There is increased evidence that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future. This has happened before.
Scientists have documented evidence that the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas were too warm to support summer sea ice during the mid-Pliocene warm ...
India, Dec. 11 -- At stake: WHY: Scientists from every nation have produced data that points towards a steady increase in the global temperatures. According to their estimates the global mean temperature has seen an increase in 0.6 to 1.0 degree centigrade. The reason for this rise is the way we are...
My sense of these things is that this will happen five or six times before what will be termed as an “historic agreement” is signed, but this one does sound fairly serious:
Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of Oxfam put out this statement:
Africa has pulled the emergency cord to avoid a train crash...
A MAJOR group of developing nations, including China and most African nations, have walked out of working groups, triggering a major stalemate between developed and developing countries at the Copenhagen climate change negotiations.
LUCY KNIGHT IN COPENHAGEN
The stalemate comes as more than 120 wo...
'Get to work', urges climate head
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News, Copenhagen
The president of the UN climate summit has urged delegates to "get to work" after protests from developing nations forced a suspension of several hours.
Talks resumed late on Monday after the presi...
I read a couple of articles this morning talking about the environmentally irresponsible behavior of the VIPs attending the conference in Copenhagen this week.
- More private planes than the city's airport can handle.
- Over a thousand limos needed, hundreds of which had to be driven hundreds of m...
As we are engulfed from all sides by suffocatingly one-sided coverage of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, three hugely important issues have been largely stuffed away from sight.
The first of these is the matter of cost: the scarcely believable bill our politicians wish to land us with ...
The British Met Office has released world-wide temperature data into the public domain to give evidence that the globe is warming.
The British Met Office has published station temperature records for over 1,500 of the stations that make up the global land surface temperature record. The data shows ...
China and US cooperation in promoting such vehicles is a concrete step against global warming. But how to measure claims in miles "per gallon"? As the two largest carbon polluters, China and the US have yet to agree on much before the international conference on global warming in Copenhagen next wee...
The climate change talks in Copenhagen this month may be our last chance to agree to a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol--and perhaps to get authentic commitments from nations around the world to cutting greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming. Experts have declared the search for a ne...
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Commonwealth leaders have thrown their full support behind the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen next month.
At their summit in Trinidad and Tobago, all 53 member states pledged their commitment to seal a legally binding agreement, aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emiss...
Written by Estrella Torres / ReporterSunday, 29 November 2009 21:45
With the Philippines experiencing the harshest impact of climate change after three devastating typhoons, the British envoy to Manila gave assurances that his government will push for a clear timetable to a legally binding agreemen...
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press Writer Wed Nov 25
WASHINGTON – Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. He wil...
ScienceDaily (Sep. 30, 2009) — Plumes of harmful air pollutants can be transported across oceans and continents -- from Asia to the United States and from the United States to Europe -- and have a negative impact on air quality far from their original sources, says a new report by the National Resea...
Sweden urged other European nations on Friday to follow its lead in linking new taxes to greenhouse gas emissions as governments seek additional sources of income in the wake of the financial crisis.
Denmark, Finland and Slovenia already have taxes on household carbon emissions that can add costs t...
President Hu Jintao is making an unprecedented string of visits to United Nations summits as he leads a high-ranking Chinese delegation to the United States this week.
The president will be in New York for the UN Summit on Climate Change, the 64th annual UN General Assembly debate and a nuclear non...
Could we, the human race, really miss an ever-narrowing chance to save the planet from the ravages of global warming? "The Age of Stupid," which will be screened in hundreds of venues around the world next week, contemplates this grim scenario with the open aim of galvanising a collective effort to ...
President Obama delivered a speech to the United Nations today as 100 world leaders gathered for the highest-level summit yet on climate change. Obama said the United States is "determined to act" as the "threat from climate change is serious, it is urgent, and it is growing."
Here is the text of O...
From: Ranga Sirilal, Reuters
MALE (Reuters) - The Maldives archipelago, threatened by rising sea levels blamed on climate change, said on Monday it would introduce a new environment tax on all tourists who use its resorts and provide its economic lifeline.
Famed mostly for high-end luxury resorts ...
Climate change is essentially irreversible, according to a sobering new scientific study.
As carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, the world will experience more and more long-term environmental disruption. The damage will persist even when, and if, emissions are brought under control, says st...
