More than 10,000 homes a week will be given ‘eco-upgrades’ under Goverment plans to make every home in Britain environmentally friendly.
Diesel Civil Trust
What does a metre sea level rise actually mean? This is how we visualised some of the data confusion.
From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption. After all has been said and so little done, the truth about the climate crisis — inconvenient as ever — must still be faced.
Op-Ed Contributor - We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change - NYTimes.com
Here’s a great example of how the Government, in its quest to save the Earth, and us -the benighted masses- from our dimwitted selves, took something efficient and elegant in its simplicity, and rendered it, well - less effective. Now apply this lesson to something more complicated, like health care. Mixaphorically speaking, I’d rather not be what ends up on the bottom of the plunger when they get though.
EU leaders have agreed to pay 7.2bn euros (£6.5bn; $10.6bn) over the next three years to help developing nations adapt to climate change.
Read the last two paragraphs for other business that was being discussed at the same time. Emphasis mine.
The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn’t move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a “command-and-control” role over the process in way that could hurt business.
Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN’s negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol.
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The Economist’s deputy editor on ways to address climate change and why it must be dealt with globally or not at all.
Really listen to this podcast—listen to the tone of the speaker’s voice and what she’s saying. It smacks of a global enforcement body, because democratically elected officials have a “short shelf life.” Emphasis mine.
A picture taken on November 30, 2009 and released on December 3, 2009 by Greenpeace shows US President Barack Obama on an advertisement reading “I’m Sorry, we could have stopped catastrophic climate change … we didn’t”. The posters with heads of state have been placed all over Copenhagen International Airport by the global coalition, tcktcktck.org and Greenpeace calling on world leaders to secure a fair, ambitious and binding deal at the Copenhagen Climate Summit.
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A few days after leaked e-mail messages appeared on the Internet, the U.S. Congress may probe whether prominent scientists who are advocates of global warming theories misrepresented the truth about climate change.
Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.
After several false starts, 2010 finally could be the year when smart meters go global. The technology, which lets energy companies and consumers more closely monitor their electricity consumption, has many champions. The U.S. government has earmarked $4.5 billion from the stimulus package to subsidize the rollout of smart meters nationwide. European Union politicians are pushing hard to connect 80% of the region’s homes and businesses to smart meters by 2020. Even emerging giants like India and China aim to install the technology in new buildings.
Every day, the critical December summit in Copenhagen grows closer. All agree that climate change is an existential threat to humankind. Yet agreement on what to do still eludes us.
Be sure to read clear to the bottom, very carefully. Emphasis mine.
The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.
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