Climate Change: The Carbon Atlas

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The Guardian's

excellent interactive carbon atlas.

Twelve Years to Halve UK Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Britain should adopt the world's toughest climate change target and slash nearly half of its greenhouse gas emissions in the next 12 years, the Government's new climate advisory committee said yesterday in its first report.

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Obama brings US in from the cold

In a landmark speech, the next president pledges to revive Kyoto Protocol and end American isolationism over climate change.

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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

Carbon Dioxide and climate change...is CCS the answer?

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(remember, though, focus on the chimney not the cooling towers...grrrr...!)

Flood water accelerates glacier flow

"Great floods beneath the Antarctic ice sheet can now be linked directly to the speed at which that ice moves towards the ocean, scientists say."

To read more of this article, visit the BBC website by clicking on the link below:

The Methane Time Bomb

New global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide...

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Don't miss the interesting editorial comment in the same paper!

Hurricane Ike - the story continues...

Texas begins mass post-Ike rescue

"Texas has begun what is being described as the biggest search and rescue effort in its history following Hurricane Ike..."

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Visit the BBC Website to find out more

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Whilst your there, take a look at some of the superb video footage.

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In addtion, the following videos are also well worth watching:

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BBC Weather Forecast (Friday 12 September 2008)

Ike hits Texas Coast