Greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year, to the highest carbon output in history, putting hopes of holding global warming to safe levels all but out of reach, according to unpublished estimates from the International Energy Agency. The shock rise means the goal of preventing a temperature rise of more than 2 [...]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) thinks global carbon emissions will increase 43 percent by 2035 if major nations maintain the status quo as far as energy policies go and do not try to stop climate change. The EIA’s 2010 long-term global energy analysis predicts that energy use will increase 49 percent between 2007 and [...]

I applauded Mickey Z for this exceptional and inspiring piece of writing, his perception of how every one of us needs to be galvanised into personal action and why echoes many of the goals of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation. Thank you Mickey – Bob Williamson Founder & Chair. There’s no time like now to be [...]

Following on from the Foundations YouTube ‘Leaked Government Letter – Highly confidential for your eyes only!’ which if you haven’t viewed you must, comes this appeal from the US EPA. Officials wonder if maybe the environment could find some time in its busy schedule to refreeze a few glaciers. WASHINGTON—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency called [...]

Population debate misses the facts by CLIVE HAMILTON April 19, 2010 SMH If further proof were needed that, despite their pious words, our political leaders do not take climate change seriously, the recent population debate provides it. The argument over whether we should aim for 36 million people by the middle of the century is [...]

VANCOUVER — Warming soils in Canada’s north are releasing a vast store of carbon that has been inert for millennia, which could further accelerate the rate of climate change, according to the author of a new study published in the journal Nature. Field work conducted in Canada by the study’s co-author Ben Bond-Lamberty suggests that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]