European Commission proposals about how poor countries should be helped financially to deal with climate change show a ‘serious lack of ambition’ says Christian Aid.
The Commission said that EU should provide poor countries with between €2 -15bn annually for both adapting to climate change, and reducing emissions. Christian Aid and other climate justice campaigners say [...]
EC shifts climate bill onto poor and vulnerable countries
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: · aid, carbon, christian, climate, ec, emissions, justice, warming
Warming In the Arctic Could Have Far-Reaching Consequences for U.S. and Planet
September 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Warming in the Arctic will likely have far-reaching impacts throughout the world, resulting in a sharp increase in harmful greenhouse gases and significant shifts in global weather patterns that could disrupt the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people.
Tags: · artic, Climate change, ice, levels, polar bears, sea, Sea ice, warming, WWF
The 3rd Annual Global cooling music festival
August 21st, 2009 · No Comments
The 3rd Annual Clean Air Clear Stars Music Festival is a 3 day event raising money to protect the environment and raise awareness about the effects of Global Warming. Dandy Warhols, Robby Krieger join 30 other indie bands to fight global warming in a 3 day event beginning on Friday 18th September.
Tags: · bands, clean air clear stars, cooling, dandy warhols, festival, global, indie, music, warming
Hybrid and pure electric cars – the next ten years
July 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Dr Peter Harrop, chairman of IDTechEX has issued a reporting detailing the current and future development of hybrid and pure electric cars.
A radical change in attitude to electric vehicles has occurred in 2009, resulting in huge new financing from governments and tough new laws that will boost sales. Now all car makers must offer electric [...]
Tags: · budget, cars, eco, electric, environment, global, goverment, green, hybrid, tax, transport, warming
Google Causes Global Warming?
February 5th, 2009 · No Comments
Is Google destroying the planet one search at a time? The recycling market has gone bust. And check out “That’s Just Weird.”
Tags: · global, google, Recycling, warming, zaproot
Ocean ‘fertilisation’ team ordered to halt global warming experiment
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments
The team planned to drop 20 tons of iron sulphate into waters around the Antarctic to stimulate the growth of plankton, which would take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Environmentalists had claimed that the experiment – aimed at creating a 186-square-mile bloom of plankton between Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope so big [...]
Tags: · experiment, fertilisation, global, ocena, warming
Global warming increasing death rate of US trees, scientists warn
January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Trees in the western United States are dying twice as quickly as they did three decades ago and scientists think global warming is to blame.
In their surveys, ecologists found that a wide range of tree species were dying including pines, firs and hemlocks and at a variety of altitudes. The changes can have serious long-term [...]
Tags: · change, climate, dying, global, trees, us, warming
Asia on the global warming boil
January 13th, 2009 · No Comments
For anyone interested in the weather, the good news is that 2008 was cooler than the previous year. The bad news is that the world is still getting hotter and that greater variability in weather brought on by climate change resulted in or contributed to extreme weather that killed hundreds of people in Southeast Asia [...]
Tags: · asia, change, climate, global, warming
Europe shivers, but world is getting hotter
January 12th, 2009 · No Comments
It might feel cold in Europe but the world is getting hotter and global warming remains a danger, the United Nations weather agency WMO said Friday.
“The Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, Michel Jarraud, has stressed that we mustn’t confuse the current weather that we’re seeing with global warming,” WMO spokeswoman Gaelle Sevenier told a [...]
Tags: · change, climate, cold, global, warming, weather
Ancient Soil Replenishment Technique Helps In Battle Against Global Warming
December 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Former inhabitants of the Amazon Basin enriched their fields with charred organic materials-biochar-and transformed one of the earth’s most infertile soils into one of the most productive. These early conservationists disappeared 500 years ago, but centuries later, their soil is still rich in organic matter and nutrients.
Now, scientists, environmental groups and policymakers forging the next [...]
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