Climate change increases risk of global food demand outstripping supply, study finds July 26, 2014 Researchers at Stanford University have found that global warming will significantly increase the risk of a major slowdown in the production of wheat and corn over the next two decades. By putting data about crops and weather into computerised climate models, they set out to estimate the chance that climate change would interfere with [...]
Climate change conference calls for an end to capitalism July 23, 2014 A climate change conference held in Venezuela involving roughly 130 green groups has ended with a call to end capitalism and reject carbon markets, reports RTCC. The UN-backed conference included organisations such as the World Wildlife Fund, Christian Aid and the Third World Network. Ending with the Margarita declaration, the conference was the largest of [...]
Don’t silence Lord Lawson: We can’t leave climate change policy to the scientists July 14, 2014 The row between former chancellor Lord Lawson and the BBC has escalated over the past week. In a letter to a green activist, the head of the Beeb’s Editorial Complaints Unit Fraser Steel has reportedly apologised for Lawson’s appearance on the BBC Today Programme to discuss climate change and the extensive flooding at the start [...]
Britons don’t feel enough is being done to fight climate change – report June 20, 2014 The majority of Britons do not believe that the government is doing enough to fight climate change, according to a report by Frost & Sullivan. Yet it seems that we aren't too clued up about what being eco-friendly means, ourselves. Of all the respondents who took part in the study, less than one in ten [...]
How climate change policies are hurting the world’s poor June 6, 2014 Government policies intended to reduce carbon dioxide are directly harming the poor in both the developing and developed world, according to a report released by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Energy sources that are not based on fossil fuels are making both power and food more expensive, the report argues. While the affluent remain [...]