Droughts, floods, sea-level rises and fiercer storms likely to undermine progress in developing world and hit food supplyMillions of people around the world are likely to be pushed back into poverty because climate change is undermining economic development in poor countries, the World Bank has warned.Droughts, floods, heatwaves, sea-level rises and fiercer storms are likely…
PETA recently released a video game where you commit violence against research scientists. Arguably the best response would be to create video games that promote and educate about scienceApparently PETA have created a video game where you commit serious violence against research scientists. That's nice. Given how PETA have strongly objected to the vaguest hint…
The green credentials of biofuel crops have been sullied in recent years. Rienk van Grondelle believes the answer to the world's clean energy needs will be super-efficient algaeDriving through the countryside in the south of France, you would probably be charmed by the vineyards and delighted at the thought of drinking fine French wine. But…
Citizens Climate Lobby aims to organize the public to create pressure behind a carbon fee and dividend systemAlthough a majority of Americans support taking action to address the threat of climate change, thanks mainly to opposition from conservative elected officials, US Congress has failed to implement climate legislation. Canada faces a similar situation where elected…
Ministers give license to those threatening to derail Europe's efforts to tackle the world's most difficult environmental problemThe parliamentary debate on the energy bill resumes in the Lords on Tuesday and is set to be distorted by a small but influential group of global warming contrarians. This group arrogantly believe they have a better understanding…
Meteorologists and scientists to try to figure out if icy winters and wet summers are due to natural variation or climate changeLeading scientists and meteorologists are meeting at the Met Office to discuss the UK's unusual weather patterns in recent years.Experts will discuss the reasons for 2010's icy winter, last year's washout summer and this…
Former vice-president – not persuaded by argument that program was legal – urges Congress and Obama to amend the lawsThe National Security Agency's blanket collection of US citizens' phone records was "not really the American way", Al Gore said on Friday, declaring that he believed the practice to be unlawful.In his most expansive comments to…
Recent extreme temperatures that are commonly followed by floods can largely be attributed to climatic warmingNear-record temperatures in Pakistan have claimed hundreds of lives and devastated crops in the third major heatwave in four years. But as temperatures on Friday dipped to under 38C (100F), signalling the end of nearly four weeks of blistering heat,…
The Chinese Academy of Sciences translated a Heartland report, but endorses the climate change consensusThe Heartland Institute is a fossil fuel-funded think tank that gained notoriety in May 2012 for launching an ad campaign comparing those who agree that humans are causing global warming (that's 97% of climate scientists and the majority of the rest…
The weather may be grim, but let’s learn to enjoy it | Richard Mabey
The Met Office held a crisis meeting today. But why do Brits turn trivial weather nuisances into dashers of hopes?Everyone bewildered by the seemingly unprecedented weirdness of this year's summer might spare a thought for those living in 1783, who went through another kind of trial by weather. Gilbert White of Selborne's account of the…
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