Andrew Glikson
Earth and paleoclimate scientist, Australian Earth and paleoclimate scientist, Australian National University
The release of more than 370 billion tons of carbon (GtC) from buried early biospheres, adding more than one half of the original carbon inventory of the atmosphere (~590 GtC), as well as the depletion of vegetation, have triggered a fundamental shift in [...]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union has decided to stick to its lowest offer for cutting carbon emissions under a U.N climate accord, but will maintain a conditional pledge to do more if others follow suit, EU diplomats said on Wednesday.
Their comments after EU ambassadors met in Brussels confirmed the 27-nation bloc’s commitment to unilateral [...]

AUSTRALIA has declared it will not go beyond a 5 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 without guaranteed action by major emitters including the US, China and India.
The Government’s formal submission to the Copenhagen Accord – the widely criticised agreement hatched between the US and major developing countries at the conference last [...]

UNITED NATIONS — The reduction goals announced by the nations responsible for the bulk of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are likely to fall short of what many scientists say is needed to limit the disastrous effects of climate change, a U.N. official said Monday.
Janos Pasztor, the top climate adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, however, [...]

Foundation comment: This is an important semantic on the communication of an idea for change to a greater public. The study detailed below should be widely distributed, understood and adopted. The Foundation supports the introduction of a tariff on carbon emissions at the point of emission source in order to maximise the opportunity for the [...]

Powerful vested interests and climate sceptics will work overtime to block legislation and discredit the science ahead of the next global climate summit in Mexico
It is often said by perceptive observers that a disconnect is in evidence in many countries between a public that want stringent action to tackleclimate change and what governments are actually [...]

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 switch. The morning came as [...]

Yesterday, Al Gore issued a bold challenge from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, calling on Members of Congress to pass clean energy and climate legislation in the United States by next April 22, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. In an inspiring speech that was interrupted often with outbursts of applause and [...]

IT WAS a candid remark in a private briefing. But the comments by an Australian climate negotiator in Copenhagen late last week gave some insight into where Labor intends to find a potentially ambitious cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
It will be in the same place that Liberal leader Tony Abbott is indicating he [...]

COPENHAGEN, Dec 8 (IPS/TerraViva) – As the climate change summit in the Danish capital moves into a second day, environmental groups warn that by pushing carbon offsetting and trade, governments of developed countries are bypassing their responsibility to significantly reduce domestic emissions and provide aid to developing countries.
Activists think that even if the best possible [...]