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The Independent (London, England), September 19, 2007
By Cahal Milmo
A rise of two degrees centigrade in global temperatures — the point considered to be the threshold for catastrophic climate change which will expose millions to drought, hunger and flooding — is now “very unlikely” to be avoided, the world’s leading climate scientists said yesterday.

The latest study […]

Whatever next? Carbon credits put up for sale on Trade Me
There even appears to be a carbon credits category on TradeMe … Home > Business, farming & industry > Carbon credits
The price right now is up over $10,000 for the “Gold standard” package.
The arcane world of emissions trading crossed over to the familiar realm […]

A chilling message from wear-nothing activists to do-nothing politicians
US-Installation artist Spencer Tunick and Greenpeace present a living sculpture: hundreds naked volunteers symbolise the vulnerability of the glaciers under climate change.
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Greenpeace Australia has been leaked a copy of the draft APEC leaders’ statement on climate change.
At first glance it looks like APEC might actually do something good on climate change. However, the truth of it is that APEC is being driven by the John Howard and George W Bush anti-Kyoto agenda. The spin is […]

Scientists say they have developed a model to predict how ocean currents, as well as human activities, will affect temperatures over the next decade.
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This morning i got an email from big Al Gore …
Dear Friend,
Thank you! Because of your hard work, millions of personal commitments have been made via the Web and SMS in 178 countries and 35 territories around the world. And our concert was not limited to 7 venues, but instead took place at parties and […]

It seems that Solid has reduced production for the year by 250,000 tonnes, in part because of the protests by The Save Happy Valley group.
And so the protest group is now selling “carbon credits” as a fund raiser.
This is great news for the climate! Solid Energy can’t catch up that lost 250,000 tonnes of […]

Also filed in the scares-the-shit-out-of-me category is a story from the NZ Herald this morning titled: Earth could flip into environmental disaster
The Earth is in imminent peril and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change, six leading scientists say.
Writing in the Philosophical Transactions […]