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MEP tells EU to get its act together to fight climate change after recent flooding chaos in the region
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Liberal Democrat MEP for the South West Sir Graham Watson has called on the European Union to do more to prevent climate change to avert future occurrences of flooding as experienced in the region in November and over the Christmas period. Late on...
The 2012 Climate Disasters should wake up the USA
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2012 might become a pivotal year in US history. Never before has the country been hit by a such a devastating combination of severe droughts and hurricanes in the very same year, the economic cost of which may run up to some $ 60 billion. For the fir...
Prepare for Warm World, Says PwC
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In the climate change debate, growing doubts about hitting temperature target.
Climate summit: EU and world must raise ambition, say environment MEPs
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The UN climate summit in Doha (COP 18) should spur the EU and other countries around the world to step up their action to limit global warming, say Environment Committee MEPs in a resolution adopted on 6 November. A majority called for the EU to aim...
PwC: Supply Chains Threatened by Six-Degree Global Warming
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See on Scoop.it – The Great Transition Some 85 percent of companies have more complex supply chains as a result of globalization, and adjusted climate forecasts mean businesses should expect climate change to have an even more destructive...
Our Video Guest: Sonja Vermeulen, Head of Research, CCAFS
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The aim of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is to address the increasing challenge of global warming and declining food security on agricultural practices, policies and measures through a strategic c...
“Rapid and deep emissions reductions may not be easy, but 4°C to 6°C will be much worse”
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"So we have no historical precedents for anything greater than 1% per annum reduction in emissions. We’re saying we need nearer 10% per annum, and this is something we need to be doing today. And therefore, we can draw a very clear conclusion f...
National Climatic Data Center's Jim Kossin: Not fair to say that Sandy was associated with climate change
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Kudos to the National Geographic for publishing this assessment by Jim Kossin, atmospheric research scientist in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center:Could Hurricane Sandy be the result of climate chan...
How clean is your house’s international trade record?
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As a western European country, the UK might pride itself in its efforts to lower emissions. And there has been success on this front. Carbon emissions in Great Britain have fallen since 2008, following a steady increase for over 100 years in line wit...
Global warming alarmists try to exploit the Sandy tragedy
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“The terrifying truth is that America faces a future full of Frankenstorms. Climate change raises sea levels and supersizes storms. The threat of killer winds and crushing storm surges will grow by the year unless we get serious about tackling...
Willam O'Keefe on why it is wrong to blame global warming for hurricane Sandy
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As expected, warmists have been quick to use Hurricane Sandy in their global warming scaremongering propaganda. William O'Keefe, Chief Executive Officer of the George C. Marshall Institute puts the issue in perspective:What we know is that the d...
Faire avancer l’agenda du changement climatique et de la croissance verte dans le Pacifique
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Le changement climatique affecte déjà de manière disproportionnée les îles du Pacifique. Bien que les insulaires aient peu contribué aux causes de ce changement, moins de 0.03% des émissions de gaz à effet de serre actuels, ils font partie de...
"Global warming" hits Germany: Coldest and snowiest day in decades
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Germans are experiencing a severe bout of "global warming": An outbreak of cold weather has already in October, for the first time in decades, brought close to -6° temperatures and a thick (up to 20cm) snow cover to large areas of the country.&...
Warmist David Attenborough openly hoping for a disaster to hit North America
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Attenborough hoping for a disasterNaturalist - and warmist - David Attenborough is desperately hoping for a "disaster" to happen in "the most powerful nation in the world, North America" in order to wake up the climate heretics:One of the world'...
Commission gathers views on ways to follow-up Rio+20
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The United Nations Rio+20 world summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, aimed to secure renewed political commitment to sustainable development. To follow up on the conference, the European Commission wishes to develop specific actions and concr...
Awaiting important decisions on climate and the environment
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Important issues such as the Council Conclusions on Rio+20, the preparation for the Doha Summit on climate change and the draft Regulation for the recycling of ships, are on the EU Environment Ministers agenda for the Council meeting taking place on...
"Creative" warmist scientists finally find a way to show that global warming increases violent conflicts
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"Global warming leads to wars and increasing violence" has been one the warmists' favorite propaganda claims already for years. The problem, though, is that this claim is not supported by serious studies. This is e.g. what Nils Petter Gledi...
"Climate Change and the GDP-led Growth Model" by Andrew Simms
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Watch Andrew Simms, Fellow at the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in London, discuss climate change and the flaws of the GDP-based growth model. This talk was recorded at the conference ‘From (un)economic growth to future well-being’ organ...
Greatest mass of sea ice ever in Antarctica leaves warmist "experts" almost speechless
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The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center last week confirmed that Antarctica is surrounded by the greatest mass of sea ice ever recorded there, 19.44 million square kilometres. And it is growing, although slowly. This of course...
Book Review: Why should sociology be interested in climate change?
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This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of responding to these changes. So far the discipline that has represented and modelled such human behavi...
Donna Laframboise: " IPCC is filled with environmental activists"
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Alarmist mainstream media continue to portrait the IPCC as a body made up of the world's top scientists and experts. Donna Lafromboise, the Toronto based investigative journalist, has found out that the reality looks somewhat different:So what did La...
"It´s Green to Talk" - Young People demad Europe listen to their voices on climate change
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HUNDREDS of green teens are working with a London MEP to transform the way Europe deals with climate change.Green party member Jean Lambert is backing a special manifesto, written by young people from across Europe and Africa, to demand MEPs listen t...
9th Regional Briefing: Building Reslience to Climate Change and Greening the Economy in the Pacific
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The ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), in collaboration with the Embassy of Vanuatu and with the Pacific Group of Ambassadors, will organise the 9th regional Briefing on 'Building Resilience to Climate Change and Gr...
The EU should mobilise an Alliance of the Willing against Climate Change
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Between November 26th and December 7th the international community will again come together and discuss on what to do against climate change. It will be the 18th time since 1990 that the world will meet under the auspices of the UN Framework of Clima...
An encounter with the skeptics
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Phew! I have actually started university. You may have noticed that it’s gone a bit quiet around this blow. I’ll do my best to keep posting. For my last lecture I had to deal with climate skeptics, which was a really … interesting...
If extreme weather becomes the norm, starvation awaits | George Monbiot
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With forecasts currently based only on averages, food production may splutter out even sooner than we fearedI believe we might have made a mistake: a mistake whose consequences, if I am right, would be hard to overstate. I think the forecasts fo...
Obama's Department of the Interior is "forging ahead with several initiatives related to climate change and global warming"
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The Summit Voice reports that "Climate change may not be front and center in the current presidential campaign, but behind the scenes, the Obama administration has been forging ahead with several initiatives related to climate science and global warm...
How bringing Rio+20 home makes sense in the midst of the crisis
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As the Rio+20 outcome was not as ambitious as we Europeans would have wished, we want to keep up the momentum and motivate all EU actors and governments to take forward and practice sustainable development measures (economic, social and environmental...
Is climate change a euphemism for growth?
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"One question that stops conversations cold is, ‘What if our greatest societal challenge is not climate but growth?’ Climate change is really just an ambiguous term or understatement for the problem at the root of our energy productio...
Dernier Briefing de Bruxelles sur le développement: Changement climatique, agriculture et sécurité alimentaire
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Le dernier Briefing, intitulé «Changement climatique, agriculture et sécurité alimentaire : approches éprouvées et nouveaux investissements», s’est tenu le 27 Septembre, 2012, et a été organisé par le CTA en collaboration avec le prog...
ABC New´s warmist climate change reporter: "I am not an advocate to try to stop global warming"
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ABC New´s veteran climate change reporter, warmist Bill Blakemore: "I’m not an advocate to try to stop global warming"!Judge yourself. Are these the views of a "fair and accurate" journalist?:"It’s warming. It’s caused by a huma...
European media have lost interest in international climate change conferences
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The European Union still pretends to be the global warming "superpower" at various UN sponsored climate change/global warming conferences, telling and, in the case of airlines, forcing other countries to conform with their "progressive" climate legis...
Alarmist "study": 1000 children a day are dying because of climate change
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Alarmists still seem to think that scaremongering is a winning strategy: Nearly 1,000 children a day are now dying because of climate change, according to a path-breaking study published Wednesday (PDF), and the annual death toll stands at 400,0...
Climate change is already damaging global economy, report finds
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Economic impact of global warming is costing the world more than $1.2 trillion a year, wiping 1.6% annually from global GDP… (Source: The Guardian) By 2030, the researchers estimate, the cost of climate change and air pollution combined will ri...
Sea levels rise by 3mm a year – new data
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Just a quick post to highlight some new data from the European Space Agency. Global sea levels have been rising by 3mm a year in the past 18 years, according to satellite data gathered by ESA and the French space agency CNES. In some areas, sea lev...
The poisoned tea of global warming
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There’s been two scary news items this week – the first one being that coral reefs are declining much faster than previously expected, the other one is about research showing that the North Sea is warmer than ever before (both in German).
Anthony Watts and global warming
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I think Anthony Watts has been doing a great job with his Watts Up With That site? However, I have a problem with one of his answers in the interview on PBS:SPENCER MICHELS: His (Rich Muller - NNoN) conclusion though is that basically global war...
Dame Vivienne and idiocy
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Dame Vivienne(image by wikimedia)“Before we have had class war, rich against poor. You know what the division is now? It’s idiots against eco-warriors. That’s it.”Dame Vivenne Westwood on the division between people who believe in climate cha...
German farmers welcome climate change: Harvests to increase by 40%
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German farmers can look forward to record harvests in a warmer climate(image by wikipedia)The German chancellor Angela Merkel and her government have been - and still officially are - firm believers in the global warming religion: "Climate chang...
China Confronting Climate Change and Pollution
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China has become the planet`s biggest polluter and emitter of greenhouse gases. This is the price the country has paid for the extraordinary economic rise during the last 35 years. There has never been a parallel for such a development in human histo...
Next Brussels Briefing: Climate change, agriculture and food security
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Climate change - both natural and anthropogenic - will lead to significant global and local changes in the near future. Agriculture is contributing significantly to GHG emmissions, but will also be among the sectors most severely impacted by changes...
Peer review is a new version of the old Vatican truth councils
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The way climate alarmists use peer review as a stamp of approval is according the Brendan O´Neill reminiscent of the old Vatican Councils, which determined the official Truth:Not long ago, the only people who knew or cared what peer r...
New study: Global warming increases biodiversity
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Global warming increases biodiversity. That is the main finding -"a big surprise" - of a new report by a group led by University of York evolutionary ecologist Peter Mayhew: Rather than kicking off the expected cycles of extinction, perio...
Stern climate change review 'not fit for purpose' says Tory MP
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A senior British Conservative sharply criticises economist Nicholas Stern's six-year-old report on the costs of climate change and says a new independent study should be commissioned...
Quebec taxpayers sponsoring free two week holidays in the Magic Desert Kingdom of Doha (for young climate bloggers only)
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"As your aircraft descends into Qatar, you are welcomed by a spectacular view of the capital city, Doha. The completely landscaped, crescent-shaped Corniche, the sparkling blue waters of the Arabian Gulf, and the sandy desert backdrop provide the fir...
Prince Philip is climate change denier
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Prince Philip has been exposed as a card-carrying climate change denier. After Telegraph columnist and fellow sceptic Christopher Booker found himself struck off Prince Charles’ Christmas card list for writing The Real Global Warming Disaster...
Will Faster Melting Arctic Ice be the Ultimate Warning for Humanity?
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Satellites tracking the extent of sea ice in the Arctic have discovered that it will most probably reach a record low in 2012 since the the start of the surveillance programme 40 years ago. Scientists now think that before the end of the decade the A...
EU and Australia to link carbon trading schemes
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The Australian government has announced that its new emissions trading system will be linked to the European Union's scheme by 2018...
Along with the Arctic ice, the rich world's smugness will melt | George Monbiot
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The belief that Europe and America will be hit least by climate change is in ruins. Yet all we do is try to profit from disasterThere are no comparisons to be made. This is not like war or plague or a stockmarket crash. We are ill-equipped, historica...
Climate sceptics launch Citizens Initiative to suspend EU climate targets
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Earlier this month the European Commission gave a green light for the ninth European Citizens Initiative (ECI) – a proposal to “Suspend the 2009 EU Climate & Energy Package”, the EU’s plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 20% and t...
Italy´s top scientist on the politicization of climate science
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This is what Professor Antonino Zichichi, one of the world´s leading particle physicists, thinks about the politicization of climate science: He is an angry man. Angry because he, like me, was brought up in the Classical tradition, which insists th...
Václav Klaus: The arrogance of the global-warming alarmists is appalling
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President Václav Klaus has again spoken words of wisdom on global warming. Here is an extract of his speech at the International Seminar on Planetary Emergencies, organized by the World Federation of Scientists in Erice, Sicily on 20 August 201...
Catholic bishops in the US jumping on the climate change bandwagon
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The Catholic Church in the US is jumping on the climate change bandwagon: The Catholic Coalition on Climate Change “and our partners,” which include the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services, and Catholic Cha...
US National Science Foundation funds $5 million urban global warming brainwashing campaign
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The US National Science Foundation apparently thinks that Philadelphians - together with people in New York, Pittsburgh and Washington DC - need to be brainwashed in order to become full fledged supporters of the global warming cult. That´s why...
Australia´s Shadow Climate Change Minister backs Kyoto 2!
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The drearily cold winter appears to have taken its toll on Greg Hunt, Australia´s Shadow Minister for Climate Change:Australia's opposition Liberal party climate spokesman Greg Hunt on Thursday gave his "in principle" backing to signing up for a sec...
Scientists with political agendas use apocalyptic predictions to justify increased government regulation, higher taxes, and redistribution of wealth
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In response to James Hansen's New York Times op-ed, Game Over for the Climate, Erik Axelson writes that James Hansen is at it again, flogging the dead horse of man-made climate change as a reason to keep Canada’s tar sands petroleum locked up fo...
The conversion of a former Canadian "skeptic"
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Former Canadian self-proclaimed "skeptic", meteorologist Scott Sutherland tries to imitate Richard Muller:I've been a meteorologist and air quality scientist for the last 12 years, so I knew the science behind the issue, but I'll admit I was a g...
Warmist U.S. Geological Survey scientist´s warning to surfers: Waves will get smaller!
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Among people who are looking forward to the larger storms predicted by global warming alarmists, surfers stand out: “Every time a new climate study comes out its worse than the last,” Hechter says. “Climate change means more big storms. Mo...
Global warming scaremongering: Children in tears
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This is what happens when a mother, who has been brainwashed, tells her children about the forthcoming climate armageddon: My 12-year old has just asked to participate in another weekly activity thirty minutes away. I try a quick rebuff: “You...
Rio +20: Educating for the Future
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During the recent Rio +20 Sustainable Development Conference in Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) from 20-22 June, I presented on a panel on educating for sustainable development called "The Future We Create", which HREA co-organised with Soka Gakkai Internati...
Catholic bishops urge Filipinos to recite a global warming prayer
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The victims of the recent heavy floods in the Philippines deserve all our sympathy. Hopefully they will receive the assistance they need, also from the Catholic church. However, the prayer that the secretary for the Catholic Bishops´ Conference...
That’s all right then
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The world is getting better, writes Fraser Nelson in the Daily Telegraph today. Fitter, happier, more productive, or words to that effect. And he’s not entirely wrong. The global economy is growing, if not here in Britain, and the embrace of mo...
New poll: New Zealanders now less concerned about global warming than in 2008
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Global warming scaremongering is not working in New Zealand either. The number of people who consider climate change an "urgent and immediate problem" is now considerably smaller than in 2008:The proportion of New Zealanders who believe climate chang...
Why I don’t worry about climate change.
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I accept that climate change is man-made. Not because I have perused the scientific data, because I’m far too dumb to understand it. No, the reason I believe in it is because the people who oppose it are, for the most part, opposed to nearly ev...
New study: Grasslands doing fine even during severe droughts
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Grasslands adapt well to droughts. That is the main message of a new study:For much of the year drought has been plaguing American grasslands. But a recent study found that grasses do not appear to be losing the turf war against climate when it comes...
What the new Schwarzenegger Institute should concentrate on
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Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has partnered with the University of Southern California to create a policy think tank:The USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy will be funded with a Schwarzenegger commitment of $2...
Warmists John Kerry and Barbara Boxer disappoint enviro-fundamentalist Oxfam America
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The US Congress - including global warming alarmists John Kerry and Barbara Boxer - is to be congratulated; it must have done the right thing, because it arouses the ire of enviro-fundamentalist Oxfam America: A vote passed Tuesday in the...
Gallup poll: Global warming lowest ranking issue in the US
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In spite of all recent heat wave hype in the media, climate change and global warming are not among the major concerns for Americans: While issues like federal deficits, spending, corruption and terrorism rank high among voter concerns, en...
Climate Change And The Next U.S. Revolution
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"Climate groups cannot view their issue as separate from other groups that are organizing against corporate power. The social movements that have emerged to battle austerity measures are natural allies, as are anti-war and labor activists. The cl...
Global warming: Psychologists busy finding ways to manipulate people
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You cannot blame warmists for not trying. Scores of well funded psychologists in a great number of universities are now busy trying to find ways how to manipulate people in order to make them more receptive to global warming propaganda. That is...
Will the Qatar Climate Conference be more successful than its Predecessors?
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In less than six months the 200-odd parties of the UNFCCC will meet once again to discuss on how to cope with the earth’s most pressing challenge: halting climate change. This time, they will get together in Qatar, a country that has the highes...
Australian climate madness: Hundreds of towns "could cease to exist by 2050"
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Australian climate change madness:A new report is warning hundreds of inland Australian towns could cease to exist by 2050 if locals do not adapt to climate change.The report, commissioned by a wonderful institution called "Federal Government´s Nati...
Cyberspace conference to present future outlook of climate change agenda
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According to recent updates by the ACP Secretariat, a global conference to be held in November will present the future outlook of the climate change agenda, with special emphasis on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The conference, organised b...
What do we do about climate change?
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See on Scoop.it – The Great Transition “To sum up, the existing economic and political system has proved incapable up to now of embracing anything like an adequate level of climate mitigation. It can be argued plausibly that it is already...
Megalomaniac global warming project in the Australian Bush
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Global warming alarmists love to peddle false information about the "huge big oil funding" available for "climate deniers". Instead they should perhaps take a look at their own funding, which makes the modest resources available for "sceptics" pale.
Rio+20 was grim but optimism and innovation could turn things around
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“John Elkington had not imagined quite how badly the UN summit in Rio would fail, but, ever optimistic, he outlines his plans to turn things around…” (Source: The Guardian) This is a bizarre article of one of my favorite sustainability expe...
Policy-makers are often unnecessarily timid in imposing climate change regulations
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When governments design policies to reduce firms’ greenhouse gas emissions, are they too lenient on heavy polluters that claim such measures will damage their ability to compete in the global economy? Using European and UK survey data, Ralf Martin...
Schwarzenegger´s legacy in California: Like a Hollywood horror movie
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Arnold Schwarzenegger´s legacy is slowly beginning to dawn on Californian companies and ordinary taxpayers. And it is more and more looking like a Hollywood horror movie: Andrew Chang & Company, which conducted the latest fiscal and econom...
It Only Took 16 Hours
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For someone to blame “man caused climate disruption” for the US mid-Atlantic derecho, or “land hurricane”.And it was done using the most passive-aggressive yet evasive language possible:As the intensity of the heat wave, without reservation,...
Rio+20 – what worked well (I)
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Last month was marked by the Rio+20 global summit on sustainable development. At the EESC we were committed to contributing to the EU’s position and to mobilising EU civil society in order to push EU and world leaders towards an ambitious Rio+20 ou...
Sensational study: Global warming turning Africa´s savannahs into green forests
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This barren savannah could soon be a green forestGreat news for Africa: Forget all the tree planting, global warming will turn the continent´s barren savannahs into green forests, according to a new German study, published in the journal Nature:&nbs...
Brussels sees plans to meet climate change targets
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Brussels recently hosted “Energy futures and civil society in the EU – building a low carbon alliance”, a conference which addressed the large number of current initiatives across the EU to meet the climate change targets. These plans, wh...
Great news for Panetta: Climate change does not increase risk of armed conflict
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"Our mission at the Department is to secure this nation against threats to our homeland and to our people. In the 21st Century, the reality is that there are environmental threats which constitute threats to our national security. Fo...
Investment and growth in the time of climate change
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Authors: Georg ZachmannAccording to a joint report by Bruegel and the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank, decarbonisation is not necessarily detrimental to growth if the policy mix is well adapted to the issue. Climate policy, like...
"Albert Einstein's famous 1905 paper on relativity was not peer reviewed"
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Australian palaeoclimatologist and - climate realist - Bob Carter explains why the "gold standard" of peer reviewed climate science is not what people like R.K. Pachauri pretend it is: Peer review is a technique of quality control...
