Climate change

Major nations' plans for fighting climate change under the "Copenhagen Accord" are insufficient to limit average temperature rises to the projected 2 degrees Celsius, a leading expert said on Friday.

Geo-engineering, the concept of altering the environment to mitigate climate change, has gone from fringe idea to the subject of Congressional hearings. Yet many scientists remain skeptical that it can be done safely.

China has reiterated its goal of slowing the rise of its greenhouse gases by 2020 in line with targets set by Beijing last year, as part of pledges due by Jan. 31 under the "Copenhagen Accord" for combating climate change, an official letter showed on Friday.

The United Nations' expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountain tops on a student's dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine.

The chair of the UN's panel on climate change Dr Rajendra Pachauri has taken a break from writing academic papers on global warming to pen a racey romantic novel.

By Amy Davidsen A recent study by McKinsey found that the US could save $1.2 trillion by 2020, by investing $520 billion in energy efficiency improvements, like 'sealing leaky ducts and replacing inefficient household appliances.' And a recent study by the Universities of Berkeley, Illinois and Yale e...

photo: Sébastien Bertu via flickr. Some migrating birds may be more able to adapt to changing climate that previously thought. Writing in Current Biology researchers studying the migration patterns of pied flycatchers say that changing climatic conditions are indeed causing them to b...

By Suzanne Goldenberg The initiative comes at a time when the Obama administration is determined to demonstrate its commitment to action on climate change. Obama in his State of the Union address pledged to work to help build Republican support for climate change proposals now under discussion in the Senate. B...

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By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Obama's Greenhouse Effect (in his SOTU speech) Americans cooling on climate change, survey says When you see these [temperature] numbers, it's screaming out at you: 'This is global warming!" The Science (Fiction) of the Greenhouse Effect

By Frances Beinecke This is our moment to put clean energy and climate solutions in place. That is what Leonardo DiCaprio, Edward Norton, Justin Long, Emmy Rossum, Forest... This is our moment to put clean energy and climate solutions in place. That is what Leonardo DiCaprio, Edward Norton, Justin Long, Emmy Ros...

By James Hoggan According to the study, only 47 percent of Americans think global warming is caused mostly by human activities, a 10 point drop.  Only 50 percent of Americans now say they are "somewhat" or "very worried" about global warming, a 13-point decrease. More on Climate Change

By TimHollo Not content with creating a deadlock over emissions trading at home, Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong are now contributing to a global climate deadlock by refusing to lift their inadequate emissions reduction target," Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Christine Milne said.

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By Rajendra Pachauri, James Randerson UN body rebutts Sunday Times allegation that it exaggerated link between costs of natural disasters and climate change The UN body that summarises climate science for governments has condemned as "misleading and baseless" claims that it overstated the effect of global warming on nat...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) China's most senior climate change official surprised a summit in India when he questioned whether global warming is caused by carbon gas emissions and said Beijing is keeping an "open mind". Xie Zhenhua was speaking at a summit between the developing world's most powerful countries, I...

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By Robin McKie And then there were the sceptics, that regiment of angry lobbyists who say our planet cannot possibly be affected by mankind's profligate burning of fossil fuel. For years, they have waited for an admission of an error by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN body that has...

By Maggie Koerth-Baker Climate Progress: Memo to IPCC New Scientist: Debate Heats Up Over IPCC Melting Glaciers Claim Brave New Climate: Real Holes In Science BBC: UN Body Admits Mistake on Himalayan Glaciers Real Climate: The IPCC Is Not Infallible (Shock!) The New York Times: Glaciers in Retreat

Although global methane-emissions levels are much lower than CO2 emissions, pound for pound methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas. Now there's new focus on a pair of methane sources that we usually don't think of as natural polluters: wetlands and rice paddies.

By Joseph B. Treaster Widespread confusion over short-term fluctuations in temperature and long-term trends is causing concern among the majority of scientists who are convinced that climate change is happening. MIAMI-- The drought that just ended in Texas was not an example or a reflection of climate cha...

By Paula Crossfield The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), Bob Stallman, threw down the gauntlet on Sunday in his annual speech to his industrial cronies.... The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), Bob Stallman, threw down the gauntlet on Sunday in his annual speech...

By Jeff Schweitzer The distinction between weather and climate becomes critical in understanding global warming. Let's look at what is happening right now. A persistent high pressure over the Arctic is acting like a big boulder in a fast moving river, causing the jet stream to flow south deep into the United...

By A. Siegel We find it hard, in part, to comprehend something as large (and, by human terms, gradual) as climate change for, among other reasons, Thus, "record-setting cold" in the US has a subtext, for many Americans, "Global Warming is likely BS". More on Climate Change

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By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) The Climate Change Scam: A Concise Summary • Temperature change correlation with carbon dioxide levels is not statistically significant. • There are no data that definitively relate carbon dioxide levels to temperature changes. No Substitute For Fossil Fuels

By The Media Consortium After two weeks of negotiations for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop15), global leaders produced a limited, non-binding agreement that was noted, but not adopted. President Barack Obama presented the Copenhagen Accord to the summit on Friday night, calling it an "im...

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By Suzanne Goldenberg, Andy Duckworth, Jon Dennis, Phil Maynard, Paul Lewis President Obama is due to arrive at the UN climate change summit and inject momentum into getting a deal. Rajendra Pachauri, who heads the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), tells us how damaging a 1.5C rise would be for some places on the planet.

By Matthew Weaver Gordon Brown is now addressing the conference with plea for countries to "overcome obstacles". He calls for a $10bn annual fund to help developing nations cope with climate change. Gordon Brown is due to address the summit within the next hour after a warning from his climate change secret...

By Steven Solomon Those committed to doing the planet's serious business should stay focused on one, often overlooked but trackable key factor of climate change--the pivotal role of water. With America's national debate on global warming going bipolar between President Obama's grand entrance at Cope...

By Lori Pottinger “The scarcity of water is becoming a nightmare. Rivers are drying up, and the way temperatures are changing we are likely to get into more problems. Climate change is here,” said Professor Richard Odingo, the Kenyan vice-chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Climatic Research Unit Temperature Trends: Surface (CRU) About the Climatic Research Unit CRU information sheets SOURCE. See also here for more comments. The world must take action on climate change even if the science is not correct? Oklahoma senator plans to rain on climate talks

By Matthew Weaver Climate activists have launched a protest outside the European Climate Exchange, in London, in a demo against 'false solutions' to climate change. People who question that global warming results entirely from human activity need to be brought onside - through honest scientific evide...

By Suzanne Goldenberg Exclusive: World's leading climate change expert says summit talks so flawed that deal would be a disaster The scientist who convinced the world to take notice of the looming danger of global warming says it would be better for the planet and for future generations if next week's Copenha...

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

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 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 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 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 Roger Pielke Sr. Koutsoyiannis et al. (2009) imply that the climate system is unpredictable, and so one should not waste time on hopeless projections. However, instead of accepting this stance and giving up the very idea of predictability, one can be more constructive and look into every major change in t...

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 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...

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