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EU climate chief delivers treaty blow

Here is a bit of bad news for those of you that still have hope that a climate change treaty might be reached this year (see part of an article below).

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Added by Ronnie Wright on March 9, 2010 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

Women Rights and Climate Crisis

Every year on 8th March, world celebrates International Women’s Day. Many of us try to think and analyze the relationship of societal structures and respect to women rights. When societies violate the rights of women, we cannot imagine a true sense of development. Women being the 51% of population have always remained less fortunate to exercise their basic rights. We particularly see this where men dominate decision making at the household, community and broader level. Gender sensitivity and gen… Continue

Added by Asif Iqbal on March 9, 2010 at 3:46am — 1 Comment

Speculation on collective free will and alternative worlds

Following the reading of a few blogs/forums lately, I got the impression that for some authors the urgency to take actions on the front of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has receded in the eyes of the public at large. Public moods come and go and maybe they don't mean anything per se, but acknowledging what the current popular mood is can be instructive about what our next step should be. Today an article by Peter Preston appeare… Continue

Added by Luc Binette on March 8, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Glacial Recession in Pakistan- Biafo Glacier, the world' largest glacier system outside the polar region

The Biafo Glacier is a 63 km long glacier in the Karakuram Mountains of the Northern Areas, Pakistan which meets the 49 km long Hisper Glacier at an altitude of 5,128 m (16,824 feet) at Hisper La (Pass) to create the world's longest glacial system outside the polar regions. This highway of ice conne… Continue

Added by Asif Iqbal on March 7, 2010 at 1:30am — No Comments

Climate Trackers in 2010: Please tell us what YOU think

Dear Climate Trackers,

Apologies for our radio silence over the past few weeks, while we haven’t been active blogging on here, we have been very busy trying to figure out the big post Copenhagen question: what next?

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Added by UN Climate Trackers on March 5, 2010 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

It would be great, if climate change was all an illusion-

But try as I might I can't draw this conclusion-

2 mistakes by 2 scientists don't make everything wrong-

But climate deniers still st

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Added by P-Man on March 5, 2010 at 1:43pm — 5 Comments

Finding A Cure For The Insidious Cancers Of "Hope" And "Faith"

I wanted to share with you an article written by Carolyn Baker who is the author of a book I recently read titled Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse. This is an article intended to make you think and you should read it with an open mind.

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Added by Ronnie Wright on March 3, 2010 at 11:06am — No Comments

What is an environmentalist?

This is from the 365 Ways: March 2010 Newsletter. I completely agree with what it has to say. I think we need a whole lot more environmentalists to become activists if we are to ever tackle catastrophic climate change. We have got to be the change.

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Added by Ronnie Wright on March 3, 2010 at 6:53am — No Comments

Polar bears evolved faster than thought, study suggests

There is a very interesting study out about polar bears that I’m sure we will start to see being used by climate deniers so it’s important to get a heads up on the issue. Below I’ve listed some of the key points from an article about the study with a link to the complete article at the botto

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Added by Ronnie Wright on March 2, 2010 at 10:52am — No Comments

We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change

I wanted to share with you a very good op-ed written by Al Gore and published in The New York Times online edition on the 28^th of February 2010.

It’s worth the read.

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Added by Ronnie Wright on March 2, 2010 at 10:27am — 1 Comment

The race between the US and China is called Who of the 2 will collapse first?

Are you tired enough of hearing about the drug collapsidol that was advertised here yesterday (it might have been erased by now)?

I came across another great essay by Richard Heinberg (hereafter simply RH). He has a way of writing that draws instant fascination as I read his stuff. I do not know if that is such a good thing or not. Such a fascination has a way of turning my rational evaluation process off.… Continue

Added by Luc Binette on February 28, 2010 at 5:12am — 1 Comment

living with no power for week as a 14 yr old girl !

I am a 14 yr old girl living in WA, today i was talking about climate change and have been thinking about it for a while, something i could do to make a change. I thought of living with no power and no electronics. How life would be without all things changing our lives and making us lazy. So i thought i would live out in my backyard for a week in a tent, eating all organic and local food, not using anything with carbon imision effects (riding a bike instead of a car) and making all my meals. Du… Continue

Added by sasha cameron on February 27, 2010 at 10:33pm — 4 Comments

The Economics of Happiness

This is a very interesting article about the impact consumerism is having on the environment and our own happiness. It supports a return to localized economies.

If you are very much involved in the Transition Towns movement then you may already have a good understanding of this issue. If not I would recommend this article as a good ov

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Added by Ronnie Wright on February 27, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Connecting people from Tribal Areas on Climate Change

Tribal Areas

Tribal area of NWFP in Pakistan bordering Afghanistan is famous for its special and different culture where from years, people have ruled by their own without the influence of government authorities. Social harmon… Continue

Added by Asif Iqbal on February 26, 2010 at 2:21am — 2 Comments

New report: GM crops failing to tackle climate change

Friends of the Earth Europe has issued an interesting report titled “Who Benefits from GM Crops” that examines the evidence made by the biotech industry that genetically modified (GM) crops can combat climate change. I’ve not read the entire report just the executive summery but there seems to be a wealth of information on this issue contained in the report. Some of you may want to keep a copy

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Added by Ronnie Wright on February 25, 2010 at 2:27pm — No Comments

US: EPA to begin regulating businesses' greenhouse gas emissions in 2011

There is some good news over at the Federal Times website in the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it will begin to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from American businesses next year.

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Added by Ronnie Wright on February 24, 2010 at 10:37am — No Comments

Clive Hamilton: Who is orchestrating the cyber-bullying?

There is a very interesting follow up article, written by Clive Hamilton, over at the ABC about the cyber-bullying tactics being used by well organized right-wing climate deniers. This article gives some detail on some of those behind the cyber-bullying tactics.

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Added by Ronnie Wright on February 23, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Website: Skeptical Science

I would like to share with you a link to a website called Skeptical Science. This site gives some very good information pertaining to the claims made by so called Climate Change Skeptics. It could be a good source of information if you spend any time debating these issues online. Below I’ve provided some information from the About section of the website with a link to the sites homepage at the

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Added by Ronnie Wright on February 23, 2010 at 11:29am — No Comments

Bank Of America And Barclays See Looming Oil Crunch

Still more dire oil predictions coming from the main stream with Bank of America and Barclays predicting a coming oil crunch. I see this in many ways as a good thing because so far the only thing that has caused a real reduction in carbon emissions has been economic rescission.

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Added by Ronnie Wright on February 22, 2010 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Bullying, lies and the rise of right-wing climate denial

There is a very interesting article over at the ABC about the cyber-bullying tactics being used by well organized right-wing climate deniers. I don’t know much about the conduct of the right-wing here in Australia but as any of you that follow US politics will know they can be very unethical, devious and underhanded in their conduct and will do anything to get their way. The right-wing is tryin

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Added by Ronnie Wright on February 22, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment