Climate Change archive

16.01.2007 from The Hindu:
A choice is now available for those living in apartments to switch over to a renewable energy mode of cooking.

15.01.2007 from DW-World.de:
An EU study on climate change warns of drought-like conditions, catastrophic damage to business and tens of thousands of dead if urgent steps aren't taken to check global warming.

14.01.2007 from chinadialogue:
China became the “workshop of the world” because of cheap raw materials and a lack of environmental responsibility. Companies did not need to pay the true price of materials, for environmental recovery or compensation, and so that cost was not passed onto the consumer. We all have a responsibility to change this.

13.01.2007 from Guardian Unlimited:
"Is 'a bit impractical actually' how you'll explain to your grandchildren why you didn't do enough to tackle climate change, Mr Blair?" asks George Monbiot in an open letter to the UK Prime Minister.

12.01.2007 from The BBC:
The government is talking to the building industry about how to improve energy efficiency in UK homes. Housing currently produces 27% of the country's CO2 emissions.

12.01.2007 from Science Daily:
Lack of oxygen is the key factor limiting the stock size of fishes suffering heat stress. This study has implications for food supplies in a warming world.

11.01.2007 from WDM:
WDM's CO2 calendar shows by when during 2007 the average UK citizen will have emitted as much as a citizen from another country will during the whole year. Today comes Bangladesh which is far from the first.

11.01.2007 from innovations report:
Peat, formed mostly from spagnum moss, stores one third of the global carbon reserves, and also enormous amounts of the greenhouse gas methane. If – or rather when – the average temperature on the earth rises by one centigrade, large amounts of these reserves could be released to the atmosphere.

10.01.2007 from innovations report:
The transition from an ice age to an ice-free planet 300 million years ago was highly unstable, marked by dips and rises in carbon dioxide, extreme swings in climate and drastic effects on tropical vegetation, according to a new study.

10.01.2007 from deSmogBlog:
Ross Gelbspan offers three basic and interacting strategies.

09.01.2007 from Earth Policy Institute:
The world desperately needs a strategy to deal with the emerging food-fuel battle.

09.01.2007 from The Independent:
Some dismiss carbon-offsetting as a way of buying a clear conscience. Some Indian farmers would disagree.

08.01.2007 from 24dash.com:
People in Britain will have to change every aspect of the way they live in an effort to tackle climate change, Environment Secretary David Miliband warns.

08.01.2007 from The BBC:
Owners of water mills or weirs in Herefordshire are being encouraged to use the flow of rivers to generate electricity. Why stop at Herefordshire?

07.01.2007 from AlterNet:
Changing the course of global warming could take a major upheaval to affect public policy -- a Pearl Harbor-type event in the environment. "We can't afford a defeatist attitude. We have to be forceful. If we throw up our hands and do nothing, we are accepting the worst-case scenario."

06.01.2007 from Blue Climate:
There is a range of views on climate science in 'the emerging middle' of the global warming debate. Even so, NASA climate scientist James Hansen declares that "it seems almost to be a secret that we cannot put all of the fossil-fuel CO2 into the air without producing a different planet, and yes, dangerous change. There are people who don’t know that!”

05.01.2007 from Union of Concerned Scientists:
A new UCS report offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics.

05.01.2007 from The BBC:
A project that highlights the economic opportunities, as well as the environmental threats, from climate change is being launched for farmers.

04.01.2007 from The Independent:
A combination of global warming and the El Niño weather system is set to make 2007 the warmest year on record.

04.01.2007 from CarbonSMS:
Are the carbon offset retail providers cashing on global warming? (Scroll down for commonsense questions.)