Full Coverage: Climate change

31.01.2007 Vuoristojäätiköiden sulaminen kiihtyy. Vuosien 2000-2005 aikana jäätiköt sulivat 1,6 kertaa nopeammin kuin 1990-luvulla ja kolme kertaa nopeammin kuin 1980-luvulla. Maanantaina julkaistun tutkimusraportin mukaan kiihtyvä vuoristo- ja lakijäätiköiden sulaminen on seurausta pääasiassa ihmisen aiheuttamasta ilmastonlämpenemisestä.

31.01.2007 George W. Bush proposes to deal with climate change by means of smoke and mirrors. So what's new? Only that it is no longer just a metaphor. After six years of obfuscation and denial, the United States now insists that we find ways to block some of the sunlight reaching the earth. This means launching either mirrors or clouds of small particles into the atmosphere.

30.01.2007 from It's the Planet, Stupid! blog:
The climate 'pigs' really are flying. The deniers haven't gone away but they're becoming marginalised. It looks like the year things are going to really start to happen.

30.01.2007 It took 44 activists, 100 metres of rope, and 500 square metres of fabric for Greenpeace to hoist a message for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that is meeting in Paris this week.

30.01.2007 The British MP who founded the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group announced today that he will not seek re-election, in order to concentrate on campaigning for a new international agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
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29.01.2007 from Guardian Unlimited:
While the rest of us are wondering if we should stop flying, some celebrities are just clocking up the air miles. Some big names have huge carbon footprints.

29.01.2007 from Christian Aid:
Christian Aid is looking for volunteers to join the longest ever protest march in UK history.

28.01.2007 from ecostreet blog:
The BBC's Climate Change experiment has been successful and the results have been revealed in a television programme and on their website. You can check out the results for yourself.

26.01.2007 WWF:n tänään julkaisema Virtaa tulevaisuuteen -malli osoittaa, että Suomessa voidaan vuoteen 2020 mennessä energiatehokkuudella ja uusiutuvalla energialla vähentää ja tuottaa sähköä määrä, joka vastaa 2,7 kertaa nyt rakennettavan ydinvoimalan tuotantoa. Samalla Suomi vähentää kasvihuonekaasupäästöjä noin 30 % vuoden 1990 tasosta eli yli EU-komission asettamien tavoitteiden.

26.01.2007 from WorldChanging:
A carbon emissions calculator designed to help fellow students learn about their school's energy use and calculate its carbon footprint.

25.01.2007 via AutoblogGreen:
Raising farm animals for food is the primary cause for all sorts of disasters, the least of which are air pollution and global warming. "We are eating our planet to death," says Kathy Freston.

24.01.2007 Joulukuussa julkaistun tutkimuksen mukaan tropiikin metsien pinta-alan lisääminen viilentäisi maapallon lämpötilaa. Tämä johtuu pääasiassa siitä, että trooppiset metsät sitovat yhteyttäessään kasvihuonekaasu hiilidioksidia, toimien niin sanottuina hiilinieluina. Havumetsävyöhykkeellä metsittäminen ei ehkä olekaan tehokas keino torjua ilmastonmuutosta.

24.01.2007 from Making Waves blog:
Dropping funding for a handful of the more extreme skeptics doesn't necessarily equal a shift in policy.

23.01.2007 NEW YORK, Jan 23 (OneWorld) - While already pushed to the wall by growing opposition from the Congress on many issues, the Bush administration this week found a new but powerful critic of its policy on climate change.

23.01.2007 from ODI blog:
To date, most of the debate about carbon offsets has focused on the question of whether offsetting is a valid way of addressing climate change. ODI is developing carbon offset standards that work for the poor.

22.01.2007 from Houtlust blog:
Campaigners in Berlin slip balloons with a message onto the exhaust pipes of cars so that the exhaust inflates the balloons. And after the message 'The world can't take anymore CO2' becomes readable, there's a big bang.

18.01.2007 from deSmogBlog:
There are several reasons to question the sincerity of the world's biggest oil merchant.

17.01.2007 Cresce il rischio di guerra nucleare e il Bulletin of Atomic Scientist ha spostato avanti di due minuti le lancette del "Doomsday Clock" che ormai segnano 5 minuti prima della "mezzanotte atomica" come ai tempi di maggior tensione della Guerra Fredda. A incidere sulla decisione degli scienziati è stata la valutazione del pericolo di 27mila testante nucleari - di cui almeno 2000 possono partire nel giro di pochi minuti - e la distruzione degli habitat umani a causa del cambio di clima. "Le armi nucleari pongono ancora la più catastrofica ed immediata minaccia per l'umanità, ma anche il cambio di clima può potenzialmente portare alla fine della civiltà da noi conosciuta" - affermano gli scienziati. La preoccupazione di Rete Italiana Disarmo e l'appello di Alex Zanotelli per una campagna nazionale per il disarmo atomico.

17.01.2007 from Rabett Run blog:
Apparently, anyone who knows anything about climate change is anti-American but the kids have a clue; they are open... so when do they take their stupid pills and turn into adults? asks Eli Rabett.

16.01.2007 Ilmastonmuutoksen torjuminen edellyttää mittavia päästövähennyksiä seuraavan vaalikauden aikana. Ympäristöjärjestöt Greenpeace, Luonto-Liitto, Maan ystävät, Natur och Miljö ja Suomen luonnonsuojeluliitto vaativat Suomen kasvihuonekaasupäästöjen vähentämistä Kioton tavoitetason alle jo seuraavalla vaalikaudella, 30 prosentilla vuoteen 2020 ja 80 prosentilla vuoteen 2050 mennessä.