China’s smog is still around and it’s only getting worse with children even being allowed to stay at home from school.
Brandalism covered the streets of Paris with faux adverts highlighting the lack of action by the climate change conference’s sponsors to improve their carbon footprint.
David Attenborough finally agrees. How climate change helps ISIS. Turkey challenges Russia. Rand lowest ever (again). SA / China’s billion dollar deals. 1km high tower approved. Mysterious spiked baseball bats found. Harry hated Eton.
It may not have felt like it down here in SA but the world actually had a rather warm June. That’s not all, climate change denialists, there’s another touch of science to crush your dreams.
It seems the Mayans got dealt a pretty rough hand a while back. Scientists have finally figured what caused the decline of the Mayan empire.
Owning a news network gives a person great power. If Rupert Murdoch says climate change is not a big deal, Fox News says it’s not a big deal. Fair enough, have your own view but report news more responsibly than that…
Just to add fuel to the ridiculous fire, various news publications have latched onto the idea that Gingers may face extinction due to climate change. Before you jump on this wobbly band-wagon… actually think about what they are saying. Read this.
With more of us using the digital ether that is the Cloud platform, the technology is replacing physical storage of old (CDs, DVDs, magazines and floppy disks) and provides users with an invisible mainframe to maintain one’s digital life. But although the Cloud may seem intangible, somewhere in the world, massive servers are chowing through electricity.
Originally created as an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war, the Doomsday Clock still hangs on a board in the University of Chicago – and still ticks over with doomsday predictions.
In this week’s edition, environmental reporter Sipho Kings explains the UN’s latest report on climate change and what it means for government policies. If you’re serious about the rapidly changing balance of power between environment, government, and business, then listen in.
Well this is disappointing. New research that examined the life-cycle impact of conventional and electric vehicles shows that in many cases electric cars might pollute much more than petrol or diesel-powered cars. So if you are looking to buy an electric car to save the planet, you could, in fact, be harming it.
Global warming is destroying the Great Barrier Reef. A scientist has published a paper today saying that radical ideas are needed to save the reef. Climate change has meant that the sea around world’s biggest coral reef has increased in temperature and acidity is slowly destroying the reef.
More worrying news from the climate change front. Scientists have said that even if deep emissions cuts lower global average temperatures, sea levels will continue to rise over the next couple of hundred years.
Scientists say that the catastrophic wildfires in the US West offer a preview of the kind of disasters that human-caused climate change could bring. Apocalyptic like fires have been raging across Colorado, Montana and Utah for weeks, and scientists say are a damaging impact of global warming.
Called “pop-up forests” forest by a New York Times blogger, areas of the Arctic Tundra are greening faster and faster as temperatures rise. What is worse, is that with the increase of vegetation, more sunlight is absorbed and contributes to the increase in temperatures.
A rather large group of former NASA scientists and astronauts have come together to express their distrust at the way NASA thinks about climate change. They’ve written a letter, in which they criticise the Goddard Institute For Space Studies for telling fibs about man-made carbon dioxide.
The human race is going to have to start believing in science – and quickly – if we want a hope in hell of surviving the environmental crisis we’re facing. This was the sentiment at a recent gathering of the world’s pre-eminent scientific minds in Vancouver. At the meeting, thousands of scientists discussed the problem that their industry is “under seige”, and that the world needs help to believe in science again.
A bunch of emails have been leaked from the Heartland Institute, the think tank vaguely infamous for being at once massively skeptical of climate change and funded by billionaire global warming deniers, the Koch Brothers. The emails suggest that the Institute has been paying scientists and bloggers to discredit climate change research.
Key decision makers on the global climate change issue have been hesitant to make a conclusive call at the COP17 talks, which are currently being held in Durban. There are major concerns that the world’s only legally binding climate agreement could sink entirely.