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Olive Heffernan This week's Nature [subscription required] is the third in a series of special issues celebrating the life of Charles Darwin. It focuses on the dire challenges to Earth's biodiversity — and finds some reason for hope.Among the numerous biodiversity-related contributions is an opinion piece by Will Turner of (Read More)
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Olive HeffernanI've just returned from a two-day visit to the UK Met Office, where scientists are gathered this week to present and discuss the results of a five-year research initiative known as Ensembles. An EU-funded project led by the Met Office Hadley Centre, Ensembles brought together 66 research international institu (Read More)
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Stephanie BaudainsAl Gore was yesterday questioned on climate change policy by Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News, in an interview that coincided with the release of his latest book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis' . In a polished delivery the erstwhile American Vice-President said t (Read More)
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Cross-posted from Daniel Cressey on The Great BeyondClimate negotiators are in Barcelona, Spain, this week for the last bout of negotiating prior to the two-week Copenhagen meeting. In December this year, parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will descend on Copenhagen to wrangle over (Read More)
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Olive Heffernan “Imagine farmers being able to determine what to plant and where based on drought forecasts three to five years out”, said Jane Lubchenco, head of NOAA, in Geneva last month. Speaking to delegates at the World Climate Conference, Lubchenco was lending her voice to the vision of climate services, which would (Read More)
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Quirin SchiermeierThe European Union’s environment ministers have reportedly agreed on a negotiation mandate for Sweden for the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen. Sweden currently holds the EU presidency, which rotates every six months. (German).The EU has previously said it will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at (Read More)
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Through the week, I was coming back to find my cycle after giving a short talk in Cambridge when I was stopped by a young woman called Maria. She was carrying a fold-over clipboard that proclaimed "Friends of the Earth" on the front; she had a Mediterranean accent, and eyes to match.Maria asked me what I thought about the w (Read More)
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As promised, Nature’s film on climate change went online last week on October 1. You can view the film in full on nature.com (it lasts about twenty minutes in total). It will also be on YouTube next week, at which stage I’ll embed it here. The film was shot this July on location in Lindau at the 59th meeting of Nobel Laurea (Read More)
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Robert Corell, chairman of the Washington-based Climate Action Initiative, recently illustrated the appeal of a remarkably simple modelling tool by giving reporters a direct answer to a difficult question: What is the impact of the international climate commitments announced thus far? Citing results from C-ROADS (for Climat (Read More)
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Despite the apparent stress that humanity is causing to the Earth system, defining sustainable limits for our own existence has proved to be something of an intractable problem. But what if we could define global sustainability numerically? In this issue of Nature, a group of renowned earth system and environmental scienti (Read More)
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The United Nation’s upcoming climate summit in Copenhagen threatens to get caught in a trap between high expectations and the immense complexity of the task at hand, warns the author of an opinion piece in Nature today [subscription]. Since diplomats cannot possibly produce a useful treaty for the December meeting in the re (Read More)
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Adapting to climate change will cost many times more than the UN has estimated, according to a report by former IPCC working group co-chair Martin Parry and colleagues, published by the International Institute for Environment and Development and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London.In 2007 th (Read More)
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Twenty years after the Montreal Protocol came into effect to regulate substances that deplete the ozone layer, the annual ozone hole above Antarctica shows no signs of recovery.A feature article and editorial in Nature today explain why this is so, and why the Montreal Protocol has been a unique success nonetheless. As thi (Read More)
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The English language is just not equipped with the verb tenses required to report environmental news stories easily. Where’s the tense that would allow environment reporters to write stories about predictions about the future as if they are occurring in the present, for example? As it is, such ’scientists predict that clima (Read More)
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Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News:
In the media, there is considerable discussion as to the serious consequences to the environment and society, if the global average surface temperature increases to and beyond 2C from its pre-industrial value; for example, see Times Online on July 9 2009 where they wrote“For the first time, America and the other seven riche (Read More)
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