Archive for November 14th, 2009
As expectedFrom the NY TimesSINGAPORE — President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate changeagreement at a global climate conference
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President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month.
We’ve made so much progress in the USA. 75 years ago, we may have witnessed some scenes like this in today’s China. Unfortunately, the de-industrialization of the west just moved the
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Little Ice Age thermometers – History and Reliability Guest post by TonyB How reliable are The Little Ice Age thermometers ? The Little Ice age thermometers project is an attempt to compile
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Considerable effort has gone into Christopher Booker’s definitive manual for sceptics. Shame he’s talking bunk, says Philip Ball Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph columnist and bete
Tags: Books, climate change, Climate change scepticism, Culture, Environment, Guardian, Reviews, science, Science and nature, The Observer
The UN is to hold a conference in Copenhagen next month that it hopes will lead to a dramatic shift in the world’s attitude to climate change.
For once, Miliband the younger grabbed the headlines. Brother and cabinet colleague David had for weeks dominated the news pages over speculation that he would snaffl e the position of the
A new environmental award will be launched tomorrow with some of the biggest corporations and lobbying outfits in the world in contention for the top prize. But the winner will have nothing to
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From a British Antarctic Survey Press Release. Next time some alarmist wails about ice melt in Antarctica, point them to this story that shows nature has self regulating features for our planet.
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Agence France-Presse: France and Brazil adopted a common policy Saturday ahead of key UN global warming talks and vowed to launch a worldwide push to convince other powers to back their
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Agence France-Presse: Brazil said Friday it would offer a "voluntary" cut of at least 36 percent in greenhouse gas emissions at the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen next
Tags: carbon cut commitment rainforest | South/Central America/Caribbean | Brazil, Climate Ark
Living on Earth: YOUNG: President Obama is on a tour of Asia, which will include high-level talks on climate change in China. China’s already feeling the effects of a warming world. And while
Tags: Climate Ark, green protest local | East/South-East Asia | China
Sydney Morning Herald: DYKES, seawalls and other barriers may have to be built to save thousands of coastal properties, many of them in Sydney and Melbourne, according to a landmark study. The
Tags: Climate Ark, climate sea rise dykes | Pacific/Oceania | Australia
Sydney Morning Herald: SCIENTISTS say Lake Macquarie is the area in the state most vulnerable to rising sea levels. Gordon and Marie Richardson, who have lived there for 42 years, need no
Tags: Climate Ark, climate sea rise coastal flooding worry | Pacific/Oceania | Australia
Reuters: U.N. negotiators will next month put farming onto the radar of climate regulations for the first time, but governments face aggressive lobbies and gaps in the science proving the extent of
Tags: Climate Ark, Copenhagen farms climate talks | Worldwide/General |
Associated Press: Indonesian authorities say they are deporting 11 foreign Greenpeace activists for joining a protest against forest destruction. Immigration official Jumanter Lubis said Saturday
Tags: Climate Ark, climate rainforest protest deport | East/South-East Asia | Indonesia
Reuters: 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
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Reuters: South Korea has adopted the toughest of its two voluntary 2020 emissions reduction targets, calling for a reduction of 4 percent from 2005 levels, a senior government source told Reuters
Tags: Climate Ark, emissions cut toughest goal | East/South-East Asia | South Korea
Reuters: Nearly a quarter of a million homes along Australia’s coastline could be submerged by 2100 unless action is taken to stop sea levels rising, a government report said on Saturday.
Tags: Climate Ark, climate sea rise threaten homes | Pacific/Oceania | Australia
Agence France-Presse: Rising sea levels caused by global warming could inundate up to 250,000 homes in Australia, according to a new study that warned airports, hospitals and power stations were at
Tags: Climate Ark, climate risk homes | Pacific/Oceania | Australia
United Press International: Fewer than half of British voters believe human activity is responsible for global warming, a poll released Saturday by The Times of London said. Only 41 percent of
Tags: Climate Ark, climate public unsure | Europe | United Kingdom
Times (UK): In a few weeks some 20,000 United Nations bureaucrats, representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), world leaders and accompanying experts from 192 nations will descend on
Tags: Climate Ark, climate Obama deal | North America | United States
Reuters: Asia-Pacific leaders will pledge on Sunday to keep stimulus policies in place to stop the world from sliding back into recession, wrapping up a summit that has been dogged by accusations
Tags: Climate Ark, climate policy APEC | Worldwide/General |
Associatd Press: A senior Obama administration official says world leaders agree that next month’s much-anticipated international summit on climate change will be a preliminary step that will
Tags: Climate Ark, climate deal Copenhagen downplay expectations | North America | United States
Guardian: Millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide could be prevented from entering the atmosphere following the discovery of a way to turn coal, grass or municipal waste more efficiently into clean
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Reuters: Australia’s government has agreed to exclude agriculture from its emissions trading scheme in a bid to get the scheme through parliament, a minister said on Sunday. The much-watched
Tags: Climate Ark, emissions farms trading excluded | Pacific/Oceania | Australia
Various: Prime Minister Stephen Harper says it is important that a global arrangement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions leaves a level playing field for all economies. Harper is in Singapore
Tags: Climate Ark, climate policy Harper | North America | Canada
Agence France-Presse: Less than half of Britons believes that human activity is to blame for global warming, according to a poll carried out for The Times newspaper and published on Saturday. Only
Tags: Climate Ark, climate public skepticism | Europe | United Kingdom
Agence France-Presse: Asia-Pacific leaders will drop a fixed target for halving greenhouse gas emissions in a final summit statement, a Chinese official said Saturday. "On the 50 percent
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