Climate Change archive

01/27/2007 from Monbiot.com:
The superstores are suddenly competing to be green. Can we trust them? asks George Monbiot.

01/26/2007 from two steps forward:
'Buying offsets for an energy-wasteful home or business and calling it environmentally responsible is akin to buying a Diet Coke to go with your double bacon cheeseburger -- and calling it a weight-loss program.'

01/26/2007 from WBCSD:
Nearly half of all measures needed in industrialised countries to fight climate change can pay for themselves, shows Swedish energy company plan.

01/25/2007 from The Scotsman:
The world's largest community wind farm is to be built on Shetland, capable of generating enough power to supply a quarter of Scotland's homes.

01/25/2007 from Treehugger:
There's an important ski race but no snow so what do you do? It's a no brainer: bring in snow from higher elevations. By helicopter!

01/24/2007 from Oil Change:
The world's leading climate sceptics claim that climate change goes in 1,500 year cycles which may have more to do with cosmic rays than fossil fuel emissions.

01/24/2007 from It’s Getting Hot In Here:
There's a growing movement of informed students on the issues of climate change, as this report shows.

01/23/2007 from SciDevNet:
African countries are spearheading ways to tackle climate change and have important lessons for how others can cope in future, says a soon to be released report.

01/23/2007 from The Independent:
Check what you're buying before you hand over your money, advises government. And there's a risk that the fashion for offsets could actually encourage people to make unnecessary journeys.

01/22/2007 from Rollingstone.com:
'The coal boom that is currently sweeping America is the atmospheric equivalent of a swan dive off a very tall building.'

01/22/2007 from PlanetArk:
'We could not have our ambitious goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2020 if we can't also include other important players like China,' warns EU External Relations Commissioner.

01/21/2007 from The BBC:
Experts assessing the dangers posed to civilisation have added climate change to the prospect of nuclear annihilation as the greatest threats to humankind.

01/20/2007 from The Nature Conservancy (US):
What are the next big ideas in conservation when habitat and species losses are accelerating and rising global temperatures threaten to remake the natural world? Six scientists offer their views of Conservation 2.0.

01/19/2007 from TerraDaily:
"We can say that 75 percent of the change is due to the emergence of greenhouse gases," claims ecology and environmental science professor.

01/19/2007 from inside greentech:
What can possibly be “green” about a huge repository of highly volatile radioactive material boiling away under pressure in a giant steam kettle? More than you'd think.

01/18/2007 from The BBC:
The cost of "gas-guzzling" cars could soar in five years' time under plans from the European Commission.

01/18/2007 from The Telegraph:
The fast-growing market in 'carbon offsets' for air travel is to be investigated by MPs. This could be a huge market in the next five years and could just encourage people to go on emitting carbon.

01/17/2007 from The Independent:
"If trains between the capital and Scottish cities, for example, could be made cheaper and more comfortable than flights, then the choice for travellers would be a 'no brainer'," adds the Tory Party's Tim Yeo who chairs the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee.

01/17/2007 from Ross Gelbspan:
As the world heats up, the US coal industry is racing to build more than 150 new power plants before Congress decides to crack down on global warming.

01/16/2007 from Science A GoGo:
"Overall, temperatures are rising and so there may come a time when these little lakes do not freeze at all," says a University at Buffalo researcher who is collecting data on lakes from the US Northeast and parts of the Midwest.