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December 7, 2009

Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation

Copenhagen climate change conference: ‘Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation’ This editorial calling for action from world leaders on climate change is published today by 56 newspapers around the world in...

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December 5, 2009

James Hansen on the Need for Copenhagen to Fail

‘We don’t have a leader who is able to grasp [the issue] and say what is really needed. Instead we are trying to continue business as usual,’ says James Hansen. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA”] The...

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November 18, 2009

Earth 'heading for 6C' of warming

via the BBC — check full story here: Average global temperatures are on course to rise by up to 6C without urgent action to curb CO2 emissions, the lead author of a new analysis...

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November 13, 2009

Miles, Corbin, Kelly, Greenland, etcetera.

Miles Joris-Peyrafitte has a new band called St. Jacques. They’re just back from the studio where they recorded two songs they call “The Fear of Landing” — you can hear them here! * *...

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November 11, 2009

Antarctic Temperature & Carbon Dioxide

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 11/11/2009 The nature of past Antarctic temperature lead over carbon dioxide is clarified The analysis of past changes of Antarctic temperature and the...

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November 10, 2009

Copenhagen must be a Turning Point towards Global Sustainability

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 60 Nobel Laureates: Copenhagen must be a Turning Point towards Global Sustainability 60 Nobel Laureates are calling on world leaders for a global...

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October 30, 2009

Jolly Eschatology

Via signandsight, an interview with the authors of a book out only in German so far, but that may be quite worthwhile translating, even if much of its political/cultural aim is German-directed. Any takers?...

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September 30, 2009

Anthropocene: the Shortest Geological Epoch?

Interesting speculations in this week’s New Scientist cocnerning what Earth will look like after we are through with it (& it with us, of course). Below, the opening paragraphs of Bob Holmes’ piece. You...

Antarctic Ice / Climate Change / Global Warming / Uncategorized

August 23, 2009

Ocean Fever

21 Aug 2009: World Ocean Temperatures Set Record High in July, U.S. Agency Says The world’s oceans were warmer in July than at any time in the 130 years of record-keeping, averaging 62.6 degrees...

Climate Change

March 13, 2009

Emergency Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen

Stern attacks politicians over climate ‘devastation’ guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2009 (Friday 13 March 2009) Peter Cox, a climate expert at Exeter University, said: “People have been saying this individually for...