Global warming

By Joe “When you add up what [humans] have done, and what impact that is likely to have, we end up with scenarios for climate change in the future that put our planet in a position it hasn’t been in for, maybe, million of years.” Serious impacts like ocean acidification are quite impervious to polit...

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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 Wintery Knight Did you know that the libertarian Cato Institute has a podcast? I like listening to it, even though I am not a libertarian on many issues. But I like their views on economics, government and liberty. I think that they are right on issues like school choice, consumer-driven health care, and gl...

By omnologos So how might we solve global warming and make the world in five hundred years look attractive to our future selves? [...] New wind, rain, and solar technologies will be solving the problem for us. Climate change due to global warming will add to our supply of rain, wind and fire, and if it raises t...

By Jon Dennis, Michael White, Phil Maynard, Andy Duckworth, Tim Maby From climate talks in Bangkok, environment editor John Vidal explains why developing countries - and China - have accused the world's wealthiest nations of "sabotaging" a global warming treaty.

By Joe No, I’m not taking about a simple analysis of what happens if the nation and the world just keep on our current emissions path.  We’ve known that end-of-century catastrophe for a while (see “M.I.T. doubles its 2095 warming projection to 10°F — with 866 ppm and Arctic warming of 20°F“).  I’m talk...

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 Joe We’re starting to see more and more work on the health impacts of global warming (see “The Lancet’s landmark Health Commission: “Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century” and “Climate change helps spread dengue fever in 28 states“).

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 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 Max and Carlin Global emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide will jump more than 39 percent by 2030 without new policies and binding pacts to cut global warming pollution, the top U.S. energy forecast agency said on Wednesday. Climate health costs: bug-borne ills, killer heat

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 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 greenfyre Some of you may have seen Kevin Grandia’s “A troubling trend in Global Warming Denial on the internet“  where he looked at the doubling in the number of hits for various web searches such as “global warming” + hoax or “global warming” + lies.

By Jon Dennis, Francesca Panetta Legal affairs correspondent Afua Hirsch explains why the attorney general, Baroness Scotland, is considering asking the courts to get tough with high-profile direct-action protests. The move follows the decision in September by a jury at Maidstone crown court to clear six Greenpeac...

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 John Colbert, WIBA The Governor is in California, where he's co-hosting a Global Climate Summit that's focused on saving state money and creating jobs. However, Republican state Representative Jim Ott (R-Mequon) says proposals aimed at reducing emissions will only result in higher rates paid by consum...

By UK Indymedia Related links: Climate IMC | Days of Climate Action (UK) | Earth First (UK) | Fossil Fools Day | Network for Climate Action (Uk) | Rising Tide: Australia | North America | UK Climate Camps: UK | Belgium | Germany | Quebec | Australia | New Zealand | Climate Convergence US | Climate Convergenc...

Sometimes a dead battery can be a matter of life or death. On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, learn about the US Army's efforts to revolutionize portable power. But that's not the only military technology coming to consumers; how about night vision in your car? Also hear about what Brit...

We devoted most of the first hour of our radio show on Saturday to ridiculing Al Gore's Live Earth festival. Among other things, we played clips of musicians who played in the various concerts, discussing global warming on the event's web site. They are highly entertaining. In the last segme...

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...

By Christina Aanestad As part of the Step It Up 2007 day of climate action, activists from the Rainforest Action Network in San Francisco staged a mock Billionaires for Coal party at the main offices of Morgan Stanley Freidman, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers urging the banks to invest in renewable energy in...

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...

DETROIT Japanese automakers are driving Americans toward a cleaner environment, while their U.S. counterparts are producing cars and trucks ranked among the worst when it comes to smog emissions and global warming, according to a report released Tuesday by an environmental group.

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...