Given the news from the UN this morning (see next blog, Humanity’s Survival at Risk), its interesting that Reuters are reporting the results of its Smaller Companies Forum that concluded that rising oil prices are a bigger threat to the world economy than climate change in the next 10 years. This said, the corporate execs … Read More
Climate Change
Kyoto Protocol is “Outdated Failure”
The international effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions – as currently enshrined in the Kyoto Protocol – is a miserable “failure” that needs to be replaced, according to a study in the journal Nature. “The Kyoto protocol… as an instrument for achieving emissions reductions, has failed,” it says. “It has produced no demonstrable reductions in … Read More
No War No Warming!
As part of the “No War No Warming” demonstration 68 protesters were arrested yesterday in Washington, after they blocked Capitol Hill employees from arriving to work. “The link between war and warming is oil” said Steve Kretzmann of Oil Change International. “The oil industry gave $10 million in campaign contributions to this Congress. Perhaps this … Read More
CO2 Rising Much Faster Than Forecast
New scientific research warns that climate change will be “stronger than expected and sooner than expected”, after a new analysis showed carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere much faster than predicted. The new study, published in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), says three processes have contributed to this … Read More
Fight Climate Change, Not Wars for Oil!
Anyone in DC today, please get involved in the No War No Warming day of direct action to protest against war and global warming. The purpose of today’s action is simple. It is to hold Congress accountable by taking over Capitol Hill on a day that Congress is in session. The idea of the day … Read More
Oceans Are Soaking up Less CO2
The amount of carbon dioxide being absorbed by the world’s oceans has reduced, according to a new scientific study. University of East Anglia researchers gauged CO2 absorption through more than 90,000 measurements from merchant ships equipped with automatic instruments. Results of their 10-year study in the North Atlantic show CO2 uptake halved between the mid-90s … Read More
Climate Change Will Disrupt US Oil Production
A new US government report has concluded that climate change may produce stronger hurricanes that could disrupt U.S. oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and damage ports and pipelines along the coast that move fuel supplies. The report from a team of climate change experts and scientists at seven Energy Department laboratories is the … Read More
A “Warm Wind’ in the Arctic
The Arctic is being hit by melting ice, hotter air and dying wildlife, according to a US government report on the impact of climate change there. A new wind circulation pattern is blowing more warm air towards the North Pole than in the 20th Century, scientists found. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) … Read More
Climate Sceptics to Send Own Film to British Schools
The fall-out from Al Gore’s winning of the Nobel peace Prize and the High Court Decision continues in the UK. It has emerged that climate skeptics are going to send copies of the controversial and factually-incorrect film The Great Global Warming Swindle, to all secondary schools. The main figure behind the move is Viscount Monckton, … Read More
BBC Messes Up Again On Gore Story
The BBC is making a real hash of the Al Gore story. Today on Radio Four’s flagship lunch-time news programme, it invited Martin Livermore from the Scientific Alliance, to give an interview on Gore winning the Nobel Prize. As we have blogged on the site, the Scientific Alliance was set up by Scottish quarryman Robert … Read More