BERLIN, Nov 27 (Reuters) – A U.S. pledge to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 is “ridiculously” inadequate considering the perils of climate change, a German government climate adviser said on Friday. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said as encouraging as [...]

No, not the stuff in the stolen emails — although the University of East Anglia and its Climatic Research Unit (CRU) have yet another statement out I’ll excerpt below.  It notes “Over 95% of the CRU climate data set concerning land surface temperatures has been accessible to climate researchers, sceptics and the public for several [...]

MOST of the world’s population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK’s most senior climate scientists has warned. Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet’s population [...]

Demonstrations have taken place around the UK to urge action on climate change ahead of the Copenhagen summit. Organisers Stop Climate Chaos want world leaders to reach a tough new deal on cutting emissions. In London, police originally said about 20,000 people had taken part – but did not contradict claims by the organisers that [...]

When you start to analyse a few numbers you understand the complexity of climate change emissions reductions. You can see into some of the political spin when talking about individual nation’s agendas and also the often use of Per Capita Emissions to further complicate public and national opinion. As an example Australia claims broadly to [...]

After intense opposition from building owners, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has dropped the most far-reaching initiative of his plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The plan, which the owners said was too costly, called for all buildings of 50,000 square feet or more to undergo audits to determine which renovations would make them more energy [...]