Climate change

By Toni O'Loughlin The defeat further undermines Australia's already ailing credibility at the upcoming UN climate change talks in Copenhagen. On Monday, after a week of angry exchanges the coalition dumped its leader, Malcolm Turnbull, who had brokered an agreement with Labour to support the emission...

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...

By Yale Environment 360 Posted by Yale Environment 360 in Politics at 11:44 AM) Yale Environment 360 With skepticism growing about the chances of reaching a climate agreement next month in Copenhagen, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

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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 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 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 Luke Harding Luke Harding reports from northern Siberia on the effects of global warming Luke Harding

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 Jon Dennis, Tim Maby Environment correspondent David Adam outlines why the Committee on Climate Change, which reports to the government, has warned that the recession has hampered efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

By Suzanne Goldenberg Suzanne Goldenberg on a report for the World Bank that forecasts the effect of global warming on food, if climate change is not tackled Suzanne Goldenberg

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 David Adam David Adam examines a rift between America and Europe on a possible deal on global warming to be decided at December's UN summit in Copenhagen David Adam

By Alok Jha, Andy Duckworth, Ian Sample, Alison Benjamin In the newsjam, we look at the latest climate change evidence, advances in IVF treatment, a quantum mechanical quandary, and music that soothes and angers monkeys. We have an update on the progress of the 10:10 climate change campaign.

By Jon Dennis, Andy Duckworth, Tim Maby Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, and Douglas Alexander, the international development secretary, tell our correspondent in Delhi, Randeep Ramesh, of their hopes of India's role in securing an agreement on global warming at the crucial summit in Copenhagen in December.

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 Jon Dennis, Iain Chambers Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, has set out the government's plans to move Britain towards a low-carbon economy and meet the UK's ambitious climate change targets. The environment editor, John Vidal, says it is a historic shift away from fossil fuels, but may not be enough to avert the...

By Alok Jha, Pascal Wyse What will our world look like in 2050? Astronomer Royal and president of the Royal Society Martin Rees predicts crises in water and energy supplies as a result of increased population pressure, exacerbated by climate change. Speaking to Alok Jha earlier this month, he also discussed the...

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 Jon Dennis, Phil Maynard, Tim Maby A report by 30 scientists into the impact on the US of climate change is published today. US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg says it's an important part of President Barack Obama's strategy of persuading the American people to back his legislation to curb global warming.

By WorldChanging Team Diversifying our energy sources and moving away from fossil fuels where possible is critical to our future energy security… Climate change and our fossil-fueled economy undermine every one of these aspirations. This piece originally appeared on Climate Progress

By Jon Dennis, Phil Maynard, Tim Maby Two 56-year-old women have learned they were switched at birth and raised by each other's family. Ed Pilkington reports from New York. Arctic explorer Pen Hadow describes his mission to find out how climate change is affecting the polar ice cap.

By Alok Jha, Scott Cawley What is it about the science and politics of climate change that so raises some people's hackles? Mike Hulme, a climate scientist and author at the University of East Anglia and a founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, is proposing a radical change in the way...

By deborahbyrd@earthsky.org (EarthSky Communications, Inc.) Listen to former CIA director James Woolsey talk about the relationship between climate change, U.S. energy use, and national security.

By deborahbyrd@earthsky.org (EarthSky Communications, Inc.) Listen to National Academy of Sciences president Ralph Cicerone talk about America’s choices in response to climate change.

By Ian Sample, Francesca Panetta, David Adam, Nell Boase, George Monbiot Nasa climate scientist Jim Hansen tells David Adam why democracy is obstructing the fight against climate change. Jim was in Britain to join a climate protest in Coventry, which ended up outside the headquarters of the power company E.On.

By Ian Sample, Nell Boase, Scott Cawley, James Randerson Unless you spent last week living in an underground bunker, you can't have failed to notice there was a climate change conference going on in Copenhagen. It was convened to discuss new findings in climate science that have come to light since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

By Jon Dennis, Peter Sale, Tim Maby Global warming will wreck attempts to save the Amazon rainforest. That's according to a devastating new study by the Met Office which predicts that one-third of the Amazon's trees will be killed by even modest rises in temperature. The findings of the study were presented at a climate chan...

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By Jon Dennis, Phil Maynard, Tim Maby If Barack Obama commits America to the deep carbon cuts needed to tackle global warming, he'll face a revolution, Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, tells environment correspondent David Adam.

By Jon Dennis, Phil Maynard, Tim Maby The climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, meets business and trade union leaders in London today to discuss planning Britain's transformation into a low-carbon economy. He tells Suzanne Goldenberg of the challenge facing the UK as the world moves away from fossil fuels.

By Tony Blair Former British prime minister, Tony Blair, made the comments at a symposium in Washington DC, 'US climate action: a global economic perspective'.

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By Suzanne Goldenberg Denmark's minister for climate and energy, Connie Hedegaard speaks to Suzanne Goldenberg ahead of the Copenhagen summit

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...

By Jon Dennis, Andy Duckworth, Tim Maby The UN summit on climate change is under way in Poznan, Poland. Stavros Dimas, the European commissioner for the environment, says Europe would be prepared to become virtually carbon-free in order to secure a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Environment correspondent David Adam t...

By Jon Dennis, Andy Duckworth, Tim Maby David Kennedy, the chief executive of the government's Climate Change Committee, discusses new proposals to reduce greenhouse gases by at least one fifth in just over a decade.

Saul Griffith relates two intertwined energy stories, the impersonal story about climate change, global energy consumption, and fossil fuels, and the personal story about how every decision you make impacts the planet. Griffith lays out a logical approach to conversations about ene...

By Brian Moon-audio WIBA Despite a projected multi-billion dollar state budget deficit , Doyle says the state needs to continue to invest in power production from biomass, wind, and solar. The commitment is part of the overall "global climate solutions declaration," which Doyle signed Wednesday at a summi...

By deborahbyrd@earthsky.org (EarthSky Communications, Inc.) Dr. Roni Neff led a study of thousands of newspaper stories about climate change. She said that although scientists have estimated that agricultural activities contribute 30 percent of the greenhouse gases now warming our planet, you wouldn’t know it from reading the newspapers.

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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By David Sirota I attended the ExxonMobil shareholder meeting this week down in Dallas as part of some reporting I am doing for my book. When the issue of global warming and climate change came up at the meeting, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson pulled what was a pretty hilarious Don Rumsfeld impression - even...

Czech president Vaclav Klaus, an economist by profession, is preparing to do battle with environmentalists. In his latest book called "Our Planet is Blue - Not Green", which is to be released shortly, the president challenges the conclusions reached by the Intergovernmental Panel on C...

Scientific evidence that climate change is caused by human activity has boosted ongoing efforts to address the problem. Now the focus is primarily on what will happen after 2012 when the validity of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty designed to limit global greenhouse gas emi...

The environment was high on the agenda during a short visit to Prague by British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. He launched a youth forum on climate change, and also discussed the subject with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and Foreign Minister Alexandr Vondra. Other issues d...

By Portland Earlier this year the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in their strongest language yet, attributed the earth's current climate change to human activity. While a few skeptics, including conservative media, continue to deny global warming as cooked-up liberal scie...

President Vaclav Klaus has launched another fierce attack on the green lobby, claiming that "ambitious environmentalism" poses a greater threat to society than communism. His comments came in written answers to a committee meeting being held on Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representa...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which met in Paris last week, sent its gravest message yet regarding global warming on Friday. This group of scientists and climate experts concluded with at least 90 percent certainty that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity as...

The subject of global warming seems to be rarely out of the news these days, with even George Bush - known to critics as the "Toxic Texan" - talking of "the serious challenge of global climate change" in his recent State of the Union address. One of many studies on the issue is currently being p...