There has been a great deal of sheer nonsense put about in the so called debate on man made climate change. The first question is whether there has been climate change or not. It perhaps does not really matter how that question is framed because climate change is not simply a matter [...]
The environment and climate patterns have long been topics of conversation and discussion. From the cordial greeting to more serious research there has been a long tradition of viewing the environment as something fixed or unchangeable all part of what is often called mother nature. Since we all live iin the same [...]
An activist of British charity Oxfam pretends to eat a piece of coal as a protest aimed at 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) on December 9, 2011 in Durban. Photograph: Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images 3.00pm: The latest take from WWF in Durban is that government leaders are still not seeing the big picture. The climate [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – Talks to limit global temperature rises to 2C will not prevent the possibility of dangerous climate change, warns the scientist who first raised the alarm over global warming. James Hansen, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said there was a widespread misconception among international climate [...]
Representatives from 194 nations attended the UN climate conference aimed at combating climate change [EPA] Representatives at a UN climate conference are edging towards an agreement to create a Green Climate Fund (GCF), which will help poor nations tackle global warming and allow them to effectively contribute to a new global effort to fight climate change. “I have [...]
Photo Credit: AFP/Frederic J. Brown This, finally, is The Big One — the coming together of all of us who care about the future and do not want to gamble it away. November 2, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the [...]
Image by david_shankbone via Flickr #Occupy and the #Climate Movement How are the #occupy movement and climate change connected? Fossil fuels enable the current economic system to continue because it is global and requires a lot of fossil fuels for production and transportation. Multi-national corporations won’t do well if we stop burning fossil fuels. Failure [...]
AMY GOODMAN: We move to another issue around climate. A newstudy has found that war is associated with global climate. According to the report, there are links between the climate phenomenon El Niño and outbreaks of violence in countries from southern Sudan to Indonesia and Peru. In fact, the scientists find that El Niño, which brings [...]
Australian sea levels to rise by three feet unless climate change is halted Sea levels will rise by more than three feet by the end of the century making severe coastal flooding a common factor of life in Australia if urgent action is not taken to limit climate change, a key report by a panel [...]
