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Friday, Jan 29
Rethink on water vapour warming
The experts say their research does not undermine the scientific consensus that emissions of greenhouse gases from human activity drive global warming, but they call for "closer examination" of the way climate computer models consider water vapour.
Monday, Jan 25
Obama may leave climate in the cold
Another signature issue, global warming, is at risk of getting short shrift in the speech, further shrinking the already slim prospects of getting a climate change law through Congress, environmentalists say. Environmental organisations believe some Obama aides are advising the pr...
Thursday, Jan 21
US senator out to wreck EPA power
Murkowski's move, brought under the Congressional Review Act, would remove the Obama administration's "Plan B" for dealing with climate change, resorting to the EPA to curb greenhouse gas emissions if Congress fails to act. Even before the upset in Massachusetts, Democrats in the ind...
Thursday, Jan 14
General Electric still has spark
Immelt's embrace of the environmental movement goes little further than the order book too, and GE declined to join Apple and Nike in resigning from the US Chamber of Commerce over its lobbying against carbon emission controls. Whether it follows Google's lead in taking a tougher line wi...
Next few weeks 'vital for Copenhagen'
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Arctic permafrost leaking methane
Unlike carbon dioxide, methane lasts only a decade or so in the atmosphere, which has led some experts to call for greater attention to curbs on its production. Reductions in methane emissions could bring faster results in the fight against climate change, they say.
Wednesday, Jan 13
Obama primed for Copenhagen collapse
A better route he seemed to suggest would be for the world's largest polluters such as China, the US, India, Brazil, and South Africa who signed on to a deal on global warming in the final hours of the summit to take charge of the process.
Copenhagen marks turning point
However, unlike the Kyoto protocol, the accord is not legally binding, and provides neither rules to structure international carbon markets, nor means to enforce compliance. This creates daunting uncertainties about how nations and markets will interact over greenhouse gas reduct...
Monday, Jan 11
Scientist attacks use of his research
Mojib Latif denies his research supports theory that current cold weather undermines scientific consensus on global warming Mojib Latif, a climate expert at the Leibniz Institute at Kiel University in Germany, said he "cannot understand" reports that used his research to question t...
Sunday, Jan 10
How the mighty have fallen
The signal from South Dakota's Christian radio fades as an agitated caller elaborates on her belief that God created global warming as a taste of the fires of hell awaiting humanity. After a time the reservation's own station struggles through.
Thursday, Jan 7
Politics at its most ghoulish
It is a monumental irony that rightwing politicians who rearm against the tiny risk to humanity from nuclear weapons are often the same as deny the risk to humanity from global warming. Both are risks. Both may be improbable, but the risk from radiation is minimal and containable, while the...
Wednesday, Jan 6
Freeze does not defy climate science
John Redwood, the Tory MP for Wokingham, was at it in the Commons yesterday, too, when putting a question to Ed Miliband, after the secretary of state for climate change and energy had made a statement about the Copenhagen climate change conference.
Snow, ice and the bigger picture
Rather than seeking vindication or catastrophe in this cold snap, now is a good time to remind ourselves that weather, like death and taxes, will always be with us. Spectacular regional swings in temperature and precipitation, sometimes lasting for months, often emerge from the natura...
Tuesday, Jan 5
Chinese Copenhagen negotiator loses job
In public, China has hailed the "significant and positive" outcome of the Copenhagen accord, which committed the world to keeping global warming below 2C. Privately, however, officials are furious at the public relations disaster of the summit, which ended with Europe blaming China f...
Podcast: Guardian Daily: Climate sceptics on march
One of the world's most eminent experts on global warming says 2010 could see a surge in climate change scepticism. Dr Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN body that summarises the findings of climate science, says the trend would cause har...
Friday, Jan 1
Climate change inspires scary movies
This is why global warming is, to use a non-secular term, such a godsend for movie narratives. With the divine retribution angle now an anachronism, and international terrorism making Airport-style plots too near the knuckle, climate change as a plot device provides the right blend of t...
Resorts fear killer avalanche season
Last year scientists in London warned that global warming, in the form of rising temperatures and melting permafrost, could make avalanches more frequent. While it is common knowledge among serious skiers and snowboarders that the majority of avalanche fatalities occur from disaste...
Wednesday, Dec 30
Sarkozy green tax ruled unconstitutional
French court judges tax would punish households while letting off big industrial polluters However, many big polluters are required to participate in the EU emissions trading scheme, in which they must buy carbon permits if they exceed pollution targets.
John Gummer to quit as MP
Former Tory cabinet minister announces he is to step down at the election in order to play a leading role in a pan-European campaign to tackle global warming Gummer is to play a leading role in as-yet-unrevealed pan-European campaign on climate change, which will be launched next month.
Tuesday, Dec 22
Why did Copenhagen end in failure?
This does not mean China is not serious about global warming. It is strong in both the wind and solar industries. But China's growth, and growing global political and economic dominance, is based largely on cheap coal. China knows it is becoming an uncontested superpower; indeed its newfou...
Friday, Dec 18
Podcast: Don't leave tonight, UN chief tells climate summit
11.08am: Wen admits that China has a particular difficulty with cutting carbon emissions because of its reliance on coal. Miliband said: "There is a gap still between the politics and the science. We need to push for more emissions reductions."
Tuesday, Dec 15
Podcast: Guardian Daily: Cameron's green plan
David Cameron tells our chief political correspondent Nicholas Watt what kind of deal he would like to see at Copenhagen, and outlines how a Conservative government would create green incentives to help tackle global warming. Tom Clark looks at the latest Guardian/ICM poll, which show...
Monday, Dec 7
Podcast: Live blog: Copenhagen climate change summit
Rasmussen, begins the conference with a call for a "strong and ambitious" climate change agreement. Differences can be overcome he insists. People who question that global warming results entirely from human activity need to be brought onside - through honest scientific evidence and N...
Podcast: Guardian Daily: Copenhagen talks begin
China is the world's biggest carbon emitter, and its science and technology minister has struck an optimistic note in an interview with the Guardian. Jonathan Watts, our Asia environment correspondent, says setting targets for developing countries will be a key part of the Copenhagen...
Tuesday, Dec 1
Opinion: Climate email chief stands down
Messages between scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) were posted on the web last week, and climate-change deniers seized on them as alleged evidence that scientists have been hiding and manipulating data to support the idea that the world is warm...
Thursday, Nov 19
Podcast: Guardian Daily: Road to Copenhagen
Activist and commentator George Monbiot is pessimistic about Copenhagen's chances of success, even though time is running out both in terms of the science of global warming and in the expiry of the Kyoto pact. And in Beijing, Jonathan Watts, our Asia environment correspondent, says tha...
Tuesday, Nov 3
Opinion: US defers climate talks despite plea
Merkel used a historic address to a joint session of Congress today to urge America to act on climate change, stating that success at Copenhagen rested on the willingness of all countries to accept binding reductions in carbon emissions.
Deforestation CO2 overestimated
The study showed previous assessments exaggerated the rate of tropical deforestation. It also took into account soaring emissions from fossil fuel burning since 2000, which reduces the relative role of deforestation. The scientists say 12% is an estimate, and the figure could be betwe...
Tuesday, Oct 6
Podcast: Guardian Daily: Tories cautious of victory
From climate talks in Bangkok, environment editor John Vidal explains why developing countries - and China - have accused the world's wealthiest nations of "sabotaging" a global warming treaty.
Thursday, Sep 3
Podcast: Guardian Daily: We control Met, say Tories
Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, and Douglas Alexander, the international development secretary, tell our correspondent in Delhi, Randeep Ramesh, of their hopes of India's role in securing an agreement on global warming at the crucial summit in Copenhagen in December.
Monday, Aug 31
Opinion: 10:10 is achievable and meaningful
The environmental thinker Tim Helweg-Larsen explains the urgency by likening climate change to a bath with the tap running. Since warming is caused by the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, it is the volume of water in the bath, rather than simply how much water is flowing...
Sunday, Jul 26
Science Weekly podcast
As the founding director of the sustainable development NGO, Forum for the Future, and, until this month, chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, when Porritt speaks about global warming people listen. The former director of Friends of the Earth and trustee of WWF came into...
Monday, Jul 20
Tackling climate change cost-effective
Measures needed to tackle global warming could save economies more money than they cost, the world's top climate change expert said today. The IPCC meeting raised a range of further issues that it believes need more attention, including extreme weather events, new greenhouse gases, th...
Thursday, Jul 16
Podcast: Guardian Daily: Revolution in green
Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, has set out the government's plans to move Britain towards a low-carbon economy and meet the UK's ambitious climate change targets. The environment editor, John Vidal, says it is a historic shift away from fossil fuels, but may not be enough to avert the...
Friday, Jul 3
Are energy bonds the new war bonds?
Other climate-saving ideas to be discussed at the Manchester event include practical suggestions, such as alternative fuels from algae to hydrogen, as well as ways to convert the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to methanol. Others will discuss more controversial ideas such as tighter c...
Monday, Jun 29
Podcast: Science Weekly: aliens and the Earth
What will our world look like in 2050? Astronomer Royal and president of the Royal Society Martin Rees predicts crises in water and energy supplies as a result of increased population pressure, exacerbated by climate change. Speaking to Alok Jha earlier this month, he also discussed the...
Wednesday, Jun 17
Podcast: Guardian Daily: Power struggle in Tehran
A report by 30 scientists into the impact on the US of climate change is published today. US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg says it's an important part of President Barack Obama's strategy of persuading the American people to back his legislation to curb global warming.
Tuesday, May 12
Podcast: Science Weekly: a climate of change
What is it about the science and politics of climate change that so raises some people's hackles? Mike Hulme, a climate scientist and author at the University of East Anglia and a founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, is proposing a radical change in the way...
Friday, Apr 17
Opinion: US breaks with 'climate denial' years
The EPA did not suggest regulations. But the ruling – coupled with Barack Obama's agenda of moving America to a low carbon economy – improves prospects that the US will move this year to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, possibly through a climate change bill now before Congress. Obama h...
