Climate Change archive

31.07.2006 from chinadialogue:
Should those countries that already have civil and military nuclear technology get to keep them, while everyone else has to buy in their services?

31.07.2006 from New Economics Foundation:
People can live long, happy lives without using more than their fair share of the Earth’s resources, shows a new global measure of progress.

29.07.2006 from Think Progress:
A secret memo details a coordinated campaign to spread misinformation about global warming in the US.

28.07.2006 from Carbon Trust:
Connective Energy aims to become a leading supplier of low carbon heat solutions.

28.07.2006 from Friends of the Earth:
'If the proportion of BP and Shell's investments in renewables came even close to the proportion of their advertising budget they spend bragging about them, the world would be a very different place.'

28.07.2006 from China Dialogue:
'Government leaders and private citizens will have to mobilise in an unprecedented way if we are to have any chance of passing a healthy and secure world on to the next generation.'

27.07.2006 from ISIS:
Climate change controversy is political, argues Mae Wan Ho in an up-to-date review of the science. She notes that 'unrestrained growth has resulted in the over exploitation of both environmental resources and people, impoverishing billions in historically the most resource-rich countries of the Third World'.

27.07.2006 from The Guardian:
As this week's heatwave shows, climate change will affect almost every aspect of British life. But how?

26.07.2006 from LA Times:
'What happens, exactly, when it's so hot in Southern California that you simply can't go on?'

26.07.2006 from Taipei Times:
The Antarctic Treaty could, it seems, be meaningless. "The day they decide, [the energy companies] will go in," says Iranian oil expert at summit on polar research. Meanwhile in Australia, maverick politicians are champing at the bit for Antarctic gold, iron ore, coal and fish.

25.07.2006 from Green Car Congress:
"It is now a moral obligation for Christians to lead eco-friendly lifestyles," declares the Bishop of London.

25.07.2006 from Oxfam:
The ravages of HIV, conflict and climate change are major causes of food crises for which a solution is possible.

24.07.2006 from The Climate Group:
"Environmental motoring has to go mainstream; it cannot just be a lifestyle choice of the concerned."

24.07.2006 from Timesonline:
Supermarket lorries travel the equivalent of almost four return trips to the Moon every day. Ingredients for just one meal could typically have travelled a total of 37,000 'food miles'.

23.07.2006 from The Guardian:
There are much more honest and sustainable ways of dealing with climate change such as a carbon tax.

22.07.2006 from Worldwatch Institute:
Unless its numerous drawbacks are overcome in the near future, nuclear energy is likely to become a thing of the past—even as President Bush and other world leaders press for its revival.

21.07.2006 from chinadialogue:
'The world cannot sustain China and other third-world countries and current first-world countries all operating at first-world levels.'

21.07.2006 from ENN:
Pacific island nations could lose more than half their mangroves by the end of the century because of global warming.

20.07.2006 from Earth Observatory:
If global temperatures increase as predicted, this beautiful European mountain chain could lose all its ice... and ski resorts.

20.07.2006 from BBC:
Global population is higher than the Earth can sustain, argues the Director of the British Antarctic Survey.