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The sun’s cooling down – so what does that mean for us? Digg it Laura Spinney The Guardian, Thursday 23 April 2009 Article history Region 486 that unleashed a record flare on the sun. Photograph: NASA/Getty Images The sun’s activity is winding down, triggering fevered debate among scientists about how low it will go, and Continue Reading →
Methane-fuelled climate catastrophe ‘less likely’ ABC – April 24, 2009, 4:08 pm Carbon dioxide is not the only problem for the world. A bigger problem could well be methane. The gas emerges from swamps and in the burps and farts of animals, including us humans, and it is a big contributor to global warming. Now Continue Reading →
Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate Single Page By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: April 23, 2009 For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global Continue Reading →
Bolivia: water people of Andes face extinction Climate change robs Uru Chipaya of lifeline that had sustained them for millennia Rory Carroll and Andres Schipani in Santa Ana de Chipaya The Guardian, Friday 24 April 2009 Article history ‘If there is no water, the Chipaya have no life’ Link to this video Its members belong Continue Reading →
Coal burning must end, says scientist Andrew Darby in Hobart April 24, 2009 A CSIRO scientist has told a Senate inquiry it is imperative to begin phasing out coal burning in order to avoid dangerous climate change. No coal-fired power plants should be built, and existing plants must shut within 20 years, if the world Continue Reading →
Bangers and cash on the menu but a few greens needed The Guardian, Friday 24 April 2009 Article history Chancellor Darling’s budget announcements of new investment in the environmental economy and green housing are welcome, but fall far short of a Green New Deal. A bolder approach to investment in the UK’s housing fabric Continue Reading →