Two interesting climate change stories in the news this week: from tipping points to fasting Bishops. A new report from University of East Anglia suggests climate change may happen faster than we thought, in that there are key tipping points
What a load of rubbish?
Rubbish is big business and bigger news this week. Whilst the UK Climate Change bill makes its way through the commons, Britons are also being threatened with “pilot” trials (according to DEFRA), paying for the amount of rubbish we have
Al Gore – from nine errors to the big prize in a week
It’s been an interesting week for Al Gore. He started it being ‘convicted’ by a UK judge for having ‘nine errors‘ in his film, An Inconvenient Truth, although the judge ruled that the film could be shown in schools on
UN says record emergency flood appeals… where is the urgent action?
The UN claimed on Friday that the record number of floods and humanitarian disasters happening around the world is due to climate change. According to Sir John Holmes, Under Secretary for Ocha, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
New climate change poll…but is it representative?
The BBC announced today the results of a new global poll on climate change. According to the Globescan poll, an average of 79% of respondents agreed that “human activity, including industry and transportation, is a significant cause of climate change”.
Floods, Ouzels and the UK Climate Bill
Floods, freak rainfall and so on – the latest research says it is due to climate change – read the article on the Greenpeace website. There are many recorded real life indicators of climate change but here’s a small but
56% believe scientists are still questioning climate change
According to an Ipsos Mori poll of 2000 people in June, some 56% of those polled said that they thought scientists were still questioning climate change and what was causing it, with many saying that global warming was exaggerated, perhaps
Pocket Issue survey creates a bit of a kerfuffle
As some of you might be aware AOL and Pocket Issue have been running a survey on AOL’s new Go green site. The survey is on the ‘Open to Debate’ page, an extract from our title, Pocket Issue, Global Warming.