The White House buried a report prepared by US government scientists which detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, fires, disease and smog they predicted would be caused by global warming.
Environmental advocates accused President George W Bush's administration of delaying the release of the 149-page report so that it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases.
Channel 4 misrepresented some of the world's leading climate scientists in a controversial documentary that claimed global warming was a conspiracy and a fraud, the UK's media regulator will rule next week.
A report from the environmental audit committee (EAC) (a committee of MPs) claims that the government is "lagging far behind" in its efforts to curb carbon emissions from its buildings and activities,
The report claims that emissions from government departments have dropped by just 0.7% over the period 1999-2000 to 2006-07, much less than the 8% necessary to hit its target of a 12.5% reduction by 2010/11.
New German research and computer modelling suggests that nations around the Atlantic Ocean may suffer initially from greater sea level rises than the rest of the world if Greenland and Antarctic ice melts. In the first few decades Europe could witness sea levels 6 times higher than previously predicted and the US 30 times greater. Currently only one team of scientists are making such predictions. The full paper is available at the American Geophysical Union.
Get prepared for this years Climate Camp at Kingsnorth in Kent. A Music and Film Night is set for Saturday 19th July at the Havana Bar in Southsea from 8pm. Entry will be only £2, with a proportion of the ticket sales being donated to the Climate Camp. As well as local bands and DJ’s, the film ‘Reclaim Power’ (made at the 2006 Climate Camp at Drax power station) will be shown. The event is being co-organised by Portsmouth Climate Action Network and the Oberon Project.
