Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute and Author of Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization We are entering a new era, one of rapid and often unpredictable climate change. In fact, the new climate norm is change. The 25 warmest years on record have come since 1980. And the 10 warmest years since [...]

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On October 14th at 10:35am my eldest daughter gave birth to one of the ‘Last Generation’. The last of the world’s children to live on a habitable planet, Morgan Bevan Slattery was born a healthy 8.2 pounds to happy parents Lisa & Dave. A year or so earlier I was talking on Skype to a [...]

‘As an activist for change this is the sort of campaign that might just work! NO PRESSURE!’ Bob Williamson Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Chair var showHover=false;

Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – This report foreshadows a very grim future for all. We have no further time to waste in de-carbonizing our global activities. We must gather together as a single voice and demand our political masters’ act now! UXBRIDGE, Sep 20 (IPS) – The carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have [...]

On November 29th 2010 through to December 10th world leaders will once more meet to discuss the future of all of us. They will have the opportunity once more to make historic decisions for the reduction of emissions that are leading us down the road to runaway catastrophic climate change in the coming decades. Following [...]

Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – I have long admired James Hansen as a person who cares for the future of all that we share our fragile planet with. The answers to all of the significant challenges we face in the imminent future is in OUR hands. We need to accept this moral responsibility. The following [...]

We still have many things to overcome and new challenges to face. Let us all be inspired to hold on to that dream on August 28th 2010 looking back and listening to Martin Luther King Jnr in his historic speech on that day in 1963. var showHover=false;

Sometimes the most important news is what is not happening. That comment in a recent article along with the following adaptation (from the French) of a story sent to me by a colleague in Quebec Canada made me reflect on why the global community is not focused and active on pushing for immediate reductions in [...]

Scientists warn that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level The entire ice mass of Greenland will disappear from the world map if temperatures rise by as little as 2C, with severe consequences for the rest of the world, a panel of scientists [...]