13 July, 2008
Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse 'Imminent'
By Geoffrey Lean
Scientists 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 Shukman
The 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 Custers
Debate 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 Pachauri
Far 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 Connor
It 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 Davis
Our 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 Hansen
Democracy 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 Lynas
At 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 NCAR
The 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 Connor
A 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 McKibben
All 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 Miles
Without 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 Morris
As 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 Henderson
Mobilization 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 Henderson
Thousands 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-Markar
A 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 Tarczynski
Organisers 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 Briggs
A 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 Deen
When 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 Mccall
Having 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 Black
The 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 Leahy
Glaciers, 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 Barlow
The 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 Spence
The 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 Henderson
A 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 Burbeck
An 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 Polya
The 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 Henderson
Climate 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 Connor
Scientists 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 Campbell
As 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 Leahy
Hurry! 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 Barry
Given 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 Connor
Parts 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 Tady
The 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 Burbeck
The 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 Hughes
Skipsea 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 Barry
Global 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 Henderson
If 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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