Interview with Tuvalu Climate Negotiator Ian Fry
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.
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World on course for catastrophic 6° rise, reveal scientists – Climate Change, Environment – The Independent
The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said yesterday. Such a rise – which would be much higher nearer the poles – would have cataclysmic and irreversible consequences for the Earth, making large parts of the planet uninhabitable and threatening the basis of human civilisation.
Four Degrees of Devastation – IPS ipsnews.net
The prospect of a four-degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures in 50 years is alarming – but not alarmist, climate scientists now believe.
Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts
The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia.
Carbon is forever
Carbon dioxide emissions and their associated warming could linger for millennia, according to some climate scientists. Mason Inman looks at why the fallout from burning fossil fuels could last far longer than expected.
Climate change to spur rapid shifts in fire hotspots
Climate change will bring about major shifts in worldwide fire patterns, and those changes are coming fast, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with scientists at Texas Tech University.
Rapid action needed to save polar bears
Polar bears are in danger of being wiped out unless urgent measures are taken to combat climate change and rapid warming in the Arctic, environmental group WWF warned Thursday.
Sea rise ‘to exceed projections’
The global sea level looks set to rise far higher than forecast because of changes in the polar ice-sheets, a team of researchers has suggested.
Global warming underestimated
The severity of global warming over the next century will be much worse than previously believed, a leading climate scientist has warned.
Drought and fire here to stay
VICTORIA is likely to come under the influence of another El Nino within the next three years, exacerbating the drought and the likelihood of bushfires, a senior Bureau of Meteorology climate scientist says.
‘At risk’ firies want urgent global warming action
Australia is at risk of more tragedies such as the Victorian bushfires if the Federal Government does not reassess its approach to global warming, says the peak firefighters union.
United Firefighters Union of Australia national secretary Peter Marshall has written an open letter to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Victorian Premier John Brumby, on behalf of Australia’s 13,000 firefighters.
Climate change will make bushfires worse – report
In the wake of Australia’s worst ever bushfire disaster with over one hundred dead and around seven hundred properties destroyed in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, experts have warned climate change means Australians should expect more of the same in future years.
Emperor penguins face extinction
Emperor penguins, whose long treks across Antarctic ice to mate have been immortalised by Hollywood, are heading towards extinction, scientists say.
Based on predictions of sea ice extent from climate change models, the penguins are likely to see their numbers plummet by 95% by 2100.
Global warming may cut protein in plants
Plants may give us fewer of the nutrients we need to survive if global warming is not controlled, a visiting expert says.
Billions face food shortages, study warns
Half of the world’s population could face severe food shortages by the end of the century as rising temperatures take their toll on farmers’ crops, scientists have warned.
Blunt warning on emissions issued by top UN official
NEXT YEAR’S crucial climate change summit in Copenhagen will be a failure unless it produces a deal on substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a top United Nations official.
Too late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst of global warming
At a high-level academic conference on global warming at Exeter University this summer, climate scientist Kevin Anderson stood before his expert audience and contemplated a strange feeling. He wanted to be wrong. Many of those in the room who knew what he was about to say felt the same. His conclusions had already caused a stir in scientific and political circles. Even committed green campaigners said the implications left them terrified.
Oil giants could soon face lawsuits over climate, says Oxford University scientist | Environment | The Guardian
People affected by worsening storms, heatwaves and floods could soon be able to sue the oil and power companies they blame for global warming, a leading climate expert has said.
Climate change makes economic meltdown look like picnic
Green party Leader Elizabeth May says the threat of climate change makes the global economic meltdown look like a “Sunday school picnic.”
Maldives Plan to Buy New Homeland Due to Climate Change
The island nation of Maldives has revealed plans to buy land for relocation as a result of sea level rise due to climate change which threatens to submerge the 1,000 plus islets that make up the nation.
