Brace yourself for more extreme weather, warns the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It makes for concerning reading, says Amber Jamieson.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Renewable energy can power (nearly all of) the world
Nearly 80% of the world’s energy needs could be met by renewable energies by 2050, according to a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), writes Amber Jamieson.
IPCC warned: focus on the science, not policy
It’s been a gloomy year for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a damning review of its processes and procedures released this week wouldn’t have helped lift the fog. Amber Jamieson explains.
The IPCC truth: flawed, but don’t believe everything you read
Reading some of the media coverage on the report into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, you’d think it had condemned the IPCC for gross misrepresentation of the climate science. Climate scientist Andrew Macintosh cuts to the truth.
Silence from media on IPCC apology
The Sunday Times has apologised for its sham IPCC ‘Amazongate’ story. But will The Oz, the ABC, Fairfax and many other outlets do the same?
Climate science: a field in crisis
The entire field of climate research is facing a crisis of confidence, says Der Spiegel. Can scientists save themselves in time to save the planet?
Are you now or have you ever been a climate scientist?
Accusation of criminality against leading climate scientists takes the denialist campaign of harassment and intimidation to new lows.
Penny Wong: Climate change deniers are the cigarette supporters of yore
Penny Wong launches a scathing attack on climate change deniers, including the lies of Climategate and says the worst thing about Copenhagen’s failure was the smugness that it gave sceptics.
Is Piers Akerman fabricating quotes from the IPCC?
Is News Ltd’s Piers Akerman the source of an alarmist climate change quote that has for years been attributed to the first head of the IPCC, Sir John Houghton? That’s what the UK’s Independent is claiming.
How Climategate wasn’t as scandalous as the sceptics claimed
Michael Mann, a climate scientist embroiled in the middle of the Climategate hacked emails scandal, had his professional conduct reviewed in a Penn State university inquiry and was exonerated. Read the results before the denialists spin it.
More dodgy IPCC claims?
The IPCC faced a fresh round of criticism in the British media over the weekend, with revelations of more spurious sources and that its chief, Rajendra Pachauri, may have known about the false claims before Copenhagen.
Britain declares war on climate sceptics
In an interview with the Observer, UK climate secretary Ed Miliband declares a “battle” against climate change deniers and defends the IPCC.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Clarifying the Crikey clarifier
Crikey readers weigh in on Lord Monckton, climate change, the IPCC, Tony Abbott talking about virgins and Clive Hamilton.
Scientists, the IPCC wants you
Nomination to the IPCC process is an invitation for public smears, threats and routine attacks on your credibility — not by your peers, but by newspaper columnists, bloggers and conspiracy theorists.
Crikey Says: Growing battlefield momentum inside the Sceptics Army
Of the two climate change wars currently being waged across the globe — the war against climate change and the war about climate change — it’s War 2 that’s now occupying the most territory.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Losing it over lost trolleys
What’s the big issue getting Crikey readers in a spin? No, it’s not the JJJ Hottest 100 leak or the Massachusetts election. It’s abandoned trolleys.
Did the IPCC cash-in on melting glaciers?
“Glaciergate” continues: The UK Times is accusing the IPCC and its chairperson, Rajendra Pachaur, of using its now refuted claim that the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 “to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds”.
Crikey Clarifier: Crikey Clarifier: how the IPCC works
This week, the IPCC was thrown into controversy when it was revealed that its long-held claim that global warming will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 was incorrect. Climate law and policy expert Andrew Macintosh explains how things could go so wrong.
Melting glaciers: the canary in the mine shaft of global warming
The career-driven, social agenda-driven scaremongering frenzy of the IPCC over global warming is totally unnecessary when glaciers already tell the tale.
Did the UN mislead us on climate change?
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has egg on its face after its long-held claim that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 has been revealed as pure speculation published in a non-academic pop-science magazine.
Review: Ian Plimer’s Heaven and Earth
Barry Brooks critiques Ian Plimer’s book Heaven and Earth.
State of the planet
Is the hybrid Escalade an oxymoron? … Insects ravaged more plants in ancient hot period … Cornelia Parker is out to save the planet … King penguins in peril as planet warms … Call for ‘environmental war room’
State of the planet
Antarctic ice riddle keeps sea-level secrets … UN: Climate change may cost $20 trillion … Big firms lack climate change plans … EU bid to freeze out patio heaters … Scientists suggest new geological epoch: ours
State of the planet
Time’s up for petrol cars, says GM chief … BA uses own jets to examine effect of air travel on climate … Germany, Spain warn EU on renewables plan … Scientists sound alarm over starfish threat in Indonesia
State of the planet
Will nations build on climate-change momentum of 2007? … Climate change ‘will increase health risk’ to rural Australians … Human activity blamed for decline of coral reefs … UN climate chief to visit Antarctica … UK builds recyclable hotel
