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In order to 'stimulate the economy' jobs were moved abroad, public spending was cut, nations gave up their sovereignty. We even trashed the planet and gave up our own common sense, and it still wasn't enough to ensure that the global economy (likened to a bicycle rider) could keep on rolling - shame it never learnt to balance the way they do in the circus... read more>>

ACTION (UK ): Climate Rush!- 13th October Normal people really can change the world. 100 years ago the Suffragettes went to Parliament and demanded that their society change. They held a mass rally outside Parliament to which thousands came, before a number of them rushed into Parliament and got everyone's attention. We invite you all to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this world changing event. We invite you to celebrate when women got radical. Enjoy a rally and speeches in Parliament Square. Enjoy social change.

ACTION (Canada): Make your vote count @ www.voteforenvironment.ca This site offers comprehensive, up-to-date riding by riding information on how to defeat Harper and his anti-environment policies.

ACTION: Gordon Brown Drop him a line and remind him that the clock is ticking.

A Green Bailout: We Need Help for People Who Want to Save the Planet - AlterNet Don't give platinum parachutes to those who wrecked the economy, let's throw a green lifeline to the people who want to rebuild it.	7th October 2008
Food crises could swing future UK elections, says thinktank - Guardian Unlimited UK food system unable to cope with rapid changes in supply driven by factors such as climate change	7th October 2008
NASA study finds rising Arctic storm activity sways sea ice, climate - PhysOrg A new NASA study shows that the rising frequency and intensity of arctic storms over the last half century, attributed to progressively warmer waters, directly provoked acceleration of the rate of arctic sea ice drift, long considered by scientists as a bellwether of climate change.	7th October 2008
EU's climate package 'in crisis' - BBC News The EU's attempt to lead the world on climate change will crumble unless its current policy crisis is resolved, a study warns.	7th October 2008
Green subsidy for car makers is disguised corporate bail-out - Guardian Unlimited Having long sabotaged eco-innovations, the motor industry is now demanding billions to cut its carbon emissions	7th October 2008
Now is the time to tackle global warming - Lord Stern - Guardian Unlimited Peer recommends spending on renewable and low-carbon industries to stimulate economy	7th October 2008
End use of fossil fuels in 20 years, UK warned - Guardian Unlimited Britain must 'decarbonise the power sector by 2030', the government's climate change watchdog warns	7th October 2008
ENVIRONMENT: Twisted As Unnaturally as the Banks - IPS BARCELONA, Oct 6 (IPS) - The financial meltdown in most of the industrialised world presents an opportunity for a new economic model that would end short-sighted search for high returns, according to leading economists attending the IUCN World Conservation Congress here.	7th October 2008
Nuclear power back on German political agenda- - Reuters BIBLIS, Germany (Reuters) - The vat of still blue water containing enriched uranium rods at Germany's oldest nuclear plant looks as harmless as a public swimming pool.	7th October 2008
U.N. sees risks mounting for global warming fight - Reuters LONDON/BARCELONA (Reuters) - The struggle against climate change must not follow world trade talks into limbo as risks mount that the credit crisis will sap commitment to the fight, the U.N. climate chief said on Monday.	7th October 2008
West putting climate treaty in jeopardy, China warns - New Scientist Rich countries are failing to deliver on promises and threaten "son of Kyoto" global warming pact with failure, top climate envoy says	7th October 2008
We Are One President Away From a Future of Fossil Fuel Addiction - AlterNet America's energy and climate future will be determined by what the nation decides to do with its deposits of oil shale.	7th October 2008
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Global Warming: Beyond the Tipping Point - Scientific American The world's most outspoken climatologist argues that today's carbon dioxide levels are already dangerously too high. What can we do if he is right?	6th October 2008
Global warming set change eating - The Australian A report to be released by the CSIRO today says changes in temperature, ocean currents, rainfall and extreme weather events could cost Australian fisheries tens of million of dollars. Hardest hit could be stocks of Tasmanian salmon, estimated to be worth $221million in 2005-06 and representing 30 per cent of the total national aquaculture production. The report says projected ocean warming of 2-3 degrees by 2070 could render salmon farming unviable, leaving open the possibility of salmon farmers having to shift their operations offshore to deeper, cooler waters.	6th October 2008
Scientists Develop Solar Cells With a Twist - Planet Ark CHICAGO - US researchers have found a way to make efficient silicon-based solar cells that are flexible enough to be rolled around a pencil and transparent enough to be used to tint windows on buildings or cars.	6th October 2008
ENVIRONMENT: EU Stepping Back from Cleaning Up - IPS BRUSSELS, Oct 6 (IPS) - Most of the European Union's promised cuts in greenhouse emissions could be undertaken outside the bloc under a proposal to be considered by law-makers this week. See also: Greece ‘signs pact' to delay CO2 plan - Kathimerini Brussels readies for 'Super Tuesday' climate vote - EurActiv	6th October 2008
Peru Studies Climate Riddle as the World Heats Up - Planet Ark LIMA - Scientists are using everything from a yellow submarine to weather balloons and special airplanes to solve a climate conundrum: why is Peru getting colder while the rest of the world heats up?	6th October 2008
Shanghai highrises could worsen threat of rising seas - Reuters Shanghai, China's most populous city and an aspiring global financial center, is also among the world's most vulnerable urban areas to a rise in sea levels as global warming melts polar ice. Its location on a low-lying alluvial plain near the mouth of Asia's longest river, the Yangtze, had already left it prone, but researchers warn that forests of skyscrapers sprouting across the ambitious metropolis could compound the threat by causing its marshy ground to sink.	6th October 2008
New charges on shipping could help climate - Guardian Unlimited 'Fuel tax' proceeds to go towards implementing green technology in developing nations	6th October 2008
Peter Preston: Slicing up Whitehall - Guardian Unlimited Peter Preston: Merging the energy and climate departments sells short the supreme threat of global warming	6th October 2008
Companies 'need green directors' - BBC News Businesses must change their attitude to green issues, the World Conservation Congress is told as it opens.	6th October 2008
Reuters Summit-China grim on prospects for climate pact - AlertNet Source: Reuters (For other news from the Reuters Environment Summit, click on http://www.reuters.com/summit/Environment08?pid=500) By Chris Buckley and Emma Graham-Harrison BEIJING, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Negotiations ...	6th October 2008
Ground-level ozone pollution to increase - The Independent Ground-level ozone pollution is contributing to hundreds of deaths a year in the UK - and climate change could help make the situation worse, a report from the Royal Society warned today.	6th October 2008
Climate change and energy policies lack cohesion, says Oxfam report - Guardian Unlimited New energy and climate change secretary faces calls to unify government approach to environmental problems	6th October 2008
We're 'bored' by climate change - The Courier Mail AUSTRALIANS are becoming bored with the issue of climate change and many still doubt whether it is actually happening, according to a new survey.	6th October 2008

Seas turn to acid as they soak up CO2 - Guardian Unlimited Waters near Naples have seen plant and fish biodiversity drop by 30% due to 'ocean acidification'	5th October 2008
Beaches once thick with birds quiet thanks to Ike - PhysOrg (AP) -- One of North America's renowned bird migration and bird watching areas is strangely silent. Blame Hurricane Ike.	5th October 2008
Britain's rivers could run dry - Guardian Unlimited Flows in Severn and Mersey in summer could drop by up to 80 per cent by 2050, experts warn	5th October 2008
Russians Say Global Warming Happening - Angus Reid (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - More people in Russia believe that climate change is a reality now, according to a poll by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center. 51 per cent of respondents say global warming is already happening, up six points since May 2007.	5th October 2008
Ecologists fear EU diluting climate change battle plans - SpaceDaily BRUSSELS, Oct 5 (AFP) Oct 05, 2008 European Union plans to tackle climate change reach a crucial phase on Tuesday with votes in the EU parliament, amid fears among green groups that pressure from industry is watering the proposals down.	5th October 2008
2008 probably represents the lowest volume of Arctic sea ice on record - National Snow and Ice Data Center NSIDC Research Scientist Walt Meier said, �Warm ocean waters helped contribute to ice losses this year, pushing the already thin ice pack over the edge. In fact, preliminary data indicates that 2008 probably represents the lowest volume of Arctic sea ice on record, partly because less multiyear ice is surviving now, and the remaining ice is so thin.	4th October 2008
U.N. seeks $20 million for drought victims in Syria - Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations appealed on Friday for $20 million to help one million people in Syria cope with the country's worst drought in four decades.	4th October 2008
Gas From the Past Gives Scientists New Insights into Climate and the Oceans - PhysOrg (PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years, public discussion of climate change has included concerns that increased levels of carbon dioxide will contribute to global warming, which in turn may change the circulation in the earth's oceans, with potentially disastrous consequences. The researchers discovered that elevations in carbon dioxide levels were related to subsequent increases in the Earth's temperature as well as reduced circulation of ocean currents in the North Atlantic. The data also suggests that carbon dioxide levels increased along with the weakening of mixing of waters in the Southern Ocean. This, the researchers say, may point to potential future scenario where global warming causes changes in ocean currents which in turn causes more carbon dioxide to enter the atmosphere, adding more greenhouse gas to an already warming climate.	4th October 2008
Economic turmoil could scupper EU climate plans - New Scientist The European Union was planning to impose limits on CO emissions from cars, but car makers argue that the financial crisis will make the targets impossible to achieve	4th October 2008
Tsunami threat 'is growing in UK' - BBC News Climate change is increasing the risk of tsunami affecting the UK, scientists claim in a BBC TV programme.	4th October 2008
UK MPs tipped to call for greater cut in carbon emissions - Guardian Unlimited The UK's independent climate change committee is expected to recommend next week that the government sets a binding target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% by 2050, campaigners say. The increase in the target from 60%, hinted at by the prime minister, Gordon Brown, in his party conference speech last month, would bring the UK in line with several other governments including Germany, France and California, although the British target would have the strongest enforcement.	4th October 2008
How white roofs shine bright green - The Christian Science Monitor Can you help save the planet by painting your roof white? Hashem Akbari thinks so. Global warming's complexity and momentum have led to a try-everything approach by scientists. In that spirit, Dr. Akbari offers his simple yet profound innovation for slowing that warming way down. It has long been known that a white roof makes a dwelling cooler.	4th October 2008
Climate change stocks fall more than wider markets - Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Shares in companies specializing in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, including energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies, have tumbled faster than wider markets this year, indices showed.	4th October 2008
Back to the progressive future - Guardian Unlimited Andrew Pearmain: Imagine if Labour hadn't imploded in 1983. Insulated from market forces, we'd be thriving	4th October 2008
Oysters will fail the acid test - Goondiwindi Argus Australia: SYDNEY oyster lovers are in for an unpalatable surprise. A global conference in Monaco next week on the rising acidity of the world's oceans will hear research that shows a detrimental effect on local oyster species.	4th October 2008
Dreaming of a climate bailout - CNN Governments around the world continue to pump billions of dollars into financial markets, but there is still no telling whether the "injections of liquidity" will be enough to prevent "this sucker" -- to quote the President of the United States -- from going down.	3rd October 2008
CSIRO's UltraBattery goes global in the auto sector - PhysOrg The CSIRO-invented UltraBattery is set to have a global impact on greenhouse gas emissions after Japan's Furukawa Battery Company, which has already begun production of the UltraBattery, and US manufacturer, East Penn, today signed an international commercialisation and distribution agreement for the technology.	3rd October 2008
Renewable energy made from waste - BBC News A company in Swindon has developed technology which it claims turns household rubbish into clean renewable energy.	3rd October 2008
Local authority bonds benefit the economy and the planet - Guardian Unlimited Colin Hines: They've been out of fashion for a while, but local authority bonds benefit the economy and the planet	3rd October 2008
Sowing the seas - CNN The Seawater Foundation turns barren coastal deserts into fertile green land. Founder Carl Hodges currently overseeing irrigation work along the coast of Mexico. The atmospheric physicist hopes his work will help in climate change mitigation	3rd October 2008
U.S. could create 4.2 million green jobs by 2038 - Reuters MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. economy could generate 4.2 million new "green" jobs in the next 30 years, about 10 percent of all the jobs created, according to a study for the U.S. Conference of Mayors released on Thursday.	3rd October 2008
Species die-off may be underway - Sky News Australia Earth's animal and plant species are vanishing at unprecedented rates, evidence that the planet is facing a tsunami of mass extinction, experts have warned.	3rd October 2008
Climate change threat to haggis - BBC News Warmer temperatures may be to blame for an increase in a parasite affecting sheep's lungs - an ingredient of haggis.	3rd October 2008
Can we save forests by listening to trees? - The Christian Science Monitor An old Broadway song laments, “I talk to the trees, but they don't listen to me.” Now researchers are finding it pays to let the trees “talk” to them. Humans have lived with trees for millennia. Yet two recent studies reveal that we still have a lot to learn about the subtleties of how they function.	3rd October 2008
Solar rickshaw to help fight global warming - New Kerala New Delhi, Oct 2 : The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has brought forward a solution for the twin problems of employment generation and mitigation of global warming by giving shape to a solar-electric rickshaw for eco-friendly urban transport, which is also being touted as the CSIR's Nano for the poor people.	3rd October 2008
US Subsidies Grease the Skids Into Chaos Why do U.S. oil companies -- some of the most profitable corporations on the planet -- receive 20 to 40 billion dollars a year in subsidies from the U.S. government? Doug Koplow Erich Pica Janet Larsen Ross Gelbspan	3rd October 2008
Climate action could save Europe billions in health costs - People & the Planet Health savings of up to �25 billion more than currently predicted could be achieved every year in Europe if the European Union immediately opted for stronger climate policies, according to a new study published by health and environment NGOs.	3rd October 2008
Emissions rising faster this decade than last - EurekAlert! ( CSIRO Australia ) The latest figures on the global carbon budget to be released in Washington and Paris indicate a four-fold increase in growth rate of human-generated carbon dioxide emissions since 2000.	3rd October 2008
98 months, and counting - guardian.co.uk Governments moved quickly to rescue our banks. Why does it take any longer to act to save the planet from runaway warming? See also: Will the financial storm blow climate action off course? - Reuters What global warming has to do with subprime mortgages - University Daily Kansan Why Don't We Bailout The Planet? - Green Muze	2nd October 2008
It's now or later - Nature Is a slow, measured approach to reducing emissions more cost-effective than taking immediate action?	2nd October 2008
Delay and Fail - Energy Bulletin Last week, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York, Al Gore suggested that young people should engage in civil disobedience to stop the building of new coal power plants “that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.” I sympathize with Gore's intent. Coal is the most polluting of the fossil fuels, and if we burn more of it there is little hope of averting catastrophic climate change. But is carbon capture and storage (CCS) a solution?	2nd October 2008
Heat destroys crops, farmers' hopes - Perth Now RECORD temperatures across Victoria's north last weekend laid waste to the state's wheat crops, the Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) says.	2nd October 2008
International trade in grain could be dramatically cut within 10-15 years: Dyer - The Truro Daily News BIBLE HILL - Food could be in short supply worldwide as one of the impacts of global warming, a renowned columnist told an agriculture crowd here Tuesday.	2nd October 2008
Cyprus grape harvest squeezed by drought - AFP via Yahoo! News In Cyprus, where the reservoirs are almost dry and the taps often cease to flow, another liquid may also become scarce. Parched by a chronic drought, the island's wine industry, among the oldest in the world, is under threat.	2nd October 2008
Will Cities Soon Be Able to Feed Themselves? - Alertnet A growing interest in urban farming is sprouting all kinds of new ideas -- including growing food in high-rises. See allso: A lack of food security is London's achilles heel - Guardian Unlimited	2nd October 2008
How to create change In your community: finding or forming a local group - Energy Bulletin When we live locally and strengthen our communities, we become stronger and better able to adapt to changes in the economy, climate, and energy availability. But we discuss much about how to go about this. So... how do you create change in your community? And how do you form a group of people who can tackle these community needs? read more	2nd October 2008
Microwave factory to act as carbon sink - New Scientist The world's first commercial plant that uses microwave technology to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to help reduce the effects of global warming has started operating in New Zealand.	2nd October 2008
Schwarzenegger signs greenhouse gas bill - The Fresno Bee Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Tuesday that attempts to ease greenhouse gas emissions by giving priority to transportation projects that limit commutes and curb urban sprawl.	2nd October 2008
Turbines 'no risk to farm birds' - BBC Wind turbines pose less of a threat to farmland birds than previously thought, a study concludes.	2nd October 2008
Green coffee-growing practices buffer climate-change impacts - PhysOrg Chalk up another environmental benefit for shade-grown Latin American coffee: University of Michigan researchers say the technique will provide a buffer against the ravages of climate change in the coming decades.	2nd October 2008
Are we trading energy conservation for toxic air emissions? - PhysOrg A team of Yale scientists has found that certain countries and some U.S. states stand to benefit from the use of compact fluorescent lighting more than others in the fight against global warming. Some places may even produce more mercury emissions by switching from incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent lighting.	2nd October 2008
Experts warn species in peril from climate change - PhysOrg (AP) -- Climate change threatens to kill off up to a third of the planet's species by the end of the century if urgent action isn't taken to restore fragile ecosystems, protect endangered animals and manage growth, scientists warned Wednesday as a wildlife summit opened. See also: Putting humans in their place - David Suzuki	2nd October 2008
Companies Scramble for Ever-Scarcer Resources - IPS NEW YORK, Oct 1 (IPS) - As humanity runs out of oil and minerals, the extraction of previously untouched deposits suddenly pays off -- financially. But experts warn that it will likely further accelerate climate change and seriously damage the environment.	2nd October 2008
Tim Jenkins: The European Union emissions trading scheme is a good idea, badly executed - Guardian Unlimited Tim Jenkins: The European Union emissions trading scheme is a good idea, badly executed	2nd October 2008
'Taxing' farts and burps - BBC News On New Zealand's South Island, Stephen Evans discovers how plans for a levy on livestock methane emissions is causing controversy among farmers.	2nd October 2008
Failure will 'haunt humanity' - News24 Failure will 'haunt humanity'News24, South Africa. Sydney - Failure to curb global warming would "haunt humanity" forever, Australia's top climate adviser said on Tuesday as he urged the country to cut ... See also: Australia economy can afford emissions trading: expert - Reuters	1st October 2008
Met Office warns of need for drastic cuts in greenhouse gases from 2010 - Guardian Unlimited Cutting global emissions by 3% a year is only hope of avoiding dangerous temperature rise	1st October 2008
Economists Denounce Harper "Climate Plan" - DeSmogBlog Canada: Three top economists, led by Dr. Mark Jaccard of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, have released an analysis (attached) of the Conservative government's climate policy, saying that, as designed, the might make no headway whatever in reducing Canadian CO2 emissions.	1st October 2008
Heavy rains bring a little relief to drought-hit Argentina - BBC News Many parts of Argentina have been experiencing a very dry spell over the past 6 months, which is widely being regarded as the most severe drought in a century.	1st October 2008
Virgin Galactic craft to help monitor climate The plane designed to carry SpaceShipTwo flies higher than most others, allowing it to study greenhouse gases throughout the atmosphere	1st October 2008
Kyoto Emissions Market Is 17% Oversupplied, Point Carbon Says - Bloomberg Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The market for emission credits allocated to nations under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol is 17 percent oversupplied, according to Point Carbon.	1st October 2008
Does global warming trump all hot-button ethical issues? - Reuters Imagine you go to a conference on major bioethical questions -- controversial issues like abortion, embryonic stem cells, assisted reproduction and euthanasia -- and a keynote speaker uses all his allotted time warning about global warming. Is this the wrong issue to discuss -- or the only one worth talking about? The question arose at the annual conference of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) that ended at the weekend in Prague. Dr. Richard Nicholson, editor of the Bulletin of Medical Ethics, told the assembled bioethicists they had to look beyond their usual issues to consider the far larger ecological threat he said could soon end up destroying mankind.	1st October 2008
The green Sahara, a desert in bloom - PhysOrg Reconstructing the climate of the past is an important tool for scientists to better understand and predict future climate changes that are the result of the present-day global warming. Although there is still little known about the Earth's tropical and subtropical regions, these regions are thought to play an important role in both the evolution of prehistoric man and global climate changes. New North African climate reconstructions reveal three 'green Sahara' episodes during which the present-day Sahara Desert was almost completely covered with extensive grasslands, lakes and ponds over the course of the last 120.000 years.	1st October 2008
The Prince of Wales outlines concerns about climate change in interview In an interview published today in Weather, the magazine of the Royal Meteorological Society, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales talks about his longstanding interest in the weather and its impact on the environment. The interview covers His Royal Highness's love of gardening and his environmental work to protect the rainforests, as well as his memories of the impact of weather on communities at home and abroad.	1st October 2008
High stakes in Canada's vast oil-sands fields - The Christian Science Monitor Trillions of dollars' worth of oil are present, but the environmental costs are high, too – and growing.	1st October 2008
Revealed: oil-funded research in Palin's campaign against protection for polar bear - Guardian Unlimited Two-thirds of the world's polar bears likely to be extinct by 2050 due to the rapid melting of the sea ice	1st October 2008
Will plug-in hybrid vehicles like the Chevy Volt succeed? - Guardian Unlimited Joseph Romm: Next-generation plug-in hybrid vehicles can live up to their eco-friendly promises only with government support	30th September 2008
Garnaut to fire for zero emissions by 2050 - Queensland Country Life Australia: Government climate adviser Ross Garnaut will use his final report to set out a framework to cut Australia's greenhouse emissions to near zero by the middle of the century through clean power generation.	30th September 2008
Vatican installs solar panel roof - BBC News Pope Benedict XVI becomes the first pontiff to harness solar power to provide energy for the Vatican.	30th September 2008
Tories urge new age of the train - BBC News BBC political correspondent Carole Walker looks at the Conservatives' plans to build a new high speed rail link rather than a third runway at Heathrow.	30th September 2008
Carbon dioxide 'scrubber' captures greenhouse gases - PhysOrg University of Calgary climate change scientist David Keith and his team are working to efficiently capture the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide directly from the air, using near-commercial technology.	30th September 2008
Meat must be rationed to four portions a week, says report on climate change - Guardian Unlimited Return to old-fashioned cooking habits urged by study looking at food impact on greenhouse gases	30th September 2008
Marine 'dead zones' leave crabs gasping - New Scientist Crustaceans are the first to gasp for air when oxygen levels get low – the finding suggests that low-oxygen zones are more widespread than thought	30th September 2008
Brazil government 'worst logger' - BBC Brazil's Environment Ministry lists 100 of the worst illegal loggers - and names a government department as number one.	30th September 2008
Why We Can't Afford Cheap Gas - Alternet We can't let the talk about alternative energy rise and fall with the cost of gas, or the environment and our economy will pay a mighty price.	29th September 2008
Get tougher on climate: scientists - The Age AUSTRALIA's leading climate scientists have written an open letter to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urging him to make deep cuts to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, and to back a tough global agreement to avoid dangerous climate change. The 16 scientists — who worked with the UN's peak scientific body on global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — warn Mr Rudd "there is no time to lose", and call on him to slash Australia's emissions by at least 25% below 1990 levels by 2020.	29th September 2008
NASA data show Arctic saw fastest August sea ice retreat on record - PhysOrg Contributing to the near-record sea ice minimum in 2008 was a month-long period in the summer that saw the fastest-ever rate of seasonal retreat during that period. From August 1 to August 31, NASA data show that arctic sea ice extent declined at a rate of 32,700 square miles per day, compared to a rate of about 24,400 square miles per day in August 2007. Since measurements began, the arctic sea ice extent has declined at an average rate of 19,700 miles per day at the point when the extent reaches its annual minimum.	29th September 2008
Europe warms fast: Med drier, north ever wetter - Reuters Europe's mountains, coasts, the Mediterranean and the Arctic were most at risk from global warming, according to the report by the European Environment Agency and branches of the World Health Organization and the European Commission. "Global average temperature has increased almost 0.8 C (1.4 F) above pre-industrial levels, with even higher temperature increases in Europe and northern latitudes," it said. Europe had warmed by 1.0 C. Northern Europe would get wetter this century while more of Europe's Mediterranean region might turn to desert, based on trends already under way, it said. European heatwaves like in 2003, during which 70,000 people died, could be more frequent.	29th September 2008
Solar water heaters growing in power-hungry Burkina Faso - PhysOrg A solar panel lies on the roof of Pierre Guissou's home in Burkina Faso, feeding power to his water heater and allowing his family to take precious hot showers in a country where most homes lack electricity.	29th September 2008
VIETNAM: Heeding Climate Change Warnings HANOI, Sep 29 (IPS) - With a predicted sea level rise of one metre by 2100, Vietnam may end up being one of the nations worst hit by climate change. Such a rise would affect five percent of the land area, 11 percent of the population and seven percent of the agriculture.	29th September 2008
London firm unveils new software for mobile phones that can track transport and measure carbon footprint - Guardian Unlimited A London-based start-up company has developed software for mobile phones that uses global positioning satellites to work out an individual's mode of transport and calculate the journey's impact on the environment	29th September 2008
Inpex to Use Bacteria at Old Oil Wells to Produce Gas - Bloomberg Japanese researchers have developed a method of using bacteria found in depleted oil wells to turn leftover crude into natural gas, a technique that could help meet 10 percent of the country's demand for the fuel.	29th September 2008

How will the EU pay for demonstrating CO2 capture and storage? - Bellona Foundation A new report shows that CO2 capture and storage are on the verge of becoming commercially viable, but until that happens, solutions to pay for the first projects are needed. On October 7th, a proposal for such a solution is to be voted on in Brussels. See also: The burning question, is how to bring coal into the low-carbon age - Times Online Jonathan Leake looks at the scientists’ latest developments. 'Clean coal' is fiction, for now - Colorado Springs Gazette The coal industry is trying to restore a reputation tarnished by concerns over global warming and the environmental impacts of burning coal for power, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, with a campaign touting the benefits of "clean coal."	28th September 2008
Huge Nationwide Rallies Call for 'Green Jobs Now!' - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News With a reeling economy, soaring gas prices and rising fears of a global climate crisis, more than 100,000 people rallied at events across the country to urge leaders to jump start the clean energy economy. The events, "Green Jobs Now: A Day to Build the New Economy," urged policy makers to think beyond the short-sighted distraction of drilling and, instead, create real energy solutions that build a new green economy strong enough to create millions of green jobs and lift people out of poverty.	28th September 2008
Alternative energy key to stability - Business Standard India Countries, which have access to more sunshine and good wind speed, could become energy-rich. There's an opportunity here for India Inc. There are many ways to classify countries.	28th September 2008
Hard questions for NDP leaders Carole James and Jack Layton - Georgia Straight Canada: Harper has gone on the offensive against federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion's relatively benign carbon tax, which would be offset with income-tax cuts and other tax credits. Harper has benefited from the B.C. NDP's opposition to a carbon tax; the Conservatives are polling exceptionally well in this province. Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton has joined the chorus, saying he will never introduce a carbon tax, notwithstanding the threat of runaway global warming. One academic who has voted NDP his entire life told me recently, "I hate the NDP." Why? Because of the party's position on the carbon tax.	28th September 2008
May touts tax cuts as part of carbon plan - The Brockville Recorder and Times Canada: "A $50-a-tonne carbon tax is $35 billion in tax cuts," May told The Recorder and Times after being asked how the proposal can be sold to local voters already leery of climbing energy costs. "(It's) $35 billion worth of help to save students from student debt, to help elderly Canadians who are living on low income, $35 billion of investment in reduced payroll taxes, reduced income taxes (and) helping people who are suffering from high energy prices.	28th September 2008
Pickin' on the plan - Gristmill Pickens' natural gas plan makes no sense and will never happen.	28th September 2008
Today's Capitalism Has Run Its Course - Washington Post As the free market economy makes a free fall, all kinds of prescriptions will come to mind, including socialism. A Somali proverb says: "Nin buka boql u talisay" (a sick man gets 100 advisers). Socialist-minded gurus and those who feel left behind by capitalism's unprecedented generation of wealth may need to shout "gotcha," but one thing that could be unanimously agreed by at least uninitiated armchair observers like me is that capitalism in its current free reign and globalized fit for all structure has run its course. Just like we need and preach biodiversity in the field of ecology we need eco-diversity in the economic world.	27th September 2008
Fears surface over methane leaks - Nature Experts work to confirm source of gas bubbling from Arctic seabed.	27th September 2008
Donors pledge $6.1 billion to climate change funds - Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Industrialized countries pledged more than $6.1 billion on Friday to international investment funds aimed at helping developing countries adopt cleaner technologies and mitigate growth in greenhouse gas emissions, the World Bank said.	27th September 2008
Wind power dollars pour into west Texas economy - Reuters BLACKWELL, Texas (Reuters) - Millions of dollars in new tax revenue generated from the wind power boom sweeping rural west Texas have helped fund a rash of school building projects, the first signs of an expected economic revival.	27th September 2008
DEVELOPMENT: Food Security Hostage to Climate Trends - IPS UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - More than 50 African leaders meeting at the United Nations this week focused on strategies to overcome a myriad of interrelated problems -- food shortages, droughts, HIV/AIDS, an energy crisis, climate change and military conflicts -- on the troubled continent.	27th September 2008
'World Bank success exaggerated' - PRESS TV The World Bank has exaggerated successes from its lending to poor countries in 2007, according to an Individual Evaluation Group report. The World Bank also failed to address the big global challenges of climate change and communicable diseases, when these conflicted with the interests of the individual poor countries, the report said.	27th September 2008
Oliver Tickell: The UK needs to show commitment to renewable energy - Guardian Unlimited Oliver Tickell: The government has done so little to deliver on renewable energy that I doubt its good faith. But here is the remedy	27th September 2008
Ben Adler: Combating climate change requires a reduction in energy consumption - Guardian Unlimited Ben Adler: New energy sources are all the rage at the Clinton Global Initiative, but where are the calls to reduce consumption?	27th September 2008
Schwarzenegger To Convene Global Climate Summit - CBS 5 Bay Area Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to cast himself in a new role: an international leader on global warming. The Republican governor, who has become a national pitchman by challenging many members of his party on the issue, announced Friday he would convene a summit in California for his contemporaries from around the world.	27th September 2008
Size does matter - Toronto Sun Do you know about shrinkage? No, not the kind that happens in men's swimming trunks when it's cold, as we were taught in the classic Seinfeld moment. In a quick inventory of climate change's impacts on the environment, a recurring theme emerges in our lakes, forests, Arctic ice coverage, animals and even the global gross domestic product: Shrinkage.	27th September 2008
Carbon emissions soar, despite curbs - Reuters Emissions of the main greenhouse gas are rocketing - despite international efforts to slow them down, according to a study today. Read my colleague David Fogarty's worrying article about carbon dioxide emissions - China has definitely overtaken the United States as top emitter, India is catching up with third placed Russia. What's alarming is that the rate of growth of gases blamed for stoking global warming is quickening. And the fastest growth is in the developing world.   The Global Carbon Project said in its report carbon dioxide emissions by mankind are growing about four times faster since 2000 than during the 1990s, despite efforts by 37 rich nations to rein in emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.	26th September 2008
The American anti-intellectual threat - Mmegi NEW YORK - In recent years, the United States has been more a source of global instability than a source of global problem-solving.	26th September 2008
Bleak outlook for Europe's toads - BBC News More than half of Europe's amphibians could be extinct by 2050, due to climate change and disease, UK research warns. See also: In Pictures - Europe's amphibians at risk	26th September 2008
Forest fires 'pushing Lebanon toward desertification' - Daily Star - Lebanon Devastating fires caused by climate change are threatening forests in Lebanon, in turn accelerating the pace of global warming, an environmental activist has warned. "We are witnessing a rise in temperature which leads to the dryness of forest soil and pushes it toward desertification," Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine, director general of the Association for Forests, Development and Conservation (AFDC), a Lebanese NGO, told IRIN.	26th September 2008
Ten States With a Plan - New York Times Until Washington takes more responsibility for addressing global warming, the states should take the lead.	26th September 2008
ECONOMY: It Pays to Go Green - IPS UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - A new report shows how a greener economy could eradicate poverty by creating tens of millions of new jobs. But it will not happen solely through the market's "magic hand".	26th September 2008
Brazil unveils deforestation plan - BBC News Brazil sets out a plan to end net deforestation by 2015, but with no targets on emission cuts.	26th September 2008
Cynical New Democrats playing into Harper's hands - DeSmogBlog Canada's New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton continues to opt for cheap partisan opportunism over sound environmental policy - most recently decrying the British Columbia carbon tax as "unfair for ordinary working families" and tying it to Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper. There was a time when the NDP had real credibility as Canada's most environmentally conscious party - a position that they have given over, apparently in equal parts, to the Green party and to Stephane Dion's Liberals. Now, instead of standing up for a good policy , Layton and the New Democrats provincially and federally are trying to score cheap points against their perceived rivals, in the process, chipping away at public support for any substantive action on climate change.	26th September 2008
First U.S. greenhouse cap-and-trade market opens - Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ten states in the U.S. Northeast kicked off the country's first cap-and-trade market on greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, gaining accolades from environmentalists and many businesses but also eliciting concerns about how the states will spend the money the plan raises.	26th September 2008
Cabinet split on Kingsnorth power station - The Independent UK:  The Cabinet is split over whether to approve a controversial plan for a £1bn coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent which has become a key test of its green credentials.	26th September 2008
UK opposes green aviation target - BBC News The government wants the aviation industry to be exempt from EU targets on renewable energy	26th September 2008
Hundreds of methane 'plumes' discovered - Independent British scientists have discovered hundreds more methane "plumes" bubbling up from the Arctic seabed, in an area to the west of the Norwegian island of Svalbard. It is the second time in a week that scientists have reported methane emissions from the Arctic.	25th September 2008
Nuclear energy: assessing the emissions - Nature Nuclear energy: assessing the emissions Nature Reports: Climate Change(2008). doi:10.1038/climate.2008.99 Author: Kurt Kleiner Kurt Kleiner reports on whether nuclear power deserves its reputation as a low-carbon energy source.	25th September 2008
Climate scientist warns severe carbon cuts needed in shipping and aviation - Guardian Unlimited Carbon trading will not solve the problem of soaring emissions from the aviation and shipping industries, a new analysis shows. Future carbon cuts must be so severe, that both sectors will have to curtail future growth to tackle global warming, according to research presented at a climate change conference at Exeter University today.	25th September 2008
Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants - Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon.	25th September 2008
Sahara solar scheme could power poor West Africa - Reuters Nigeria ACCRA, Sept 24 (Reuters) - West African legislators worried by climate change and soaring energy costs want regional leaders to back plans to harness sun and wind energy that experts say could bring electricity to some of the poorest people on earth. NASA scientists have identified a site in the Sahara desert in northern Niger as the sunniest piece of land in the world. "We have the natural resource -- enough sunshine that can supply our total power requirements," Kwame Ampofo, an energy expert and a member of Ghana's parliament, told Reuters late on Tuesday after legislators from the region discussed the project.	25th September 2008
Blow to carmakers - BBC There's been a surprising defeat for European carmakers and their allies over the new plans to cut back greenhouse gases. A carefully stitched-together deal between the two big groupings of left and right in the European Parliament came apart at the seams, as Socialists worried about their green credentials voted against the party line in the environment committee.	25th September 2008
Strategic online eco-voters aim to thwart Tory win - CNews Canada:A website asking eco-voters to unite and vote strategically against the Tories has become the latest online weapon trying to thwart a Conservative victory.	25th September 2008
Portugal embraces wave power - BBC Can Portugal's pioneer help wave power to float?	25th September 2008
UN launches program to cut deforestation emissions - Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations launched a program on Wednesday that it hopes could be the foundation for a system in which rich countries would pay poor ones to slow climate change by protecting and planting forests. The new program, called Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Program, or UN-REDD, will assist nine developing countries, including Bolivia, Indonesia and Zambia, in establishing systems to monitor, assess and report forest cover. See also: Old-growth forests soak up CO2 - The Christian Science Monitor	25th September 2008
Toward a Movement for Peace and Climate Justice - Toward Freedom Global warming can represent a future of deprivation and scarcity for all but the world’s wealthiest, or this global emergency can compel us to imagine a radically transformed society—both in the North and the South—where communities of people are newly empowered to remake their own future. The crisis can drive us to break free from a predatory global economy that fabulously enriches the top tenth of one percent, while leaving the rest of us scrambling after the crumbs. The reality is too urgent, and the outlook far too bleak, to settle for status-quo false solutions that only appear to be addressing the urgency of global climate disruption. We can embrace the reconstructive potential of a radically ecological social and political vision, prevent catastrophe, and begin to make our way toward a fundamentally different kind of future. In practical terms, real solutions to global warming, as Van Jones of San Francisco’s Ella Baker Center, points out, are far more likely to benefit our inner cities and put millions of people to work installing decentralized, energy-saving technologies. In the longer term, Al Gore is correct when he emphasizes that political will is the main obstacle to addressing global warming, but we also need to be able to look beyond the status-quo and be willing to struggle for a radically different kind of world.	25th September 2008
Environment Agency calls for carbon-capture on all new coal power stations - Guardian Unlimited The Environment Agency has told the government that all new power stations must be built with the CO2-capturing technology	25th September 2008
Bush speech to U.N.: “terror” 32, “climate” 0 - Reuters U.S. President George W. Bush upset some delegates by failing to mention “climate change” or “global warming” in his final speech to the United Nations - in which he referred to terrorism 32 times. Exactly a year ago, the United Nations held a special summit about climate change – U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calls fighting global warming his “signature issue” and many governments see it as the biggest long-term challenge. Bush clearly has a lot to worry about such as the global financial crisis, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and how to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.	25th September 2008
Ben Caldecott: It needn't cost the earth - Guardian Unlimited Ben Caldecott: At the moment it's too difficult to live the green life. Obstacles should be removed and green choices made cheaper and easier	25th September 2008
Police offered £3.2m over protest - BBC News The government offers to pay half the £6m cost of the police operation at the Climate Camp near Kingsnorth Power Station. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by BBC South East revealed on Tuesday that nearly £5.9m was spent on officers, accommodation, air support and planning.	25th September 2008
Acidifying oceans are brewing up an underwater din - New Scientist As carbon emissions drive chemical changes in the oceans, noise pollution beneath the waves will become more of a problem	25th September 2008
Vegetarian Shift Seen Helping Climate, Not Poor - Planet Ark OSLO - Eating less meat can help rich nations to combat global warming but may not work for poor countries where people depend on livestock for survival, a leading expert said on Wednesday.	25th September 2008
Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice shrinks - CNN.com Summer is over in the northern hemisphere, but it's been another chilling season for researchers who study Arctic sea ice.	24th September 2008
Western states pitch plan to reduce greenhouse emissions - Los Angeles Times Four Canadian provinces are also included in the initiative, which aims to cut regional emissions by 15% below 2005 levels. Seven Western states and four Canadian provinces proposed a sweeping plan to crack down on global warming emissions today, across a region that represents 20% of the U.S. economy and 73% of Canada's economy.	24th September 2008
The accelerating race to get oil and natural gas from the Arctic - International Herald Tribune Oil executives say areas of the Arctic like the Barents Sea could provide a new way for them to increase their reserves, but environmentalists say the delicate Arctic environment has been made even more vulnerable in recent years.	24th September 2008
Companies must lead climate change fight: consumers - Reuters Most consumers want companies to do more to protect the environment and reckon that firms should play a leading role in fighting global warming, a worldwide survey showed Tuesday.	24th September 2008
Scientists Get Wind of Why Coasts Cool as the Globe Warms - Scientific American A group of northern California scientists have found a new bend in the Gordian knot of global warming: coastal cooling. [More]	24th September 2008
Bill Chameides: Is It Too Late to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change? - HuffingtonPost Scientists call it DAI -- "dangerous anthropogenic interference" with the climate system. The United States along with 191 other countries pledged to prevent DAI in 1994. However, little has happened to address the problem since, and now some scientists think it may be too late. The critical question is: How long do temperatures have to be above the 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit threshold before the loss of the Greenland ice sheet becomes unstoppable? Is it more or less than 70 years? We don't know. So maybe we still have time and maybe we don't. But even if we can't save the Greenland ice sheet, there's still the Amazon rain forest, and the Antarctic ice sheet and on and on and on. So my vote, if anyone's asking, is that we get started on cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions right away.	24th September 2008
EU lawmakers set to halt carbon curbs BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers are set to slam the brakes on plans to curb carbon dioxide emissions from cars, easing the burden on the auto industry in the fight against climate change, documents circulated on Tuesday showed.	24th September 2008
Make or break for planet earth - Daily Mirror Life in the planet depends on the immediate implementation of measures to combat global warming.	24th September 2008
Environment chief lied to Congress: Sen. Boxer - Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lied to Congress about his rejection of a request from California meant to curb global warming emissions, Sen.	24th September 2008
Powering Our Automotive Future with--Pond Scum - Scientific American Corn—or the cellulose in everything from wood chips to crop stalks—are often touted as the basis of the fuel of the future. But Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates is betting that algae will provide the answer to our future fuel needs. He's so sure, in fact, that last week he joined the Rockefeller family and London-based Wellcome Trust to invest $100 million in a California start-up devoted to churning out biofuel from this tiny primitive plant.	24th September 2008
Flooding might help lower gas emission from wetlands River floods and storms that send water surging through swamps and marshes near rivers and coastal areas might cut in half the average greenhouse gas emissions from those affected wetlands, according to recent research at Ohio State University.	24th September 2008
Methane release off Siberian coast prompts concern over runaway climate change - Guardian Unlimited Scientists claim to have discovered evidence for large releases of methane into the atmosphere from frozen stores off the northern coast of Siberia	23rd September 2008
Greenland's ice cap melting faster than expected: experts - PhysOrg Greenland's ice cap, which covers more than 80 percent of the island, is melting faster than expected because of global warming, a Danish researcher said on Monday. See also: Greenland: roar of melting glacier sounds climate change alarm - Space Daily	23rd September 2008
Planet in debt at earliest day ever - Metro The world slides into 'ecological debt' today, having used up all the natural resources the planet can provide this year, according to the New Economics Foundation. The think-tank said humans were using up resources such as forests and fisheries faster than they can be regenerated and producing more waste, mainly carbon dioxide, than the planet can absorb.	23rd September 2008
Birds decline seen sign of biodiversity crisis - Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many of the world's most common birds suffered steep population drops over recent decades, a sign of a deteriorating global environment and a biodiversity crisis, BirdLife International said on Monday.	23rd September 2008
Climate sceptics have 'heads in sand' - Guardian Unlimited Met office says average temperatures have continued their rising trend over the last decade See also: Green growth is the path to economic recovery - Guardian Unlimited	23rd September 2008
Crisis must be turned to green benefit, scientist says - Guardian Unlimited Governments must show same boldness to move to a low-carbon economy as demonstrated when helping banks	23rd September 2008
Elevator Pitch: Click4Carbon wants your search clicks - Guardian Unlimited Click4Carbon wants to convince us to use their search service over Google's home page. The advantage? Click4Carbon uses Google's search technology but every search donates a small amount ot carbon offsetting projects, as well as green news.	23rd September 2008
Burying CO2 could pay for itself by 2030: report - Reuters BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Trapping and burying carbon dioxide from power plants could become viable without public funding by 2030, helping nations reduce their dependence on energy imports and meet climate goals, a report said on Monday.	23rd September 2008
Damage from hurricane Ike could affect coastal ecosystem of Texas for years - Guardian Unlimited Texas coast could change dramatically in a future with higher sea levels from global warming See also: CARIBBEAN: The Stormy Face of Climate Change - IPS	23rd September 2008
Modest CO2 cutbacks may be too little, too late for coral reefs - EurekAlert! Ocean acidification could devastate coral reefs and other marine ecosystems even if atmospheric carbon dioxide stabilizes at 450 ppm, a level well below that of many climate change forecasts, report chemical oceanographers Long Cao and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The researchers' conclusions are based on computer simulations of ocean chemistry stabilized at atmospheric CO2 levels ranging from 280 parts per million (pre-industrial levels) to 2000 ppm. Present levels are 380 ppm and rapidly rising due to accelerating emissions from human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels.	23rd September 2008
“Resistance is the only way” - International Viewpoint European Social Forum: Michael Löwy speaks on climate change. "Today’s governments are simply incapable of preventing the suicide which capitalism is paving the way for. However, this is not due to lack of collective will on behalf of the ruling class or lack of understanding. Rather it is because the capitalist system does not allow limitations. That makes ecological and social adaptation impossible."	23rd September 2008
We Can't Afford McCain and Palin's Anti-Science Beliefs - AlterNet Their combined anti-science positions may be devastating for the economy, the environment and our health.	23rd September 2008
Turbulent weather ahead for southern US - New Scientist Turbulent weather ahead for southern USNew Scientist (subscription), UK. Climate Change – Want to know more about global warming: the science, impacts and political debate? Visit our continually updated special report.	23rd September 2008
The climate crisis: Five parties, no solutions - Rabble.ca Canada: For the environment, there's good news and bad news in Canada's current federal election campaign. Good news: for the first time ever, climate change is a central issue in the political debates. Bad news: despite much sound and fury, none of the major political parties is proposing effective measures for dealing with the climate change crisis.	23rd September 2008
A new climate tax for the US? - Bellona Foundation EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and Bellona President Frederic Hauge met in a debate in Oslo Thursday to discuss the central question as to whether the the United States and other countries should be punished with a carbon border tax if they don't sign on to a new climate deal at next year's climate conference in Copenhagen.	22nd September 2008
Acid ocean warning - Adelaide Now THE acidification of the world's oceans is the "gorilla in the cupboard" which could lead to "a marine Armageddon", two science writers claimed yesterday.	22nd September 2008
Bringing Oceans to a Boil - RedOrbit Scientists have known for a long time that the ocean plays a huge role in climate. Covering 70% of the globe, it stores 1,000 times more heat than the atmosphere, but often overlooked in the public debate on climate change is the ocean's synergistic role-how it responds to the growing amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.	22nd September 2008
U.S. conservation win – in Canada - The Christian Science Monitor Forestland half the size of Texas is being saved to help thwart climate change.	22nd September 2008
U.S. companies see climate risk, but lack plan NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. companies judge climate change a risk to their business, but lag global companies in setting targets to cut emissions, according to a global survey.	22nd September 2008
Can rubber ducks help track a melting glacier? WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To help figure out what's happening inside the fastest-moving Greenland glacier, a U.S. rocket scientist sent 90 rubber ducks into the ice, hoping someone finds them if they emerge in Baffin Bay.	22nd September 2008
Economic Slowdown Won't Ease Carbon Emissions - Planet Ark LONDON - Tumbling factory output following an economic slowdown will not be enough to curb rising industrial carbon emissions in Europe, analysts said on Friday.	22nd September 2008
Voters storm Rudd's office - The Courier Mail UP to 20 constituents from Kevin Rudd's Griffith electorate have packed his electorate office in Brisbane's Morningside to demand a meeting on climate change.	22nd September 2008

You Can Change The World - Newsweek From Bill Clinton to Oprah Winfrey, advice on how to make a difference, from improving health and education to bringing peace and justice.	21st September 2008
Einstein fridge design can help global cooling - Guardian Unlimited Scientists relaunch a 1930 invention that uses no electricity and would reduce greenhouse gases.	21st September 2008
Dividing the developing countries will spell disaster for Copenhagen and future climate negotiations - Down to Earth Yu Qingtai, Ambassador and Special Representative, Climate Change Talks, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China talks to Pradip Saha about developing country imperatives in climate talks in face of increasing pressure from developed countries to increase commitments	21st September 2008
Greens in climate bill pie claim - BBC News A party conference is told the climate bill's exclusion of aviation emissions is like "a diet plan with an opt-out for pies".	21st September 2008
Dems blow it: McCain allies kill Gang of 20 USA: Senate Dems falter on energy compromise bill	21st September 2008
Andrew Simms: Tackling the 'triple crunch' with a green new deal - Guardian Unlimited Andrew Simms: The financial crisis, climate change and soaring energy prices can only be tackled by shift to policies based on green principles	20th September 2008
Van Jones: We Can't Drill Our Way Out of Our Energy Problems - Alternet In an electrifying speech, Van Jones explains that we have to invent and invest our way out of the economic and environmental crises.	20th September 2008