| Who is responsible for climate change? Get a handle on carbon with our interactive map showing the current, historical and consumption emissions of nations. Guardian Interactive teamAlex GraulDuncan Clark |
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| Durban climate change talks: the final day Latest developments from the final day of the UN COP17 climate change talks in Durban12.12pm: Some sober words from our friend James Murray over at Business Green:. Durban: What is so special about 2015?Unfortunately, from an environmental perspective the new roadmap could prove pretty disastrous. In short, diplomats are working on a treaty to ensure that emissions peak years after scientists are recommending that they peak. Meanwhile, the fixation on agreeing a roadmap for a timeline to agree a framework that may eventually become a protocol, means the crucial issue of how countries share emissions reductions is again being filed in the tray marked "too difficult".. Durban ... |
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| Rich 'in climate deal conspiracy' Ex-deputy prime minister John Prescott accuses rich nations of trying to scupper a new climate deal. [The rich have a deathwish, apparently...] |
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| Brazil eases Amazon forest rules The Brazilian Senate approves changes to the country's forest code, which environmentalists say will spur Amazon deforestation. |
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| Derailing Durban's climate change conference | Amy Goodman With the US dragging its feet at the Durban climate change conference, the influence of a powerful industry lobby is worryingHigh above the pavement, overlooking Durban's famous South Beach and the pounding surf of the Indian Ocean, and just blocks from the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where up to 20,000 people gathered, seven activists fought against the wind to unfurl a banner that read "Listen to the People, Not the Polluters". It was no simple task. Despite the morning sun and blue sky, the wind was ferocious, and the group hanging the banner wasn't exactly welcome. They were with Greenpeace, hanging off the roof of the Protea Hotel Edward. |
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| The clique that is trying to frame the global geoengineering debate | Clive Hamilton Suspicious of the UN, resistant to regulation and leading inquiries - how has this group become the 'go-to scientists'?The contradictory and ambivalent recommendations of the report of the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI), published last week, reflect the emerging faultlines in the global debate over geoengineering.The global debate has been heavily dominated by a very small group of North American scientists actively engaged in geoengineering research. They are present in almost all of the expert deliberations, including SRMGI. They have been the leading advisers to parliamentary and congressional inquiries and their views will, in all likelihood, dominate the deliberations of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as it grapples for the first time with the scientific and ethical tangle that is climate engineering. |
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| The environment in 2017: a polluted wasteland hit by floods and droughts Pollution and climate change create misery with petrol and energy prices at record levels and flooding rifeIn 2017, the snarled-up roads of just six years earlier are a fading memory for many. A huge road and bridge building programme has left the nation with hundreds of miles of fresh tarmac, but the free passage motorists enjoy owes more to record petrol prices and falling incomes keeping people off the roads.Air pollution eases on the motorways, but the stubborn hotspots in cities remain in flagrant breach of European law. The latest austerity measures have slashed funding for clean-up projects, despite the costs to health and the certainty of heavy fines for the UK. |
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| Naomi Klein's Inconvenient Climate Conclusions A critic of capitalism argues that climate progress can only come through a global economic reboot. |
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| Talk of a 'new climate deal' at COP17 is a distraction from inaction Talk of a long-term climate deal to cut carbon emissions is allowing industrialised countries to delay taking action, says Murray Worthy from the World Development Movement |
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| CO2 Emissions in 2010 Show Biggest Increase Ever Recorded Global carbon emissions soared 5.9 percent in 2010, the largest increase ever recorded, according to the Global Carbon Project, an international collaboration of scientists that tracks carbon emissions. The increase comes after a short-lived decline in emissions in 2008 and 2009 and is a sign that global CO2 emissions are once again on the rise as world economies bounce back from recession. The overall jump of more than 500,000 million tons of CO2 emissions from 2009 to 2010 was likely the largest absolute increase since the Industrial Revolution, according to the Global Carbon Project. Emissions in China, the world's largest source of CO2 releases, rose by 10.4 percent to 2.2 billion tons of carbon injected into the atmosphere. |
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| Australian Green Party Leader: U.S. Climate Denial Machine "Being Directed Straight into Australia" Via Murdoch's News Corp The Winning Aussie Strategy: Fighting Back Against Deniers and Talking About Climate Change If President Obama needs a role model for his stance (or lack thereof) on climate change, he should look no further than the Deputy Leader of Australia's Green Party, Christine Milne. In a wide-ranging interview with Climate Progress at the COP 17 climate talks in Durban today, Senator Milne outlined her strategy for helping pass a comprehensive climate bill in Australia this year - even when faced with "a massive campaign against the climate science" that rivals the War on Science being waged in America (see Aussie Scientist ... |
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| What Are the Near-Term Climate Pearl Harbors? What Will Take Us from Procrastination to Action? "So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.... Owing to past neglect, in the face of the plainest warnings, we have entered upon a period of danger.... The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedience of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.... We cannot avoid this period, we are in it now...." - Winston Churchill, November 12, 1936, House of Commons What kind of climatic mini-catastrophes might move public and policymaker opinion over the next decade? |
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| Climate talks mean life or death for island states So while climate change delegates haggle over deadlines, binding targets and finance, some of the world's poorest states are warning that rising sea levels and storms will sweep them away unless the world agrees to tackle global warning. |
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| Global industry CO2 output rising even in weak economy: study SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Global carbon dioxide emissions from industry rose about three percent in a weak global economy this year, a study released on Monday showed, adding fresh urgency to efforts to control planet-warming gases at U.N. climate talks in South Africa. |
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| Paleoclimate record points toward potential rapid climate changes (PhysOrg.com) -- New research into the Earth's paleoclimate history by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies director James E. Hansen suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, including multiple meters of sea level rise, if global warming is not abated. |
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