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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
(reposted with permission)
In his first State of the Union address, President Barack Obama touched on climate issues only briefly. He called on the Senate to pass a climate bill, but did not give Congress a deadline or promise to veto weak legislation. Nor did he mention the Copenhagen climate conference, where international negotiators struggled to produce an agreement on limiting global carbon emissions.
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According to data released today from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany, greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized nations rose in 2007, continuing the upward trend of the previous six years and underscoring the need for an “ambitious deal in Copenhagen.”
Continue Reading Rise in CO2 Emissions Continues for Developed Nations
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An Australian researchers sees the nonbinding agreement among industrialized nations to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius as a “pipe dream” given their modest commitment to mid-term emissions reductions.
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FORA.tv presentation of a talk called “Recalculating Climate Change” given by Dr. Saul Griffith at the Long Now foundation in San Francisco.
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According to measurements taken by the Norwegian Polar Institute, levels of atmospheric carbon hit a new high last December of 392 parts-per-million (ppm), up 2-3 ppm from the same time last year. Many leading climate scientists, including NASA’s James Hansen, have called for a reduction of CO2 concentration to 350 ppm as the only way to avoid the worst potential consequences of climate change.
Continue Reading CO2 Levels Reach New Peaks, No Sign of Dip Commensurate With Economic Slowdown
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The British Meteorological Office’s Hadley Centre, the country’s largest (and generally conservative) environmental research organization, has issued its strongest warning to date about the world response to climate change.
Research released from the Hadley Centre says that global emissions must be cut 3% per year starting in 2010 if the world has any hope of avoiding an increase in global temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). This is the widely recognized point beyond which the worst impacts of climate change begin, including rising seas, increasingly volatile weather patters, drought, and wide-scale extinction (all of which have already begun).
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