Climate change

Kathryn Cooper The Sunday Times - July 6, 2008 Original URL One of the most popular stocks this year with private investors, alongside big boys such as Halifax Bank of Scotland and Barclays, has been a minnow called Tanfield. The electric vehicle manufacturer, listed on the Alternative Investment Market (Aim), has regularly appeared in the top ten buys at stockbroker TD Waterhouse over the

Whether the rest of the government is willing to admit to the dangers of climate change is anybodies guess, but the intelligence community has issued a 58 page report saying that climate change is dangerous.  The rest of the world says: "Finally!" The U. S. intelligence community has completed a study on the implications of climate change and world stability and arrived at the same conc

"With bated breath we wait for Gore and DiCaprio’s upcoming films critical of China."Here’s a quick one. If it hasn’t gained official status yet, it will soon. Yet another source reports that China has now “officially” and “clearly” surpassed the United States as the world’s leading emitter of purported climate warming gases.“Worse, China's emissions are likely to continue growi

As per a climate change expert Mr. R.K. Pachauri, rising temperatures will take it's toll on the yield of crops. As per him, wheat yields would fall by 5-10% with every increase of 1 degree celsius. This especially would be in the case of the Indian subcontinent, particularly India.(source:- The Times of India) Various sources have claimed India would be amongst the worst sufferers of the effect o

ABC News - 7 June 2008 Original URL Dr Poloczanska says the lack of data in Australia is even more profound than elsewhere. (ABC News: Andrew Fisher) A CSIRO scientist has warned Australia's fight against climate change is being compromised by a lack of local research. Hobart-based researcher Elvira Poloczanska is the co-author of an article in the latest edition of the journal Scie

A US attempt to establish a system of caps and tax relief to cut carbon emissions has been blocked in Congress. BBC News - 6 June 2008 Original URL Carbon producers would have been able to trade emissions allowances The bill was backed by most senators, but did not get the 60 votes needed to stop a delaying tactic - a filibuster - used by the bill's opponents. Even if it had succeed

Users of a busy carriageway in Germany witnessed a fuss caused by a large number of snails, which became a cause of several accidents. Some experts believe that the mass migration of these snails could have been due to climate change since snails sought a more becoming environment.

After coming to the Senate floor this week with a wave of publicity behind it, the Climate Change bill appears to be going out with a whimper. While the bill itself is an amalgam of ways to encourage alternative energy sources and limit greenhouse gases, it has also become the focal point where the debate about whether or not Global Warming is a fact or conspiracy. Hannah McCrea asked in an earlie

Deborah Zabarenko Planet Ark - 3/6/2008 Original URL WASHINGTON - Even before debate began Monday on the first comprehensive climate change bill to reach the Senate floor, the White House said President Bush would veto it in its current form. Bush himself slammed the bill, saying it would cost the US economy $6 trillion. His estimate drew quick denials from those who support the legislati

 This certainly is good news. It looks like the cap and trade climate change bill is going to die a slow death in the senate….at least for now. It sounds as if it will be tabled until next year, when coincidentally either McCain, Clinton, or most likely Obama will be president and will be in [...]

Be a patriot and save our economy - Grow your own Thrift, recycling, growing your own - these are the habits that helped win the war. And now they could also help us win back the environment & economy.   "Challenges we now face when it comes to getting the message across are quite different, however. Back in war era, conservation messages were received by a far thriftier nation. Att

A book from Europe poses the question: Is the climate change crisis a guise to put “green shackles” on our freedom and liberty? In short, my answer is no. However, the danger does exist, and it would be foolish to dismiss it out of hand. It’s also a danger played up by the Denial [...]

Climate models used to predict the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere predicted a huge increase in temperatures in the planet’s troposphere over the last 30 years.  When these 22 models were compared to actuals, there was little warming - even over tropical areas.  How can we trust the science behind global warming models when they’re [...]

join the offical land of the banned messageboard Does Al Gore know about this? While the former vice president is leading the charge for drastically changing the way humans do business in a bid to avert catastrophic, man-made global warming, scientists reported today there is noticeable climate change taking place on Jupiter, too. The news follows reports as [...]

Join the offical land of the banned Messageboard Does Al Gore know about this? While the former vice president is leading the charge for drastically changing the way humans do business in a bid to avert catastrophic, man-made global warming, scientists reported today there is noticeable climate change taking place on Jupiter, too. The news follows reports as [...]

The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues recently met. Although the final decisions of the 7th session have not been officially released, I was able to get an advanced, unedited version of the report. Below I've summarized the decisions and recommendations of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to the Economic and Social Council.Draft Decision I - International expert group mee

Jupiter is experiencing its own climate change issues that could lead to decreased spots in its atmosphere. The planet is expected to warm precipitously at the equator and cool at the poles, all without the help of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. diplomadic.blogspot.com Tags: anthropogenic, atmosphere, climate change, gas, green, greenhouse [...]

The Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), coordinated by Ceres, is a network of institutional investors and financial institutions that promotes better understanding of the financial risks and investment opportunities posed by climate change. Ceres is a leading coalition of...

The 350 Challenge is a small way to show your support to fight climate change. By posting the badge on your site, 350 pounds of carbon will be offset in your name. This BrighterPlanet campaign is in association with Bill...

Andrew Clark in New York guardian.co.uk - Monday May 19 2008 A shareholder revolt at ExxonMobil led by the billionaire Rockefeller family has won the support of four significant British institutional investors who will call on Monday for a shakeup in the governance of the world's biggest oil company. Guardian.co.uk has learned that F&C Asset Management, Morley Fund Management, the Co-Op

.....and boy are the Republicans PISSED about it too! WOW! Maverick or no Maverick, He keeps that up and Juan McSame might end up out of a Job and out of a party! Although, I must confess, it is quite humorous to see Republicans eating their own.

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Nightmarish scenes in Myanmar in the aftermath of cyclone Nargis. This is probably a forerunner of what will come later on as the temperatures rise and more energy is added to the weather systems. The poor are hit first and they suffer greatly.clipped from ap.google.comSome environmentalists suggested global warming may have played a role. Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that warming oceans could contribute to increasingly severe cyclones with stronger winds and heavier rains."While we can never pinpoint one disaster as the result of climate change, there is enough scientific evidence that climate change will lead to intensification of tropical cyclones," said Sunita Narain, director of the Indian environmental group Center for Science and Environment."Na

From Examiner.com Sen. John McCain really does want to tempt the Republican base. …We’ve gotten our hands on an advanced transcript of this weekend’s “The Chris Matthews Show” on NBC and the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Katty Kay offered this nugget during the show’s “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” segment: “John McCain is going to be doing [...]

If the world is going to truly combat greenhouse gas emissions, China and India have to be part of the fight, the chief economist for the Paris-based International Energy Agency said Tuesday. Fatih Birol told oil and gas executives at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston that the economies of China and India are growing at such a pace that they'll keep needing more energy, much of it from coal. Even if Europe cuts emissions by 20 percent in the next dozen years as pledged, it won't be enough to overcome emissions anticipated to increase in the developing giants, he said.But don't blame China, the bigger of the two, he said.China's growth is "simply imitating" what developed countries have already done. Americans love their cars, and increasingly the Chinese do as well, driving mo

John Taylor correctly pointed out yesterday that as unpopular as high gas prices may be, they are not all bad: high prices typically encourage conservation and efficiency technologies that should help us both to limit our oil dependence and to stem the growth in greenhouse gas emissions.  Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, both of [...]

An organization called Climate Counts released a report this week that ranked corporations by their commitment to confronting global climate change and mitigating their greenhouse gas contributions. Of all the industries studied by Climate Counts, the Information Technology and Electronics industry showed the strongest efforts in slowing climate change. The top performing companies in the

Although I find it always desirable to hear two sex girls more opinions on a matter, it is very strange to read or hear the global warming skeptics preach their doubt. Of course some estimations can be inaccurate or exaggerated in some cases, but to doubt the whole phenomenon is a willful ignorance for some [...]

Brussels officials have turned to religious VIPs to help spread the gospel of an environmentally friendly society and increase awareness of climate change in their parishes, as well as promoting tolerance between different confessions in Europe. Twenty high-level representatives – 19 men and one woman - from European Christian, Jewish and Muslim congregations met in Brussels on Monday (5 may) to discuss the sensitive issues of climate change and reconciliation between peoples. The meeting was co-chaired by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Slovenian Prime Minister and current president of the European Council, Janez Jansa, and the president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering.   ~ more... ~  

Of course there is no chance that the EU will take the slightest notice of the facts on climate change as reported by Booker this morning. as earth is not warming there is no need for international action to face the consequences. The EU has far too much invested in the industry to allow little things like [...]

We all around the world I think are starting to catch the idea that the little things that we do each day in conservation  of all things is great. Whether you are turning off your lights or whatever you are doing maybe motivated by my post The Dummy Environmentalist( Lets get a plan) with all of the little things you can do. But I feel that we are doing all of this without support by our current Administration , because I feel that they are not representing us. They should because since Earth Day it seams like green fever is in the air. People are talking and so are businesses. The government is not representing what are views are. In "Democracy" we are a country that has leaders in all areas that should represent the peoples best interests. They are not doing this! It also is no

We all around the world I think are starting to catch the idea that the little things that we do each day in conservation  of all things is great. Whether you are turning off your lights or whatever you are doing maybe motivated by my post The Dummy Environmentalist( Lets get a plan) with all of the little things you can do. But I feel that we are doing all of this without support by our

Ph.D. position at the Technical University Munich, Germany: Impacts of Climate Change on Pollen Season and Distribution in the Alpine Region DescriptionRecent climate change has been influencing the timing, duration and intensity of the pollen season in the northern hemisphere, which is one major observed climate change impact on human health. Together with the ZAUM - Center for Allergy and Environment (Group: Environmental Dermatology and Allergology, TUM / HelmholtzZentrum Munich), the Chair of Ecoclimatology will study at the Environmental Research Station Schnee¬fernerhaus the influence of high altitude climate on allergenic diseases. Our project component covers the meteorological / biological part concerning pollen season and pollen distribution.The objectives of the PhD project ar

photo from hereEarth Day was held on April 22, 1970, for the first time. So, today is the 39th Earth Day! Be good with the Earth and Nature and help combat climate change.See more about Earth Day in Wikipedia

There are so many things you can do today to positively impact our environment. That's what Earth Day is all about. One of the most important things you can do, however, is tell Congress you are serious about environmental and energy reform. The politicians in Washington really believe that voters are apathetic about our environment and aren't paying attention to the pattern of Congress

Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post - April 18, 2008 Original URL The government is unlikely to meet its deadline for establishing a special climate change commission because of cautiousness and tough negotiations. "We are still in the process (of setting up the commission)," State Minister for the Environment Rahmat Witoelar told The Jakarta Post on Thursday. "We are now harmonizing the plan across all sectors to make sure the commission will not be rejected after it is established." The commission was originally scheduled to be set up by the end of April. The responsibilities of the planned powerful commission will include monitoring the national action plan for fighting climate change and teaching people to adapt to frequent changes in the weather. The comm

I just don't see the issue over the Time magazine cover. Maybe I am just a product of different experiences and time. My dad was in the Second World War and Vietnam War and he is still alive. He has voted Republican most of his life except during the last election he voted for John Kerry. He likes to say that a monkey can do a better job than you know who. Shortly after you know who was elected the first time, my dad made claims that he would bankrupt the country. I am not sure how he came to such a quick conclusion and I thought he was delusional at the time but given the "bitter" situation today he was correct. My dad was against the Iraq war vehemently too. Like those issues, he probably thinks this issue over the Time Magazine cover illustrates how people fail to understand rea

The only thing I have to say about predictions of climate change is: learn some math, look at the data, make your own decision. Perhaps have a look at: Earth's Temperature History: How Well is it Known? for motivation.If you want to know what happens when a large portion of the world population goes off half cocked in a panic without considering the full impact of a decision have a look at this Google search for the words "climate change ethanol food".

Expert Calls For More Attention To Climate Change Issues: BY VANESSA C. ROLLE - Nassau, Bahamas: The worldwide effort to combat the effects of climate change is not far removed from The Bahamas. On the home front, officials continue to suggest ways the local population can do its part to reduce the impact of global warming. All over the world the movement is growing to address global warming. "One of our major threats is sea level rise," said Dr. Arthur Rolle, director of the Bahamas Department of Meteorology. "With a population of 300,000 and 80 percent living within one kilometer of the coastline, you will see how potentially dangerous that is for our residents. The way to curb it is for us to do whatever we can to adapt to sea level rise situations." Climate change, he explained,

Washington, April 14 (IANS) India wants the rich nations to massively reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and provide more financial and technological help to the developing countries to deal with the problem of climate change. Given their responsibility for causing the problem, the developed world has these two clear obligations, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said [...]

I frequently read the Environment section on Yahoo! News. Normally it's filled with horrific or political news, such as "30% of bird species extinct by 2050" or "Fisheries collapse by 2040" or "Environmental organization sues to stop construction of coal plant." Over the past months I've often seen articles on wine production and climate change dotting the section. The first one, okay. But then it got to be a pattern, and I got a little annoyed. Wine drinkers, by stereotype, tend to be at least in the richer segment of the world's population, if not among the richest of the rich, depending on the wine. I thought, there must be more important, actually environment-related (as opposed to product-related) news to put in the section. Now they're talking about beer. Wine shortages might be a pr

AFP - 7 April 2008 Original URL MANILA (AFP) — More than half the annual estimated 150,000 deaths linked to climate change will come from the Asia-Pacific region, officials at the World Health Organisation said Monday. Most of the fatalities will be the result of a greater incidence of diseases such as malaria, diarrhoea and malnutrition, as well as and flooding due to changing weather patterns. Shigeru Omi, WHO director for the Western Pacific region based in Manila, said "the impact of climate change will be felt more in developing countries," which have fewer resources to deal with it. Unlike other health crises, like bird flu, which can be alleviated, "it is inevitable climate change will get worse for some time," Omi said. He cited evidence that malaria was now appear

Crystal Davis Earth Trends - 2008-02-28 Original URL The warmest winter ever recorded in Finland may boost the country's agricultural production by lengthening the growing season, demonstrating some of the early impacts of global climate change. Finland's southern regions experienced average temperatures above freezing point this year and had snow cover for only 20 days, far below the typical 70. Although global warming appears to favor agriculture in this Nordic country, world agriculture as a whole is predicted to suffer as global temperatures rise. The greatest production losses are expected in developing countries due to natural vulnerability and limited capacity to adapt, threatening already food-insecure regions. Change in Agriculture Output Potential Due to Cli

With 192 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol has to date 178 member Parties. Under the Protocol, 37 States,...

By Richard BlackApril 3, BBC NewsScientists have produced further compelling evidence showing that modern-day climate change is not caused by changes in the Sun's activity.The research contradicts a favoured theory of climate "sceptics", that changes in cosmic rays coming to Earth determine cloudiness and temperature.The idea is that variations in solar activity affect cosmic ray intensity.But Lancaster University scientists found there has been no significant link between them in the last 20 years.Presenting their findings in the Institute of Physics journal, Environmental Research Letters, the UK team explain that they used three different ways to search for a correlation, and found virtually none.This is the latest piece of evidence which at the very least puts the cosmic ray theory, de

The Global Cool Foundation, a UK registered charity, was founded in the summer of 2006 by a group of scientists and business leaders to inspire the individual to save a planet through taking individual action in reducing their carbon footprint....

IMAGES contrast normal energy use with reduced energy use associated with WWF's "Earth Hour" event. Image at top by Paul Miller/AP Photo and at right by Mark Baker/AP Photo Sydney along with other cities around the world dimmed the lights in a symbolic event to recognize climate change and how working together humanity can remedy the problem through cooperation. The event is known as "Earth Hour" and is organized via the World Wildlife Fund. The event is simply a beautiful idea. From the World Wildlife Fund:Earth Hour is a global event created to symbolize that each one of us, working together, can make a positive impact on climate change - no matter who we are or where we live.Created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, Earth Hour has grown from a single event into a global m

Now-a-days we hear about Climate Change more often than before. Climate change is a global phenomenon and the term Climate Change” is indeed a straightforward expression for such a complex subject. In fact, it has more than we can comprehend from this phrase and that is why it is quite essential to go at defining [...]

How can we inspire people to take action on climate change?Get everyone to know about this event BEFORE 8:00pm on the evening of 29 MARCH. JOIN ME - by playing a part in this one-hour event at 8:00pm (your local time) on Saturday 29 March. You can even stay at home, it's easy to participate... GO TO IT NOW!With Sydney icons like the Harbour Bridge and Opera House turning off their lights, and unique events such as weddings by candlelight, the world took notice. Inspired by the collective effort of millions of Sydneysiders, many major global cities are joining Earth Hour in 2008, turning a symbolic event into a global movement.

The amount of land dedicated to forests, particularly old growth forests, could significantly reduce global warming. Forests are an important use of land in most countries, and in modern times they take on a new, environmental significance. Plant life scrubs carbon dioxide from the air. Carbon dioxide is a main cause [...]

An alarm is being raised about global warming causing dramatic rises in the temperature of ocean waters. Scientists are studying warming waters all over the globe to determine the extent of this rise in temperatures. The consequences of global warming are far-reaching. One of the most devastating effects of global warming is an [...]

ICSC is an international association of scientists, economists and energy and policy experts working to promote better public understanding of climate change science and policy worldwide. ICSC is committed to providing a highly credible alternative to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian grape growers reckon they are the canary in the coalmine of global warming, as a long drought forces winemakers to rethink the styles of wine they can produce and the regions they can grow in. The three largest grape-growing regions in Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth, all depend on irrigation to survive. The high cost of water has made life tough for growers. Some say they probably won't survive this year's harvest, because of the cost of keeping vines alive. Water prices surged above A$1,000 a megaliter last year from around A$300.

Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have demonstrated their commitment to taking strong and bold action on climate change. Obama: Cap and Trade: Obama supports implementation of a market-based cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions by the amount scientists say is necessary: 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Obama's cap-and-trade system will require all pollution credits to be auctioned. A 100 percent auction ensures that all polluters pay for every ton of emissions they release, rather than giving these emission rights away to coal and oil companies. Some of the revenue generated by auctioning allowances will be used to support the development of clean energy, to invest in energy efficiency improvements, and to address transition costs, including helping American workers aff

Unseasonal rains last weekend have led to great losses in the cashew nut and rubber industries in several southern and Central Highlands provinces, with other sectors reporting losses caused by global climate change. The southern province of Binh Phuoc tops the country in cashew and rubber growing, with 170,000 ha and 120,000 ha, respectively. Rains and strong winds last weekend destroyed part

Fox News on global warming:Fox news often uses Senator Inhofe for climate change discussion because he believes climate change is a "hoax." Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) is no more qualified to manage the environment than Exxon. The senator has an image of an oil drilling rig on his Senate homepage. AS IF!More false claims and spin heard on Fox News:“The warming is due to the sun”“CO2 is not a pollutant”“Alarmist scientists”“Alarmists' messages about global warming are counterproductive”“A stupid glacier melting”“Dems who want to fight global warming at the expense of fighting terrorism”“Fair and balanced”

Retooling the MessageWhen True Believers begin to harbor doubts, they don't immediately give up the faith. It's too scary; too much pride and money has been invested; too many jobs and reputations are on the line; and they need to find a new reason to live. So they always try to add on new wrinkles and qualifications to their crumbling story.Today that's happening with the global warming cult."Human-caused global warming" has now officially been re-named "climate change" to explain the inconvenient truth that the winter of 2007-8 was the coldest in a century, in spite of all those tons of "greenhouse gas" being spewed into the air from all the new factories in China and India. Worldwide temps dropped 0.6 of a degree C in one year. That may not sound like a lot, but it's more than all the b

Environmental scientist David Keith talks about a cheap, effective, shocking solution to climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere, to deflect sunlight and heat? As an emergency measure to slow a melting ice...

With the slogan, “Global Warming Is Not a Crisis,” the think tank (which between 1999 and 2005 was funded by ExxonMobil) kicked off a two-day conference this morning in New York to debunk what it calls a “fake consensus” on the human causes of global warming.The conference program, featuring a slate of scientists and politicians, is a familiar litany of arguments against climate change orthodoxy, and includes panels exploring everything from the Medieval Warm Period to the failures of the Kyoto Protocol to the impact urban heat islands have on temperature change. Today, the conference released its rebuttal of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, arguing that global warming isn’t as bad as commonly made out, isn’t caused by humans anyway, and doesn’t merit ex

Here is an interview with Asher Minns from Oxford University's Tyndall Research Centre on Climate Change. He discusses tipping points, mitigation and adaptation. The video is produced by Supreme Master TV. They have a lot of material on the environment but the name of their channel makes me a bit suspicious. Is there some religious sect involved?

From TheHammondReport.com: 1954 - 1976 GLOBAL COOLING - There seems to be some overlap between these periods as the MSM moved back to Global Cooling. They predicted billions of people dying again. In 1970 the Washington Post told readers to “get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters - the worst may be [...]

Nicholas Stern Times Online - February 22, 2008 Original URL   Hesitation today in putting reductions into effect will have serious consequences tomorrow Climate change is the greatest market failure the world has seen. It requires large-scale and international action. By providing a strong policy framework to overcome this failure, governments can harness the tremendous power of markets to find effective, efficient, equitable and international responses to the challenge. For markets and entrepreneurship to work, that framework must be credible and predictable, but allow flexibility too. The Climate Change Bill, currently in debate in the House of Lords, provides a huge opportunity to demonstrate the UK's commitment. Targets must be consistent with the scale of the problem - that m

Answering bold questions about life and climate on Earth and other planets is the goal behind a new Space Act Agreement signed today between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sector in a ceremony in the Miller Senate Building, Presidential Conference Center West at the Maryland State Capitol in Annapolis.Through the agreement, researchers from the two Maryland-based organizations will collaborate on the development of advanced civil radar system architectures that can be leveraged into new space-based remote sensing instruments with revolutionary performance characteristics. These systems will help scientists measure with far greater accuracy, precision, and detail such things as the three-dimensional structure of Mars and other planets and heavenly

Climate change was the hot topic at last year’s World Economic Forum. This time round, it is sub-prime loans and the debt markets; SocGen and the equity markets; and the economic fundamentals that might be behind these volatilities. On the first day of the conference, the chair of the IPCC said that he is concerned world [...]

In Guns, Germs and Steele, Jarod Diamond argued that European nations became dominant because of advantages of geography. As is obvious from the title, infections played a role. Diamond believes that Europeans weren’t as successful in colonizing tropical areas as areas in temperate climates because Europeans lacked immunity to tropical germs. His work came to mind when I read this report in The New York Times of an example of human activity which altered nature. Partially because of global warming, a village in Italy has had an outbreak of a virus previously only seen in the tropics: Aided by global warming and globalization, Castiglione di Cervia has the dubious distinction of playing host to the first outbreak in modern Europe of a disease that had previously been seen only in the tropics. "By the time we got back the name and surname of the virus, our outbreak was over," said Dr. Rafaella Angelini, director of the regional public health department in Ravenna. "When they

Warning On Climate Change's Impact on Bahamas: By Rolanda Epstein - Nassau, Bahamas: The Bahamas has become vulnerable to the effects of climate change with its marine life facing threats, according to the Director of Meteorology and Chairman of the National Climate Change Committee Arthur Rolle. Mr. Rolle told the Bahama Journal on Monday The Bahamas could possibly be severely affected in the years to come due to a rise in the sea level. Mr. Rolle attended the recent United Nations Climate Control Conference in Bali where representatives from more than 180 participating countries discussed a secure climate future for all nations. Also attending the conference was Minister of Public Works and Transport Dr. Earl Deveaux, who addressed the attendees on The Bahamas' views on climate control. In 1996, a study commissioned by the government of The Bahamas showed that the maximum temperatures were increasing along with the rise in rainfall on New Providence, according to Mr. Rolle.

La Conferencia de la ONU sobre Cambio Climático que se celebra en la isla de Bali (Indonesia) alcanzó hoy un acuerdo final, después de que Estados Unidos cediera a las demandas de los países pobres.El consenso abre el camino para negociar un nuevo acuerdo sobre cambio climático más ambicioso que sustituya al Protocolo de Kioto.Via: El UniversalFound this post useful? Consider subscribing to Sustainable Affairs Feed/RSS.SI NECESITAS UN AMPLIO CONTENIDO SOBRE ASUNTOS ENERGETICOS: www.BajaenergyBlog.com

NUSA DUA, Indonesia -The Bush administration is the main obstacle to progress in international efforts to fight global warming, but the rest of the world should move on without it, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said Thursday night during a special appearance at the United Nations climate change summit."I am not an official of the United States and I am not bound by the diplomatic niceties," said Gore in an emotional speech to delegates that lasted close to an hour. "So I am going to speak an inconvenient truth: My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali. We all know that."

Ingraham Highlights Region's Vulnerabilities: By Tameka Lundy - Nassau, Bahamas: Against the backdrop of an environment that is under heavy threat from the effects of climate change, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has appealed for clear and urgent action. He made the call at a plenary dinner of the Caribbean-Central American Action Conference in Miami, Florida that was underway at the same time that international figures were meeting in Bali, Indonesia on the global threat of climate change. Mr. Ingraham said with stepped up global integration comes increased risk of transmission of threats across boundaries. "For the small states in the region, it is not possible to overestimate the threat that environmental degradation poses for their sustainability, indeed their survival," he said. "Climate change has the potential to undermine the most vibrant, and for many, the largest economic sector in the region - that is tourism. "Tourism is for many of the small island states the p

December 8 is the Global Day of Action Against Climate Change and we support the call for a stronger Post-Kyoto Targets to be enacted and agreed upon by the world leaders meeting in Bali, Indonesia. All of us deserves a better world. The Earth is Our Life, Destroy It and You Destroy Yourself

Report published by the GermanWatch: "A Comparison of Emissions Trends and Climate Protection Policies of the Top 56 CO2 Emitting Nations"The 56 countries were chosen because they are together, responsible for more than 90 percent of global energy-related CO2 emissions.Best countries: Sweden(1), Germany(2), Iceland(3), Mexico(4), India(5)Worst countries: Saudi Arabia(56), USA(55), Australia(54), Canada(55), Luxembourg(56).(Rank 1 is the best, 56 the worst)China is ranked number 40 from the top, much worse than India, but a lot better than the US. Japan is ranked number from 42.The report has details how the index is calculated.It also says: "The CCPI, however, is not intended to be used only by experts, but by everybody. It helps to shed light on the shared responsibilities, kept and broken promises, and encouraging first steps towards effective international climate politics."Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com

You know the rules: environmentalists and concerned “green” citizens on one side, business on the other. The green lobby shouts and screams about the threats of climate change, and the business lobby ignores them or reacts with “reality” statements, excuses and a lack of general acceptance. It seems these rules don’t work anymore, and the past month may have been the tipping point. If you don’t think so, just ask Tony Juniper of the NGO Friends of the Earth. In mid-November the Nobel Peace Prize co-winners, the Interplanetary Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the latest report (AR4). A Report that concluded - yet again - that Climate Change is here, very much here and now, and it was time to stop dicking about. Two weeks ago the UN released its annual development report. Once again, Climate Change is here, very much here and now, and it’s time to stop dicking about… from a global security perspective. Last week the Confederation fo

Faced with melting polar ice caps and worsening droughts, climate experts at a massive United Nations conference Monday urged quick action toward a new international pact stemming an increasingly destructive rise in world temperatures.A key goal of the two-week conference, which opened with delegates from nearly 190 countries in attendance, will be to draw a skeptical United States into an agreement to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases.While the U.S. delegation declared it would not be a "roadblock" to a new agreement, Washington remains opposed to steps many other countries support, such as mandatory emissions cuts by rich nations and a target for limiting the rise in global temperatures.The American position suffered a blow Monday when the new Australian prime minister signed papers to ratify the Kyoto Protocol climate pact. The move leaves the U.S. the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases as the sole industrial power not to have joined.Conferen

Christian Aid has said it will push for a follow-on agreement to the Kyoto Protocol that will include “the provision of massive support” for developing nations from the industrialised world when the UN Climate Change Conference convenes in Bali next week. The international development agency is sending a small team to lobby at the December 3 – 14 conference, which includes Political Relations Advisor Nelson Muffah and Campaigns Manager Sarah Spinney.Christian Aid said it hoped that the Bali conference would lead to the agreement of an internationally agreed long-term goal to reduce emissions.Christian Aid is to co-host a panel discussion in Bali on greenhouse development rights, an economic model that sets out one possible way to portion up the bill for the developed world country by country, according to each country’s historic responsibility for carbon emissions, and taking into consideration their capacity to pay.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com

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The United Nations, manager of the world's second-biggest emissions-trading system, may change its rules from 2013 to encourage the U.S. to join an effort to stem climate change, an official who heads the program said. New technology, such as equipment to capture carbon dioxide from power stations and store it underground, may be deemed worthy of generating emission credits automatically, Halldor Thorgeirsson, head of emissions trading at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said in an interview. That may help reduce U.S. skepticism of UN-generated emissions credits and make investments in new technology more profitable, eliminating barriers for the U.S. to join international emissions-trading to slow global warming. Granting certain ``benchmarked'' technology some credits would ``allow for significant scaling up'' of emission trading, Thorgeirsson said. ``In the tool box of the future, you will need differen

  Former U.S President Bill Clinton praised Spanish efforts to fight poverty and global warming as Spain’s Prime Minister committed to raise contributions to the ‘Clinton Global Initiative’. «The collaboration with this initiative is going to be extraordinary important» said Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero after meeting with Clinton for an hour at the Moncloa palace. «It’s going to benefit millions of people and it’s going to help the good intentions of many citizens become a reality». Spain contributed 1 million dollars to this private foundation via the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation in September, in funds destined for projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said the donations were going to increase, especially in the areas of global warming and education. The Clinton Global Initiative strives to be a ‘non-partisan catalyst for action, bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovativ

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its final report which is being called the most forceful statement on the dangers of inaction on climate change: In its final and most powerful report, a United Nations panel of scientists meeting here describes the mounting risks of climate change in language that is both more specific and forceful than its previous assessments, according to scientists here. Synthesizing reams of data from its three previous reports, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the first time specifically points out important risks if governments fail to respond: melting ice sheets that could lead to a rapid rise in sea levels and the extinction of large numbers of species brought about by even moderate amounts of warming, on the order of 1 to 3 degrees. The report carries heightened significance because it is the last word from the influential global climate panel before world leaders meet in Bali, Indonesia, next month to

The planet is warming, from North Pole to South Pole, and everywhere in between. Globally, the mercury is already up more than 0.8 degree Celsius, and even more in sensitive polar regions. MAP OF GLOBAL WARMING IMPACTS And the effects of rising temperatures aren’t waiting for some far-flung future. They’re happening right now. Signs are appearing all over, and some of them are surprising. The heat is not only melting glaciers and sea ice, it’s also shifting precipitation patterns and setting animals on the move. Some impacts from increasing temperatures are already happening. Ice is melting worldwide, especially at the Earth’s poles. This includes mountain glaciers, ice sheets covering West Antarctica and Greenland, and Arctic sea ice.Researcher Bill Fraser has tracked the decline of the Adélie penguins on Antarctica, where their numbers have fallen from 32,000 breeding pairs to 11,000 in 30 years.Sea level rise became faster over the las

The latest report from the UN’s climate change panel reiterates the need for concerted and urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Climate Change Minister David Parker says.Fresh from sharing this year’s Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice-president Al Gore, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its fourth and final 2007 report on global climate change.David Parker welcomed the release of the global Synthesis Report in Valencia, Spain, which underlines findings released earlier this year and supports calls for urgent action.The Minister said the information the IPCC produced made a clear case that governments can act and must act to avert dangerous climate change. “It confirms the increasing pace of climate change, and the serious impacts we and the rest of the globe may face if we do not get greenhouse gas emissions under control.”The report reiterates that with technologies that are available and affordable today, or that are currently

Indonesian security officials have started pouring in assets to Bali to secure that resort island ahead of a major climate change summit set to begin on 3 December. In addition to naval vessels, some thirty-five police patrol boats will begin patrolling Balinese waters in late November. The police are being especially vigilant at points of entry to the island, and have already announced three arrests of suspicious persons. On 24 October, a person was detained at Hotel Deep Blue in Karangasem. The...(read more)

The Indonesian Government has launched three video clips for the promotion of the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC), which will be held in Bali, December 3-14, 2007. "These video clips are produced to promote the Bali Conference and significant steps to deal with this global issue," Dino Patti Djalal, a presidential spokesperson, said at the Presidential office, here on Friday. The video clips were expected to increase the awareness of the world community on the need for a consensus and a new step to protect the environment. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the video clips called on the world to save the Earth. "Lets save our planet," the President said, and was responded by children of all races saying, "together we can."Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com

Well, its another day in the Ozark mountains and its barely cold enough to wear long sleeves.  Its pretty darn warm for November 16th.  According to the weather bug its in the 70’s and will be in the 50’s tonight.  In some ways its nice.  It means a lower electric bill.  At least it will mean a lower electric bill if I can remember to turn off the icicle lights outside before I go to bed at night. With this whole climate change going on it seems that the seasons do there turning later and later each year.   I noticed some of what Al Gore was talking about in his movie this summer.  We got loads and loads of rain,  far more than we usually get but during a brief period in August when we didn’t get any rain  and the air was a lot dryer than usual and it sucked the moisture right out of the ground, drying things up horribly.  Now its late fall in Arkansas and I’ve noticed were not getting as much rain as we usually get. I am really curious to see whats

Al Gore might wind up in the candidate debates after all this year, but not as someone running for office. Gore and Arnold Schwarzenegger are working together on a bipartisan forum on climate change to held in New Hampshire in December. According to AP: The forum, which is still in the planning stages, is being designed so presidential candidates from both parties will attend. Adam Mendelsohn, a spokesman for the governor, said the format was not completely developed, but the former vice president was handling the Democratic candidates, while Schwarzenegger would handle the Republicans. The most interesting aspect might be to get the Republican candidates on record with regards to whether they accept the scientific consensus on climate change, just as they were asked their views on evolution at one of the GOP debates. Either they will have to break with their base or will have to publicly display how conservatives place ideology over science.

THE tourism industry wants to conquer the fears of Europeans that air travel - and therefore a flight to Australia - is a primary cause of global warming.The Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources is commissioning a study into how Germans and Britons feel about climate change. The study will gauge their worries on the travel plans of two of the largest visitor groups to Australia.A tender document describing the study notes concern that Britons have an "exaggerated understanding" of the greenhouse emissions contributed by aircraft.

“The Editors”, the blog that serves as another example of the BBC moving in a smarter direction than all media, has just posted an interesting piece on Global warming. How does a media organization as august as the BBC report climate change? Moreover, what does the Beeb do about climate change sceptics? Do they automatically get column real estate in order to “balance the opinion”? No, according to an internal memo written by website environmental correspondent Richard Black (whose brilliant research into climate change skepticism is well worth reading) and Roger Harrabin, BBC News’ Environment Analyst (and the moderator at the recent Chatham House event on climate change that I reported on). The memo is very interesting and seems to outlines the questions and answers surrounding the BBC’s approach to Global Warming: Back in the 1980s the battleground was defined in caricature as bi-polar, with naive lentil-eaters on one side and ruthless big bu

European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said the UN conference in Bali, Indonesia, next month will be 'crucially important' in the fight against climate change.Speaking in Rome, Barroso said it is 'vital' that EU leaders use Bali to launch serious negotiations on a post-2012 agreement on fighting climate change.If talks can be launched with a view to reaching an agreement by 2009 in Copenhagen there will be enough time for the new agreement to be ratified and in force before the end of 2012, the president said, although he admitted that this was a tight timetable.Barroso said the Bali conference represents the 'start of a process, not its culmination'.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com

This week, an American study shows a link between air pollution and heart disease. We will tell you about it. We also will tell about preparations for the International Polar Year. And, we tell about a competition to fight climate change.A new study shows that air pollution may be more of a risk for heart disease than scientists have thought. The research involved more than sixty-five thousand women in the United States.Kristin Miller was the lead writer of the study. She says the study showed that disease risk was linked not just to which city a woman lived in, but also where in a city.The study found that estimates of the effects of air pollution were often larger within cities than between cities. Yet averages between cities have served as the main measure of the long-term effects of pollutants.The findings lead some experts to suggest that current pollution limits may not be strong enough.The research team examined rates of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular events in wo