President Obama’s top climate and energy official said Friday that there was virtually no chance Congress would have a climate and energy bill ready for him to sign before negotiations on a global climate treaty begin in December in Copenhagen.
The remarks by the official, Carol M. Browner during an onstage interview in Washington, were the [...]

Half a century after Pacific walruses began recovering from industrial-scale hunting, marine biologists are growing worried that they face a mounting threat from global warming.
Masses of lumbering walruses have been crowding on beaches and rocks along the Russian and American sides of the Bering Strait in the absence of the coastal sea ice that normally [...]

Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must not be transgressed could help prevent human activities from causing unacceptable environmental change, argue Johan Rockström and colleagues.
Summary

New approach proposed for defining preconditions for human development
Crossing certain biophysical thresholds could have disastrous consequences for humanity
Three of nine interlinked planetary boundaries have already been overstepped

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The Copenhagen climate-change negotiations are 10 weeks off, and time has run out to reach a detailed international agreement. Yet failure to reach a comprehensive agreement need not be a cataclysm, if the US, Europe, China, India and a few others take some important practical steps while a new protocol continues to be negotiated.
The UN [...]

Little by little, Egypt’s Mediterranean coastline is being swallowed up by the sea because of global warming, in some places as much as 100 yards a year.
Eventually priceless farmland in the low-lying Nile Delta, Egypt’s breadbasket, will be inundated. Two-third of the country’s 70 million population lives in the delta, which produces 60 percent [...]

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There has been a lot of discussion about decadal climate predictions in recent months. It came up as part of the ‘climate services’ discussion and was alluded to in the rather confused New Scientist piece a couple of weeks ago. This is a relatively “hot” topic to be working on, exemplified [...]

By Bob Williamson – Chair and Founder of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation
When we talk of the global warming impact of CO2 and or CO2-e are we getting confused?
When comparing or talking about distance, area, volume, weight and temperature, we compare same with same.
In length 1 metres = 3.28 feet
In distance 1 mile = 1.61 kilometres
In [...]

By Bob Williamson Chair & Founder of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation
Are our global political leaders listening to the wrong people when determining our future and how we get there?
The widely hailed economic assessment of the costs of climate change for the world, compiled for the British government by the economist Sir Nicholas Stern in the [...]

As more and more people around the world come to understand the dire circumstances we are in regarding climate change and global warming, a climate activist with a passion for public awareness campaigns has penned what he calls a “Virtual Graduation Speech to the University Class of 2099″, with a subtitle of “Forget Sunscreen: Prepare [...]

By Bob Williamson – Chair & Founder of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation
Many great men and women have gone before him. They have left a legacy in history that has shaped our world. Our future shape; and that of a safe planet for our children, now hangs in the balance.
From the introduction in ‘Zero Greenhouse Emissions [...]