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Climate science: a peace-studies lesson

Climate science: a peace-studies lesson

By Paul Rogers. The doubters of global warming are emboldened by their new ability - as in the “climategate” affair - to put climate researchers on the defensive. But the experience of comparable assaults on the discipline of peace studies in (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | openDemocracy

Climate Change - Part 1: The Albedo

Climate Change - Part 1: The Albedo

This is the first of articles to describe the main factors driving the warming and climate changes of the Earth. This is the first of articles to describe the main factors driving the warming and climate changes of the Earth. I will start with the most (...)

25 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Giovanni Macchia

The Energy industry has become a key talking point

Renewable energy solutions are no longer optional but a necessity which must be embraced by all governments. Driven by China’s determination to reduce their dependence on coal energy and to look ahead to a more sustainable future, the recent NGU (...)

14 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | Emma Naylor

Asia Can Help Lead Climate-Change Fight with Green Dollar Spending

Asia Can Help Lead Climate-Change Fight with Green Dollar Spending

Asia’s scientists and technologists are capable of taking the lead in helping the world make the transition to renewable energy resources. (...)

16 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | JF-Online

The last refuge of prejudice

The last refuge of prejudice

Discounting the interests of future people is the one remaining prejudice. By Rupert Read. It is no longer socially-acceptable to exhibit prejudice against ethnic minority people on grounds of their ethnicity, women on grounds of their gender, or (...)

11 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | openDemocracy

Gore: Forget Copenhagen Global Warming Summit

Gore: Forget Copenhagen Global Warming Summit

Al Gore, the Godfather of the Global Warming Hoax has canceled out on the upcoming Copenhagen Global Warming Summit: Climate campaigner Al Gore has canceled a lecture he was supposed to deliver in Copenhagen. The former vice president and Nobel Peace (...)

4 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Rob Port

GDS International: Global Warming Scam?

GDS International: Global Warming Scam?

Richard Tarboton talks for MeettheBoss.TV on his role as Head of Energy & Carbon for BT and what they are doing towards reducing carbon emissions. Normal 0 21

30 Nov. 2009 | | JF-Online

Fuel for Thought - Global Media Giant goes Green

Fuel for Thought - Global Media Giant goes Green

GDS International is officially going green as it looks to neutralize the carbon footprint of its websites Global Media giants GDS International are famed for catering to the needs of the world’s fortune 500 companies, running leading publications (...)

16 Nov. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Nobel Scientists Agree - Stop Soot Now !

Nobel Scientists Agree - Stop Soot Now !

Last week, Ecojustice launched stopsoot.ca, a video campaign that calls on the Canadian government to stop the number two cause of global warming, black carbon emissions otherwise known as soot. That call to action is also being echoed by the man who one (...)

5 nov. 2009 | | Kori

Sharing Of Green Technology ? A Bogus In The Climate Debate

Sharing Of Green Technology ? A Bogus In The Climate Debate

By Eberhard Rhein. 50 days ahead of the Copenhagen Climate Conference a new theme re-enters the debate between developed and developing countries : free transfer of green energy technologies to developing countries. India and China are particularly (...)

29 oct. 2009 | | Blogactiv Team

Climate Change and Pollution are Two Separate Things

Climate Change and Pollution are Two Separate Things

Conflating "pollution" with "climate change" is causing us to waste a lot of time, effort, and money. One of these (pollution) we can control. The other we cannot. How is it that so many people can’t understand the not-so-subtle (...)

12 oct. 2009 | | Frank Staheli

Warming up for climate change reporting

Warming up for climate change reporting

So after two days of intense frustration, having schlepped my laptop all the way to the WakeUp Copenhagen Hotel and finding that the Wi-Fi was f*cked, this evening (by some miraculously inspired configuration) I managed to get online.* I have no idea what (...)

23 sep. 2009 | | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

Chilly Reception to Sideline Cap-and-Trade Bill?

Chilly Reception to Sideline Cap-and-Trade Bill?

Stiff opposition to cap-and-trade legislation could push bill from 2009 calendar, while election-wary midwestern Democrats in 2010 could remove it altogether. I think everybody here has something to be proud of. And maybe even a reason to sit back and (...)

6 Aug. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

A Beautiful Effect of Climate Change?

A Beautiful Effect of Climate Change?

Nobody’s certain yet, but some scientists are speculating that increases in atmospheric CO2 is causing a hauntingly beautiful phenomenon called "night shining" clouds. Mysterious, glowing clouds previously seen almost exclusively in (...)

20 Jul. 2009 | | Kori

What Can Scientists Do About Climate Change ?

What Can Scientists Do About Climate Change ?

By David Bennetts. A critical question I have been asking is ‘Why are politicians not solving the climate change issues quickly enough’. It is true that they are beginning to get to grips with the issues now that the US is there. But the real (...)

13 jui. 2009 | 1 comment | Blogactiv Team

Democrats Don’t Want Cap And Trade Carbon Tax To Apply To Imports

Democrats Don't Want Cap And Trade Carbon Tax To Apply To Imports

What a boondoggle... Senior Democrat senators said on Wednesday they would change a provision that imposes carbon taxes on imports following warnings that the clause in the House’s cap-and-trade bill could spark a global trade war. The (...)

9 jui. 2009 | | Rob Port

Was it the Luftwaffe’s Carbon Emissions?

Was it the Luftwaffe's Carbon Emissions?

Assigned Reading: Gore Likens Climate Change Fight to Battle With Nazis (FROM: Times Online) Perhaps when he finds a way to power his private jet with hyperbole or hypocrisy alone, I’ll listen. Seriously, I’ve been waiting all day for a few (...)

8 Jul. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

An iceberg in Paris

An iceberg in Paris

Anyone in the French capital on Tuesday might have done something of a double take as they passed along the river Seine. Because not far away from the city’s world-famous landmark, the Eiffel Tower, they would have seen an iceberg. It was, of (...)

8 Jul. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Oil and Gas producers must also cut C02 emissions

By Eberhard Rhein. The Middle East oil/gas producer countries- GCC, Iraq and Iran - are among the big C02 emitters on the planet. Jointly they are responsible for more than four percent of global emissions - more than India - due to the nature of their (...)

3 jui. 2009 | | Blogactiv Team

Cap n trade these

Cap n trade these

I was really disappointed when the congress passed the recent Carbon Cap-N-Trade Bill. First was that it took me more than two days to read the 1200 plus pages and could only wonder how many carbon gases were released cutting down all them trees and (...)

1 Jul. 2009 | | Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Google’s new ‘PowerMeter’ sparks excitement at the NGU Europe Summit

Next Generation Utilities Summit

It is not very often the words ‘Google’ and ‘energy-saving’ appear in the same sentence. However, in Portugal last week at the industry-leading Next Generation Utilities Summit, over 50 European Utility leaders were presented with (...)

1 Jul. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Yes, The World is Really Getting Warmer

Paul Krugman offers us the data on global climate, rather than the random cherry-picking of temperatures technique favored by the denialists : Now you don’t really need that trendline (which he tells us is a third-degree polynomial) to see (...)

29 jui. 2009 | 1 comment | Matthew Yglesias

Kofi Annan - Now A Global Warming Alarmist

Kofi Annan - Now A Global Warming Alarmist

When Kofi Annan left the United Nations we hoped he would go away. This criminal landed in Switzerland to live the good life and proved you could land in a pile of manure and come out smelling like a dozen roses. Now president of the Geneva-based Global (...)

8 jui. 2009 | 1 comment | Liberally Conservative

China and Global Warming : Gaseous Goodhart

China and Global Warming : Gaseous Goodhart

China’s top climate change negotiator wants the Chinese export sector to be excluded from their targets, and "consumers to pay" instead. This is not good news. For a start, the tactics. It means accepting the principle of letting some (...)

23 mar. 2009 | | Alex Harrowell

Michael Steele : Warming is Really Cooling

Michael Steele : Warming is Really Cooling

Conservatives are in a weird posture on climate change. Their financial backers are very much against taking action to avoid catastrophe. And they perceive, correctly, that the kind of steps that could avoid catastrophe are likely to offend a large swathe (...)

17 mar. 2009 | | Matthew Yglesias

Some Intellecutal Honesty in our future ?

Back to that sea-ice-level report WC posted a link to, which shows that today we once again have the same amount of sea ice as we did in 1979. In the 70’s, the popular theory was that we were heading into another ice age. Then we warmed up. Well, (...)

15 jan. 2009 | | W.C. Varones

What Global Warming : Most Sea Ice on Record

Which admittedly only goes back to 1979, but still throw away 30 years of “global warming” misinformation. Haven’t they been saying if we keep breathing and otherwise expel carbon dioxide into the atmosphere all of the sea ice would (...)

6 jan. 2009 | | Rob Port

Northwest Passage

In other Canadian news, Joe Romm observes that arctic ice melting has gotten so bad that we’ve now got ice-free shipping lanes through the once-mythic Northwest Passage : “We did have a commercial cargo vessel that did the first scheduled run (...)

2 déc. 2008 | | Matthew Yglesias

A take away menu of global food issues

A take away menu of global food issues

Climate Change and Biofules have a direct influence on world food supplies. This is the theme of the FAO World Food Day (16 October) but the problem is bigger than simply making food available to 862 million people. I try to show how big is the problem (...)

15 Oct. 2008 | | lawlang

North Pole to be ice-free for the first time this year, scientists say

North Pole to be ice-free for the first time this year, scientists say

Parents beware - Kids ordering non-floating toys for Christmas will be out of luck

30 Jun. 2008 | 1 comment | Chris Hugo

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