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admin /29 November, 2009
Is there any real chance of averting the climate crisis?
Nasa’s James Hansen was the first to point out the perils of climate change to the US Congress. Here, he begins a heated debate with experts from around the world, from China to the threatened Maldives, and argues that our leaders must be shaken out of their complacency. But will they show enough courage at next week’s Copenhagen summit to take the first steps to saving the planet?
- James Hansen
- The Observer, Sunday 29 November 2009
- Article history
Absolutely. It is possible – if we give politicians a cold, hard slap in the face. The fraudulence of the Copenhagen approach – “goals” for emission reductions, “offsets” that render ironclad goals almost meaningless, the ineffectual “cap-and-trade” mechanism – must be exposed. We must rebel against such politics as usual.
admin /29 November, 2009
Climate change: Gulf stream collapse could be like a disaster movie
Scientists predict an ice age could be provoked in a matter of months
- Robin McKie, Science Editor
- The Observer, Sunday 29 November 2009
- Article history
The next Ice Age could take only weeks to engulf Britain. Scientists say the last great disruption to the Gulf Stream 12,800 years ago took only a couple of months to trigger a massive plunge in temperatures across Europe.
“It was as if Europe had been shifted 20 degrees north and Ireland moved to Svalbard,” said Bill Patterson of Saskatchewan University.
admin /28 November, 2009
Rudd’s scheme unfair but effective
November 28, 2009
This will come as a surprise to many Liberal politicians, but there are still people who want to see effective action against climate change – and whose main worry is that the deal Kevin Rudd did with Malcolm Turnbull earlier in this tumultuous week made his scheme worse rather than better.
They’re right. Even so, the revised version of the carbon pollution reduction scheme is better than it seems. It will change behaviour, reduce emissions and move us towards a low-carbon economy.
To see why that’s true, you need a deeper grasp of economics than most people possess. You also need to be able to distinguish between what’s fair and what’s effective. Rudd’s scheme bombs out on fairness, but not on effectiveness.
admin /28 November, 2009
Grim reaper’s role in climate change denial
GEORGE MONBIOT
November 28, 2009
admin /27 November, 2009
Liberals facing election rout
- David Uren
- From: The Australian
- NovemberLiberals facing election rout
THE Coalition faces an electoral wipeout at next year’s federal election if the rebels led by Tony Abbott and Nick Minchin succeed in blocking the government’s climate change legislation.
The Coalition could lose at least 20 of its metropolitan seats, including those of its leader, Malcolm Turnbull, Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey and climate change critics Kevin Andrews and Andrew Robb, according to an analysis of Newspoll results.
Mr Turnbull faces a leadership spill at a partyroom meeting called for 9am on Tuesday.
admin /27 November, 2009
Climate change linked to civil war in Africa Ecologist 25th November, 2009 Higher temperatures cause declines in crop yields and ‘economic welfare’ which increases the risk of conflict Climate change is likely to increase the risk of conflict in African countries over the next 20 years, says a US study. Research led by the Continue Reading →
