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British Climate Change Skeptics Lobby Schools in Britain

October 19th, 2007 at 12:26 pm » Comments (0)

Seen at ABC News Australia - A lobby group of climate skeptics is to send every British school a copy of the film The Great Global Warming Swindle, a controversial film that claims climate change is a myth.
The film caused a storm when it was screened in both Britain and Australia because it swims against […]



Lloyd’s of London’s 360 Reports on Climate Change, Risk and Strategies

October 19th, 2007 at 1:38 am » Comments (0)

Lloyd’s of London’s 360 Reports on Climate Change and Risk Reports. Lloyd’s reports that the insurance industry should start planning and modeling now for a higher level of losses across the world by the middle of the century as both the severity and frequency of weather events increase. The alternative - waiting until definitive scientific […]



Shrinking Arctic ice ‘locked into spiral of decline’

October 17th, 2007 at 4:11 am » Comments (0)

Oct 4 2007 - Shrinking ice ‘locked into spiral of decline’ by Darren Devine, Western Mail
DRAMATIC new evidence showing that ice cover on the Arctic Ocean has fallen to its lowest level recorded proves the area is “locked into a spiral of decline”, a Welsh scientist said last night.
Bangor University Oceanographer Dr Tom Rippeth, who […]



Bush Speech - Each Country should set its Approach on Climate Change Mitigation

September 29th, 2007 at 2:32 pm » Comments (1)

WASHINGTON - Friday 28th 2007
US President Bush Friday called for the creation of a global fund to promote clean technology that would be led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and for a “strong and transparent” way for nations to measure progress on fighting climate change but said that each country should set its own […]



BBC Science Report - Oil Firms Fund Climate Change Denial

September 28th, 2007 at 4:07 am » Comments (1)

Reported by David Adam, BBC science correspondent - Thursday January 27, 2005
The Guardian Lobby groups funded by the US oil industry are targeting Britain in a bid to play down the threat of climate change and derail action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, leading scientists have warned.
Bob May, president of the Royal Society, says that […]



Greenhouse Gas Climate Change the Greatest Swindle?

September 28th, 2007 at 4:02 am » Comments (1)

We have been seeing a few comments and articles online referring to the theory that global warming and climate change caused by emission of greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide content as being one of the greatest political lies ever. According to one commentator:
“Doom and gloom. Let’s hear it for computer projections based on assumptions […]



Death of Great Barrier Reef within 20 Years

September 25th, 2007 at 10:51 pm » Comments (0)

The Great Barrier Reef could be dead in 20 years unless there is a drastic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a marine biology expert in Australia said in early April.
Rising sea temperatures were bleaching the coral and causing it to die, said Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence for Coral […]



Great Barrier Reef threatened by Climate Change - Death possible in 20 Years

August 25th, 2007 at 1:15 pm » Comments (0)

THE Great Barrier Reef could be dead in 20 years unless there is a drastic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a marine biology expert in Australia said in early April.
Rising sea temperatures were bleaching the coral and causing it to die, said Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence for Coral […]



Reverse Climate Change, Change your Lightbulbs and Save Money

August 13th, 2007 at 8:33 pm » Comments (0)

How Many Light Bulbs dies it Take to Change the Climate?
Points for Governments to Consider:

The initial cost of replacing incandescent light bulbs with energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs will be offset by longer-term savings
Standard incandescent light bulbs can be phased out within […]



Artificial Weather - A Current Reality

January 13th, 2007 at 4:40 am » Comments (0)

We were recently reading (and, to be quite honest, laughing) articles touting weather modification, a topic discussed very often by conspiracy theorists. The technology of weather modification has been pushed by many of these theorists as ‘secret’ above-board projects of the largest governments, particularly that of the United States.
They say ‘Curiosity Kills the Cat’ and […]