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 [...]
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Scientists in Wisconsin are discovering that increased greenhouse gases are having some unexpected effects …
Latest figures show the world’s glaciers are continuing to melt so fast that many will disappear by the middle of this centuryGlaciers across the globe are continuing to melt so fast that many will disappear by the middle of this century, the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) said today.The announcement of the latest annual results [...]
Head of climate change refuses to resign over false claimsThe head of the UN’s panel of climate scientists, Rajendra Pachauri , has dismissed suggestions that he should resign over an erroneous projection that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035, though he pledged that future research procedures by his organisation would be tightened up.A 2007 report [...]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The head of the U.N.’s panel of climate scientists promised on Saturday to tighten research procedures but dismissed talk he should resign over an erroneous projection that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.
DAVIS, Calif., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ — An elite panel of leading water, engineering, and environmental scientists from throughout the nation is set to meet for five days starting Sunday at the University of California at Davis to begin examining rules …
MoD site associated with chemical and biological warfare research begins mission to save bushes from extinction threatIt is associated with top secret programmes designed to keep Britain at the forefront of chemical and biological warfare.But scientists at the Ministry of Defence’s Porton Down site are currently engaged in a less classified mission – to save [...]
Concerns grow over dramatic drop in numbers of mysterious creatures that migrate across the AtlanticEel populations in the river Thames have crashed by 98% in just five years, scientists warned today.The eel, which has been a traditional east London dish for centuries, now appears to be vanishing from the capital’s river, according to researchers from [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new analysis of global surface temperatures by NASA scientists finds the past year was tied for the second warmest since 1880. In the Southern Hemisphere, 2009 was the warmest year on record.
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