Global Warming and Climate Change News

China sceptical as foreign firms push carbon capture.
Monday February 01st 2010, 9:00 am

China needs to overcome its scepticism about carbon capture technologies if it is to bring down the costs of meeting its CO2 targets, experts at a clean coal conference said. [News Source]

Nuclear plant hopes get boost.
Monday February 01st 2010, 9:00 am

Congratulatory text messages and e-mails to John Hutson began arriving seconds after President Barack Obama endorsed "a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants" in his State of the Union speech. [News Source]

Supermarket fridges ‘leak greenhouse gas.’
Monday February 01st 2010, 9:00 am

British supermarkets have been accused of knowingly using environmentally destructive gases in their refridgerators. [News Source]

Save the ozone layer, give global warming a boost?
Monday February 01st 2010, 9:00 am

While most of the world has warmed, parts of the southern hemisphere have remained stubbornly cold—oddly enough because of a gaping hole in the ozone layer. [News Source]

Suppliers that don’t manage CO2 could lose clients.
Monday February 01st 2010, 9:00 am

Some 56 percent of large firms would in the future deselect suppliers for failing to meet criteria on managing carbon emissions, according to a survey by the Carbon Disclosure Project. [News Source]

Ed Miliband defends climate change science.
Monday February 01st 2010, 9:00 am

Recent controversies over scientific data have not undermined efforts to tackle global warming, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has insisted. [News Source]

Caught again! UN climate claims on ice loss melt away.
Monday February 01st 2010, 9:00 am

The UN's climate change panel has been caught making unfounded claims for the third time in just two weeks. [News Source]

Climbing magazine cited by climate panel.
Monday February 01st 2010, 9:00 am

The United Nations' expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountains on a master's dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine, The Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday. [News Source]

Ed Miliband pleads for belief in climate change as fresh hole blown in claims.
Monday February 01st 2010, 9:00 am

It would be "profoundly irresponsible" to allow recent controversies over scientific data to undermine the fight against global warming, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said yesterday. [News Source]

Britain protests over false melting glacier claims.
Monday February 01st 2010, 9:00 am

Britain has officially expressed its concern to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change about lax scientific procedures used by the body which supplies the world with the facts about global warming. [News Source]

States renew vows to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Monday February 01st 2010, 9:00 am

Governments around the world have reaffirmed their plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions in support of last month's Copenhagen climate summit. [News Source]