Category Archives: global warming news

Flash Floods and Hot Cities

A couple of weeks ago I was in sunny La Napoule in France with my husband. Four days later, just up the road, 20 people were killed in the most extreme weather conditions the region has seen for twenty years. … Continue reading

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Bjorn Lomborg at the RSA

If you want to influence people around to your way of thinking then firstly you have to make some sort of empathetic connection with them. Bjorn Lomberg knows that. He also knows if he talks common sense he will get … Continue reading

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Sea Change at Copenhagen

Anyone who has run a committee knows how difficult it is to get consensus on anything. And anyone who has been involved with the debate on global warming will know how particularly difficult it is to get consensus on reductions … Continue reading

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Prince Charles and the Frog

If you are campaigning to the public to get them to help save the planet what are the best ways to do it? Well there are several different approaches you can take. You can go the scary route like the … Continue reading

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Black Carbon

Black carbon! It sounds like bad news…and it is and, as far as the Arctic is concerned..it is very bad news – probably responsible for half if not more of the increase in the warming in that region over the … Continue reading

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Antarctica Appeal

We produce around 32 billion tons of CO2 each year .Out of that about 15 actually stays in the atmosphere contributing to climate change. The oceans, forests, vegetation and soil store the rest of that CO2. So obviously if this … Continue reading

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To Russia With Love From Denmark

Russia has begun to work on modernising its inefficient power plants and that’s thanks to The Danes. The good news about this is that Russia is one of the world’s highest emitters of green house gases. Much of this however … Continue reading

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High Rivers Run Low

http://youtube.com/v/8cNDVzoMmdw Not only are the rivers at the lowest point on earth that’s the Dead Sea – under threat because of global warming but also those that run from higher up … particularly the Tibetan Plateau. That’s the largest, highest … Continue reading

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Canada softened by US

Canada is ready to talk with the US on tackling global warming which is fantastic news because it seems that President Obama’s commitment to go all out to ‘green’ America may encourage this other great nation to do the same. … Continue reading

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Blown Away in UK

http://youtube.com/v/H_Ce2FDk7BI When we think of hurricanes or cyclones we automatically think of the tropics. But Powerful winds could threaten both UK and Europe with the potentially destructive force of a tropical category four hurricane. And all because of global warming. … Continue reading

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