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  Gulf Coast Faces $350 Billion Threat

  Andy Rowell

  Oct22

  It’s a region that has seen its fair share of disasters in recent years. Hurricane Katrina. The BP oil spill to name the big two. But the Gulf Coast cumulative losses of $350 billion by 2030 if it fails to address climate change, according to a new $4 million study. And the warning comes not…
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  Are We Heading for An Arctic Oil War?

  Andy Rowell

  Oct12

  The next resource war may happen not in the Middle East, but in the Arctic. That is the view of the one of NATO’s most senior commanders, Admiral James Stavridis, the supreme allied commander for Europe. The Admiral’s argument is that as the ice melts because of climate change, the race for resources could lead…
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• A Message from the Warmists…

  Andy Rowell

  Jan14

  As a writer what I find interesting is the corruption of the language and the evidence by the sceptics. Yesterday I posted a blog that was based on Rolling Stone’s list of the people they believe are doing to the most to undermine the international and US domestic effort on climate change. Obviously the post…
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• 10% of Population Will be Affected by Sea-Level Rise

  Andy Rowell

  Dec01

  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…
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• “We’re at the top end of the IPCC scenario”

  Andy Rowell

  Nov18

  Whilst most people are trying to keep rising temperatures to 2°, the bad news is that we are on course for the worst case climate change scenario of massive 6° by the end of the Century. Such a rise – which would be much higher nearer the poles – would be totally and utterly catastrophic…
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• Brown: “For the planet there is no Plan B”

  Andy Rowell

  Oct19

  Gordon Brown may be a dead-man walking when it comes to domestic politics in the UK. But the old man still believes he can pack a punch on the international scene, whether it be the financial or climate crisis. Addressing the Major Economies Forum in London today, he used most undiplomatic language in predicting that…
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• Expect Catastrophic Warming in Your Life-Time …

  Andy Rowell

  Sep28

  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…
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• Copenhagen: Climate Change to Cost $300 Billion/Yr

  Andy Rowell

  Aug28

  101 days to go until the biggest climate jamboree ever seen. The UN Copenhagen climate conference will be a defining moment in how humanity responds to the issue. World leaders can either finally grasp the nettle by agreeing drastic cuts in CO2 levels, and getting out their check book to pay for it.

• Africa to Demand Billions in Climate Compensation

  Andy Rowell

  Aug26

  It’s your mess – now you pay for it. That’s the message from African leaders to Western countries as they mull over a proposal to demand tens of billions of dollars in compensation – one figure muted is $67 billion a year – from developed countries for the effects of climate change. African Ministers have…
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• The Nile Delta: “We are going underwater”

  Andy Rowell

  Aug21

  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…
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