20 November, 2009
We Are Running Out Of Time
To Save Humanity And The Biosphere
By Dr Gideon PolyaHumanity and the Biosphere (the ecosystems and species of the Planet) are acutely threatened by man-made global warming. However ignorant or corporate-funded climate denialism, the effective climate denialism of insufficiently responsive First World politicians and the growing enormity of what needs to be done lead scientists to say that it is probably too late to stop a climate catastrophe
19 November, 2009
End Times In Copenhagen
By Joel KovelThese meetings will be a turning point. The question remains as to the direction taken, whether toward eco-catastrophe or hope for life. But we should do our best to non-violently impede the meetings so long as they serve capital. We can build a “movement of movements” from below, harbingers of a transformed world: a movement to reveal the murderous betrayal of life by the capitalist class, and centered around the principle of keeping the sources of carbon in the ground as we build ecologically socialist ways of production
18 November, 2009
World Heads For 6° Rise
By Steve Connor & Michael McCarthyThe world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said yesterday. Such a rise – which would be much higher nearer the poles – would have cataclysmic and irreversible consequences for the Earth, making large parts of the planet uninhabitable and threatening the basis of human civilisation
Climate Change: Do Something Ourselves
By Marianne de NazarethWhile the politicians of the world play politics with taking hard nosed decisions about caps and GHG emissions of their respective countries, let each one of us decide to do something to help our planet which is in trouble. It’s about time we made initiatives on our own, instead of waiting for the men at the top to stop playing around with our lives
17 November, 2009
Climate Rage
By Naomi KleinThe only way to stop global warming is for rich nations to pay for the damage they've done - or face the consequences
Obama Has Failed The World On Climate Change
By Christian SchwägerlA world of flooded coasts, dried-up rivers and disappearing rainforests will lead to massive refugee movements and conflict. The Nobel Committee should postpone the award of the Nobel Peace Prize from Dec. 10 to Dec. 20. Only if Obama has achieved a convincing deal at the Copenhagen conference will there be a real reason to honor him
Australia Sabotages Copenhagen By Excluding
Huge Agriculture GHG Emissions
By Dr Gideon PolyaHaving already helped the US sabotage the 2007 Bali Climate Change Conference and the 2008 Poznan Climate Change Conference, US lackey, climate criminal and war criminal Australia has now also effectively sabotaged the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference a few weeks before it has even begun
13 November, 2009
Greenland Ice Loss 'Accelerating'
By Richard BlackThe Greenland ice sheet is losing its mass faster than in previous years and making an increasing contribution to sea level rise, a study has confirmed
11 November, 2009
The Choice Ahead: Entrenched
Fossil Fuel Dependence
Or Climate Change Management
By Emily SpenceHumanity needs to proactively come together to deal with climate change mitigation rather than remain separated along nationalistic lines to contentiously vie for control over the world's remaining fossil fuels. The rationale behind such a course of action is clear. Time is running out in terms of our surpassing climate change tipping points that would drastically alter life across the entire Earth for many centuries to come
The Links Between Food Security
And Climate Change
By Kanayo F. NwanzeRecent reports indicate that the rains have failed once again across vast swathes of Eastern Africa, putting millions of people at risk. This current regional crisis is a stark reminder to all of us that the global food security crisis of 2007 and 2008, which was marked by a sharp contraction in food supplies and food price spikes, is far from over
10 November, 2009
Himalayan Blunder: The Perils Of
Denying Glacier Melting
By Devinder SharmaJairam Ramesh, India's environment minister released on Monday a paper entitled Himalayan Glaciers by V K Raina, a former deputy director general of the Geological Survey of India. The paper says that there is no conclusive evidence to prove that Himalayan glaciers are melting due to climate change
Pachauri Slams India's Glaciers Report
By Randeep RameshIPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri accuses Indian environment ministry of 'arrogance' for its report claiming there is no evidence that climate change has shrunk Himalayan glaciers
09 November, 2009
Climate Change Realism And Hope -
A Path To Success At Copenhagen
By Bill HendersonCopenhagen is looking increasingly like failure to agree upon a world saving but presently impossible global plan for action on climate change. After getting your agreement on why Copenhagen is a crucial last chance and who or what is to blame for impending failure, I'll show you a possible path to global awakening just in time for the final meeting in December
08 November, 2009
Dark Clouds Gathering Over Copenhagen
By Sanjay SuriIt has been a bad week for the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. During the week the last meeting in the formal round of pre- Copenhagen talks collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 finance ministers put the seal on that failure by failing to agree a financial package
We Cannot Fight Climate With Consumerism
By George MonbiotSmall actions allow people to overlook the bigger ones and still claim they are being environmentally responsible
06 November, 2009
Climate Treaty Talks May Go On For Another Year
By Michael von BülowA global treaty to protect the world’s climate may need a whole extra year of negotiations, the United Nations’ top climate-change official, Yvo de Boer (photo above), said in an interview Thursday
04 November, 2009
We Only Have Months, Not Years, To Save
Civilization From Climate Change
By Lester BrownInternational agreements take too long, we need a swift mobilisation not seen since the second world war
03 November, 2009
Climate Change Will Melt Snows Of Kilimanjaro
'Within 20 Years'
By Steve ConnorThe snows of Mount Kilimanjaro – the highest mountain in Africa – may soon be falling on bare ground following a study showing that its ice cap is destined to disappear entirely within 20 years, due largely to climate change
Africans Boycott Meetings At UN Climate Talks
By Michael von BülowAfrican countries boycotted meetings at UN climate talks Tuesday, saying that industrial countries had set carbon-cutting targets too low for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions
Climate Change Deniers Are Not Skeptics -
They're Suckers
By George MonbiotMy fiercest opponents on global warming tend to be in their 60s and 70s. This offers a fascinating, if chilling, insight into human psychology
Our Common But Differentiated Responsibilities
By Kuupik KleistKuupik Kleist , the Prime Minister of Greenland, explains the vision and strategies adopted by his country to tackle climate change
East Or West, Earth Is Best
By Abdul BasitLet the materialistic west and the spiritualistic east blend together to build a balanced and sustainable global community that will safeguard the environment along with ensuring equitable distribution of wealth
02 November, 2009
The Lungs Of The Earth
By Andrew GliksonThe recent warning by Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact: “We are simply talking about the very life support system of this planet” is consistent with the lessons arising from the history of the Earth’s atmosphere/ocean system. A rise of CO2-e above 500 ppm and of mean global temperature toward and above 4 degrees C would transcend the conditions which allowed the development of agriculture in the early Neolithic
30 October, 2009
Climate Change: Set That 110 Limit
By Julio GodoyEvery single person should set a cap of a total of 110 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over the next four decades to avoid irreversible and uncontrollable consequences of climate change, under a new proposal
29 October, 2009
Climate Change Is A Feminist Issue
By Mary FitzgeraldGranting women control over their own reproduction would combat overpopulation and reduce carbon emissions
Climbing A 'Dead' Glacier
By Franz ChávezThe rapid disappearance of glaciers and the subsequent exhaustion of water sources are pushing indigenous communities in the Bolivian highlands even further into poverty
27 October, 2009
The World At 4C By 2060
By John JamesLondon Science Museum unveils climate change map showing impact of 4C rise
22 October, 2009
350 PPM CO2: The Uppere Limit Of
Human Habitats
By Andrew GliksonThe rise of atmospheric CO2 above 350 PPM at the current rate of about 2 PPM/year is transcending the conditions that allowed the development of human agriculture and civlization from about 8000 years ago
21 October, 2009
What To Expect In Copenhagen
By Michael McCarthyThe rich countries have to make clear commitments to cut their own CO2 significantly by 2020, and will have to agree massive financial help – billions and billions of dollars – for the poorer nations to continue their growth in a low-carbon way. For their part, the developing nations will have to agree some sort of numerical targets to cut their own CO2
Abandoning A Dream
By Guy R McPhersonIt appears the good times won't last long. Not only did the boomers destroy the living planet for other cultures and species, but we turned the dynamite on ourselves. Soon enough, the jig is up for Homo sapiens
20 October, 2009
Baffin Island Reveals Dramatic Scale Of
Arctic Climate Change
By Steve ConnorStudy delves back into 200,000 years of history to demonstrate the devastating impact of global warming
East Timor: Seasonal Changes Cause For Alarm
By Matt CrookIf you order a beer, sit back and relax at one of the expat bars dotted along the coastal Pantai Kelapa road in this capital, you cannot help but notice the view: the stony beach, the swimming children and the grounded fishing boats. But that view is morphing — a visible sign of how climate change could be affecting East Timor
Forests: Crucial And Vital Role To
Combat Climate Change
By Marianne de NazarethTropical forests cover about 15 percent of the world’s land surface and contain about 25 percent of the carbon in the terrestrial biosphere. But they are being rapidly degraded and deforested like the Indian Ghats, which results in the emission of heat and trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Roughly 13 million hectares, an area the size of Nicaragua is deforested and converted into other land use every year in the world
19 October, 2009
Global Warming Accelerating
While The U.S. Backpedals
By Shamus CookeThe industrial basis for an alternative energy superstructure needs to be created. Only by doing this can we seriously address the needs of the planet. Transforming our giant auto plants — many laying idle — into producers of solar panels, windmills, electricity–producing buoy’s, high-speed trains, electric busses and cars, etc., while massively investing in new research and technology to deal with climate change, is the only realistic way to drastically change direction in the time allotted
16 October, 2009
Most Arctic Sea Ice 'Gone In Decade'
By Tom LoweThe Arctic Ocean will be an "open sea" almost entirely free from ice within a decade
Carbon Emissions Must Peak By 2015:
UN Climate Scientist
By Agence France-PresseRajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , on Thursday urged a key conference on global warming to set tough mid-term goals and warned carbon emissions had to peak by 2015 to meet a widely-shared vision
14 October, 2009
Adopt A Negotiator By The Youth Of The World
By Marianne de NazarethIn the halls of the imposing building of the UN in Bangkok the negotiations are lack luster and gloomy. The chasm between the developing and developed world seems to be deepening regarding coming to a common agreement and the journalists in the media room do not have very happy stories to tell. But, there is a team of youthful ‘trackers’ from all over the world who are from the Adopt-a-Negotiator group, who are busy running around the meeting, “lifting the veil and shining light on this diplomatic process.”
13 October, 2009
Climate Change, Poverty And ‘Natural’ Disasters
By Ben CourticePeople in the Philippines are struggling to rebuild after Typhoon Ketsana caused widespread flooding and landslides
Let’s Call The Bluff On Carbon Capture And Storage
By Marianne de NazarethThe world is reeling under a climate crisis that requires urgent action. If current plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in coal plants are realised, CO2 emissions from coal will have risen by 60%, by 2030. Concerns about the feasibility, costs, safety, and liability of Carbon Capture and Storage make it a dangerous gamble
10 October, 2009
Four Degrees Of Devastation
By Stephen LeahyThe prospect of a four-degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures in 50 years is alarming - but not alarmist, climate scientists now believe
09 October, 2009
G8 States Could Face Class Actions
On Climate Change
By Frank MacDonaldThe US and other G8 countries could face class actions on behalf of people in the developing world if they fail to take convincing steps to cut the emissions blamed for causing climate change, a Filipino environmental lawyer has warned
Climate Change: Hollow Rhetoric
By Marianne de NazarethAt Bangkok one sees that the youth have decided to be more forceful in pushing for a deal which is more transparent and equitable. A declaration of “No Confidence in the Road to Copenhagen” was announced today by the International Youth Delegation attending the UN climate change talks
08 October, 2009
Climate Change: A Lack Of Urgency In Bangkok?
By Marianne de NazarethHow much more death and devastation does the world need to sit up and realise that the catastrophic effects of Climate Change are already upon us? There has been heavy flooding in several states in India, typhoons devastating the Philippines, Vietnam and parts of Thailand. Asia seems to be bearing the brunt of climate change. And yet, here in the Bangkok negotiations, the developing nation representatives complain, that there is a lack of urgency in the stance of the developed nations, in coming to a quick and amicable solution
05 October, 2009
Arctic Seas Turn To Acid
By Robin McKieCarbon-dioxide emissions are turning the waters of the Arctic Ocean into acid at an unprecedented rate, scientists have discovered. Research carried out in the archipelago of Svalbard has shown in many regions around the north pole seawater is likely to reach corrosive levels within 10 years. The water will then start to dissolve the shells of mussels and other shellfish and cause major disruption to the food chain. By the end of the century, the entire Arctic Ocean will be corrosively acidic
Food Supply Hangs In The Balance
By Stephen LeahyThe current devastating drought in East Africa, where millions of people are on the brink of starvation, is a window on our future, suggests a new study looking at the impacts of climate change
India Warms Up To Copenhagen
By Neeta LalWith the clock ticking away on the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Committee summit in Copenhagen in December, the fractiousness between the developed and the developing nations on who ought to do more to control climate change is getting increasingly strident
23 September, 2009
No Agreement Between Major Powers
On Carbon Emissions
By Tom EleyOn Tuesday, government leaders representing about 100 nations gathered at the United Nations in New York to discuss global warming. The meeting was billed as an attempt to jump-start negotiations in advance of a December summit in Copenhagen at which a global treaty governing greenhouse gas emissions is to be produced
Climate Change And The 2010 Olympics
By Bill HendersonBut if climate change is really the humanity threatening emergency requiring urgent action that he knows, Gordon Campbell. the premier of British Columbia has a very special, unique opportunity to send a signal now, at this singularly crucial time in the run up to Copenhagen BY cancelling the winter Olympics
17 September, 2009
Global Warming - Can Self-interest
And Science Save Australia, US And The Planet?
By Dr Gideon PolyaThe World is facing a Climate Emergency but you wouldn’t think so from the response by governments. Carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere is 390 parts per million (ppm), well outside the range of 180-300 ppm over the last 600,000 years during which Man (Homo sapiens) finally evolved
10 September, 2009
Global Climate Change Summit:
Bumpy Road To Copenhagen
By Nava ThakuriaAs the Asia Pacific region is in peril of the global warming and climate change, the western (and industrialized) countries should bailout the developing countries to cope up with the devastation of sea level rise, flood and drought and salination of surface water in those populous countries. More over, a consensus among the countries, which are affected by the climate change, becomes essential for a pragmatic culmination of the negotiation process that is leading to the final round of climate change negotiation in the forthcoming Copenhagen summit
12 August, 2009
21st Century Climate Blueprints
By Andrew GliksonThe severe disturbance of the energy balance of the atmosphere ensuing from the emission of over 320 billion tonnes of carbon since 1750 threatens a shift in the state of the atmosphere/ocean system to ice free greenhouse Earth conditions
11 August, 2009
US Military And Intelligence Agencies Identify Climate Change As “National Security” Threat
By Patrick O'ConnorUS military and intelligence agencies are studying the strategic implications of global warming, including preparations for military interventions, the New York Times reported Sunday
Climate Change: Get Smarter:
Turbocharging Democracy Online
By Bill HendersonOnly a couple of months to Copenhagen and it's not looking hopeful. Real change must begin and be lead by the US and "( d)enial , mistrust and uncertainty are among the key psychological reasons that the American public is still resistant to serious action on climate change, according to psychologists"
28 July, 2009
World Will Warm Faster Than Predicted In
Next Five Years
By Duncan ClarkNew estimate based on the forthcoming upturn in solar activity and El Niño southern oscillation cycles is expected to silence global warming sceptics
23 July, 2009
Global Cooling? Wish It Was True
By Dr Andrew GliksonRecently Dr David Evans who worked for the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005 wrote an article " A new trend in climate alarmism" claiming that actually "global cooling" is taking place from about 2003. Here Dr Andrew Glikson, an Earth and Paleo-climate Scientist, Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Research School of Earth Science, the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the Planetary Science Institute, and a member of the ANU Climate Change Institute gives a rebuttal to Dr Evan's article
16 July, 2009
Trapping Carbon Dioxide Or Switching To Nuclear Power Not Enough To Solve Global Warming Problem, Experts Say
By Science DailyAttempting to tackle climate change by trapping carbon dioxide or switching to nuclear power will not solve the problem of global warming, according to energy calculations published in the July issue of the International Journal of Global Warming
14 July, 2009
Climate Change 'Will Cause Civilization To Collapse'
By Jonathan OwenAuthoritative new study sets out a grim vision of shortages and violence – but amid all the gloom, there is some hope too
The Rich Can Relax. We Just Need The Poor World
To Cut Emissions. By 125%
By George MonbiotBritish and G8 climate strategy just doesn't add up. As soon as serious curbs are needed it turns into impossible nonsense
11 July, 2009
G8 Failure Means Climate Genocide
For Developing World
By Dr Gideon PolyaThe grossly inadequate response of the G8 nations is effectively a statement of climate racism and a declaration of prospective climate genocide
09 July, 2009
Obama's Cap And Trade Carbon Emissions Bill -
A Stealth Scheme To License Pollution And Fraud
By Stephen Lendman
It's to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by charging consumers more for energy and fuel as well as create a new bubble through carbon trading derivatives speculation. It does nothing to address environmental issues, yet on June 26 the House narrowly passed (229 - 212) and sent it to the Senate to be debated and voted on. More on that below29 June, 2009
Betraying The Planet
By Paul KrugmanSo the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement. But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to do something about greenhouse gases
15 June, 2009
Climate Change's Challenge To India
By Mira KamdarClimate change is a weapon of mass destruction. Mitigating global warming by whatever means necessary should be the new Indian government's priority number one. The government should make a major push to develop low-cost alternative energy technologies that don't require finite, toxic fuel sources
29 May, 2009
Global Warming Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year
By John VidalGlobal Warming is already responsible for 300,000 deaths a year and is affecting 300m people, according to the first comprehensive study of the human impact of global warming.The report comes from former UN secretary general Kofi Annan's thinktank, the Global Humanitarian Forum. By 2030, the report says, climate change could cost $600bn a year
How To Save The Planet
By Gideon PolyaThe World is acutely threatened by man-made global warming and many scientists now doubt that we can avoid further damaging temperature increases to over 2C above that in 1900. However resolute global action via an Accountability, Badge and Credo (ABC) protocol may yet save Man and the Biosphere
28 May, 2009
300.org Urges Reduction Of Atmospheric CO2
To 300 ppm
By Dr Gideon PolyaAustralia-based 300.org was launched in May 2009 and will hopefully expand throughout the World. 300.org exists to inform people about the Climate Emergency and the need to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2 ) concentration to a safe and sustainable level of about 300 ppm
26 May, 2009
The Road To Two Degrees Celsius
By Andrew GliksonOngoing global warming may lead to the release of methane from permafrost, collapse of the North Atlantic Thermohaline current, high-energy weather events and yet little-specified shifts in atmospheric states
30 April, 2009
Climate Myths?
By Andrew GliksonResponses by Andrew Glikson to Andrew Bolt’s article “10 climate myths”
22 April, 2009
From Marx To Climate Change
By M. RajkumarLeaders of the globe meet at summits – G8, G20 & G5. The context is the ‘global recession’. This is the softy label they have given for the impact of the capitalist economy. The more they meet the greater the drain of public money towards buttressing the crisis ridden globalized corporate economy. Everyone starts believing in the theory of TINA (there is no alternative). That is the sign of success for the decaying capitalism amidst its crises. Can there be any solution? Definitely yes!. And significantly India can withstand it and manage successfully without any further damage. How?
19 April, 2009
Toward Climate Geoengineering?
By Andrew GliksonThat global climate change has reached an impasse whereby the “powers-to-be” are entertaining climate geoengineering mitigation, instead of the urgent deep reduction of carbon emissions required by science, represents the ultimate moral bankruptcy of institutions and a failure of democracy
17 April, 2009
President Obama Announces
Climate Change Investigation
By Bill HendersonAspeech President Obama should give on climate change
15 April, 2009
Climate Risks: Lessons From The Financial Crisis
By Robin HahnelSince both the probability of a climatic black swan and the magnitude of the damages are far greater, the rational choice is to pay our precautionary premiums to insure ourselves against climate change. Arguments that the expected value of our insurance policy may be negative are beside the point. There are times to maximize expected value and there are times to buy insurance. Now, as we are deciding how to respond to climate change, is surely a time to buy a life insurance policy for our planet. Haven't we learned our lesson yet?
07 April, 2009
Climate Warning As Antarctic Ice Bridge Shatters
By Alister DoyleAn ice bridge which held a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place shattered at the weekend and could herald a wider collapse linked to global warming
03 April, 2009
Earth's Atmosphere Tracking Toward
A Mid Pliocene Like State
By Andrew Glikson
Another warning from a top earth/paleo-climate scientist
02 April, 2009
Solution To The Carbon Problem
Could Be Under The Ground
By Steve ConnorHope for the fight against climate change as study finds greenhouse gas can be buried without fear of leaking
01 April, 2009
How To Tackle Climate Change:
The Maldives Example
By Simon ButlerThe tiny Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives will become carbon-neutral within 10 years. This was the pledge made by Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed on March 15
31March, 2009
Arctic Meltdown Is A Threat To Humanity
By Fred PearceArctic melting will release huge quantities of fresh water flowing into the Arctic Ocean. This can slow down or even shut down the ocean conveyor current. Even a slowdown in the conveyor could produce dramatic changes.The biggest consequence, says Buwen Dong of the Walker Institute for Climate System Research at the University of Reading, UK, is likely to be a disruption, and quite probably a complete collapse, of the Asian monsoon, causing severe droughts in south Asia
24 March, 2009
Climate "Skeptics" Renew War Against Science While Rome Burns
By Andrew GliksonWith carbon cap-and-trade legislation now on Washingtons agenda, companies and interest groups have been hiring lobbyists at a feverish pace. For every member of Congress, there are now four climate lobbyists, many of them hoping to derail or water down the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
20 March, 2009
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
By George MonbiotIf you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it
17 March, 2009
In Search Of A Green Economic Stimulus
By Stephen LeahyThe high-level scientific climate conference that concluded last week in Copenhagen warned that humanity is rapidly approaching an irreversible, 1,000-year-long climate catastrophe
Message To Cathy And Repower America:
Green Power Is Not A Climate Change Solution
By Bill HendersonI keep getting these e-mails from Cathy Zoi. They are all the same: green power is good, green power is jobs; clean electricity within 10 years; you can make a difference by joining our petition for clean cars or the green stimulus package or cap and trade, etc. But she always implies that green power, clean cars, or cap and trade are solutions to climate change and although I tried to e-mail her back asking why she is mis-educating Americans at such a crucial time she never replied
16 March, 2009
Ten Ways To Save The World
By Geoffrey LeanWe get the message. The planet's doomed unless we get our act together PDQ. We even know some of the measures needed to give ourselves a chance. But which less orthodox proposals could stave off disastrous climate change?
13 March, 2009
Global Warming Even Worse Than
Previously Thought
By Michael McCarthyLord Stern, the economist who produced the single most influential political document on climate change, says he underestimated the risks of global warming and the damage that could result from it. The situation was worse than he had thought when he completed his review two-and-a-half years ago, he told a conference yesterday, but politicians do not yet grasp the scale of the dangers now becoming apparent
Severe Global warming Will Render Half Of
World's Inhabited Areas Unliveable
By David AdamSevere global warming could make half the world's inhabited areas literally too hot to live in, a US scientist warned today. Parts of China, India and the eastern US could all become too warm in summer for people to lose heat by sweating - rendering such areas effectively uninhabitable
UN Warns Of Widespread Water Shortages
By Martin MittelstaedtThe world faces a bleak future over its dwindling water supplies, with pollution, climate change and rapidly growing populations raising the possibility of widespread shortages, a new report compiled by 24 agencies of the United Nations says
12 March, 2009
Fate Of The Rainforest Is 'Irreversible'
By Michael McCarthyA third of the Amazonian 'carbon sink' is doomed whether or not emissions are cut, Copenhagen conference is told
14 February, 2009
Global Warming Impacting Humanity
By Gideon PolyaAustralia’s State of Victoria (capital Melbourne), has just suffered record-breaking heat wave temperatures and a tragic bushfire disaster (over 180 people dead, over 1,000 homes destroyed, over 300,000 hectares burnt). This tragedy has occurred on top of a background of sustained drought, man-made global warming and global government inaction
04 February, 2009
It Is Now Or Never
By Aditi MunotClimate change is no longer a difficulty to be faced by our children or grandchildren. It sure is going to happen in our lifetimes. If we do not change today, correct our lifestyles and consumption patterns now…. There will be no tomorrow. We, the entire global community have to make a choice today, to be able to live tomorrow. Each one of us, every individual, every country, the whole world needs to take it upon ourselves to keep this planet liveable…. For us, our children, all other species with whom we share this planet
02 February, 2009
Australia Faces Collapse As Climate Change Kicks In
By Geoffrey Lean & Kathy MarksOn Friday, Melbourne thermometers topped 43C (109.4F) on a third successive day for the first time on record, while even normally mild Tasmania suffered its second-hottest day in a row, as temperatures reached 42.2C. Two days before, Adelaide hit a staggering 45.6C. After a weekend respite, more records are expected to be broken this week
27 January, 2009
Global Warming Effects To Last 1,000 Years
By Agence France PresseGlobal warming may create "dead zones" in the ocean that would be devoid of fish and seafood and endure for up to two millennia, according to a study published on Sunday
23 January, 2009
Antarctic Ice Shelf Set To Collapse Due To warming
By Alister DoyleA huge Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent
Ecologists Warn The Planet Is
Running Short Of Water
By Leo LewisA swelling global population, changing diets and mankind's expanding "water footprint" could be bringing an end to the era of cheap water. The warnings, in an annual report by the Pacific Institute in California, come as ecologists have begun adopting the term "peak ecological water" - the point where, like the concept of "peak oil", the world has to confront a natural limit on something once considered virtually infinite
14 January, 2009
Good And Bad Climate News
By Dr Gideon PolyaThe World is acutely threatened by man-made climate change and it may already be too late to stop catastrophe – however there is good news as well as bad news
26 December, 2008
Climate Code Red - Telling The Truth To Power
By Bill HendersonClimate Code Red was the most important single document published on climate change in 2008. Because climate change is now understood to be of humanity threatening seriousness and a crisis that needs emergency action immediately. Climate Code Red has to be considered as the most important document on any subject published this year
18 December, 2008
Has The Arctic Melt Passed
The Point Of No Return?
By Steve ConnorScientists have found the first unequivocal evidence that the Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world at least a decade before it was predicted to happen
20 Ways To Save Mother Earth And
Prevent Environmental Disaster
By Evo MoralesHumankind is capable of saving the Earth if we recover the principles of solidarity, complementarity and harmony with nature in contraposition to the reign of competition, profits and rampant consumption of natural resources
Four Truths About Climate Change We Can't Igonore
By Gwynn DyerAbout 70 interviews, a dozen countries and 18 months later, I have reached four conclusions that I didn't even suspect when I began the process. The first is simply this: The scientists are really scared. Their observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than their climate models predicted
The Most Important Number On Earth
By Bill McKibbenWe have a number-350. The most important number on earth. If the Internet has a cosmic purpose, this could be it-to take that number and spread it everywhere on the planet, so that everyone, even if they knew little else about climate change, understood that it represented a kind of safety, a bulwark against the monsoon turning erratic, the sea rising over their fields, the mosquito spreading up their mountain
03 November, 2008
The Psychology Of Denial
In The Age Of Consumerism
By John JamesA four-year analysis of the world's ecosystems sponsored by the Worldwatch Institute found that over-consumption has pushed 15 out of 24 ecosystems essential to human life "beyond their sustainable limits". Our insatiable desire for more is moving the planet toward a state of collapse that may be "abrupt and potentially irreversible". Since we all know that, can we not go beyond the fear to follow David Attenborough, who said in a recent interview, "How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew and did nothing?"
31 October, 2008
The Truth About Rising Seas
By John JamesWe know that were all the ice on Greenland to melt, sea levels would rise over 7 meters. The question is how long may this take? The IPCC estimate of hundreds of years is being contradicted by studies of past glaciations. Andrew Glickson and Bradley Opdyke showed that at the end of earlier ice ages the glaciers collapsed suddenly. Suddenly does not mean over a century or two, but within a decade. We all saw the speed at which this can happen in 2002 when 2,600 square kilometres on the Larsen B ice shelf in the Antarctic disintegrated and disappeared in less than five weeks
20 October, 2008
Planet Eaters: Chain Reaction,Black Holes,
Climate Change And Existentialist Philosophy
By Andrew Glikson & Emily SpenceThe Sixth mass extinction is a novelty: For the first time in its history, the biosphere is in crisis through biological forcing by an advanced form of life, namely the activity of a technological carbon-emitting species
10 October, 2008
The Methane Time Bomb
And The Triple Meltdown
By Andrew GliksonRecent reports of enhanced methane (CH4) leaks off the eastern Siberian coast (about 100 times the background level of about 1780 parts per billion CH4) and off Svalbard (Norway) have been overshadowed in the media by the collapse of the global credit bubble. At the root of both is a common thread, deregulation, including open-ended permits to pollute the atmosphere and the oceans, little-regulated financial systems and economic globalization, representing failure by governments to protect the life and welfare of their hapless populations
29 September, 2008
Tom Friedman: Climate Change,
BAU, And Toxic Securities
By Bill HendersonThomas Friedman is a powerful voice pushing previously mis-educated publics past the 'new denial', but unfortunately Friedman remains part of the problem because his hot, flat and crowded view of our world remains profoundly American-centric and the leadership change he advocates remains deck chair shuffling instead of a much needed renunciation of the Church of Business ever increasing control of all of our lives and the Church of Business dominance of government especially which is killing us
24 September, 2008
The Methane Time Bomb
By Steve ConnorThe first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists
18 September, 2008
Civilisation And The Carbon Credit Card
By John JamesOur major hope in salvaging our civilisation from the otherwise inevitable is something like Plan B, and this includes a Carbon Tax on all polluters. Contact the senator, email her office, write her letters. Do what you can to sustain her struggle to tax all carbon polluters equally!
05 September, 2008
Warming Oceans 'Are The Engine
Driving Stronger Hurricanes'
By Steve ConnorThe destructive intensity of the winds caused by tropical storms and hurricanes has increased significantly in the past 30 years, in line with the theory that cyclones are becoming stronger because of global warming
04 September, 2008
Is History So Boring We Keep On
Repeating The Same Mistakes?
By John JamesI will tell you the story of Easter Island. It is a woeful tale, caused by human actions, and a possible scenario for us. The island is now a wind-swept barren wasteland capable of supporting only a couple of thousand people. Yet only a few centuries ago it had ten or twelve times that number. Ninety percent died. Now, why was that?
03 September, 2008
Major Ice-Shelf Loss In Artic
By BBCThe ice shelves in Canada's High Arctic have lost a colossal area this year, scientists report. The floating tongues of ice attached to Ellesmere Island, which have lasted for thousands of years, have seen almost a quarter of their cover break away. One of them, the 50 sq km (20 sq miles) Markham shelf, has completely broken off to become floating sea-ice
20 August, 2008
The Delusion Revolution: We're on The Road
To Extinction And In Denial
By Robert JensenOur current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive
08 August, 2008
Doom Or Disaster?
By John JamesNearly every projection for the future of civilisation made in the IPCC reports has been exceeded. Events that were projected to emerge by the end of the century have been moved back to 2070, then to 2040, and even now to ‘within the next few years’. The goal posts are moving towards us at a terrible pace
04 August, 2008
A Voyage Into The Great Arctic Meltdown
By Marian WilkinsonThe vast Arctic sea ice which spreads across the North Pole could disappear during the summer within a decade or two - or even by 2013 - leading scientists are warning
30 July, 2008
Humanity At crossroads:
Attitudes And Climate Change
By Abdul BasitDespite these thought-provoking discussions about the influence of climate change on human existence and the solutions to tackle it, we are nearing, as time passes, the verge of a major disaster and the options for solutions are declining. The increasing natural calamities, the concern about the tipping points due to further carbon emissions and its effects on the habitability on earth have created great concerns
13 July, 2008
Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse 'Imminent'
By Geoffrey LeanScientists are warning that an Antarctic ice shelf the size of Northern Ireland is on the verge of disintegration, even though it is now the middle of the southern hemisphere's winter.The European Space Agency says new satellite pictures show that the Wilkins shelf – the largest to be threatened so far – is "hanging by its last thread". Extending for approximately 5,600 square miles, it has been held in place by a thin ice bridge connecting it to an island, but this is now fracturing
Russian Ice Camp In Rapid Shrink
By David ShukmanThe Russians had set up research station "North Pole 35" on the floe last September when it measured a safe five kilometres long and three kilometres wide, and their original plan was to stay on it until this September. But after enduring the permanent night of the Arctic winter and surviving the threat of polar bears, the scientists now find that their temporary home has shrunk to just 600m by 300m and faces complete break-up as it drifts towards a current known to contain relatively warm waters
11 July, 2008
Questioning EU Policies On
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Dr.Peter CustersDebate and public opinion building on climate change should, amongst others, seriously question the existing policies of the European Union. Forceful demands need to be formulated and canvassed for internationally, stating that the EU move beyond the limited targets which its institutions and most Europe-based environmental organisations have so far set
01 July, 2008
The World’s Will To Tackle Climate Change
Is Irresistible
By Rajendra PachauriFar from stymying the environmental cause, the downturn in the world’s economies highlights just how pressing it is
27 June, 2008
No Ice At The North Pole
By Steve ConnorIt seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer
26 June, 2008
Humanity's Melt Down
By Mike DavisOur world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper in North America or Europe has yet printed its scientific obituary
25 June, 2008
Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points
Near On Global Warming
By James HansenDemocracy works, but sometimes churns slowly. Time is short. The 2008 election is critical for the planet. If Americans turn out to pasture the most brontosaurian congressmen, if Washington adapts to address climate change, our children and grandchildren can still hold great expectations
24 June, 2008
Climate Chaos Is Inevitable.
We Can Only Avert Oblivion
By Mark LynasAt best we will limit the extent of global warming, but Kyoto barely helps. Does humanity have the foresight to save itself?
11 June, 2008
Permafrost Threatened By Rapid Retreat Of
Arctic Sea Ice, NCAR Study Finds
By NCARThe rate of climate warming over northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia could more than triple during periods of rapid sea ice loss, according to a new study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The findings raise concerns about the thawing of permafrost, or permanently frozen soil, and the potential consequences for sensitive ecosystems, human infrastructure, and the release of additional greenhouse gases
29 May, 2008
Case Against Climate Change
Discredited By Study
By Steve ConnorA difference in the way British and American ships measured the temperature of the ocean during the 1940s may explain why the world appeared to undergo a period of sudden cooling immediately after the Second World War
15 May, 2008
A Last Chance For Civilization
By Bill McKibbenAll of a sudden it isn't morning in America, it's dusk on planet Earth. There's a number -- a new number -- that makes this point most powerfully. It may now be the most important number on Earth: 350. As in parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
30 April, 2008
Another American War–Look Out Earth
By Jim MilesWithout a greater awareness of all the relationships between global warming as a symptom, and environmental over-consumption and over population as the underlying cause, an American “war on global warming” is sure to be another fiasco
29 April, 2008
Climate Change Could Force One Billion
From Their Homes By 2050
By Nigel MorrisAs many as one billion people could lose their homes by 2050 because of the devastating impact of global warming, scientists and political leaders will be warned today. They will hear that the steady rise in temperatures across the planet could trigger mass migration on unprecedented levels
18 April, 2008
Hansen's Climate Change And
The Mobilization Solution
By Bill HendersonMobilization nationally and globally. And practically such mobilization governance innovation must begin and be led by the US, the world's foremost economic and political power. This essay will explore this possible solution: this radical but compelling vision of all of our futures, our immediate futures. Mobilization first and foremost to get us below 350 ppm before the polar ice melts completely
15 April, 2008
Jim Hansen, The Big Ice Melt
And The Mainstream Media
By Bill HendersonThousands of mainstream media articles and commentaries on TV, in newspapers and magazines, inform about climate change Scenario A, but there has been minimal, almost nonexistent mainstream coverage of Scenario B even though its main proponents - James Hansen and his NASA climate science team - have released several papers explaining this nonlinear vision of climate change focusing upon the unpredicted rapid melting of the polar ice caps
04 April, 2008
Wanted - Homes For Small Island People
By Marwaan Macan-MarkarA rapidly warming planet may soon create a new class of refugees -- those fleeing climate change in their homelands
28 March, 2008
Lights Out, Action! It’s Earth Hour
By Stephen de TarczynskiOrganisers of Earth Hour 2008 estimate that in excess of 30 million people worldwide will take action on Saturday to raise awareness of how small changes can make big differences when it comes to climate change
26 March, 2008
Antarctic Shelf 'Hangs By Thread'
By Helen BriggsA chunk of ice the size of the Isle of Man has started to break away from Antarctica in what scientists say is further evidence of a warming climate. Satellite images suggest that part of the ice shelf is disintegrating, and will soon crumble away
21 March, 2008
Climate Change Deepening World Water Crisis
By Thalif DeenWhen U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last January, his primary focus was not on the impending global economic recession but on the world’s growing water crisis
Climate Change Requires Herculean Effort
By Karen MccallHaving just returned from an alternative energy/climate change symposium presented by the Wallace Stegner Center for Land Resources and the Environment at the University of Utah, I find myself reeling with the most current information concerning the precipitous decline of climate stability and the magnitude of effort required to prevent the planet from being knocked any further off kilter by human perturbation of the Earth's climate
19 March, 2008
Arctic Losing Long-Term Ice Cover
By Richard BlackThe Arctic is losing its old, thick ice faster than in previous years, according to satellite data. The loss has continued since the end of the Arctic summer, despite cold weather across the northern hemisphere. The warm 2007 summer saw the smallest area of ice ever recorded in the region, and scientists say 2008 could follow a similar pattern
18 March, 2008
A Glacial Vanishing Act
By Stephen LeahyGlaciers, the world's freshwater towers, continue their record-breaking meltdown, a new U.N. report shows. The average rate of thinning and melting more than doubled between 2004 and 2006, reports the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), a centre based at the University of Zurich in Switzerland
28 February, 2008
The Global Water Crisis And The Coming
Battle For The Right To Water
By Maude BarlowThe three water crises – dwindling freshwater supplies, inequitable access to water and the corporate control of water – pose the greatest threat of our time to the planet and to our survival. Together with impending climate change from fossil fuel emissions, the water crises impose some life-or-death decisions on us all. Unless we collectively change our behavior, we are heading toward a world of deepening conflict and potential wars over the dwindling supplies of freshwater
21 February, 2008
The Recession's Human And Environmental Impacts
By Emily SpenceThe coalescence of a recession, mounting population, peak oil, mass extinction, urgent water shortages, climate change and other disastrous environmental impacts challenge us to take immediate action. Our doing so need not be disastrous if we collectively begin to make the essential changes on the scale needed. If we do not, the results could likely be catastrophic on a scope barely imagined by any of us. With firm resolve, let us all begin to undertake the critical modifications at once
Climate Code Red - The New Denial
And The Failure Of Democracy
By Bill HendersonA new report based upon state of the art science argues convincingly that climate change is a much more serious and immediate problem than previously perceived by even informed publics - climate change is an emergency that requires urgent mitigation measures not presently possible in our political and economic systems. No major media outlet acknowledges let alone critiques or comments upon or otherwise covers the report
12 February, 2008
Global Warming Contrarians Exposed -
Must See Free Video
By Denny BurbeckAn extremely informative, in-depth account of four of the major global warming "confusionists" is available free-online
11 February, 2008
Huge Polar Ice Loss Demands Global
Declaration Of Climate Emergency
By Dr Gideon PolyaThe World urgently needs a Declaration of Climate Emergency to meet the huge threat from accelerating and catastrophic polar ice melting. Climate scientists have recently discovered that the rate of polar ice loss is accelerating unexpectedly and that the current atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) has reached a tipping point for complete loss of Arctic sea ice in as little as 5 years
Climate Code Red And The Crucial 08 Election
By Bill HendersonClimate Code Red is a pdf that takes about an hour to read. More important than Stern, more up to date than last years IPCC reports, it should be front page news globally, but of course it isn't because, heretically, it is brutally honest about the scale of mitigation necessary and the need to escape BAU. What can we do? This is an emergenc
08 February, 2008
Biofuels Make Climate Change Worse
By Steve ConnorScientists have produced damning evidence to suggest that biofuels could be one of the biggest environmental con-tricks because they actually make global warming worse by adding to the man-made emissions of carbon dioxide that they are supposed to curb. Two separate studies published in the journal Science show that a range of biofuel crops now being grown to produce "green" alternatives to oil-based fossil fuels release far more carbon dioxide into the air than can be absorbed by the growing plants
21 January, 2008
Global Warming - Stop Arguing - Take Action Now
By Ron CampbellAs mankind faces the most dramatic natural disaster in history we are squabbling instead of taking action. We need to stop arguing, come up with a plan and take action NOW
18 January, 2008
Tourism At The End Of The World
By Stephen LeahyHurry! Hurry! See the polar bears, penguins, Arctic glaciers, small pacific islands before they disappear forever due to global warming.Tourism companies are now using climate change as a marketing tool
14 January, 2008
Economic Collapse And Global Ecology
By Dr. Glen BarryGiven widespread failure to pursue policies sufficient to reverse deterioration of the biosphere and avoid ecological collapse, the best we can hope for may be that the growth-based economic system crashes sooner rather than later
Loss Of Antarctic Ice Has Soared
By 75 Per Cent In Just 10 Years
By Steve ConnorParts of the ice sheets covering Antarctica are melting faster than predicted, with the net loss of ice probably accelerating in recent years because of global warming, a study has found
Enemies From Within: Big Enviro Groups
Holding Back Anti-Warming Movement
By Megan TadyThe heat is on environmental groups and politicians to churn out proposals for stabilizing the planet’s rising temperatures, but some environmentalists say existing plans to cool climate change are timid. Their criticism reveals a rift between two approaches: preserving the American way of life at the expense of quicker solutions, or changing the structure of U.S. society to counter an unprecedented threat
10 January, 2008
The Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Growing?
By Denny BurbeckThe Antarctic ice sheet is growing in height in the central region, but making just that one point is very misleading and quite dishonest
07 January, 2008
Disappearing World: The Village Falling Into The Sea
By Mark HughesSkipsea is disappearing fast. It sits on the fastest-eroding coastline in Europe and every year the sea swallows another chunk of land. Mark Hughes visits the people living on the edge
05 January, 2008
Time To Stop The Greenwashing
By Glen BarryGlobal ecological sustainability depends upon identifying and acting upon ambitious, sufficient eco-policies now; and rejecting misleading, exploitative and inadequate reformist pandering
02 January, 2008
The 08 Challenge
By Bill HendersonIf you understand that climate change is an emergency then the challenge in 08 becomes winning a mandate for almost impossible systemic change in a United States still in ideological thrall to failing markets
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