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Climate activism, law and order and the greater good

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The activists at the recent Climate Camp in Scotland have stirred up controversy and debate, at least in the little corner of the media that pays attention to climate change activism.
After a day of ‘climate action’ on Monday, during which several windows were broken at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)  headquarters in Edinburgh, 12 Climate [...]


Superglue and molasses: Climate Camp protests change gears in Scotland

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Climate change activists stepped up their game and held a rash of demonstrations in Edinburgh, Scotland today.
Members of the activist group Climate Camp have been set up outside the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) global headquarters in Edinburgh since last week in order to protest the bank’s financing of the fossil fuel industry. But today [...]


Climate Camp protester glues hands to desk at RBS HQ

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In a bit of ‘News of the Weird’ meets environmental activism, a protester glued herself to a desk in the Royal Band of Scotland’s headquarters on Friday.
Hundreds of activists have been holding a Climate Camp outside of RBS headquarters, near Edinburgh Scotland in protest of the bank’s loans to fossil fuel companies, thereby facilitating climate [...]


Climate change: The plight of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin

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The mismanagement of irrigation, compounded by drought and a drop in commodity prices, has spelled disaster for Australia’s most important agricultural region.
The waters of the Darling River and the massive Murray irrigate a region that produces almost half of Australia’s fresh produce. But the worst drought in over 100 years has plunged the Murray-Darling Basin [...]


UN biodiversity chief: Destroy nature, increase poverty and insecurity

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In advance of a major UN meeting for the Convention on Biological Diversity, the organization’s secretary-general, Ahmed Djoghlaf, recently warned of the threats posed against the natural world – and life itself – by population growth, urbanization, agriculture and climate change.
Despite these increasing threats and an ongoing mass extinction in the natural world, which is [...]


Greenland glacier melt indicative of climate change

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The massive 160 square mile (414 sq km) ice island that broke off from Greenland’s Petermann glacier earlier this month is ‘certainly a manifestation of warming’ according to Dr. Richard Bates of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Andrews, a geophysicist, is part of a British-led expedition in Greenland, which is measuring glaciers including the Petermann.
From [...]


Video: Climate scientist explains global weather woes

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From Australia to China to Pakistan to Russia and central Europe, this summer has so far been characterized by extreme weather events such as torrential rains, flooding, drought and wildfires.
In the following video report by ITN News, climate scientist Thomas R. Karl explains how the current extreme weather events across the globe are linked and [...]


Scientists: Russia’s fires and Pakistan’s floods fit climate trend

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While individual events like heat waves, cold snaps, floods and droughts cannot be attributed to man made climate change on an individual basis, scientists at the World Meteorological Association (WMO) say global warming exacerbates the intensity of recent extreme weather.
The floods in China, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the heat wave and resultant wild fires in Russia [...]


No progress at climate talks in Bonn

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According to representatives of both poor and rich nations, there has been no progress at the climate talks held in Bonn, Germany this past week.
In fact there has been the opposite: regression and pessimism concerning potential progress. The EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard said she believes the negotiations have ‘gone backwards’.
From a BBC News report:
Unfortunately, [...]


Tory-Lib Dem govt ‘greenest ever’? Some think not

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Former UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband thinks the new coalition government’s energy policies are a ‘huge disappointment’ to industry and to the country.
Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he? He’s in the shadow cabinet and that’s sort of their job. Yet it seems Miliband is indeed more pro-active in terms of helping [...]


Met Office scientific report: global warming ‘unequivocal’

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A new Met Office report, compiled of several recent studies, documents what scientists consider undeniable evidence of a changing climate and warming planet.
10 indicators of global warming were incorporated in the report, including rising land and sea-surface temperatures, ocean heat, sea levels and humidity; and a reduction in Arctic sea ice, glaciers and springtime snow [...]


Who has the real dirt on emissions trading?

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Cap and trade or emissions trading schemes can be confusing. They have been touted as the chief market-based solution for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, preserving valuable natural resources like forests, while making money for rich and poor countries alike.
The far right and climate change skeptics hate them for obvious – and sometimes less obvious – [...]


Britain’s ‘pretty’ insects need help!

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Butterflies in the UK are on the decline due to human activity and now the British public is being urged to participate in a nationwide survey called The Big Butterfly Count.
During Save Our Butterflies Week – July 24th to August 1st – residents of the UK are asked to take 15 minutes to go out [...]


Despite pollution, trash and acidity, UK seas improving

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A new study from the UK’s Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) reports that the state of British seas has improved since the last report in 2005.
Coastal waters are getting cleaner, fish stocks are improving and species diversity in estuaries is increasing, according to the most authoritative examination ever carried out of UK [...]


Committee on Climate Change: UK must invest in green tech

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The UK’s independent advisory body established under the Climate Change Act has stated that Britain needs to invest more in low carbon technologies in order to meet its goal of cutting 1990 emissions levels by 80% by the year 2050.
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) was established with the purpose of reporting to the UK’s [...]


Doing our bit: Rise of the veggie footsoldier

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During the last few days the British press has run some relatively prominent articles once again highlighting the correlation between meat eating and climate change, also resulting in a few additional commentary pieces and the usual backlash.
Perhaps biggest of all is the Observer Food Monthly magazine’s OFM vegetarian recipe special edited by none other than [...]


Climate change: vulnerable nations promise to cut emissions

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Six nations pledged to either go carbon neutral or low carbon at a meeting this past weekend in the Maldives. All are developing countries and most are low-lying island nations, which are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels resulting from climate change.
Though these countries contribute almost nothing to climate change, their commitments to cutting greenhouse [...]


Not just a walk in the park: Botanical gardens focus on ecosystem restoration

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Just as zoos underwent an image makeover in the 1990s from carnival-like places to gawk at exotic animals into ‘bastions of conservation,’ so are formal gardens similarly being re-branded.
No longer just ornamental green urban escapes, the world’s leading botanical gardens are focusing on conservation and biodiversity. In a time when ecosystems and biodiversity are degrading [...]


Study on global emission targets says temps will rise by 4C

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An analysis based on national emissions targets suggests that global temperatures will rise by 4C (7.2F) by 2100.
Six months after over 100 governments pledged to limit their countries’ emissions in order to keep temperatures from rising more than 1.5-2C (2.7-3.6F) above pre-industrial levels a major international study of over 60 nations, called the Climate Scoreboard, [...]


Climate change skeptics draft Iron Lady of UK politics

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Back in 1989 UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called on the UN for action against man-made global warming. Maggie warned that rapid increases in the use of fossil fuels, the rise of industrial agriculture and population growth were ‘a massive experiment’ on the planet.
James Delingpole quotes Thatcher in a recent piece for the Telegraph:
Recently three [...]


New polls in Britain and US show strong public belief in climate change

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A new survey of UK residents conducted by the University of Cardiff shows that public acceptance of climate change is alive and well in Britain.
From an article in the Guardian:
The survey showed that almost three-quarters (71%) of Britons are concerned about climate change. Some 78% think the climate is changing, which is down from 91% [...]


Bonn climate talks highlight rich-poor divide

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The climate talks in Bonn, Germany are emphasizing cleavages between wealthy and poor nations characterized by mistrust and a clash of priorities.
While the poorest nations are the most vulnerable to droughts, floods, and a rise in sea levels; they have contributed the least causes of climate change.
There are fears that the $30bn (€25bn/23bn) – pledged [...]


Bonn climate talks news: 10 more years to seal the deal; row over logging

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The UN climate talks taking place in Bonn, Germany this week are not proving to be a source of positive news for the global environment.
An binding agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently enough to avoid the risk of runaway global warming and climate change were meant to be the goal of last December’s climate [...]


US scientist destroys prominent UK climate ’skeptic’

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Christopher Monckton, aka Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, is a loud critical voice in the highly politicized publicity war against mainstream climate science in the UK. A former journalist who worked in Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government during the 1980s, Monckton also favored compulsory AIDS testing for the entire population and lifetime quarantine for those with [...]


Climate change can bring more floods AND droughts to the UK

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Climate change, by its very definition, suggests that geographical areas become hotter or drier or wetter as the case may be. Some places even become colder, while others experience severe fluctuations in weather, such as an increase in storms or droughts.
Anthropogenic climate change – climate change caused by human activity – is predicted to affect [...]


What will Britain look like in 2100? Marek Kohn confronts a warmer future

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Marek Kohn is a British science writer who has written about topics including evolution and drug use. In his latest book, Turned Out Nice: How the British Isles will Change as the World Heats Up, Kohn takes on the topic of climate change and how Britain and Ireland might turn out after a century of [...]


Climate change: The war for hearts and minds in the UK

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Belief in global warming plummeted amongst the British public after the climate change conference in Copenhagen last December, according to a BBC poll early this year. A similar poll commissioned by the London Times also showed increased skepticism regarding climate amongst those surveyed.
Belief in climate change amongst scientists has not changed, but in the war [...]


Breaking: Agreement on international forest protection reached at Oslo conference

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At a UN climate conference in Oslo, Norway this week, nations agreed on an increase in aid from rich to poor countries to protect the Earth’s forests and curb global carbon emissions. UN figures state that deforestation and forest degradation are responsible for 17% global emissions. Preserving forests is widely regarded as the least expensive [...]


UK environment politics update: From the youth to the Queen

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Yesterday the Queen gave her speech to formally open Parliament. The Queen’s Speech sets out the UK government’s proposals for new laws and policies.
Included in the Queen’s Speech was the new government’s energy bill, known as the Energy Security and Green Economy Bill, from the Department for Energy and Climate Change. It is credited to [...]


Podcast: Climate skepticism, Sarah Palin, waterbeds

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Looking for acerbic wit, political banter and arguments about how certain words should be pronounced? Then check out the new podcast from yours truly and author Saci Lloyd, in which we discuss climate skeptics, Sara Palin and some other incidental nonsense.
We’re Green and a bit Red and we don’t know how or why popcorn happens. [...]


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