Climate Change archive

30.09.2006 Practical solutions to global warming from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

29.09.2006 from Red Pepper:
Perversely, an agreement designed to ameliorate climate change now adds to the burden local people face in the form of the new carbon market.

29.09.2006 from New Scientist:
May be this is Earth's way of telling President George W. Bush that global warming cannot be ignored.

28.09.2006 from TRADA:
Tackle climate change by using wood. Check out these resources...

28.09.2006 from Future London:
If you're a Londoner, you have until 1 October to visit the Future London interactive experience at the Science Museum. Take a few steps now and leap towards a greener capital.

27.09.2006 from Earth Observatory:
A new NASA study shows that warming in recent decades has brought global temperature to a level within about one degree Celsius of the maximum temperature of the past million years.

26.09.2006 from Earth Observatory:
Climate scientists have found that computer simulations that include human influences on climate were able to reproduce, at country scale, the patterns and evolution of the observed temperature changes.

26.09.2006 from Worldwatch Institute:
Once seen largely as a liberal, or secular, matter, climate change has recently surged to the forefront of religious communities’ priorities.

25.09.2006 from Carbon-info.org:
"While individuals may be able to afford a big 4x4 and fly on holiday many times each year, the planet unfortunately can't."

25.09.2006 from Lomborg-errors:
Lomborg-errors is a web site that gathers and publishes errors found in Bjørn Lomborg's book 'The skeptical environmentalist' and attempts to document his dishonesty. The website is produced by a Danish biologist.

24.09.2006 from Guardian Unlimited:
The danger is that we will talk ourselves to kingdom come about climate change and do nothing, claims George Monbiot.

23.09.2006 from Worldwatch Institute:
Technologies that harness renewable energy sources—including wind, solar, geothermal, and bio-power—are or soon will be cost-competitive with conventional fuels.

22.09.2006 from BBC:
Temperatures in central England are about 1C higher than in the 1950s, and humanity's greenhouse gas emissions are the reason, a new study indicates.

22.09.2006 from EurekAlert!:
Satellite spots new dramatic openings – over a geographic extent larger than the size of the British Isles – in the Arctic's perennial sea ice all the way to the North Pole.

21.09.2006 from RenewableEnergyAccess:
"Our central mission over the next 30 years will be to make the third industrial revolution happen: we already have a new communications world order; now we need an energy revolution," says Rifkin in an interview for the European Wind Energy Association.

21.09.2006 from Red Pepper:
Melanie Jarman considers whether a shift to micropower generation is the solution to climate change.

20.09.2006 from CSLP:
The Craik Sustainable Living Project is a non-profit organization which aims to advance the local use of more ecologically sound technologies and ways of living.

20.09.2006 from The Independent:
Menzies Campbell, leader of the UK LibDem Party, is demanding a dramatic shift towards "green" taxation in which he would shift the burden of taxation from income tax to environmental charges.

19.09.2006 from silicon.com:
The eco-friendly stance of the Eden Project is also shaping the decisions made in its IT operations. Ticketing by mobile phone is just one example.

19.09.2006 from Ecological Internet:
The top ten policies necessary to pursue global ecological sustainability.