Archive for the ‘Global Warming’ Category

• First commercial ship sails through Northwest Passage: “I didn’t see one cube of ice”

  CBS News reports that the Canadian Coast Guard is confirming “that in a major first, a commercial ship travelled through the Northwest Passage this fall to deliver supplies to communities in western Nunavut”. “We did have a commercial cargo vessel …

• New climate report says we must rapidly decarbonise our society

  Tomorrow a new and updated version of last year’s climate report, Climate Code Red, will be released. The Climate Safety report from the Public Interest Research Center (PIRC), an independent charity studying and communicating vital global issues in the UK, …

• Key Climate Emergency Facts and Actions Summary for 2009 Australian Climate Action Summit

  The 2009 Australian Climate Action Summit of Climate Change Activists will be held in Canberra on the weekend before the first day of the 2009 Federal Parliament – Saturday 31st January – Monday 2nd February 2009. According to the organizers: …

• Obama: I look forward to working with all nations to meet the climate challenge

  Yesterday, during the Governors Global Climate Summit in California, Obama promised that USA would “engage vigorously” in the climate negotiations and “help lead the world toward a new era of global cooperation on climate change”. Unfortunately Obama yesterday turned down …

• Obama promises actions on climate change, not going to attend UN climate conference

  During a climate summit in California today Barack Obama said, in a taped video, that his “presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change”. Obama spoke about his support for a cap-and-trade system and that he …

• 2008 Walk Against Warming – Thousands of Australians Protest Government Inaction over Climate Emergency

  Tens of thousands of decent Green Australians attended the 2008 Walk Against Warming that was held in Melbourne, Sydney and other Australian centres on November 15, 2008 to protest government INACTION over the mounting Climate Emergency Shortly after the huge …

• Invite Obama to Poland for the U.N. Climate Meetings

  The global grassroots climate movement, 350, asks for your help to invite President-elect Barack Obama to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland this December. So far over 48,000 “invitations” have been sent. Sign the invitation, click here!

• Greenpeace builds Climate Rescue Station against coal in Poland

  In light of the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Poznan, between 1st – 14th of December, Greenpeace have set up a “Climate Rescue Station” on the edge of a coal mine. The four storey tall station “will …

• Book Review: “Climate Code Red – the case for emergency action”

  6 months ago on Green Blog I reviewed “Climate Code Red – the case for a sustainability emergency” by David Spratt and Phillip Sutton (Friends of the Earth, Melbourne). This important, well-referenced, spiral bound book had helped launch the Australian …

• Climate change is happening much faster than previously expected

  Photo credit: azrainman A new report from WWF says that climate change is happening much faster than the scientists have predicated earlier. The report says that we must take action on a global scale to avert devastating climate effects such …