Climate Pulse

thumb-316276.jpg Intrepid British journalist George Monbiot has a piece in The Guardian today that absolutely smashes the London Sunday Times' handling of its botched 'Amazongate' story.  The Times was forced to retract essentially its entire January article,  which badly... [continue]

Photo: Herald Sun As we alluded to earlier, in a very historic day, Australia has a new Prime Minister. In her first speech as the nation's 27th Prime Minister, and first female in the role, Julia Gillard, had a few things to say about climate change: "It is my intention to lead a Government that... [continue]

Photo: US Dept of State Following a leadership vote at 9am Thursday 24 June 2010, Australia may have a new Prime Minister. It seems likely the deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will be chosen by her political party to dethrone the country's Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. Australia may end up with... [continue]

The G20 at an earlier meeting The WWF has leaked a document that is called "Preamble, Context and Decisions - June 11, 2010" for the G20 Conference happening this weekend in Fortress Toronto. Key environmental takeaways include that they will do what they say they will do, something Canada in... [continue]

Representative Paul Broun says clean energy legislation will cause electricity prices to rise, which will make it too expensive to run air conditioning, and people will die of hyperthermia. Joe Romm types it out: ...Read the full story on TreeHugger [continue]

illustrations from New York Magazine Climate change was always a tough sell. But as an important article by Jason Zengerie in New York Magazine points out, it mostly seems to happen in another place, and another time. He quotes a pollster: "People overwhelmingly say melting ice is a very bad thing.... [continue]

Read the full transcript of former UNEP boss and environmentalist Maurice Strong's interview with Leo Hickman• Post your comments on the news storyWhat's your reaction to how your name has been used and abused over the years?I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't... [continue]

 In my previous blog, I had highlighted a general lack of urgency in focusing on technology development, diffusion and transfer to deal with climate change.  Many of the public policies needed to achieve low carbon growth in countries over the medium term are already in place, including... [continue]

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Screen shot 2010-06-21 at 6.31.33 PM.png A study by Stanford University researchers examining expert credibility in climate change has confirmed that climate skeptics and contrarians within the scientific community comprise at best 3% of the field, and are “vastly... [continue]