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Climate Justice Fast - Australian uni student Paul Connor concludes 44 day fast for Planet
Seeded on Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:03 PM EST (Climate Justice Fast)
Paul Connor: "We will remember feeling fear as we watched the desperate warnings of scientists ignored by our leaders at COP15, and disbelief as our irreplaceable planet was sacrificed for meaningless profits."
Copenhagen: poor-country delegates reject "Imperial" US & Australia sham climate deal
Seeded on Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:36 AM EST (LINKS)
Erich Pica, president , Friends of the Earth (USA): "climate negotiations in Copenhagen have yielded a sham agreement ... This is not a strong deal or a just one -- it isn't even a real one. It's just repackaging old and pretending"
How to Slow Climate Change for Just $15 Billion
Seeded on Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:03 PM EST (Wired News)
Weaning humanity from its fossil fuel habit will take decades, and it will take decades more for global warming to stop. But one simple measure could slow warming in some of Earth's most sensitive regions, effective immediately — and it would cost just $15 billion.
Hackinggate, global warming, and tree ring divergence
Seeded on Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:45 AM EST (Christian Science Monitor)
Here's the issue: In recent decades, some — although not all — trees have stopped responding positively to higher temperatures. How do we know? For the past 150 years, we've been measuring temperatures directly with various instruments.
Hackinggate: Science of global warming not faked, inquiry decides
Seeded on Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:21 AM EST (Independent.co.uk)
Emails stolen from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia show they stonewalled sceptics and discussed hiding data. But the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, an exhaustive review by the Associated Press has found.
Copenhagen memo: 90,000 Australians - 40,000 in Melbourne - in Walk Against Warming
Seeded on Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:47 PM EST (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
ABC News: "Up to 90,000 environmental campaigners turned out for the Walk Against Warming ... biggest crowd by far was in Melbourne, where according to the Nature Conservation Council, 40,000 people took part"
Melting Ice Cap Opens Up Northeast Passage
Seeded on Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:06 PM EST (the Mail online)
The price of British imports from Asia could fall after two merchant ships completed an historic shortcut over the once ice-bound top of the world.
"Danish text" climate racism shock: secret US, UK deal puts Copenhagen into disarray
Seeded on Tue Dec 8, 2009 3:36 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
"Danish text", a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as "the circle of commitment" – including the UK, US and Denmark – allows Developed countries to have twice GHG per capita of Developing
Scientists Say Paper Battery Could Be in the Works
Seeded on Tue Dec 8, 2009 1:35 PM EST (ABC News)
Ordinary paper could one day be used as a lightweight battery to power the devices that are now enabling the printed word to be eclipsed by e-mail, e-books and online news.
Copenhagen: Australia for Rich countries backs $10 billion per year fund for at-risk nations
Seeded on Mon Dec 7, 2009 7:22 PM EST (The Age)
Australia (one of the world's worst per capita GHG polluters) has backed the creation of a [derisory] $US10 billion a year green fund to help vulnerable countries cope with First World-made climate change
Decade of 2000s was warmest ever, scientists say
Seeded on Mon Dec 7, 2009 2:32 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
Over the decade's first nine years, global temperatures averaged 0.6 degrees Celsius (1.1 degrees F) higher than the 1951-1980 average, NASA reported. And temperatures rose faster in the far north than anyplace else on Earth.
Global warming crisis: top UK scientist predicts only 0.5 billion people will survive at +4C
Seeded on Sat Dec 5, 2009 5:23 PM EST (Scotsman.com News)
Prof. Anderson: "But I think it's extremely unlikely that we wouldn't have mass death at 4C. If you have got a population of nine billion by 2050 and you hit 4C, 5C or 6C, you might have half a billion people surviving."
Brazil deforestation drops to lowest level since 1980s
Seeded on Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:41 PM EST (Telegraph)
On the eve of vital climate change talks in Copenhagen, Brazil has announced a reduction in Amazon deforestation to its lowest level since the 1980s.
Greenland Ice Cap Melting Faster Than Ever
Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:22 PM EST (Science Daily)
Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science. ............................................ Professor Jonathan Bamber fro …
The Other Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis in Global Land Use
Seeded on Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:32 PM EDT (environment 360)
As the international community focuses on climate change as the great challenge of our era, it is ignoring another looming problem — the global crisis in land use.
New York Times report on 350 ppm CO2 target & 350 Day events around the world
Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:24 PM EDT (The New York Times)
NYT summary of 24 October 2009 350 Day: "[for] an international climate accord:a synchronized burst of more than 4,300 demonstrations, from the Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef, all centered on the number 350."
Scientists Unite! 18 Scientific Groups Reaffirm Climate Science in Letter to Senators
Seeded on Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:51 AM EDT (Pew)
Scientists to Congress: You can argue about the politics all you want, but if you decide not to act on climate change, it won't be because the science wasn't strong enough.
Greenpeace accuses New Zealand world's #1 dairy export company of "climate crime"
Seeded on Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:02 AM EDT (M&C)
Greenpeace activists arrested at NZ port; Greenpeace said that clearing rain forests in Indonesia and Malaysia to plant palm plantations is causing 'massive carbon emissions,' which are blamed for global warning.
Obama US climate racism, climate terrorism & climate genocide
Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:22 PM EDT
Obama's flawed Waxman-Markey Bill permits a US 2020 per capita GHG pollution value over 4 times greater than the BAU value for the Developing World – climate racism and climate terrorism leading to climate genocide.
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Borneo's Penan Indigenous Peoples in Standing up to Malaysian Rainforest Destruction
Seeded on Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:36 AM EDT (Rainforestportal.org)
Malaysia is the world's leading rainforest destroying nation.
An extraordinarily CHEAP Green Bailout to stop Brazil, Guyana and other deforestation
Seeded on Mon Sep 7, 2009 6:51 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
In the last year countries bailed out the financial system to the tune of several trillion dollars - bailing out our planet is far cheaper: between 2010 and 2015, $20bn dollars is enough to cut tropical rainforest loss by 25%.
Greenpeace: Indonesian Sinar Mas logging and palm oil company, "climate criminal"
Seeded on Sat Sep 5, 2009 10:52 PM EDT (Greenpeace News)
Greenpeace activists demanding a logging halt were attacked when they led a peaceful protest at the headquarters of Indonesia's largest logging and palm oil company, the Sinar Mas Group, in Jakarta today.
Carbon Gold Promote Strict Regulations With World's First Biochar Methodology
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:57 PM EDT (TreeHugger)
Today the world's first biochar methodology has been published for public consultation by the Voluntary Carbon Standard. This ground breaking paper has been submitted by the UK based biochar project developers Carbon Gold.
Biomass plant opens in Scots trade park
Seeded on Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:10 PM EDT ()
A BIOMASS plant heralded as a "benchmark" for other commercial and public-sector projects was unveiled yesterday at the Midlothian Innovation Centre.
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