Archive for the ‘Climate Change’ Category

UNFCCC Chief to step down

The UNFCCC’s Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer has announced that he will step down in July. Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director at the National Resources Defense Council gives his view. Source: Clean Skies News

Arctic ice melting faster than feared

Canadian experts in arctic oceanography say their latest research voyage on the Amundsen research vessel shows that the Arctic is heating up much faster than expected. Source: CBC News

IPCC Report Errors Require New Format

Center for American Progress climate blogger Joe Romm, formerly of the DOE, wants the IPCC to make the format of its reports shorter, more frequent, and more specific, due to frequent mistakes found in the current lengthy, thousand-page reports. Source: Clean Skies News

Contested deal breaks climate deadlock

World leaders finally clinched a climate deal at the end of the marathon talks in Copenhagen but admitted it would not halt global warming, while environmental campaigners and representatives of the poorest countries denounced the outcome as an abject failure. Source: AFP

Tear gas and arrests mar climate summit

Danish police used tear gas and truncheons to stop an activists march at the global climate summit in Copenhagen, arresting some 260 people as anger boiled over at the high-stakes talks. Source: AFP

Michael Mann responds to “Climategate”

Climate scientist Michael Mann, best known for creating the controversial “hockey stick” graph to show the effects of anthropogenic global warming over the last 200 years, speaks to CNN about the University of East Anglia “climategate” emails. Source: Washington Times/CNN

Climate Change Skeptics see Smoking Gun in emails

Climate change skeptics claim recently-revealed emails between scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit in the UK show that researchers fudged data on global warming and sought to discredit skeptics by attempting to ban their papers from scientific journals. Patrick Michaels of the DC-based Cato Institute think tank, who was mentioned in the hacked emails, tells Clean Skies News he was targeted because of his opposition to climate change theory. Source: Clean Skies News

Korea and Brazil propose CO2 emissions cuts

Clean Skies News’ editor Margaret Ryan analyzes the announcements by the governments of South Korea and Brazil of significant reductions in CO2 emissions by 2020. Source: Clean Skies News

Global warming hits China’s Yangtze

A report by the World Wide Fund for Nature suggests the future of China’s Yangtze river basin is endangered by increasingly extreme weather patterns. Source: Reuters

Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Women

UN-appointed experts say there is growing evidence that the freak weather conditions believed to result from climate change have a disproportionately adverse effect on women. Source: Clean Skies News

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