Agreements reached at the 2011 UN Climate Summit

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After extending the conference by 36 hours, the delegates at the UN climate summit in Durban finally reached an agreement, which will not be viewed favourably by all countries affected. Despite the rhetoric of Ms. Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, the president for the summit, the meeting exposed some problems on the horizon. Durban Climate Conference: Agreements Reached [...]

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New Study Shows CO2 Emissions Higher Than Ever in 2010

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While delegates at the Durban Climate Summit discuss the advantages and disadvantages of delaying a global agreement on greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, the latest study shows that CO2 emissions are higher than ever. At the Summit, many of the world’s nations would like to see global warming limited to 1.5C (2.7F) while an important [...]

Ground to Air: Ancient Rocks Reveal a Massive Carbon Shift

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For billions of years, the weather has been a hot topic.  Perhaps early organisms chatted about it as they passed each other in the primeval seas. In recent decades, the climate and the composition of the earth’s atmosphere have also become popular dinner table and conference conversation, as evidenced by the current discussions that swirl [...]

The 2011 UN Climate Summit Begins in Durban

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The 2011 UN climate Summit commenced 28 November, in Durban, South Africa and is due to run for two weeks. The main objective of the meeting is to establish a new climate treaty to replace or extend the Kyoto Protocol when it expires at the end of 2012. Prior to the meeting, it became clear [...]

The Truth Behind the Emails of ClimateGate Parts 1 and 2.

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What is Climate Gate 2.0? In November 2009, the original Climate Gate, email messages from the Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UK, were illegally obtained and released. The messages contained personal comments which were made public, apparently in an attempt to question the scientific validity of the global warming theory. In November 2011, [...]