Try as we may, as concerned citizens we can and must attempt to galvanize action by the majority of humanity to call for change and the enactment of bold policy on climate change, but as the song suggests “You can take a horse to the water, but you can’t make him drink”! var showHover=false;

WASHINGTON — Just a month after world leaders fashioned a tentative and nonbinding agreement at the climate change summit meeting in Copenhagen, the deal already appears at risk of coming undone, the top United Nations climate official warned on Wednesday. Facing a Jan. 31 deadline, major countries have yet to submit their plans for reducing [...]

The future of the EU’s Low Carbon Revolution hangs in the balance as it becomes likely its emissions targets will be delayed again. The ongoing uncertainty is rooted in the EU’s offer to the Copenhagen climate summit of a 30% emissions cut. But this was dependent on “comparable effort” from other big polluters. Observers say [...]

The Copenhagen summit on climate change taught Europe a hard lesson about its trans-Atlantic partner. Great hope had greeted President Obama when he replaced George W. Bush at the American helm, but a year later Europeans are realizing that Mr. Obama is going to have a very difficult time delivering on his agenda. During the [...]

Power companies, investment bankers and pension fund managers are fuelling an unlivable future – with our money The acid test of the Copenhagen climate change summit was always going to be coal. Had governments managed to come up with a meaningful agreement, those who seek to continue burning coal would have faced significant risk that [...]

For climate science, the year 2009 brought significant discoveries and startling controversies. From Climate Feedback part of Guardian Environment Network  Warming goes global The year started out with some sobering, if not altogether surprising, news: overall, the Antarctic continent is warming. Although some of the Antarctic Peninsula had previously shown rapid warming, parts of the [...]

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 [...]

ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went Out – Our Future World (available in Hard Cover $24, or in e-book form $9.99) Author Bob Williamson – Chair & Founder of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Chapter 1 The Flick of a Switch. Looking back it all seemed to happen with the flick of a [...]

The last time global negotiations collapsed like this was in Doha, in 2001. After the trade talks fell apart, the World Trade Organisation assured delegates that there was nothing to fear: they would move to Mexico, where a deal would be done. The negotiations ran into the sand of the Mexican resort of Cancún, never [...]

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