The Canadian Government has announced its strategy for greenhouse gas emissions, declaring that it will fail to meet the targets it agreed to in signing up to the Kyoto Treaty. Reaction from environmental groups has been negative, as this BBC report makes clear.
“The Canadian government has published its strategy on climate change, which [...]

The Economist this week reports on a new service from WSI called MarketFirst which is a forecast of the daily world weather forecast, an hour before the latter is released by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“Every day, an hour before America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases its updated forecast for the world’s [...]

A group of climate modelers have found some counter-intuitive results from eliminating the world’s trees. Apparently, the impact of forests partly depends on which latitudes they are in. Report from The Economist:
“When Dr Bala ordered global clearcutting, the model calculated that the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide levels would roughly double by 2100. [...]

Today’s London Financial Times has an editorial calling for political action to secure a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, in the hope of avoiding a climate change catastrophe. Among good, strong words we read:
“Politicians will have to learn how to sell any deal, too. Many countries are responding to climate change by [...]

A study by Ireland’s Economic and Social Reseach Institute argues that the February increase in the UK’s air passenger duty — a tax on flights aimed at discouraging travel — is likely to cause people to take more long-distance flights, and thus increase overall carbon emissions arising from air-travel. One would [...]