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How Industry First Went to War With Climate Science | DeSmog UK
How Industry First Went to War With Climate Science | DeSmog UK. Scientists had well understood for many decades that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere could raise global temperatures and cause climate change. But when politicians finally took notice, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was formed, industry began a war with science itself. […]
Hottest September on record | Climate Citizen
Hottest September on record | Climate Citizen. We are nine months into 2014 and the heat records continue to fall globally. January-September tied with 1998 as the warmest such period on record. For global average temperatures over land and sea, this September was the highest for the month since record keeping began according to the […]
EU Weakens Climate Deal To Keep UK, Poland On Board
EU Weakens Climate Deal To Keep UK, Poland On Board. European Union leaders have agreed to a landmark deal to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 15 years. The agreement, reached Oct. 24, calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. European Council chair Herman Van Rompuy called the […]
Degrowth-movement refuted by climate-report? No, not at all! | Degrowth 2014
Degrowth-movement refuted by climate-report? No, not at all! | Degrowth 2014. Right before the recent UN climate change summit and shortly after the Leipzig Degrowth-Conference, international media, governments and the United Nations enthusiastically welcomed a new report entitled “Better Growth, Better Climate” and trumpeted its central message around the globe: that economic growth and tackling climate change can go hand in […]
Andrew Nikiforuk Breaks Down the Global Oil Price Slump | The Tyee
Andrew Nikiforuk Breaks Down the Global Oil Price Slump | The Tyee. The dramatic slump in global oil prices has, as usual, caught governments, industry and markets off guard. In fact, Brent oil prices, a global standard, have dropped by 25 per cent since last June. Given the chaos in Iraq, Syria, Libya and the […]
EU reaches deal on CO2 emissions cut – Europe – Al Jazeera English
EU reaches deal on CO2 emissions cut – Europe – Al Jazeera English. The agreement adopts 27 percent targets for renewable energy supply and efficiency gains [EPA] European Union leaders have reached what they described as the world’s most ambitious climate change targets for 2030, paving the way for a new UN-backed global treaty next […]
COMBAT VS. CLIMATE: The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared – IPS
COMBAT VS. CLIMATE: The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared – IPS. As the U.S. debates the President’s plan for new military engagement, hundreds of thousands converged on New York to urge the world’s nations to take stronger action against the threat of climate change. A new report connects these two issues, and finds that the […]
Economics As If Future Generations Mattered | On the Commons
Economics As If Future Generations Mattered | On the Commons. By Lieven Soete under a CC license The message that solutions to climate change and environmental degradation is up to the individual directly conflicts with what people are witnessing We have turned a corner on climate change— a wrong turn– and it is happening more rapidly than we have predicted. Climate change is […]
Letter to the PM outlining how 2°C demands an 80% cut in EU emissions by 2030
Letter to the PM outlining how 2°C demands an 80% cut in EU emissions by 2030 Below is an open letter (22nd Oct. 2014) to both the UK’s Prime Minister and the Secretary of State at the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC). The letter summarises why the IPCC’s carbon budgets for a “likely” chance of not […]
EU Braces for Battle to Set Energy Goals for Next Decade – Bloomberg
EU Braces for Battle to Set Energy Goals for Next Decade – Bloomberg. European Union leaders face heated negotiations today on a deal to toughen emission-reduction policies in the next decade and boost the security of energy supplies amid a natural-gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine. The main challenge for the 28 heads of government will be […]
Remembering Rick Piltz, Who Fought Government Suppression of Science – The Intercept
Remembering Rick Piltz, Who Fought Government Suppression of Science – The Intercept. Rick Piltz, a climate change whistleblower, died this weekend of cancer. Piltz revealed in 2005 that the Bush administration was revising supposedly scientific reports to cast doubt on the existence of human-caused climate change. He leaked copies of the edited documents toThe New York Times, after resigning […]
Water crisis squeezes Sao Paulo state – Americas – Al Jazeera English
Water crisis squeezes Sao Paulo state – Americas – Al Jazeera English. Itu, Brazil – The state of Sao Paulo is on the cusp of an unprecedented water crisis stemming in part from one of the worst droughts in decades, leaving millions scrambling to find clean water sources. On Friday, the city of Sao Paulo recorded […]
Roar II | The carbon pilgrim
Roar II | The carbon pilgrim. In a nice bit of irony, the route of People’s Climate March cut through the gaudy heart of Times Square, placing protestors under the smoky gaze of two-story tall fashion models. The contrast was delicious – and intimidating. We had marched into one of the cultural epicenters of indifference […]
Video of the Day – Stunning Scenes from California’s Central Valley Drought | Liberty Blitzkrieg
Video of the Day – Stunning Scenes from California’s Central Valley Drought | Liberty Blitzkrieg. Michael Krieger | Posted Friday Oct 17, 2014 at 11:26 am No matter what you have read or seen so far on California’s historic Central Valley drought, you probably haven’t been touched by it as much as you will be by the following video from […]
Australia’s Energy Policy Is Simple. Listen To The UN And Do The Opposite
Australia’s Energy Policy Is Simple. Listen To The UN And Do The Opposite. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s energy policy seems to stick to one iron-clad mantra: Whatever the United Nations advises, do the exact opposite. While this might seem like a flight of fancy chosen to make this article’s lede a little sexier, evidence […]
