Unsurprisingly, people with conservative political views are significantly less likely to believe in climate change according to a new study published in the journal Nature. However, the widely held belief that older white men are more likely to be climate sceptics turned out not to be significant. The study, which …
Read More »BP blames governments over CO2 targets
BP has defended the energy projections set out in its annual energy outlook, which gives projections for global energy use out to 2035. Environmental campaigners had challenged the projections for failing to account for the COP21 targets that aim to limit global temperature increases to just 2 degrees. If the …
Read More »Is Organic Farming Our Best Response to Climate Change?
Often seen as irrelevant to global food needs, and dismissed as a middle class fad, organic farming could be our best hope for feeding 7.5 billion people on a planet increasingly plagued by droughts. That’s the finding of a new study by John Reganold and Jonathan M. Wachter from Washington …
Read More »BP: COP21 will not meet 2 degree climate target
Launching the 2016 World Energy Outlook at a conference in London, BP CEO Bob Dudley has warned world leaders that despite targets set at COP21 in Paris, the world is on course for a dangerous increase in temperature: “The growth rate of carbon emissions over the period of the Outlook is …
Read More »Prepare for Atlantic flight delays… and higher prices
The University of Reading has published research showing the flights from London to the USA will be getting longer – and costing more – as a result of climate change: “Aircraft do not fly through a vacuum, but through an atmosphere whose meteorological characteristics are changing because of global warming. …
Read More »Public services ill-prepared for climate change
New research from the Carbon Trust has found that public sector bodies are largely unprepared for the impact of climate change. With climate scientists warning that the frequency of a broad range of high-impact weather events such as floods and droughts, public services may struggle to continue operating for prolonged …
Read More »Not all trees are equal at curbing climate change
We have been encouraged to plant trees as a way of offsetting carbon emissions. But when it comes to climate change, some species of trees are considerably worse than others. That’s the finding of new research led by Dr Kim Naudts at the Laboratory of Climate Science and Environment in …
Read More »English floods “were the result of climate change”
People hit by flooding in the north of England and in southern Scotland in December 2015 don’t need to be told that “1 in 100 year floods” seem to be happening a lot more often these days. Coming just two years after a similar series of storms flooded swathes of …
Read More »Paris climate deal to cost far more
A report by Ceres consultancy and Bloomberg New Energy Finance has found that $12.5 trillion of investment – 75 percent more than envisaged in the COP21 agreement – will be needed to meet the proposed emissions targets. With global government debt currently running at more than $57 trillion, and private …
Read More »UK Government threatens to bomb the Greenland Icecap
In recent years it has become fashionable for governments to declare war on things that simply cannot be defeated. First we had the “War on Want” (i.e. poverty). Then came the “War on Drugs”. And in 2001 we had the start of the “War on Terror”. In each case, the …
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