09.01.2013
Climate change turns up the heat
The temperature forecast for next Monday (14 January) by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology is so unprecedented - over 52C - that it has had to add a new colour to the top of its scale, a suitably incandescent purple. |
27.12.2012
Sanford: Another record-breaking year for climate change
It's virtually certain that 2012 will be the warmest year on record for the continental United States. When scientists affirm these results, they'll no doubt make headlines. But we should put that record in perspective. |
27.12.2012
Time to Confront Climate Change
Four years ago, in sharp contrast to the torpor and denial of the George W. Bush years, President Obama described climate change as one of humanity’s most pressing challenges and pledged an all-out effort to pass a cap-and-trade bill limiting greenhouse gas emissions. |
26.12.2012
Quicker fix for climate change
The Doha climate change conference this year was the most significant in nearly 20 years of gatherings under the U.N. Framework Convention process aimed at staving off future global warming disaster. |
24.12.2012
Iraq calls for Arab action on climate change
Iraq's most senior energy official called for coordinated Arab action on climate change while Egypt's environment minister proposed a regional green fund at a conference in Baghdad on Monday. |
21.12.2012
Aust regions given cash to curb climate change
Australia's regional areas will have access to nearly $25 million in federal funding to prepare for the impact of climate change and steer projects that boost biodiversity. |
21.12.2012
Four GCC Countries Pledge to Bring Forward Climate-Smart Economic Diversification Plans
Doha, 21st Dec. 2012 (WAM) ? The Kingdom of Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the State of Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates filed a historic joint submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as a contribution to the success of the 2012 UN Climate Change Conference (COP18/CMP8). The 18th round of these annual negotiation sessions came to a successful conclusion in Doha, Qatar, on December 8. |
20.12.2012
The indoor climate change danger
For the past few weeks, billboard posters across Doha have promoted the International Climate talks with the ‘< 2°C’ logo – a reference to the ambition of maintaining average global temperatures less than 2 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels. |
19.12.2012
IEA warns coal renaissance threatens climate crisis
Without urgent action to deliver a high carbon price or bring on line new unconventional gas reserves, coal is on track to displace oil as the global economy's dominant energy source, resulting in potentially catastrophic consequences for efforts to curb carbon emissions. |
17.12.2012
Progress still too slow on climate
The results of the United Nations climate change conference that closed in Doha, Qatar, last Saturday week again show that the international negotiations are moving steadily in the right direction, but alarmingly slowly. |
14.12.2012
What Doha did
No progress today, but a slightly better chance of progress tomorrow |
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