Hansen’s message simplified as 33 scrollable slides
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Arctic expert predicts the final collapse of summer ice within 4 years
17/9/2012 Guardian Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years. Read the rest of this entry »
Greenpeace ship in the Arctic melting ice
Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise, at the nearest ever to the North Pole Guardian 15/9/2012. Read the rest of this entry »
Arctic summer ice melt record this year predicts ice free arctic summer waters within 20 years
14/9/2012 Guardian The staggering decline of sea ice at the frontline of climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Antarctica fossil plants show it was tropical and 10°C warmer in the past
11/9/2012 New Scientist Lush Antarctic past suggests more monsoons in future. Read the rest of this entry »
Arctic sea ice melting at “amazing speed” - likely to affect jet stream, weather and storms.
7/9/2012 BBC Arctic ice melting at ‘amazing’ speed, scientists Read the rest of this entry »
Arctic sea ice loss is ‘like addng 20 years of carbon dioxide emissions’ says climate scientist.
5/9/2012 BBC Arctic ice melt ‘like adding 20 years of CO2 emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
World Bank says end $50 billion fossil fuel subsidy to stop climate change
22/9/2011 Guardian Leaked World Bank documents propose that rich countries should eliminate the $50bn a year they give in fossil fuel Read the rest of this entry »
30 million refugees in 2010 caused by climate change
20/9/2011 Guardian A family displaced by floods shelters under a tarp during a monsoon downpour Read the rest of this entry »
Greenland has lost 15% of its ice cover in the past 12 years
16/9/2011 Guardian In Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, Greenland has lost around 15% of its ice cover Read the rest of this entry »
World’s largest firms are ‘acting on climate change’ - analysis shows
15/9/2011 Guardian World’s largest firms ‘acting on climate change’, analysis shows. Read the rest of this entry »
USA public opinion. More than half Tea Party say they need no information to have firm opinion on climate change
14/9/2011 More than half of Tea Party say they need know information about Climate Change to have a firm opinion about it!- Read the rest of this entry »
James Hansen opinion piece on the danger if tar sands are exploited
3/9/2011 James Hansen opinion piece on Tar sands. Read the rest of this entry »
Greenland - Huge Peterman glacier has broken up in just 2 years
5/9/2011 BBC ‘Gob-smacking’ scale of Petermann Glacier break-up. Read the rest of this entry »
Extreme weather is linked by studies to climate change - up to 90% in some cases
2/9/2011 Guardian When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79 the residents of Pompeii were taken entirely by surprise. Read the rest of this entry »
Australia - climate scientists expose deluge of spin and misinformation from Murdoch press
2/9/2011 Guardian Australia’s climate scientists expose shock-jock distortion tactics. Read the rest of this entry »
Food security map shows link between hunger and conflict.
1/9/2011 BBC Food is the ultimate security need, new map shows. Read the rest of this entry »
El Niño and other cyclic weather events linked to global conflicts
25/8/2011 Guaridan Cyclical climatic changes such have been linked to civil conflict. Read the rest of this entry »
Major study of top climate scientists finds 97% - 98% agree anthropogentic climate change
21/8/2011 pnas.org Expert credibility in climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Developed countries are using cars less in a major cultural shift
17/8/2011 New Scientist The end of the road for motormania by Fred Pearce. Read the rest of this entry »
Alaska fire in 2007 shows another feedback that accelerates climate change
29/7/2011 BBC Huge Arctic fire hints at new climate cue - by Richard Black. Read the rest of this entry »
UK why we must choose between nuclear and renewable energy - by Jonathon Porritt
27/7/2011 Guardian Why the UK must choose renewables over nuclear: an answer to Monbiot - by Jonathon Porritt. Read the rest of this entry »
UN senior official warns that climate change threatens peace
22/7/2011 BBC Climate change ‘threatens peace’, UN official warns. Read the rest of this entry »
World population will hit 7 billion this year - the impact is huge.
18/7/2011 Guardian Demographers aren’t known for their sense of humor, Read the rest of this entry »
Carbon taxes across the world - how countries compare.
11/7/2011 Guardian The EU trading system is the largest in the world but - calls for it to be scrapped in favour of carbon taxes. Read the rest of this entry »
Hansen’s latest publication warns “that goals of limiting global warming to 2C are not sufficient - they are prescriptions for disaster”.
8/7/2011 Latest climate science publication by James Hansen. Read the rest of this entry »
China’s sulphur pollution is holding down global temperatures - as they clean up temperatures will rise sharply
8/7/2011 Independent Wet summers conceal a terrible surprise -Nature Studies by Michael McCarthy. Read the rest of this entry »
China - when the sulphur pollution is stopped global temperatures will spike.
5/7/2011 Independent China’s power stations generate ‘future spike’ in global warming’. Read the rest of this entry »
Extreme weather link to climate change “can no longer be ignored”.
1/7/2011 Independent Scientists to end 20-year reluctance with study into global warming and exceptional weather events - by Steve Connor. Read the rest of this entry »
Sustainable cities must be compact and high-density - by George Monbiot
1/7/2011 Guardian Sustainable cities must be compact and high-density. Read the rest of this entry »
ExxonMobil and other oil companies gave $1 million to a prominent climate change denier.
29/6/2010 Guardian Willie Soon received over $1m from oil companies including ExxonMobil, documents reveal. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change models underestimate risk and may fail to predict disaster in time
29/6/2011 BBC ‘Fatigue’ in the climate system. Read the rest of this entry »
2010 was the joint hottest year on record and climate change brought extreme weather
28/6/2011 Guardian Climate change hots up in 2010, the year of extreme weather. Read the rest of this entry »
Report warns of mass extinctions of fish and other marine life - urges slashing CO2 emissions
22/6/2011 New Scientist Mass extinctions are seldom pretty, but this one would transform Earth’s oceans forever, especially coral reefs. Read the rest of this entry »
World’s oceans are in ‘shocking decline’ - far worse than previously thought and impacting on humans
21/6/2011 BBC World’s oceans in ‘shocking’ decline by Richard Black. Read the rest of this entry »
Global warming since 1995 is statistically significant
11/6/2011 BBC Global warming since 1995 ‘now significant’ by Richard Black. Read the rest of this entry »
UN climate change chief - we must limit global temperature rise to 1.5C
2/6/2011 Guardian Christiana Figueres says her 1.5C target has the support of the group of about 40 small island states, as well as most African countries and other least developed countries. Read the rest of this entry »
17 Nobel laureates sign a memorandum for action to stop climate change.
21/5/2011 www.Realclimate.org Nobel Laureates Speak Out. Read the rest of this entry »
Wheat production world-wide has fallen 5.5% due to climate change - study shows
6/5/2011 BBC Climate shifts ‘hit global wheat yields’ by Mark Kinver. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
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 »