Agriculture and climate change in South Asia
[World Meteorological Organization News] The IPCC was established by WMO and the United Nations Environment Programme in 1988 to assess, on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis, the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
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August 26, 2008
Announcing Nature Climate Change
[Nautilus] Nature Climate Change will bring together scientific observation and models with work reporting on our understanding of how human society affects climate change, and vice versa. The journal's coverage will extend into socio-economic research as well as the natural sciences, with the aim of putting the research it publishes into a wider scientific, economic and political context.
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August 25, 2008
Accra Climate Change Talks 2008
[Biodun Iginla's Weblog] The latest round of UN-sponsored global climate change negotiations got underway Thursday in Accra, Ghana. More than 1600 participants, including government delegates from 160 countries and representatives from business and industry, environmental organizations and research institutions are attending the one-week meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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Icelandic president to discuss climate change in Bangladesh
[IceNews - Daily News] The six-day conference on climate change and food security in South Asia is jointly organised by Dhaka University and the Ohio State University and will take place between 25 and 30 August.
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August 21, 2008
UN to Assist in Establishment of Inter-Agency Climate Change ...
[CLIMATE-L.ORG] Secretary-General Ban referred to the collaboration between various UN bodies and the Pacific Island Forum, and welcomed the fact that the region is making its voice heard on the subject of climate change. Noting that climate change .
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August 19, 2008
Climate Change: What Should You Expect In The Future?
[Untitled] Climate change over the next 100 years is expected to be marked with wetter conditions in cold weather and hotter and drier conditions in the summer. Crops will have to respond to the weather extremes, with the help of genetic modification, but they will also have to resist a wide range of insects and pestilence expected to accompany the warmer summer weather.
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August 16, 2008
Agri. Minister rejects draft strategy for climate change
[Kaieteur News] “The numbers quoted for damage to the region due to climate issues, I am absolutely sure, do not include the numbers for damage done due to the 2005 floods”¦the strategy document fails miserably to note the regional synergies that exist between countries like Guyana, where we have the capacity to produce immense tonnages of food, provided we can combat and mitigate climate change, to the rest of the Caribbean, who lack the landmass and the agricultural infrastructure to grow their own food,” the minister stressed.
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August 14, 2008
Climate change - 10 simple facts
[frogblog] 5) Is it conceivable that if man is pushing climate change one way, nature is pushing it another, and we may actually do good? If there are tipping points, is it conceivable that we may need to tip in the very direction we are arguing that we should not?
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August 11, 2008
Climate Change: Action or Oblivion ”” Ban Ki Moon
[The Misanthropic Principle] If anyone is still in doubt about climate change, here are four recent articles that were aggregated within the Climate Change Coalition’s weekly news letter. Note that all four are from different reputable sources and different parts of the world.
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August 09, 2008
First Day of First Indian Youth Summit on Climate Change
[It's Getting Hot In Here] The evening also saw the launch of the Hyderabad Climate Alliance, a youth movement to bring together local efforts of individuals, organizations and institutions with the aim of mitigating climate change and helping the people of Hyderabad and Andhra Pradesh adapt to its impacts. The launch included all 50 delegates from Hyderabad and AP signing on to the Hyderabad Climate Alliance Pledge, agreeing that they “understand that climate change is an impending global catastrophe”¦ and believe that Hyderabad and Andhra Pradesh will be particularly susceptible”¦ and commit to contribute in earnest to mitigating climate change and helping the people and natural environment of Hyderabad to adapt.”
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Indian Youth Summit on Climate Change: Day 2
[It's Getting Hot In Here] Caroline graduated from Yale's mechanical and environmental engineering programs in 2007, and is currently loving living and working in India - where the worlds of climate adaptation and mitigation are colliding with enormous potential to change lives and change the future trajectory of climate emissions. She's working on green buildings, sustainable transit, urban and rural renewable energy, and is climate rapping her way across India.
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August 05, 2008
*Who is behind climate change deniers?
[The Green Room] It found that in 2005 Exxon distributed nearly $3 million to 39 groups that "misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence that greenhouse gases are driving climate change". It asked Exxon to stop the funding and its protests helped force Exxon's recent retreat.
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Climate Change Condensed and 'How to win the climate change ...
[gptu] This is the first course in Britain created specially for trade union members that covers ‘all you need to know about climate change’ in just three hours.
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July 28, 2008
Tarkine coast and climate change. - Mon, 28 Jul 2008
[BobCast] Senator Bob Brown talks about his recent trip to the Tarkine coast and the issue of climate change.
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Some rational thought left - “climate change as curriculum” vetoed
[Watts Up With That?] Schwarzenegger added that the state’s Integrated Waste Management Board’s Office of Education and Environment, along with California’s Environmental Protection Agency, are creating an environmental curriculum for K-12 students that includes climate change issues.Simitian had said his bill wouldn’t dictate what to teach; rather, it would require the state Board of Education and state Department of Education to decide how the topic would be covered and which grades would study it.
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July 24, 2008
Link between crop failure and climate change often missed
[Carbon-Based] The reporter is Miriam Mannak: Climate change has a profound effect on food security in Africa, as increasing temperatures and shifting rain patterns reduce access to food across the continent. This transpired at a conference on global .
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July 23, 2008
South Africa's Van Schalkwyk paints grim picture of climate change
[Carbon-Based] AllAfrica.com, via Business Day (South Africa): The longer the delay in taking action on climate change, the greater the costs would be for everyone to minimise its effects and adapt to them, Environment and Tourism Minister Marthinus .
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Climate Change in Kansas City: A Guest Weblog By Dr. Lynwood Yarbrough
[Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News] Several years ago I began reading the literature on climate change that was appearing in Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals. I did so because I was concerned at the alarmism I was seeing in the media regarding “global warming” and the dire predictions of some in the scientific literature. I consider myself a scientific skeptic and want to be convinced by the data before I accept something as “true”
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July 19, 2008
EPA report details climate change risks
[Global Warming News] Climate change will pose "substantial" threats to human health in the coming decades, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday - issuing its warnings about heat waves, hurricanes and pathogens just .
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Desperate climate change skeptics misread the news
[Millard Fillmore's Bathtub] Society, we kick off a debate concerning one of the main conclusions of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body which, together with Al Gore, recently won the Nobel Prize for its work concerning climate change research. There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.
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July 12, 2008
Climate Change and Trade Unions
[Caroline Lucas MEP] This Green Party event will explore why trade unions should be concerned about climate change, as well as the role they can play in taking action. More details available soon.
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July 11, 2008
Climate change failure: The international finger-pointing continues
[Green Daily] In a nutshell, the G8 is saying "we're not going to risk our standard of living to fight climate change" while the rest of the world replies "once we reach your standard of living, we'll be happy to do our part." Solutions, anyone?
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