Countries gearing up for the next round of top-level climate talks have been warned the agreement hashed out in the dying minutes of the Copenhagen conference could lead to 3C warming or more.
via Climate report gives warning to leaders, say NZ scientists – Environment – NZ Herald News.
Auckland is headed for the driest three months since records began more than 50 years ago.
via Auckland heading for driest quarter in more than 50 years – National – NZ Herald News.
Reporting from Washington – China overtook the United States for the first time last year in the race to invest in wind, solar and other sources of clean energy, according to a comprehensive new report that raises questions about American competitiveness in a booming global market.
via China takes lead in clean-power investment – chicagotribune.com.
New Zealand should be prepared for international criticism for its plan to open conservation land to mining, a tourism expert says
Emission cuts pledges made by 60 countries will not be enough to keep the average global temperature rise at 2 degrees Celsius or less, modeling released on Tuesday by the United Nations says.
Scientific skepticism is healthy. Scientists should always challenge themselves to expand their knowledge and improve their understanding. Yet this isn’t what happens in global warming skepticism. Skeptics vigorously criticise any evidence that supports man-made global warming and yet eagerly, even blindly embrace any argument, op-ed piece, blog or study that refutes global warming.
So this website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?
WeatherWatch weather analyst Philip Duncan's blogs on climate change have attracted a lot of reader interest. He took readers' 10 most commonly asked questions and put them to Dr James Renwick, Principal Scientist, Climate Variability & Change at Niwa.
an Fry, the chief climate change negotiator for Tuvalu, fought on behalf of low-lying island nations during the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, last month.
Prime Minister John Key says New Zealand will not be signing a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the post-2012 period under the Copenhagen Accord's deadline of February 1.
As it drifts from the present into the past, the Copenhagen climate change conference looks both better and worse. Worse, because a considered reading of the accord, which was its only tangible output, reveals that it is not just inadequate but in fact utterly empty. Better, because of the novel manner in which this ultimate failure was reached. As the sight of the daily chaos drops out of view, it becomes easier to appreciate that the rich world was forced to haggle with the bigger emerging economies on more equal terms than ever before.
New Zealand's performance on climate change has been ranked as very poor by European climate groups.
A TENTATIVE truce between rich and poor nations has allowed a resumption of talks at the Copenhagen climate conference after a dramatic intervention by the President of the Maldives.
COPENHAGEN — The Global Day of Action began Saturday in the South Pacific where the sun rises. The day of international protest started as an uplifting global demonstration calling for a “Real Deal” to come out of the climate negotiations in Copenhagen. More than 3,000 marches and candlelight vigils in 139 countries occurred yesterday — some yielding as many as 50,000 protesters — all with the intent of spreading this one common, unified message to policy makers.
Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after developing countries withdrew their co-operation.
Opposition parties say New Zealand is looking increasingly isolated at the United Nations climate change talks in Copenhagen.
E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press.
The Copenhagen Climate Conference opened with a robust and angry defence of the science of global warming by two of the world's leading climate science figures.
COPENHAGEN – The United States came under renewed pressure on Monday to take stronger action on greenhouse gases as delegates from almost 200 nations gathered at a historic climate conference in search of common ground in the struggle against global warming.
THE QUEEN won’t eat our fish. Johnny Rotten is bad-mouthing our butter. Our dairy cows have been chomping palm kernel grown where orang-utans used to live. A consortium of 2000 scientists from 60 countries has written to the Prime Minister very worried about our sea lions.
In an unprecedented initiative, 56 major newspapers in 45 countries on Monday published a shared editorial calling on politicians and negotiators gathering in Copenhagen to strike an ambitious deal on combating climate change.
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