Greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the lifecycle and supply chain of animals raised for food account for 51% of annual emissions caused by humans and should be given higher priority in global efforts to fight climate change, World Bank Group experts argue.  While livestock are already known to contribute to GHG emissions, their levels have been underestimated or simply overlooked, [...]

The British government today raised the political stakes on climate change when it published a new map of the world that details the likely effects of a failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The map shows the impact of an average 4C rise in global temperature, which John Beddington, the government’s chief scientist, said would [...]

Pew Center Survey of 1,500 Adults Shows Less Confidence in Climate Science Evidence October 27, 2009 Tipping, clinking wine glasses and a toast of “Cheers!” signaled the satisfaction at a climate science contrarians website over a recent Pew Research Center national survey finding fewer Americans see “solid evidence” of climate change as a serious issue. [...]

As December’s Copenhagen climate summit approaches, new evidence is emerging of the massive scale of the action needed to avert the risk of runaway global warming. At the same time, contradictory signals emerging from the pre-summit discussions don’t inspire confidence that such action is likely to be taken. The scale of the task is underlined [...]

Do people care about the climate? Or does the average ‘Joe’ really know? It’s an open question these days, and opinion polls offer little help. Some show that climate ranks fairly low among public concerns, while others indicate a high level of concern among the populace. And in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate summit, [...]

Most people are convinced that climate change is happening, but few are prepared to accept that it’s our own children who will suffer because of it, finds David Sornig For weeks my daughter’s class has been rehearsing its lines for a play in which they are performing the ethics of environmentalism. As far as I [...]

  Lecture to a Meeting of the Royal Society of the Arts Sydney, 21 October 2009 by Clive Hamilton     Alarm bells    This paper lays out the latest scientific understanding of the task humanity faces to avoid catastrophic climate change. 2 One of the most striking features of the global warming debate has [...]

Well I have just completed the easiest protest I think I have ever done. As I wrote in ‘How to be an armchair activist’, I have just finished the COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHANGE – WORLD HUNGER STRIKE. My 5 day commitment to this protest started at midnight on Sunday October 18th and was concluded at midnight [...]

A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction PLEASE NOTE. The Greenhouse Neutral Foundation determined this provocative discussion in the article below deserved full exposure on the site and has reproduced the piece in its entirety. It gives full credit to AlterNet.org and to Chris Hedges. Chris Hedges in TruthDig channels the radical thinking of [...]

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. Posted October 23, 2009. The who, what, where, when and why about COP 15, which strangely means: the “Council of Parties.” There’s a lot of buzz about COP15, the big climate-change meeting coming up — what exactly is all the hype about, and why should you care? Here’s a simple breakdown. [...]