Climate Science

Companies and countries are planning a series of controversial experiments to help determine if seeding the ocean with iron can mitigate global warming.

Publication Date:

30/11/2007

Author(s): Eli Kintisch

Source: Science

Vol:

318

Issue:

5855

pp:

1368

Tags:

Oceans and Seas, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Climate Science, Carbon Sequestration

Climate Change

Climate assessment: What's next?

Future international scientific climate change assessments should be faster, more integrated, and more directly linked to policy questions.

Publication Date:

30/11/2007

Author(s): Rob Swart, Frank Raes

Source: Science

Vol:

318

Issue:

5855

pp:

1386

Tags:

UNFCCC, Climate Change, Climate Science, IPCC

Climate Change

At the North Pole

British explorer and environmentalist Pen Hadow and two colleagues are at the North Pole measuring the depth of ice. Equipment from Vanco, a virtual network operator, was used to transmit videos

Publication Date:

29/11/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Warming, Research, Scientists, Arctic

Climate Change

India and climate change

Today the west knows that it has to take action on climate change, thanks to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc) and the Stern report. However, encouraged by the Stern report, it

Publication Date:

29/11/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

16

Issue:

20071130

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment Economics, Climate Change, IPCC, Climate Impacts, Climate Mitigation, Consumption Patterns, International Cooperation, China, Europe, India, Developing Countries, Climate Science

Climate Change

Nicholas Stern on politics of climate change

In 2006, Nicholas Stern former chief economist, World Bank and advisor to the UK government, wrote about the economic threat from climate change in the Stern Report. He veers round to an uneasy

Publication Date:

29/11/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

16

Issue:

20071130

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment Economics, Vehicular Pollution, Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Emission Targets, Energy Policy, Consumption Patterns, Emissions Trading, India, Global, CNG

Climate Change

Glacial melt's carbon connection

so far climate change study models have ignored how carbon emissions contributed to the melting of glaciers. This was not part of climate study models since reliable data on soot emissions was

Publication Date:

14/10/2007

Author(s): Archita Bhatta

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Air Pollution, Himalaya, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Glacial Melt, Remote Sensing, Greenland, Arctic, India

Climate Change

US undercutting post Kyoto talks

us President George W Bush has announced a climate meeting for the end of September. The announcement comes at a time when there is already a un-led initiative to hammer out an agreement on

Publication Date:

14/10/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

16

Issue:

20071015

pp:

0

Tags:

Global Environmental Agreements, UNFCCC, Vehicular Pollution, Climate Change, Climate Science, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, China, Mexico, Brazil, India, Developing Countries, UN, South Africa

Climate Change

Human development report 2007/2008: fighting climate change - human solidarity in a divided world

Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even though they have contributed least to the problem.

Publication Date:

01/10/2007

Source: UNDP

Tags:

Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Climate Science, Climate Impacts, Natural Disasters, India, Global