In the UK in today’s Independent Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island.
Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India’s part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay […]
The UK’s Independent is reporting Scientists reveal that bears have stopped hibernating.
Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world.
In a December in which bumblebees, butterflies and even swallows have been […]
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Foof’s managers have decided to […]
The Australian is reporting Climate change worsening fire risk.
[Australian] PRIME Minister John Howard must accept climate change will increase bushfire outbreaks or risk further tragedy, a policy research institute says.
Mr Howard yesterday brushed off a report by the Australia Institute linking a rise in the number and intensity of bushfires to the effects of climate […]
New Scientist is reporting European airlines to trade emissions allowances.
The European Commission is expected to announce on Wednesday that air travel to, from and within Europe will be brought under its existing carbon trading scheme, putting pressure on airlines to curb their greenhouse gas emissions.
According to a leak reported in the Financial Times, the EC […]
The US Governments Department of Energy has today announced New World Record Achieved in Solar Cell Technology.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Alexander Karsner today announced that with DOE funding, a concentrator solar cell produced by Boeing-Spectrolab has recently achieved a world-record conversion efficiency of 40.7 percent, establishing […]
There’s an interesting article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, Green group stumped by lack of land for its trees.
Greenfleet, one of the nation’s leading organisations helping individuals and companies offset carbon emissions, has for nearly three years been unable to find enough NSW land to plant the trees its subscribers have paid for.
This story highlights […]
Mother Jones has an article The Thirteenth Tipping Point.
IN 2004, JOHN SCHELLNHUBER, distinguished science adviser at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the United Kingdom, identified 12 global-warming tipping points, any one of which, if triggered, will likely initiate sudden, catastrophic changes across the planet. Odds are you’ve never heard of most of […]
New Scientist is reporting 2006 was Earth’s sixth warmest year on record.
2006 was the Earth’s sixth warmest year on record, averaging 0.4°C above the 1961 to 1990 average, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The records extend back to 1861. And the UK charted its warmest year ever – its records go back to 1659.
Advance […]
Tired of running into people who claim climate change is a lefty consipiracy? Appalled by the way shills like Bob Carter get promoted in the press while genuine climate science is trod underfoot? Wel the Union of Concerned Scientists has launched their A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science.
In recent years, […]