Posts from ‘November, 2009’

via dailytelegraph.com.au An increase of 6C would have irreversible consequences, rendering large parts of the globe uninhabitable and destroying much of life on Earth. The study by Professor Corinne Le Quere of the British Antarctic Survey and East Anglia University is the most comprehensive so far of how economic changes and shifts in the way [...]

via news.com.au THE world is spinning toward a catastrophic climate change scenario, with temperatures now far more likely to rise by 6C by the end of the century, a leading international team of scientists has warned. An increase of 6C would have irreversible consequences, rendering large parts of the globe uninhabitable and destroying much of [...]

Supercomputing technology, according to Al Gore, will help the human race reverse climate change, both by aiding the expansion of renewable energy use and by creating models that help people understand the severity of global warming. How to build your own supercomputer Speaking Thursday morning at the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Ore., the former [...]

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (Reuters) – The U.N. environmental chief called on rich nations on Thursday to pledge $10 billion a year for three years at next month’s Copenhagen summit to help poor states begin to tackle the impact of climate change. Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told a news [...]

CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia’s government demanded on Thursday that conservative rivals stop opposing carbon trade laws, citing a heatwave searing the country’s biggest cities as evidence of Australia’s vulnerability to climate change. With Australia on bushfire alert, the government said record temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) across three states this week showed the [...]

Global temperatures will increase by an average of 6 degrees C by the end of the century as CO2 emissions continue to outstrip the ability of the world’s natural “sinks” to absorb carbon, a group of scientists said Tuesday in calling for drastic action to combat such emissions. By studying 50 years of data on [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, on Tuesday pledged a “vigorous response” to climate change, saying they would work toward a global agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In a joint statement, the two nations — the world’s largest producers of greenhouse gases — said climate change was “one of the [...]

via guardian.co.uk The new head of Greenpeace has challenged Barack Obama to agree a binding treaty at the UN Copenhagen climate summit or risk inflaming anti-American sentiment around the world. Dr Kumi Naidoo, the first African to lead the environmental activist group, said he was not prepared to tolerate “spin and trickery” from negotiators at [...]

via edition.cnn.com Madrid, Spain (CNN) — A new international treaty to combat climate change will not be ready when 40 world leaders meet next month in Copenhagen but may be finished next year, a top United Nations official said Friday in Barcelona. “What we will need after Copenhagen is a little time,” said Yvo de [...]

via english.ntdtv.com Climate change is a crucial issue that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is concerned about. On November 5, he gave a speech to the Greek parliament in Athens and stressed the importance of reaching an agreement over climate change talks in Copenhagen . [Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General]: “Climate change is the leading [...]