Carbon cuts by developed countries cancelled out by imported goods MANY TIMES OVER.
26/4/2011 Guardian Imported goods in developed countries cancel out carbon emissions savings, Read the rest of this entry »
Reactive Nitrogen pollution from farms, vehicles, industry and waste costs European Union £280billion per year.
11/4/2011 BBC Nitrogen pollution ‘costs EU up to £280bn a year’- by Roger Harrabin. Read the rest of this entry »
Evidence of massive consensus that humans are changing the climate.
8/4/2011 Guardian Is there a scientific consensus on man-made climate change? Read the rest of this entry »
Gulf stream is threatened by fast-growing pool of Arctic melt water
6/4/2011 New Scientist Gulf Stream could be threatened by Arctic flush by Fred Pearce. Read the rest of this entry »
UK climate is threatened by huge pool of Arctic melt water which could divert the Gulf Stream
6/4/2011 Independent Why build-up of fresh water in Arctic could spell trouble for Britain. Read the rest of this entry »
UK doctors and senior military cooperate to warn people of the dangers of climate change
6/4/2011 Guardian Doctors urged to take climate leadership role. Read the rest of this entry »
Glaciers - some are melting 100 times faster than at any time in the past 350 years.
4/4/2011 Independent Glaciers melting at fastest rate in 350 years, study finds - by Lewis Smith. Read the rest of this entry »
Carbon emissions/ 350ppm - has climate sensitivity been seriously underestimated?
17/3/2010 Extracts from ‘Critical Issues in the Domain of Climate Dynamics’ by David Wasdell’ Read the rest of this entry »
UK Crisis Plan to wean UK off oil because of Libya uncertainty about oil supplies.
6/3/2011 Observer Libya unrest forces crisis plan to wean UK off oil. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Climate change doubled likelihood of devastating UK floods of 2000
17/2/2011 Guardian Global warming made the floods that devastated England and Wales in the autumn of 2000, costing £3.5bn, Read the rest of this entry »
Egypt and Tunisia: could be the first victims of the global food crisis
8/2/2011 New Scientist Tunisia’s government has fallen and Egypt’s is facing insurrection Read the rest of this entry »
UK government claims its emissions have gone down: they have gone up.
9/2/2011 Guardian The UK must own up to the full scale of its emissions problem. Read the rest of this entry »
Scientists show that when birds die plants become extinct over time
3/2/2011 New Scientist After the birds vanish, plants are next to go. Read the rest of this entry »
Amazon changing from carbon absorber to carbon emitter equal to USA
4/2/2011 Independent Catastrophic drought in the Amazon Region set to outstrip US as CO2 emitter by Steve Connor. Read the rest of this entry »
Amazon ‘climate tipping point’ may be close because of droughts and mass tree deaths
4/2/2011 Guardian Mass tree deaths prompt fears of Amazon ‘climate tipping point’. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Poll asked if climate change was a current or imminent threat, 83% of Britons agreed.
1/2/2011 Guardian Public belief in climate change weathers storm, poll shows. Read the rest of this entry »
UN Secretary General says the World’s economic model is ‘environmental suicide’
29/1/2011 Guardian Ban Ki-moon: says the World’s economic model is ‘environmental suicide’. Read the rest of this entry »
Energy - Efficiency could cut world energy use by 74% cutting CO2 emissions massively.
27/1/2011 New Scientist by Helen Knight -Simple changes like installing better building insulation could cut the world’s energy demands by three-quarters, according to a new study. Read the rest of this entry »
How much warmer will the planet get? Best answer about 4ºC.
25/1/2010 Guardian Scientists usually provide a range of possible future temperature changes for any one emissions scenario. Read the rest of this entry »
2010 hottest global temperature since records began in 1850, confirming global warming.
20/1/2011 BBC 2010 hits global temperature high by Richard Black. Read the rest of this entry »
Global warming. 2010 was joint warmest on record, say climatologists
12/1/2011 Guardian The Earth had its joint warmest year since records began in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Climate Weekly survey finds 4 out of 5 motivated to take action on climate change
Climate Week also commissioned another survey, this time conducted by ICM and involving a sample of 2003 adults. Read the rest of this entry »
Scientists find ‘drastic’ changes in North Atlantic ocean currents changing weather in Europe and USA
8/1.2011 Independent Scientists have found evidence of a “drastic” shift since the 1970s in north Atlantic Ocean currents that usually influence weather in the northern hemisphere, Read the rest of this entry »
Greenland melt tipping point 2040
5/1/2011 New Scientist Last chance to hold Greenland back from tipping point. Read the rest of this entry »
James Hansen : Tax on carbon: The only way to save our planet?
4/1/2011 Independent He first warned about climate change 30 years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
2010 December Now 390 ppm CO2 in atmosphere by Robin McKie
26/12/2010 The Observer On an observatory 11,000 feet high on Mauna Loa, a volcano in Hawaii … automated detectors have been churning out details about the make-up of our atmosphere for several decades. Read the rest of this entry »
The Register demonstrates how climate myths are created by skeptic using wrong assertions
18/12/2010 Guardian The Register demonstrates how climate myths are created by Peter Hadley. Read the rest of this entry »
A billion people will lose their homes due to climate change, says report
28/11/2010 The Observer Venice is already in danger of sinking beneath the waves and the peril will increase as sea levels rise. Read the rest of this entry »
2010 ‘among hottest on record’ global temperatures - UK Met Office
26/11/2010 BBC Met Office says 2010 ‘among hottest on record’ by Roger Harrabin. Read the rest of this entry »
UN warning: The world is firmly on path for dangerous climate change.
24/11/2010 Independent UN issues severe climate warning ahead of summit by Michael McCarthy. Read the rest of this entry »
China may be planning law to restrict greenhouse emissions
22/11/2010 BBC China hints at new climate future by Richard Black. Read the rest of this entry »
James Hansen puts his Blue Planet Award acceptance speech on the web
27/10/2010 dr James Hansen’s Blue Planet lecture - Tokyo. link to whole presentation and graphics below. Read the rest of this entry »
UN Biodiversity Conference -We’ve been conned. The deal to save the natural world never happened by George Monbiot
2/11/2010 Guardian ‘Countries join forces to save life on Earth”, the front page of the Independent told us. Read the rest of this entry »
Arctic - 2 kilometres under the ice - temperatures are 1ºC higher and warming is faster than previous assumptions.
31/10/2010 New Scientist Narwhals diving nearly 2 kilometres below polar ice have revealed that climatology models used for the Baffin bay region Read the rest of this entry »
Japan - Biodiversity meeting ends with weak deal but call for ‘urgent’ action by Richard Black
30/10/2010 BBC Japan are likely to emerge with credit after ensuring tough negotiations were not derailed. Read the rest of this entry »
Global warming up 12°C - half the world will be uninhabitable
22/10/2010 New Scientist Thermogeddon: When the Earth gets too hot for humans. (Long article). Read the rest of this entry »
Common Cause: The Case for Working with our Cultural Values. Report by WWF, COIN, CPRE, FOE, Oxfam
15/9/2010 WWF website The case for working with our cultural values. Read the rest of this entry »
10/10/2010 350 actions across the planet nearly 8000 events in 188 countries
Go to: www.350.org to see the video click here. Read the rest of this entry »
Not even massive geoengineering projects will stop the seas’ relentless rise.
22/9/2010 New Scientist Maybe it’s time we found somewhere to put all that excess water. Read the rest of this entry »
MacKay, David Sustainable Energy: without the hot air.
Sustainable Energy: without the hot air, David MacKay 2009, UIT Cambridge UK. Read the rest of this entry »
What Global Warming Looks Like…So Far - James Hansen
14/8/2010 What Global Warming Looks Like by James Hansen Read the rest of this entry »
Greenland ice sheet faces ‘tipping point in 10 years’
11/8/2010 Guardian Greenland’s ice sheet could break up if the temperature rises by as little as 2C. Read the rest of this entry »
Biochar potential to trap carbon - depends on how you do it by Richard Black
10/8/2010 BBC Last year, there seemed to be an unwritten rule in enviro-circles: whenever two or more enviro-folks were gathered together in a place of meeting, talk must turn to biochar. Read the rest of this entry »
Research shows rice yields falling because of global warming
9/8/2010 BBC Global warming is cutting rice yields in many parts of Asia, according to research, with more declines to come. Read the rest of this entry »
China overtakes US as world’s biggest energy consumer
3/8/2010 Guardian According to the respected International Energy Agency, China’s use of coal,
oil, wind and other sources of power more than doubled in the past decade Read the rest of this entry »
Global warming - scientists have warned us since 1975 - 35 years and no effective action taken.
29/7/2010 www.realclimate.org Happy 35th birthday, global warming! Read the rest of this entry »
First five months of 2010 hottest globally since records began in 1880.
29/7/2010 Guardian by Jeffrey Sachs All signs suggest that the planet is still hurtling headlong toward climatic disaster. Read the rest of this entry »
Why the gulf oil disaster will not cause a climate change wake up
21/7/2010 New Scientist The Gulf oil disaster is a wake-up call, but we’ll sleep right through it. Read the rest of this entry »
Eating less meat - what it can do to reduce carbon emissions
21/7/2010 New Scientist IF YOU’RE a typical westerner, you ate nearly 100 kilograms of meat last year. Read the rest of this entry »
10 ways vegetarianism can help save the planet
17/7/2010 Observer 10 ways vegetarianism can help save the planet. Read the rest of this entry »
Glaciers on Mount Everest are shrinking, according to startling new photographs.
18/7/2010 Sunday Telegraph Photos show dramatic shrinking of Mount Everest glaciers Read the rest of this entry »
Population and climate change by Richard Black
17/7/2010 BBC It’s an unusually well-structured week that begins with cause and ends with effect. Read the rest of this entry »
Right-wing think tanks that deny climate change are advocating geoengineering
15/7/2010 New Scientist In 1892 Edvard Munch witnessed a blood-red sunset over Oslo, Norway. Read the rest of this entry »
Renewables see ‘resilient growth’ in 2009 by Mark Kinver
16/7/2010 BBC Harnessing power from the Sun is one of the fastest growing energy sectors.2 graphics. Read the rest of this entry »
UN gives billions to build coal-fired power station marginally less polluting than old ones.
15/7/2010 Guardian Rich countries to pay energy giants to build new coal-fired power plants. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Earth climate change map unveiled
14/7/2010 Channel 4 As the coalition launches a Google Earth map showing the potential impact of temperature rises across the world, Read the rest of this entry »
Google climate map offers a glimpse of a 4C world
15/7/2010 Guardian Interactive tool layering climate data over Google Earth maps shows the impact of an average global
temperature rise of 4C
Global population is still a problem by Robert Walker
14/7/2010 Guardian Fred Pearce keeps on saying that population growth is no longer a problem. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate sceptic Morano’s ‘courage’ award is a vicious irony by Leo Hickman
14/7/2010 Guardian Climate sceptic Morano’s ‘courage’ award is a vicious irony. Read the rest of this entry »
Pliocene epoch had 390ppm carbon like us and was 2 or 3 degrees warmer.
9/7/2010 New Scientist With carbon dioxide levels close to our own, the Arctic of the Pliocene epoch may have warmed much more than previously thought Read the rest of this entry »
Global emissions targets will lead to 4C temperature rise, say studies
6/7/2010 Guardian The world is heading for an average temperature rise of nearly 4C (7F), according to analysis of national pledges from around the
globe. 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Top 50 Twitter climate accounts to follow
13/5/2010 Guardian We’ve pulled together the top 50 Twitter accounts worth following with the help of Guardian readers on Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »
CO2 in 2009 was 387.35ppm - CO2NOW organisation. Need to get back to 350.
25/4/2010 CO2NOW.org In 2009, the average concentration for atmospheric CO2 (Mauna Loa Observatory) was 387.35 parts per million (ppm). Read the rest of this entry »
3° Celsius world - that is what the ‘Paltry’ Copenhagen carbon pledges point to
21/4/2010 BBC Pledges made at December’s UN summit in Copenhagen are unlikely to keep global warming below 2C, a study concludes. Read the rest of this entry »
Bolivian glaciers are in dramatic retreat due to rising temperatures: villagers want compensation
20/4/2010 BBC For the Incas, and most of the Andean civilisations, snow-capped mountains were divinities to be honoured, as they supplied water. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate Change tops the poll at Royal Society meeting of the world’s science academies
14/4/2010 New Scientist Magazine issue 2756 A 2020 vision for global science. WE LIVE in a world that is more interconnected - and more vulnerable - than ever before. Read the rest of this entry »
James Hansen’s latest :”Obama’s Second Chance on the Predominant Moral Issue of This Century”
James Hansen’s latest popular publication is available as a pdf document Read the rest of this entry »
World comparisons. Ecofootprints and greenhouse gas pollution.
Data on World comparisons. Ecofootprints and greenhouse gas pollution. From Fred Pearce’s 2010 book PeopleQuake. (details in BOOK LIST). Read the rest of this entry »
World Population Peak - data from Fred Pearce book PeopleQuake
World Population will soon Peak then decline - data from Fred Pearce book PeopleQuake (details in BOOK LIST). Read the rest of this entry »
US oil company donated millions to climate sceptic groups, says Greenpeace
31/3/2010 Guardian Greenpeace has identified Kansas-based oil firm Koch Industries as a multimillion funder of climate sceptic groups. Read the rest of this entry »
Drought, refugees, revolution and war - the military prepares for climate doomsday
22/3/2010 Scotsman Jenny Fyall ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT. Read the rest of this entry »
People who fit energy saving devises then tend to use more - survey
20/3/2010 SURVEYS of hundreds of UK households reveal that people who have made their houses more energy efficient are more likely to indulge in small excesses—turning upthe heating, for example, or keeping it on for longer. Read the rest of this entry »
Sea level rises - at least 1 metre by 2100 (nearly twice IPCC prediction)
11/3/2010 www.realclimate.org Sealevelgate Read the rest of this entry »
“Pentagon has identified climate change as the most potentially catastrophic risk facing US” - BBC discussant.
28/2/2010 BBC Start the Week. Discussion with Graciela Chichilnisky - who works for the US Airforce. Read the rest of this entry »
World’s top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates
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 »
Amid the rows, one truth: the world is still warming - Comment by Fred Pearce
5/2/2010 Guardian “None of the 1,073 emails upsets the 200-year-old science behind the greenhouse effect” Read the rest of this entry »
James Hansen exposes the folly of cap-and-trade plans in an open letter
14/1/2010 Guardian “You are choosing the path focused on corporate greed,” climate scientist James Hansen has told carbon traders in a open letter which he and climate activists attempted to deliver to a carbon trading conference in New York today. Read the rest of this entry »
Evidence of further dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas that is seeping from the Arctic seabed.
6/1/2010 BBC Scientists have uncovered what appears to be a further dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas that is seeping from the Arctic seabed. Read the rest of this entry »
Critique of cap and trade “We are Selling Indulgencies” by James Hansen
31/12/2009 Observer Last month’s minimalist Copenhagen global climate accord provides a great opportunity. The old deceitful, ineffectual approach is severely wounded and must die. Read the rest of this entry »
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room by Mark Lynas
23/12/2009 Guardian Copenhagen was a disaster. That much is agreed. But the truth about what actually happened is in danger of being lost amid the spin and inevitable mutual recriminations. Read the rest of this entry »
This is bigger than climate change. It is a battle to redefine humanity by George Monbiot
15/12/2009 Guardian This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Read the rest of this entry »
Copenhagen “We don’t have a leader who is able to grasp it and say what is really needed.” - James Hansen
3/12/2009 BBC Copenhagen climate change conference 2009 Copenhagen climate change talks must fail, says top scientistExclusive: World’s leading climate change expert says summit talks so flawed that deal would be a disaster. Read the rest of this entry »
Never-Give-Up Fighting Spirit: Lessons From a Grandchild - by James Hansen
30/11/2009 by e-mail Never-Give-Up Fighting Spirit: Lessons From a Grandchild. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Global Warming Time Bomb: Actions Needed to Avert Disaster’ by James Hansen to Club of Rome Global Assembly Amsterdam
’Global Warming Time Bomb: Actions Needed to Avert Disaster’ by James Hansen 26 October 2009 to the Club of Rome Global Assembly 2009, Muzickgebouw aan ‘t ij/Harbour Music Hall, Amsterdam, Netherlands Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change sceptics and lobbyists put world at risk, says top adviser
23/11/2009 Guardian Professor Bob Watson, chief scientists at the department for environment and rural affairs. Read the rest of this entry »
“Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease” George Monbiot
3/11/2009 Guardian There is no point in denying it: we’re losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. Read the rest of this entry »
Science Museum unveils climate change map showing “disastrous” impact of 4C rise by 2060
23/10/2009 Guardian The British government today raised the political stakes on climate change when it published a new map of the world that details the likely effects of a failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
New carbon data shows political targets “playing with fire” 25-40metre sea rise
11/10/2009 BBC A new historical record of carbon dioxide levels suggests current political targets on climate may be “playing with fire”, scientists say. Read the rest of this entry »
Developed country emissions pledges fall far short of danger, analysis shows
10/10/2009 Guardian Analysis by the World Resources Institute, part of the Guardian Environment Network. Read the rest of this entry »
A WORLD 4 ºC Warmer - It may happen in our lifetime. (includes Graphic)
3/10/2009 New Scientist By 2055, climate change is likely to have warmed the world by a dangerous 4ºC unless we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere the way we do now.IF YOU CLICK THE READ MORE HERE YOU WILL DOWNLOAD A GRAPHIC (also available in the GRAPHICS Category) Read the rest of this entry »
CO2 emissions created by Britons are probably twice as bad as official figures
11/10/2009 BBC Professor David MacKay told the BBC that reductions in carbon dioxide emissions since 1990 are “an illusion”. Read the rest of this entry »
We’re pumping out CO2 to the point of no return. It’s time to alter course by George Monbiot
1/9/2009 Guardian Until a few months ago, government targets for cutting greenhouse gases at least had the virtue of being wrong. Read the rest of this entry »