Swiss Glaciers "in full retreat"

"Swiss glaciers are melting away at an accelerating rate and many will vanish this century if climate projections are correct, two new studies suggest."

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Sea Level could rise by 150cm...

"Sea level rise due to global warming will "substantially exceed" official UN projections and could top 150cm by the end of the century, according to a report from the US Geological Survey on the risks of abrupt climate change. Such a rise would be catastrophic, seeing hundreds of millions of people affected by flooding."

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Climate Change: The Carbon Atlas

Click on the image above to be taken to

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...!)