December 30th, 2009 | Climate Change, International Action
December 19th, 2009 | Climate Change, International Action
Four Degrees
It looks like Copenhagen has been a failure. In the end the politicians will have come up with a fudge they can be positive about, and we shall have to work with that; but it seems that whilst everyone agreed that two degrees should be the target, their actions (or …
December 16th, 2009 | Climate Change, Events, International Action, Locals Taking Action
An Alternative Way Forward?
December 15th, 2009 | International Action
Two Degrees…
2003 was the hottest year on record; supposedly a one in several thousand year event. During the summer tens of thousands of people in Europe died of heat stroke, and tree and plant growth fell by 30%.
AT TWO DEGREES, HALF THE SUMMERS WILL BE HOTTER THAN 2003.
Cities dependent …
December 14th, 2009 | Climate Change, Events, International Action
Stop Emission Increases Now for a 50:50 chance of saving the Maldives
During this week we’ll be putting the Copenhagen discussions into a bit of a context by covering each day what an extra degree of warming might mean for the planet. We start today - and we’re already nearly at 1 degree.
ONE DEGREE
Since the 1850s the industrial developments we …


