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Global Warming Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg - Washington Post The Cold War shaped world politics for half a century. But global warming may shape the patterns of global conflict for much longer than that -- and help spark clashes that will be, in every sense of the word, hot wars. We're used to thinking of climate change as an environmental problem, not a military one, but it's long past time to alter that mindset. Climate change may mean changes in Western lifestyles, but in some parts of the world, it will mean far more. Living in Washington, I may respond to global warming by buying a Prius, planting a tree or lowering my thermostat. But elsewhere, people will respond to climate change by building bomb shelters and buying guns.	4th January 2009
Canada's forests may be adding to climate woes - Chicago Tribune Canada's vast forests, once huge absorbers of greenhouse gases, now add to problem VANCOUVER - As relentlessly bad as the news about global warming seems to be, with ice at the poles melting faster than scientists had predicted and world temperatures rising higher than expected, there was at least a reservoir of hope stored here in Canada's vast forests.	4th January 2009
Big solar power plant planned for northwest China LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two Chinese companies on Friday announced plans to build a solar power plant in northwestern China that could one day be the largest photovoltaic solar project in the world.	4th January 2009
A New List of Climate Quibblers: Paid Deniers, Dead Guys and Ill-informed Fellow Travellers - DeSmogBlog The latest list of "650 International Scientists (who) Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming" seems to be more of the same: dead guys (Fred Seitz, Marcel Leroux, Reid Bryson ...), paid deniers (Fred Singer, Tim Ball, Sallie Baliunas ...), and a much larger group of weather forecasters and "experts" from unrelated fields, many of whom (eg., Edward Wegman) don't even disagree with the scientific consensus that human activity is causing climate change.	4th January 2009
EU denounces socialite's carbon offset project - Times Online A PIONEERING climate change project in Africa run by Robin Birley, the socialite, has been accused by the European commission, its main donor, of making unsubstantiated claims about its environmental impact.	4th January 2009
Soot reduction 'could help to stop global warming' - Independent Governments could slow global warming dramatically, and buy time to avert disastrous climate change, by slashing emissions of one of humanity's most familiar pollutants – soot – according to Nasa scientists. A study by the space agency shows that cutting down on the pollutant, which has so far been largely ignored by climate scientists, can have an immediate cooling effect – and prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths from air pollution at the same time.	4th January 2009
In Obama's team, two camps on climate - International Herald Tribune Barack Obama faces conflicting views among his top advisers on the balance between the environment and the economy.	4th January 2009
‘Generation E' - Innovating, Motivating - New York Times Blogs ‘Generation E' - Innovating, MotivatingNew York Times Blogs, NY. But Alec wasn't satisfied with that and founded Kids Versus Global Warming. He outlines his goals in the short video clip above. Below, I've added an e-mail ...	4th January 2009
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Climate scientists: it's time for 'Plan B' - Independent An emergency "Plan B" using the latest technology is needed to save the world from dangerous climate change, according to a poll of leading scientists carried out by The Independent . The collective international failure to curb the growing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has meant that an alternative to merely curbing emissions may become necessary. See also: What can we do to save our planet? - Independent	2nd January 2009
2008 Year in review - Realclimate Way back at the end of 2006, we did a review of the year's climate science discussion. It's that time of year again and so we've decided to give it another go. Feel free to suggest your own categories and winners… Most clueless US politician taking about climate change (with the exception of Senator Inhofe who'd always win): Sarah Palin: Well, we're the only Arctic state, of course, Alaska. So we feel the impacts more than any other state, up there with the changes in climates. And certainly, it is apparent. We have erosion issues. And we have melting sea ice, of course. See also: Joseph Romm: The Top 10 Global Warming Stories of 2008 - HuffingtonPost	2nd January 2009
More polar bears going hungry - New Scientist Blood tests show three times as many bears are in a fasting state due to melting of their hunting grounds than 20 years ago	2nd January 2009
ENVIRONMENT: Climate Change Forcing Penguins North? - IPS BOSTON, Dec 31 (Tierramérica) - Warm ocean currents may have confused some 2,500 penguins from Argentina's Patagonia region that washed up -- dead and alive -- on Brazil's northern coast.	2nd January 2009
Global warming affecting migratory birds, says Indian ornithologist - DailyIndia.com Indian ornithologist has said that global warming and the rising temperatures have brought about an imbalance in the timing of the winter arrival of migratory birds and the food stock available to them.	2nd January 2009
Coral reef growth is slowest ever - BBC Growth of corals in the Great Barrier Reef has slowed to the most sluggish rate in 400 years, researchers say.	2nd January 2009
Waning wildlife - San Francisco Bay Guardian Green City: Bay Area wildlife is already being negatively affected by a warmer world	2nd January 2009
PORTUGAL: Mega Solar Power Plant Begins to Operate - IPS AMARELEJA, Portugal, Dec 30 (IPS) - The most ambitious and innovative solar power project in the world kicked off Monday in this white-walled village in the southern Portuguese municipality of Moura, one of the most impoverished areas in the European Union.	2nd January 2009
Stern hope over US climate deal - BBC News Economist Lord Stern says he is optimistic that a global deal on reducing carbon dioxide emissions will be struck under Barak Obama.	2nd January 2009
Plants 'more important than ever' - BBC News The role of plants has never been so vital, says the head of Kew Gardens, as the site turns 250 years old.	2nd January 2009
The Commodification of the Future and the Battle for Middle Earth - HNN Huntingtonnews.net Kyoto: In fact these mechanisms are not truly "market based" but only represent the marketing of Global Monetary Policy which favors the profitability of corporations, the balance of trade among UN government states, and the financial and psychological control systems of the global regime of fiat monetary systems, whose masters of transaction are the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Left out of the costs in the process of calculating market value is the cumulative systemic impact of ecological destruction, which derives from defining economic growth, prosperity and markets in the artificially manipulated financial terms of global capitalism. And once again, those who pay most dearly are the Peoples and Territories of the Indigenous Peoples worldwide, which is a blatant form of not only Genocide but also should be prosecuted under the Indigenous Peoples Convention on Terracide: the murder of Mother Earth.	2nd January 2009
NASA Study Illustrates How Peak Oil Impacts Climate Crisis - Environmental News Network The burning of fossil fuels - notably coal, oil and gas - has accounted for about 80 percent of the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide since the pre-industrial era. Now, NASA researchers have identified feasible emission scenarios that could keep carbon dioxide below levels that some scientists have called dangerous for climate.	2nd January 2009

German Scientist Warns Climate Change Accelerating - Deutsche Welle Climate change is happening more rapidly than anyone though possible, the German government's expert, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, warned in an interview. See also: Report warns of 'rapid' sea-ice melt - The News Journal	30th December 2008
ENVIRONMENT-AUSTRALIA: Emissions Reduction Target 'Weak' MELBOURNE, Dec 30 (IPS) - The gap between the Rudd government's rhetoric and practice in addressing climate change, albeit with one eye on the worsening global financial conditions, has led to a palpable feeling of betrayal among Australians.	30th December 2008
Next Year to Be Among World's Five Warmest on Record - Update1 - Bloomberg Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Next year will be one of the world's five warmest years in a century and a half of record-keeping, according to a forecast by the U.K. Met Office and the University of East Anglia.	30th December 2008
'Huge year for natural disasters' - BBC News Losses from natural disasters rose by 50% in 2008, underlining need for action on climate change, re-insurers Munich Re say. See also: Natural disasters 'killed over 220,000' in 2008	30th December 2008
NASA study links severe storm increases, global warming - Spaceflight Now The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.	30th December 2008
Attorney general plans crackdown on climate change protests - Guardian Unlimited Attorney general plans crackdown on climate change protests	30th December 2008
Food needs 'fundamental rethink' - BBC A sustainable global food system in the 21st Century needs to be built on a series of "new fundamentals", a leading food expert says.	30th December 2008
Calls for 'speed-limiting' cars - BBC News UK Government transport advisers want voluntary speed-limiting devices fitted to cars to help save lives and cut emissions.	30th December 2008
Green fuel technologies pick up speed in 2008 - New Scientist As Obama prepares to green the US, we take a look at the new technologies that may help – from super batteries to oil-cleaning fungi	30th December 2008
Green Goal of 'Carbon Neutrality' Hits Limit - WSJ ROUND ROCK, Texas -- Computer giant Dell Inc. said this summer that it has become "carbon neutral," the latest step in its quest to be "the greenest technology company on the planet." What that means, and what it doesn't, may surprise Dell customers and other consumers who have been bombarded with bold environmental promises from major corporations.	30th December 2008
Canada's Kyotoplus Campaign - Green Muze KYOTOplus is a joint project from a number of Canadian public interest groups designed to mobilize public support for action on climate change.	30th December 2008
Erratic weather 'harms wildlife' - BBC News Birds, mammals and insects are struggling to cope with unseasonal weather in the UK, the National Trust says.	27th December 2008
Sierra Warming: Later snow, earlier melt: High anxiety - Merced Sun-Star Sierra Warming: Not only are warmer temperatures thawing that mountain snow sooner, they are changing the nature of the precipitation as it falls – turning more Sierra snowflakes to sleet, slush and rain. Now 10 percent smaller than a century ago, the Sierra snowpack is expected to retreat dramatically in coming decades, posing major challenges for water managers and the climate-dependent ski industry.	27th December 2008
Minnesota's iconic moose are dying off - Hartford Courant It wasn't long ago that thousands of moose roamed the gentle terrain of northwestern Minnesota, affirming the iconic status of the antlered, bony-kneed beast from the North Woods. In just two decades, though, their numbers have plummeted, from 4,000 to fewer than a hundred. They didn't move away. They just died. The primary culprit in what is known as the moose mystery, scientists say, is climate change, which has systematically reduced the Midwest's already dwindling moose population and provoked alarm in Minnesota, where wildlife specialists gathered for a "moose summit" this month in Duluth.	27th December 2008
It's 'attack of the slime' as jellyfish jeopardize the Earth's oceans - Globe and Mail It has been dubbed the "rise of slime." Massive swarms of jellyfish are blooming from the tropics to the Arctic, from Peru to Namibia to the Black Sea to Japan, closing beaches and wiping out fish, either by devouring their eggs and larvae, or out-competing them for food. To draw attention to the spread of "jellytoriums," the National Science Foundation in the U.S. has produced a report documenting that the most severe damage is to fish: In the Sea of Japan, for example, schools of Nomurai jellyfish - 500 million strong and each more than two metres in diameter - are clogging fishing nets, killing fish and accounting for at least $20-million in losses. The Black Sea has suffered $350-million in losses. A region of the Bering Sea is so full of jellies that it was nicknamed "Slime Bank."	27th December 2008
The Gas Tax - New York Times If the Obama administration is to meet its twin objectives of reducing the consumption of foreign oil and cutting emissions, it needs to curb the nation?s demand for energy.	27th December 2008
The war on carbon - Times Online Arguments of 2009: Can Copenhagen save the planet? At the last full-scale United Nations conference on global warming, in Bali, the man in charge broke down and wept. American opposition to mandatory carbon cuts had been implacable.	27th December 2008
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Climate change threatens livelihoods LILONGWE, Dec 26 (IPS) - Climate change will affect the Zambezi River basin more severely than any other river system in the world, according to Kenneth Msibi, Water Policy and Strategy Expert for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Increased floods, drought and increased levels of disease threaten lives and livelihoods all along the river's length.	27th December 2008
The electric car that can break the speed limit signals a new road order - Independent Forget milk float. Forget golf buggy. The tarnished image of the electric car is about to be smartened up. The first proper-performance, four-seater electric car from a major manufacturer is about to be launched on the UK market.	27th December 2008
Eurosceptic becomes EU President - BBC News Eurosceptic Czech President Vaclav Klaus takes on the role as EU leader on January 1st.	27th December 2008
Kelp-fuel cars on the horizon in Scotland - Guardian Unlimited Motorists may soon be driving cars powered by kelp and algae after scientists in Scotland and Ireland won European funding today for a new research project to create "mari-fuels" - the marine equivalent to plant-based biofuels.	27th December 2008
it's wise strategically to hold something in reserve - Telegraph-Journal What's a billion? What's a trillion? What's US$8.7 trillion? What's $10.3 trillion? James Bianco, president Chicago-based Bianco Research Inc., provides specific answers to each of these questions - helping, in the process, to make these numbers comprehensible.	27th December 2008
For the mega rich: a refrigerated beach - The Christian Science Monitor Oh, Dubai. Home to petro-billionaires. Vacation spot for the stars. And soon, location of the world's first refrigerated beach. Palazzo Versace announced last week that its next ultra-posh hotel will offer guests a taste of Dubai without the blazing heat.	25th December 2008
How desperate are climate scientists - Gristmill By Joseph Romm [I think that as a climate-saving strategy geo-engineering is somewhere between a dead end and a hoax -- why would you choose chemotherapy that might make you sicker if your doctors told you diet and exercise would definitely work (see "Geo-engineering remains a bad idea" and "Geo-engineering is not the answer")? The likely new science advisor, John Holdren, has written, "The 'geo-engineering' approaches considered so far appear to be afflicted with some combination of high costs, low leverage, and a high likelihood of serious side effects (PDF)." And the new head of NOAA is someone "who would put oceans first," whereas absent a successful effort to stabilize at 450 ppm or below, most geo-engineering schemes would put oceans last, leaving them acidified and inhospitable to most current ocean life, possibly for hundreds of years.	25th December 2008
The Paranoia Squad - Monbiot A British police unit is demonising peaceful protesters to stay in business.	25th December 2008
Ambitious climate goals make economic sense - New Scientist Despite the global economic downturn, spending money now to keep global warming in check makes sense as it will save us money	25th December 2008
Climate change could one day doom "white Christmas" - Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) - The odds of a "white Christmas" in temperate parts of the northern hemisphere have diminished in the last century due to climate change and will likely decline further by 2100, climate and meteorology experts said.	25th December 2008
Melting Yosemite glacier an omen - Modesto Bee YOSEMITE -- As melting water gushed off the ice in a tinseled maze of rivulets and tumbled through a gaping chasm, the hikers watched, wondered and worried.	25th December 2008
Shaun Spiers Challenged This is the third of my investigative interviews with policy makers.	25th December 2008
Peak oil - Dec 23 Energy Investment, Energy Return (Jim Hansen and Charlie Hall)The American Muslim: The end of the world as we know it?The Coming Oil Train Wreck read more	25th December 2008
A Price On Carbon Not Enough To Save Rainforests - Science Daily Including carbon emissions from tropical deforestation in a future international climate regime will not suffice to protect the world's remaining tropical forests from expanding palm oil plantations.	25th December 2008
First U.S. offshore wind farm project moves forward BOSTON (Reuters) - A plan to build the United States' first offshore wind farm took another step forward on Tuesday, after the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection approved its proposed undersea cables to transmit power to the mainland.	25th December 2008
A record year - Nature 2008 went down as the coolest year of the current decade, if still the tenth warmest since instrumental measurements began in 1850. But the past 12 months have done little to cool concerns over the forecast for climate change. If anything, the science that has emerged this year paints a far bleaker picture than the landmark reports released in 2007 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.	25th December 2008
CLIMATE CHANGE: Arctic Peoples Claim Their Right to Cold Temperatures QUEBEC CITY, Dec 24 (Tierramérica) - "Terrifying" is the word that best describes the situation of a hunter who is lost on shifting ice, or of the homeowner whose house splits in two when its foundation sinks, says Canadian indigenous leader Mary Simon when asked about the effects of global warming on the Inuit people.	25th December 2008
Opinion: Save the Planet from Capitalism - Circle Opinion: Save the Planet from CapitalismCircle, MN. Global warming is generating abrupt changes in the weather: the retreat of of diseases in areas that before were free from those diseases. ...	25th December 2008
Fix For Global Warming? Scientists Propose Covering Deserts With ... - Science Daily Fix For Global Warming? Scientists Propose Covering Deserts With ...Science Daily (press release). 23, 2008) - A radical plan to curb global warming and so reverse the climate change caused by our rampant burning of fossil fuels since the industrial ...	25th December 2008
Losing paradise - International Herald Tribune Losing paradiseInternational Herald Tribune, France. I am talking about climate change and rising sea levels. Looking out from my office window, it is difficult to believe that this view may someday disappear. ...	25th December 2008
Economics - Dec 24 Kurt Cobb: Energy and moneyPaul Krugman: Life without bubblesGloomy economy fails to curb Green enthusiasmAmbitious climate goals make economic sense read more	25th December 2008
Potluck - Dec 24 Vancouver mayor promises action on peak oilThe year 2008 in photographs Sarkozy fears spectre of 1968 haunting EuropeNew York Times beefs up environment coverageScientists find increased methane levels in Arctic Ocean read more	25th December 2008
Leading article: Obama's green machine The latest appointments to Barack Obama's administration are significant for a host of reasons. But perhaps most significant is what they tell us about the environmental priorities of the incoming American President: Mr Obama is deadly serious about facing up to the challenge of climate change.	22nd December 2008
Those Kingsnorth police injuries in full: six insect bites and a toothache - Guardian Unlimited When climate camp protesters descended on the site of the Kingsnorth power station for a week-long summer demonstration, the scale of the police operation to cope with them was enormous. Police were accused of using aggressive tactics, confiscating everything from toilet rolls and board games to generators and hammers. But ministers justified what they called the "proportionate" £5.9m cost ...	22nd December 2008
Facts melted by 'global warming' - Telegraph.co.uk Facts melted by 'global warming'Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoA local spokeswoman helpfully suggested that the thing about "climate change" was that it was always coming up with the unexpected. ...	22nd December 2008
Gloomy economy fails to curb Green enthusiasm - Globe and Mail Gloomy economy fails to curb Green enthusiasmGlobe and Mail, Canada. As well, two thirds of respondents disagreed when asked if “governments in Canada should cut back on efforts to tackle global warming because of the current ...	22nd December 2008
Water vapor's effects on atmosphere are debated - McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News WASHINGTON - Ron Ace's idea to cool the planet by evaporating water could provoke controversy because it collides head-on with a concern of environmental scientists: that water vapor is a potent greenhouse gas.	22nd December 2008
The Big Ask: "Act Now!" on global warming [video] This video is well done. Help spread the message by emailing it on to your friends and family. <!--break-->	22nd December 2008

Met Office warn of 'catastrophic' rise in temperature - Times Online Met Office warn of 'catastrophic' rise in temperatureTimes Online, UK. ... of carbon dioxide by plants, leading to increased global warming." Actions to improve air quality and reduce climate change therefore need to be linked. ...	21st December 2008
What we've learned in 2008 - Nature Amanda Leigh Mascarelli looks at how far our understanding of climate change has come in the past twelve months.	21st December 2008
Campaigners fear clampdown on direct action protests - Telegraph.co.uk Campaigners fear clampdown on direct action protestsTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom. It is believed to be attempt to have the argument of a "lawful excuse" for climate change protesters overturned. If successful it would prevent juries ...	21st December 2008
Scientist: Microbe Community Deep Beneath Arctic Permafrost Needs Study - PhysOrg (PhysOrg.com) -- A community of microbes, living in a frigid layer of gas hydrates deep beneath the Arctic permafrost, has piqued the interest of scientists who say a better understanding of that environment is important because it is both a potential fuel source and record of climate change.	21st December 2008
New ban imposed on regulating global warming gases - The San Luis Obispo Tribune By By DINA CAPPIELLO -- The Bush administration is trying to make sure in its final days that federal air pollution regulations will not be used to control the gases blamed for global warming. In a memorandum sent Thursday, outgoing Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson sets an agency-wide policy prohibiting controls on carbon dioxide emissions from being included in air ...	21st December 2008
The planet has a fever - Grist By Joseph Romm. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's annual climate report tells the warming tale: "For November alone, the month is fourth warmest all-time globally." This comes on the heels of last month's report of the second warmest October on record. Since the deniers have become overly fond of 60-day trend lines (see here), one can safely conclude they will be reporting that the earth is a over-heating again. "The global land surface temperature for 2008 was the fifth warmest, with an average temperature 1.44 degrees F (0.80 degree C) above the 20th century mean of 48.1 degrees F (9.0 degrees C)." Looking at the land data alone is one way to factor out the cooling impact of the La Niña that gripped the Pacific in the first half of the year.	21st December 2008
Bad news for bears - Nature Polar bears in the Beaufort Sea region of the Arctic are finding it increasingly difficult to find food during springtime, suggests a new study.	21st December 2008
Scientists Find Increased Methane Levels In Arctic Ocean - Science Daily Researchers have found new data to suggest that the carbon pool beneath the Arctic Ocean is leaking.	21st December 2008
From Russia with love - Grist By Joseph Romm. Unfortunately, the greatest warming in 2008 came in the worst possible place for humanity -- the Siberian tundra. That's clear from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies report on the meteorological year, December 2007 through November 2008: The remarkably widespread warming in the land of the permafrost permamelt should be the big global warming story because: The permafrost contains as much carbon as the atmosphere, and it is increasingly not so perma (see Tundra, Part 1). Siberian tundra contains probably the world's largest amount of carbon locked away in the permafrost. As it defrosts, much of the tundra's carbon would be released as methane, which is 20 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.	21st December 2008
Arctic melt 20 years ahead of climate models - New Scientist Summer ice at the North Pole has been reaching record lows, now researchers say that a tipping point has been passed	21st December 2008
This too shall gas - Grist By Joseph Romm. University of Alaska, Fairbanks scientists reported the alarming news at the AGU meeting: A team led by International Arctic Research Center scientist Igor Semiletov has found data to suggest that the carbon pool beneath the Arctic Ocean is leaking.The results of more than 1,000 measurements of dissolved methane in the surface water from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf this summer as part of the International Siberian Shelf Study show an increased level of methane in the area. Geophysical measurements showed methane bubbles coming out of chimneys on the seafloor."The concentrations of the methane were the highest ever measured in the summertime in the Arctic Ocean," Semiletov said.	21st December 2008
Melting away - BBC News Could Switzerland's glaciers be gone by the year 2100?	21st December 2008
Bikes Point the Way to a Sustainable Future - Alternet Bicycling subcultures signal a sensibility that stands against oil wars, environmental devastation, urban decay and monocultural sprawl.	21st December 2008
Tidal energy system on full power - BBC News A tidal turbine near the mouth of Strangford Lough begins producing electricity at full capacity for the first time.	21st December 2008
Green jobs really on the way? New U.S. solar plants announced this week - Reuters Are those green jobs Obama has been promising already on their way? Really? Despite a weak global economy and all the gloom that has brought to the solar industry of late, two solar companies this week quietly bucked the trend by announcing new manufacturing plants here in the United States. On Monday, Hemlock Semiconductor said it would invest up to $3 billion to expand U.S. production of polysilicon, the key raw material used to make solar cells and semiconductors.  That will include $1.2 billion to build a new facility in Clarksville, Tennesee, and up to $1 billion to expand its current operations in Hemlock, Michigan.	21st December 2008
Climate change activists: Meet Britain's new army of young eco warriors - Guardian Unlimited They are young, smart, organised, committed and, if they are allowed to have their way, they would like to save the world. No longer is an environmentalist a geeky elderly man in socks and sandals or a dreadlocked traveller in a rainbow jumper. Britain's new vanguard of eco-warriors are predominantly in their twenties, they are articulate and knowledgeable and techno-aware. Monday's ...	21st December 2008
Nasa set to launch 'CO2 hunter' - BBC News The US space agency is planning to launch a satellite that can map where all the carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere.	21st December 2008
Calcium connection - Nature Scientists have uncovered evidence that the oceanic calcium concentrations have fluctuated widely over the past 28 million years. The concentration of marine calcium has important implications for ocean alkalinity and for the absorption and storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide in the deep sea.	21st December 2008
Here comes the flood - Nature Policymakers must start to view mass migration as a form of adaptation so that the global response to climate-induced migration is one of facilitation rather than neglect.	21st December 2008
USGS: Sea-level rise in 2100 will likely 'substantially exceed' IPCC projections By Joseph Romm. A major new report warns that on our current emissions path, we face the severe risk of abrupt climate change impacts. The basic conclusions themselves are nothing new. But what is stunning is that these warnings come from the United States Geological Survey -- the Bush Administration (!). This new science-based report, Abrupt Climate Change, is thus a sobering book-end to the fantasy-based talking points released by the Administration on how the President has "Taken Constructive Steps To Confront Climate Change." This is a first-rate report from the USGS's Climate Change Science Program.	21st December 2008
Water supplies could be strongly affected by climate change - PhysOrg (PhysOrg.com) -- It's no simple matter to figure out how regional changes in precipitation, expected to result from global climate change, may affect water supplies. Now, a new analysis led by MIT researchers has found that the changes in groundwater may actually be much greater than the precipitation changes themselves.	21st December 2008
Warm summer brings high bleach risk for Barrier Reef - ABC Regional Online Warm summer brings high bleach risk for Barrier ReefABC Regional Online, Australia. "We want a healthy reef to be able to withstand the pressures that are happening from global warming." Professor Terry Hughes, the director of the ...	21st December 2008
NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Warming (PhysOrg.com) -- The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.	21st December 2008
Study Shows Wind Power Much Better than Ethanol - Beyond Fossil Fuel Study Shows Wind Power Much Better than EthanolBeyond Fossil Fuel, AL. His study emphasized the categories of global warming emission and mortality over all others. Nuclear and ethanol did not do well in either category. ...	21st December 2008
Canada deserves 'Colossal Fossil' award - Toronto Star Canada deserves 'Colossal Fossil' awardToronto Star, Canada. ... Change (IPCC) demolished the few remaining false arguments of climate change deniers, and has confirmed that the global warming Armageddon is under way. ...	21st December 2008
George Monibot: Germany is the new dirty man of Europe - Guardian Unlimited So much for the Europeans leading the way on climate change. Even as our governments claim they want to drag the world into an effective climate agreement in Poznan , they have just pulled Europe out of one in Brussels. The agreement they have just reached is a disaster. The 20% carbon cut they promise by 2020 falls miles short of what's needed, and they'll be able to buy most of it from abroad.	18th December 2008
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'From EU, 4 Percent Less Reduction Till 2020' - IPS BRUSSELS, Dec 17 (IPS) - Greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union may fall by as little as four percent between now and 2020 as a result of a new decision by the bloc's law-makers. See also: Euro MPs seal major climate dea - BBC	18th December 2008
Changes 'amplify Arctic warming' - BBC News - BBC Scientists say they now have unambiguous evidence that the warming in the Arctic is accelerating.	18th December 2008
Glut of hot years a coincidence? Fat chance - New Scientist The 13 hottest years since global records began have clustered in the last 17 years – statisticians consider the odds that climate change is to blame	18th December 2008
Corn pests to thrive as global climate warms: study - Reuters CHICAGO (Reuters) - Populations of insects that feed on corn and other crops in the United States may flourish and expand to new territory as global climate change brings warmer summers and milder winters in the decades ahead, according to a new study.	18th December 2008
Climate Change: A Dark Future For Migratory Fish - Science Daily In Europe, most migratory fish species completing their cycle between the sea and the river are currently in danger. Although restoration programs have been set up, the future distribution of these species may be modified because of climate change.	18th December 2008
Manchester says no to congestion charging - Guardian Unlimited A scheme that would have introduced Britain's biggest congestion charging zone was rejected in 10 boroughs in a referendum	18th December 2008
Ocean acidification could have broad effects on marine ecosystems Concern about increasing ocean acidification has often focused on its potential effects on coral reefs, but broader disruptions of biological processes in the oceans may be more significant, according to Donald Potts, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an expert in coral reef ecology and marine biodiversity.	18th December 2008
Oil Not the Climate Change Culprit - Coal Is the Real Bad Guy - Wired News New climate change projections presented Wednesday at the American Geophysical Society meeting support the idea that oil is not the worst global warming culprit. Coal is the real bad guy, and emissions are just a blip in comparison.	18th December 2008
Methane Hydrates: What are they thinking? What is the next energy source that will give us what oil, coal and natural gas give us today? A Great many scientists, industry leaders and governments throughout the developed world believe that will be methane. More specifically they believe it will be methane hydrates. read more	18th December 2008
Sucking carbon out of the air - Nature Are plans to take carbon dioxide out of the air just a pipe dream, or a cure for global warming?	18th December 2008
Two trillion tonnes of ice melted from arctic since 2003, NASA says - CNews WASHINGTON - More than two trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming.	17th December 2008
Last 10 years the warmest ever due to climate change - Evening Standard THE 10 warmest years on record have all been since 1997 because of man-made climate change, scientists revealed today.	17th December 2008
2008 temperature summaries and spin - RealClimate The great thing about complex data is that one can basically come up with any number of headlines describing it - all of which can be literally true - but that give very different impressions. Thus we are sure that you will soon read that 2008 was warmer than any year in the 20th Century (with the exception of 1998), that is was the coolest year this century (starting from 2001), and that 7 or 8 of the 9 warmest years have occurred since 2000. There will undoubtedly also be a number of claims made that aren't true ...	17th December 2008
Study: Wind, solar baseload easily beat nuclear - Gristmill By Joseph Romm. When we last met Stanford professor Mark Jacobson, he was explaining why you shouldn't buy a diesel car if you care about global warming. His new myth-busting study finds the following "Total CO2-eq of Electricity Sources": (CSP is concentrated solar power, but I prefer solar baseload to that ambiguous acronym. CCS is carbon capture and storage, called "clean coal" by some, "clap trap" by others.) The study, "Review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security," by the co-founder and director of Stanford's Atmospheric Energy Program warrants a two-part examination.	17th December 2008
Australians condemn climate plan - BBC News Environmental activists stage protests in several Australian cities, calling Prime Minister Rudd's plan to combat climate change a "joke".	17th December 2008
Japan as ground zero for no-waste lifestyle - The Christian Science Monitor Three environmental models: Toyota's Prius factory, an electronics recycler, and a village that recycles 80 percent of its trash.	17th December 2008
It's almost too late to stop warming - Hamilton Spectator About two years ago, I realized that the military in various countries were starting to do climate change scenarios in-house -- scenarios that started with the scientific predictions about rising temperatures, falling crop yields and other physical effects, and examined what that would do to politics and strategy.	17th December 2008
Carbon May Rise to $400 a Ton Unless Spending Surges, OECD Says - Bloomberg Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Carbon permits will rise more than 18-fold to $400 a metric ton by 2050 unless spending on new technologies that curb emissions is increased, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development forecast.	17th December 2008
Michael McCarthy: A sliver of cheer on climate change - Independent It is seductive stuff, optimism; listening to Al Gore I even felt a frisson of hope myself, as much of the world felt hope in listening to Obama speaking in the park in Chicago after his election. Might it just be possible? The President-elect has said he will make climate change a priority, and certainly, if there is any real chance for the world at all to counter global warming, it can only lie in the leadership of the society whose optimism, and dynamism, and technological brilliance can do the once-unthinkable, like putting a man on the moon. But the outlook is not good; and you should be aware, Mr President-elect, that with climate change, Yes We Can may be tested to destruction. See also: Obama left with little time to curb global warming - USA Today	16th December 2008
At Last, A Date - Monbiot For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. And it's not reassuring.	16th December 2008
Global warming suspected as reason for a declining blackbird population - Benton County Daily Record Bye-bye birdy : The blackbirds in northwest Arkansas once were a late-fall staple - but this year, the blackbirds just haven't been coming out in the same numbers. Thurman W. Booth, state director of Arkansas Wildlife Services in Sherwood, has made the same observation, and said blackbirds have declined over the past decade in Arkansas. Booth said climate change may be the largest reason for the decline. "As global warming progresses, and the warming cycle is making winters warmer we believe (the birds) are wintering north. In the last 10 years, we've seen a distinct pattern that Arkansas has far fewer blackbirds and starlings than we had, say, in the 1970s," he said. Instead of migrating to Arkansas, past northwest Arkansas and into the rice belt of the Delta to obtain food, more blackbirds are now stopping in the in the Dakotas for nourishment.	16th December 2008
Arctic melt passes the point of no return - Independent Scientists have found the first unequivocal evidence that the Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world at least a decade before it was predicted to happen.	16th December 2008
World leaders 'failing to get' climate message - New Scientist The gap between political rhetoric and scientific reality on climate change is growing, complain scientists at the UN climate conference in Poland	16th December 2008
Ozone holes and cosmic rays - RealClimate Browsing through the blogosphere recently, I came across an interesting little story about the scientific method, scientific progress, and un-scientific spin (h/t Hank Roberts). The subject concerns the polar ozone hole in Antarctica and a possible role for cosmic rays in its variability on solar cycle timescales. The proponents of this link are a small research group at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, who find themselves up against the mainstream stratospheric chemistry community and whose ideas are twisted out of all recognition by the more foolish of the usual suspects. The story hit the 'tubes earlier this year when researcher Q.B.	16th December 2008
Forget the cockroach, jellyfish shall inherit the planet - ZDNet If global warming increases the surface area covered by ocean as predicted, jellyfish may ride the waves of the future. Not those landlubber cockroaches. There’s a new summary put together by the National Science Foundation. It summarizes the recent increase in jellyfish invasions across the globe.	16th December 2008
Ocean acidification from CO2 emissions will cause physiological impairment to jumbo squid The elevated carbon dioxide levels expected to be found in the world's oceans by 2100 will likely lead to physiological impairments of jumbo (or Humboldt) squid, according to research by two University of Rhode Island scientists.	16th December 2008
Scientist: 'Our conclusions were misinterpreted' by Inhofe By Joseph Romm. The lead author of a new study ($ub. req'd) says Inhofe's office mischaracterized her work with its blaring headline, "Study: Half of warming due to Sun!" Far from supporting Inhofe's denialist fantasies, the research, led by Anja Eichler, senior scientist at the Switzerland's Paul Scherrer Institute, is actually one more piece of observation-driven analysis that strongly backs the reality of human-caused warming. I pointed Eichler to the Senate website where Inhofe staffer Marc Morano not only misstated her results but also concluded: Even if you try to stretch these numbers a little bit -- but not unrealistically -- you have to become sure that the participants of the Poznan conference are lunatics.	16th December 2008
Patrick Takahashi: Is There An Option More Promising Than The Plug-In Electric Vehicle? - HuffingtonPost The internal combustion engine is approaching obsolescence, and other concepts such as Shai Agassi's Better Place electric vehicle network model a more promising future.	16th December 2008
Emerging Global Consequences of Arctic Climate Change Highlighted At AGU Conference - Business Wire ----New scientific evidence from the Arctic reveals that climate change in the region is beginning to accelerate the rise in global temperatures and sea levels. The findings include methane gas escaping from the ocean near Siberia, accelerated melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic sea ice, and changes to the tundra that increase carbon losses to the atmosphere.	16th December 2008
Bolivian President Evo Morales: 20 Ways to Save Mother Earth and Prevent Climate Change Capitalism's glorification of competition and thirst for limitless profit are destroying the planet.	16th December 2008
Hackers 'aid' Amazon logging scam - BBC Hi-tech criminals have helped Brazilian logging firms evade official limits on how much timber they can harvest, says a report.	16th December 2008
DeSmog Exclusive: The Policy Communications Inc. Astroturf Shell Game Desmog Blog has uncovered an energy industry-backed astro-turf network concocted by a single PR/Lobbying firm that is working to undermine the efforts of environmental groups and organizations like the Western Climate Initiative (WCI). that are pushing for solutions to climate change. The Top of the Pyramid At the top of the network is a PR/Lobby firm with offices in Colorado and Washington, DC called Policy Communications Inc. The firms principals are: Jim Sims, President/CEO Holly Propst, Senior Vice President Greg Schnacke, Vice President Paul Poister, Vice President Britt Weygandt , Vice President Cody Stewart, Policy Specialist <!--break-->Western Business Roundtable and Communications Policy Inc.	16th December 2008
Cleaning the Air Helps Cool the Planet - Scientific American Emissions cuts offer "greatest potential for substantial, simultaneous improvements in local air quality and near-term mitigation."	16th December 2008
Emissions target should be 'multiplied eight times' - ABC via Yahoo!7 News Adelaide University climate change researcher Barry Brook says the Federal Government's carbon reduction target needs to be multiplied eight times if it is to make a difference. See also: 5pc target a global embarrassment: Greens - Australian Broadcasting Corporation	16th December 2008

Jonathon Porritt: Press the panic button - Guardian Unlimited Jonathon Porritt: It's much worse than we thought. An emergency review of climate change is needed immediately	14th December 2008
CLIMATE CHANGE: Poznan Produces a 'Vision Gap' - IPS POZNAN, Dec 13 (IPS) - The United Nations climate change conference ended on a bitter note in the early hours of Saturday.	14th December 2008
Australia brings forward A$500 million green energy fund - Environmental News Network SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called for a "solar revolution" on Sunday as he unveiled plans to bring forward a A$500 million (US$329 million) fund to promote renewable energy in a bid to stimulate the economy.	14th December 2008
Drought means farmworkers hungry in U.S. produce capital - Deseret Morning News Idled farm workers are searching for food in the nation's most prolific agricultural region, where a double blow of drought and a court-ordered cutback of water supplies has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.	14th December 2008
Funds from sale of emission permits should be invested in green technology, say Lords - Guardian Unlimited A cross-party group of Lords has called on the government to reinvest the millions raised from the sale of carbon emission permits in green technology, following criticism that ministers are planning to add the funds to the Treasury's books.	14th December 2008
Red tape strangles Whitehall's plans to boost green energy - Independent Penny-pinching and red tape are suffocating government plans for a rapid increase in the amount of renewable energy used in Britain.	14th December 2008
Rich nations must plan for floods, heat and drought now, warns panel - Guardian Unlimited Two thousand people killed during a summer heatwave; mosquitoes at Heathrow carrying malaria parasites picked up from infected holidaymakers; road-builders switching to a melt-resistant tarmac. If anyone is in any doubt that climate change is already affecting the UK, this is your answer. "It's not just a question of impacts in the future. We are actually looking at impacts right now..."	13th December 2008
EU climate deal struck at a price - BBC News The BBC's Laurence Peter looks at the European Union climate deal and sets out what it will mean for its 27 member-nations.	13th December 2008
CLIMATE CHANGE: EU Gives Polluters a Christmas Gift BRUSSELS, Dec 12 (IPS) - Polluting industries have received an early Christmas gift from European Union leaders who have agreed to weaken their proposals for fighting climate change in order to protect short-term commercial gains.	13th December 2008
Invested interests - Gristmill By Lester BrownOriginally posted at earthpolicy.org ----- At a time when major U.S. companies are announcing job layoffs almost daily, the renewable energy industry is hiring new workers every day to build wind farms, install rooftop solar arrays, and build solar thermal and geothermal power plants. The output of industrial firms that manufacture the equipment for these energy facilities is expanding by well over 30 percent a year. These investments both create jobs and help prevent climate change from spiraling out of control. Among the several sources of renewable energy, wind looms large. The United States has 24,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity already online (think 24 coal-fired power plants), and 83 wind farms with some 8,000 megawatts of capacity are under construction.	13th December 2008
Will the media be fooled - again? - Gristmill By Joseph RommWho will the media believe this time: The Senate's leading climate denier, James Inhofe (R-Okla.), or their own lying eyes? Deniers like Inhofe have a serious media problem -- an ever growing number of studies, real-world observations, and credible scientific bodies all point to human-caused emissions as the increasingly dominant cause of planetary warming and dangerous climate change. What's a denier to do? The answer is simple: Repackage previously debunked disinformation, release it as a "new" so-called "Full Senate Report" full of hysterical headlines, push it through right-wing news outlets, and hope the traditional media bites.	13th December 2008
John Vidal: How to tackle climate change for £2,500 - Guardian Unlimited The contrasting fates of two families in the arid north-east of Brazil have important lessons for world leaders in Poznan. Pedro da Silva and Ze de Antonio are two farmers who live within a few minutes of each other outside the town of Afogados in Pernambuco state, in north-eastern Brazil. Both are nearly 60, neither went to school, and each has a large family and two acres. But their lives and land are starkly different, and as governments meet in Pozna.	13th December 2008
Wetter and wilder: the signs of warming everywhere - Guardian Unlimited On the eve of the Poznan conference, the third part of our series looks at how lives are already being effected by climate change	13th December 2008
Climate-change set-back for acidified rivers - PhysOrg Climate change is hampering the long-term recovery of rivers from the effects of acid rain, as wet weather counteracts improvements, according to a new study by Cardiff University.	13th December 2008
CLIMATE CHANGE: Arctic Is the Canary in the Coalmine - IPS QUEBEC CITY, Canada, Dec 12 (IPS) - Nearly 1,000 scientists and representatives of indigenous peoples from 16 countries have braved a major winter storm to share their findings and concerns about the rapidly warming Arctic region at the International Arctic Change conference in Quebec City.	13th December 2008
Zimbabwe says drought will worsen food shortages - Tiscali HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's food crisis will worsen this year because of a drought that has decimated maize and other key crops, a government minister said on Tuesday amid rising tension in the economically-depressed African country.	13th December 2008
Stansted protesters charged with aggravated trespass - Guardian Unlimited Police today charged 49 protesters who breached the security fence at Stansted airport, forcing the closure of its runway. Members of the group Plane Stupid, which campaigns against climate change and air travel, caused scores of flights to be cancelled and disruption for thousands of passengers. They cut though the perimeter fence in the early hours of yesterday and chained themselves to ...	13th December 2008
Stock market game may predict eco disasters An online trading system might forecast the availability of water more accurately than the best computer models used by environmental scientists, say its developers	13th December 2008
No new coal - the calling card of the 'green Banksy' who breached fortress Kingsnorth - Guardian Unlimited The £12m defences of the most heavily guarded power station in Britain have been breached by a single person who, under the eyes of CCTV cameras, climbed two three-metre (10ft) razor-wired, electrified security fences, walked into the station and crashed a giant 500MW turbine before leaving a calling card reading "no new coal".	12th December 2008
California takes leap of global warming faith California is either about to bankrupt all its businesses, or it's unleashing a green revolution. Either way, it took a big step toward cutting greenhouse gases on Thursday, when its top air quality regulator, the California Air Resources Board, passed a scoping plan. That sounds deadly dull, we know, but it has excited a lot of people because it means specific targets are being set by the largest U.S. state in the midst of the worst economy almost anyone living has seen. Some businesses fear they won't be able to survive the costs. Some feel California will be economically reborn.	12th December 2008
Nine meals from anarchy - Reuters UK Nothing reveals the thin veneer of civilisation like a threat to its fuel or food supply, or the cracks in society like a major climate-related disaster. But that, increasingly, is what we face: the global peak and decline of oil production; and a global food chain in crisis due to multiple stresses including imminent, potentially irreversible global warming.	12th December 2008
Commentary: Good planets are hard to find - CNN Nature can be amazingly resilient, capable of adapting to constantly changing ecological conditions. And yet, this resiliency is limited and rapidly reaching the breaking point.	12th December 2008
Global boiling - Salon.com Some geologists say rising temperatures will uncork vast deposits of undersea methane. If they're right, we're cooked.	12th December 2008
Direct action may be the only way to tackle climate change - Guardian Unlimited The Stansted protesters' actions were a last resort in the face of our continued indifference to climate change.	12th December 2008
Climate change alters ocean chemistry - PhysOrg Researchers have discovered that the ocean's chemical makeup is less stable and more greatly affected by climate change than previously believed. The researchers report in the December 12, 2008 issue of Science that during a time of climate change 13 million years ago the chemical makeup of the oceans changed dramatically. The researchers warn that the chemical composition of the ocean today could be similarly affected by climate changes now underway – with potentially far-reaching consequences for marine ecosystems.	12th December 2008
CNN - Drought Parches Much Of U.S., May Get Worse - WSB-TV 2 Atlanta Water, Not Oil, Soon Will Become The Most Precious Commodity For Americans, Some Climatologists Say. Droughts Are Spreading. At Least 36 States Will Face Water Shortages Within Five Years, According To A Report, And Not For The Reasons You Might Think. "We Don't Value Water And We're Going To Regret It," Says Marjorye Heeney, Who Grew Up On An Oklahoma Farm During The Dust Bowl.	12th December 2008
Here comes the flood - Nature Policymakers must start to view mass migration as a form of adaptation so that the global response to climate-induced migration is one of facilitation rather than neglect. Two leviathans are about to collide on the world stage of science and politics - climate change and migration1. Their combination brings us to a tipping-point that could spawn a phenomenon of a scale and scope not experienced in human history2. Beyond reducing the greenhouse gases that drive global warming, we are now faced with the task of finding ways to deal with the impact of climate change. Next in line, or perhaps even ahead of mitigation, adaptation is the new game in town.	12th December 2008
Money and Lobbyists Hurt European Efforts to Curb Gases - New York Times Setting up a workable market for climate change credits in Europe has proved difficult and contentious, pointing to pitfalls for the U.S. as it begins to consider a similar system.	12th December 2008
World needs 'climate revolution' - BBC News As ministers begin climate change talks, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon calls for "new global solidarity" on the issue.	12th December 2008
No more beef if Britain hopes to cut carbon emissions - Times Online No more beef if Britain hopes to cut carbon emissionsTimes Online, UK. However, the new Climate Change Act means the government is legally obliged to cut emissions to 156m tonnes by 2050. This, the report warns, ...	12th December 2008
Threatened Tuvalu says rich states block climate aid POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - The Pacific state of Tuvalu accused rich nations on Thursday of blocking funds to help low-lying island nations cope with rising seas caused by climate change that could wipe them off the map.	12th December 2008
Warmer globe won't cut plants' carbon emissions - Planet Earth Warmer globe won't cut plants' carbon emissionsPlanet Earth, UK. 'These findings strengthen the case of those warning about the dangers posed by climate change,' says Dr Jon Pitchford, a biological mathematician at the ...	12th December 2008
Dangerous sea level rise imminent without large reductions of black carbon and implementation of other fast-action ... - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News Poznan Panel of Experts Discuss Importance of Black Carbon, the Montreal Protocol, Biochar, and Methane as Part of Global Climate Strategy	12th December 2008
US study says global warming driven by greenhouse gases is unevenly affecting North America - Canadian Business Climate change caused by greenhouse gases is warming the United States, though unevenly, government researchers said Thursday."The	12th December 2008
Britain pledges $149.3 million to reduce deforestation POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - Britain's energy and climate change minister Ed Miliband will say on Friday that the government will give 100 million stg ($149.3 million) to help reduce the impacts of deforestation.	12th December 2008
Amazon 'die-back' could be devastating - Irish Times Amazon 'die-back' could be devastatingIrish Times, Ireland. This risk would increase with global warming, magnifying the impact of deforestation. Dr Vicky Pope, head of climate advice at the Met Office, ...	12th December 2008
Fifth of world's corals already dead, say experts - PhysOrg Almost a fifth of the planet's coral reefs have died and carbon emissions are largely to blame, according to an NGO study released Wednesday.	11th December 2008
Climate change is 'unequivocal', say scientists - CNN POZNAN, Poland (AP) -- Scientists studying the changing nature of the Earth's climate say they have completed one crucial task -- proving beyond a doubt that global warming is real. Now they have to figure out just what to do about it.	11th December 2008
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'Don't Leave it to the World Bank' - IPS POZNAN, Dec 10 (IPS) - Leading environment groups have opposed plans to hand over financing to check climate change to the World Bank.	11th December 2008
Climate change experts 'lose faith' in renewable technology - Guardian Unlimited Support for renewable energy technology to fight global warming is weakening in the face of worldwide economic problems and the true scale of the carbon reductions required, a survey published today has suggested.	11th December 2008
UN Envoys Drop Plan to Back Carbon-Capture Projects - Update1 - Bloomberg Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations negotiators dropped plans to back the use of devices that capture carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants in developing countries and pump it underground for storage.	11th December 2008
Global warming: Sweden cleanest, S Arabia dirtiest - Economic Times Global warming: Sweden cleanest, S Arabia dirtiestEconomic Times, India. But the annual "Climate Change Performance Index" placed Sweden only fourth on its list, for no prizes were allotted for the top three places. ...	11th December 2008
Analysis: Has the Kyoto protocol worked? - Guardian Unlimited Agreed in 1997, the Kyoto protocol aimed to cut emissions of greenhouse gases across the developed world by about 5% compared with 1990 . It came into force in 2005, following ratification by Russia, which means the deadline for the legally binding cuts to be made is 2008-12. It was based on the "common but differentiated responsibility" approach to global warming, with countries most ...	11th December 2008
How key players at Poznan stand on climate change - Guardian Unlimited Who's making the most progress in cutting carbon emissions around the world?	11th December 2008
Rich nations plan 'great escape' on climate - China - Reuters India Rich nations plan "great escape" on climate - ChinaReuters India, India. ... most to blame for global warming, cannot even agree a range of emissions cuts nor specific funding to help the South to prepare for climate change, ...	11th December 2008
How to Save the Climate from the Recession - Spiegel Online How to Save the Climate from the RecessionSpiegel Online, Germany. The world needs a new treaty on global warming to replace the Kyoto Protocol but many nations are now far more worried about the economic crisis. ...	11th December 2008
'Struggle' to meet UK renewable targets - BBC News How will the UK manage to meet renewable energy targets?	11th December 2008
A postcard from Poznan to my son - BBC News As UN climate talks in Poland grind to a halt, BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin pens a postcard to his 10-year-old son.	11th December 2008
The trouble with tar sands - CNews If you want to be scared, you don't need to watch a horror movie or read the latest Stephen King bestseller.	11th December 2008
Canada ranked near bottom in list of climate change fighters - Canada.com Countries from around the world appear to be headed in a dangerous direction because they all have inadequate policies to fight climate change, says a report released Wednesday.	11th December 2008
Methane, Potent Greenhouse Gas, Flowing Into The Atmosphere From Tundra Much Faster Than Expected - Science Daily Much more methane gas is being emitted into the atmosphere from the tundra in northeast Greenland than previous studies have shown. New figures reveal that large amounts of greenhouse gases are being emitted into the atmosphere, not just during the warm summer months, but also during the colder autumn months.	11th December 2008
Rich countries reaffirm Kyoto cuts, but footnote the numbers - SpaceDaily POZNAN, Poland, Dec 11 (AFP) Dec 11, 2008 Rich nations that pledged to reduce greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol agreed Wednesday night at UN climate talks here to extend these obligations, but failed to cite hard numbers, oberservers here said.	11th December 2008
Black gold - BBC News The world needs a global carbon permit scheme. Little meaningful progress seems to have been made at the UN climate summit in Poznan, Poland, says Oliver Tickell, author of Kyoto2. In this week's Green Room, he calls on world leaders to back a deal that will raise the serious funds needed to deliver a low carbon future.	10th December 2008
A Beardful of Bunkum - Monbiot David Bellamy's at it again, with even dafter claims about climate change.	10th December 2008
Tree's rapid decline sounds alarm on global warming - McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - The whitebark pine, a tree found in the high elevations of the western U.S. and Canada, is being killed as a consequence of global warming and should be protected as an endangered species, an environmental group formally told the Interior Department Tuesday.	10th December 2008
Drought, controlled fire, warming linked - UPI IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A link between drought and deforestation was found to be fueling global warming, a U.S. scientist and co-author of a study reported.	10th December 2008
Metro Vancouver's last glacier: Drip by drip, a massive sheet of ice disappears - The Georgia Straight Two centuries ago, when the West Coast had a cooler climate during the Little Ice Age, there were about 10 glaciers in the mountains north of Metro Vancouver. Now, only the Coquitlam Glacier remains.	10th December 2008
Organic Farming May Be the Best Route to Global Food Security - International Business Times To best feed the world, a growing number of researchers, development experts, farming groups and environmentalists are calling for new emphasis on sustainable agricultural practices that make a sharp break from current policies. A newly released Rodale Institute research paper reviewing replicated research shows that the latest scientific approaches in organic agriculture offer affordable, immediately usable and universally accessible ways to improve yields and access to nutritional food in developing countries. "The Organic Green Revolution" paper is available online.	10th December 2008
Soap tycoon: Why I'm funding airport demos - Evening Standard THE High Street tycoon who has been funding the eco-activists behind the storming of Stansted today vowed to pay for future direct action campaigns.	10th December 2008
Minnesota without moose? It could happen - Minneapolis Star Tribune Minnesota without moose? It could happenMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN. In fact, there is nothing lemming-like in following the scientists whose living depends on climate change(2008), global warming(2005-2007), global cooling ...	10th December 2008
Climate opposition 'suicidal': Flannery - Sydney Morning Herald Climate opposition 'suicidal': FlannerySydney Morning Herald, Australia. He has called for Australia to take the lead on climate - or watch the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef through global warming. ...	10th December 2008
Coal hard cash By Steve KretzmannThe race for Most Hypocritical Actor at the climate talks in Poznan, Poland is a crowded one, to be sure, but the World Bank, in one swift move, has taken a commanding lead. Late last week, as World Bankers in Poland were lobbying delegates over pierogies and pate, word leaked out of South Africa that the Bank's International Finance Corporation has agreed "in principle" to provide up to $5 billion of our tax dollars to support as many as six additional coal plants. If approved, this would be both the largest World Bank Group loan on record and the single most carbon intensive project ever undertaken.	10th December 2008
Obama says climate change a matter of national security CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama said on Tuesday attacking global climate change is a "matter of urgency" as he talked about the problem with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the issue.	10th December 2008
Australia to set 10 pct carbon reduction target: report SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Australian government has endorsed a carbon emissions reduction target of 10 percent by 2020, following the introduction of a carbon trading scheme in 2010, the Australian Financial Review paper said on Wednesday.	10th December 2008
Climate change: A battle for the planet Summing up what many scientists, environmentalists and politicians now think about the threat of climate change is simple: the world is drinking in the last chance saloon.	10th December 2008
Too late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst - Guardian Unlimited "Even without the new information there was enough to make most policy makers think that urgent action was absolutely essential. The new information only strengthens that and pushes it even harder. It was already very urgent to start with. It's now become very, very urgent."	9th December 2008
U.N. says climate change may uproot 6 million annually - Reuters POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - The impact of climate change could uproot around six million people each year, half of them because of weather disasters like floods and storms, a top U.N. official said on Monday.	9th December 2008
The true cost of our growing taste for meat - Guardian Unlimited As the west's appetite for meat increases, so too does the demand for soya - used as animal feed by farmers. But the planting of huge tracts of land is causing deforestation and destroying eco-systems in developing countries.	9th December 2008
The oughts are hot - Grist Magazine Very warm 2008 makes this the hottest decade in recorded history by far.	9th December 2008
Everyone could get CO2 permits - China study - AlertNet Everyone on the planet could get identical greenhouse gas emission rights as part of a drive to halve emissions by 2050, according to a study by Chinese scientists on Monday. The proposal, presented on the sidelines of a