climate change

Scientists call for protected areas to conserve deep sea environment

Waste dumping, fishing, mining and climate change are transforming the deep sea ecosystem faster than scientists can study it By Staff www.guardian.co.uk August 3, 2011 There’s trouble in the depths. The deep sea is the last true wilderness on Earth, but 1,800 km below the surface, an environmental crisis is growing. On Monday scientists at […]

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UN security council to consider climate change peacekeeping force

By Suzanne Goldenberg guardian.co.uk 20 July 2011 A special meeting of the United Nations security council is due to consider whether to expand its mission to keep the peace in an era of climate change. Small island states, which could disappear beneath rising seas, are pushing the security council to intervene to combat the threat

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EDITORIAL: U.N. climate propaganda exposed

By Editorial Staff The Washington Times Friday, June 17, 2011 Industry lobbyists behind ‘scientific’ claims in IPCC press release The entire world will soon depend on renewable energy so governments ought to start subsidizing these industries immediately. So said the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a report released Tuesday. The study’s

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Changing Tides: Research Center Under Fire for ‘Adjusted’ Sea-Level Data

By Maxim Lott FoxNews.com June 17, 2011 Is climate change raising sea levels, as Al Gore has argued — or are climate scientists doctoring the data? The University of Colorado’s Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters — or about the thickness of a fingernail — every year to its actual

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Environmental activism needs its own revolution to regain its teeth

Charles Secrett guardian.co.uk 13 June 2011 Today’s protest tactics are not sufficient to alter the destructive path travelled by virtually all governments and most corporations Forty years ago, Friends of the Earth announced its arrival in the UK with a handful of placard-waving volunteers dumping 1,500 non-returnable Schweppes bottles on the front steps of the

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