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Talking Point articles RSS feedClimate wars damage the scientists but we all stand to lose in the battle
Mar 1, 2010
It is open season on climate scientists, but such hand-wringing has allowed the creeping rehabilitation of climate scepticism (from the Guardian)
How to reform the IPCC
Feb 19, 2010
The Guardian asks experts around the world what needs to change to enable the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to continue to play a central and positive role in enabling the world's governments to take the right action against climate change (from the Guardian)
Testing times for geoengineering
Feb 8, 2010
Solar-radiation measurement techniques would be impossible to trial on small scale, say scientists
Copenhagen: what next?
Jan 27, 2010
UNFCC mandarin Yvo de Boer and climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf give their views
Irrational fears give nuclear power a bad name, says Oxford scientist
Jan 12, 2010 2 comments
Wade Allison says misplaced health stigma has prevented the full benefits of nuclear energy being explored. (From the Guardian)
Copenhagen: why I believe all is not lost – yet
Dec 21, 2009 1 comment
If the world can acknowledge what went wrong at Copenhagen and learn from it, then we can still step back from the brink of disaster, says Robin McKie. (From the Guardian.)
All eyes turn to Copenhagen
Dec 2, 2009
The spotlight is soon to fall on climate negotiators but recent weeks have raised a number of "tricky" issues for climate scientists.
Climate change: how to win hearts and minds
Nov 13, 2009 5 comments
With climate scepticism on the rise in the US and elsewhere, Columbia University has issued a guide on how to breakdown misperceptions and communicate about climate science effectively
Publicize or perish
Oct 7, 2009 1 comment
Joseph Romm urges scientists to do much more to warn the public of the dangers of climate change
Fragile China: environmental policy comes to the fore
Sep 21, 2009
A projected significant decrease in food production in China under global warming has brought about a sea change in government policy on the environment, says Robin Porter
Engineering the climate
Sep 2, 2009
Peter Cox and Hazel Jeffery call for the taboo on geoengineering to be lifted.
Tomorrow's cities: a carbon jungle?
Jul 14, 2009 1 comment
The cities of the future could provide essential carbon storage, says Galina Churkina, especially if we use more wood, wool, cotton and other carbon-rich materials in our houses
Biochar – a burning issue
Jun 10, 2009 2 comments
Success of carbon-fixing technique depends on understanding how it works and perhaps even creating designer biochars, reports Vanessa Spedding
Climate change negotiations kick off in Bonn
Jun 3, 2009
Concerns raised over contradictory statements in negotiating text
Climate scientists debate with prime minister
May 19, 2009
Dan Kammen, editor-in-chief of ERL, details the dialogue at the final session of the Copenhagen Climate Congress.
Health and the urban environment: revolutions revisited
May 13, 2009
It is time for a new and sustainable revolution in urban health that operates on a global scale, says Gordon McGranahan of IIED.
Monitoring Greenland's melting
Apr 8, 2009
Recently the Greenland ice sheet has undergone record levels of melting. Marco Tedesco examines the last thirty years with a particular focus on what happened in 2008.
A Sea Change: communicating complex environmental science to the public
Mar 25, 2009
Fresh from completing A Sea Change, a feature-length film documentary on ocean acidification, Barbara Ettinger explores how to explain complicated science without boring or confusing your audience.
IPY: from fuel cuts to the deep-sea octopus
Mar 4, 2009 1 comment
As International Polar Year draws to a close, David Carlson details how the massive two-year research programme has gone and what will happen next.
Wind turbine blades: the bigger, the better?
Feb 10, 2009 1 comment
Increasing the size of wind turbines brings additional engineering challenges, says Ole Thomsen.