Only a week to go and the climate sceptics seem to be popping up everywhere, trying to undermine the Copenhagen conference.
But what they can’t stop is the damning new credible scientific evidence that is being produced. One such study is from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
The SCAR study was undertaken by 100 of [...]

A 4 C rise and counting. By 2060.
That is the message from the UK Met Office in a study prepared for the British Government. Unless there is a radical action on carbon emissions, a catastrophic four degree rise in centigrade (7.2 F) could happen in many people’s live-times.
That is five decades before most people thought [...]

I am used to writing about the problems of oil and the Niger Delta with its vortex of violence and vulnerability to climate change.
But what about another equally important Delta of Africa: the Nile, arguably once the world’s most famous river.
It too is beginning to suffer from the creeping consequences of our changing climate and [...]

Australia has been accused of watering down demands for radical action at the Pacific Islands States conference, that has just finished in Cairns, Australia.
At the start of the conference the Pacific Island states were demanding a 45 per cent cut by 2020 and 85 per cent by 2050.

Does anyone remember the song written by the pop group, Latin Quarter, called “Radio Africa”, written in the mid-eighties whose repeated starting line was “I am hearing only bad news on Radio Africa”?
That song came back to my mind reading the reports from the climate conference in Copenhagen. I am hearing only bad news from [...]