This decade’s historic high prices for oil and natural gas have stoked the rise of renewable power and alternative fuels. As fossil fuel prices smashed record after record, options like ethanol, hybrid electric cars, solar power and wind looked better and better.
Now oil costs less than half what it did this summer. Ditto natural gas. [...]
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Leaders from the world’s religious traditions have signed a manifesto urging tough action on climate change.
Around 1,000 delegates are meeting at the Interfaith Climate Summit in Uppsala, Sweden, at the invitation of the Swedish church.
The manifesto, signed by 30 religious leaders, calls for “rapid and large emission cuts in the rich world”.
It argues in favour [...]
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US researchers have come up with a way to predict the rate at which ice shelves break apart into icebergs.
These sometimes spectacular occurrences, called calving events, are a key step in the process by which climate change drives sea level rise.
Ice sheets, such as those in Antarctica and Greenland, spread under their own weight [...]
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The destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has accelerated for the first time in four years, Brazilian officials say.
Satellite images show 11,968 sq km of land was cleared in the year to July, nearly 4% higher than the year before.
An example where carbon trading is having little to no effect!
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“If you want to keep your guns, your property, your children and your God, then sustainable development is your enermy!” American Policy Center
Fortunately attitudes such as this may change following the election of Barach Obama, who supports strong domestic action on climate chanage.
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For anyone who doubts the science of climate change look no futher than this shot!
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To avoid dangerous climate change global temperatures must rise by no more than 2 degrees, relative to pre-industrial levels. If temperatures rise beyond this level catastrophic climate change may ensue.
Impacts such as extreme weather events, sea level rise, water/food shortages and disease will affect all areas of society. Furthermore forced migration will lead to conflict.Tipping points [...]
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‘Yesterday the Queen gave her Royal Assent that this and future UK Governments are now tied into legally binding greenhouse gas emission targets - AN 80% CUT BY 2050.’
Massive changes coming up in the UK, only country in the world to have legislation such as this.
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