21 Nov 2017
Outputs from latest international climate change conference
The latest shindig to progress international action on climate change has concluded in Bonn. According to the official website, the event was a “launch pad for higher ambition”. You can read about specific commitments made, relating to finance, coordinating action, corporate commitments and government ratifications. There is good analysis in the Guardian, including the 19 […]
14 Nov 2017
Major new US climate change report contradicts government’s position
A Major New U.S. multiagency report affirms that climate change is getting worse. According to the Climate Science Special Report, “climate change is real. It’s caused by greenhouse-gas pollution released by human industrial activity. Its consequences can already be felt across every region and coastline of the United States—and, unless we stop emitting greenhouse gases […]
07 Nov 2017
BBC on Lord Lawson – Communicating climate change
A lack of scrutiny in an interview with climate sceptic Lord Lawson has led the BBC to admit it breached its “guidelines on accuracy and impartiality”. The sceptic ex-chancellor claimed in an interview with the Today programme that “official figures” showed average world temperatures had “slightly declined”. This view was shown to be false, but […]
12 Sep 2017
Climate change is changing patterns of floods in Europe
50 years of data from hydrometric stations covering all European countries were assessed in this major study to analyze the timing of flood events. A closer look at the shift in the timing of floods pointed to climate change as the main factor. Later winter storms, heavier summer rains and earlier snowmelts are all evidence […]
12 Sep 2017
Strategic approach needed for national funding of flood risk schemes
The report was commissioned by the Adaptation Sub Committee of the government’s Committee on Climate Change for its second progress report on the National Adaptation Programme. The report reviewed a sample of major recent flood defence schemes to understand how they have contributed towards the long-term management of residual flood risk in the context of […]
22 Aug 2017
Britain’s seabird colonies face catastrophe as warming waters disrupt their food supply
Britain’s seabird colonies face catastrophe as warming waters disrupt their food supply “For reasons that are not entirely clear – though they are almost certainly concerned with climate change. Our seabird colonies, especially those in northern Scotland, are withering away. At the same time, the government has displayed a complete dereliction of duty in failing […]
09 Aug 2017
Leaked Federal report reveals evidence of climate change impact abounds in US
Bob Earll: For my generation George Orwell’s books ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’ were key reading and masterpieces of how words and communication were controlled for the good of the state. Although this is nothing new and Ian Hislop’s Orwell lecture highlighted that in the time when they were written Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini were […]
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