Posted on October 26th 2007
11 October 2007CO2 equivalentsFiled under:IPCCGreenhouse gasesClimate Science— gavin @ 5:40 PMThere was a minor kerfuffle in recent days over claims by Tim Flannery (author of “The Weather Makers”) that new information from the upcoming IPCC synthesis report will show that we have reached 455 ppmv CO2_equivalent 10 years ahead of schedule, with predictable implications. This […]
Posted on October 20th 2007
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press WriterFri, 12 Oct 2007 21:00:35 GMT GENEVA - Plenty of people share the glory of the Nobel Peace Prize — thousands of scientists have been studying and documenting climate change under a U.N. body set up in 1988 as concerns grew about global warming. And they hope the award will […]
Posted on October 7th 2007
14:21 02 October 2007Catherine Brahic and ReutersArctic sea ice shrank this year to its smallest area of coverage since satellite measurements began some 30 years ago. The record low is a result of long-term climate change combined with particular weather conditions during 2007, say US scientists.The remarkable decline made international headlines in September when European […]
Posted on September 23rd 2007
RAPESEED BIOFUEL ‘MORE HARMFUL THAN BURNING OIL OR PETROL’ The Times (22nd September) has reported on a new piece of independent research that shows that rapeseed and maize biofuels may actually produce more harmful greenhouse gases than burning fossil fuels. Fossil fuels tend to produce CO2, the most common greenhouse gas. But Carbon Dioxide is not […]
Posted on September 3rd 2007
By Richard Ingham AFP - Wednesday, August 29 06:36 pm PARIS (AFP) - Global warming may carry a higher risk of flooding than previously thought, according to a study released on Wednesday by the British science journal Nature.It says efforts to calculate flooding risk from climate change do not take into account the effect that carbon […]
Posted on July 12th 2007
Looking forward a thousand years may be difficult, if not impossible, but at least none of us will be here to see whether any of our guesses are right or wrong. Two thousand years ago it might have been possible to guess something of the world a thousand years later; but a thousand years ago […]
Posted on July 12th 2007
10:44 11 July 2007NewScientist.com news serviceCatherine BrahicDirect satellite measurements of solar activity show it has been declining since the mid-1980s and cannot account for recent rises in global temperatures, according to new research.The findings debunk an explanation for climate change that is often cited by people who are not convinced that greenhouse gas emissions from […]
Posted on July 12th 2007
31 May 2007Are Globalization and Sustainable Development on a Collision Course?In a blunt assessment of the business operating context in 2027 – sponsored by Shell, Ford, Novo Nordisk, Vodafone, The Skoll Foundation and others – SustainAbility, Ltd., reports that not only will there be new rules for sustaining business success over the next twenty years, […]
Posted on June 9th 2007
Biofuel production may raise price of food15:04 09 May 2007NewScientist.com news serviceNew Scientist Environment and ReutersThe emerging biofuels industry risks raising the price of food, the United Nations has warned.UN-Energy released its guidelines on the rapidly growing bioenergy industry, entitled Sustainable Energy: A Framework for Decision Makers, on 8 May. According to the report, biofuel […]
Posted on June 9th 2007
GLOBAL NIELSEN SURVEY: CONSUMERS LOOK TO GOVERNMENTS TO ACT ON CLIMATE CHANGESURVEY SHOWS SURGE IN CONSUMER CONCERN OVER GLOBAL WARMING IN PAST SIX MONTHS:TWO IN FIVE CONSUMERS WANT GOVERNMENTS TO RESTRICT CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS AND INVEST IN ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY SOLUTIONSJune, 5, London, UK — Ahead of the G8 Summit on Wednesday this week, where climate […]