An excerpt from “Climate Alarm: Disasters increase as climate change bites,” a new report published by Oxfam International. Climatic disasters are on the increase as the Earth warms up – in line with scientific observations and computer simulations...
By Rosslyn Beeby From The Canberra Times, November 26, 2007 Australia’s northern Aboriginal communities will bear the brunt of climate change, with increases in water-borne diseases and loss of traditional food sources, an international report...
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From The Australian, November 24, 2007 Elderly ethnic Dayak farmer Hussin sits on the raised timber floor of his home, a shack on 6ha of mixed forest, itself nestled in thousands of hectares of oil palm plantation.Hussin (“I’m probably...
Glyn Robbins is a member of Unite, the largest manufacturing union in Britain, and a supporter of Defend Council Housing. This article is a contribution to the discussion at the coming Trade Union Conference on Climate Change, to be held at the...
From Green Left Weekly, Nov. 16 2007 by Kamala Emanuel (Kamala Emanuel is a Socialist Alliance candidate for the Senate in New South Wales, in this week’s election in Australia) November 11’s national Walk Against Warming was an important...
The IPCC Synthesis Report, published November 17, describes these as “some examples of projected regional impacts.” Bear in mind that IPCC reports are consistently conservative. Quoting pages 10 and 11 … Africa • By 2020, between 75 and 250...
By John Riddell John Riddell is co-editor of Socialist Voice NOVEMBER 17 — Today the Toronto Climate Campaign organized a teach-in called “From Climate Crisis to Climate Justice,” a building action for the December 8 global day of...
From Agence France Presse The UN’s Nobel-winning panel on climate change on Friday completed a draft report that said the consequences of global warming could be far-reaching and irreversible. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on...
By Richard Black From BBC News Of all the accusations made by the vociferous community of climate sceptics, surely the most damaging is that science itself is biased against them. That was a view I put forward nearly a year ago now in another...
