Today is Earth Day, and over one billion people in approximately 192 countries are taking action to protect the environment. From London to Sao Paolo, Seoul to Babylon City, New Delhi to New York, Rome to Cairo, people everywhere are mobilizing their communities and helping depict The Face of Climate Change, the theme of Earth Day 2013.
The world needs to move away from only setting national carbon emission targets, and instead supplement these with an agreed maximum and minimum carbon price that clearly measures the effort it takes to reach these targets, if it wants to break the deadlock on reaching a binding international agreement, according to an ANU expert. Professor [...]
A new book being launched at The Australian National University tonight explains the science behind climate change in a way that makes it readily accessible and empowers readers to make up their own mind as to whether or not our planet is warming. A Short Introduction to Climate Change, by Emeritus Professor Tony Eggleton, takes [...]
 September, 2012 New York, 19th September 2012 – Scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) today released preliminary figures suggesting that Arctic sea ice has reached the lowest recorded extent since records began in 1979. The data indicates that on September 16th Arctic ice extent covered 3.41 m km2 – a drop [...]
Greenpeace Response to Shell Abandoning 2012 Arctic Drilling In response to Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to abandon its 2012 drilling program after failing to get the proper spill response equipment in place, Greenpeace US Deputy Campaigns Director Dan Howells said: “Shell spent nearly $5 billion to exploit global warming for profit this summer, but the [...]
Research into Antarctic climate history has revealed the unusual nature of the recent rapid warming in the Antarctic Peninsula, according to an academic from The Australian National University. Dr Nerilie Abram, from the Research School of Earth Sciences in the ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, was part of an international research team that [...]
Reprinted from Sandia National Laboratory press release. BARROW, Alaska — Sandia National Laboratories’ researcher Mark Ivey and I (science writer Neal Singer) are standing on the tundra at an outpost of science at the northernmost point of the North American continent. We are five miles northeast of Barrow, an Alaskan village unreachable by roads, 320 [...]
The California Natural Resources Agency and the California Energy Commission (CEC) yesterday (Tuesday, July 31) released more than 30 reports by researchers at the University of California — 15 of them from UC Berkeley — and other academic institutions that detail the state’s vulnerabilities to climate change and pinpoint the economic and policy hurdles that [...]
Leading scientists outline opportunities for solutions SACRAMENTO – Facing the severe threat of climate change, California policymakers and researchers announced new data to reduce and adapt to climate change in the Golden State. According to new reports released by the California Natural Resources Agency and the California Energy Commission, state and local leaders now have [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen, a global warming skeptic, told about 70 Sandia researchers in June that too much is being made of climate change by researchers seeking government funding. He said their data and their methods did not support their claims. “Despite concerns over the last decades with the [...]
WASHINGTON — For several days this month, Greenland’s surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its 2-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its surface, according to [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Global warming is unequivocal in its advance and will lead to more record-setting temperatures, said Warren M. Washington, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in the seventh lecture of Sandia National Laboratories’ Climate Change and National Security series. The talk was given in mid-May. Washington, a pioneer in [...]
The impact of rising sea levels caused by planetary warming will be the focus of a panel discussion featuring leading international experts tonight at The Australian National University. The Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES) Sea Level Forum will feature three international speakers who will provide a unique scientific perspective on what kind of sea [...]
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