December 12th, 2011 | Climate Change, Government Action, International Action
Estimates vary, but the consensus is that last week’s Climate Summit in South Africa finally reached agreement to a legally binding framework that will consign our children’s children to an increase in global temperature of between 2 and 4 degrees.
In a strange example of truthful despair, the politicians trumpeted the …
November 16th, 2011 | Government Action, International Action
On 10 November, we received information from the communications officer of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) informing us that the Israeli authorities have decided to cut off the only source of electricity to Imneizil, a Palestinian village in the South Hebron hills. …
September 21st, 2010 | Climate Change, International Action
In a brutally honest article in today’s Guardian George Monbiot suggests that the forthcoming climate talks in Mexico are already doomed. “Everyone blames everyone else for the failure at Copenhagen” he writes, “Everyone insists that everyone else should move. But no one cares enough to make a fight …
June 25th, 2010 | Climate Change, Events, International Action
The 10:10 people have got an anonymous donor who will give them £2 for every £1 they can raise in the next two weeks! Those of us who support 10:10 will know that they are finding money a bit hard to come by at the moment, so this is a …
March 31st, 2010 | Climate Change, Events, International Action
December 19th, 2009 | Climate Change, International Action
It looks like Copenhagen has been a failure. In the end the politicians will have come up with a fudge they can be positive about, and we shall have to work with that; but it seems that whilst everyone agreed that two degrees should be the target, their actions (or …
December 16th, 2009 | Climate Change, Events, International Action, Locals Taking Action
December 15th, 2009 | International Action
2003 was the hottest year on record; supposedly a one in several thousand year event. During the summer tens of thousands of people in Europe died of heat stroke, and tree and plant growth fell by 30%.
AT TWO DEGREES, HALF THE SUMMERS WILL BE HOTTER THAN 2003.
Cities dependent …
December 14th, 2009 | Climate Change, Events, International Action
During this week we’ll be putting the Copenhagen discussions into a bit of a context by covering each day what an extra degree of warming might mean for the planet. We start today – and we’re already nearly at 1 degree.
ONE DEGREE
Since the 1850s the industrial developments we …
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