Green Times

The head of the UN’s Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists on Friday said only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely considered safe.Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), delivered the bleak warning at a gathering of European Union ministers where he pleaded with the […]

A probe into levels of an important greenhouse gas above the tropical Atlantic has challenged assumptions about key sources of global warming, scientists said on Wednesday.Researchers found that natural chemicals in the atmosphere west of equatorial Africa destroyed 50 percent more ozone in that region than expected.
This process also reduced concentrations of methane, another powerful […]

Tackling climate change is too crucial to be derailed by a temporary economic downturn, the OECD head has said.In a wide-ranging interview for BBC News, Angel Gurria said that the long-term damage that would occur if the world did nothing about greenhouse gases would far outweigh the short-term problems of the credit crunch.
Nevertheless, the OECD […]

Legislation at the heart of the Government’s climate change strategy is being savagely criticised by big companies, who say it will cost the economy billions of dollars.Fonterra, Solid Energy and Todd Energy lined up at a select committee hearing yesterday to leave MPs in no doubt about their concerns over the Climate Change (Emissions Trade […]

Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are walking a delicate line as they promise to aggressively tackle global warming while trying to assure voters that they continue to believe in the future of coal.In states like Pennsylvania, where voters will cast ballots this Tuesday, and in West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Montana - upcoming primary […]