New Scientist: THE political battle over whether human activity is changing Earth’s climate is heading for US schools. A conservative organisation is working to develop teaching materials that sow doubt on the scientific consensus over climate change, according to documents leaked last week from the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think [...]
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Daily News: Norwegian Embassy Advisor, Mr Simon Milledge told the ‘Daily News’ on Tuesday that reports of fund mismanagement were revealed by the WWF last December. At the centre of the matter are two projects, one of which is Strengthening Capacity of Environmental civil society Organizations, worth [...]
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Guardian: The extreme Russian heatwave of 2010 was made three times more likely because of man-made climate change, according to a study led by climate scientists and number-crunched by home PC users. But the size of the event was mostly within natural limits, said the scientists, laying to rest a [...]
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Jakarta Post: Local government officials may have accepted bribes from logging, mining and plantation companies in exchange for permission to clear forests, a top official has said. The Forestry Ministry’s director general of forestry business development, Iman Santoso, said bad governance had undermined efforts to halt Indonesia’s deforestation. [...]
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Business Green: Simmering tensions between the EU and the group of countries opposed to the bloc’s expansion of its emissions trading scheme (ETS) to include aviation increased further today, after officials signalled that the so-called “coalition of the unwilling” had agreed a package of retaliatory measures.
Speaking following a meeting in [...]
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San Francisco Chronicle: The latest national uproar over climate change science has damaged, if not ruined, the reputation of one of the Bay Area’s most prominent scholars and raised serious questions about ethics during what has become a roiling political and ideological debate.
Peter Gleick, a MacArthur Foundation fellow and co-founder [...]
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Jakarta Globe: In February 2007, the three countries that share Borneo, the world’s third-largest island, signed on to a conservation and sustainable forest development program initiated by the World Wildlife Fund to protect a vast swath of forest.
Fives years on, officials concede that the Heart of Borneo program faces daunting [...]
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Time: Late last year, Peter Gleick — the president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security; and a respected expert on water-and-climate issues — co-authored a paper on the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) task force on scientific ethics and integrity. Gleick and his co-author Randy Townsend [...]
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Times of India: In a consolidation of the Durban results, the environment and forests ministry has notified inter-ministerial groups that will advise on key elements of India’s stance on climate negotiations for future.
The groups, with officials from various ministries including power and renewable energy, will advise and guide the negotiating [...]
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GOP Politicians Not Listening To Even Conservative Scientists On Climate Change
Think Progress: A number of prominent U.S. climate scientists who identify themselves as Republican say their attempts in recent years to educate the GOP leadership on the scientific evidence of man-made climate change have been futile. Now, many have given up trying and the few who continue notice very little [...]
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