Climate Change archive

19.12.2006 from World Changing:
'In this fishbowl called Earth, pollution can't be displaced "elsewhere" for long.'

19.12.2006 from Down To Earth:
Down To Earth grapples with the known and the unknown of climate science in India.

18.12.2006 from The Hamilton Spectator:
Canada and other wealthy nations should prepare for a flood of environmental refugees, and treat them the same as those who flee political danger, international experts say.

18.12.2006 from The Met Office:
Preliminary temperature figures for 2006 show the mean surface air temperature has continued to demonstrate a warming climate, both around the globe and especially here in the UK.

17.12.2006 from green.tv:
A video which brought tears to the eyes of this grizzled and hardened editor. Watch the brief intro and then click the play button. Be moved.

16.12.2006 from Practical Action:
Practical Action's work to help poor communities adapt to climate change is supported by this year's Christmas appeal in The Guardian. Find examples of how your money will help poor communities around the world cope with the threat of climate change.

15.12.2006 from The Scotsman:
The number of turbines planned for a massive wind farm on the island of Lewis has been cut significantly in fresh plans submitted by developers, seeking to allay environmental concerns.

15.12.2006 from Christian Science Monitor:
With Al Gore set to become the Rachel Carson of global warming, awareness in the US of this issue has been going mainstream.

14.12.2006 from Guardian Unlimited:
The case for Heathrow's expansion hinges on its importance to the British economy, which aviation executives claim outweighs the negative environmental consequences. The 2M group, which claims to represent the 2 million people who would be affected by the project, disagrees.

14.12.2006 from SciDevNet:
The policy includes a range of proposals to boost the use of solar and wind energy, micro hydropower and biogas to generate electricity.

13.12.2006 from the BBC:
Former Irish President Mary Robinson argues, in a recent address, that climate change is now an issue of global injustice.

13.12.2006 from The Independent:
Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.

12.12.2006 from the BBC:
It's becoming clearer that protecting the environment is not an alternative to fighting poverty and disease, but a necessary prerequisite.

12.12.2006 from WorldChanging:
That title sums up the thinking behind ecosystem good and services, which is all about reconnecting an economic system that has forgotten its ecological roots.

11.12.2006 from Oxfam:
It’s really important that we take individual responsibility to cut carbon emissions, but also keep up the pressure on the UK government and world leaders to take serious action. Oxfam shows how.

11.12.2006 from The Telegraph:
A study by the Renewable Energy Foundation shows that England and Wales are not windy enough to allow large turbines to work at the rates claimed for them.

10.12.2006 from WWF:
All new homes will be "zero carbon" in less than ten years.

09.12.2006 from TerraDaily:
More than 40,000 people have been forced from their homes in southern Somalia's Jamame district alone by raging waters from the Juba River.

08.12.2006 from Monbiot.com:
The most miserable of transport modes, the coach, could be used to transform the way we travel.

08.12.2006 from TomPaine.com:
'The effects of the Great Warming are not fairly shared... If we don’t achieve major changes, the people on the African continent will suffer the worst,' write Elizabeth Bast and Roxanne Lawson of Friends of the Earth US.