbon strategy produced by Oxford University.  Read the rest of this entry »

Campaigners achievements local successes

Campaigner gets plastic bags banned in her town in Devon.   Campaigning family tries living entirely on locally produced food in Kinghorn.   Read the rest of this entry »

Climate swings shaped human evolution, researchers claim

24/11/2007 Guardian  The evolution of our earliest human ancestors was driven by wild swings in eastern
Africa’s ancient climate, scientists claim today. Read the rest of this entry »

Global warming could reverse Asia’s social and economic achievements

24/11/2007 Guardian  Global warming will send Asia’s social and economic progress into reverse unless immediate action is taken to tackle climate change, according to a report today. Read the rest of this entry »

Australia - Tackling the fossil fuel juggernaut?

17/11/2007 BBC   Environmentalists urge a decrease in fossil fuel burning.  So here, as Australians say, is “the big ask”.  Read the rest of this entry »

Environment issues are a matter of survival -says Manila times.

31/10/2007 The Manila Times Internet Edition  “The environment has become a survival issue,” Professor Von Hernandez told Manila Times Reporters.   Read the rest of this entry »

Latest IPCC Report - summary available

For a summary of the latest IPCC Report go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/17_11_07_ipcc4.pdf

UN Secretary General warms all nations on basis of latest IPCC report

17/11/2007 BBC   UN challenges states on global warming - latest IPCC report.     Read the rest of this entry »

UN -Biofuels bonanza will crash if producers are irresponsible.

15/11/2007 BBC   Achim Steiner of the UN Environment Programme (Unep) said there was  an urgent need for standards to make sure rainforests weren’t being destroyed.   Read the rest of this entry »

BBC Environemnt Corrspodent on ‘Unravelling the sceptics’

15/11/2007 BBC Unravelling the sceptics by Richard Black Environment correspondent.     Read the rest of this entry »

BBC Viewpoint publishes a sociologist’s analyis of climate scepticsm

15/11/2007 BBC  VIEWPOINT  analysis of climate scepticism by Kari Marie Norgaard  Whitman College, US Read the rest of this entry »

BBC Viewpoint publishes a UK climate sceptic’s arguments

15/11/2007 BBC  Viewpoint  publishes a UK climate sceptic’s arguments .    Read the rest of this entry »

Climate scepticism: The top 10 reviewed by BBC

13/11/2007 BBC reviews the top 10 excuses for not believing global warming is due to human pollution.    Read the rest of this entry »

Indonesia clearances for palmoil -threat to environment

8/11/2007 BBC Huge swathes of Indonesia’s jungles are under threat of clearances to grow palm oil  - Greenpeace Report.  Read the rest of this entry »

Energy needs to escalate - report

7/11/2007  BBC   The global demand for energy is set to grow inexorably through to 2030 if governments do not change their policies, warns a top energy official.    Read the rest of this entry »

Half of UK’s top firms fail to publish plans to cut carbon emissions

5/11/2007 Guardian · Voluntary action too little, says Friends of the Earth.   Read the rest of this entry »

Poll in 21 countries - majority ready for ‘green sacrifices’

5/11/2007 BBC  poll suggests the majority of people are more ready than politicians to make personal sacrifices.   Read the rest of this entry »

Arctic ice island breaks in half - far earlier than expected.

1/11/2007 BBC  Ayles ice island 10miles x 3 miles by 128-148 feet high has broken in two far earlier than expected.  Read the rest of this entry »

100,000′s flee Mexican floods

4/11/2007 BBC  Hundreds of thousands of people have fled severe floods in the south Mexican state of Tabasco where rivers burst their banks after heavy rain.  Read the rest of this entry »