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The European Union has long been at the vanguard of political progress on climate policy, and a recent budget proposal that commits 20% of all its funds (€200 billion) to climate-related action is no exception to the rule. The money is intended to 'mainstream' its climate commitments across funding sectors. In a Policy Watch, Sonja van Renssen investigates where this money will come from and whether it really has the potential to reduce carbon emissions from the European Union.
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Feature Story | 22 March, 2012 at 16:07 “It is not acceptable to turn Nature Refuges into open cut coal mines. Nature Refuges exist to protect nature in perpetuity. They form part of our precious natural heritage and should not be mined.” Read more >
Greenpeace Climate Change Resources
RealClimate
By Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou One claim frequently heard regarding extreme heat waves goes something like this: ”Since this heat wave broke the previous record by 5 °C, global warming can’t have much to do with it since that has been only 1 °C over the 20th century”. Here we explain why we find this logic doubly flawed.
This publication aims to address confusion created by contradictory information in the public domain. It sets out to explain the current situation in climate science, including where there is consensus in the scientific community and where uncertainties exist. The document is structured around seven questions:
Australian Academy of Science - Science Policy
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We at the Tyndall Centre are convening fourteen sessions at the forthcoming Planet Under Pressure scientific conference in London, March 26-29. +
This image could be seen today by thousands and thousands of London’s commuters as they opened up their newspapers today. This information advert was posted by the UK’s biggest water company in an attempt to win over London’s population to save water in the light of the severe drought huge parts of England are currently facing. After leaving the tube and being greeted by horrendous rain it doesn’t come as a big surprise that many Londoners were muttering, “Drought?
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Have a look at this nice peice of work from Nature … corrects a piece of evidence that didn’t quite add up. Carbon dioxide was the big driver that ended the last Ice Age, according to a new study of ice core data from around the world. About 10,000-20,000 years ago, Earth started to emerge from a quarter million years of deep freeze as the terrestrial ice sheet rolled back and warmer temperatures prevailed. This timing has been used by sceptics as proof that man-made carbon gases either do not cause global warming or at least do not make it as bad as mainstream scientists say.
Climate Shifts
Food Security
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Local governments join the Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) campaign by passing a resolution pledging to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their local government operations and throughout their communities. To help cities achieve their goals, ICLEI then assists the cities undertake the CCP's five milestones. The five milestones of the CCP and the methodology behind provide a simple, standardized means of calculating greenhouse gas emissions, of establishing targets to lower emissions, of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and of monitoring, measuring and reporting performance. ICLEI has developed several software tools that help cities comply with the methodology.
Local Governments for Sustainability : 5 Milestone Process
On the beach, a community campaign called ”Lets Build Big Solar” aiming to fast-track large-scale renewable energy projects was launched by the group 100% Renewables. Meanwhile the coal port blockade coincides with the submission period for the proposed fourth coal terminal in Newcastle. "People paddling here today can see a way out of coal.
Rising Tide Australia | Grassroots climate action
Rising Tide UK | Taking Action on the Root Causes of Climate Change
You are warmly invited to a public meeting in advance of Shell's AGM, that will bring together a diverse coalition of individuals and organisations calling Shell to account for the social and environmental impacts of its activities around the world. Millions are being affected by Shell's past, present and future operations. The world's largest oil company has been violating indigenous rights for 55 years in the Alberta tar sands, committing grave human rights abuses in Nigeria, pumping dangerous levels of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, destroying communities in Ireland, lobbying against effective climate action in Europe and is now set to exploit the Arctic – which could devastate the world's most fragile ecosystem.Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says
Here is a summary of global warming and climate change myths, sorted by recent popularity vs what science says. Click the response for a more detailed response. You can also view them sorted by taxonomy , by popularity , in a print-friendly version , with short URLs or with fixed numbers you can use for permanent references .A fun, hip, and inspiring book about girls who've taken the initiative to "go green". Featuring Hayden Panettiere, Mischa Barton, Ellen Page, and more.
Climate Crisis
I am a moderate Republican, fiscally conservative; a fan of small government, accountability, self-empowerment, and sound science. I am not a climate scientist. I’m a meteorologist, and the weather maps I’m staring at are making me uncomfortable.