So pronounced by Lord Nicholas Stern, Chief economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, UK Economic Advisor And Chair at the London School of Economics and Political Science. (From the BBC) "Despite the looming prospect of a deep global recession, 43% of the 12,000 respondents of the survey chose climate change ahead of…
The left image shows Stroeve’s analysis of Arctic sea ice coverage through 2008. (2009 was a bit greater than 2008, but still 20% below average. (The last five years have seen the five lowest average ice extent years on record.) The image on the right is the IPCC 2007 model summary of Arctic sea ice…
(From the Guardian – one of Great Britain’s two national newspapers, founded in 1821) President Bush is decimating America’s environmental law. Two million acres of land in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado will be opened to development of oil shales, the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Coal-fired power plants will no longer be required to install pollution…
The planet is supposed to be reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, they have risen by 2.3 for the period 2000 to 2006. The UNFCCC cautions that emissions may be even worse now, noting that the statistics in the study are already nearly three years old. "UNFCCC expert review teams need two years to verify…
