Full Coverage: Climate change

28.04.2006 All the major political parties say climate change is the biggest threat we face. They all have ambitious targets for cutting the main cause of it - carbon dioxide gas. Yet emissions of carbon dioxide keep on rising. Ask your MP to support a new law to cut carbon dioxide every year by 3% from now on.
*The Big Ask campaign

26.04.2006 Sitting on thin foam mattresses sprawled across a crude cement floor in drought-stricken northern Kenya, dozens of mothers nurse emaciated babies as flies hover around mosquito netting.The odours of medicine and sweat mixed with the stench of disease hang in the foetid air under the iron roof of this hospital annex. Set up to take in overflow from the packed paediatric ward, it too is filled with infants howling and batting futilely at feeding tubes in their nostrils.

These are the latest victims of a drought that has put more than 11-million people across East Africa at risk of starvation, 3,5-million of them in Kenya, where recent heavy rains have exacerbated already dire conditions.

25.04.2006 from Gristmill blog:
"I wish enviros would do a lot more to sell their ideas... on their own merits, rather than as a way to dodge an oncoming train," says David Roberts.

25.04.2006 A new film, sponsored by Friends of the Earth and a number of other groups, examines the impacts of global warming. The Film: Great Warming was shot in eight countries on four continents, and is endorsed by dozens of the world's leading scientists. Pundits say this three-hour television series is the most factually accurate, visually stunning and wide-ranging production ever mounted about this complex, fascinating subject.

24.04.2006 from Anorak:
“The electorate is not going to be taken in by any johnny-come-lately bolt-on environmentalism.”

23.04.2006 from deSmogBlog:
There used to be three species of anti-climate change 'experts', writes Jim Hoggan. "But I perhaps missed a category: Scientific Dinosaurs... Their kind is extinct, even if they don't know it."

22.04.2006 from It's Getting Hot In Here blog:
Are climate issues about to mainstream? "IÂ’d say weÂ’re approaching talking critical mass & tipping point," says Elissa.

21.04.2006 from Cracks in the Facade blog:
'Agen' looks at what's happening on US campuses and "reminds us that the children are our future--give them the opportunity to go green and let them lead the way".

17.04.2006 from Science Blog:
Why cutting out meat is healthier for people and for the planet.

16.04.2006 from deSmogBlog:
Is the new Canadian government about to emulate its US counterpart in stifling discussion about climate change?

15.04.2006 from marklynas.org blog:
Sign this petition to stop subversion of international efforts to limit anthropogenic climate change.

14.04.2006 "La multinazionale Bayer si vanta pubblicamente del suo ruolo di pioniere nell'abbattimento dei gas a effetto serra. Ma l'affermazione della Bayer di aver significativamente ridotto l'emissione di gas con effetti dannosi sul clima, è insostenibile" - riporta la Coalizione contro i pericoli derivanti dalla Bayer. Il Rapporto sulla sviluppo sostenibile della Bayer afferma: "Nel 2002 il gruppo Bayer, ha già raggiunto e superato il traguardo della riduzione del 50% di emissioni dirette di gas a effetto serra, inizialmente posto al 2010". L'Amministratore Delegato della Bayer, Werner Wenning, ha recentemente sostenuto che la compagnia "ha ridotto la sua emissione di gas a effetto serra di oltre il 60% dal 1990". Ma a guardare bene, questi risultati non sono tali e il calo delle emissioni, in gran parte, è solo sulla carta.

14.04.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 13 (OneWorld) - As tax day looms, a prominent environmentalist is urging changes he says will spare the taxpayer, spur the economy, and save the planet.

13.04.2006 from the climate 'extremist' blog:
Signs of an emerging no-flying movement and a pledge you can make to halt airport expansion in the UK.

11.04.2006 Ilmastonmuutos on aikamme suurimpia uhkia, painottaa ympäristöjärjestö Maan ystävät. Sitä voidaan torjua vain, jos poliitikot, yritykset ja kansalaiset toimivat yhdessä. Maan ystävät, Dodo ja Luonto-Liitto ovat kertoneet ilmastonmuutoksesta ja tavoista torjua sitä kolmen vuoden aikana jo yli 12 000 koululaiselle.

10.04.2006 from Climate Change Action blog:
Touted by some as an energy panacaea, biofuels raise as many problems as they solve. What matters is the energy and greenhouse gas balance. Almuth Ernsting's blog shows it's not just about carbon.

09.04.2006 from WhirledView blog:
"Whatever the cause and effect of the climate changes we seem to be seeing, ending our dependence on carbon looks like a good thing. ItÂ’s not going to be easy or quick. ThatÂ’s why we should start now," claims scientist Cheryl Rofer.

07.04.2006 Ison-Britannian pääministeri Tony Blair on luvannut toimia ilmastonmuutosta vastaan vielä sen jälkeenkin kun Kioton pöytäkirjan ensimmäinen tavoitekausi päättyy. Hänen mielestään uutta sopimusta pitäisi ryhtyä valmistelemaan jo nyt.

06.04.2006 Programs Cut, People Laid Off

(Ottawa) The Harper government has begun disassembling CanadaÂ’s Climate Change Program, the Sierra Club of Canada has learned. All climate change programs announced in Action Plan 2000 have not been renewed and Natural Resources Canada has begun laying off staff. Included in the cuts is the Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (C-CIARN).

06.04.2006 A Terra não aguenta mais esta sistemática agressão e dá sinais claros de estresse. Ela já está se vingando como o tem mostrado James Lovelock no seu recente e alarmante apelo "A vingança de Gaia". Haja vista o aquecimento do Planeta, as perturbações climáticas e a escassez de água potável.