Adapted from the book ‘ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went Out – Our Future World’ Chapter 8 – Nature’s Voice the Year Before
The year before and the years preceding that, both nature’s ecological voice led by the environmentalists and nature’s science voice promoted by concerned scientists had fallen on deaf economic ears.
The [...]

As President Obama heads to Copenhagen next week for global warming talks, there’s one simple step Americans back home can take to help out: Stop “going green.” Just stop it. No more compact fluorescent light bulbs. No more green wedding planning. No more organic toothpicks for holiday hors d’oeuvres.
December should be national Green-Free Month. Instead [...]

AROUND 100 world leaders are set to attend the UN climate-change summit in Copenhagen to discuss a global deal to replace the Kyoto protocol. This will be tough. Scientists estimate that greenhouse-gas emissions from rich countries need to be cut by 25%-40% to keep global warming to a 2ºC rise above pre-industrial levels. The offers [...]

 
NOTE A 1.1-meter rise by 2100 is based on the maximum IPCC figures and were calculated mainly from the expected expansion of water from temperature increase. It takes no account of on-going melting of the great glaciers in Greenland and the Western Antarctic. Let alone the possibility based on ice-core samples of ice sheet collapse. [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – The general insurance industry may not be able to cope with the increased frequency and severity of floods and typhoons brought about by climate change, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said on Wednesday.
ABI research, commissioned from Britain’s Met Office and catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, examined the implications of 2 [...]

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, former [...]

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 [...]

SEEKING to alleviate poverty, reduce world hunger and protect biodiversity sounds, to your correspondent’s ears, like something a Miss World hopeful might have pledged in the 1980s. In fact, it was what a professor of soil quality at a lesser-known university in the Netherlands promised to a scientific conference that concluded on October 16th.
Addressing hundreds [...]

NEW YORK — This month, the mayor of Mesa, Arizona, a city of about 500,000 inhabitants in the American Southwest, became the 1,000th local leader to sign on to a climate change agreement under the United States Conference of Mayors.
In signing the compact — initiated in 2005 by Greg Nickels, the mayor of Seattle and [...]

Beijing, China (October 14, 2009) – Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, attended the second Australia – China Ministerial Dialogue on climate change with Chinese National Development and Reform Commission Vice Chairman Xie Zhenhua. 
The need for a global agreement in Copenhagen in December was the key issue discussed during the Dialogue. Another [...]