| Pakistan tops 2010 list for weather impact - PakistanToday.com.pk DURBAN - Pakistan, Guatemala and Colombia topped the league table in 2010 for countries that were worst hit by extreme weather events, according to a “climate risk index” published on Tuesday. |
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| Rush cripples government website With feed-in tariff cuts about to take effect, the website where installers must register solar panels has failed to cope with trafficA key government website that enables those who have installed solar panels to apply for the feed-in tariff is experiencing serious technical problems, as contractors rush to register new systems ahead of this weekend deadline.Installers trying to log on to the Microgeneration Certificate Scheme (MCS) website, where all new installations have to register, are reporting huge problems. A message on the site on Thursday warned it is running slow. It goes on to advise users to come back later."We are trying to resolve this issue as soon as possible and do apologise for any inconveniences caused. |
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| 'Patronising and wrong': Frozen Planet scientist refutes Nigel Lawson criticism Leaked internal document written by Mark Brandon was prepared in response to Lawson's comments. Attacks on the science of the BBC's Frozen Planet series by climate sceptic Nigel Lawson were "patronising", wrong and the "usual tired obfuscation and generalisation", according to a leaked internal document written by one of the show's science advisers.The unpublished full response by Mark Brandon, a polar oceanographer at the Open University and scientific script consultant to the series presented by Sir David Attenborough, was prepared upon request by the BBC press office in reaction to an article in last week's Radio Times by Lord Lawson, in which he said that "Sir David's alarmism [about global warming] is sheer speculation".The document was received by BBC press officers, but a spokeswoman said today that the office "had no reason to use it in the end"� because they were never asked to formally respond to the ... |
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| Fox Absurdly Denigrates The "ENTIRE Solar Industry" - a Media Matters Cross-Post A recent Fox Nation post claimed that the "ENTIRE Solar Industry" is on the "Brink of Collapse." But the solar industry is growing faster than any other energy sector, and experts say solar is becoming increasingly cost competitive. Solar Is Growing Rapidly Even Without Climate Legislation Solar Industry Is Fastest-Growing Energy Sector In U.S. Earlier this year USA Today reported: The U.S. solar power market grew a record 67% last year, making it the fastest-growing energy sector, the industry reports Thursday. Its market share jumped from $3.6 billion in 2009 to $6 billion in 2010, helped by federal tax credits and declining technology costs, according to a report by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and GTM Research. |
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| Washington Post Edits Out Climate Change from Its Sea-Level Rise Story Projected sea level rise IF we don't get off our current emissions path (which is between A2 and A1FI). The WashPost omitted any mention of climate change in its sea level rise story, even though a key source talked about it with the reporter. by Elliott Negin, Union of Concerned Scientists, in a HuffPost repost. [I add some comments of my own at the end -- JR.] The Washington Post flunked Climate Science Reporting 101 this week, fumbling an opportunity to remind its readers about the threat global warming poses right here, right now. |
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| Desalination plant could make Israel water exporter JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's national water company signed a financing agreement to build a desalination plant, which officials said could allow drought-ridden Israel to export water to its neighbors upon completion in 2013. |
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| Earth in balmy 2080 What will life be like in a 2 °C warmer world? |
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| The world's biggest radar laboratory In the past year, the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility deployed 18 new scanning radars at its research sites in Oklahoma, Alaska, and the tropical western Pacific. These highly sophisticated new radars are providing extraordinary 4-dimensional information to help scientists better understand the lifecycle of clouds. |
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| Waiting on climate is 'escapism': top UN scientist Leaders who wait for further evidence about the perils of greenhouse gases are flirting with escapism, the head of the UN's Nobel-winning climate scientists says. |
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| Raising $100 billion for climate fund in dispute (AP) -- Even in hard times, fighting climate change is not a luxury but a necessity, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday, as climate negotiators bickered about how to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to adapt to a warming world. |
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| Study finds climate changes faster than species can adapt The ranges of species will have to change dramatically as a result of climate change between now and 2100 because the climate will change more than 100 times faster than the rate at which species can adapt, according to a newly published study by Indiana University researchers. |
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| India's uranium mines cast a health shadow Gudiya Das whines as flies settle on her face, waiting for her mother to swat them while she lies on a cot in Ichra, one in a cluster of villages around India's only functioning uranium mines. |
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| Human emissions could stretch around the Earth 63 times Fred Pearce, consultant, Durban Ever wonder how much carbon humans put into the air? Not the numbers, which are incomprehensible, but what it all looks like. Here goes. From burning carbon-based fuels like coal, oil and natural gas, we currently emit into the air every year 9 billion tonnes of carbon. Imagine that as a typical US coal train. How long would that it have to be to carry all that carbon? The answer, according to Christopher Sabine of the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is 2,479,500 kilometres. A train that long would stretch around the planet 63 times. |
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| Which countries fail the most at climate leadership? by Arne Jungjohann. Sweden, the U.K., and Germany: The European trio leads the world in fighting climate change. That's the finding of the most recent Climate Change Performance Index [PDF], which was released yesterday at COP 17 in Durban. But Swedes, Brits, and Germans shouldn't cheer just yet; even their countries are not contributing their fair share. In fact, that is the most worrying result of the index: No country is doing enough to seriously fight climate change. Consequently, the report -- published by Germanwatch and Climate Action Network Europe -- did not reward any country a ranking of 1-3. |
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| Saudi- Experts call for 'greener' desalination technology (MENAFN - Arab News) The Kingdom must upgrade desalination technology to meet a rising demand for water and reduce the carbon footprint left by decades of use of oil, a panel of industry experts ... |
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| The Onion: Global Warming May Be Irreversible by 2006 GENEVA—A new report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned Monday that global warming is likely to become completely irreversible if no successful effort is made to slow down the trend before 2006. |
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| Amy Goodman: Listen to the people, not the polluters DURBAN, South Africa — High 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.” |
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| NASA maps Earth's polar ice caps Mapping exercise will help scientists predict how frozen continent's melting affects global sea levels. |
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