Science Weekly podcast: Our Evolutionary Agony Aunt, and aliens
Carole Jahme, the Guardian’s evolutionary agony aunt who writes our weekly ‘Ask Carole column, joins us i…
Science Weekly Extra podcast: Robert Kennedy Jr takes on coal baron Don Blankenship
A debate took place recently at the University of Charleston in West Virginia on mountaintop mining. Stage left was Bobby Kennedy Jr, an environmental lawyer, son of the late attorney general and nephew of JFK. (He has a cond…
Miliband declares war on climate change sceptics
Climate secretary Ed Miliband warns against listening to ’siren voices’, in an interview with the ObserverThe climate secretary, Ed Miliband, last night warned of the danger of a public backlash against the science of global warming in the face of continuing claims that experts have manipulated data.In an exclusive interview with the Observer, Miliband spoke [...]
Next Generation Weather/Environmental Satellite Marks Major Milestone
GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The development of a new series of weather and environmental monitoring satellites has marked a significant milestone with the delivery and the beginning of spacecraft integration efforts for a key sci…
President Obama Should Appoint Independent Panel to Evaluate Climate Change-National Security Link in Wake of Climate Science Scandals, Former Commander of Pacific Fleet Says in Open Letter
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ahead of the State of the Union address and in the wake of recent and ongoing climate science scandals, President Obama should appoint an independent panel of experts to evaluate the purported climate chan…
Green light: Climate science under fire, conservation and money-free man
This is a weekly email briefing from environmentguardian.co.uk, bringing you the best news, analysis and debateSign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inboxClimate science under fire• UK’s top scientist urges care among climate scientists• IPCC denies claim that it overstated costs of natural disasters• Bob Ward: IPCC critics are digging up old [...]
Letters: Challenging times for climate science
You report (Cold snap does not undermine climate case – scientist, 12 January) that Professor Mojib Latif of Kiel University, a leading member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has attacked as “misleading” my article in the Mail on Sunday (10 January), stating that I wrongly claimed that his work “undermines the scientific case [...]
IPCC denies newspaper claim that it overstated costs of natural disasters
UN body rebutts Sunday Times allegation that it exaggerated link between costs of natural disasters and climate changeThe UN body that summarises climate science for governments has condemned as “misleading and baseless” claims that it overstated the effect of global warming on natural disasters.A newspaper report alleged a section in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate [...]
Claims Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 were false, says UN scientist
• IPCC report said ice would vanish ‘perhaps sooner’ • Panel head apologises for unsubstantiated assertionOne paragraph, buried in 3,000 pages of reports and published almost three years ago, has humbled the head of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Facing global outcry, Rajendra Pachauri backed down and apologised today for a disputed IPCC [...]