A survey of US Government scientists has found almost half have come under pressure from Bush administration officials to eliminate words like “climate change” and “global warming” from their reports, and reported no fewer than 435 instances of political interference in their work over the last 5 years. It is hard to [...]

British environmental campaigner and journalist, George Monbiot, is sceptical of the US Administration’s supposed change of heart on climate change:
“George Bush proposes to deal with climate change by means of smoke and mirrors. So what’s new? Only that it is no longer just a metaphor. After six years of obfuscation and denial, the US now [...]

Further to the post below, the IPCC site has details of the report on the latest conclusions on the physical science of climate change, to be released on this coming Friday 2007-02-02.
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The first meeting in 6 years of the IPCC - the UN-sponsored Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change - will take place in Paris this coming week. Apparently, scientists reporting to the meeting have updated their probality that global warming is caused by human activities from 66% at the last IPCC meeting to 90% now. [...]

British Telecommunications, the UK’s leading telco, has publicly committed to a strategy to reduce carbon emissions. As the company consumes 0.7 percent of the UK’s electricity, this is a significant announcement.
“BT today announced that it has extended its Green Energy contract – one of the biggest in the world - until 2010. [...]