• Global deal at next summit in Mexico impossible, says Prescott• ‘Disarray’ cited over UN organisation assessing pledgesA global deal to tackle climate change is all but impossible in 2010, leaving the scale and pace of action to slow global warming in coming decades uncertain, according to senior figures across the world involved in the [...]
Chair of IPCC facing allegations that claims made in key reports did not have required standard of scientific reviewDamian Carrington Rajendra Pachauri, who has faced criticism as chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change following allegations of inaccurate statements in panel reports, suffered a fresh blow last night when he failed to get the [...]
The unwillingness of scientists at the University of East Anglia to release climate data to people who choose not to believe in climate change was a mistake. Science advances through openness, through the ability of others to replicate the same findings or demonstrate error in discovery and interpretation. Reluctance to disclose – revealed last week [...]
US defence review says military planners should factor climate change into long-term strategyThe Pentagon will for the first time rank global warming as a destabilising force, adding fuel to conflict and putting US troops at risk around the world, in a major strategy review to be presented to Congress tomorrow. The quadrennial defence review, prepared [...]
OSLO (Reuters) – Nations accounting for most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions have restated their promises to fight climate change, meeting a Sunday deadline in a low-key endorsement of December’s “Copenhagen Accord.”
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has reiterated a goal of slowing the rise of its carbon emissions by 2020 as part of pledges due by Sunday under a “Copenhagen Accord” to fight climate change, an official statement said.
Robin McKie’s article “Glaciergate was a blunder, but it’s the sceptics who dissemble” (Comment, last week) brings clarity and balance to the debate about climate change science. Yes, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Himalayan glacier projection was wrong, but that doesn’t undermine the rigorous seven-year IPCC process that led to the last assessment report [...]
Campaigners fear government’s cashback offer for microgeneration will not be enough to stimulate renewables industryThe government will tomorrow publish the long-awaited levels of remuneration it will offer for renewable energy generated by households and communities and fed back into the national grid.It hopes the new tariff will boost the growth of “micro-generation” by small-scale wind [...]
What’s up, what’s downGOING UP▲ FLAIR TRAID Happy 10th birthday to textile charity Traid. It’s celebrating with an exhibition from 2-10 February at the Richard Young Gallery, London W8 (www.traid.org.uk)▲ TORY ECO TRIP Tory MPs are being sent on a crash course to brush up their eco skills. Given that prospective Conservative candidates [...]
Latest data from the Environment Agency shows that more than half a million UK homes are at ’significant’ risk of floodingMore than half a million homes are at “significant” risk of flooding and the cost of protecting them will double to £1bn a year by 2035, according to the latest data from the Environment Agency [...]