The row sparked by the leak of climate change emails from a British university has the potential to "undermine" the reputation of science as a whole, two respected scientific organisations have warned.

So, a new paper out showing that the subsea permafrost in the Arctic is melting. This will/could lead to large emissions of methane and thus to increased climate change and thus to we’re all gonna die. A brief outline of the paper is here. Now, me, I’m perfectly willing to accept that hypothesis. Not that I’ve the

Review led by UK's Met Office finds 'fingerprint of human influence' behind climate change

Speaking in Brussels yesterday (3 March), Leinen conceded that Europe might need a Plan B for international climate change talks, considering the difficulties in reaching an agreement under the UN process, which requires unanimity. He pointed to the array of different views on the 'Copenhagen Accord' agreed in December, which was celebrated as a step forward by the US, China and India but ...

Via Richard. No, they didn’t did they? Sustainable Cities: Options for Responding to Climate cHange Impacts and Outcomes (SCORCHIO) Yes, they did.

While Europe is doing relatively well compared to the "alarming rate" of global deforestation, "the relative stable status of forest recovery in Europe can not be taken for granted," said Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik, unveiling an EU Green Paper on forest protection and climate change yesterday. The European Commission yesterday (1 March) launched an EU-wide co...

The imminent risk of catastrophic climate change was clear even before MPs began looking into the charges against the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.

Lincoln councillors have attacked efforts to tackle climate change – and questioned if people in Lincolnshire can really make any difference to global warming. Conservative Moorland councillor Oliver Peeke said that in years to come, people would look back and realise that carbon management was "a waste of resources" and that the current eco-agenda had been "created by an industry just to ma...

Climate change will alter completely the EU's aid policy to developing countries in the future, and "water and land use will gain in importance," said Luis Riera Figueras, director at the European Commission's development department, addressing the European Parliament's intergroup on water on 24 February. As more than 1.2 billion people still lack access to safe drinking wate...

Saturday 13th March 2010 South Camden Community School, Charrington St, London NW1 1RG Download the flyer here. The conference The failure of politicians to come to an agreement at Copenhagen has meant that the struggle against climate change takes on a new urgency. Here in the UK, the huge demonstration before Christmas shows that millions of people