Climate change

Political and diplomatic advances on global climate change are proceeding at a snail’s pace. Or to use a better metaphor, like the drip-drip-drip of glaciers melting in the heat of a warming planet. Which is to say, slowly – very slowly.

A sense of pessimism and pending defeat has created a scramble to get world leaders to Copenhagen next month for the final negotiations on climate change - but Canada's negotiator says it's already too late.

The poor countries of the world cannot delay acting on global warming by blaming climate change on the rich, Chancellor Alistair Darling has warned ahead of a key meeting of G20 finance ministers in St Andrews.

When it comes to combating global warming, Sen. Lindsey Graham is right where he loves to be — ahead of the curve, in the mix on a major issue, at the table for high-level, bipartisan talks behind closed doors.

By Alex Steffen We are being told (with increasing clarity and sharp language aimed at cutting through the artificial "debate" created in the U.S. by anti-climate interests) that we need dramatic changes in the way we do things, immediately. The IPCC, for instance, points to the need to peak global climat...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Here the answer will depend on what is meant by 'significant' -- and whether 'human activity' should include urbanization, land changes, agriculture, irrigation, deforestation, etc. Many might answer 'Yes' – even if they don't think that GH gases are a significant factor in climate ch...

A poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that the number of people who think there’s solid evidence of human-induced climate change has declined dramatically in the past few years.

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Experts say that fears surrounding climate change are overblown China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has also failed to announce targets. It has promised to cut carbon dioxide emisissions per unit of GDP but has not said by how much. A Rational Look at Sea Level Rise

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By Brendan Smith The CBO testimony ignores the June 16, 2009 government report Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S. issued by the U.S. Global Change Research Program which described economically devastating results of global warming already under way: More on Climate Change

George Monbiot. Published 2nd November 2009, Sheffield IMC, Climate Change Denial and "Death Denial"Chris, Sheffield IMC, Oct 22, 2009 - Climate Change DisinformationClive Hamilton, Sheffield IMC, Oct 25, 2009 - How to deal with climate change griefTakver's Soapbox - climate chang...

By Pete Altman Does the US Chamber consider emission reduction targets and timetables to be essential to include or exclude from a climate bill? What emission reduction targets is the Chamber prepared to support and on what timetable? When will the US Chamber lay out an actual proposal for climate leg...

By The Huffington Post News Team Barbara Boxer is out in front on climate change in the Senate. As a result, she spent much of Tuesday sitting by herself. From the... Barbara Boxer is out in front on climate change in the Senate. As a result, she spent much of Tuesday sitting by herself.

By Suzanne Goldenberg, Damian Carrington, Ban Ki-moon The delay, which would push a Senate vote on a climate change bill into next year, frustrates a last-minute push by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to get America to commit itself at home to cut greenhouse gas emissions before the Copenhag...

By WorldChanging Team Posted by WorldChanging Team in Climate Change at 11:40 AM) WorldChanging TeamAn Interview with Deputy Director of Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability Micheal Armstrong by Alex Aylett Last week the City of Portland and Multnomah...

The UN secretary general tells the Guardian that the agreed $100bn paid yearly by rich countries to fight global warming will have to 'be scaled up'

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) At issue is whether humans are, or are not, affecting changes to the Earth's temperature that have always happened naturally. The AGW-hypothesis says increased greenhouse gases – notably carbon dioxide – in the air raise global temperature and anthropogenic emissions are increasing...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Mr Turnbull has said he will recommend supporting an emissions trading scheme if the Opposition's amendments are accepted. Senator Joyce has been outspoken in his opposition to an emissions trading scheme and has said he would vote such a scheme down.

By Michael White, Julian Glover, Phil Maynard As European leaders gather in Brussels for climate talks, one issue is dominating the fringe: who will be selected as the council's first permanent president. Plus, can European leaders come to an agreement ahead of key climate change negotiations in Copenhagen later this year?

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) The real climate change catastrophe Climate “science” based on appallingly manipulative and misleading computer models is controversial. As for “climate change”, it is the new term being used by “global warming” alarmists because there is NO global warming.

By John Sauven Talk is cheap, and valued accordingly. At some point ministers will need to translate their climate rhetoric into the language of real change – money. Since 1997 the proportion of government revenues derived from green taxes has actually fallen. The cost of motoring (despite the tabloid h...

By Alok Jha, Andy Duckworth, Ian Sample, David Adam, James Randerson At that event, the UK government unveiled a new climate change map. We speak to the government's chief scientific adviser, John Beddington, as well as Dr Vicky Pope, head of climate change advice at the Met Office. The foreign secretary, David Miliband, and his brother, the energy and clim...

By Suzanne Goldenberg The Senate opens a three-day blockbuster of hearings on Tuesday, calling 54 administration officials and environment experts to try to push ahead on a climate change law before a meeting in Copenhagen that is supposed to produce a global action plan on climate change.

By James Hoggan That campaign is a central -- unavoidable -- theme in Climate Cover-up, the book that I have recently written with Richard Littlemore. It details four years of research on climate change misinformation and especially on the work of a powerful alliance of lobbyists and industry front gro...

By Pete Altman because In contrast, the identities of the corporations leaving the Chamber and criticizing its position on climate change identities are US Chamber's Climate Credibilty Crisis Counter: Quit US Chamber Board over climate: Nike.

By Patrick McCully International Rivers has long advocated these "green infrastructure" strategies as superior methods to big dams for managing floods and water resources in general through reports on the "soft path" of flood management and on water strategies to relieve poverty. Even without climate...

By David Adam The UK already has the toughest climate change laws in the world but the Committee on Climate Change says that "radical" action is still needed. It highlights the need to rescue carbon trading schemes – a key weapon in the battle to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – from problems caused by t...

By Robert Stavins In "policy heaven," the optimal instrument to address climate-change emissions may well be a carbon tax (largely because of its simplicity), but in the real world in which policy is developed and implemented, cap-and-trade is the best approach if one is serious about addressing the th...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) The last few years have been cooler, so global warming can’t be real; 2. Is the cause of global warming human activity? 4. What are the consequences of a warmer climate? 5. How much should we invest in altering the climate? Here are my answers.

By Lori Pottinger Diversifying Africa's energy sector would help its climate-adaptation efforts in key ways: it would de-emphasize reliance on erratic rainfall for electricity, reduce conflict over water resources, and protect river-based ecosystems. Africa is the least electrified place in the w...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in the Peruvian Andes Indicate Northern Climate Linkages An analysis of Holdren's current statements on global warming strongly suggest the president's science czar sees global warming creating an environmental emergency.

By Claire Armitstead, Sarah Crown, John Vidal, Felicity Lawrence This week we challenged top writers and artists to come up with their responses to climate change, and they responded with dozens of original works of art which are featured in a special issue of Guardian Review, Postcards to the Planet. But what are the books you should read if you want to sw...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) The current Lancet and BMJ editorial that accompanies the letter from doctors' organisations argues that climate change strengthens the cases that health and development charities are already championing. "Even without climate change, the case for clean power, electric cars, savi...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) In 2004 the UN climate panel that carbon dioxide accounted for 76 percent of the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Newly released UNEP report which showed that emissions other than carbon dioxide plant accounted for half of emissions, this is not an example of scientific unc...

By Leo Hickman In the UK, at least, the Climate Camp now claims the highest profile of any of the various climate change campaigns. It has achieved this largely through its annual mass gatherings at symbolic locations, but local meetings do also go on across the country, and "continue taking decentrali...

By Roger Pielke Sr. National Research Council, 2005: Radiative forcing of climate change: Expanding the concept and addressing uncertainties. Committee on Radiative Forcing Effects on Climate Change, Climate Research Committee, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division on Earth and Life...

By James Randerson In a reference to the title of the hit climate change film The Age of Stupid - which he called "very thought-provoking and very valuable" - he said the museum's climate change exhibit next year will incorporate a section entitled Age of Sensible which provides a positive image of the futur...

By Roger Pielke Sr. The human influence is minimal and natural variations dominate climate variations on all time scales;While natural variations are important, the human influence is significant and involves a diverse range of first-order climate forcings, including, but not limited to the human in...

By James Randerson Nicholas Stern, the former chief economist of the World Bank, former head of the UK Government Economic Service and author of the hugely influential Stern Review on climate change in 2006 was speaking at the London School of Economics - where he now heads the Grantham Research Institute...

Amy Seidl's new book, Early Spring, describes the impacts of climate change on the world immediately around us. From RealClimate, part of the Guardian Environment Network Early Spring has the potential to be immensely influential, a real turning point in the popular appreciation of cl...

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By Suzanne Goldenberg Tony Blair called on America to live up to its global leadership role on climate change today, and not put off action because of the economic recession. Blair said he identified with leaders facing the competing pressures of the economic recession and climate change.

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By Suzanne Goldenberg In blunt language, Chu said Americans had yet to fully understand the urgency of dealing with climate change. "I don't think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen," he told the Los Angeles Times in his first interview since taking the post. "We're looking at a scenario...

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So it is vitally important to revisit the argument over whether climate change, a constant throughout the earth's history, is driven principally by human activities and therefore lies largely within human control. The go-to source on this question is the Science and Environmental Pol...

By David Sassoon Although the plan's focus is on Florida, its release is timely and important to the national dialogue on the fate of climate change solutions during these economically troubled times. The authors state in no uncertain terms that they believe climate action is not a costly policy package...

By TimHollo I accept that climate change is a challenge. I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predications. I also recognise that a country like Australia has got to balance a concern for greenhouse gas emissions with a concern for the enormous burd...

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