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Record Temperatures And Record Energy Use

Posted on 10. Aug, 2010 by Ross.

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17 countries around the world have recorded all-time national record temperatures this summer, giving people from different corners of the world more of an idea of what to expect from future climate change.
With the Russian 37°C heatwave currently doubling Moscow’s death rate, and Pakistan suffering from cataclysmic flooding, these warm weather patterns are bringing more [...]

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Endangered Species vs Climate Change: You Can’t Have It Both Ways

Posted on 30. Jul, 2010 by Ross.

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Think that an adorable doe-eyed animal will help you to save the world? Think twice before relying on it to bring about change (unless it happens to have super powers and similarly noble instincts!)
Environmentalists have always looked to warn of the dangers of climate change through the eyes of a cuddly mammal whose life is [...]

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Photovoltaic Energy: Ecologists vs Environmentalists

Posted on 11. Jun, 2010 by Ross.

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The road to fighting climate change is an increasingly torturous one, with traditional allies standing on different sides of the battle lines. Just about every option of how reduce the global carbon footprint has caused another division, whether it’s been nuclear power, wind turbines, population control, vegetarianism, energy efficiency, carbon offsetting, biofuels, carbon capture and [...]

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The Low-Carbon Patent Land-grab: Bad News For Technology Transfer?

Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by Ross.

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Low-carbon technology represents the only way that global carbon emissions can be brought under control whilst allowing the developing world to attain lifestyle equity with developed countries. Record numbers of green patents are being granted worldwide for low-carbon technologies, but is that good for the fight against climate change or simply a corporate land-grab over [...]

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When Hydroelectric Meets Climate Change: Lessons For Renewable Diversity

Posted on 20. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Reliance on hydroelectric power can lead to drought, famine and turmoil when not combined with other power sources and when future climate projections are ignored.
Around the world, governments which rarely agree on anything all agree with one thing: that climate change is a real danger to civilisation. Developed and developing nations are pursuing greater levels [...]

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Immigrants Hold Climate Change Hostage In US Senate

Posted on 26. Apr, 2010 by Ross.

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Just when the road seemed clear for America to finally hop on board the global clean energy agenda, domestic xenophobic politics has created a new crisis for climate change’s lethargic legislationary laggards.
10 months after the US Congress passed the Clean Energy and Security Act, the tri-partisan Senate coalition of Democrat John Kerry, Republican Lindsey Graham [...]

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Climategate Shocker: Nothing Wrong With The Science!

Posted on 14. Apr, 2010 by Ross.

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Five months ago the field of climate research was set alight by a media frenzy, focused upon hacked/leaked email communications between senior climate researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and their academic peers.
The emails led climatic change sceptics and deniers to claim that the science behind climate change was wrong, and that the [...]

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After Copenhagen, What Is Business As Usual?

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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Copenhagen was supposed to start the world on a path to fighting climate change, but with the talks largely derided as meaningless what now constitutes business as usual?
The Copenhagen conference descended into diplomatic farce at the 11th hour, with agreements negotiated over weeks, months and years between 192 countries discarded in a meeting between just [...]

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Copenhagen Conundrum 6: Technology Transfer v Green Jobs

Posted on 18. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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In the final part of our Copenhagen Conference Focus, we look at the only thing which the politicians and negotiators are likely to agree to at the ailing summit: the need for technology transfer of energy efficiency technology and renewable energy to developing countries.
All the commitments on this issue came early in the conference, with [...]

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Copenhagen Conundrum 5: Funding The Fight In Developing Countries

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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The developing world holds developed countries responsible for the impending effects of climate change, given that industrial revolutions in the Western world and the subsequent economic activity is responsible for most of the world’s atmospheric carbon dioxide. The historic emissions from the USA alone amount to 30% of the world’s atmospheric carbon.
This had led to [...]

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Copenhagen Conundrum 3: Deforestation and REDD

Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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The Copenhagen Conference is all about carbon reduction. Reducing industrial carbon emissions and reducing economic carbon intensity tends to gain the mainstream attention for the impact that it may have on the quality of life of Westerners, but one of the main sources of man-made carbon emissions is not from the developed world but the [...]