Climate Change

Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world’s species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change. Dealing with the biodiversity crisis requires political will and needs to be based on a solid scientific knowledge if we are to ensure a safe future for the planet.  This is the main conclusion from scientists from University of Copenhagen, after 100 researchers and policy experts from EU countries...Read Full Story

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - DECEMBER 07: A participant stands in front of the UN Climate Wall during the first day of United Nations Climate Change Conference on December 7, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Politicians and environmentalists meet for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 that runs until December 18. COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - DECEMBER 07: Sculptures stand in a stretch of water next to the Bella Centre during the first day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 on...Read Full Story

Lord Christopher Monckton is a British consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, and hereditary peer. While not formally trained in science, Monckton is one of the most cited and widely published climate skeptics, having even been invited to testify to the US Senate and Congress on several occasions. www.skepticalscience.com www.parliament.uk Lord Monckton’s scientific qualifications ……..crickets chirping Monckton is listed as a “Chief Policy Advisor” for the Science and Public Policy...Read Full Story

Gridlocked UN talks on climate change restarted in China on Monday with a warning that feuding countries had to immediately end their fighting and broker a deal.The six days of talks in the northern port city of Tianjin are part of long-running but acrimonious efforts through the United Nations to secure a post-2012 treaty on tackling global warming.The event is the first time that China, the world's biggest source of greenhouse gases that scientists say cause global warming, has hosted a UN...Read Full Story

Thousands of environment experts were set to gather in China on Monday in a bid to kick-start stalled UN talks on climate change, amid warnings that time was running out to broker a deal.The six days of talks in the northern port city of Tianjin, due to begin at 10:00 am (0200 GMT), are part of long-running efforts through the United Nations to secure a post-2012 treaty on tackling global warming.The talks are the first time China has hosted a major international climate change conference or...Read Full Story

Lord Christopher Monckton–a science policy advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a contributing author to the Science and Public Policy Institute and a speaker on climate change science. Wendell Cox–an expert in urban planning and Australia is hopping mad over comments made by Lord Christopher Monckton, the head of the United Kingdom's Independence Party who, at a conference earlier this month in Los Angeles, called the Australian government's Climate Adviser a "fascist. Australia is...Read Full Story

I would suggest that the goal of the vast majority of these prominent climate change skeptics is to create doubt regarding the recommendations of the scientific consensus in relation to the impact of our carbon emissions on global climate change. This doubt, once entrenched in the public opinion would provide a brake on real progress towards legislation to restrict carbon emissions. The obvious benefactors of a lack of progress would be industries who would be forced to lose billions in...Read Full Story

Your brain might just go on overload once you see Craig Reucassel interviewing comic genius Sacha Baron Cohen in character as his latest creation: climate skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton . This is a moment of pure comic genius.Watch as Reucassel marvels at Cohen’s artistic integrity during the interview for his show, The Hamster Wheel.Cohen doesn’t break character in the slightest.  He even pretends to be angered by Reucassel’s line of questioning and orders him to leave.NOTE: If you’re...Read Full Story

Bleached staghorn coral in northeast Australia, photo: Matt Kieffer via flickr We’ve heard this one before, but ahead of the next round of climate negotiations heading up to COP16 it bears repeating: The emission reduction commitments made under the Copenhagen Accord are so weak that, should they not be strengthened, it sets us on a trajectory for 4.2°C temperature rise… Read the full story on TreeHugger Popular Posts: Can Animals Foresee Natural Disasters? A Picture is Worth: Mapping The...Read Full Story

If you believe in the importance of shifting to a low-carbon economy, reading through the WikiLeaks’ US embassy cables about climate change conjures up the quote (misattributed to Otto von Bismarck but actually spoken by US poet John Godfrey Saxe) about laws and sausages: “Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” If you didn’t much respect the accord that emerged out of last year’s climate talks in Copenhagen before, you’ll respect it even...Read Full Story