Full Coverage: Climate change

21.08.2008 French birds are moving northwards in response to climate change, but not fast enough, scientists have found.
From: BBC

21.08.2008 The United Nations will create a climate change center to help Pacific island nations threatened by rising seas because of global warming, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
From: Bloomberg.com

20.08.2008 Rich nations should not wait for the election of a new US president before making progress on agreeing ambitious 2020 greenhouse gas cuts, the chair of a UN committee said ahead of climate talks in Ghana.
From: Planet Ark/Reuters

20.08.2008 Increased use of nuclear (an outright competitor to coal as a deliverer of baseload power) is essential to combat climate change, argues Mark Lynas.
From: marklynas.org

19.08.2008 Like climate itself, climate science is turbulent and the media focus on disagreements implying that the science is uncertain. The journalistic whiplash effect does not work in isolation, writes Andrew Dessler, but is reinforced by the denial industry and their agenda of pushing "uncertainty."
From: Gristmill

19.08.2008 Even if the atmospheric temperature near the earth's surface has become cooler recently, that doesn't mean the planet as a whole isn't heating up, explains Michael Le Page in a New Scientist myth-busting article.
From: New Scientist

18.08.2008 Pastoralists in the East Africa region are well placed to adapt to climate, with investment in appropriate policies, a leading development charity said today.

18.08.2008 A coalition of environmental groups wants Australia and New Zealand to ease immigration for Pacific Islanders displaced by rising sea levels.
From: UPI

18.08.2008 Energy use has to be cut soon, so it's odd that the techno-savvy British cabinet still shies away from a simple credit system, writes Polly Toynbee.
From: The Guardian

16.08.2008 The effect of climate change on India could be far worse than previously estimated, say scientists.
From: The Times of India

15.08.2008 Human activity is responsible for a sixth extinction of thousands of species as well as climate change, so Paul Ehrlich and a colleague call for educating women to slow population growth.
From: Scientific American

15.08.2008 Senders of junk mail in the US are causing carbon emissions equal to nine million cars, according to a forest preservation group.
From: businessGreen.com

14.08.2008 The carbon-offsets market is gathering pace at a frenzied rate, notably in Asia. While it seems a good solution to the growing climate crisis on the face of it, look beneath and it may all just be hot air, writes Kevin Smith.

14.08.2008 A Shell suggestion in advertising that oil sands were a sustainable energy source has been ruled out of order by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority, upholding a complaint lodged by WWF-UK.

13.08.2008 There is no 'adaptation' to a 4 degree warming, writes Oliver Tickell. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy.
From: The Guardian

13.08.2008 A new study has provided the first observational evidence to confirm the link between a warmer climate and more powerful rainstorms.
From: TerraDaily

12.08.2008 Britain's high street banks face a consumer boycott if they continue to channel billions of pounds of new investment into coal projects, campaigning groups have warned.
From: The Guardian

12.08.2008 Climate-change reporting is woefully inadequate because too often editors lack interest and assign writers without expertise, says James Fahn.

11.08.2008 Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day, says Thomas Friedman, shocked by his first-hand experience of Greenland's meltdown.
From: The Observer

10.08.2008 Get the Pope in a hot tub with other religious leaders and let the conversation begin, says No Impact Man.
From: No Impact Man blog