Climate & Climate Change

A summary of 'Mitigation of Climate Change' -- the much awaited third report from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- was issued last night. According to Michael Casy writing for The Guardian: International … [Read more...] about Mitigation of Climate Change: UN Summary Released

I'm not sure that dumping tons of iron powder in the ocean is going to stop 'climate change', but I am hopeful it can reduce atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide: "The first commercial venture into growing vast plankton blooms big enough to suck … [Read more...] about A Plankton-based Carbon Offset

Hi Jennifer, I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian government to estimate carbon emissions from land use change and forestry (Google on "FullCAM"). When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon … [Read more...] about Australian Skeptic Bets $US6,000 That Warming Will Cool

According to science writer, Julian Cribb, “climate change has unleashed the biggest academic gold rush in recent history, with state and federal governments splashing tens, even hundreds of millions of dollars around almost weekly on new projects … [Read more...] about How Much Money for Climate Change Research in Australia?

"The US supreme court yesterday issued a landmark ruling in favour of environmentalists and against George Bush's stance on global warming. The court judged that the federal Environmental Protection Agency had the power through a clean air law to … [Read more...] about US Supreme Court Rules on C02