Climate change

More importantly, these skeptics have not overturned the well-established basic physics of the greenhouse effect, namely that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and increasing its concentration in the atmosphere causes the earth to warm. They also have not managed to make melting gla...

By James Randerson Problem of biodiversity loss has been 'eased off centre stage' by focus on climate change, according to Prof Edward Wilson, the ecologist described as 'Darwin's natural heir' Wilson said the problem of biodiversity loss had been "eased off centre stage" because of the focus on climate...

By Leo Hickman, James Randerson The computer files were apparently accessed earlier this week from servers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, a world-renowned centre focused on the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change. In another alleged email, one of the scientists apparently r...

By Yale Environment 360 Major corporations in the U.S. have shown an increased willingness to voluntarily reduce their impact on climate change despite a sluggish economy, according to a new scorecard produced by the nonprofit group Climate Counts. Eighty-one of the 90 major companies assessed saw an average i...

By Ben Block Without passage of U.S. climate legislation, Obama and his administration have been unwilling to specify emission targets or dedicate funding for greenhouse gas mitigation and climate change adaptation efforts in the developing world.

By Allegra Stratton Analysis by the leftwing website Next Left has shown that the top 10 Tory bloggers are climate change sceptics. This week Helmer convened a conference of climate change deniers at the European parliament. Speakers included Ross McKitrick, a Canadian professor who has said data indicati...

The U.N. environmental chief called on rich nations on Thursday to pledge $10 billion a year for three years at next month's Copenhagen summit to help poor states begin to tackle the impact of climate change.

By Yale Environment 360 shows concentrations of industrially produced CO2 increasing Posted by Yale Environment 360 in Climate Change at 12:02 PM) Yale Environment 360A study of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans from 1765 to the present shows that as humanity pumps more CO2 into...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Just recently, as scientists who specialize in environmental science, climatology, and solar variability, we welcomed the acceptance of our scientific session, Diverse Views from Galileo’s Window: Researching Factors and Processes of Climate Change in the Age of Anthropogenic C...

By Jon Dennis, Phil Maynard, Suzanne Goldenberg, Jonathan Watts, James Randerson Activist and commentator George Monbiot is pessimistic about Copenhagen's chances of success, even though time is running out both in terms of the science of global warming and in the expiry of the Kyoto pact. And in Beijing, Jonathan Watts, our Asia environment correspondent, says tha...

Photo via Green Inc. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma has always been a thorn in the side of environmentalists, especially when it comes to climate change. He doesn't believe in the science and has pledged to go to the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December to bare wi...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Appallingly anti-human Yes, the excuse for these sorts of measures is the need to stop climate change; the term “global warming” is falling out of favor since the globe has refused to warm up much over the past decade. Birth control should be used to cut "greenhouse gas" emissions

By Leo Hickman Memo to Delingpole: by all means have a pop at wacko communist alarmists such as myself – I'm sure you will – but probably best to leave 88-year-old war veterans, even if they do happen to be concerned about climate change, out of it next time.

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By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) THE ARCTIC WAS WARMER IN THE RECENT PAST -- AND THE IPCC REPORT ACCEPTED THAT climatic conditions were significantly warmer than today, Inefficient operation imposed on the mirroring/shadowing backup, in terms of both the fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, treated separate...

California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to analysis of stalagmites from a cave in the Sierra Nevada.

Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph columnist and bete noir of climate campaigners, has here produced the definitive climate sceptics' manual. That's to say, he has rounded up just about every criticism ever made of the majority scientific view that global warming, most probably ca...

China will insist the main principles of the Kyoto Protocol are retained in any new global climate change pact, even though others are seeking to abandon them, a high-ranking climate official on Saturday.

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

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 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 Andy Duckworth The UK government has unveiled a new climate change map. It took place at the launch of the Science Museum's new climate change exhibit. This is the full audio from the launch event. View a video from the exhibition.

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 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 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 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 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 Alok Jha, Ian Sample, Nell Boase, Scott Cawley As the founding director of the sustainable development NGO, Forum for the Future, and, until this month, chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, when Porritt speaks about global warming people listen. The former director of Friends of the Earth and trustee of WWF came into...

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.

By John Kerry Don't get me wrong. I'm happy to see Will embracing the idea of recycling, but I'm very troubled that he is recycling errors of fact to challenge the science on global warming. Lets be very clear: Stephen Chu does not make predictions to further an agenda. He does so to inform the public. He is no C...

By rss@youtube.com (vishnu89sb) This video shows some ways through which the youth can minimize the climate change and problems.This shows how to act against global warming.. Author: vishnu89sb Keywords: get moving on climate change Added: February 21, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (JonThm) In 2003 I told Sheffeild University how to do nuclear fusion. Why have they not told teh world? Author: JonThm Keywords: nuclear fusion global warming climate change Added: February 3, 2009

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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...

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