World Energy Council – “The energy sector is facing increasing pressures from climate change. All segments of the industry will be affected by the changing global climate and the policy responses to it. So says a briefing published jointly by the World Energy Council (WEC), the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the… Continue Reading
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Reducing Poverty Through Climate Action
A Strategy for Global Development Leaders | Molly Elgin-Cossart, Cathleen Kelly, and Abigail Jones | May 8, 2014 “Climate change is already affecting every continent across the globe, and people living in developing countries will fare far worse than most in a warmer world, warns a March report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC.… Continue Reading
IPCC report: climate change felt ‘on all continents and across the oceans’
Guardian: “Climate change has already left its mark “on all continents and across the oceans“, damaging food crops, spreading disease, and melting glaciers, according to the leaked text of a blockbuster UN climate science report due out on Monday. Government officials and scientists are gathered in Yokohama this week to wrangle over every line of a summary of the report before… Continue Reading
Climate Change: Evidence and Causes
“Climate Change: Evidence and Causes is a jointly produced publication of The US National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society. Written by a UK-US team of leading climate scientists and reviewed by climate scientists and others, the publication is intended as a brief, readable reference document for decision makers, policy makers, educators, and other individuals… Continue Reading
Center for Naval Analyses – Estimating climate change effects on installation energy use
Estimating climate change effects on installation energy use – Ronald Filadelfo Jonathon Mintz Daniel Carvell Alan Marcus, May 1, 2012 “We downscaled large regional-scale climate change forecasts to forecasts of temperature change for the immediate areas of military installations. Based on these expected temperature changes, we estimated how installation energy demand for… Continue Reading
House Passes Luetkemeyer Amendment to Halt Taxpayer Financing of UN Climate Panel
Science Insider: “Last night the U.S. House of Representatives agreed to cut off funding for the rest of 2011 for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. My constituents should not have to continue to foot the bill for an organization to keep producing corrupt findings that can be used as justification to impose a massive… Continue Reading
EPA Rejects Claims of Flawed Climate Science
Follow up to previous postings on climate change, this EPA news release “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 determination that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, and threatens human health and the environment. The petitions to reconsider EPAs Endangerment… Continue Reading
The Independent Climate Change E-mails Review July 2010
Follow up to postings on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this news release: “The Independent Climate Change Email Review, undertaken by Sir Muir Russell and his team, has issued its report on issues arising from the publication of hacked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit.” The Independent Climate Change… Continue Reading
Key findings of IPCC on regional climate – change impacts found to be robust
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) is the national institute for strategic policy analysis in the field of environment, nature and spatial planning: “PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency found no errors that would undermine the main conclusions in the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on possible future regional impacts of… Continue Reading
Earth and Atmospheric Science Experts: A Very Inconvenient Truth About Climate Change
A Very Inconvenient Truth, By Charles H. Greene, D. James Baker, and Daniel H. Miller. Oceanography March 2010 Vol.23, No.1 “Studies conducted after those that contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (FAR) suggest that human society may be facing a very inconvenient truththat emission reduction efforts alone are unlikely… Continue Reading
Climate change panels establishes independent committee to review IPCC Procedures
Lead in to this headline as follows: The Nation: The Attack on Climate-Change Science New York Times Op-Ed – Al Gore: We Cant Wish Away Climate Change. See also related news from the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change: “The IPCC has started work on the preparation of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). We are currently… Continue Reading
The Effects of Climate Change on U.S. Ecosystems
The Effects of Climate Change on U.S. Ecosystems, November 2009 “The Earths climate is changing. The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date scientific assessment of this issue, stating with very high confidence that human activities such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation have… Continue Reading
