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 … Read More
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10% of Population Will be Affected by Sea-Level Rise
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 … Read More
“We’re at the top end of the IPCC scenario”
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 … Read More
Brown: “For the planet there is no Plan B”
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 … Read More
Expect Catastrophic Warming in Your Life-Time …
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 … Read More
Copenhagen: Climate Change to Cost $300 Billion/Yr
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
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 … Read More
The Nile Delta: “We are going underwater”
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 … Read More
Copenhagen: Australia Accused of Selling-out Pacific Islands
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.
California: Words of Wisdom or Just Words on Paper?
The pictures in the report tell a graphic story – they show the historical temperature rise in California from 1961 to 1990, and then give future projected rise from 2035 to 2099. Progressively the state gets redder and redder, especially in the South East corner and middle. It’s going to get hot.