Blair may be saying that a deal on climate could be in the pipeline, but every day our politicians dither, the science gets stronger. No more so than the latest report from 2000 of the world’s leading climate scientists, who argue that the effects of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide are being felt now on … Read More
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Surge in Carbon Levels Raises Fear of Runaway Warming
Every day the news about climate change seems to get more and more depressing and worrying. Take today’s news. According to a report in The Guardian, carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere much faster than scientists expected, raising fears that we may have less time to tackle climate change than previously thought.
Five Minutes to Midnight
The clock is ticking. Yesterday the “Doomsday Clock”, devised by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947 at the dawn of the nuclear age, was moved forward from its present seven minutes to midnight, where it has stood since 2002, to five minutes to the Domesday hour. The scientists have decided to move … Read More
Climate Change Breeds Confused Salmon
Even the rich and famous are beginning to take notice of climate change. First their skiing holiday has been delayed because there is no snow and now their fishing holiday because the fish are confused. For over 150 years, the start of Scotland’s salmon fishing season on the River Tay has been celebrated in the … Read More
Britain Will be “Tropical” by 2100
Something of a climate change feel to the blog today. Britain’s “green and pleasant land” will be almost unrecognisable by 2100, with extremely hot summers, monsoon-style winter rains and flooding, plus the destruction of much of the nation’s ecosystems and wildlife. These are the results of the largest climate experiment that began a year ago … Read More
Climate Change Will Devastate EU
Europe will be devastated by climate change, the European Union predicts today. The ecosystems that have underpinned societies from Ancient Greece and Rome to present-day Britain and France, will be disabled by remorselessly rising temperatures, EU scientists forecast in a remarkable report which, the Independent calls “as ominous as it is detailed”.
China Worries About Climate Change
A report by six government departments in China has warned that climate change would harm the country’s economy and environment in the coming decades, with potentially devastating cuts in agricultural output.
“We Will End up With a Different Planet”
Happy New Year 3. One of the world’s leading experts on climate change has warned that the Earth is being turned into a “different planet” because of the continuing increase in man-made emissions of greenhouse gases. In an interview with The Independent newspaper, Jim Hansen, who was one of the first scientists to warn of … Read More
2007 Will Be Hottest Year Ever
Happy New Year 1. A combination of climate change and the El Niño is set to make 2007 the warmest year on record, one of Britain’s leading climate experts has warned. The warning comes from Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The forecast for the next … Read More
Canadian Ice Shelf sets sail
Scientists studying satellite imagery from the Canadian Arctic have just discovered that the Ayles Ice Shelf broke free of Ellesmere Island sixteen months ago. In an AP story running widely this morning, Warwick Vincent of Laval University said: “This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the … Read More