A major split between developing countries has emerged at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark. Small island states and poor African nations vulnerable to climate impacts laid out demands for a legally-binding deal tougher than the Kyoto Protocol. This was opposed by richer developing states such as China, which fear tougher action would curb [...]

IT’S crunch time. Two years ago in a huge conference hall in Bali, after a marathon negotiating session that left some delegates in tears, envoys from 192 nations set themselves a deadline of 2009. The task in question? To come up with a way of extending the essence of the Kyoto protocol beyond 2012. The [...]

By Sarah Palin Wednesday, December 9, 2009 With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated [...]

Gordon Brown on the prospects of a deal in Copenhagen Link to this video Gordon Brown is pushing European leaders to commit to deeper cuts in carbon emissions in an attempt to seal a global deal, he revealed as representatives of 192 countries began negotiations at the climate change summit in Copenhagen. The prime minister [...]

A major split has emerged between developing and western countries at Climate change talks in Copenhagen after the leaking of a draft deal drawn up by Denmark. Pacific Islands and some African countries fear an average rise of two degrees in temperature will be enough to wipe them out. But fast-growing economies such as China, [...]

The Climate Action Network, a group connecting over 400 NGO’s, offers a response and commentary on the first day of the COP. Visit the official site at this link tcktcktck.org var showHover=false;

A draft deal has been hatched at the Copenhagen climate conference which would see Australia green up its actions on global warming. Australia would have to slash its greenhouse emissions by 25 per cent in a decade if the deal got up, quadruple spending on climate-friendly research, and axe subsidies to fossil fuels. And taxpayers [...]

Dr James Hansen heads NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Science. The institute has been publishing global temperature data since 1987 and is now one of the key sources of data for climate scientists. Hansen’s own testimony to the US Congress in 1988 brought world attention to global warming. His latest book Storms of my Grandchildren [...]

ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2009) — In the long term, the Earth’s temperature may be 30-50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide than has previously been estimated, reports a new study published in Nature Geoscience. The results show that components of the Earth’s climate system that vary over long timescales — such as land-ice and vegetation [...]

The cuts in greenhouse gas emissions being proposed at the Copenhagen climate conference, which opens today, are completely inadequate to stop dangerous climate change, one of Britain’s leading climate scientists warns. Current proposals, including recent ones from major emitting nations such as the US, China and India, are “little more than token gestures”, compared to [...]